- November 19, 2019
- 5:35 pm
- Kate Phillippo
CEPS Newsletter 90
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Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, Loyola University Chicago
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CEPS Students and Alumni,
I hope this newsletter finds you well as the semester winds down. It has been a pleasure and an honor to get to teach so many of you this fall, and I look forward to the continued opportunity as our year moves forward.
A big shout-out to CEPS doctoral student Brie Griffin for her receipt of the School of Education Presidential Medallion. You can learn about Brie and her work on the front page of the SOE webpage at https://www.luc.edu/education/!
If you haven’t registered for spring semester yet, please do so! We’ve got a great roster of courses: Dr. Deane’s seminar on violence in schools (ELPS 520), my seminar on urban education policy (ELPS 412), and our core courses, American schooling and Social Policy: A Historical Perspective (ELPS 444, Dr. Deane) and Comparative Education (ELPS 455, Dr. Jules). We look forward to working with you!
We will host our third annual CEPS Policy Forum on 1/31—please join us for this engaging event, which is open to the community within and beyond LUC. Before then, though, I wish you all well as you complete your semesters and hope that your break is restorative and meaningful for those among us who observe religious holidays.
Best regards,
Dr. Kate Phillippo, CEPS Program Chair, 2019-2020
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CEPS Program Newsletter #090 – November/December, 2019
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A. CEPS AND LOYOLA NEWS
B. JOBS ETC.
C. CALLS FOR PAPERS
D. IMPORTANT DATES FOR FALL AND SPRING SEMESTER
A. CEPS AND LOYOLA NEWS
Save the date: CEPS Policy Forum
Please mark your calendars for the third annual CEPS Policy Forum, Friday January 31 from 3-5 pm at Galvin Auditorium, LSC. Our theme is “Education policy and the fourth industrial revolution: Big data, machine learning and economic intelligence.” Speakers from LUC and the broader Chicago community will address this topic and will engage with the audience in conversation. Reception with appetizers to follow.
Spring 2020 Course Registration
If you have not registered for spring 2020 courses yet, please do so right away. Our Assistant Dean of Students shared the following information about registration and billing: “Sometimes students delay registering because they do not want the bill to arrive so soon. This practice can negatively impact courses and may create unnecessary course cancellation. . . Even though a bill is issued, it is not due any sooner that someone who registers later. For Spring, the bursar’s office generates e-Bills on December 15 and the tuition due dates is January 5 (https://www.luc.edu/bursar/billing_information.shtml).”
Internship Planning for Coming Semesters (ELPS 564 & ELPS 565) (From Yver Melchor, Internship course instructor)
Students planning to conduct their internships during the Spring 2020 semester and the subsequent Summer 2020 terms (both Summer A and Summer B), please contact me, the appointed instructor (ymelchor@luc.edu), if you have questions or any concerns. In order to enroll to the ELPS 564: Educational Policy Internship course or the ELPS 565: International Educational Policy Internship courses, the internship sites must be verified and authorized prior to enrollment. Please consider that while the responsibility of finding and securing an internship falls to the student, I am happy to answer any question about the process and thus make this a successful and engaging experience.
LSC Work Group: All CEPS students, especially those who have completed their coursework, are invited to join the LSC Work Group on Mondays at 5:00pm. Our goal with this group is to build and maintain CEPS community all while supporting one another as we work on various school tasks like reading for comps, dissertation work, article development, etc. Each week when we come together each person will add their own tasks/goals for the week into a shared document. We will then go over our progress on the goals we added to the document in the previous week. Depending on the day and what people need, we may also (1) discuss the projects we’re working on; (2) share work with another person to get feedback; (3) do reading or writing in one another’s presence for an hour or so; and (4) chat and catch up. We will be meeting each Monday at 5:00pm at the Lake Shore Campus in the small group meeting rooms in the IC. If you would like to join us, please email Max Crumley-Effinger (mcrumleyeffinger@luc.edu).
B. JOBS, ETC.
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C. CALL FOR PAPERS
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D. IMPORTANT DATES FOR FALL and SPRING SEMESTER
Sunday, December 1 – Last day to submit graduation applications for May degree conferral.
Saturday, December 7 – Fall semester classes end.
Monday, January 13 – Spring semester begins.
Monday, January 20 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday – No Class.
Saturday, February 1 – Last day to submit graduation applications for August degree conferral.
Monday, February 10 – Summer 2020 registration begins.
Monday, March 2-Saturday, March 7 – Spring Break – No Classes.
