Confirm your enrollment

(I think the blank space is supposed to say "this Friday" or something like that)

Student Records asks all faculty and academic departments to remind students to confirm their enrollment for fall 2015 – a requirement for ALL undergraduate and graduate students.

Students who intend to graduate this semester have the opportunity to submit their Application for Degree simultaneously while confirming their enrollment.

If students do not confirm enrollment via BU BRAIN Self Service by 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, they will be dropped from all their fall courses. Relaying this information to students will help prevent additional changes to your student roster and reduce the number of students who visit the academic advising departments and dean’s offices to petition re-entry to a course.

they must have meant 'the best'

happy first day of fall semester!

post-orientation miscellany (not SPEL related)

Orientation was yesterday. I should have posted about that, but instead, here are some academic problems in other disciplines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/science/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html


http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/08/today-in-campus-political-correctness-and-the-progressive-war-on-free-speech

registration started yesterday

Fall 2015 Registration

Fall 2015 registration for all returning graduate students will re-open on Wednesday, August 12. Please encourage all returning graduate students to register for their courses. If your department is responsible for registering students, we ask that you please complete registration as soon as possible. Advanced registration reduces the demands on students during the beginning of the semester and ensures accurate enrollment forecasting and reporting.

get your parking permit

if you need one

http://www.binghamton.edu/parking-services/

Fall colloquium and workshop schedules

more info to come ...


Colloquia

11 SEPT  Jennifer Morton, City College of New York

25 SEPT  Hagop Sarkissian, Baruch College

30 OCT   Patti Lenard, University of Ottawa

  6 NOV  Candice Delmas, Northeastern University



Professional Development Workshops

10 SEPT Preparing for the Academic Job Market

22 OCT Preparing for the Non-Academic Job Market

19 NOV Constructing a Syllabus

fledgling goldfinch

fledgling goldfinch learned to fly this summer

what did you do?

yay for tenure

and job offers and contracts and stuff

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/court-holds-that-u-of-illinois-broke-contract-in-salaita-case/102881?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

about the STEM shortage

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/08/is-the-supposed-shortage-stem-shortage-a-myth-used-to-serve-tech-companies-labor-policies


(links to and from:)

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20150802-column.html#page=1
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2015/08/there-was-never-stem-shortage.html