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Keeping Current @ the USC Libraries Workshop Series

Monday, February 22, 2016, 1:00-2:00

Doheny Memorial Library, Room 241 (Academy for Polymathic Study)

 

Please join us!

Citation managers help you keep track of your research by collecting and organizing citations, and creating bibliographies. So how do you pick the best citation management software for your research? There are many factors to consider including functionality, cost, and accessibility. Come learn all about the citation managers Refworks, Mendeley, and Zotero and choose the best tool for your research.

Presented by: Carolyn Caffrey Gardner (Information Literacy & Educational Technology Librarian), Melanee Vicedo (Education Librarian and Head, Education & Social Work Library Services), and Callie Wiygul (Social Work Librarian)

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Elizabeth Galoozis

Information Literacy and Educational Technology Librarian

University of Southern California Libraries

(213) 821-0097

[email protected]

VKC Library, B40b

3518 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0048

Alliance College-Ready Public Schools - USC event

Please see below for a message from Alliance College-Ready Public Schools:

We are excited to be hosting an event at USC’s Town and Gown on the evening of March 10^t called Creativity and Learning in the Digital Age Attached and below is the invitation.

This will be a reception and stimulating discussion on the intersection of technology, innovation and the vision for learning.   We have an incredible panel that includes as our moderator Willow Bay, the Director of USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism, and panelists  Brent Schlender who is an award winning journalist and author of “On Becoming Steve Jobs”, Rick Tetzeli who is Editor of Fast Company, Chris Twyman who is CEO of Boomwriter Media and our own Alan Arkatov. 

We’d like to extend 50 complimentary tickets to students at the Rossier School of Education. They can register online and enter to following code to receive free reservation: USC4CLDA.  

Event invitation PDF:  Download E-vite CLDA 3-10-16

Spring 2016 Graduate Diversity Luncheon

Diverse Doctoral Trojans

 

Invites You To

 

Spring 2016 Graduate Diversity Luncheon

 

 

In recognition of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday and Black History Month Dr. Sally Pratt, the Vice Provost for Graduate Programs, will be hosting lunches along with the Graduate Student Advocates for Diversity Outreach.  The objective of these lunches will be for the Graduate School to learn more about the experiences of underrepresented minority doctoral students at USC.

 

Dates & Locations

 

Tuesday, February 16th (12:00 - 2:00 pm) @ University Park Campus

Monday, March 7th (12:00 - 2:00 pm) @ Health Science Campus

 

Eligibility

 

These luncheons are open to USC doctoral students from all disciplines/departments who identify themselves as African American, Hispanic American or Native American.

 

Registration

 

To reserve your space visit: 

http://goo.gl/forms/1IcSiGwZ2m

 

Deadline

 

Space is limited.  Available on a first come first serve basis. 

Please reserve your space by February 15th

 

Additional Information

 

Joshua L Gray | University of Southern California

Graduate Advocate | Graduate School Diversity Outreach & Academic Professional Development

Certification Student | Viterbi School Health, Technology & Engineering Program

Doctoral Candidate | Epstein Industrial & Systems Engineering Department

[email protected] | 213.740.9055

 

School/Program Websites:

Viterbi School| viterbi.usc.edu

Diversity Program | sites.google.com/site/uscgraduatediversity/

Graduate School | www.usc.edu/schools/GraduateSchool

 

Download Spring 2016 Graduate School Vice Provost Diversity Luncheons Flyer

INTRODUCTORY ENTREPRENEURSHIP COURSE OPEN TO ALL USC GRADUATE STUDENTS, MARCH 21-MAY 2

Dear Graduate Students,

 

I'm writing about a special edition of the Greif Center's BAEP 551 Course, Introduction to New Ventures hosted in the USC Marshall School of Business.  This version will be offered in a condensed timeframe this spring from 21 March - 2 May 2016, Mondays and Wednesdays at 8:15-10:45am.

 

This course provides an introduction and overview of the fundamentals of entrepreneurship—in both start-up and corporate venturing contexts. It presents an integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective into the process of starting a new business.  Whether you already have an idea and are eager to start your own business, or are in the discovery phase seeking to find a new idea, or simply want to learn more about what an entrepreneurial career would be like, this course exposes you to the challenges of entrepreneurship, and will introduce you to the entrepreneur’s mindset and basic toolkit. 

Entrepreneurship is not limited to students who have an idea and wish to start a business immediately upon graduation. This is a course for the rest of your life. When an opportunity arises, you'll have the toolset to see, define, test, and then exploit the idea.

 

This course will consist of two main streams: (1) Entrepreneurship, (2) Corporate Entrepreneurship. For their sessions on Entrepreneurship and the start-up process for new ventures, they will tap into the tremendous resources of Southern California’s “Silicon Beach” and other change-makers in the region that was recently dubbed the third best entrepreneurial ecosystem in the world by the Startup Genome project. You will learn directly from leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and the startup gurus running world-renowned incubators (possibly via a Silicon Beach Trek).

 

Marshall's Corporate Entrepreneurship stream will illustrate how breakthrough ideas that challenge company orthodoxy emerge and grow within existing organizations.  Marshall will look at the role of change agents in big companies as well as the structures smart organizations put in place so innovations can repeatedly generated: new ventures groups, incubators, corporate VCs, “open innovation” systems and others.  

 

Marshall will have a few new cases making their world debuts, including special materials on international entrepreneurship just developed this year.  And they won’t just discuss cases as a cold academic exercise: most of the case protagonists from our readings will join us in class or via Skype, so our sessions will become “living cases.”

 

This course will be engaging and experiential, with a mix of cases, expert speakers, simulations and startup pitches.  Join in!

 

INTRODUCTORY ENTREPRENEURSHIP COURSE OPEN TO ALL USC GRADUATE STUDENTS, MARCH 21-MAY 2

BAEP 551 Introduction to New Ventures (3 units)
Section# 14431

Mondays and Wednesdays 8:15am -10:45am, JKP 204
March 21 - May 2, 2016
Instructor: Jeremy Dann

To add the class: Submit the form attached in this email. Once you submit this application, Marshall will register you for the class. For more information on registration call (213) 740-5424 or email [email protected].

Download Non Business Student Application Form

Job opportunity: Civic Engagement Program at Magnolia Public Schools

 

Seeking School Site Civic Engagement Team Member

Description

• Serve as school-site expert on civic engagement
• Serve as school-site leader and representative to a pilot Voter Mobilization Cohort Program acquiring new skills and knowledge in innovative, best-in class, monthly trainings and meetings.
•  Work closely with and report to Network Regional Staffer for Voter Mobilization Program.
• Identify, develop and support parent volunteers for voter registration and GOTV campaigns by providing training on voter registration and phone banking
• Staff campaign events including tabling and phone banking
• Develop and implement communications plan across multiple media platforms including, but not limited to: email newsletters, printed flyers, mailings, and presentations
• Disseminate communications across various platforms to target outreach lists including mass emails, flyers, mailers
• Generate reports from mInsights, a web-based data platform, to identify target outreach recipients; evaluate event attendance; measure efficacy of communication initiatives; and provide progress to goal updates for staff and Civic Engagement Chair
• Track, enter, and maintain data on participation in events and progress to goal on Voter Mobilization Program milestones
• Manage voter registration life cycle from form collection through submission to the county and request voter registration cards on an as-need basis

3 positions available:  1 in Reseda, 1 in Carson, 1 near Venice Beach.

Qualifications

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with databases; Proficient with Excel
• Ability to learn new technological platforms quickly
• Organized and detail oriented
• Ability to build trusting and meaningful relationships
• Demonstrated team player
• Ability to influence and motivate others
• Demonstrated commitment to community and civic engagement
• Self-starter, with ability to work independently
• Demonstrated desire for ongoing learning and development
• Spanish fluency

Apply:

https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/index.php?/jobs&clientkey=8D83FB8D9D71410D68D94C0B51982156

Apply for College Advisers in Your Schools through USC CERPP

Subject: Apply for College Advisers in Your Schools through USC CERPP

Dear colleagues in education,

Does your school district need assistance getting more students into college? Based at USC’s Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice (CERPP), the Southern California College Advising Corps (SCCAC) places recent college graduates in high schools to serve as full-time college advisers. In 2014-15, our sixteen college advisers directly assisted over 3,900 students in submitting over 16,200 college applications! See the attached impact report for more details.

SCCAC is currently exploring expansion to new districts. We invite interested parties to apply to become a SCCAC Partner School for the upcoming 2016-17 school year. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, February 23.

Partner districts receive a fully trained, full time adviser for each appropriate school requested.

• The adviser serves a two-year term, after which a new adviser will take his/her place. 
• Advisers directly assist students with all things college—research, selection, application, SAT/ACT, FAFSA, Dream Act, scholarships, EPT/ELM, SIR, enrollment, and beyond.
• Advisers are also tasked with helping build the college-going culture on campus.
• They also have a modest budget with which they organize a school-wide college celebration annually called Decision Day. 

Application:

To partner with SCCAC apply online here by February 23:

https://usceducation.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cH1jHoNq5fTb0sB

Program information:

SCCAC is a program of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice (CERPP) at the USC Rossier School of Education. CERPP is devoted to the social benefit of college admission and enrollment policies and practices in the United States and internationally. In 2013, CERPP partnered with the College Advising Corp (CAC) to launch the Southern California College Advising Corps (SCCAC). SCCAC partners with districts to improve college outcomes for low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students. We do this by placing well-trained, recent college graduates within partner schools as full-time college advisers. 

For more information on SCCAC, visit: https://cerpp.usc.edu/college-advising-program/

For more information on USC CERPP, visit: : https://cerpp.usc.edu/college-advising-program/

Contact:

To partner with SCCAC please apply by February 23.

If you have any questions, please contact Ara Arzumanian at [email protected] or Benjamin Robles at [email protected].