Calendar: News and Announcements

• June 1, 2011: Deadline for Spring 2012 course proposals for our new affiliation with U of I's Living-Learning Communities. For application and more information (such as specific contact info), please see the RFP here.
• May 5, 2011: Congratulations to our Spring 2011 Student Conference award winners. Presentation awards went to Tim Bulster for his presentation "Correctness and Good Writing for Pre-Service English Teachers at UIUC," and Mark Frank for his presentation, "Leaving China to Study It: Academic Decision Making Among Female Graduate Students in Chinese Studies."  Further congratulations go to our poster winners. The University Library award went to  Melissa Newell for her poster, "Not Passive Victims: A Look at Latino/a Student Movements During the Late 20th Century at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." EUI also gave an award to Pei-Han Hsu, Tzu-Yu Shen, and SangHyuk Lee (PSYCH429, Wai-Tat Fu), for their poster "Library Seat Availability Checking System," and an Honorable Mention went to Margarita Altidis, Rachel Joyce, and Kaitlyn Olson for their poster, "Closed Mouths, Not Closed Minds: Incorporating Religion into University Life." We also congratulate all of the students who participated this semester and made the conference a success.
• December 15, 2010: Congratulations to our Fall 2010 Student Conference award winners. Presentation awards went to Paula Chuchro, for her presentation "University of Illinois Students Pursuing Investment Banking Careers: Why 'It's Hard Coming From Our School'," and Terrance Range, Timisha Luster, and Christopher Barnes, for their group presentation, "Exceeding Beyond Expectations: Persistence among African American Students at the University of Illinois." Further congratulations go to our poster winners. The University Library award went to Kye Hawkins and Melissa Newell for their poster "Latino/Latina Recruitment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"; EUI's award was given to Lucinda Morgan, Amaziah Zuri, Eric Wardell, and Karla Gutzke for their poster "Navigating Family and the University: Mainland Chinese Undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
• March 4, 2010: Please see our Faculty Development Statement.
• January 25, 2010: EUI was mentioned in an article by William J. Maher titled "The Constants of Change and Continuities: Perspectives on Three Decades of Academic Archives." Maher says, "A good example of the student-centric approach to learning as well as of how archival material can be brought into the process is the Ethnography of the University Initiative at the University of Illinois. This is a multidisciplinary effort in which students use archival holdings to write papers for course requirements in a variety of departments. The initiative has been well received by the campus and the higher education community."
• December 3, 2009: Congratulations to Katianna Branecki and Stephanie Kalchik, and Meegan Jumfuoh, winners of the Fall 2009 Student Conference Presentation Award, for their projects titled, "TA Training Programs and Perspectives" (video) and "Black Student Organizations and Publications, Then and Now" (video); and Jeffrey Yeung, winner of the Fall 2009 Student Conference Poster Award, funded by the University Library, for his poster titled, "Being White in a Multicultural Society: Understanding Whiteness in an Intergroup Dialogue" (pdf). In addition, here is a copy of the program (link).

  
  

  
  

• October 16, 2009: EUI was recently mentioned in a Chronicle of Higher Education blog post about special library collections and "us[ing] them to teach students about the possibilities and principles of research."

  At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, students take part in the Ethnography of the University Initiative, creating research projects that investigate campus history and culture. Sarah L. Shreeves, coordinator of Illinois's Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (Ideals), talked about how the student ethnographers work through the full circle of scholarly communication, beginning with original research and ending with the chance to deposit their work in the Ideals institutional repository alongside the work of other students and faculty members.

  Ms. Shreeves mentioned two standout examples of what students have accomplished through the program: an analysis of debates about the Ku Klux Klan and the university, by Stephen Lane, and "University Admissions of Students With Disabilities: Is Equality Really Best?" At some point, Ms. Shreeves said, librarians have to tackle the question of when the digital accumulation of student work becomes a special collection with its own curatorial demands.

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