The 2nd Annual GSC Bowling Party!!!
Fellow Grads,
Please come join us for the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Council Bowling Party. Free food and refreshments will be provided! Children and spouses are welcomed!
Friday, March 2, 2012, 5:00-9:00PM
UIC Student Center East (UIC Bowling Center)
750 S. Halsted Street
Chiago, IL 60607
14th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference at UIC: Saturday, April 14, 2012
Dear Grads,
Please consider submitting your qualitative-based research to the 14th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference which will be held at UIC on Saturday, April 14, 2012. This year’s conference is sponsored by the UIC Department of Sociology. It is held yearly in Chicago and organized by, and geared toward, graduate students. It is a supportive atmosphere and a great opportunity to present and get feedback on completed works and works in progress. Qualitative-based research (fieldwork, observations, interviews, document analyses, etc…) are welcomed from students in ALL departments and areas.
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14th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference
Call for Abstracts
The Sociology department at the University of Illinois at Chicago is proud
to host the 14th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference. This is an annual
graduate student conference hosted by one of several Chicago-based
Sociology departments, including Northwestern, the University of Chicago,
DePaul, Loyola, Notre Dame, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northern
Illinois University. It provides a venue through which graduate students
can share their ethnographic scholarship with one another and get feedback
from faculty based in the Chicago area.
This year’s conference will be held at Student Center East (SCE) on the
University of Illinois at Chicago campus on Saturday, April 14, 2012.
Students in all academic disciplines are invited to present their original
ethnographic research. Papers can be based on a variety of ethnographic
methods, including but not limited to: field observation, in-depth
interviews, focus group interviews, autoethnography, visual ethnography,
and other forms of qualitative research. Papers in all substantive areas
are welcome. In the past, presentation topics have included culture,
class, crime, education, ethnicity, gender, family, globalization, health
and illness, immigration, medicine, methodology, performance ethnography,
race, religion, sexualities, social movements, technology, urban poverty,
and work and employment.
The theme of this year’s conference is Public Sociology. In addition to
the above noted topics, graduate students are encouraged to submit papers
that utilize participatory research methods, engage in policy-relevant
scholarship, and/or attempt to utilize ethnographic methods to speak to a
broader public about socially and politically relevant topics.
Speakers: The two plenary speakers will be Hector Carrillo and Alford
Young Jr.
Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Northwestern
University, Hector Carrillo is the author of The Night Is Young: Sexuality
in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2002).
Carrillo is currently studying the intersections of sexuality, migration,
and heath, especially in relation to the incorporation of migrant
populations into U.S. life and society. He currently investigates the
phenomenon of “sexual migration” and its relation to HIV risk among
Mexican gay and bisexual male immigrants.
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Department Chair at the University of
Michigan Department of Sociology, Alford A. Young Jr. has pursued research
on low-income, urban-based African Americans, employees at an automobile
manufacturing plant, African American scholars and intellectuals, and the
classroom-based experiences of higher-education faculty as they pertain to
diversity and multiculturalism. His objective in research on low-income
African American men, his primary area of research, has been to argue for
a renewed cultural sociology of the African American urban poor.
Essentially, he argues that behavior is not solely produced and regulated
by values and norms, but is also affected by the beliefs, worldviews, and
personal ideologies that people construct, adapt, and/or employ in forming
what are, for them, common-sense understandings of social reality.
Paper Submissions: To submit papers, please complete the online submission
form available on the conference website at
http://www.uic.edu/depts/soci/cec2012. The online submission form asks for
an extended abstract with a minimum of 500 words.
The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, January 31, 2012. All presenters
will be notified of acceptance by Monday, February 20, 2012. Participants
will be asked to submit their full papers to the conference committee by
Thursday, March 15, 2012.
The Image of Research Exhibit Competition: Deadline Extended to Tuesday, January 31
Dear Grads,
The deadline for the Image of Research Exhibit Competition has been extended to Tuesday, January 31. Please consider submitting.
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The Image of Research Exhibit Competition
A picture is worth a thousand words…
The Graduate College and the University Library are pleased to announce UIC’s fifth annual interdisciplinary exhibit competition, The Image of Research. This is a multi-disciplinary competition open to any student enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC for the 2011-2012 academic year. Between November 14, 2011 and January 23, 2012, graduate and professional students are invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal that the student created as part of her/his research.
A multi-disciplinary jury will review submissions and award prizes to the winning entries. Images will be judged on originality, relationship to the student’s research at UIC, and overall impact. An exhibit of the winners will be on display in the Richard J. Daley Library and the Library of Health Sciences. Winning entries will become part of the University Archives and will remain in an online gallery on the Graduate College website and in the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) database.
1st Prize: $500
2nd Prize: $300
3rd Prize: $200
Honorable Mentions: $100
Competition Guidelines:
1. Only one entry per person or collaborative group.
2. Submission must be an image that was generated as part of the student’s research within their graduate program at UIC.
3. Entrant(s) must be principal creator(s) of image. Collaborative submissions are encouraged.
4. Submissions will be accepted beginning November 14, 2011 until January 23, 2012.
5. Entrants are responsible for ensuring that any relevant permissions have been sought, that no copyright has been infringed, and that any necessary release forms have been signed.
Submission Process:
1. Download entry form, fill it out and save the Word document with a file name consisting of your last name and the name of your program with no spaces in between. E.g. JonesArtHistory.doc.
2. Select one image that you think provides the best visual documentation of your research, and save it with a file name consisting of your last name and the name of your program with no spaces in between. E.g. JonesArtHistory.tiff. This file must be in TIFF format at 300 PPI with the longest side of the image measuring at least 10.25 inches (or pixel dimensions of 3000 x 2300 pixels).
3. Send your completed entry form + image by uploading through this link.
Questions or comments can be emailed to imageofresearchuicedu. Visit http://grad.uic.edu/image to see last year’s winning entries.
UIC Grads: Submit to The Image of Research Competition!
The Image of Research Exhibit Competition
A picture is worth a thousand words…
The Graduate College and the University Library are pleased to announce UIC’s fifth annual interdisciplinary exhibit competition, The Image of Research. This is a multi-disciplinary competition open to any student enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC for the 2011-2012 academic year. Between November 14, 2011 and January 23, 2012, graduate and professional students are invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal that the student created as part of her/his research.
A multi-disciplinary jury will review submissions and award prizes to the winning entries. Images will be judged on originality, relationship to the student’s research at UIC, and overall impact. An exhibit of the winners will be on display in the Richard J. Daley Library and the Library of Health Sciences. Winning entries will become part of the University Archives and will remain in an online gallery on the Graduate College website and in the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) database.
- 1st Prize: $500
- 2nd Prize: $300
- 3rd Prize: $200
- Honorable Mentions: $100
Competition Guidelines:
1. Only one entry per person or collaborative group.
2. Submission must be an image that was generated as part of the student’s research within their graduate program at UIC.
3. Entrant(s) must be principal creator(s) of image. Collaborative submissions are encouraged.
4. Submissions will be accepted beginning November 14, 2011 until January 23, 2012.
5. Entrants are responsible for ensuring that any relevant permissions have been sought, that no copyright has been infringed, and that any necessary release forms have been signed.
Submission Process:
1. Download entry form, fill it out and save the Word document with a file name consisting of your last name and the name of your program with no spaces in between. E.g. JonesArtHistory.doc.
2. Select one image that you think provides the best visual documentation of your research, and save it with a file name consisting of your last name and the name of your program with no spaces in between. E.g. JonesArtHistory.tiff. This file must be in TIFF format at 300 PPI with the longest side of the image measuring at least 10.25 inches (or pixel dimensions of 3000 x 2300 pixels).
3. Send your completed entry form + image by uploading through this link.
Questions or comments can be emailed to imageofresearch<AT>uic<DOT>edu. Visit http://grad.uic.edu/image to see last year’s winning entries.
GSC End Of The Semester Par-tay!: Thursday, Dec 1, 6-9PM @ Three Aces
Fellow Grads,
We hope to see you at the GSC End of the Semester Party this Thursday at Three Aces (1321 W Taylor St). We’ll have free food and soda, discounted adult beverages, a pool table, and (gasp!) a photo booth! Please encourage your constituents to attend. More info below!
When : Thursday, December 1st 2011, from 6:00 – 9 pm.
Where: Three Aces, 1321 W Taylor St, Chicago (between Throop St & Ada St, convenient for East and West campus)
What: FREE pizza and appetizers for everyone, great deals on drinks, photo booth, and of course the chance to meet other graduate students!!
GEO and Student Trustee Townhall Meeting NOV 16, 2011
Do you want to know more about how your concerns are being addressed as a graduate employee and how you can get involved in implementing change?
Join the GEO for a town hall meeting on Wednesday, November 16th at 5:00 p.m. in the GEO office (815 W. Van Buren, Suite 203) with the Student Trustee, Ken Thomas, centered around issues affecting graduate employees and how, working together, these concerns can be addressed! As Student Trustee, Ken sits on the University of Illinois Board of Trustees which is in charge of major decision-making that affects all graduate employees and students in the U of I system. Learn more about how Ken has worked with GEO in the past, and what issues you want GEO to take up in the future! This is your union; come get involved and have your say. Pizza will be provided.
More information can be found here:
http://uic-geo.net/mainsite/?p=277
Next GSC Meeting: Thursday, November 17, 2011 at the College of Pharmacy (West Side)
Fellow Grads,
Please note that our November 17 meeting will be held at the College of Pharmacy. Please see the information below. Thanks and see you Thursday!
What: Graduate Student Council (GSC) Monthly meeting
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011
Time: 5:00 pm
Place:
PHARM 212/216
College of Pharmacy
833 S. Wood Street
The GEO sent out information about the emergency grants the Graduate College is offering to Graduate Assistants. Below is part of the email that the GEO sent out on March 31, 2011.
“If you are a Graduate Assistant and had extra withholding from your paycheck due to tax on the value of your tuition waiver, please go ahead and apply for an emergency grant from the graduate college at http://grad.uic.edu/cms/?pid=1000948.”
Please make sure that you read through the instructions and FAQ on the Graduate College website to understand the whole process. Also, do not wait to apply for this grant; the grants will not be offered during the summer or fall.
So, You Got a Fellowship…Now What?
If you have received a fellowship, CONGRATS!! It’s good to hear that your hard work is paying you.
If you have not received a fellowship, apply, apply, apply! Something is bound to come up.
When you are looking for a fellowship, make sure you reach out to Lisa Knepshield in the Graduate College. She can help you figure what you need to do, when, and why.
Another resource you might find useful is the Graduate College Waiver Handbook: http://grad.uic.edu/pdfs/Waiver_Handbook_August_2010.pdf (It’s updated yearly. If you cannot find it, check here http://grad.uic.edu/cms/?pid=1000080 for an updated link.
GSC CampusCare Committee Vote
The GSC CampusCare Committee has been working hard in collaboration with the Undergraduate Student Government, GEO, and incoming Student Trustee Ken Thomas to put together a request for information and transparency from CampusCare.
GSC Representatives have been sent an email with the following information asking for their support in voting to signing the GSC name to this letter:
GSC colleagues,
On behalf of the GSC CampusCare Committee, I am asking you to approve a joint letter (http://www2.uic.edu/stud_orgs/gsc/documents/CampusCare_letter_GEOGSCUSG_2011_03.pdf ) asking CampusCare to improve transparency and communication.
This letter was authored by representatives of our GSC CampusCare Committee, the Undergraduate Student Government, Ken Thomas (who is the incoming student member of the Board of Trustees), and GEO staff, and it has been approved by a “yes” vote within the GSC CampusCare Committee. We propose to send this to the relevant administrators as soon as we can, if a larger GSC vote approves it. Time is of the essence, so we cannot wait for next month’s GSC meeting, but we apologize for bothering you between meetings like this.
We are asking you to electronically vote within the next 5 days. Each and every vote is very important and time is a major factor with potential Spring Break distractions. Finally, we have proposed a yes/no vote on this letter without amendments or additions, because other groups are also voting on it as is, and we need to avoid confusion.
This letter passed the USG unanimously and it also passed the GEO steering committee after GEO reps helped to put it together with the other groups.
Thank you for your time and effort!
Sincerely yours, Stephen Davis, GSC CampusCare Committee member
Please vote here (current UIC Graduate Student Council representatives only):
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFJWWmNkeGZMOE95cFJsbkQ4aEJodmc6MQ
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We want the GSC Representatives to read the letter and vote online before March 23rd. As a way to voice your ideas, concerns, suggestions, thoughts, etc., we have started this blog post. Please feel free to comment on the letter if you choose. We welcome your thoughts!
