E-Notes
DRC (Disability Resource Center) Electronic Advising Update
May 2009
Welcome! The DRC Electronic Advising Update is designed to keep you informed of important deadlines and to alert you to programs and resources that may be of interest to you. We will try to keep these publications as brief as possible. We hope that you will find it to be a useful tool to keep your quarter running smoothly.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Reminder: Last day to withdraw
Need Accommodations for Graduation?
Summer Session Course-Disability Rights Movement
Multicultural Advisory Committee's Diversity Event
Students Want to Help
Free Practice Tests @ Career Center
Personal Finance Class Offered
Reminder: Last day to withdraw
The deadline to drop with a W (Withdraw) notation from a class, except for an emergency reason is Monday, May 11th.
Need Accommodations for Graduation?
Planning to graduate this June? Do you need disability accommodations for the ceremony? Do you have friends or relatives who might need accommodations? If you or someone coming to watch your graduation has a disability, please contact your college's program coordinator or department staff to put in a request for any disability accommodation needs. Graduation will be here before you know it, so get your requests in early!
New Summer Session Course-CMMU 80D
There is a new Summer Session course being offered on the Disability Rights Movement. This class will survey the victories, defeats, and ambiguous stalemates of disability-rights struggles in the past 50 years. The course will move from empirical to theoretical understandings of disabilities. Multimedia curriculum incorporates video, audio, and new media. To enroll go to summer.ucsc.edu
Multcultural Advisory Committee’s Diversity Event
When? May 21 at 7-9pm
Who is invited? Everyone
Where? Stevenson Event Center
Sponsored by: MAC (Multicultural Advisory Committee)
This event will have food, poetry, singing and dancing to celebrate world diversity while raising awareness regarding cultural issues. Food and raffle prizes will also be included. Come join us!
Students Want to Help!
Hello! We are three engineering students at UC Santa Cruz and we are in Professor Sri Kurniawan's CMPE80A: Universal Access: Disability, Technology and Society class. We have a group project where we are supposed to work with a person with any type of special needs or a disability to help them with a piece of technology or activity of their choice (not just computer or cell phone, it can be a DVD player, an electric bicycle, a coin laundry, games, baking, shopping, etc.) and guide them throughout the rest of the quarter, to learn how to use their chosen piece of technology/activity.
We were wondering if anyone would be interested or know anyone that might be interested. Our time commitment is not very heavy, maybe just 1-2 hours a week for the remainder of the quarter, all depending on which activity/technology is chosen. Age and gender are not an issue. We are completely flexible with whatever you would like to do, we're interested in your ideas.
Please let us know if you need any further information or have any questions at all, feel free to email any of all of us at any time! Hope to hear from you!
Alex Fidalgo: <afidalgo@ucsc.edu <mailto:afidalgo@ucsc.edu>>
Bradley: <watanabebrad@gmail.com <mailto:watanabebrad@gmail.com>>
Kelly Kitagawa: <kkitagaw@ucsc.edu <mailto:kkitagaw@ucsc.edu>>
Upcoming Career Center Events
FREE Practice MCAT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT and DAT
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Law School Info Session- Santa Clara, USF, and New York Law
Friday, May 8th - 12-1:30pm
Cervantes and Velasquez Conf. Room D
Bay Tree Building - 3rd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101500476288
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Law School Info Session - UC Davis, UC Hastings, and Pacific McGeorge
Wednesday, May 13th - 12-1:30pm
Cervantes and Velasquez Conf. Room D
Bay Tree Building - 3rd Floor
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191531175353
Personal Finance Class Offered through UCSC Recreation:
Please pass this on. Due to popular demand we are offering a second class to students and we want to get the word out since we had a large waitlist (time doesn't work for everyone). Evals for this class were outstanding.
UCSC Recreation offers the following:
Personal Finance Class #2
Map of Your Money
Thinking about graduation and worried about managing your money in this turbulent world? This class will give you a simple way to visualize the basic components of successful personal finance. We will briefly discuss checking accounts, savings accounts, retirement investment, mortgages, other loans, types of insurance, credit cards, and taxes. Our map will show how money flows between each of these components normally and how that flow changes during an emergency or retirement. An extremely useful overview for understanding your own future, discussing money with adults, or assisting family or friends with financial issues. In addition, the tips provided could save you hundreds or thousands of dollars over the next few decades of your life.
Here's what students had to say on the evaluations from the last class...
* Just having someone available to ask questions + provide info who is knowledgeable. This is literally the only kind of educated advice that has been available to me thus far in life
* Awesome, felt comfortable asking questions, got simple informative answers, very organized, helpful packet.
* Getting questions/concerns/fears addressed ... approachability of instructor, very open and understanding.
Elizabeth Andrews, M.A. has been teaching math and science in a variety of contexts for almost 20 years. Most recently, she designed and taught "The Mathematics of Money" at the Center for Talented Youth's summer program through John's Hopkins University. She has had a life-long passion for finances and investing, gaining knowledge about both personal finance and global economics through reading and listening to a wide variety of sources over many years.
Cost: $10.00
Location: OPERS Conference Room, East Field House, 2nd floor OPERS building
Date & Time: Thu, 5/14/09, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Register online at www.ucscrecreation.com
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Kathy Ferraro
Recreation Supervisor, UC Santa Cruz
(831)459-1693
kferraro@ucsc.edu
fax # (831)459-4070
