Free HOT Workshop - Search Engine Optimization

“Search Engine Optimization” will be held here at Marlboro College Graduate School in Brattleboro on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

This workshop will demystify the basics of creating Google-friendly content, review linking strategies, explain meta tags and robots, and provide some context and insights learned from experience in getting great organic search results with the presenter’s Brattleboro-based website Brattleborology.

The workshop is free, but please register at eventbrite.

Leading the workshop will be Jason Jensen. Jason has over 8 years of experience developing websites, databases, and web applications for organizations as diverse as Lockheed Martin, World Learning, the Student Conservation Association, and as a consultant working with his own creative agency, J. Jensen Creative.

This workshop is provided by Marlboro College Graduate School’s EdTech Program as part of its community-focused HOT (Hands On Technology) Workshop series.

For more information, contact Ariel Brooks at abrooks@marlboro.edu.

Center for Creative Solutions Workshop

This year’s Center for Creative Solutions Workshop will be held August 4 – 10. We hope you will be able to participate in this outstanding opportunity, which carries with it a full credit from Marlboro College Graduate School.

Rural communities in Vermont devastated by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 are struggling to rebuild infrastructure and heal from staggering loss. The 2013 CCS workshop will focus on the Town of Londonderry, VT, which lost historic buildings and land that made up its center. Through an inclusive, creative, collaborative process, new possibilities for a community space and place will emerge.  These may become a precedent for other flooded communities in the region and beyond.

Workshop participants, community stakeholders and national experts will together develop program options for a community park that renews the community’s sense of place, and, as important, protects the village from future flooding in ways that aesthetically, ecologically and structurally regenerate and conserve the floodplain.

The six-day immersive studio style workshop incorporates and integrates:

• Community memory, history and culture
• Creative and performing arts
• Structural engineering
• Environmental planning and design
• Permaculture and landscape design

Learn with Expert Practitioners

• Michael Singer, an internationally recognized artist and designer
• Jono Neiger, pioneer permaculture and sustainable landscape designer
• Calen Colby, innovative and dynamic civil and structural engineer
• Liz Lerman, the renowned choreographer and performer
• Richard Rabinowitz, a leading public historian in the creative process of bridging community values, memory, and sense of place
• a core team of planners and environmental designers, Susan McMahon, Jason Bregman and Jonathan Fogelson
• Integration and facilitation of the collaborative design process will be led by Michael Singer, an internationally recognized artist and designer, and a core team of planners and environmental designers, Susan McMahon, Jason Bregman and Jonathan Fogelson

Space is limited and applications will be reviewed starting April 24th on a rolling basis until the program is full, or June 15, 2013.

For full details and to register, please visit the Center for Creative Solutions website.

Earn Grad School Credits at Slow Living Institute

As part of this year’s Slow Living Summit (June 5 – 7), the Slow Living Leadership Institute will offer a course in “Leadership for Sustainable Change” that will carry credits from Marlboro College Graduate School.

The course will be held here at the Grad School in Brattleboro and will be led by our MBA in Managing for Sustainability faculty members Beverly Winterscheid, Ph.D., and Cary Gaunt, Ph.D. It is appropriate for business leaders, social entrepreneurs, community advocates, teachers, and anyone wanting to apply Slow Living principles to their professional or personal life.

 Topics to be covered include:

• The Art of Visioning the Possible - alone, and with others
• Courageous Conversations - deep listening and conscious speaking in the face of alternate views
• Contemplative Leadership Practices - presence, planning & alignment of personal values with action
• Stakeholders & Community - the key parties (both human and more-than-human) for project success and what they want or need

 Course Schedule:

• Tuesday evening (June 4, 2013): Arrival, informal meet and greet, time and location to be announced.
• Wednesday (June 5) beginning at 8:30 AM: Class sessions at Marlboro College Graduate School, downtown Brattleboro
• Wednesday evening through Friday (June 7, 2013): Institute registrants participate in the Slow Living Summit, except for selected luncheons and maybe evening gatherings for the Institute.
• Friday (June 7, 2013): As part of the Summit’s closing Plenary, we honor the Institute graduates with a certificate ceremony. The Slow Living Institute concludes on Friday at the same time as the Slow Living Summit.
• Three credit-hour registrants will complete additional coursework with the instructors after the conclusion of the Summit, on a schedule to be arranged for mutual convenience.

For full details and to register, please visit the Slow Living Summit website.

From Colleagues to Collaborators

Conference
Thursday, May 2, 8:00am-4:30pm • Marlboro College Graduate School, Brattleboro

This participant-driven conference is designed for not-for-profit community leaders and partners to share collaboration tools, best practices and successes. Jodi Clark and Cassandra Holloway, graduate students of Marlboro's Mission Driven Organization program, offer this program for mission-driven organizations in Windham and Cheshire Counties. The peer conference format invites all participants to create the content of the conference that day. To register, please visit colleagues-to-collaborators.eventbrite.com.

Free Results-Based Accountability Workshop

Are you struggling to tell the story of the value of your organization or program to potential supporters? Come learn the basics of Results Based Accountability (RBA), a simple framework that allows one to develop performance measures and communicate an organization’s contribution to the community.

“Got Results? Results-Based Accountability” will be presented here on May 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

This workshop is free, but please register at eventbrite.

Workshop presenter, and Director of Community Investments, Sue Graff was previously a program coordinator with Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition. She has also worked with Sojourns Community Health Clinic, New York Cares, and Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City.

A representative of The United Way of Windham County, which utilizes RBA, will share their experiences, answer questions and provide more resources.

This event is part of the Grad School’s Tuesday lunchtime MIX (Management Ideas Exchange) free workshop series. MIX is a free monthly networking opportunity sponsored by the nonprofit, business and healthcare managements program at Marlboro College Graduate School. Directors and staff of mission-driven organizations are invited to join us every second Tuesday for best practices in organizational success, networking and the exchange of ideas.

Free Professional Web Portfolios Workshop

Employers are asking more and more for a link to one's work and resume. This workshop will cover two free tools and some key skills that will enable any moderately web savvy person to post a bio, resume and work samples online. Examples of online portfolios will also be reviewed and discussed.

“Professional Web Portfolios with Free Tools” will be held here at Marlboro College Graduate School in Brattleboro on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

This workshop is free, but please register at eventbrite.

Also, this is a hands-on workshop. Bring your own laptop and your enthusiasm because this workshop will emphasize a practical, hands-on approach to learning about technology.

Leading the workshop will be Caleb Clark, the director of our EdTech Masters program and a teacher in the program. Caleb is also a technology integrator with local schools. He has been a Web geek since 1994 and an educational technologist since 1999. Caleb has an MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and an MA in Educational Technology from San Diego State University.

This workshop is provided by Marlboro College Graduate School’s EdTech Program as part of its community-focused HOT (Hands On Technology) Workshop series.

For more information, contact Ariel Brooks at abrooks@marlboro.edu.

Participant-Driven Conference for Not-for-Profits

From Community Colleagues to Collaborators: Lessons from the Field will be held Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. here at the Graduate School in Brattleboro.

This will be a Participant-Driven Conference for not-for-profit community leaders and partners to share collaboration tools, best practices, and successes.

Jodi Clark and Cassandra Holloway, graduate students in Marlboro College Graduate School’s Mission-Driven Organizations Management Program, are offering this event to mission-driven organizations in Windham and Cheshire Counties.

The peer conference format invites all participants to create the content of the conference that day. Skilled facilitator and peer conference designer Adrian Segar will lead the opening round table session. In the first session, attendees’ priorities for learning and activities will be gathered and will create the sessions for the day. The leadership and content for those sessions will come from you, the practitioners of collaborative initiatives. Please visit www.conferencesthatwork.com for more info.

This conference will provide you with ample networking opportunities, relevant tools and resources, and great food.

For more information and to register visit: http://colleagues-to-collaborators.eventbrite.com

Intro to Essential Skills for 21st Century Leader

Workshop with Ingrid Bredenberg
Tuesday, April 9, 12:00-1:00 p.m. • Marlboro College Graduate School

In the dynamically changing global environment, leaders must be equipped with skills and tools for getting things done. What are leadership best practices?  How can you learn and apply them? This session for leaders in all sectors will be an interactive exploration of the behaviors and practices of successful leadership. Leading the session will be Ingrid Bredenberg, graduate school faculty member and strategic coach, who brings over 25 years experience working with leaders in healthcare, government, education and not-for-profit. This free executive briefing will prepare participants for a 3-hour deeper dive into "Essential Skills for 21st Century Leaders" on May 1, from 5:30 – 8:30. Briefing attendees will enjoy a reduced tuition and free Work of Leaders™ profile (value $85). This event is part of the graduate school's Tuesday lunchtime MIX (Management Ideas Exchange) free workshop series. Register here:  mixapril.eventbrite.com

Free MIX Workshop: Leadership from the Inside Out

Workshop
Tuesday, March 12, 12:00-1:00pm  Marlboro College Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro

What keeps some managers from showing up fully in their potential as a leader? Just like a muscle, leadership presence can be strengthened and developed. This experiential workshop will help you more fully embody your unique leadership style in a centered, clear and confident way. Mary Karis will lead the workshop. She is currently the program coordinator for our Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability. Her past work experience includes serving as the executive director for Animas Valley Institute, being an instructor and administrator for Outward Bound and a body-oriented psychotherapist in private practice. To register for this free workshop, please visit eventbrite.

Hands On Technology: Google Docs

Workshop
Tuesday, March 26, 5:30-7:30pm  ·  Marlboro College Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro

The days of attachments, duplicate files with minor changes and complex permissions for collaborating and communicating online are over. Come celebrate and learn about the tools Google provides that make it easy to collaboratively write and develop documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more. Tobias Gelston jumped on the Google Docs bandwagon in 2006 and never looked back. Once a certified expert in Microsoft Office, he now spends his days using Google to collaborate with coworkers at Marlboro College, where he is the registrar and coordinator of academic technology. To register for this free workshop, please visit hotmarch.eventbrite.com

Hands on Technology: "Teaching Kids to Program" Workshop

Workshop
Tuesday, January 29, 5:30-7:30pm · Marlboro College Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro

Will deBock will present an introductory workshop for librarians, teachers and parents who aren’t programmers. While not every child will become a programmer, understanding the basic logical building blocks and the conditional thinking required to program a computer is on the main menu for a 21st century education. DeBock, a double alumnus of Marlboro College and its graduate school, will facilitate this hands-on workshop demonstrating a number of different programming platforms including Scratch, Alice and Codecademy.com. BYOC (bring your own computer) encouraged, but not necessary. To register for this free workshop, please visit hotjanuary.eventbrite.com.

Management Ideas Exchange: Calming the Storm

Workshop
Tuesday, February 12, 12:00-1:00pm · Marlboro College Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro

When emotions run hot at work or home you need simple, reliable approaches for cooling them down and getting back on track. Come learn the secrets mediators know for de-escalating anger and frustration, what people really need during such high-heat moments and common mistakes that inadvertently escalate distress. The workshop will be led by Dr. Tammy Lenski, founder and principal of Tammy Lenski LLC, a New Hampshire–based conflict resolution firm serving organizations and individuals worldwide. She is also a member of the Marlboro College Graduate School faculty. To enroll in this free workshop, please visit mixfebruary.eventbrite.com.

Hands On Technology: Twitter and Facebook for your Business

Workshop
Tuesday, February 26, 5:30-7:30pm · Marlboro College Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro

Wish you could keep people more engaged with your organization through social media? Here’s your chance to learn how from the experts.

Leading the workshop will be Pete Biolsi of Mondo Mediaworks, a marketing agency specializing in content development for the web. Based in Brattleboro, Mondo strives to maximize its clients’ online profile with high-quality social media management, video production, public relations and website content management. As Mondo Mediaworks' Coordinator, Pete oversees social media management, PR and blogging for local and national clients. He works directly with clients to develop marketing strategy and social media campaigns and produce engaging content to build and maintain customer networks. With an ever-changing social media landscape, Pete stays on the forefront of emerging trends.

To register for this free workshop, please visit hotfebruary.eventbrite.com.

Public Welcome at MATS Exhibitions

An exhibition featuring twenty students in our Master of Arts in Teaching for Social Justice program at Marlboro College Graduate School will be held on Friday, December 14, and Saturday December 15, 2012.

Each student will highlight and discuss an important topic or endeavor from his or her full-year teaching internship in grades K-12.

Topics are wide-ranging. Examples include democratizing the classroom, cooperative learning communities, teaching about South African Apartheid, the school-to-prison pipeline, and activism in the classroom.

The exhibition is free and open to the public, and visitors are invited to talk with the students about their work.

The event will be held here at Marlboro College Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro, Vermont on Friday, December 14, from 1:00-4:00 p.m., and on Saturday December 15, from 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. 

For further information contact Mikaela Simms at 802-451-3429, or email msimms@gradschool.marlboro.edu.

Get Better Video Online with Free Tools

Workshop with Caleb Clark

Tuesday, November 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. • Marlboro College Graduate School

Participants in this free, hands-on workshop will learn how to get better video online with any point and shoot camera or smart phone, including tips on composition, microphone proximity and lighting as well as basic editing tools and upload options. This workshop, part of the graduate school's “HOT (Hands On Tech) Workshops” series, is perfect for teachers, small business owners, artists, communications professionals and anyone interested in harnessing the power of video on the Internet. Participants should bring their own laptop (observers without computers are also welcome). Caleb Clark, workshop leader, is the director of the educational technology master's program at Marlboro, where he also teaches. Register here, or contact Ariel Brooks for additional information.

Alex Wilson to Speak on Resilient Design

Alex Wilson will discuss his new initiative, the Resilient Design Institute (RDI), here on Friday, November 9, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

The Resilient Design Institute (RDI) advances practical solutions that can be employed by communities, businesses, and individuals to adapt and thrive amid the accelerating social, ecological, and climatological change being experienced today. In this program, Wilson will address resilient design as a driver of sustainability.

Well-known in the green design field, Alex Wilson is the founder of BuildingGreen, Inc. and Environmental Building News. He has a well-earned reputation for being a pioneer in Green Architecture and remains a leading light in the field.   Alex is incisive, technical, and filled with anecdotes. His Brattleboro-based company’s resources are used throughout North America and the world by designers and builders wanting to create more environmentally responsible buildings. He also writes the weekly Energy Solutions column in the Brattleboro Reformer and is a member of Marlboro Grad School’s MBA Circle of Advisors.

The talk is free and open to the public. 

MIX: Managing Organizational Change Free Workshop

Workshop

Tuesday, November 13, 12:00pm  • Graduate School, Room 2 West

Two organizational leaders, Connie Snow and Ann Fielder, will talk about managing change and transitions in organizations in this free MIX (Management Ideas Exchange) workshop. Connie Snow orchestrated the consolidation of Windham Housing Trust with the Rockingham Area Community Land Trust. Ann Fielder, retired senior advisor for organizational development for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, managed change and transitions over a 35-year career. MIX is a free, monthly networking opportunity sponsored by the nonprofit, business and healthcare management programs at the Marlboro College Graduate School. Bring a brown bag lunch. For more information and to register, please visit mixnovember.eventbrite.com.

Free MIX Performance Evaluation Workshop October 9

Staff evaluations are one of the trickiest aspects of running a great organization, dreaded by many otherwise-effective managers. How can you maintain high standards in your organization, meet legal requirements, and still give your staff feedback that inspires them to keep growing? How can you as a staff person get the most out of your own evaluation process? Join the Marlboro Graduate School management programs for a workshop on Performance Evaluation.

This interactive workshop will focus on techniques for conducting an effective staff performance review.  The session will focus on how a performance management process works, where performance reviews fail, coaching a problem employee and legal issues in performance reviews.

Leading the training will be Carol Fay, who has over twenty-five years of training and management experience in a variety of industries.  Today, she is happily retired, living in Wardsboro. Most recently she was the Director of Human Resources at Grace Cottage Hospital and a part-time senior contract trainer for The Wellness Corporation, an employee assistance program located in MA. In 2008 she was the Senior Manager of Talent Management, Corporate Training and Organization Development at Tufts Health Plan in Boston, where she was responsible for management, employee, computer training, designing web-based courses, implementing an electronic learning management system, developing leaders, teambuilding as well as recruitment and hiring. She was a Performance Measurement Specialist for IDX Systems Corp, Burlington, VT, where she implemented a corporate-wide performance management system. She was System Director of Total Quality Management (TQM) at Fallon Healthcare System, Worcester, MA, where she implemented a process improvement program. She has many years of experience as a senior management consultant and trainer in a variety of industries

The workshop will take place on Tuesday, October 9th, from 11:30 am to 1:15 pm here at Marlboro College Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street in Brattleboro.

You should bring a brownbag lunch.

To register please visit: mixoctober.eventbrite.com

This event is the first in the Grad School’s new Tuesday lunchtime MIX (Management Ideas Exchange) free workshop series. MIX is a free monthly networking opportunity sponsored by the nonprofit, business and healthcare managements program at Marlboro College Graduate School. Directors and staff of mission-driven organizations are invited to join us every second Tuesday for best practices in organizational success, networking and the exchange of ideas. Each session will be presented by an instructor from one of the Marlboro graduate degrees in management, or by a local nonprofit, government or business leader.

Mark your calendar for these future MIX workshops:
  Managing Organizational Change on November 13 
  Calming the Storm: De-escalating High-Heat Encounters on February 12
  Leadership from the Inside Out on March 12
  Introduction to Essential Skills for 21st Century Leaders on April 9
  Got Results? on May 14
  SMART Goals, Brilliant Results on June 11

The Good Muslim of Jackson Heights

Reading by Jaysinh Birjepatil

Wednesday, October 10, 7:00pm • 2 East, Graduate School

Retired literature professor Jaysinh Birjepatil will read from his recently published novel, The Good Muslim of Jackson Heights, a fictional story of an aristocratic Muslim family that flees sectarian violence in their native central India, only to find reverberations in multi-ethnic urban America. Set in New York's Little India, where hardworking, honest-to-goodness traders rub shoulders with ruthless entrepreneurs, reclusive antique dealers, homeless nobodies, larger-than-life merchant princes, lawyers, doctors and IT specialists, Birje’s book traverses the tension between secular and religious.

Brattleboro Literary Festival

Workshops

Friday, October 12, 1:30-5:30pm • Marlboro Graduate Center

The Brattleboro Literary Festival, in collaboration with Marlboro College, is pleased to announce that it will offer an expanded number of writing workshops for 2012 featuring writers with a Vermont connection. The workshops will be a central part of the festival, which takes place in Brattleboro from October 12 to 14. Participant submissions will be accepted on a space-available basis through Friday, September 21, 2012. Marlboro alumnus Deni Béchard, author of Vandal Love and Cures for Hunger, will lead a session on memoir. The poetry workshop will be led by Walt Whitman Award winner and Bennington College faculty member, April Bernard. Vermont resident, writer and Renaissance man Jon Clinch will run the fiction workshop. Participants will also have the opportunity to attend the Brattleboro Literary Festival private author reception following the workshops. Please register here or go to the Brattleboro Literary Festival site for more information.

Register for Nonprofit Management Certificate

We’re offering our Certificate in Nonprofit Management to nonprofit leaders in the Burlington and White River Junction areas.

This widely-acclaimed program consists of ten workshops covering cores skills for nonprofit managers including fundraising, strategic planning, boards and governance, and financial management. In addition, this year the series will include a dynamic new workshop in personal leadership development led by nationally-renowned trainer and coach Jeff Bercuvitz.

Classes will be capped at 24 students.

Tuition is $1400, and scholarships are available.

Classes will meet on Fridays, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Burlington: from September 7 to November 9 at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, 128 Lakeside Ave., Burlington. Register.

White River Junction: from September 14 to November 16 at the Center for Cartoon Studies, 46 South Main Street, White River Junction.  Register.

Matt Dunne to Deliver Commencement Address

Matt Dunne¸ Head of Community Affairs at Google, Inc., will deliver the commencement address on Saturday, August 25^th.

Matt has focused his life’s work on bringing together the worlds of entrepreneurship, service and politics.  Elected to the Vermont House at the age of 22, he served 7 years before joining the Clinton Administration as the Director of AmeriCorps*VISTA overseeing 6000 full-time people working in the fight against poverty.  In 2002 he returned home to Vermont and was elected to two terms in the Vermont Senate. Outside of the legislature, he worked in high-tech marketing and, before joining Google, was the Associate Director of the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, creating programs to support students who wish to pursue careers in the nonprofit and public sector. Now the Head of Community Affairs at Google, Matt supports the company’s local corporate social responsibility activities in the 25 communities where Google has an office or data center as well as helping guide larger corporate partnerships with the nonprofit and public sector.

Workshop: "Loud and Clear: Free Podcasting and Audio Tools"

We’re offering a free workshop:” Loud and Clear: Free Podcasting and Audio Tools.”

Instructor Will deBock’s presentation will focus on a range of free tools available on the internet for creating and distributing audio.  From web-based (and increasingly with mobile versions) like soundcloud.com to robust, full-featured audio recording and editing applications like Audacity, he will demonstrate how various tools work through practical scenarios.  From recording simple audio and embedding into Facebook, to editing multiple tracks and adding musical intros and outros, the workshop is designed to be practical.  For those who “learn by doing” there will be opportunities to roll-up your sleeves and try it out!

This workshop is free to the public and is perfect for teachers, small business owners, artists, communications professionals and anyone interested in harnessing the power of the Internet.  

This is a hands-on workshop so bring your own laptop and microphone (observers without computers and microphones are also welcome).
 
Will DeBock earned his Master’s in Technology Management at Marlboro Graduate School and has been a faculty member for Kaplan University, a Vice President, and the Founder of its Innovations Lab.

The workshop will take place from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 here at Marlboro College Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro.

To register, visit: hot4audio.eventbrite.com

Walk-ins welcome.

The workshop is presented by the Grad School’s EdTech program and is part of their public-service “HOT: Hands On Tech Series.”

Net Impact Dinner Friday, July 20th

Marlboro Grad School’s MBA in Managing for Sustainability Net Impact chapter is holding its annual fundraising dinner on Friday, July 20th, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Scott Farm in Brattleboro.

Marlboro MBA alum and chef, Tristan Toleno of Entera Artisanal Catering, will prepare the meal using foods from local farms and businesses including Lilac Ridge Farm, Sweet Tree Farm and Red Hen Baking Company.

Net Impact is a global community of more than 30,000 changemakers who use their jobs to tackle the world’s toughest problems, demonstrating that it’s possible to make a net impact that benefits not just the bottom line – but people and planet, too.

This dinner raises funds to support the activities of the Marlboro Net Impact chapter.  Costs are $25 for adults, $20 for Net Impact members, and $10 for youngsters.

Scott Farm produces 90 varieties of ecologically grown apples, and many other fruits and berries. David Tanzey, Executive Director of the Landmark Trust, which owns the farm, will welcome the group to Scott Farm.

To register for the dinner, please visit: http://farmtotablemarlboro.eventbrite.com/

For more information, contact Mary Karis at Marlboro College Graduate School:               mkaris@gradschool.marlboro.edu.

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Grads in Spotlight at Capstone Fairs

In July, members of the Class of 2012 will be front and center at our summer Capstone Project Fairs.

For those in our BSMIS, HCA, MAT and MSIT programs, the Fair will be on July 14 from 12:00 to 2:30 p.m.

The MBA and MDO fair is on the following Saturday, July 21 and will run from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

As our alums will remember so well, Capstone Projects demand that graduating students fuse the knowledge they have gained across the breadth of their studies at the Grad Center and then apply it in a new and creative fashion taking it to the "next level."

This year’s projects, as usual, cover an astonishing variety of topics and signal our students’ creativity.  Topics range from creating a consultation team model to offer support for academic success to students with intensive mental health needs to examining corporate charitable giving and volunteer programs

Keeping with custom, these events are free, and the public is encouraged to attend. Visitors are encouraged to talk with the students about their projects and to critique them - allowing the future graduates to gain objective, supportive feedback that will lead to further refinements.

Both Fairs will be held here at the Grad School in Brattleboro. 

Marlboro Hosts Free Workshop on Social Media

On June 26, Marlboro College Graduate School will host “Social Media Across the Generations,” a free workshop on the pros and cons of networking through social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Will deBock—a Marlboro alumnus, trained sociologist and online educator—will lead a presentation and discussion on how and to what extent it is necessary to navigate these new modes of communication.

The workshop will be from 3:00 to 5:00 pm in Room #2 North. Register at http://hotworkshop.eventbrite.com. Walk-ins are welcome. For questions, contact Will deBock at debock@marlboro.edu or (802) 451-0674.

Grad School Hosts Blue-Ribbon Health Care Panel

On June 12th, health care leaders will gather here to discuss the effects of national and state healthcare reforms on hospitals, providers and healthcare management professionals. The event is sponsored by our Master of Science in Management – Health Care Administration Program.

Employers and employees are wondering what will happen to traditional employer-sponsored health insurance under state operated exchanges.  Hospitals are wondering if they will bear greater risk for increasing health care costs and be treated by regulators as mini-Accountable Care Organizations.  Providers are wondering if cost control measures can be implemented without reducing the quality of care they provide or compensation they receive.  Everyone is wondering if the Affordable Care Act will survive the challenge before the United States Supreme Court.

The blue-ribbon panel addressing these issues will include: Steve Gordon, CEO of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital; Rob Simpson, CEO of Brattleboro Retreat; and Dr. Don Caruso, Medical Director, Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth Hitchcock Keene.

Among the topics these experts will comment on are the impact of the law on both their own health organizations and their regions; the concept of population health basis for the law; the Accountable Care Organization model and shifts in provider alliances; and changes in economic incentives through payment restructuring.

There will also be an update on the U.S. Supreme Court decision due in June. 

Following the presentations, there will be a question and answer period.

The discussion will be moderated by Craig Miskovich, a local health care attorney who teaches in our Master of Science in Management – Health Care Administration Program.

The event will be held at the Graduate School, 28 Vernon Street, in Brattleboro from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 12, 2012.

The public is invited to attend and admission is free.

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Grad School Hosts National Slow Living Summit

Marlboro College Graduate School will, once again, host and co-sponsor the Slow Living Summit, which will take place in downtown Brattleboro May 30th - June 1st.

The second-annual U.S. Slow Living Summit is a national convening of cross-sector intelligence, ideas and action for sustainable living.

The event will kick off at 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday with Marlboro College President Ellen McCulloch-Lovell and Grad School faculty member Lori Hanau welcoming all and setting the tone at the opening plenary: “Setting an Agenda for Action and Change” at the Latchis Theater. MBA Program Director Ralph Meima will moderate this plenary session as well.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Governor Peter Shumlin will be among dozens of high-profile speakers including David Orr (Oberlin college, Down to the Wire), Woody Tasch (Slow Money), Chris Martenson (The Crash Course), Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics), James Howard Kunstler (The Long Emergency), John Restakis (Humanizing the Economy) and many others.

The Slow Living Summit boasts at least 50 sessions on topics like food, agriculture, spirit, investing, energy, technology, entrepreneurship, communities, media and sustainability - plus theater, video and music offerings.

To get the full sense of the Summit as well as the times and locations of presentations, please visit the Schedule of Events.

It’s easy to register, and we hope you will be able to join us.

Dr. William New Next MBA Guest Speaker, Friday, June 8th

On Friday, June 8th our next Featured Speaker will be Dr. William New sharing “Lessons Learned by a Seasoned Social Entrepreneur.” 

William New has pursued a career as physician, engineer, educator and serial entrepreneur.

He has known both the triumphs and the perils of Wall Street's venture capital realities in building companies across the US, Canada and the UK. 

Bill’s consistent goal was to create and nurture customer-centric sustainable enterprises. He shares these experiences with the hope that young social entrepreneurs forearmed can build sustainable companies that put people before profit, work over wealth, substance above spectacle, and cultivate happiness not hedonism.

Bill leads a conversational Q&A session about this and other lessons learned over many years as a successful social entrepreneur, and proposes strategies going forward to create sustainable organizations that avoid self-destructive money-obsessed consumption to prosper instead with longevity, health, and happiness exemplified in other developed economies.

Dr. New retired from Stanford University after 25 years of faculty service, but continues biotech research supporting commercial spinouts as adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC.  He earned BS and MS degrees in engineering at Stanford, his MD at Duke University, a PhD at UCLA, and an MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

A board director of numerous companies, non-profits, schools and universities, he currently serves as a trustee of nearby Putney School.

A networking social with refreshments will start at 5:30 p.m., with Dr. New's presentation beginning at 6:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Free "Making Photos Fantastic" Workshop

“Making Photos Fantastic!” will be offered here at Marlboro College Graduate School on Tuesday, May 29^th, 2012, from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.  The workshop is free and open to the public.

Digital cameras (and smart phones with good cameras) are everywhere!  We take pictures of everything!  But sometimes we just don’t know what to do with all those images. Well, roll up your sleeves, pull out your simple digital cameras or smart phone and join Will deBock, founder of Prof. deBock’s Innovator Network, for a hands-on technology workshop focused on making the most of your digital images.

This will be a hands-on technology workshop focused on making the most of digital images. There are free and low-cost (yet robust) tools that can help crop, filter and enhance images. There are also fun tools that can create a movie poster from a favorite image or a motivational sign for students or employees.  You will explore tools like Paint.net, Photoshop Express, and Picassa as well as specialized web applications.  

You should bring your own laptop, camera, and smart phone with camera (observers without computers and cameras are also welcome).

Will DeBock earned his Master’s in Technology Management at Marlboro Graduate School and has been a faculty member for Kaplan University, a Vice President, and the Founder of its Innovations Lab.

To register, go to hotworkshop_photos.eventbrite.com/

The class is presented by the Grad School’s EdTech program and is part of their public-service “HOT: Hands On Tech Series.”