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Headlines for the Week of December 15, 2008 |
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Office
of the Dean
- "I wish you well for the end of finals, and have a restful holiday."
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Student Services |
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- Happy holidays!
- Fall 2008 final exams:
- Exam schedule.
- Availability of professors' old exams.
- Exam emergencies.
- Consulting laptops during exams.
- Cell phones during exams.
- Access to computer labs during exams.
- Exam method notices.
- Spring 2009 initial reading assignments and course materials.
- Spring 2009 registration.
- Academic calendar for 2009-10.
- Stuart School "Tie Drive."
- Joke of the week.
- Poem of the week.
- Spring 2009 schedule and registration.
- Office hours.
- Finals events.
- Winter raffles.
- Student health insurance information:
- Enrollment.
- Waiver for spring.
- U-Pass information:
- Fall activation.
- Spring distribution.
- Replacement information.
- Attention fall graduates: Federal loan exit counseling.
- Fall financial aid deadline.
- 2009-10 FAFSA reminder.
- CSO seeks part-time student worker(s).
- Perkins Coie 1L Diversity Fellowship Scholarship.
- January 8: Vedder Price Post-Holiday 1L Cocktail Reception.
- January 9: Perkins Coie Welcome Back 1L Diversity Celebration.
- January 30 and 31: Husch Blackwell Sanders Annual Symposium for Clerkship & Career Development.
- Commencement information:
- Fall 2008 graduates: Mandatory graduation survey.
- Spring 2009 graduates.
- Out-of-town graduates.
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Career Advisor Network.
- Chicago-Kent is now LinkedIn!
- Apply by January 12, 2009, for the following new scholarships:
- Asian Law Student Scholarship.
- Gates Memorial Scholarship.
- Roddy Scholarship.
- Sodaro Memorial Scholarship.
- Apply now for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Scholarship.
- The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Scholarship.
- 2009 Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest.
- Institute of Management Accountants Scholarships.
- The NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Essay Contest.
- Legacy baseball cap sale.
- Bookstore news: The Tales of Beedle the Bard is 20 percent off.
- December 1 to 24: Book buyback.
- Greeting cards are 75 percent off while they last.
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Academics
& Student Programs |
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- Spring 2009 semester: Externship with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
- Spring 2009 semester: Externship with Resurrection Health Care.
- Summer 2009 semester: Externships with U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois.
- Spring 2009 semester: Externship with Illinois Attorney General.
- For a description of all clinical programs, please visit the Law Offices home page at: www.kentlaw.edu/academics/clinic.
- Deak Award for best student article on international law.
- March 15: Deadline to apply for study abroad in summer or fall 2009.
- Final administrative memo of the semester.
- July 19 to August 15: 2009 Bucerius Summer Program in International Business Law.
- European Commission launches new guide to studying in Europe.
- Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law.
- No new entries this week.
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Computing
& Information Services |
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- SofTest registration and download site for fall 2008 final exams is open.
- AppleMac support.
- CLC monthly network maintenance schedule.
- Latest McAfee DAT file is sdat5463.
- CLC Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/clc.
- Extended hours for finals.
- Restricted access for exams.
- Holiday and intersession hours.
- Part-time student employment in the library.
- New! Faster search tools available on the library test Web site.
- Become a fan of the library: Find us on Facebook!
- A reminder about security in the library!
- Featured resource: DTC Library's Research Guide to Law & Popular Culture.
- General library policies.
- Free CALI lessons available to law students.
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Faculty |
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Institutes
& Centers |
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- Submit letter of intent for the Certificate in Public Interest Law.
- Part-time student research assistant needed. The position begins in January after the winter break.
- Institute for Law and the Humanities paper prize.
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Administrative
Offices/General |
- Weekly activities schedule.
- Final exam building and library hours, beginning Saturday, December 6, through Monday, December 22.
- Building and library hours for the holidays, beginning Tuesday, December 23, through Monday, January 19, 2009.
- "Tie Drive" sponsored by Stuart School of Business' Career Management Center.
- Fall 2008 student hiring procedures.
- Discount parking: DTC faculty, staff and students for fall 2008.
- Downtown Campus safety tips.
- Shuttle bus schedule.
- DTC Bursar's Office hours.
- Administration and Finance office hours.
- Online room reservation form.
- Join the Chicago-Kent Advocates.
- Admissions office hours.
- Note the Record publication schedule for late December and early January.
- Record templates available for students and administrators.
- Human Resources hours at the Downtown Campus.
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Student
Organizations |
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Student Organizations:
Click here for the template
to use for creating Record announcement pages. More information is available on the
About the Record page.
- Knitting follow-up.
- Semester wrap-up.
- January 4 to 9: Winter break trip to New Orleans to perform recovery and social justice work.
- Opportunity to get involved with the National Student Hurricane Network: Represent Chicago-Kent on membership calls.
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