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1 Distance Education Newsletter CALENDAR December 2016 December 9 ESU - KC Grad Celebration at Tanner s Bar and Grill Last Day of Classes December Finals Week December 17 Winter Commencement at Emporia State University With winter comes bad weather! For postings of class cancellations due to inclement weather please visit our website, Facebook, Twitter pages or check your local TV news channels. December 20 Grades Due January 16 Martin Luther King Day - ESU Closed January 18 First Day of Spring 2017 Classes During break we will miss you here at Emporia State University. We would love to see what fun you have while away from school. Take Corky with you on your adventures and tag him on our Facebook or Twitter page, using #ESUwinter! 1 December 2016

2 It s a Graduation Celebration! ESU KC Graduates please join us for an unofficial graduation celebration at Tanner s Bar and Grill on Friday, December 9th. The celebration will start at 5:30pm. We will provide a wide variety of appetizers and a cake in recognition of your graduation. Please RSVP by Monday, December 5th via esumetro@emporia.edu or phone at Tanner s is located at W. 119th Street, Overland Park KS Noteworthy! - The last week of classes are scheduled for December 12th through December 16th. Final grades are due on Tuesday, December 20th. - ESU - KC will be closed Monday, December 26, 2016 through Monday, January 2, We will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, January 3rd. December Graduates On behalf of Emporia State University, Congratulations! We are excited to share in your new journey and look forward to seeing you in the Winter Commencement Exercise on Saturday, December 17, Undergraduate degrees w ill be conferred at W hite Auditorium beginning at 9:30a.m E. Sixth Avenue Graduate degrees w ill be conferred at Albert Taylor Hall inside Plum Hall on the Emporia State campus beginning at 2:00p.m. We invite each of you to attend the ceremony in your honor. However, out of respect for your fellow graduates and families, the expectation is that you remain for the entire ceremony. Please review the information from the links below for essential graduation information and act on the items that apply to you. If you are an undergraduate student and have questions, please direct them to the Registration Office, Plumb Hall, Room 108; or tmcevoy@emporia.edu. Graduate students are welcome to contact the Graduate Office at or msewell@emporia.edu. 2 December 2016

3 Teachers College The Kansas Association of School Psychologists honored Dr. Jim Persinger, professor and chair of Emporia State s Psychology Department, with its Lifetime Achievement Award on October 14. The award honors an individual with an expansive career influencing the field of school psychology; it has only been given a handful of times in the 53 years since KASP was founded. The 2016 group of Topeka s Top 20 Under 40 includes two ESU alumnae. Dustin Dick of Topeka West High School and Sarah Lucero of Scott Dual Language Magnet School will be honored Nov. 17. Topeka s Top 20 Under 40 award honors members of the Topeka/Shawnee County Community for their commitment and contributions both professionally and personally. Dr. Sungwoong Lee, Instructional Design & Technology assistant professor, was selected to participate in 2016 Association for Educational Communications and Technology s Early Career Symposium sponsored by the National Science Foundation during AECT s convention in Las Vegas, October Milton Knopp and Julie La Combe, Instructional Design & Technology graduate students, won the Association for Educational Communications and Technology s Design and Development Competition. Knopp and La Combe were up against two teams from doctoral programs in the finals. They presented and won the final round during AECT s convention October in Las Vegas. A Professional Development School partner of Emporia State s was recently named a National Blue Ribbon School. Wheatridge Middle School, in USD 231 Gardner Edgerton, was recognized at an awards ceremony on Nov. 7-8 in Washington, D.C. Joe Kern, Instructional Designer with Information Technology, represented Emporia State s FAN STEM 1 (Fredonia, Altoona-Midway, Neodesha- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics-Initiative) team at the October 18 Altoona-Midway Science Fair. The event drew over 43 students a larger audience than a prior event held in the district. The 2017 Kansas Superintendent of the Year, Sue Givens, is an ESU alumna. Sue (BSE 1977) has led the El Dorado Public Schools since 2007 and is a strong supporter of the BEST program between ESU and Butler Community College Spring 2017 Enrollment For those students who have not enrolled for the Spring 2017 semester: there s still time! Contact your advisor today for more information on how to register within your specific program. For a list of offered courses, please visit spring.html Library and Information Management Sandra Valenti, assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Management, and Bethanie O Dell, assistant professor in University Libraries and Archives, were selected to serve on the Presidential Awards Committee for the Kansas Library Association. Terri Summey, professor in University Libraries and Archives, chaired the committee as the past president of KLA. This committee selected award winners for four different awards that are presented by KLA at its annual meeting. Alumna Kristin Williams (History, MA 2005; MLS 2006) is the new director of the Frazier Farmstead museum in Milton-Freewater, Oregon. 3 December 2016

4 Tips for Surviving Finals Teach a friend or family member the information. Assume the teacher role! If you try to explain Calculus to your mom, more than likely, you re going to need to know the information pretty darn well in order for her to understand it. If you can t explain it, hit the books again and again until you can do it with confidence. Then you know you really get it! Take (time efficient) breaks. No one can study effectively for 5 hours straight. Study for 20 minutes and take a 5 minute break and then go at it again. If you re not smart about your breaks, you ll study for an hour and then be over it. Schedule out your study time. Don t leave studying to the last minute. Schedule out your study times. For example, studying in the morning may help you because you may find yourself most awake early in the morning. Find your time and roll with it. Get social. Don t just lock yourself on the 9th floor of the library, get outside. You need fresh air and socialization, study with some friends, the rest of your world doesn t have to shut down just because it is finals week. Choose your study area wisely. Don t study late at night, when you re hungry, or in a noisy room. Pulling all nighters doesn t allow your brain to shut down and actually retain the information. Celebrate. When finals are over, be sure to pat yourself on the back celebrate after all of your hard work. Get organized. We all know organization is very important when it comes to studying. You may not only need your notes to be organized, having your space organized and clean so you can fully focus. This includes using your calendar and making lists to keep track of what you have done and what you will need to do. Hint: Try to carry all of this organization into the next semester! Rewrite your notes. This can be the best way to actually learn them for some. People have found this to be more beneficial than flash cards or just plain rereading their notes December 2016

5 Emporia State University Distance Education Plumb Hall 315, Campus Box Emporia State University Kansas City 8400 W. 110 th Street, Suite 150 Overland Park, KS To check out past newsletters, please visit: distance/denewsletters/ Important Contacts Admissions Bookstore If you d like to be featured in an upcoming newsletter, please esumetro@emporia.edu Business Advising Center Degree Analysis Disability Services Financial Aid Graduate Office IT Help Desk Registration Office William Allen White Library December 2016