| University Graduate School November Newsletter |
Upcoming events from the University Graduate School
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| Upcoming Events |
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| 2022 AAU PhD Career Diversity Symposium | Thursday, November 10th, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm ET
Indiana Memorial Union
Hear about our campus’ participation in the AAU’s PhD Career Pathways project (2019-2022), an initiative with seven other universities to make diverse PhD career pathways visible, valued, and viable for all PhD students and postdocs. Events in the symposium include a keynote by Sara Pietraszek-Mattner (Exxon Mobile), presentations from departmental teams highlighting their activities and outcomes, panel discussions, and concurrent workshops for participants in different roles. We hope the event is an opportunity to build communities of practice, foster curriculum development responsive to students from diverse backgrounds, and provide PhD students and postdocs with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in a range of careers.
Schedule overview:
9-12 Whittenberger - Opening, panel, keynote (zoom option available)
12-1 Frangipani – lunch (registration required)
1:15-2:15 Tree Suites – concurrent sessions for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty
2:30-3:30 Tree Suites – concurrent sessions for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty
Let us know you’re attending! Please register by Thursday, November 3.
This event is sponsored the Association of American Universities and the University Graduate School. Direct questions to Katie Kearns (kkearns@iu.edu; Assistant Vice Provost for Student Development, University Graduate School). |
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| Upcoming Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning Events |
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| How to Create a Teaching Portfolio | Thursday, November 3rd, 1:30 – 2:45 ET
In this workshop for graduate students, we will share strategies to reflect on and demonstrate teaching practices in a teaching portfolio. Participants will discuss how to document, organize, and present evidence of teaching effectiveness in an accessible manner to hiring committee members. Participants will have an opportunity to view sample teaching portfolios from many different disciplines during the workshop. |
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| Using our Teaching Experiences for Future Employment | Monday, November 7th, 11 AM – 12 PM ET
Come discuss teaching and connect with other instructors! For this meeting, we will discuss “narratives of change that reflect on the journey to postdegree employment and its most salient - but not always sanguine - moments” (Robinson et al. 2022). Participants are asked to read Part 4 of the book, Teaching as if Learning Matters . We’ll spend thirty minutes discussing what we’ve read and how it encourages us to think about our post-graduation experiences. In the last thirty minutes, we will talk with Laura Carpenter (Associate Professor at Brenau University School of Occupational Therapy), Rachel La Touche (Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University), and Jonathan Rossing (Associate Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University) about their chapters. We will get a chance to ask questions, network, and form teaching communities. |
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| Learn how to Write a Diversity Statement | Wednesday, November 8th, 1:30 – 2:30 PM ET
Academic job committees are increasingly requesting applicants submit a diversity statement. In this workshop, participants will learn strategies on how to reflect on their anti-discrimination practices and how to document these reflections in a diversity statement. We will read and analyze an example statement and distribute reflection guides for getting started on your own statements. |
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| Electronic books and electronic journals: why can't I sometimes have access? | | It can be frustrating when you can’t access an ebook that is labeled in IUCAT for another campus. Or, the link to that ebook that you just looked at last week isn’t working anymore. Why? Unlike a print book, where we buy a copy that can then be shared between Bloomington and any other IU campus, electronic books and electronic journals are often licensed rather than bought. Consequently, the terms of the license dictate what we are allowed to do with the material and more often than we like, the terms are quite restrictive. We can’t, for example, interlibrary loan an ebook, nor can we share it between campuses unless the license allows it. IU Libraries purchases electronic books and journals in perpetuity when we can and failing that, we do try our best to obtain license agreements that allow us more freedom. For items we do not have access to, you can still use interlibrary loan to obtain a print copy of a book or a PDF of an article or request that we purchase a copy to support your research and teaching. Also, consider using and/or publishing materials that are open access, a growing movement to make scholarship open to all. |
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| Connecting Google Scholar with IU's Library Resources | | If you are a Google Scholar user, avoid hitting journal paywalls by connecting your Google Scholar to IU’s journal system. 1) Go to Google Scholar and click Settings 2) Click Library Links and search for Indiana University Bloomington, press the Save button 3) Now when you search, you should be able to go through a special link labeled IU-LINK that will ask you for your IU credentials to authenticate. An additional method is to use the IU Libraries link to Google Scholar here: https://libraries.indiana.edu/google-scholar. This second method can occasionally be problematic at busy times of the semester though. |
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