COMD-DE Post-Bachelor's Announcements

September 1, 2007
Blackboard Maintenance

Every Sunday Morning from 2:00 AM to approximately 10:00 AM is the weekly Blackboard Maintenance window. During that time, the Blackboard server is unavailable. This Sunday a patch will be installed that will allow Java 1.6 to be validated with Blackboard and fix the problem we are having with chat. Once the server comes back online FACT staff will be testing the system.

August 29, 2007
CIL Test Fee

When you apply for graduation you should NOT be assessed a CIL fee - a fee for those who need to take Computer Information Literacy tests. If your graduation fees include a CIL fee ($10 I think) please call the CIL lab - 435 797 2405 or 435 797 0957, tell them you are a 2nd bach online student, and they will waive the CIL fee.

August 29, 2007
December 2007 Commencement Dates

The Graduate Commencement and Hooding Ceremony will be held on Friday, December 14, at 1:30pm. It will be in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.

Download Fall 2007 deadlines for Commencement.

August 28, 2007
Party: All COMD-DE Faculty/Staff/Students

When: September 4th (Tuesday) from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Where: Dee Child's house in Hyde Park (10 minute drive from campus) - directions and map will be available at the main office in the COMD-DE Department.

Details: 6:00 - 7:00 Visit & Dinner: veggie and beef burgers, chips, soft drinks, etc. 7:00 - 8:00: Annual Faculty & Staff versus Students Volleyball tournament. Volleyball teams need fans so if you don't play please plan to cheer on your favorite team.

Bring: yourself, significant others if you'd like, kids, no pets please, blanket or lawn chairs, jacket.

Please sign up on the sign-up sheets so we'll know how much food to get.

08/27/07
Greetings Students!

Welcome to a new semester of learning. I hope you have a wonderful experience and learn or relearn information that will fill you with excitement about this professional field.

Please email Dee Child at dee.child@usu.edu immediately using the subject "Greetings" in the subject box (the box below where you type the email address) and provide the following information:
Name
City/State
Numbers of classes you are taking this semester (ex. 3100, 2500, 3500)
This is the (first, second, third, fourth, fifth) semester of USU's online COMD courses you've taken.
First bachelors degree from _____________, year _____________.

Thanks.

05/15/07
Student Loan Forgiveness

High-needs (Title 1) schools have the hardest time recruiting and retaining SLPs. ASHA has been advocating for legislation to include SLPs in the current federal student loan forgiveness program, which provides $17,500 in student loan forgiveness to math, science, and special education teachers for working in a Title 1 school for five consecutive years. Including SLPs in this program would provide an incentive for new SLPs to work with children in high-needs schools.

Your Senator sits on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and thus, can play a very critical and local role in advancing this issue for school-based SLPs. The HELP Committee is expected to consider a bill to reauthorize the provisions of the Higher Education Act soon. They need to include the provisions of H.R.1394 in this reauthorization bill. H.R.1394, the Helping Our Students Communicate Act of 2007, would extend the benefits of the existing math, science and special education teacher federal loan forgiveness program to qualified school-based SLPs.

Please take a moment and send your Senators an email urging them to include H.R. 1394 (the student loan forgiveness legislation) in the Higher Education Act by visiting our website at: http://capwiz.com/asha2/issues/alert/?alertid=9752521&type=ta . Email your senator now! Contact Neil Snyder, ASHA’s Director of Federal Advocacy, at 800-498-2071 ext 4257 or nsnyder@asha.org if you have any questions.

04/24/07
GPA Requirements

Please remember that if your GPA falls below a 3.0 at the end of this semester you cannot continue in this program. In order to go on you must retake courses that will allow your GPA to raise above 3.0. Then you will be able to continue. If you have any questions please contact me directly at deec@cc.usu.edu.
Thank you.
Dee R. Child, Director.

04/04/07
Try Career Services' Resume Builder!

Through the month of April, Career Services is piloting a new resume building system called OptimalResume. Whether this is your first or tenth resume, OptimalResume makes the process fast and easy while ensuring top-quality results.

If you have an existing resume, you don't have to "start from scratch." Simply cut and paste your content into OptimalResume. Even if you have experienced success with your existing resume, feel free to use the system to see what it can do for you! OptimalResume enables you to style your resume, ensuring professional results.

You will be guided through both content and style options to produce visually appealing and professional documents with hard copy and/or online versions. However, feedback is always recommended. Please contact Career Services to meet with one of our professionally certified resume writers.

Students and alumni who take advantage of this trial offer by May 1 and respond to a short satisfaction survey will be entered in a drawing to win an iPod Nano.

To try this new system, simply visit http://www.usu.edu/career and click on the OptimalResume logo. You will be directed to a user guide where you can then access the OptimalResume system. For questions regarding this system or for assistance in your internship/career search, contact Career Services at 435-797-7777 or career@cplace.usu.edu.

02/28/07
Please note the following revision in our program...

Original Statement: Applicants may transfer up to 6 credits of undergraduate COMD courses they have taken elsewhere to USU and use them to replace those same courses that are part of our program with permission from USU's COMD advisor (Dee Child) IF the credits were completed as part of an ASHA accredited program.

Revised Statement as of 2/28/07: Applicants may transfer up to 2 classes (5 credits maximum) of undergraduate COMD courses they have taken elsewhere to USU and use them to replace those same courses that are part of our program with permission from USU's COMD advisor (Dee Child) IF the credits were completed as part of an ASHA accredited program.

Please contact Dee Child (deec@cc.usu.edu) immediately if this change in policy will impact you negatively.

02/13/07
A#s

Please email your USU A# to Dee Child (deec@cc.usu.edu). Thanks.

01/26/07
Graduation Application Information

You must apply for graduation during the semester prior to when you anticipate graduating. To apply for graduation, you will fill out an online application to order your graduation application. Below is a link to the graduation application webpage. This webpage has a list of instructions for students, including payment details, etc. On this webpage you will fill out a form and submit it electronically. When you are given the option for where you would like your graduation application to be sent choose the option of --- Send to On-campus Advisor. http://www.usu.edu/registrar/graduation/apply-online-form.cfm

01/26/07
Disregard

Please disregard the January 17 "Reminder" below. Here is the updated position of the Registrar's Office at USU: If students have a 1st bachelors degree from another institution they don't have to meet the American Institutions requirement here at Utah State University.

01/17/07
Reminder

Just a reminder that if you are planning to earn a 2nd bachelors degree from USU you must have completed an American Institutions course such as American History, American Political Science, or American Economics as part of the first bachelor's degree program. This is stated on the following webpage: http://www.coe.usu.edu/comd/pstudent/distanceProgram_purpose.htm

01/08/07
Welcome to a new semester!

Greetings Everyone! Welcome to another EXCITING semester of COMD courss from USU! Please remember to check this webpage daily for information and feel free to email me (Dee Child) or your class professors with questions.

12/8/06
Welcome To The Announcements Page

I am finding that we need a way to inform all students in this program of notices, deadlines and other details pertaining to this post-bachelors degree program So, please get in the habit of checking this page OFTEN. You will be responsible for the information that is posted here. Please feel free to email me (Dee Child - deec@cc.usu.edu) with questions or comments regarding the information posted here. You can get to this web page from our main COMD homepage (www.coe.usu.edu/comd) and then click on Post-Bachelors News. Thanks.

12/8/06
Speech Science

Beginning next semester ALL the post-bachelors COMD classes are offered every semester -- WITH ONE EXCEPTION!! The COMD 5070 Speech Science class will NOT be taught this coming summer (2007). Please make special note of this and plan to take this class either next semester or next Fall.

12/8/06
Predicted Course Sequence

Please send me (Dee Child) an email with the anticipated sequence of the classes you will take in this program and your expected graduation semester. This information will be helpful whether you are taking all the classes or just one or two. Your email should look something like this...

Summer 06: COMD 1234, COMD 2345

Fall 06: COMD 3446, COMD 4567, COMD 5678, COMD 6789

Spring 07: COMD 1111

Summer 07: COMD 2222, COMD 3333

Fall 07: COMD 6666

Spring 08: COMD 7777, COMD 8888, COMD 9999

Anticipated Graduation: End of Spring 08

Here is a list of all the required classes:

Language, Speech, and Hearing Development COMD 2500, 3 credits
Language Science COMD 5100, 3 credits
Phonetics/Developmental Phonology COMD 3500, 3 credits
Fundamentals of Anatomy for Speech and Language COMD 3100, 3 credits
Disorders of Articulation and Phonology COMD 3120, 3 credits
Acoustics and Anatomy of the Ear COMD 3400, 3 credits
Clinical Processes COMD 3650, 2 credits
Basic Audiology COMD 3700, 3 credits
Speech Science COMD 5070, 3 credits
Language Assessment and Intervention for Preschool Children COMD 5200, 4 credits
Aural Rehabilitation COMD 5330, 3 credits
Capstone Independent Study COMD 5900, 3 credits

Your can change your planned sequence during the program at any time if you choose to do so.