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Headlines for the Week of August 18, 2008 |
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| Student Services |
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- General announcements:
- September 3: Student Organization Fair.
- 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 2008 semester information:
- Initial reading assignments and course materials.
- Course information updates.
- Revised fall 2008 schedule (with classroom assignments).
- Adding and dropping courses.
- Exam schedule.
- Trial Advocacy section assignments.
- Bookstore hours.
- 2008-09 academic calendar.
- Consider taking Appellate Courts & Procedure.
- Spring 2009 preliminary schedule.
- Fall U-Pass distribution.
- Spring 2008 CALI Award winners.
- London Law Consortium program.
- Joke of the week.
- Poem of the week.
- Welcome back!
- Insurance information.
- Upcoming events.
- Attention: Edamerica borrowers.
- Don't forget to accept your awards.
- Title IV authorization form now available!
- Full-tuition scholarships and Honors Scholars notification.
- Fall disbursement schedule.
- Disbursement process step-by-step.
- Kent Scholarships awarded for continuing students.
- Attention: Bank of America borrowers.
- Welcome 1Ls!
- Alternatives to OCI: Career programs on government, small and mid-sized firms, and public interest begin on August 26 and run through October 8.
- Chicago-Kent is now LinkedIn!
- Apply now for the Jack Carey Scholarship from the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.
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| Academics
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- Job opportunity in the Chicago-Kent Law Offices' Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic.
- 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.
- Awards for Law Offices clinical professors.
- 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.
- European Commission launches new guide to studying in Europe.
- Check out the OILP spring newsletter!
- E-mail information for graduates.
- "International" clerkship opportunity for J.D. students.
- New entries this week:
- James E. Beckley Securities Arbitration and Law Writing Competition.
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| Computing
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- Welcome Chicago-Kent students!
- 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.
- CLC monthly network maintenance schedule.
- Latest McAfee DAT file is sdat5364.
- CLC Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/clc.
- Library fall hours, starting August 18.
- A reminder about security in the library!
- Featured resource: ConSource.
- General library policies.
- Free CALI lessons available to law students.
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| Faculty |
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| Institutes
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- A2J Author featured in Law Day 2008 edition of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.
- Gain real-world experience this semester by helping others at the Self-Help Web Center.
- Submit letter of intent for the Certificate in Public Interest Law.
- Institute for Law and the Humanities paper prize.
- Research assistants needed.
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| Administrative
Offices/General |
- Weekly activities schedule.
- Fall semester building and library hours, effective August 18.
- Special building and library hours for Saturday and Sunday, August 16 and 17.
- Special building and library hours for Labor Day holiday, August 30 to September 1.
- Fall 2008 student hiring procedures.
- Discount parking: DTC faculty, staff and students for spring/summer 2008.
- Downtown Campus safety tips.
- Shuttle bus schedule.
- DTC Bursar's Office hours.
- Administration and Finance office hours.
- Online room reservation form.
- September 18: Federal Sector Labor Relations & Labor Law Conference.
- Upcoming programs in CLE.
- The Record returns to weekly publication schedule beginning with August 18 issue.
- Record templates available for students and administrators.
- Human Resources hours at the Downtown Campus.
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| Student
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Student Organizations:
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to use for creating Record announcement pages. More information is available on the
About the Record page.
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