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CCT News

20 June 2012
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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor

Student Matters

Registration still open for these summer 2012 courses (see full descriptions):
CRCRTH 618 "Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Organizational Change," Fr, Sa July 13-28, 9:00am-4:15pm, McCormack Hall room M02-0209 , Class #1909
consisting of three two-day workshops (Diversity Awareness, Cultivating Collaboration, Facilitating Participatory Planning and Design)
CRCRTH 688 "Reflective Practice," (1 credit), July 20-21, McCormack Hall room M02-0209, Class #1911
CRCRTH 619 ONLINE "Biomedical Ethics," online, July 16-Aug 23, Class #191

Current and new students should register for fall courses as well (see full descriptions):
Face to face:
Hybrid (i.e., students brought in from distance to join regular face-to-face sessions):
Online:

CCT Community
Congratulations to May/June CCT Master's graduates: Meghan Callaghan, Alison Palmucci, Lorna Riach, Nate Weaver, Lisa Williams; as well as to Jeremy Poehnert, who will graduate in August. Congrats also to CCT certificate students Eric D'Alessandro and Pam Sebor-Cable and Science in a Changing World certificate graduates Kendra Bucklin and Crystal Sorgini. (If we missed anyone, our apologies--we'll include you in bright lights next time when we hope to have a larger set of August graduates.)

Welcome to recently admitted students: Suzzette Bernard, Helen Boos, Bonnye Camoes, Daniel Hogan, Shane Mattingly, Arthur Roberts

In recognition of the emphasis of CCT on areas of central concern to University College (formerly Continuing Education), namely, mid-career personal and professional development, interdisciplinary studies, and incubation of workplace and instructional innovation, the academic home of CCT will move to UC as of 9/1/12. Students will still receive an M.A. and there will continue to be courses taught by regular faculty through state-funded courses.

Peter Taylor has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to spend time in Portugal this fall, doing teaching and research at the University of Coimbra on “transnational, European, and local community engagement in issues at the intersection of health, environment, science, and governance" (http://www.ces.uc.pt/nucleos/neces/pages/en/presentation.php)

In May, CCT faculty and staff, Peter Taylor, Jeremy Szteiter and Felicia Sullivan, participated in the 10th New England Workshop on Science and Social Change in Woods Hole, MA (http://sicw.wikispaces.com/NewSSC12a)

The University Library is in the process of making abstracts of all CCT theses and capstone syntheses viewable at http://scholarworks.umb.edu/cct_capstone/. Full-text versions will also be viewable for recent students and for any other alums who scan or save their work to a PDF file and send to cct@umb.edu.

All students, alums, and others in the CCT community are asked to use this form for all inquiries, notice of events, contact updates, career updates, web/wiki glitches, suggestions, resources for us to put in news/calendar, etc. Any items of interest to be shared with the wider community will be posted in the upcoming month's CCT Newsletter and Calendar.


CCT Events
Fall CCT open houses are scheduled for the following Monday evenings:
September 10, October 1, November 5, December 3
Themes to be announced.

Alum and CCT associates Notes
Alums may wish to contribute full electronic versions of their capstone Synthesis project to the University Library's public site. See the note above under the CCT Community section.

Events
UMass Boston Community Block Party
Saturday, June 23, 11:00am-2:00pm, Bayside Expo grounds
Food, music, games and activities for kids and families.

Workshop: "Regimented Language: The Interface between ordinary discourse and symbolic representations of elementary algebra”
By Bob Moses, founder of the Algebra Project.
Friday, July 6, 9:30-4:40, UMass Boston Campus Center Ballroom
The workshop focuses on highlighting the connections between spoken language and mathematics. Light lunch will be provided. Attend the morning, afternoon, or all day. Free and open to the public, but registration required by June 25 to http://bobmosesworkshop.eventbrite.com or contact MSEP@umb.edu for additional details
Key words: math literacy, ELL students, teaching of mathematics.
For more information about the Algebra Project, visit
http://www.umb.edu/cosmic/msep

Opportunities
Community resources affiliated with UMass Boston - opportunities for adults and kids throughout the university community:
Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
GoKids programs for kids and teens:


Resources
All in the CCT community are welcomed to visit the social network wikis, which connect you to Facebook, Twitter, diigo and other projects to build online and face2face communities that extend beyond the CCT programs of study.

30 Terrific Twitter Hashtags for Science Teachers

Food for Thought
Foundations of Philosophical Thought?: Not even ancient Greece can claim to be the true home of philosophy. So why do we persist in our Eurocentric delusion?

A 150-Year Experiment: Colleges That Serve Everyone

Who said: "Of all the modern economic theories, the economic system of Marxism is founded on moral principles"? (For the answer, see http://bit.ly/KwIPgz.)

Toporek: "What can be the service of a medium that reflects reality's underlying guiding principles?" An ideas-packed digital art video, http://vimeo.com/2529910

“[I]t is stupid to contradict a belief accepted by everyone over a very long time for extremely strong reasons, unless a naysayer uses more powerful and incontrovertible proofs, and completely rebuts the opposed reasoning." Guess whose work this authority was trashing. (For the answer, see http://twitter.com/sciencechanges.)

Drowning in Debt: Intergenerational Mortgage, Student Loans and the Effects of Climate Change

Article: We need artists to solve the challenges of this century

Real (creative) patents issued for unusual and innovative products:

Lives are turned upside down - no, really:

Humor
http://jezebel.com/5900906/your-morning-ennui-henri-the-french-cat-articulates-the-pain-of-existence