Chess Club, UConn

This webinar is held for anyone interested in enrolling in UConn School of Engineering Professional Education’s Master of Engineering, Advanced Engineering Certificates, or taking classes on a non-degree basis. Details about admissions, program curriculum and upcoming course offerings will be provided. Also, the webinar will dig-deep into what makes a graduate degree or certificate program in engineering so valuable for today's engineers and employers.

Register here: https://soeprofed.uconn.edu/meng-and-engineering-certificate-webinars/.

Design an Accessible Syllabus
1/28 Tuesday 9:00-10:00
ROWE 319 and Online
Presenter: Karen Skudlarek, CETL

Design an Accessible Syllabus
Creating accessible documents is easy, requires little additional effort, and benefits students and instructors in various ways. In this workshop, you’ll learn about the importance behind making an accessible syllabus and using Microsoft Word you’ll create an accessible syllabus for your class. Please bring a laptop and a copy of your syllabus, if you have one.

Better Student Comprehension
Well-structured documents make information easier to consume by students of all abilities. Using a well-defined heading structure allows a reader to zero in on important information quickly.

Faster Document Revisions
Well-structured documents allow an editor to use the Navigation Pane to quickly find sections in need of updating, like due dates or grading schedules. The styles panel also allows you to easily change the look of your document. If a document has a strong heading structure, an author can generate a table of contents programmatically.

Less Rushing
Students come to campus to participate in higher education with a wide range of abilities and accommodation letters are an increasingly common occurrence. A syllabus created with accessibility in mind reduces (or eliminates) the work required to accommodate all students for this document.
To Join online - (https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/meet/kps05003)
Register at - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=1203

Please join the Graduate Reading Group in Human Rights for our first meeting of the spring semester on Tuesday, January 28th at 9 AM in Dodd 162. We will be meeting to discuss the prologue & introduction to Laurence Ralph's The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, which you can view here: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo26783305.html. We will also discuss possible programming or reading plans for the semester.

If you're able to join us, please email Hayley Stefan at hayley.stefan@uconn.edu to receive a copy of the book excerpt.