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CCT News

28 September 2012
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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor
All students, alums, and others in the CCT community: please use our main contact 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.

Student Matters


All students anticipating completing all degree requirements by Dec. 27, 2012 must apply to graduate by October 12th to be considered for a December graduation. Please note that under a new procedure, completed applications should be submitted directly to the Registrar's Office (but check with CCT if you have any questions about whether you've filled out everything properly). Also, you no longer need to submit a personal check to pay the graduation fee; this will be automatically billed to you in your student account, which can be viewed through WISER.

Looking ahead to the CCT course schedule for winter/spring 2013: All times Eastern:
Winter 2013:
Spring 2013 (classes start the week of January 28th):
Hybrid courses (=face-to-face with distance option, for many of these):
Online courses:

CCT Community
Professor Larry Blum gave a talk on September 25th on campus about his new book, High Schools, Race, and America's Future, about his experience teaching a course on race and racism at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. For more information about the book, please see: http://www.hepg.org/hep/book/165/HighSchoolsRaceAndAmericaSFuture

CCT Events
CCT Community Open House: Reflecting and Connecting for Lifelong Learning
http://www.cct.umb.edu/CCTNetwork1Oct12.html
topics: CCT program move into University College, Reflective Practice introduction and activities, new student orientation
Monday, October 1, 2012
UMB Campus Center, Third floor, room 3545.
Theme: Serving Customers and Communities in Challenging Economic Times

Alum and CCT associates Notes
Jane Lueders has recently returned to work at an international primary school in Istanbul after 2 years in Belgium where she worked at two different international schools. Critical and Creative Thinking is alive and well in schools overseas!

Events
"A Conversation About College Affordability"
Oct. 3, 2012, 10:00am. UMass Boston Campus Center Alumni Lounge (2nd floor). Free and open to the public.
U.S Dept. of Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter will speak about the Obana administration's recent proposals to improve the affordability of college and answer questions. See the flyer for more information.

UMass Boston Film Series: Showing of "Detropia" and Q&A session with the filmmakers.
Oct. 4, 2012, 7:00pm. UMass Boston Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
This film provides insight into the financial crisis of the city of Detroit and the strain on residents to find opportunity while losing basic services.

"Inside UN Peacekeeping: Policy Changes that Work for Women"
Oct. 4, 2012, 4:00-6:00pm. UMass Boston Campus Center Ballroom A (third floor). Free and open to the public.
Talk by Nadine Peuchguirbal, senior gender advisor for the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and Cynthia Enloe, research professor in the International, Community, and Environment Department at Clark University. Sponsored by the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights. For more information, see this page.

Opportunities
Boston Area Kodály Educators (BAKE)
upcoming workshops of interest to music educators: October 20th and November 17th at the Fine Arts Building at BU.
Please see http://www.bostonareakodaly.org/for registration and information. Also, please see http://www.bostonareakodaly.org/round_robin.htm for BAKE's newsletter, Round Robin, with many items of interest and inspiration for music educators.

Resources
Online resources to be considered for the "organized CCTer":
http://www.diigo.com: organize your annotated links to web sites/articles beyond the capability of bookmarking pages
http://www.zotero.com: organize your research sources in one place and easily create formatted bibliographies
http://www.evernote.com: full-service online notetaking system, including images, handwritten notes, audio notes, and everything else that you'd like to keep in one place

A view into history: the National Archives and Records Administration collection of "100 Milestone Documents"

Food for Thought
Toward a better "social learning community" for college students?

Connecting art and neuroscience

Could streaming media have a larger carbon footprint than CD disc production?

Is the demand for online education among adults really growing?

Humor

Stephen Colbert's response to a recent political party's proposal that rejects the teaching of critical thinking in schools.

This Month's Challenge
This month's challenge is to submit a creative, yet realistic explanation for what is happening in the following photo. Submit your response to cctcoordinator@umb.edu by October 15th. Selected entries may be published in next month's newsletter:
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Last month's challenge:
submit an original limerick that reflects the following photo:
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photo source: The Daily Mail

The selected submission comes from Matt Jans:

There once was a man named Usain,
Who some thought was clearly insane.
For he yearned to run.
For him it was fun!
And so many medals he gained!