CCT News

25 August 2010

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

Student Matters


Late addition: Graduate Studies Orientation Events

Fall courses open for registration, see http://www.cct.umb.edu/fall10.html. Non-matriculated students registration is welcome, see http://www.cct.umb.edu/nonmatric.html

The Grad. Consortium for Women's Studies is accepting student applications for fall courses thru 8/27: Feminist Inquiry, Contesting Gender and Sexuality, Making Early Christianity, and our bi-weekly year-long Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women's and Gender Studies.

New students should sign up for entrance interviews (in person or by phone), openings on Tuesday 7 & Monday 13 September

Students who will have completed five courses this semester should be preparing a Reflective Practitioner's Portfolio for their mid-program check-in at the end of the semester. Start now if you haven't already!

CCT Community



CCT Events


Monday, September 13, 2010; 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
CCT Community Open House
Theme: Fall Orientation, and Presentation by CCT Alum Ashok Panikkar about practices used in the multinational conflict management company that he founded, Meta-Culture Consulting, based in India.
Wheatley 4th floor lounge, W-4-0148. Email cct@umb.edu to RSVP and for additional details.

Other CCT Community Open Houses for the fall semester will take place on the following Monday evenings: October 4, November 1, December 6. Mark your calendars!


Alum and CCT associates Notes

Meghann McNiff Lindholm is back in Kabul this summer for a very short consultancy with the Afghan Midwives Association (picture)
Scott Seiler recently spent time doing reconstruction work with his Church in Haiti (picture)
Tara Tetzlaff now has a website for her collages: http://www.mycutandtape.com, and, now that it's up, her goal is to start going to craft/art shows this fall.
Luanne Witkowski (picture)

Events


Friday, October 29, The New England Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation, http://ncdd.org/events/boston.php
UMass-Boston Campus Center. Register at http://www.ncddboston.eventbrite.com. $85 to register, $42 for students.

Opportunities


Resources

Deep Dish TV has new videos to serve "as tools in the struggle for social change."

Information about mosquitoes, http://www.webmd.com/allergies/features/are-you-mosquito-magnet

Food for Thought

Relections on the film On the Beach, 50 years later

New Orleans and the BP oil spill in the Gulf

Top 5 Social Security Myths (with supporting references)

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." ~ Henry David Thoreau

Humor

2009 Ig Nobel Prize for Public Health Prize awarded to Dr. Elena Bodnar for her invention of a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to a needy bystander of her choice.