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2:00 - 3:00 pm 7/1/2025Get up to speed quickly on making your Microsoft Word documents accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in Word and then jump right into practice.
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3:30 - 5:00 pm 7/1/2025Graduate College (507 E. Green St., Champaign), room 202
Explore new career paths in a collaborative group
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1:30 - 2:30 pm 7/2/20251302 Everitt Laboratory
You will want to set fair, clear, and manageable course policies that you can explain and defend the entire semester. In this session, we'll identify a few questions you need to answer to have good course policies, and then you will create policies that are consistent with your course design so far.
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2:45 - 3:45 pm 7/2/20251302 Everitt Laboratory
This workshop ties the topics of the previous workshops together by discussing and crafting a syllabus for your newly designed course. We focus on the necessary logistical information for the syllabus, items to include to set student expectations, syllabus language and tone, and how to craft a course schedule with assessments, readings, and other ancillary materials.
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All Day 7/8/2025 - 7/12/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignDon’t miss the final week of the "Making Place for the Arts at Home: Performance and Midcentury Modern Architecture" exhibition! On view through Saturday, July 12. During the summer, the museum is open Tuesday–Friday 10–5 and Saturday 10–4. Free admission.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 7/8/2025
Get up to speed quickly on making your PowerPoint presentations accessible for everyone while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll begin with a brief overview of common accessibility challenges in PowerPoint and then dive straight into practical solutions.
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9:45 am 7/9/2025 - 7/10/2025106 Main Library
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10:00 - 11:00 am 7/11/2025
Documents must be proactively accessible for all students. This hands-on workshop will cover what to look for and several tools to help you find and fix issues. You’ll learn how to scan multiple document types for accessibility issues and remediate them.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 7/11/2025How to write application materials that get noticed
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1:00 - 3:00 pm 7/12/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignJoin us for a community story circle exploring the rich and often overlooked history of modernist art in Champaign-Urbana. This gathering invites artists, educators, students, and neighbors to reflect on the people, places, and moments that shaped the region’s modernist art movement. Together, we’ll share stories about how modernist art took root in our community.
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6:30 - 8:00 pm 7/13/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039
Professor Holland discusses the ambiguous place between animal and human. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
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2:00 - 3:30 pm 7/14/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039
Professor McHugh considers the enriching effect of walking with dogs while researching conservation challenges in the Great North Woods. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
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2:00 pm 7/15/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039
Professor Desmond asks whether the growing assertion by many U.S. owners/guardians that pets are “part of the family” should lead us to conceive of health care for pets as a fundamental right, and/or obligation of the state. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
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2:00 - 3:00 pm 7/15/2025
Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
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7:00 - 9:30 pm 7/15/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignEnjoy art activities, food trucks, and dance videos projected onto the Erglaner House. For all ages!
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12:00 - 3:00 pm 7/17/20251210 W. Nevada St. Urbana -
2:00 - 3:30 pm 7/17/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039
Professor Berenbaum discusses the importance of wasps in providing valuable ecosystem services in the face of general fear and dislike of yellowjackets and hornets in particular. This talk is part of the 7th annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
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12:00 - 1:00 pm 7/18/2025How to use online resources to get noticed
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2:00 - 3:30 pm 7/18/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039
Chris Green discusses the creative strategies developed by animal advocacy organizations to effect change in public policy. This talk is part of the 7th annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
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4:00 - 5:30 pm 7/18/2025Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 2039
Professor Hornstein considers the lion hunt as both a convention of European painting as well as a political motif that was directly related to French colonial expansion in North Africa, especially in the decades after the 1830 conquest. This talk is part of the 7th Annual Animal Studies Summer Institute.
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2:00 - 3:30 pm 7/22/2025
Get up to speed quickly on the basics of making PDF documents accessible for all while meeting state and federal accessibility standards. For hands-on participation, you will need Adobe Acrobat Pro (not Acrobat Reader). U of I, UIS, and UIC faculty and staff can obtain Acrobat Pro free from the U of I Webstore: https://webstore.illinois.edu/shop/product.aspx?zpid=6065
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12:00 - 3:00 pm 7/23/20251210 W. Nevada St. Urbana -
1:00 - 2:00 pm 7/23/2025
Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Canvas courses accessible. This hands-on workshop will cover using the Canvas editor to create navigable pages, writing effective alt text description for images, charts, and graphs, ensuring readable color contrast, creating accessible tables and links, and using Canvas accessibility tools to fix common issues.
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1:00 - 3:00 pm 7/26/2025Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr., ChampaignEnjoy artmaking, stories, and exploring the galleries! You'll get to make a paper modern house and learn about midcentury design. You’ll get to make your own sculpture inspired by artist Frank Stella and learn about colors, textures, and shapes. For ages 5+.
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All Day 7/29/2025 - 8/1/2025University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -
12:00 - 3:00 pm 7/30/2025The Orange Room, Main Library - 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Champaign IL -
1:00 - 2:00 pm 7/30/2025
Get up to speed on using the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide to make Canvas pages more accessible for everyone! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll start with an overview of the Pope Tech Canvas Accessibility Guide, how it functions, what the various errors, alerts, structural elements, and features mean, and how to fix these issues on a Canvas page.
