Tuesday, 16 Feb 2016
Webinar : "Addressing Incivility in the Classroom: effective Strategies for faculty"
In this webinar, you will learn about faculty's experiences with student incivility, especially the experiences of faculty with marginalized identities (e.g. race, gender, sexual orientation). You will also learn about the potential consequences for faculty of unchecked classroom incivilities. Most importantly, this webinar will teach you strategies you can use--both inside and outside of the classroom--to address these student behaviors.
Wednesday, 17 Feb 2016
Workshop: Managing income and debt
A TIAA-CREF financial essentials workshop, led by Jay Albrecht. Learn the importance of cash flow and how to use it; change how you look at saving and spending; identify good and bad debt and ways to help manage it. Reservations are free, but requested.
SVPP - Re Thinking Resilience...Coping in our Everyday II
In the second session participants will review the key factors of stress from the Stress Profiler and delve into more detail around their stress triggers. Discussion and active practice of additional techniques and skills for building resilience will be provided. Participants will leave with a renewed sense of purpose and confidence in creating resilience in their everyday.
Thursday, 18 Feb 2016
Getting Started with Mendeley
Wish you could extract details from academic papers into a database? Filter your library by authors, journals or key words? Share and synchronize your library with selected colleagues? This workshop for beginners introduces Mendeley. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully searchable library in seconds,cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device. Preregistration is required.
Monday, 22 Feb 2016
VPR Workshop: NEH Regional Application
This workshop will include an overview of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Humanities Iowa programs and special initiatives, and a session devoted to strategies for winning competitive applications and understanding the review process. A limited number of individual appointments with an NEH program officer will be available.
Tuesday, 23 Feb 2016
VPR Workshop: NEH Regional Application
This workshop will include an overview of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Humanities Iowa programs and special initiatives, and a session devoted to strategies for winning competitive applications and understanding the review process. A limited number of individual appointments with an NEH program officer will be available.