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23 April 2014See also previous news and alum news and exchanges. Please 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, request to be emailed when there's a new monthly news compilation, or request to be removed from such mailings.
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Contents: Student matters, CCT community, CCT events, alums, other events, opportunities, resources, food for thought, humor
Student Matters
Registration is open for summer 2014. Please see below for the CCT summer course schedule. Students may register through WISER, and non-degree students can find course and registration details here:Summer: http://caps-courses.umb.edu/courses/summer/cr/gr/crcrth/
Summer Institute: 3 weeks from July 14-August 1
CRCRTH 611 Seminar in Critical Thinking; M-Th 4:00-7:00pm; Theme: Design for Complexities of Life;
(two sections: #2073 for face-to-face students, #2060 for distance students)
CRCRTH 612 Seminar in Creativity; M-Th 7:00-10:00pm; Theme: Creative Thinking at Work (two sections: #2074 for face-to-face students, #2061 for distance students)
CRCRTH 618 Creative Thinking, Collaboration, and Organizational Change; Fr and Sa. 9:00am-4:15pm; (two sections: #2075 for face-to-face students, #1559 for distance students)
Summer 2014 Online courses (6 weeks):
May 27 - July 9:
CRCRTH 612: Seminar in Creativity; Theme: Inside the Creative Process: Exploring Blocks and Finding Creative Ground (class #1557)
CRCRTH 627: Issues and Controversies in Antiracist and Multicultural Education (class #1489)
July 14 - August 21:
CRCRTH 611: Seminar in Critical Thinking; Theme: Critical Thinking in Business (class #1556)
CRCRTH 619: Biomedical Ethics (class #1558)
CCT Community
Upcoming Collaborative Exploration (CE) for May 2014: Science-policy connections to improve responses to extreme climatic events
Free, online Collaboration Exploration (CE), open to all. See the full description for more details and background on Collaborative Explorations. Weekly online meetings will be held on a schedule to be determined. Please register (http://bit.ly/CEApply) to confirm your interest and indicate your availability, which will be considered in setting the final schedule.
CCT graduates are invited to apply for the Delores Gallo Fund for spring 2014, with a stipend of $300 to the one receiving the award. Please see the full description for more details, which involves the creation of a brief, original video related to your CCT experience and ongoing work. Submission deadline: April 30, 2014.
http://www.cct.umb.edu/VideoCompetition.html
Celebration of Carol Smith's Career and Retirement
Monday, May 19th, 4:00pm
UMass Boston Campus, Alumni Lounge (second floor, room 2551)
Hosted by the UMass Boston Psychology Department. All in the Critical and Thinking community are invited.
Peter Taylor spoke during the opening plenary at the conference, Science for the People: 1970s and today. His talk, "Making visible a collage of radical scientists and critics," and supporting materials can be viewed at http://bit.ly/sftp2014
The Science in a Changing World track is hosting a series of 60-minute dialogues at the Cambridge Science Festival on Saturday April 26th. Participation over the internet is possible. For details, see http://sicw.wikispaces.com/DialogueHours
http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/
On March 29th, Peter Taylor facilitated the first of two workshops on on Supporting Students' Writing Development throughout the Graduate Curriculum, http://bit.ly/GWC14w
In this 10th in the series, , Dean DiSalvio interviews Dr. Muriel Howard, the president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities who addresses both the challenges and opportunities that confront public higher education today,
Philip DiSalvio, Dean of the College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CCT's home college) has interviewed Dr. Muriel Howard, the president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, for the New England Journal of Higher Education's series on "New Directions for Higher Education". Dr. Howard addresses both the challenges and opportunities that confront public higher education today. See the complete article here:
http://www.nebhe.org/thejournal/new-directions-for-higher-education-qa-with-muriel-howard-on-public-higher-ed/
CCT Events
Critical and Creative Thinking Open House: Spring 2014 Student Presentations
Monday, May 5, 6:30-9:00pm EDT, UMass Boston, Campus Center, Room 2545; participation at a distance possible by Google+ Hangout for those who RSVP to cct@umb.edu. Open to all; refreshments will be provided. Welcome and refreshments at 6:30pm, with formal program to begin at 7:00pm.
Please join us for reflections and dialogue in recognition of Carol Smith's contributions to the CCT program and her work around conceptual change. Professor Smith's teaching for CCT has included courses in Advanced Cognitive Psychology, Children and Science, the Synthesis seminar, and others, and program graduates and all others in the wider university community are invited to join and participate in discussion.
Email cct@umb.edu for more information, or see http://www.cct.umb.edu/CCTNetwork7Apr14.html
Upcoming Collaborative Exploration (CE) for May 2014: Science-policy connections to improve responses to extreme climatic events
Free, online Collaboration Exploration (CE), open to all. See the full description for more details and background on Collaborative Explorations. Weekly online meetings will be held on a schedule to be determined. Please register (http://bit.ly/CEApply) to confirm your interest and indicate your availability, which will be considered in setting the final schedule.
Alum and CCT associates Notes
Kyle Lindholm ('04) reports "Over the past 10 years, my role at New England Art Institute has expanded from teaching drawing courses and cartooning on the side to taking on visualization and design, color theory, and lately increasingly more image manipulation software in my teaching assignments. I also direct the campus gallery.... Aspects of both Nina Greenwald's PBL for Science Education booklet and the valuable GOSP presentation structure found their way into my Concept Design incubator course this past semester with great success. Students produced not just high level visual design but projects that ranged from Bicycle Commuter mobile applications for safe riding on Boston roadways to recyclable package designs."
CCT graduates are invited to apply for the Delores Gallo Fund for spring 2014, with a stipend of $300 to the one receiving the award. Please see the full description for more details, which involves the creation of a brief, original video related to your CCT experience and ongoing work. Submission deadline: April 30, 2014.
http://www.cct.umb.edu/VideoCompetition.html
Events
Jonathan Kozol: Celebrating the College of Education and Human Development, and Poster Session
April 28, 2014
1:00: Poster session highlighting faculty and student projects focused on making positive impact in our communities
4:00: Jonathan Kozol keynote address, followed by book signing
UMass Boston, Campus Center Ballroom
In coordination with UMass Boston's 50th anniversary, National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol will speak about his extensive work supporting communities, children, and schools. Following the address, there will be a book signing for his most recent book, Fire in the Ashes.
For more information: http://www.umb.edu/news_events_media/events/jonathan_kozol_celebrating_cehd
Public Mini-symposium on Dimensions of Sustainability
Friday, April 25, 2014, 2:30-5:00pm
Sponsored by the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and the Ruth & Fuad Safwat Enhancement Fund at UMass Boston.
For more information: http://www.umb.edu/news_events_media/events/2014_earth_day_symposium_dimensions_of_sustainability
Growing Economies in a Shrinking World: Will there be Room for Nature?
We are organizing these symposia in conjunction with our new graduate seminar course on Sustainability Science. This symposium will feature three eminent and dynamic guest speakers, followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with audience interaction, and a reception. Through these public seminars we are examining a range of economic, climate and policy issues affecting the environment at global and local scales. We are very much interested in cultivating a broad perspective on these issues throughout the university community, and we also have a growing audience from the external Boston community.
Panel Discussion: Stand Against Racism
Monday, April 28, 5:30-7:30pm
UMass Boston McCormack Hall, 3rd Floor, Ryan Lounge
http://www.urbanresearchnetwork.org
Please join McCormack Graduate School's Center for Social Policy and URBAN Boston for a panel discussion on race and community-based research.
As part a national series organized by the YWCA, this will be an opportunity for scholars, students, and community members to share ideas and dilemmas.
Confirmed panelists include:
Karen Suyemoto, Associate Professor Departments of Psychology and Asian American Studies, UMass Boston
J. Philip Thompson, Associate Professor Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Mark Warren, Associate Professor Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, UMass Boston
URBAN.Boston is an emerging network of scholars and community activists facilitating meaningful and successful collaborative research projects in the Boston community. For more information: http://www.urbanresearchnetwork.org
Service Learning and Community Renewal: A Lecture by Reverend Dr. Virgil A. Wood
Thursday, May 1, 2:00-3:00pm
UMass Boston, Campus Center Ballroom A
Rev. Virgil Wood—civil rights activist, educator, and church leader—has committed his life to the struggle for economic and spiritual development among the nation’s disadvantaged. He served on the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and coordinated the participation of Virginia in the 1963 March on Washington. From 1963 to 1970, he was pastor at the Blue Hill Christian Center in Roxbury, Mass., and head of the Massachusetts unit of the SCLC. After earning his EdD at Harvard University, Rev. Wood served as pastor of the Pond St. Baptist Church in Providence, R.I. In addition, as a member of Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, he helped establish 13 job-training centers for disadvantaged and under-skilled Americans of all races in Boston and eight southern states. A former member of the Economic Development Task Force of the National Conference of Black Mayors, he also participated in three White House conferences during the Johnson, Nixon, and Carter administrations. Refreshments will be served.
Three Voices on Community-Engaged Scholarship: Made in Boston, Ready for the World
May 5, 2014, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m
UMass Boston Campus Center, Alumni Lounge, 2nd Floor
Associate Professor of Chemistry Hannah Sevian will present community- engaged science education research and outreach that increases student access to chemistry and enriches both UMass Boston and community partners. Associate Professor of Asian American Studies Shirley Tang will discuss scholarship that seeks to produce and apply knowledge in ways that support community capacity building while reflecting critically on the politics of knowledge production in the public university. Associate Professor of Community Development and Planning C. Eduardo Siqueira, coordinator of the Mauricio Gastón Institute’s Transnational Brazilian Project, will discuss his work in different communities and how it integrates past and current scholarship.
UMass Boston 8th Annual University Conference on Teaching & Learning
Theme: Teaching both What and How for Deep Learning at Every Level
May 15, 2014, 8:00am-4:00pm (conference events), 5:00-6:00pm (post-conference social gathering)
Location: UMass Boston Healey Library, various locations for sessions
For additional details: http://www.umb.edu/cit/conferences
Call for Proposals for conference sessions: http://www.umb.edu/cit/conferences/cit_proposals
National Coalition of Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) biennial national conference
October 25-28, 2014 in Reston, VA
For more information: http://ncdd.org
Excerpts from their website:
"The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation is a network of thousands of innovators who bring people together across divides to tackle today's toughest challenges. NCDD serves as a gathering place, a resource clearinghouse, a news source, and a facilitative leader for this extraordinary community.
NCDD conferences are known for being innovative and highly participatory. We focus on providing participants with opportunities to network with colleagues, experience innovative group methods, and explore key challenges in our field together."
Opportunities
Opportunity for community-based organizations in need of interns
Masters students in the Department of Sociology at UMass Boston are generally required to do an internship, where the goal is to find a placement in which they can be involved in applied research. Internships are sought at Boston-area nonprofits, government organizations, and community organizations where there is some exposure to experiences such as communicating with non-academic audiences, working with different needs, goals, and timelines, other related issues. Students earn 3 or 6 credits (10 or 20 hours of work per week, respectively). Organizations are asked to submit brief supervisor evaluations at the end of the term. For more information or to have your organization considered, please contact Andrea Leverentz, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Director of both the Applied Sociology Master's Program and Criminal Justice Program: Andrea.Leverentz@umb.edu
Camp Cody will attend the Massachusetts Education Recruiting Consortium (MERC) job fair on Thursday, April 24th at Northeastern University.
Here, at Camp Cody, we aim to hire education students, due to our shared passion of working with children. We are hiring instructor positions in many different areas of athletics, waterfront activities, and the arts. There are also leadership and administration positions which could offer qualified candidates an opportunity to be part of our year-round team and gain management experience. Other opportunities: https://campcody.com/work-at-camp/
Resources
Items of interest to the Critical and Creative Thinking community on Diigo:
Regular Critical and Creative Thinking track: https://groups.diigo.com/group/ccreflect
Science in a Changing World track: https://groups.diigo.com/group/sicwumb
Food for Thought
To Watch:
The Legacy of Vollis Simpson's folk art: The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park
What is the sum of the infinite series 1+2+3+4+...? You won't believe the answer...
A music video for The Paper Kites song, "Young"
To Read:NELSON MANDELA: A TRIBUTE, Stephen Clingman's address to the Faculty Senate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in December 2013: http://www.massreview.org/node/309News and essays from the Council for Responsible Genetics
An artist creates fantasy worlds in her studio without Photoshop
On Denmark's concept of "arbejdsglæde": Happiness at work
The Fear Experiment: a community of people looking to challenge themselves, together, in what scares them
The President’s Plan to Make College More Affordable: A Better Bargain for the Middle Class
Why design a "vacuum-on-a-boat"? To clean ocean trash...
The "Creative Routines" famous creative thinkers
10 Ways Great Leaders Build Amazing Communities
On "Intersectionality": an approach for thinking about oppression, community, and change
On creativity and the color green
Picasso, Kepler, and the Benefits of Being an Expert Generalist
"The Bitter End": What doctors are willing to do, or not do, to save their own lives
Four Years of Austerity in 40 Pictures
Stock Exchanges For Social Enterprises?
Is de-extinction technology within reach?
Art project: "Sorted Books" shows what happens when groups of books are organized by title instead of author
Humor
30 Totally Rotten Things Parents Have Confessed to Doing That Are RUINING Their Children's Lives