Headlines for the Week of August 20, 2007

Office of the Dean

Student Services

General announcements:
- Student Organization Fair: September 5.
- Disability resources.
To entering students:
- Welcome to Chicago-Kent!
- What my office does.
- Orientation week.
- Academic support program.
- CTA U-Pass program.
To returning students:
- Welcome back!
- Fall 2007 semester information:
  - Initial reading assignments and course materials.
  - Course information updates.
  - Revised fall schedule with classroom assignments.
  - Adding and dropping courses.
  - Exam schedule.
  - Trial Advocacy section assignments.
  - Bookstore hours.
  - 2007-08 academic calendar.
  - Consider taking Appellate Courts & Procedure.
- Spring 2008 preliminary schedule.
- Fall U-Pass distribution.
- Spring 2007 CALI winners.
- London Law Consortium program.
- Serve as a mentor to an international student.
- Joke of the week.
- Poem of the week.

Academics & Student Programs

Fall 2007 orientation information.
Spring 2008 externship: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois.
Fall 2007 externship: City of Chicago, Department of Consumer Services.
Fall 2007 externship: Office of the State's Attorney, DuPage County.
Fall 2007 externship: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Division of Enforcement.
Fall 2007 externship: Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago).
Fall 2007 externship: Workers' Compensation Litigation Unit, Civil Division, Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
Fall 2007 externship: Resurrection Health Care.
Fall 2007 externship: City of Chicago Law Department's Building and Land Use Litigation Division.
For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.

Computing & Information Services

CLC Help Desk ticket tracking system.
Print accounting system on KENTNET.
Print account balances were reset on July 23.
Network accounts for December 2006 and May 2007 graduates were terminated on July 30.
Free e-mail available to Chicago-Kent alumni at alum.iit.edu.
CLC Policy: Students are required to show C-K photo ID card for loaner computer equipment.
Computer acceptable use policy.
Windows Update.
Remove unnecessary files on network.
CLC monthly network maintenance schedule.
Latest McAfee DAT file is sdat5098.
CLC contact information and office hours.
Office of Technology Services at the main campus: Dell computer purchases.
http://ots.iit.edu/computer equipment/purchase.php

Faculty

Institutes & Centers

Public interest certificate program letters of intent available.
Students interested in the Public Interest Certificate should register for Public Interest Law & Policy in the fall.
Self-Help Web Center at the Daley Center seeks volunteers.

Administrative Offices/General

Weekly activities schedule.
Fall 2007 building and library hours, effective August 20.
Special building and library hours for Labor Day holiday weekend, September 1, 2 and 3.
Fall 2007 student hiring and employment requirements.
Discount parking for DTC faculty, staff and students: Fall 2007 semester.
Downtown Campus safety tips.
Shuttle bus schedule.
DTC Bursar’s Office hours.
Administration and Finance office hours.
Online room reservation form.