Professional Development Workshop:
Marketing Yourself Outside the Academy
Friday, November 4, 2011 | 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Sullivan Center 201– Lake Shore Campus
This workshop will help you identify the skill set you’ve developed as a result of your academic career and determine how those skills can transfer into various industries and occupations. Presented by Camille Helkowski, Associate Director, Career Development Center.
To reserve your seat for a workshop, please send an email to gradschool@luc.edu. Include the workshop title in the subject heading.
Graduate Student Town Hall Meeting:
When: Friday, November 4, at 4 p.m.
Where: Crown Center Auditorium, LSC
The Graduate School welcomes all graduate students to attend the annual Town Hall Meeting with the Graduate School Dean and Administration. The Town Hall is intended to provide a forum for graduate students to speak directly with Dean Attoh, Associate Dean Mooney-Melvin, and Assistant Dean Horowitz in an informal setting where students can ask pertinent questions about their experiences at Loyola. Are there specific concerns you feel deserve greater attention from the administration? Have you ever wished you could consult directly with the Graduate School Administration on issues relating to your program? These types of questions plus many others are encouraged to be discussed at the Town Hall Meeting. Bring your questions, colleagues and appetite as pizza and drinks will be served.
If you are unable to attend the Town Hall meeting but would like an issue to be addressed please contact the GSAC Representative within your department. Link to the list of program representative at http://www.luc.edu/gradschool/GSAC_-_Current_Members.shtml.
Any other questions can be sent to GSAC@luc.edu. We look forward to an engaging and productive Town Hall Meeting this year, see you there!
On Campus Event:
When: Tuesday, November 8th, at 7 p.m.
Where: Beane Hall 13th Floor, Water Tower Campus
Jody Weis, Deputy Director of the Chicago Crime Commission, will speak about his extensive law enforcement career, including his 23 years with the FBI and his tenure as the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. Sponsored by the Loyola Graduate Criminal Justice Organization. Admission is free and open to students, faculty, and staff. Contact the Graduate Criminal Justice Organization at gcjo.luc@gmail.com or Dr. Loretta Stalans at lstalan1@luc.edu with any questions.
Money Matters Workshop:
Loan Borrowing and Repayment for Grad Students
When: Tues. November 8th, 4 PM (Centennial Forum Student Union Bremner Lounge)
Wed. November 9th, 5 PM (Corboy Law Center Room 727)
Loans can be an overwhelming topic for many of us. Who do we choose to borrow with? How much do I need to cover my tuition and living expenses? How much have I borrowed so far and what will this end up costing me? This workshop is designed to help graduate students understand the loan process, how to make the right decisions when it comes to borrowing and how to prepare for future loan repayment.
To RSVP: http://luc.edu/finaid/RSVP_financialaid.shtml
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Bipartisan duo push supercommittee to tackle Medicare payments
By Sam Baker - 10/27/11 11:49 AM ET
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers say the supercommittee has to deal with Medicare’s payment system for doctors — ideally by scrapping it altogether.
Reps. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) and Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) said the 12-member panel should permanently repeal the Medicare formula, known as the sustainable growth rate (SGR).
“The supercommittee provides us with the opportunity to do this, and to tackle what is a serious part of deficit reduction,” Schwartz told reporters. “If we’re going to serious about budgeting going forward, the cost of SGR repeal ought to be included.”
Schwartz said Democrats are concerned about savings from Medicare being used for deficit reduction rather than reinvested into Medicare. The House was set to vote Thursday on a bill that would cut healthcare spending, and the supercommittee’s deficit-reduction proposals include several cuts to both providers and beneficiaries.
But Congress will inevitably have to address the SGR by the end of the year, either with a long-term solution or yet another stopgap measure to block a 30 percent cut in doctors’ payments. The supercommittee should include the SGR in its proposal “one way or another,” Schwartz said.
The American Medical Association is lobbying especially hard for the supercommittee to permanently repeal the SGR. The group spent more money lobbying in the last quarter than at almost any other time during the Obama administration, including parts of the healthcare reform debate.
Schwartz and Roe want the supercommittee to resist another short-term patch and begin the process of permanently replacing the SGR. The SGR’s scheduled cuts accumulate every time Congress delays them, making each temporary measure more expensive than the one before.
“What a unique opportunity in the history of this country to fix a bad system, because at the end of the day, what we get is an up-or-down vote,” Roe said of the supercommittee.
Schwartz is working on a bill to replace the SGR. But she and Roe agreed that the first step is to repeal it.
“It’s a tremendous opportunity — may never come again,” Roe said.
Ultimately, he said, Medicare has to move away from paying doctors based on how many procedures they perform. He said he envisions a hybrid system in which rural areas use a reformed fee-for-service model and more populated areas with more doctors are paid based on patients’ health.
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers say the supercommittee has to deal with Medicare’s payment system for doctors — ideally by scrapping it altogether.
Reps. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) and Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) said the 12-member panel should permanently repeal the Medicare formula, known as the sustainable growth rate (SGR).
“The supercommittee provides us with the opportunity to do this, and to tackle what is a serious part of deficit reduction,” Schwartz told reporters. “If we’re going to serious about budgeting going forward, the cost of SGR repeal ought to be included.”
Schwartz said Democrats are concerned about savings from Medicare being used for deficit reduction rather than reinvested into Medicare. The House was set to vote Thursday on a bill that would cut healthcare spending, and the supercommittee’s deficit-reduction proposals include several cuts to both providers and beneficiaries.
But Congress will inevitably have to address the SGR by the end of the year, either with a long-term solution or yet another stopgap measure to block a 30 percent cut in doctors’ payments. The supercommittee should include the SGR in its proposal “one way or another,” Schwartz said.
The American Medical Association is lobbying especially hard for the supercommittee to permanently repeal the SGR. The group spent more money lobbying in the last quarter than at almost any other time during the Obama administration, including parts of the healthcare reform debate.
Schwartz and Roe want the supercommittee to resist another short-term patch and begin the process of permanently replacing the SGR. The SGR’s scheduled cuts accumulate every time Congress delays them, making each temporary measure more expensive than the one before.
“What a unique opportunity in the history of this country to fix a bad system, because at the end of the day, what we get is an up-or-down vote,” Roe said of the supercommittee.
Schwartz is working on a bill to replace the SGR. But she and Roe agreed that the first step is to repeal it.
“It’s a tremendous opportunity — may never come again,” Roe said.
Ultimately, he said, Medicare has to move away from paying doctors based on how many procedures they perform. He said he envisions a hybrid system in which rural areas use a reformed fee-for-service model and more populated areas with more doctors are paid based on patients’ health.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Money Matters Workshop – Live Life like a Grad Student (Budgeting)
Graduate students can face a variety of new financial challenges. Perhaps you have come right from an undergrad program and are just learning financial independence. Or maybe you have been out of school for a while and are wondering how you will balance real world responsibilities and pay tuition while keeping debt to a minimum. Whatever your unique situation is, this workshop is designed to help graduate students develop a budget and improve money management skills.
Tues. 11/1 4 PM (Crown Center Room 530)
Wed. 11/2 5 PM (Lewis Towers Room 415)
To RSVP: http://luc.edu/finaid/RSVP_financialaid.shtml
Tues. 11/1 4 PM (Crown Center Room 530)
Wed. 11/2 5 PM (Lewis Towers Room 415)
To RSVP: http://luc.edu/finaid/RSVP_financialaid.shtml
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