Headlines for the Weeks of May 19 & 26, 2008

Assistant Dean Steve Sowle  »

• Notices to graduating seniors:
  
• E-mail and network accounts.
  
• Clearing out lockers.
• Summer 2008 term information:
  
• Classroom assignments.
  
• Initial reading assignments.
  
• Fall 2008 initial reading assignments and course materials.
• Joke of the week.
• Poem of the week.

Registrar  »

• Congratulations, graduates!
  
• Office hours and contact information.
  
• Summer pass/fail election deadline.

Student Services  »

• Orientation leaders for fall 2008.
• Orientation coordinator needed.
  
• Women's Bar Public Service Award.
• U-Pass activation period.
• Counseling services.

Financial Aid  »

• Federal loan exit counseling for spring graduates.
• Deadlines to receive financial aid approaching.

Career Services  »

• June 1: Deadline to register for Minnesota Minority Recruitment Conference.
• New public interest loan repayment opportunities for alumni.
  
• U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General's Honors Program and Summer Law Intern Program.
• The Council on Legal Education Opportunity's (CLEO) Diversity Career Fair: Register and bid for interviews now.
• May 20: Deadline for Northwest Minority Job Fair in Seattle.

Student Announcements from Alumni Relations  »

• Important announcements for the Class of 2008:
  • RSVP for the post-bar party!
  • Alumni Online Community and e-mail forwarding.
  • Commencement video and photos online.
• 2008 Class Gift:
  • It's not too late to participate!
  • Thank you to our donors.
• Chicago-Kent is now LinkedIn!
  

Scholarships  »

• New scholarship opportunities from the Alabama Law Foundation and the Walker Scholarship Foundation. Apply now!

Law Offices/Clinic/Externships  »

• Awards for Law Offices clinical professors.
• Fall 2008 semester: Litigation technology externship.
• Fall 2008 externship: Internal Revenue Service, Office of Chief Counsel.
  
• Fall 2008 semester: Illinois Attorney General's Office.
• Fall 2008 semester: Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Workers' Compensation Division.
  
• Fall 2008 semester: City of Chicago Department of Consumer Services.
  
• Fall 2008 semester: Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.
  
• Fall 2008 semester: Resurrection Health Care.
  
• Fall 2008 semester: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Division of Enforcement.
  
• Fall 2008 judicial externship: Immigration Court.
  
• Law Offices attorneys help free innocent man.
• Law Offices professor admitted to practice before U.S. Supreme Court.
• For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
  

International Law and Policy -- Assistant Dean Lydia Lazar  »

• Congratulations, Class of 2008!
• E-mail information for graduates.
• Reminder: OPT deadlines!
• "International" clerkship opportunity for J.D. students.

Writing competitions  »

• No new entries this week.

Center for Law and Computers  »

• Print account balances will be reset on May 19.
• E-mail forwarding for Chicago-Kent alumni through the Office of Alumni Relations.
• Printing and e-mail/network accounts for May 2008 and December 2007 graduates.
• Chicago-Kent wireless network reference.
• Duplex printing is available in labs 900, 700 and 760.
• CLC Help Desk ticket tracking system.
• Print accounting system on KENTNET.
• 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 sdat5298.
• 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
  

Library  »

• Take the library Web site survey!
• Summer library hours.
• A reminder about security in the library!
• Featured resource: Supreme Court of the United States.
  
• Westlaw summer 2008 password extension policy.
• General library policies.

Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)  »

• Free CALI lessons available to law students.

Center for Access to Justice and Technology  »

• A2J Author featured in Law Day 2008 edition of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
  
• Looking for legal experience this summer? Volunteer at the Self-Help Web Center.
• Submit letter of intent for the Certificate in Public Interest Law.

Institute for Law and the Humanities  »

• Institute for Law and the Humanities paper prize.