Omicron Chapter of KDP Wins

Phoenix Award

ACE Partnership Begins to Take

Shape

The Latin American-Caribbean (LAC)

Scholarship comes to UCF!

Textbook Affordability is an Issue for

CEDHP Majors

Calendar of Events

Omicron Chapter of KDP Wins Phoenix Award

Thanks to the hard work of Dr.

Lenora Forsythe, faculty advisor,

and leadership of Bethany Fralish,

President, of the Omicron

Lambda Chapter of the national

education honor society, Kappa Delta Pi, the chapter received

one of the 2016-2017 Kappa Delta Pi Awards for Education

Excellence. Omicron Chapter was selected from a large

number of chapters who qualified for consideration for the

award.

Laura K. Perkins, Director of Membership & Chapter Services

made the announcement, “I am pleased to let you know that

the Omicron Lambda Chapter has been selected as honored

recipients of the 2016-2017 Phoenix Award for Chapter

Improvement presented by Kappa Delta Pi, International

Honor Society in Education. This award is designed to

recognize chapters that have taken significant action to

improve their overall level of effectiveness in chapter

management and programming. By selecting your chapter’s

efforts as a recipient of this award, the review panel indicates

that your chapter has experienced growth over the past

biennium that supports the overall sustainability of the

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ACE Partnership Begins to Take Shape Dr. Lee-Anne Spalding represented CEDHP at a

meeting regarding our community partnership

with ACE, the Academic Center for Excellence

downtown. The topics of discussion were as

follows:

1. Read for the Record 2017: field trip on October

19, 2017 for Pre-K and K students from ACE will

travel to the UCF Education gym for a morning of

literacy related activities and lunch. (Spalding/

Proctor- PNC Grow Up Great grant) https://

www.jstart.org/read-for-the-record/#Reading.

2. Read Across America- UCF: teacher candidates

go to ACE on March 2, 2018 and read aloud Dr.

Seuss books to K, 1, and 2 classrooms during

literacy block. Teachers will receive books and/or

chapter, and we greatly appreciate your leadership

and dedication.”

http://kdp.org/recognition/

pdf/20162017AEEWinners.pdf

The chapter will be receiving a certificate in the mail

in the coming months, the program will be featured

on KDP’s main website, and the chapter will also be

formally recognized with a plaque at Convocation

2017 in Pittsburgh, PA on October 26-28, 2017.

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From Page 1) plush characters for their classroom libraries. Books

and plush have already been purchased. (Spalding/

Kennedy) http://www.nea.org/grants/886.htm/.

3. Little Free Library: Our hope is to have built a

Little Free Library to paint and stock with free

books! A little free library which we would then

dedicate on March 2, 2018 when there for the Read

Across America event. https://littlefreelibrary.org/.

4. Finally, through KnightED Talks, we hope to

perform with ACE assistance a tour of ACE and in

the future professional development workshops on

the ACE school site to educate teacher candidates

about community partnership schools including the

rewards and challenges faced when teaching in

urban environments. Being that the school is just

opening, we’d like to plan the TOUR PD session for

February 2018, looking forward to year two where

we could host one in the fall and one in the spring at

ACE. http://www.education.ucf.edu/

knightedtalks/.

Looking forward, ACE will send the teacher rosters

and number of children per class (including Spanish

speaking students) for planning purposes for each

of the following grade levels: Pre-K, K, 1 and 2.

The Latin American-Caribbean (LAC) Scholarship comes to UCF! As you know, UCF Global is the organizational

division on campus dedicated to international

outreach and opportunity. Their quest is to

transform lives by providing access to high-

impact, international experiences across UCF and

our global communities while serving as a model

of excellence for innovation, partnerships and

services.

UCF Global constantly challenges the university to

bring Dr. Hitt’s goals to life through

internationalization across campus. Today, we are

excited to discover that UCF has committed to

extend the benefit of the Latin American-

Caribbean Scholarship (LAC) approved by the

State of Florida (regulation 7.007).

UCF departments will initiate the LACS form

which should indicate the funding account and a

commitment for two semesters with a minimum

of $500 scholarship per semester following the

State of Florida regulation 7.007 requirements for

funding sources.

UCF has limited the LACS awards to 20 awards per

academic year. Students may renew after two+

semesters; the sponsoring department must

submit a new form.

This scholarship will enhance our campus’

undergraduate education by providing an

international focus that allows us to be more

inclusive and diverse.

Students who are awarded the scholarship will be

reclassified as in-state for tuition purposes for two

semesters. Awarded students must maintain good

academic standing (minimum of 3.0 UCFGPA),

maintain their immigration status, and comply with

the criteria stablished by regulation 7.007.

Current or admitted undergraduate students that

meet the requirements of the LAC scholarship

outlined in the State of Florida regulation 7.007 as

well as the additional UCF criteria are eligible to

apply:

A minimum of a 3.0 high-school GPA or UCF

GPA

Must be enrolled full-time

Must be a citizen of a Latin American or

Caribbean country

For more information contact Nataly Chandia,

Assistant Vice-President of UCF Global at

nataly.chandia@ucf.edu.

Textbook Affordability is an Issue for CEDHP Majors Penny Beile, Associate Director for Research,

Education, and Engagement, informs us that UCF

librarians are working closely with a number of

campus stakeholders – including faculty and CDL

instructional designers – to promote adoption of

free or low cost course materials. These efforts,

generally referred to as “textbook affordability,”

are one way the faculty can help reduce the cost of

a college education. Large scale studies have

reported that students who take classes with free

or low-cost course materials tend to have higher

course grades, take more credit hours, and

achieve a shorter time to graduate than students

who do not. See lumenlearning.com/page/oer-

impacts-student-success-metrics/ for more

information.

One of the projects that we’ve been most involved

with is running the textbook list against library

holdings to identify items already being assigned

by the faculty, and I’m delighted to report that we

found options that your faculty can easily

adopt. Note that these ebooks are one-to-one

replacements of books currently being

assigned. They are DRM-free (digital rights

management) and offer unlimited use by students

and faculty. Locally administered surveys have

revealed students in classes that have already

adopted affordable course materials report high

levels of satisfaction, and faculty are equally

pleased.

If you have questions about textbook affordability

efforts on campus, please don’t hesitate to let us

know through your library representatives: Will

Russell, Nicole Damico, and Rita Buchoff.

= New Item this Week

AUGUST

August 5 Summer 2017 Commencement Ceremony, CFE Arena, 9:00am

August 17 Fall 2017 Faculty and Staff Meeting; MIRC; 9:00am

August 21 Classes Begin

August 31 UCF vs. FIU; 6:00pm

SEPTEMBER

September 4 Labor Day (No classes)

September 9 UCF vs. Memphis

September 16 UCF vs. Georgia Tech

September 30 UCF vs. Maine

NOVEMBER

November 10 Veteran’s Day (No classes)

November 11 UCF vs. UConn

November 23-25

Thanksgiving Break

November 25 UCF vs. USF