As if being away from home isn’t stressful enough. Add new food, homework, new friends, FOMO, and no sleep to the mix. Join 2019 World Fellows Rebecca Sullivan (food) Bev Ho (medicine) and Simi Adeagbo (fitness) in a casual conversation about three core areas to help you survive your time at Yale. Eating right, avoiding bad habits, sleeping well, and exercising all on a budget. Plenty of tips and tricks to take away!
Join Grace Hopper College for a conversation with Olympian, 2019 World Fellow, and advocate Simidele Adeagbo. Simidele is best known for becoming the first African and Black woman to compete in Olympic Skeleton. She has also led innovative marketing campaigns at Nike, and today is a popular keynote speaker who helps girls build leadership skills through the uplifting power of sport. Simidele has been hailed by the New York Times as “a role model for Africa and beyond.”
This half-day workshop is designed to train staff who input content into websites how to do so in ways that meet Yale’s Web Accessibility Policy. Note: This workshop is primarily for people who create content through tools such as Wordpress or YaleSites Drupal.
If you add content to your websites, chances are you’re also responsible for managing social media for your department or unit. Social media platforms like YouTube/Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest can present unique challenges for users with disabilities, many of which are beyond your control.
Have media you need to caption, but unsure what your responsibilities are for captioning under Yale’s Accessibility Policy, where to begin, or what options are available? This two-hour training covers paid options for captioning your media through our Preferred Captioning Vendors 3Play Media and Rev.com, as well as free options, like YouTube. Attendees will leave understanding their obligations under Yale’s policy, the differences between the major captioning file types, and how to create, edit, and sync captions to their media for both Canvas courses and websites.
This beginner’s document accessibility workshop is designed to train staff in the basic methods used for making Word documents, PowerPoint Presentations, and PDFs digitally accessible, for inclusion on university websites or for university-related business, including teaching, student services, and other administrative support. It is appropriate for anyone interested in learning how to make documents used in everyday university business more accessible and will cover the fundamentals of document creation and remediation.
On November 7th, the Chaplain’s Office, the Yale Hindu Life program, W{holy} Queer program, Asian American Cultural Center, Yale Office of LGBTQ Resources and Yale Hindu Students Organization are partnering to bring Sivananda (“Shiva”) Subbaraman to speak on campus.
Phil Rigdon Lecture
The Yale Forest Forum offers weekly lunch talks during the academic year, providing opportunities to hear from leaders in forest management, conservation, or policy in an informal setting. The YFF speaker series is the longest continuously-running speaker series at F&ES. Speakers come from a wide range of organizations and perspectives, including government, NGOs and businesses, working at scales from local to international.
Siteimprove is a self-service application available to all Yale faculty and staff to give website owners the insight they need to work towards improving the quality and accessibility of their sites, optimize the site for search engine discovery, and capture basic analytics about site use to help prioritize improvement efforts. This training will include hands-on activities. There are computers available for use in the training room. However, if you prefer, you may bring your own laptop.
*Note date change: This event was originally scheduled for December 4, now moved to December 5.
The NACC Peer Liaisons are hosting a Movie Night on the second floor of the NACC!
For more information please email, Anna.smist@yale.edu
