Study On! and Finish Strong for Finals – Spring 2018

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Study On! and Finish Strong for Finals – Spring 2018

Monday through Wednesday

April 30 to May 2, 2018

1 – 4 p.m.

Leavey Library Fountain

  • free snacks/refreshments
  • study tips
  • pet a therapy dog
  • slime making
  • and much more

Study On! is co-sponsored by the USC Libraries, Phi Kappa Phi, Office for Wellness and Health Promotion, USC Transportation.

With final exams around the corner, students will be working immensely hard as they hope to achieve the best grades possible in their courses. This atmosphere can sometimes turn competitive and lead to intense stress, social isolation, loss of sleep and less resistance to sickness. USC offices from around campus have partnered to provide resources and activities to support students during this tough period. As part of the Be Well USC initiative, the Office for Wellness and Health Promotion, Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity, USC Transportation, Phi Kappa Phi and USC Libraries are continuing the Study On! Finals initiative this semester to encourage students to take a break from studying to recharge and refresh. This physical and mental break is designed so that when students decide to continue studying, they are able to do it with more focus, energy and knowledge on managing their stress.

The Activities and Resources for Spring 2018 Study On! include the following:

  • Study Snacks & Refreshments (Free!)
  • Study Tips to aid with organization and anxiety management
  • SLIME-making and other craft activities to lower stress
  • USC Libraries mini-coloring book with links to library hours and services and articles on reducing stress
  • USC Wellness Dog: Professor Beau Meet-and-Greet
  • And of course… our Pause for Paws Therapy Dogs!

WHEN AND WHERE

  • Study On! will take place in front of Leavey Library at the Reflection Pool. Hours for the event are 1:00-4:00 PM on Monday through Wednesday, April 30th – May 2nd, 2018.

Thank you and have a wonderful day,
Melissa L. Miller, MMLIS
University of Southern California Libraries

Head, Hoose Library of Philosophy/Humanities Faculty Librarian

millerm@usc.edu
Office: 213-740-8081

3709 Trousdale Parkway, MHP202

Los Angeles, CA 90089

USC Rossier School of Education
Ed.D. 2018, Educational Leadership

Your Wellness

MEMORANDUM

To:                  USC Students

From:              Michael W. Quick

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Date:               April 24, 2018

Subject:           Your Wellness

USC is an extraordinary place for you to flourish by achieving your personal dreams and professional aspirations, and by becoming critical and creative thinkers and engaged global citizens. However, this can only continue to be possible if we collectively cultivate a university culture and campus climate focused on wellness, especially in regard to supporting good mental health and emotional well-being.  We know that the end of the semester can be a particularly stressful time and I want you to be aware of the resources we have available to you.

Over the last several years, we have seen a dramatic rise in the need for mental health resources on campus, and this mirrors the trend at colleges and universities across the country. The number of students reporting overwhelming stress and anxiety increases each year. We also know that the onset of depression and other lifelong mental health challenges can begin in college-aged adults and can sometimes lead to tragic and devastating consequences.

We need to care for each other, and we need to take time to care for ourselves. Our university can seem like a small city, but we are a family and your pain or that of someone else in our community affects us all.

Today we want to remind you of our commitment to your well-being, to your safety, and to your health. You matter to us and you matter to your friends and family. We want to help you be well, so we’re sharing the many support services we have available and those that are upcoming. And, we want you to help us: let us know how we can do better and how we can better support you.

During the fall of 2017, we began making significant changes to our mental health care by bringing USC Student Health Services and Student Counseling into the Department of Psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine, which allowed for clear clinical oversight to ensure we provide you with the highest quality of services. Under the direction of our new Executive Director of Student Mental Health, Dr. Robert Mendola, we began revamping policies and procedures and evaluating our need for new resources.

Based on your feedback, we knew we had to adjust resources to ensure that everyone seeking assistance received services promptly and with ease. This year, we have eliminated a waiting list and implemented a more thorough intake process for those in crisis. All students in crisis will have a counselor available to speak with them, including after-hours phone consultations. This winter we also developed “Feel Better” workshops focusing on stress, anxiety, and depression for all students to attend with no wait to enroll. By fall, we will have four additional counselors on staff and we will continue to examine our staffing needs in order to minimize wait times for counseling visits while providing care for a greater number of students on campus.

This spring, Student Health Services conducted the Healthy Minds Survey as part of our participation in the JED Campus Program. Based on the results, we will add in the coming months more initiatives for student well-being and more services to support mental health and wellness.

The new Office of Campus Wellness and Crisis Intervention provides support for students, faculty, and staff with an emphasis on well-being, threat assessment, and crisis response. In addition to helping our community thrive, the office can help you get connected to support resources, understand your options and suggest new pathways, and help you make wise decisions to continue to succeed academically and socially.

To that end, we developed a new student health leave policy and process, and we will soon hire a new health leave policy coordinator who will work closely with you and your academic units. The health leave process assists students in developing an individualized care plan so that they will get the help they need while they are away from campus. Upon return, it will be determined what, if any, support the student needs.

Together, the Office of Campus Wellness and Crisis Intervention and the Undergraduate Student Government are preparing to launch a pilot, first-year experience class to better prepare students to flourish at USC. This course will focus on thriving, lifestyle design, self-care, healthy relationships, and meaning and purpose.

Our Trojans Care for Trojans (TC4T) online care reporting program helps us identify students, faculty, and staff who may need assistance. This is a university resource that allows you to anonymously report concerns so that we may reach out directly and provide support to those in need.

The Office of Religious Life has more than 50 chaplains on staff representing all the world’s major religious traditions and many denominational perspectives as well. The deans of religious life, as well as the chaplains, are available for pastoral care and spiritual counseling for all students, regardless of religious, spiritual, theistic beliefs, affiliations, or identities.

I invite you to join us as we move toward an even more compassionate, inclusive, and nurturing campus culture. I hope you have a good end to the semester, and that your summer is healthy, safe, and productive.

 

Cc:       C. L. Max Nikias

Academic Senate

Academic Deans

President’s Cabinet

Provost’s Cabinet

USC Faculty

USC Staff

 

 

Nominations for Faculty Mentoring Award – Due May 15

The Rossier Mentoring Committee in coordination with the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Office of Research is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Rossier Faculty Mentoring Award. This award will be presented at the 2018 Rossier Fall Kick Off event to honor individual faculty members whose contributions to the academic and professional success of Rossier programs, students, and scholarship deserve special recognition. Please refer to the attached call for nominations, which include the criteria for the award and the award nomination instructions.  Please submit nomination materials as a single PDF to Deborah Karpman, Assistant Dean for Research at dkarpman@rossier.usc.edu by May 15, 2018. Late or incomplete nominations will not be accepted.

Mentoring Award Final

Sincerely,

Lawrence O. Picus

Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs

Richard T. Cooper and Mary Catherine Cooper Chair in Public School Administration

 

Upcoming Conferences: Call for volunteers and scholarship for registration

Hello USC Rossier students,

Here are two upcoming opportunities in which you might be interested:

First: The Education Writers Association is coming to USC on May 16-18. Five hundred of the nation’s education reporters will be here to learn and network and meet educators and professors who are leading their fields, including several faculty members from USC Rossier. The university is looking for volunteers to help out during smaller sessions by doing some light room management—making sure microphones are turned on, helping connect laptops to projectors if needed, etc. All volunteers will be able to attend conference sessions for free ($700 value). If you would be interested in volunteering, please let me know (rossbren@rossier.usc.edu). Here is more information about the national seminar: https://www.ewa.org/71st-ewa-national-seminar. Please note that this event is the week after commencement.

 

Second: USC Rossier has several scholarships to attend the Wednesday, April 18 session at the ASU+GSV conference. The ASU+GSV Summit attracts more than 4,000 leaders from across the learning and talent spectrum. Attendees will include leaders from the enterprise, investment, higher education and PreK–12 communities. The scholarship waives the registration fee ($900 value); attendees will be responsible for their own travel. Here’s the agenda for Wednesday: https://www.asugsvsummit.com/agenda/Wednesday. If you are interested and available to attend this conference, please contact Doug Lynch at douglael@usc.edu.

2018 Kerckhoff Prize

Dear undergraduate and graduate students,

Announcing the 2018 Kerckhoff Prize, which is administered through the Gender Studies Program in USC Dornsife College! Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit their papers written in the area of gender during the 2017-2018 academic year. Please see the attached flyer for details. 2018_kerckhoff_prize_guidelines

Questions? Contact Jeanne Weiss, Student Services Advisor, in the Gender Studies Program: jeannew@usc.edu.

Good luck!

Rossier Research Updates

UPCOMING EVENTS

Rossier at AERA: You can find the complete line-up of Rossier faculty and student presentations and Rossier events at AERA here.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Estela Bensimon (CUE) received the AERA Division J Research Award. Julie Posselt (Pullias) received the AERA Early Career Award.

Zoe Corwin (Pullias), along with her co-authors Tattiya Maruco (Pullias), Stephen Aguilar (CELDTECH), and others outside USC, were awarded the Top Paper Award by AERA’s Media, Culture, and Learning SIG (special interest group) for her paper, “Evaluating the effects of a game-based intervention on FAFSA completion.”

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang was one of three internationally identified finalists for the Joseph E. Zins Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Contributions to Action Research in Social and Emotional Learning, given by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) The award is for a senior scholar at the Full Professor level.

Julie Marsh’s (CEPEG) article with Michelle Hall, “Challenges and Choices: A Multidistrict Analysis of Statewide Mandated Democratic Engagement,” was selected as Publication of the Year for the AERA Districts in Research and Reform SIG.

Julie Posselt’s (Pullias) book, Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, & Faculty Gatekeeping, was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Rachel White (CEPEG) was awarded the AERA Division L 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, “Donut Devourers, Fish Fanatics, Politicians, and Educators: Faces and Voices of State Education Policymaking.”

Rachel White (CEPEG) was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award for the AERA Politics of Education (PEA) Special Interest Group (SIG).

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Benbenishty, R., Astor, R., Roziner, I. (in press). A School-Based Multilevel Study of Adolescent Suicide Ideation in California High Schools. The Journal of Pediatrics, 1-7.

Ching, C. D. (2018). Confronting the equity “learning problem” through practitioner inquiryThe Review of Higher Education, 41(3), 387-421.

Copur-Gencturk, Y., Tolar, T., Jacobson, E., Fan, W.(2018). An Empirical Study of the Dimensionality of the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching ConstructJournal of Teacher Education 1-13.  

DePaola, T. & Kezar, A. (2017). The Changing Face of Employment at Research Universities. New Directions for Institutional Research vol. 176, 83-96.

Kezar, A. (2018). Using philosophy to develop a thoughtful approach to going public or not. In L. Perna (Ed)., Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kitchen, J.A., Sonnert, G., & Sadler, P. (2018). The impact of college- and university-run high school summer programs on students’ end of high school STEM career aspirationsScience Education, 102(1), 1-19.

Marsh, J. A. & Hall, M. (2018). Challenges and Choices: A Multidistrict Analysis of Statewide Mandated Democratic Engagement. American Educational Research Journal, 55(2), 243-286.

Pullias Center for Higher Education & Get Schooled. (2018). How is Technology Addressing the College Access Challenge?: A Review of the Landscape, Opportunities, and Gaps

New York: Get Schooled.

Quinn, D. M., Thomas J. K., Greenberg, M., & Thal, D. (2018). Effects of a Video-Based Teacher Observation Program on the De-privatization of Instruction: Evidence from a Randomized ExperimentEducational Administration Quarterly. Advanced online publication.

Tierney, W.G. A road less travelled: The responsibilities of the intellectual. In L. Perna (Ed)., Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS, AND MEDIA

Shafiqa Ahmadi (Rossier Justice) gave the closing keynote at the Women’s Leadership Forum at Chapman University.

Ron Astor was interviewed about gun violence and school safety on NPR and for UCLA Center X’s publication Just Talk: Voices of Education and Justice.

Ron Astor presented at a Congressional briefing on the topic of gun violence and school safety.

Estela Bensimon’s (CUE) piece Creating Racially and Ethnically Diverse Faculties appeared in Inside Higher Ed.

Estela Bensimon (CUE) gave the Claremont Colleges Center for Teaching and Learning Distinguished Lecture, “Reframing the Production of Racial Inequity as an Organizational Learning Problem.”

Charles H.F. Davis III (Race and Equity) was the opening keynote speaker for the California College Personnel Administration Spring Institute on “Intersectionality and Inclusion.”

Charles H.F. Davis III (Race and Equity) participated in a public debate on campus free speech with Dr. Walter Kimbrough, President of Dillard University, at the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Symposium.

Charles H.F. Davis III (Race and Equity) was the keynote speaker at the the Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges’ Faculty Institute on student protest hosted at Middlebury College.

Charles H.F. Davis III (Race and Equity) led a breakout session on “First-Generation College Students and Their Intersecting Identities,” and was the keynote speaker at El Camino College’s annual First-Generation Institute.

Elizabeth Holcombe (Pullias) gave a series of invited presentations on shared leadership at the Foundation for California Community Colleges’ professional development sessions.

Elizabeth Holcombe (Pullias) presented “Creating a Unified Community of Support: Increasing Success for Underrepresented Students in STEM,” a live webinar hosted by Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN).

Adrian Huerta (Pullias) gave an invited presentation titled “Strategies to support Latino male community college students: Three tools for success” for Diversity Week at the College of Southern Nevada.

Adrian Huerta (Pullias) gave an invited lecture, “Latinos, gangs, and the higher education pipeline: A qualitative view on the school-to-prison-pipeline,” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Adrian Huerta’s (Pullias) research on Latino men, gang-related issues, and inequalities in educational opportunities was featured in El Tiempo, a Spanish-language newspaper in Las Vegas.

Adrian Huerta (Pullias) served as a panelist at the Young Men’s Leadership Conference hosted by the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang gave a keynote to 5,000 attendees at the TESOL International Convention in Chicago on March 30th.

Adrianna Kezar (Pullias) presented “Building organizational capacity and innovating for resiliency and thriving” at the 2018 Association of Presbyterian Colleges & Universities Members’ Conference.

Julie Marsh (CEPEG) presented Democratic engagement in education reform: The case of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) as part of the Leadership, Policy, and Organizations Colloquium at Vanderbilt University.

Maria Ott was a panelist and breakout session leader at the Women’s Leadership Forum at Chapman University.

Julie Posselt (Pullias) was an invited speaker at the American Physical Society’s annual conference, in Los Angeles. Her research presentation was entitled “Faculty Support & Student Wellbeing in STEM Graduate Programs.”

Julie Posselt (Pullias) was a plenary speaker for the Western Association of Graduate Schools annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV. Her talk was entitled “Beyond Old Boys Clubs: Trust Networks in 21st Century Graduate Education.”

William Tierney (Pullias) gave the opening keynote, “The Direction of Future Research in Higher Education,” at the Conference on Higher Education in Konya, Turkey.

Marissiko Wheaton (Pullias) served as a panelist for APIDA Community Conversations – What does a Model Minority Mutiny Demand in Higher Education?, a live webinar hosted by ACPA’s Asian Pacific American Network (APAN) and NASPA’s Asian Pacific Islander Knowledge Community (APIKC).

Last Spoken Justice event of the year on 4/19!

Spoken Justice April 19

On behalf of the Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice, we invite you to attend our LAST Spoken Justice event of the academic year next Thursday, April 19 at Tommy’s Place. This Spoken Justice event is a collaboration between our Center, GSG, and Residential Education. Spoken Justice is a series of spoken word events that have a focus on identity and social justice issues.

This FREE event is open to anyone who wishes to perform and/or attend. Sign-ups to perform spoken word begin at 6:15pm and the event will kick-off at 6:30pm and end at 8pm. Food will be provided. Come out and support the artists and hear some amazing student poetry. For more information, see the attached flyer, visit our Spoken Justice website page or check out our Facebook event page.

 

Thank you for your time and we hope to see you next week!

Best,

Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice

USC Rossier School of Education, WPH 1003

Visit our website: socialjustice.usc.edu 

 

 

 

 

 

NatCon 2019 Call for Proposals and Reviewers Now Open!

Student Veterans of America (SVA) will hold its 11th Annual National Conference (NatCon) at the Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida, January 3-5, 2019. NatCon is an annual forum that strengthen ties between the veteran and higher education communities. As the largest gathering of student veterans, higher education leaders, policy makers, and stakeholders—making NatCon the premier event for improving veteran success. Be part of the #NatCon2019 program. Submit your breakout session proposal today!

SVA encourages proposals that advance knowledge and understanding of a wide range of topics relating to veterans in higher education. Proposals should address relevant topics on chapter/club management and sustainability, student veteran experiences throughout their educational life cycle—to, through, and beyond college, and higher education policies, programs, and services; increase the knowledge and skills of veterans, students, higher education professionals, and the public; and promote the continued development and growth of the field.

Those who work within and across such fields as veterans, higher education, college students, disability studies, alumni relations, chapter-based management and sustainability, leadership, public policy; and those in state and federal agencies, philanthropic organizations, veteran service organizations (VSOs), higher education associations, and other entities that work with or in the veteran or higher education spaces are welcome to submit proposals for consideration.

For more details on #NatCon2019 Call for Proposals download and review the Proposal Submission Guidelines. For updates on #NatCon2019 visit the conference website.

We are also looking for volunteers to help score and recommend proposals for #NatCon2019. The strength and success of NatCon’s breakout session stems from the rigor of our review process. Each year, the NatCon Proposal Committee receives diverse proposals covering a multitude of topics. We need a diverse group of reviewers to mirror the diversity of proposals. Reviewers from all backgrounds have knowledge and skills gained from their professional and personal experience that would be useful in providing comments and recommendations for #NatCon2019 proposals. This is a great opportunity for professional development in learning about a conference’s Call for Proposal process and you will help make the #NatCon2019 program our best yet. To learn more about the proposal review process, please see our Call for Reviewers announcement.

 

Chris Andrew Cate, PhD | Vice-President of Research

202.223.4710

 

Student Veterans of America
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Summer 2018 Operation Dissertation Acceleration (ODA)

Summer 2018 Operation Dissertation Acceleration (ODA)

What’s ODA?

ODA is an intensive writing retreat. It’s designed for doctoral students who need / want to set aside a serious block of time to make a significant push toward the next step of their dissertation.  The retreat is targeted toward students who:

Have research question(s) but have not been able to complete chapters 1, 2 and 3 (the proposal); OR
Have defended their proposal and collected data, but have not completed chapters 4 and 5.

Retreat participants will be selected and assigned to work directly with a DSC writing instructor. The ratio of advisor to students will be 1-to-4, meaning students will have a great deal of support and interaction on their project. In addition, participants will exchange papers and support each other through peer-to-peer feedback.

Workshop Dates: Thursday – Sunday, May 31 – June 3, 2018 at USC Orange County Campus, 2300 Michelson Dr, Irvine, CA
Application Deadline: TBA
Acceptance Notification: TBA
Application link: TBA

For more information email Dr. Ilda Jimenez at ijimenez@usc.edu.