What a Controversy Over an App Tells Us About How Students Learn Now
U.S. Embassy Set to Open in Jerusalem (CTV News Channel)
Public Service Recognition Week Winners Annnounced
Public Service Recognition Week Winners are:
-Les Johnson, $50 Home Depot gift card
-Julie Smith, $50 Kohl’s gift card
-Alexandra Dunn, $50 Panera gift card
-Giovani Baez, $50 Best Buy gift card
-Paula Wilder, $50 Applebee’s gift card
-Kathleen Flanagan, $50 Kohl’s gift card
-Andrew Marshall, $50 Outback gift card
-Elizabeth Heitsch, $50 Giant Food gift card
-Charles Sharpless, $50 Outback gift card
Apply Now Leadership UMW 2018-19
To: All Full Time Faculty and Staff
Applications are now being accepted for Leadership UMW 2018-19.
We hope you will join the ranks of sixty alum and take this opportunity to:
- Assess and build your leadership capacity with a cohort of faculty and staff from across the university.
- Understand yourself and others through self and multi-rater feedback assessments, group interaction and mentorship relations.
- Learn strategies to motivate and improve individual and team performance.
- Develop individual development plans.
- Learn the inner workings of UMW as an academic institution and as a business.
Information about the curriculum, participants, mentors, and more can be found here.
The application form is available and due as follows:
A/P and Classified: June 24, 2018
Faculty : August 24, 2018
For questions about the application process or the program you may contact any member of the Leadership UMW Team: Sabrina Johnson at sjohnson@umw.edu, Terri Arthur at tlockhar@umw.edu, and Debra Wander at dwander@umw.edu.
Thank You
Virtual reality can enhance tours at local museums (The Free Lance-Star)
Rosalyn Cooperman Featured in Yahoo News Story
Crashing the boys’ club: Women candidates find winning elections is only half the battle (Yahoo.com)
“The attention has been on the record numbers who are running and to the message being sent by those sheer numbers,” says Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. “But what kind of change this brings depends not only on who runs and who wins, but how they navigate the rigid political institutions” they are being elected to.