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.
The eagerly anticipated Lip Sync Battle is back! Whose fabulous performance will steal the crown this year?
We’re excited to host the second annual Lip Sync Battle! Join the LGBTQ Affinity Group, Working Women’s Network, and Future Leaders of Yale for an evening of stunning performances - all done by your talented colleagues.
Food and drinks provided.
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.
This is a casual dinner & cooking/baking session, and a chance meet other folks around campus! We will have diverse group of people from all around Yale, and RSVP (peihua.chen@yale.edu) if you want to join in! We will probably cap the event around 13 people. Feel free to send requests for recipes you want to cook/bake!
Please save the date for our first Yale SOM Leaders Forum talk of the semester. We will be welcoming Jim Snabe, Chairman of the Board, Mærsk and Siemens, and member of the Board of Trustees at World Economic Forum. The talk is entitled “Dreams and Details - Reinvent your Business and your Leadership from a Position of Strength.” Our speaker will present for 40 minutes, and there will be time for Q & A. The talk will be moderated by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale.
