Library - Scholarly Commons
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Louise Fishman (United States, 1939-2021) was an established artist known for her ambivalent engagement with male-centered abstract painting traditions. Her physical and process-driven work remakes the abstract expressionist gesture and the minimalist grid into tools that communicate history and emotion centered in her identities as Jewish, feminist, and lesbian.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Tuesdays from 10am - 4pm. Experience 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Microsoft Teams Channels & Files Level 100 This training focuses on Team channels and working with shared files. Channels are where work gets done it is where you’ll find conversations, apps, and shared files.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Register for this 2-hour Outlook session to learn about specific features and tips for using Outlook more productively. Zoom link sent after registration.
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In this 2-hour online course learn how to create and work with Access forms. Create a new form using the form wizard and explore layout and design view. Add and modify form controls including a calculated control and lookup control.
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the Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours to provide assistance and training on the use of Canvas and related topics such as migrating content from other LMS's into Canvas.
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Have you been asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation, but you're not sure how to start? Participate in this short online course and learn the basics, including how to create slides and put content in them. We will also learn how to format and custom design the slides.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn the basics of using the drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CC, including how to use the Pencil and Curvature tools, how to edit paths. Then we will look at layers, including how to create, edit, and organize content. We will also learn the basics of transforming and editing artwork in Adobe Illustrator.
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The Humanities Without Walls summer Bridge program supports PhD students in the humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in exploring new career paths while making an impact in our community. Join us for more information about this opportunity on February 2.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Word interface while we type text on a page, fix spelling errors, change spacing and page margins, and save our work. We will practice navigating the document; select text to make revisions; and move text by cutting and pasting. Formatting tools will be next, where we will learn how to emphasize text.
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Join us ONLINE on the first Thursdays of the month from 12pm-1pm as we welcome new faculty, new stories, and new ways of thinking about the art of teaching. This month we focus on Critical Pedagogy with Billy Huff (Communication).
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In this two-hour live Photoshop session, we will start working through some curriculum, work with layers and learn to edit in a non-destructive way. Register by 8 am to get meeting link sent.
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Join Matthew C. Ehrlich and Ryan Ross for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK" on February 3 at 4pm CT.
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Join Matthew C. Ehrlich and Ryan Ross for a virtual event celebrating the release of "Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK."
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Join Cynthia Clampitt author of, "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a talk at Century Memorial Chapel.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Tuesdays from 10am - 4pm. Experience 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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This public event will discuss vital aspects of how workforce policy works at the federal, state, and local level; what programs already exist that the arts can connect into; and ways to address immediate recovery needs and longer-term policy changes to bolster Illinois’ creative workforce.
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Microsoft Teams - Meetings Level 100 The meetings workload includes audio conferencing, video and sharing. This course will demonstrate key features of Meetings while focusing on running more effective meetings.
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Join Badia Ahad-Legardy, author of "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" for a book talk at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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In this 2-hour online course, we will spend time adjusting images in Photoshop, using Adjustment Layers, and explore several kinds of image adjustments. We will also explore image editing in a non-destructive method. Register by 8 am to have link sent.
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Most teachers get evaluated by their students at the end of the course by implementing ICES. But by then, it is too late to make changes that will make a difference for your current students. Come to this workshop to learn how to design, implement, and interpret Informal Early Feedback (IEF) to improve the class experience for everyone.
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In this 1 hour short course you will learn how to work with Excel Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. Topics will include learning how to create a Pivot Table; rearrange and then format the data; set filters including the use of Slicers and Timelines; and finally creating a Pivot Chart of the data in the Pivot Table. This workshop is aimed at beginner users of Pivot Tables.
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Reflecting and implementing what you have learned from informal (such as the Informal Early Feedback - IEF) and formal (such as ICES) student feedback is a valuable process. we will share how to maximize gathering and analyzing the formal and informal student feedback. (And come back to CITL for consultation!)
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the Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours to provide assistance and training on the use of Canvas and related topics such as migrating content from other LMS's into Canvas.
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In this 2-hour workshop we will explore the mail merge features in Word including working with various data sources such as Excel and Access; working with rules; and creating and printing labels. We will also take a look at email merges using Outlook.
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Join Cynthia Clampitt author of , "Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland" and "Destination Heartland: A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past," for a talk at the Freemont Public Library.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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In this short online PowerPoint course we'll learn how to work with slide animations and transitions between slides. We will also learn how to use the Animation Painter tool.
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In this session, we will examine instructional strategies that promote the development of critical thinking skills in class discussions, writing, and other assignments.
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In this 2-hour online workshop we will explore the Visio interface and create graphics. Visio comes with diagram-specific shapes and tools that enable you to quickly create professional-looking flowcharts, organization charts, timelines, & more. In this 2-hour workshop, we will learn how to create some basic shapes, and connect, distribute, and align them with Auto-connect
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Join us for a Zoom panel discussion featuring Carmen Gonzalez (Law, Loyola University Chicago), A. Naomi Paik (Criminology, Law, & Justice and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois Chicago), Heidi Hurd (Law and Philosophy) and Richard Ross (Law and History).
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Tuesdays from 10am - 4pm. Experience 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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This 2-hour online class introduces the Access query object. Topics include working in design view; creating a simple query by adding and removing fields and adding criterion. We will create multi-table queries; calculated fields and set field properties; explore a totals query, parameter query, and action queries.
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Microsoft Teams - Meetings Level 100 The meetings workload includes audio conferencing, video and sharing. This course will demonstrate key features of Meetings while focusing on running more effective meetings.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Does your Teaching Philosophy Statement uniquely capture your thoughtfulness and commitment to teaching and learning? Does it address the latest proposed revisions to Comm #9 for P&T? Join this interactive workshop to begin creating or revising your reflective teaching statement.
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the Instructional Support Team is hosting open office hours to provide assistance and training on the use of Canvas and related topics such as migrating content from other LMS's into Canvas.
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In this 2-hour online session, we will work with graphics in Microsoft Word. Topics covered will include learning how to add pictures and online images in a Word document; work with shapes; format, resize, move and crop images, and finish with creating and modifying an organization chart.
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In this 2-hour workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames.
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Join Mirelsie Velázquez, author of "Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977" for a book talk via zoom at Northern Illinois University.
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HPNL presents an author event with Ayana Contreras—Chicago woman-about-town, first-time author, radio big shot, vinyl record/fashion archeologist, writer, and a great deal more. Join us for a reading of "Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism & Creativity in Chicago" and panel featuring Urbana-Champaign's Dr. Kamau Grantham and Prof. Stacey Robinson.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Learn tricks on how to captivate your audience with a more engaging presentation. *This workshop counts towards completion of any of CITL's Teaching Certificates. To learn more about our Teaching Certificate program please visit https://go.illinois.edu/teaching_certificates.
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In this 2-hour online course, you will become familiar with the Excel's interface. Topics will also include entering, editing, and formatting data in a worksheet, performing basic formulas, printing and using Help.
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In this 2-hour InDesign workshop, participants will learn the basics of adding interactivity to your Adobe InDesign documents, including adding links, buttons, animation, and sharing your interactive document. Basic knowledge of InDesign is required. Register by 8am to receive the Zoom link.
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Join Ayana Contreras for a presentation on her new book Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago.
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Join Sonia Hernández, author of "For A Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands,1900-1938," for a book talk with LAWCHA.
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).
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Join us to hear Associate Professor Stacia West, University of Tennessee's College of Social Work, present "Guaranteed Income: What do we know and what is left to learn?"
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A new exhibit, "Sewn in Memory," features over a dozen quilt panels originally made in the 1980s and early '90s for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, in Washington, DC. Each of the panels commemorates a person who died of AIDS, or of an AIDS-related ailment. Created with Greater Community AIDS Project of Central Illinois (GCAP).