Education Seminars Announced

The Office of University Training has announced its 2010-2011 Education Seminars schedule. The seminars are available to UCA employees and students. University employees and students may register by e-mailing name, department, ID #, name of seminar, and desired seminar date to training@uca.edu.

New staff are required to attend the sexual harassment and diversity seminars. The Instructional Development Center will provide new faculty sexual harassment and diversity seminars through the New Faculty program. Contact IDC at idc@uca.edu or 450-5240 for more information.

Returning faculty, staff, student workers and graduate assistants are asked to attend the sexual harassment and diversity seminars on an annual basis. All other seminars are available for your professional development on a voluntary basis.

Staff orientation for non-faculty hired as of May 2010 is scheduled for Oct. 6 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Student Center #213/214

To register for seminars, visit training@uca.edu. Specific questions may be directed to the Office of University Training at 450-3135 or Charlotte Strickland, education seminar coordinator at 450-5470 or training@uca.edu.

Here are the seminars scheduled for September:

Sexual Harassment

September 2 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Student Center #213

September 20 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Student Center #213

September 23 X-period Student Center #213

Sexual harassment online training is available on the UCA web page at “Human Resources” or “Training and Development” or at http://training.newmedialearning.com/psh/ucentralarkansas/choice.htm

Diversity

This year’s topic of discussion – Sexual Orientation

Sept. 9, 2:30 – 4 p.m. Student Center #215

Sept. 16, 1:30 – 3 p.m. Student Center #215

Sept., 22 1;30 – 3 p.m. Student Center #223/224

Sept. 28 9 a.m.– 10:30 a.m. Student Center #215

Professional Development

Sept. 8, noon -1:30 p.m. SC #215 Intellectual Properties & Copyright Law
Jud Copeland (College of Education)

Recent legislative changes in the U.S. copyright law and intellectual property policies have highlighted the need to broaden knowledge of how information is produced and consumed inside the educational environment. What do instructors need to know about copyright and intellectual property for their own teaching, scholarship and publications? What do they need to know to direct the work product of their students? What do students need to know to become responsible researchers, creators, and authors? This presentation is a direct response to these issues.