CCT News

19 August 2009

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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor

Student Matters
Applications accepted for an open graduate assistantship through August 26th. (Procedures)

CCT Fall Courses (term code 1910): files/fall09.html

• Spaces still available in all courses, except Phil 501.
• Current students may need to update their emergency contact information before WISER will let you register.
• Note CrCrTh688, Reflective Practice (1-3 credits), has now been approved as a formal course, to work in conjunction with the CCT Network events.
• Matriculated students not taking a course must register for CAS 600 (aka the program fee) to keep their students status active. Class no. 7295 for M.A. students; 7294 for Certificate students.
• Non-matriculated student registration information: files/nonmatric.html

CCT on the Cape courses start in the fall at Cape Cod Community College, Tuesday & Thursday evenings. Spread the word.

Sign up asap for new student entrance interviews or mid-program check-in.

Writing Support groups begins its weekly meetings on Tuesday Sept. 8 from 5.30-7.30 in McC 2-628C. Come for all or part of the time. See here, for a glimpse of the thinking behind the group and here, for other resources.

Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies course application deadline for fall courses, September 2.

Congrats and welcome to new CCT students: M.A. -- Renessa Ciampa, Noreen McGinness, Jessica Roberts
Certificate -- Mary Lou Horn, Sandra McCollin, Brooke O'Connor, Emilia Sabatowska

CCT Community

Former GCE Dean Dick Clark passed away 11 August. Dick battled his illness for months with a combination of courage and humor, and passed away peacefully. Dick will be deeply missed for his collegiality and zest for life as well as for his many contributions to education--at UMass Boston, UMass Amherst, the university system, and across the state. A memorial service was held on Friday, August 14th at 1:00 at the Grace Episcopal Church in downtown Amherst.

Julie Barrett has co-organized the Jade Plant Project show, which is up now through Aug 29th in the Doran Gallery at Massachusetts College of Art. Reception Thursday, Aug 27th, 5-7:30. (Poster)

Professor Peter Taylor will give the Chancellor's Annual Distinguished Teaching Lecture, co-sponsored by the Friends of Healey Library, on Tuesday, November 3, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm in the Alumni Lounge, Campus Center.

CCT Events

CCT Community Open House, Thursday September 10, 6.30pm-9, place TBA. See other dates for the fall.

Alum and CCT associates Notes

Ashok Panikkar '97 reflects on five years of his organization Metaculture.

Luanne Witkowski's summer show was held at Hutson Gallery (http://www.hutsongallery.net/) in Provincetown from July 3 through July 16. http://www.lewstudio.com

Tamami Nakashima's book, "What Kind of a Country is America? Tamami's American Challenges," came out on the 1st of July! It's a collection of anecdotes. Details about availability soon.

Events

Graduate Student Fall Orientation Program
See the complete schedule for specific times and locations.
To reserve space in any events, please contact Please RSVP to Graduate.Studies@umb.edu

These events are a great way to meet graduate students from outside your department. Several events have limited capacity and require an RSVP. For those events please respond to Graduate.Studies@umb.edu.

Highlights:
See the complete schedule for specific times and locations.

• International Student Orientation, September 3
• Pizza and Conversation (with individuals prepared to answer questions about GEO/GSA, stipends, billing, international student issues, health services etc.): Sept. 8-11
• Workshops on Using Library Resources: Sept. 10, 16, 21, 29
• Dessert Social with the Graduate Student Assembly: Sept. 15
• Harbor Cruise: Sept. 18
• Stress Management Workshop: Sept. 23
• Using SPSS and SAS in Research: Sept. 14, 30
• Teaching Assistant Workshops: Sept. 15, 21, Oct. 20, 26
• Writing Workshops: Sept. 10, 15, 23
• Academic Integrity Workshop: Sept. 17
• The Ethical Conduct of Research and the IRB Process: Sept. 30

Opportunities
Highlander Center Seeks Dynamic Person to Join Development and Communications Team. (The Highlander Research and Education Center is a 77 year old popular education center that works with grassroots groups in Appalachia and across the South to promote social and economic justice.)

The Regional Environmental Council, Inc. (REC) in Worcester, MA seeks an energetic, collaborative Executive Director who shares its passion for environmental justice work, http://www.recworcester.org

Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, http://www.thompsonisland.org/english/jobs/current#DCI

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, PUBLIC WORK AND PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING, NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM, November 5-6, 2009, Washington, DC plus request for funding proposals

Resources

Top Five Health Care Reform Lies—and How to Fight Back

Food for Thought

Artist Jon Monsarrat works with "Q&A cards": http://www.somervilleopenstudios.org/artists/artist_profile.php?artistID=756

Improvisational Song: Taylor and Bobby McFerrin
Another on Bobby McFerrin and the Pentatonic Scale at the World Science Festival 2009

Does trickle-down economics actually happen?

Myth of slowly boiled frog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

Humor