Being a leader means giving employees room to fail, says CEO Deborah Dunsire of
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company. New bosses are often tempted to try to
fix problems by themselves, she notes, but a leader’s real job is to help employees learn
from their own mistakes. The New York Times (8/29)
Americans with Disabilities Act Online Video
This two-part DVD explains the Americans with Disabilities Act and how it applies to postsecondary education for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
This DVD is narrated by Chicago attorney Howard A. Rosenblum, whose practice focuses on disability rights and special education.
Part one, “The Basics of the Americans with Disabilities Act”, explains the history of the ADA, including its passage, its definitions of disability, and its recent Amendment Act. The ADA’s four sections- Employment, Public Entities, Public Accommodations and Telecommunications- are discussed, along with information on the various federal agencies responsible for enforcing ADA laws.
Click here to view part one of this video
Part two, “The Americans with Disabilities Act and the College Years”, explains how the ADA applies to postsecondary education by clarifying differences between the ADA and other legislation, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Act, which applies to K-12 education. It also discusses how the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 may impact postsecondary faculty and staff, reviews how students who are deaf and hard of hearing may be protected by the ADA, and shows how the law impacts access and accommodations (physical, programs and activities) as well as the provision of equipment (e.g. visual alerts, hearing devices and telecommunications). Services that postsecondary institutions need to provide to students are outlined, including interpreting, captioning and notetaking services. It also reviews how postsecondary students may effectively request services and advocate for themselves.
Click here to view part two of this video
The DVD is in American Sign Language, with voice over and open captioning.
This video is provided for educational and information purposes only and is not legal advice. This video should not be used as a substitute for competent legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state.
This video was produced by PEPNet with the assistance of Equip for Equality, which is the nonprofit agency designated by Illinois as its Protection and Advocacy entity. Neither Equip for Equality nor its employee, Howard A. Rosenblum, are providing or intend to provide legal advice in this video.
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August 17, 2009 – The Disability Law Lowdown podcast just posted Part One of Transitioning from High School to College for Students with Disabilities. Jacquie Brennan interviews Jean Ashmore, Director of Disability Support Services at Rice University, about facts, myths, and tips for students with disabilities transitioning from high school to college.
The Disability Law Lowdown podcast is available at www.DisabilityLawLowdown.com , as well as on iTunes. People can listen to the podcast directly from a computer or can download it to an MP3 player, like an iPod.
The Disability Law Lowdown provides the latest information about disability rights and obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other disability-related topics. Subscription is free.
The Disability Law Lowdown is provided by the National Network of ADA Centers across the country, offering technical assistance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act and other disability-related laws. Call 1-800-949-4232 v/tty to reach the center that serves your region. The Disability Law Lowdown is available in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
To subscribe or find out more, visit www.DisabilityLawLowdown.com
The ADA Centers are the ten Disability Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs) funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the Department of Education.
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There are some places online that you can take online courses for free. You can try your hand at online learning and see if it is something that may be beneficial for you. Here are some locations you can check out for free online courses:
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I discovered this interesting site today … LearnOuLoud. It is a site that contains all sorts of podcasts, MP3s, videos, and audio books that individuals can listen to that are considered educational in nature.
Here is their description of the site.
LearnOutLoud.com is proud to present the Internet’s first directory for podcasts you can learn from. We’ve screened thousands of podcasts to find the ones of the highest quality that you will instruct, inspire, and enlighten you. If you’re new to podcasting or have questions about how to listen to podcasts, please click here to read our “Introduction to Podcasting” article.
In addition to giving you the cream of the crop in the podcasting world, our directory offers you easy 1-click subscriptions through Apple iTunes, the ability to download or listen to podcasts with streaming audio, hundreds of user-generated ratings and reviews, and the inclusion of RSS feeds that allow you to easily subscribe to podcasts with a podcast application such as Juice. We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to find and listen to new podcasts.
LearnOutLoud.com also offers a number of its own educational podcasts including: the Free Audiobook of the Month Podcast, the Audio Learning Revolution Podcast, and many more. To browse and listen to our podcasts click here.
We hope you enjoy the podcast directory and please e-mail us if you have any suggestions for how we can improve it!
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Are you a working professional who wants to start or finish a degree? Working professionals have added time commitments of work responsibilities and family responsibilities which make it difficult to add college to an already busy schedule.
Most corporations (about 87%) offer some type of Tuition Assistance Program for employees to finish a degree, certificate and group of classes. However, only about 7 – 10% of the employees in those corporations take advantage of that reimbursement benefit. Does your company offer tuition reimbursement for your degree?
Why do you and other working professionals not finish the degree if the company is paying part or all the tuition costs? Here are some common reasons why.
• You think it will take too long. However, with all the new options to gain life/work experience credits (using military courses, licenses, certificates, corporate classes for credits) and the accelerated formats of many colleges, the total time to complete a degree may be shorter than you think.
• You don’t have hope your former college credits will transfer. Some schools have cut-off times to transfer old credits. But many of the “adult friendly” colleges will transfer in credits, even if they are 25 -30 years old. If one school requires you to “start over”, look at other schools.
• You are unsure of the results of the degree. You may realize that it will take several years to complete the degree and you may have money out-of-pocket (if your tuition reimbursement does not cover all the costs). You see some graduates in your company not getting the promotions and advancements and wonder if college is worth it. Make sure you attend the schools recommended by your company and take the major and degree needed for those promotions and advancements.
• Your families are against you returning to school. This is a difficult roadblock to overcome. If you family does not support you returning to college, they will sabotage your study time and you will not succeed. Showing your family how the degree will help those personal and family goals may help them see the need for this sacrifice.
• You don’t want to put the cost of tuition on your credit cards. Not all Tuition Assistance Programs reimbursement 100% of the cost of a degree. Most companies average $5000/year. Private school tuition is around $1500 – $2000/class and you can only take 2 – 3 classes/year with this policy cap. State university tuition is much less expensive, and you might be able to stay within your company’s tuition cap. Instead of credit cards, some working professional students take out student loans from their credit union or get Financial Aid from the college.
• You don’t want to take admission tests, such as the Graduate Management Admission Test or Graduate Record Exam. Not all graduate programs require an admission test. Some colleges will admit you if you have a high Grade Point Average from your undergraduate degree. Others will require essays instead of a test. Others have no admission test requirements at all.
No matter why you are hesitating making that first step towards your degree, you need to write down your top reason why you have not started or completed this degree. Then answer the question: What is different now? How will that roadblock be cleared? Until you know how to overcome your roadblocks, you will have difficulties moving forward with the first steps.
Even though only 7 – 10% of working professionals with Tuition Reimbursement use their companies’ benefit, there are still thousands of working professionals who are able to take that first step towards a degree. In the end, they can join the 27% of US population with an undergraduate degree or 7% of the US population with a graduate degree. Will you be among them?
Dr. Sandy Womack is Director of EduPlan, an educational consulting company specializing in educational advising and career counseling for working professionals. http://www.eduplan.org
Get free e-book: 5 Considerations before Choosing an Online Degree at the EduPlan website
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University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition-free, online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. The high-quality, low-cost and global pedagogical model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring collegiate level studies to even the most remote places on earth. With the support of respected academics, humanitarians and other visionaries, the UoPeople student body represents a new wave in global education.
We have decided to waive all fees for our applicants at this stage and reserve the right to change our policy for the Spring 2010 term. The University of the People is a tuition-free, non-profit institution. The University does not charge students to take classes. Readings and other study materials will be available online free of charge. The heart of University of the People is its students. Our students thrive on leadership development, making a difference, and succeeding in academics. Student life offers an unparalleled online educational experience that provides essential tools and strategies for career starters, career changers and career advancers. We don’t stop at providing exceptional, relevant programs in a flexible online format. We support your lifelong success by empowering you to become a Total Professional. Click Here to Tweet This Post
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If your note-taking skills are suffering from summertime rigor mortis, now’s as good a time as any to throw a new technique into the mix. Let’s take a look at some new and old tools for improving your ballpoint repertoire.
This oldie is a highly-regarded, very common system that makes it especially easier to retain information. By reviewing things as you go, you might even get away with less studying.
Divide your page into two columns. The left one (which could also just be the back of the previous page in your notebook) is narrower. You’re going to jot larger ideas in this column: the 5-dollar-words and big bullet points. In the right column, you’re going to take down as much information as possible. The right column is allowed to be messy, have pictures and tables—it’s not necessarily organized. To some students, it’s just regular notes. But as you go, record the main corresponding idea in the left column.
Every so often, cover the detailed notes on the right and just examine the main points and new vocab. See how much you can recite and explain in your own words. Then remove your hand and see how you did. Depending on the teacher, you might do this during lulls in the discussion or after class.
Some versions of the Cornell system leave the last few lines on each page for summarizing the whole page. Since what’s on a given page doesn’t necessarily group together nicely, I don’t recommend doing it. But summarizing can help you with wading through piles of pages when studying time comes.
For a more in-depth look at the Cornell method, take a look at our previous guide to taking study-worthy lecture notes.
It’s tough to enter a classroom with colored pencils and still expect your fellow students to take you seriously. But unless you try it, you’ll never know if it works better for you. Forget the status-quo and try something visual. Color-code with different pens, pencils, and highlighters. You might not have seen a web-style map of ideas since elementary school, but mind-mapping is hailed as quite an efficient way to group data. It needn’t even be a rigid classification system—anything is better than doodling in the margins.
For how tech-savvy our generation is, I still see surprisingly few laptops in classrooms. Try it out a few times and see if you like it. Particularly, if you’re the type who outlines, computers let you go back and organize information on-the-fly. Laptops also let you and your classmates AIM with real-time questions about the opposite sex the lecture. There are also programs made just for taking notes, sharing them, organizing them, etc. Wikipedia has a great table that compares them all, or you can take a look at Lifehacker reader’s favorite note-taking tools.
On the other hand, if you already use a laptop, try the pen-and-paper route again. Let loose a bit and see how that goes. Try scribbling out mistakes and drawing arrows everywhere. Or try one of the visual techniques above, most of which are difficult on a computer.
Notes are probably the only place in the classroom where internet slang is commendable. Trying some new shorthand is a really geeky way to slightly tweak your engravings and get you amped about taking notes again. Here are a few resources to get you started:
A Guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems
Shorthand Shorthand Shorthand
My favorite method is called Teeline—anyone can look at this one and learn a few things. It’s mostly based around removing unimportant letters and making complex letters easier to write quickly.
Instead of converting entirely to shorthand, you might try translating just some of your most-frequently used words into a shorthand “language” that takes less time to write.
If you’re taking notes on the computer, supercharge your repetitive typing with tools like our very own text-replacement application Texter (Windows) or TextExpander (Mac).
Oh goodness! Don’t take notes? How controversial!
Well, it couldn’t hurt to relax every once in a while. Especially in small classes and seminar situations, staying engaged through discussion and questions might do you better than scribbling every word.
Here’s another way to avoid taking notes: Record your lectures. Digital recorders can capture hours of audio. Sit back and just listen. After class, you can play it back at double-speed and take notes in half the time. Take that, engineers!
The school-bound productivity nuts at weblog HackCollege will be joining us all week to offer their perspective on making the most of your Back to School regimen.
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