Register for the Prepárate Conference - March 10th & 11th

Readers,

Prepárate™ brings together professionals from higher education, secondary schools, middle schools and community-based organizations, with the common goal of increasing Latino student access to and success in college. The conference will be held March 10–11, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas.

Please follow the link below to view the flyer for more information.

http://www.naspa.org/regions/regioniii/Preparate%202011%20Flyer%20(1).pdf

You may contact Dr. Alderman for any additional information.

Here's the link to the conference - Prepárate Conference - Schedule & Session Information

Rosalind V. Alderman, Ph.D.

Assistant Vice President for Retention Management

St. Mary's University

One Camino Santa Maria

San Antonio, TX 78228

210 436-3995 office

210 431-8038 direct

210 431-8020 fax

ralderman@stmarytx.edu

www.stmarytx.edu/retention

Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D. - Vice President of Education and Professional Development

The Baylor Graduate Research, Advancement, and Development Conference - January 27-28, 2011

Readers,

I am Vice-President for Education and Professional Development for the Texas Association for College and University Student Personnel Administrators. This year, we are a sponsor of the Baylor GRAD Conference. Here's some information. :)

ATTEND and/or PRESENT at the Baylor Graduate Research, Advancement, and Development Conference on January 27-28, 2011. This conference is sponsored by TACUSPA.

What is the GRAD Conference?

- A two-day professional development opportunity for students, program directors, and faculty members from Higher Education and Student Affairs graduate programs across the state of Texas. We invite you to participate in this exciting opportunity to network, present research, and discuss relevant issues to your campus and your future in higher education.

Cost

The registration for this conference is ONLY $20.00 and the registration deadline is Friday, January 21, 2011.

Call for Papers/Call for Programs

- Program proposals will be accepted through Friday, January 14, 2011 and will be included in registration materials and on the Baylor HESA website. In addition, any student presenting at a national conference in the spring will have an opportunity to present their program at the GRAD conference AUTOMATICALLY.

Are you interested?

- Please contact buhesa@gmail.com or click this link - http://www.baylor.edu/soe/studentaffairs. You can also join the GRAD conversation on Twitter @baylorhesa and #gradconf.

Click here for the conference flyer - http://tinyurl.com/BaylorGRADConference

Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

TACUSA Vice-President for Education and Professional Development

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Goodbye Del.icio.us? Using Del.icio.us for Bookmarking Scholarly Journals

Readers,

I use del.icio.us for EVERYTHING! I use this program to organize the websites of journals for which I monitor their "call for papers" posts. I have over 75 journals organized by their various categories: i.e. - JournalsEdTech, JournalsCommunication, JournalsInterpersonal, JournalsK12.

Now, I am faced with the dilemma of saving each of these book marks on my hard drive. After seeing this article, "Is Del.icio.us going away?", I started to panic. It seems that Yahoo plans to sell the service. Perhaps to a company like Google? Still, I plan to save each of my book marks just in case.

What social bookmarking websites do you use? Xmarks perhaps? My husband is an advocate for Xmarks, but I was a total del.icio.us fan. :(

Sincerely,

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Blind Students Demand Access to Online Course Materials - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Photographs by David Wallace for The Chronicle

Readers,

This semester has been a wonderful challenge because I have had to learn various modifications for several students with visual and hearing abilities. As a result, challenge enabled me to learn new teaching methods in my face-to-face class (which I am VERY happy about).

However, the online classroom presents college faculty with another challenge. I do not think that I am equipped or trained to teach visually-impaired students online. Moreover, I wonder how disability services offices will provide modifications for students with various levels of visual and hearing abilities.

Here's an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education (released last night) focused on blind students in the online higher education classroom - Blind Students Demand Access to Online Course Materials - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

In addition to the article listed above, the Chronicle of Higher Education also published an article titled - The Best and Worst Web Sites for Blind Students.

Millennial Professor - Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.