Return to Campus - Required Training

As part of the COVID-19 Return to Campus Plan, all faculty, staff and students who will be on campus in the fall must complete the "Return to Campus" online training course. The course can be accessed through Canvas via this employee training link.

The course provides helpful information on the USF Return to Campus plan, testing and tracing measures. Also included in the training are conduct expectations, your role in stopping the spread of the virus, and what you can expect when returning to campus.

Specific questions about the training content should be sent to: COVIDquestions@usf.edu.

For questions about completing this training, please contact: training@usf.edu.

As always, you should refer to the official USF coronavirus webpage for the most up to date information. 

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Michon Shaw, MA, NIC, a visiting instructor in CSD's Interpreter Training Program was recently highlighted in RID Views, the flagship publication of the nation's largest association of sign language interpreters. Mrs. Shaw's work as an interpreter, advocate, and entrepreneur were spotlighted to recognize her outstanding achievements. In particular, her passionate commitment to addressing the national shortage of Black interpreters and other interpreters of color was noted.

Bryanna Fox, PhD, appeared on an episode of Oxygen's "License to Kill" on August 15, 2020 regarding a case she worked on as an FBI Special Agent. The episode can be seen on demand here.

Abhishek Pandey, MD and Kerry Littlewood, PhD, were selected to do a workshop and present an abstract on their research at the Virtual Conference on Diabetes Care and Education last week. Their presentations were entitled "Let's Talk About Sleep: How to Integrate Healthy Sleep Behaviors Into Your DSMES Curriculum" and "Sleep the Key to Motivating Change in Diabetes Education: Results from a behavioral study". A reporter from Endocrine Today interviewed the pair last week and wrote a feature story on the study.

30 years ago, President George H.W. Bush lifted his pen to sign the Americans with Disabilities Act while saying, "Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down." Since then, much progress has been made to prohibit discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, health, and all public and private places that are open to the general public. Established in 2005, the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities (FCIC)/University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) within the USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences is the only center on disabilities at USF.

Applications are now open to start the program in Spring 2021. This program pays for 15 credits of tuition, fees, and travel to conferences. You will be mentored to conduct your own community-engaged research to help solve real-world problems, present results at a conference, and publish your our work. You may be able to apply these credits toward your degree program (with approval). For information and to apply watch this short video https://youtu.be/eAUE84OJvo0; then, visit www.usf.edu/itre (go to the Admission Application tab). You can also email us at errodri3@usf.edu. Applications will remain open until October 1, 2020.

Join us for a virtual information session on Friday, August 28, 2020 at 12:00pm.
 

1. Heide, K. M. (2020). Juvenile Homicide Offenders Look Back 35 Years Later: Reasons They Were Involved in Murder. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(11), 3932. doi:10.3390/ijerph17113932

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