Are you interested in engaging in creative outlets that will inspire innovation, help you cope with stress, promote rejuvenation and allow you to discover new interests, hobbies and talents?!
Feelin’ Fresh Fridays is a new workshop that will be held every Friday this semester at 11-12pm at the USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity (STU 311). Stop by without needing to RSVP and take-away a newly created product for your enjoyment and de-stressing needs (see flyer attached).
USC Rossier School of Education invites you to join us at our 2019 ASHE Reception!
WHEN:
Friday, November 15 7:00-9:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Captain Gray I
545 SW Taylor
Portland, Oregon 97204
RSVP:
Reply by November 5.
For questions, contact the Rossier Events Office at
rossier.events@usc.edu or 213.740.9559
Want to hear and support awesome student poetry? Looking to perform a new piece in a fun, supportive environment? Spoken Justice is coming up on Thursday, November 7 at Ground Zero. Spoken Justice is an open mic, spoken word night where members of the USC community can perform their spoken word poetry, focused on identity and social justice.
Sign-ups to perform begin at 6:15pm and the event will run from 6:30pm-8pm. Food will be provided. Spoken Justice is co-sponsored by Latina/o Graduate Student Association, Rossier Master’s Program Office, and Residential Education.
If you have any questions about our events, please reach out to us at socialjustice@usc.edu. We hope to see you there!
Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice
USC Rossier School of Education, WPH 1003
(213) 740-1445
Dear EDL students and faculty,
For those who live or work in areas affected by the wildfires and/or power outages throughout California, please know that our thoughts are with you.
Do not hesitate to contact the EdD Program Office if you need assistance. Students, if you need help with your courses, including communicating with your instructors or requesting assignment extensions due to these unforeseen circumstances, please contact your academic advisor. Our contact information is listed below.
Note that USC also provides additional support for faculty and students who are affected by these circumstances. Please contact the offices listed below or let us know if you need help in reaching out to the following:
· University Campus Support and Intervention – (213) 740-0411
· USC Student Counseling Services – (213) 740-7711
· USC Center for Work and Family Life – (213) 821-0800
Students last name A-K
Jordan Brown
(213) 740-3491
Students last name L-Z
Kimberly Alvarez
(213) 740-5607
Faculty
Terri Thomas
(213) 821-1516
We hope that all of you, your families, and your communities remain safe during this time.
Sincerely,
The EdD Program Office
Rossier 100 books are now available! Stop by WPH 404 and get your copy. Availability is on a first come first serve basis.
Dear USC Rossier Faculty, Staff and Students,
I’m happy to announce the next book we will read and discuss in our USC Rossier Book Club: The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami. Our school-wide discussion will take place in the USC Hotel’s Central Ballroom on Wednesday, October 30, from 12:00–2:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP by Friday, October 11.
Books will be available for pick up, with my compliments, in WPH 1102 beginning Monday, September 23, from 10:00-12:00 p.m. and 2:00-4:00 p.m., until Friday, October 11. At this time, we do not have audio copies available. ***Please note that your acceptance of the book indicates your commitment to read it and participate in our discussion! ***
We also welcome participants to join the discussion remotely. Please provide a mailing address if you will need the book shipped to you. A link to our virtual classroom will be provided closer to the date of our gathering.
Part of the Rossier Way
We launched the Book Club as part of our initiative, “The Rossier Way,” which is designed to cultivate a culture of caring and support amongst faculty, staff and students. I am hosting the Book Club events in partnership with Darline Robles, Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion.
Our goal is to select a work of fiction that helps us explore themes relevant to our mission to advance educational equity. You can find a brief synopsis of The Other Americans here. Reviews of the book include:
Washington Post: Lalami “plunges into lives of fictional yet convincingly real individuals, who, despite their differences in origin and socioeconomic station, all have a whiff of the unwanted hovering about them, and a desperate wish for dignity lodged within them…. Lalami gives us a searching exploration of the lives of several individuals with whom mainstream American society has a vexed relationship.”
The Atlantic: “To the extent that the The Other Americans is a mystery or procedural, the novel does offer an answer to its central case, a nudge toward some small amount of justice. Even so, the book’s conclusion about American identity is a far more tenuous one than this legal resolution: For people on the country’s margins, particularly immigrants, not gesture of patriotism will ever be enough.”
Laila Lalami is the winner of the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize and is the author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits; Secret Son; and The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, and The Guardian. A professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, she lives in Los Angeles.
We look forward to a lively discussion in October.
Are you feeling overwhelmed with midterms, assignments, papers and balancing all of the things you need to do? If so, please feel free to drop by the USC Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity to speak with an Academic Coach about how you can achieve your academic-related goals and fullest potential. This service is available for undergraduate and graduate students. Please see flyer attached.
Want to learn more about the Rossier Doctoral Support Center (DSC)? Join Doctoral Support Specialists Christopher Mattson (Ed.D., M.F.A.) and Evelyn Felina Castillo (Ed.D.) in an online webinar covering academic writing tips, presentations, events, Q&A opportunities, and how to schedule draft reviews.
Topic: Christopher Mattson’s Zoom Meeting
Time: Oct 11, 2019 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 831 830 324
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