Weekly Digest

Happy Halloween! I hope everyone's week is treat-intensive!

Please contact me at mjenn@uga.edu if you have suggestions or if there is anything you'd like me to include in the digest.

• Please be mindful that the Monthly pay dates for November and December are on the last business day of the month and occur during UGA Holidays: Friday, November 29 and Tuesday, December 31. Your December paycheck no longer comes before the holidays.
• Please get any vacation requests in early. Deadlines for supervisor sign-offs are earlier for these months.
• For anyone who has more than 360 hours of vacation saved up: “The end of year also brings the 360 calendar year-end annual leave limit. To ensure annual leave is not lost in error, monthly leave requests must be entered and approved by the 12/19 deadline and Bi-weekly by the 12/23 deadline.”

Degree Works Downtime

• Degree Works will be down on Friday, November 1st. and it is also fall break, so if you have open appointments on Friday, you might wish to cancel them!

Tuesday, October 29th, 11:00 am, Workplace Wellness Wizard Walk

• Contact Jessica Couch for details (couchj@uga,edu)

Wednesday, October 30, All Advisor Meeting, 141 Tate,

• Everything you always wanted to know about GCO (but were afraid to ask)

• NACADA Reports

Wednesday, October 30, Brown Bag (12:15-1:15), Tate Reception Room

• DRC: Services, accommodation training, and universal design

Degree Works and Fall Break (from Julia Butler-Mayes)

• DegreeWorks will be down next Friday (and through the weekend) during Fall Break for an upgrade. For those of you that plan to be in the office, please make note!

Pat Mitchell Reading (good for students to know about, too!)

• Pat Mitchell will be at the Special Collections Libraries on November 4 at 6PM. She will be discussing her new book, Becoming a Dangerous Woman. You can learn more about her career and the event here.

• Pat is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia with bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature.
• The event is ticketed, but the $25 will include a signed copy of her new book. Tickets can be purchased here: https://gail.uga.edu/BADW

Approved Curriculum Changes

• See the attached information regarding curriculum changes that have been approved since February 2019.

Regents’ Center for Learning Disorders SAGE Referral

• This new Regents’ Center for Learning Disorders referral is now active in SAGE

Undergraduate Certificate in Musical Theatre Performance

• The certificate has been approved effective Fall 2020.
• Expect more information soon!

Spring 2020 ENGL 1101 and 1102 Sections

• Please have any student needing an ESOL section of ENGL 1101 or 1102 email Kensie Poor at kpoor@uga.edu.

Brooks Hall Halloween Trick-or-Treating

• Rebecca Baggett in the honorary position of soon-to-be retiree, will judge pet costume pictures in Brooks Hall on Thursday at 2pm. The winner will get a prize! All Brooks advisors are invited to post a picture of their pets in costume on their office doors and bring candy to hand out to visitors. All non-Brooks advisors are welcome to swing by to view the pictures and get candy.

• ANTH 3900 syllabus
  
• The Exploring Graduate Education at UGA flyer
  
• The Timeline for Graduate School Preparation flyer
• UGA Mentor flyer
• Approved curriculum changes information sheet
  

These courses will be developed in a collaboration between the faculty member and an instructional designer from the Office of Online Learning. All courses will be offered in Summer 2020.

• Dr. Christopher Elcik, Department of Geography - ATSC 1112E Introduction to Weather and Climate
• Dr. Charles Platter, Professor, Department of Classics - CLAS 1020 Classical Mythology
• Dr. Manijeh Keshtgari, Lecturer, Department of Computer Science - CSCI 4720 Computer Architecture and Organization
• Dr. Nate Kreuter, Associate Professor, & Dr. Joshua Hussey, Instructor, of English - ENGL 1102 English Composition II
• Dr. Anna Rogers, Lecturer, Department of Sociology - SOCI 1101 Introductory Sociology
• Dr. Nick Toebben, Instructor - STAT 2000 Introductory Statistics

Spring 2020 ANTH Classes

• You can see a list of the classes here: https://anthropology.uga.edu/courses/spring
  
• The syllabus for ANTH 3900, Professional Development, is attached.
• This course is strongly recommended for ANTH majors to take the first semester they will be advised in the department (generally Fall of their junior year).

Approved EL Courses (from Angie Switon and Elizabeth Fuller)

• COMM 3600S: Small Group Communication. It has no prereqs so it’s good for all majors! It’s a service course.
• AESC (FCID) 4920S – Project Focus https://alec.caes.uga.edu/undergraduate/experiential-learning/focus.html

Summer SPAN courses (in Athens this summer) can now be seen in Athena!

• SPAN 3010 Maymester
• SPAN 3020 Maymester
• SPAN 3030E Online!
• SPAN 3050 Maymester
• Lower-level Spanish courses are also listed
• Remember that now students must have SPAN 3010 AND SPAN 3020 to register for SPAN 3030!

• https://apps.reg.uga.edu/soc/SOCsummer.pdf

Beinecke Scholarship

The Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study in the arts, humanities, or social sciences is a wonderful opportunity for talented third-year students who are committed to pursuing graduate study. (http://www.beineckescholarship.org/).

To be eligible, a student must:

• Be a college junior pursuing a bachelor’s degree during the 2019-2020 academic year and expecting to receive a baccalaureate degree between December 2020 and August 2021.

• Have a documented history of receiving need-based financial aid during his or her undergraduate years (need-based institutional, state or federal grants-in-aid).

• Have demonstrated superior standards of intellectual ability, scholastic achievement, and personal promise. Competitive third-years will have a 3.9+ GPA.

• Plan to enter a research-focused master’s or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences. Students planning to pursue graduate study in neuroscience or professional school (med, vet, law, business, public health or policy) do not meet the criteria for the award.

• Students can fill out an interest form if you send them this link or the can contact Elizabeth Hughes (ejhsears@uga.edu) by November 6. The campus deadline is December 6, 2019.
• Benefits: Each scholar receives $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. There are no geographic restrictions on the use of the scholarship, and recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships and research grants. Scholars are encouraged to begin graduate study as soon as possible following graduation from college, and must utilize all of the funding within five years of completion of undergraduate studies.

Stethoscope Magazine Scholarships

Stethoscope Magazine is proud to offer a merit-based scholarship open to all majors at the University of Georgia. The Leara Scholarship is a $500 scholarship to be used for furthering education. This semester we will be offering one scholarship for writing and one for photography/design.

• We are looking for exceptional pieces of work related to this semester's theme: Mental Health.
  
• The application closes on Wednesday, November 20th at 11:59pm. Apply and tell your friends!
  
• Photography/Design: https://forms.gle/px4SgGbdk5DXnaj1A
  
• Writing: https://forms.gle/5yJ5U9ThGRwUcSHm7

Find a Franklin Alum to be Your Mentor

Connect with a network of Franklin alumni who have been there and done that through the UGA Mentor Program. Mentorships involve meeting for a few hours per month for a 16-week period. There are 380+ alumni from Franklin College who are waiting to be matched!

Getting started is simple:

• Create a profile on our digital platform

• Attend an orientation session

• Request a mentor based on your search criteria.

• Visit mentor.uga.edu today and find a mentor who can help you see your future!

• See the attached flyer for additional details.

Tuesday

I.T. Fair, Tuesday, October 29 and Wednesday October 30th at 10:00am to 3:00pm, Zell B. Miller Learning Center, Second Floor Rotunda

• EITS is offering free tech help. They can help download Office 365, enroll a backup device in ArchPass, complete a MyID Profile for password resets, sync mail accounts and more. Open to all UGA students, faculty and staff.

Franklin College Study Away Fair, Tuesday, October 29 at 12:00pm to 3:00pm, DW Brooks Mall, by the Science Learning Center

• Study Abroad and Field Study program directors and representatives will be on hand to offer students information about their 2020 programs.

Workshop: Effective Writing Skills for Success in College, Tuesday, October 29 at 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Zell B. Miller Learning Center, 214

• In this workshop, students will learn the essentials of good sentence construction, the proper formatting expected per discipline, and strategies for avoiding high-frequency errors in college writing.

Wednesday

Workshop: Academic Honesty at UGA, Wednesday, October 30 at 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Zell B. Miller Learning Center, 348

• Students will learn from UGA’s Office of Academic Honesty about policies and strategies to avoid problems using technologies like Quizlet, CourseHero, Chegg, and GroupMe.

UGA Graduate School Information Day 2019, Wednesday, October 30 at 11:00am to 2:00pm,

Tate Student Center, Grand Hall

• Meet with representatives from graduate and professional programs from across the country and overseas, representing areas such as business, law, health and medicine, public policy and others.

• View the participating schools here: http://bit.ly/UGFID19

Thursday

Thriller Dance Night, Thursday, October 31 at 7:00pm to 8:00pm, Memorial Hall, Ballroom

• Happy Halloween! Put a costume on and come to the Memorial Hall Ballroom to learn Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance. There will be candy, giveaways, and more information on the fitness and wellness programs and services offered at the Ramsey Student Center.

Upcoming

UGA Graduate School Fair Reminder, Wednesday, November 6 from 10:00 am - 1:30 pm, Tate Grand Hall

• Lunch will be served
• The registration deadline is October 31st
• See https://gradstatus.uga.edu/Events/Register/3108 to register, and the attached flyer for details.