Honors Bulletin
All the Honors News that's Fit to Print
Two for Tuesday: A REAL BABY!
Join us in congratulating new AUNT ROZ GUZMAN! Her nephew Ramon Guzman (7 lb. 15 oz. and 20 cm.) was born on Sunday evening.
You're probably saying - where's the second baby? But really he's the second Ramon in his immediate family (THIRD OF HIS NAME OVERALL - VERY GAME OF THRONES).
Yes, I know this is a stretch, but look at the baby!
Bulletin Contents
- Honors Alum Returns TODAY!
- Course of the Day
- Professional Development & Academic Opportunities
- Events
Honors Alum Returns to the Lounge
Tuesday, April 2nd, NOON
Honors Lounge
Do you want to make a difference in the world and get a job?
Learn more about Geography and Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Our majors are prepared with the social science, critical thinking, and technical skills to address 21st century problems from a variety of scales. Our curriculum is built around the themes of sustainability, globalization, social justice, and geographic methods. Hear from Liz Janczewski (an Honors Alumna!!!) about these great Temple programs.
DATA SCIENCE: A RESCUE STRATEGY FOR SURVIVING DATA (Management Information Systems 0955.01)
Days/Times: Monday & Wednesday, 10am – 11:20am
Professor: Laurel Miller
CRN: 41569
About: We are all drowning in data, and so is your future employer. Data pours in from sources as diverse as social media, customer loyalty programs, weather stations, smartphones, and credit card purchases. How can you make sense of it all? Those that can turn raw data into insight will be tomorrow’s decision-makers; those that can solve problems and communicate using data will be tomorrow’s leaders. This course will teach you how to harness the power of data by mastering the ways it is stored, organized, and analyzed to enable better decisions. You will get hands-on experience by solving problems using a variety of powerful, computer-based data tools virtually every organization uses. You will also learn to make more impactful and persuasive presentations by learning the key principles of presenting data visually.
About the Professor: Laurel Miller is Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, and Director, Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT). Laurel is also one of the managers of the Temple Community Platform. As part of this project, she played a major role in creating and implementing a professional development program for the MIS department. This system is now patent pending! As Director of IBIT, Laurel manages industry engagement including a corporate membership program, Fox IT advisory board, Fox IT awards, executive-in-residence, Fox IT Symposium Series, Fox IT career fair, IBIT Scholarships, and corporate training. She is the Managing Editor for The IBIT Report, a white paper style report based on academic research. Laurel co-founded IBIT after it was restructured in 2004 and has raised more than $2 million in funding.
Professional Development & Academic Opportunities
STAR & RPC Financial Literacy Programs
The Supervision to Aid Reentry (STAR) Program (also known as Reentry Court) and Relapse Prevention Court (RPC) are federal reentry court programs in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for Philadelphia residents on supervised release.
The STAR and RPC Programs have partnered with the Fox School of Business to provide basic financial literacy to program participants during reentry court sessions, covering areas such as budgeting, credit building, credit risks, and savings/banking. We are seeking students to participate in the STAR and RPC Programs by serving as financial literacy educators. Training will be provided by the STAR and RPC Programs.
Please see attached for more information on the Programs and their requirements, along with an application form. As noted in the attached, interested students should submit their completed applications to me by Friday, April 12, 2019. If you are interested in applying but would like to request a deadline extension. please contact me directly prior to April 12. Please note that space in the programs is limited.
Please contact Prof. Jeff Boles (jboles@temple.edu) with any questions.
HootaThon Committee Member Apllications
HootaThon is officially kicking off for 2020!! Committee member applications are LIVE and will stay that way until April 10th! If you have any interest at all in getting involved with this amazing organization, please click this link: Committee Application to read more about the committees and apply for a position as a CM! We dance today to give hope for a lifetime, join us!
If you have any questions about Hootathon or the application process, please do not hesitate to reach out to our Senior Director of Internal Relations, Erin Knotek at HootaThon.SDDancerRelations@temple.edu !!
Events
Global Temple Conference TOMORROW!
TOMORROW! 10 AM - 5 PM
Student Center, 2nd Floor
Please attend Temple University's 13th Annual Global Temple Conference on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019. The conference is an excellent opportunity for you to become more involved in Temple's globalization mission and to experience the variety and quality of international work produced by Temple students, faculty and staff.
For more information, visit the conference website.
Religion in the Media
Monday, April 8, 6:15- 8:30 PM
MBA Commons, Alter Hall
Media permeates society. It has become a constant presence in our lives and shapes public discourse including the ways we talk about and understand religion. At this event, conversationalists from a variety of faith communities and who work within different spheres of the media will discuss the role and responsibility of the media as a primary source of religious literacy in the United States. Attendees, working in small groups, will explore their own responses to reports on religion in news and entertainment media. This event is supported in part, by Temple's Department of Communication and Social Influence, and will be moderated by Rabbi Dr. Rebecca Alpert, Senior Associate Dean, Temple University College of Liberal Arts.
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