Daily Archives: April 23, 2010

Teach for America Event Featuring Founder Wendy Kopp April 29

JOIN TEACH FOR AMERICA FOR EVENT FEATURING FOUNDER WENDY KOPP

Join us for a live, interactive online event featuring Teach For America’s CEO and Founder, Wendy Kopp. Wendy launched Teach For America twenty years ago to address a great injustice in America – the disparity of educational opportunities provided to low-income children and their wealthier peers. Learn more about this pressing social issue while hearing first-hand from Teach For America’s founder and CEO.

This event will be hosted online; you can watch it from any computer with internet access.

Achieving Educational Equity: A Conversation with Wendy Kopp
Thursday, April 29 – 7 PM CT
Register prior to the event here: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=205483&s=1&k=44FBAEE22F614741971905373944EA27
(You’ll receive a confirmation link to use at the time of the event)

This is a great opportunity for students to learn about the pressing social issue of educational inequity in our country directly from a successful social entrepreneur.

Registration Hints and Handy web-links

Look up Summer and Fall 2010 courses in the Course Schedule

If you are taking summer classes at UT remember that summer courses are divided by first session (f), second session (s), whole session (w), and a nine week session (n).

http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/106/

http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/109/

* registration hint: if classes are closed under one section look to see if it’s cross-listed and try to register under the cross-listing.

When to register and add/drop periods for summer and fall

Summer: http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/106/whentoregister/

Fall: http://registrar.utexas.edu/schedules/109/whentoregister/

Check course descriptions

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/resources/syllabi/index.php

Check on Professors’ Course-Instructor Surveys

https://diia.webhost.utexas.edu/cis/results/

Schedule Construction and professor reviews for free

theclasspoint.com

Check your Credit by Examination or sign up to take placement tests  (from SAT II, AP, etc)

http://www.utexas.edu/academic/mec/

Need to take the TX Government Only test to pair with your AP Government? Here’s a supplemental online text-book on Texas Politics

texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/

Taking classes over the summer in transfer? Check transferability

http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/ate/

note: make sure to double check with Stacey or Linda to verify degree applicability

Update your personal information include your cell number! (email, address etc.)

https://utdirect.utexas.edu/utdirect/index.WBX

UT Calendar for fall 2010-2011

http://registrar.utexas.edu/calendars/10-11/

Figure out your gpa

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/academic-concerns/gpa-calculator.php