Fireside Chat and Reception with Mona Bijoor
Mona Bijoor is a partner at King Circle Capital LLC and the founder of JOOR.
Graduate And Professional
Poynter - American Affairs and Conservative Critiques of Neoliberalism. Julius Krein, editor of American Affairs, interviewed by Amy Kapczynski, Yale Law School Introduced by Kimberly Goff-Crews, secretary and vice president for student life.
Julius Krein is the editor of American Affairs, a quarterly journal of public policy and political thought founded to provide a forum for people who believe that the conventional partisan platforms are no longer relevant to the most pressing challenges facing the United States. Mr. Krein has contributed to publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Times Literary Supplement.
"The Walk," a reading by Hilton Als, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
The Franke Visiting Fellow Lecture
The Cook, the Doc, and the Olympian: How to Survive Yale
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!
An Olympian's Journey
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.”
Web Accessibility Training for Content Editors
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.
Social Media Accessibility: Basics
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.
Captioning Your Media at Yale: Options and Basics
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.
Accessible Word Documents, PowerPoint Presentations and PDFs
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.
Faith, Gender, & Sexuality: An Evening with Shiva Subbaraman, Tea with Students
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.
