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Dear CAPCSD Member,
Welcome to April! I hope it is starting to look like spring where you live.
Voting for the 2024-2025 President-Elect and Treasurer open this week. We hope you review the slate and your program submits its vote.
Join me in congratulating our 2024 CAPCSD award honorees. Mark DeRuiter will receive Honors of the Council, Kerry Mandulak will receive the Excellence in Diversity Award, and Jennifer Watson will be honored with the Distinguished Contribution Award. These exceptional colleagues will be recognized on Friday, April 5th at the awards ceremony.
We look forward to seeing many of you in New Orleans for our annual conference. We will see others online for the virtual offerings this week.
All the best, Jennifer Simpson |
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Jennifer Simpson President |
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CAPCSD Announces the Slate of Candidates for 2024
CAPCSD is pleased to announce the slate of candidates for the 2024 elections. Program directors received the slate on Saturday, April 6th, and vote on behalf of their programs; they are encouraged to solicit input from their faculty, clinic directors, and staff before voting. Elections close on Monday, April 22nd and results will be announced the week of April 29th. |
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Candidate for President-Elect
Tricia Montgomery Florida State University Director of Clinical Education
Three (3) year term July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025 President Elect July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026 President July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027 Past President |
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Candidate for Treasurer
Ashley Harkrider University of Tennessee Health Science Center Chair
Two (2) year term July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2026 |
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Admissions Corner |
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Check out the new CSDCAS Applicant Data Report! It showcases trends in CSD applicants and acceptances. Highlights this year include a 17.6% increase in the acceptances of SLP applicants from minoritized racial and ethnic backgrounds over the last 3 years, a steady number of individual applicants, but fewer applications received per program, and the continued decline in GRE requirements. |
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Committee Highlight - Clinical Education Committee |
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CAPCSD’s Clinical Education Committee is charged with reviewing , updating, developing and disseminating existing and new clinical education resources. To that end, committee chair Andy Clare and committee members Wendy Chase, Christi Masters, Jonette Owen, Hannah Siburt, Anu Subramanian and Chizuko Tamaki have been working diligently to provide a variety of resources that CAPCSD members and their associates can access to support best practices in CSD clinical education. Their efforts are supported by Kevin McNamara, Vice President for Clinical Education and Mandie McKenzie, CAPCSD staff liaison. Through the committee’s hard work, CAPCSD’s popular Clinical Educator eLearning Course modules have remained a current and viable resource for advancing clinical educator skills (https://www.capcsd.org/elearning-courses/). Recently, committee members have been working tirelessly to develop a new series of eLearning modules that will continue to be offered to CAPCSD members and their affiliates at no cost as the existing modules sunset in 2025. Anticipated to launch in summer 2024, these six new modules, when completed, will offer participants .2 hours of ASHA CEUs, allowing them to meet the ASHA training requirement for clinical educators. Upcoming projects for the committee will include expanding and maintaining a repository of clinical educator tools available on the CAPCSD website and developing and disseminating other clinical educator resources to meet CAPCSD member needs. |
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Kevin M. McNamara, M.A., CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
CAPCSD Vice President for Clinical Education
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AI Task Force |
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming and challenging the educational landscape. Currently AI may feel like the Wild West. Chat GPT and other AI tools are seemingly everywhere. Rules, policies, and regulations are limited or non-existent, leading educators to navigate this unchartered terrain without much guidance. Reactions to AI range from explorers and embracers to ignorers and hopers that it will all go away. Regardless of your reaction, AI will have an impact on how we select, train, teach, evaluate, and engage with our students. |
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To support CSD programs and educators in navigating this new terrain, CAPCSD has created an AI Task Force. The charge of the Task Force is to review the current landscape of AI in CSD programs and consider recent advancements, predictable future effects, and ways educators can use AI positively in classroom and clinical education. The Task Force began in March and will convene over the next year. In the near future the Task Force will share FAQ sheets, guides, webinars, policy and guideline recommendations and other content to support CSD programs and educators.
The AI Task Force is chaired by Ashley Dockens of Lamar University. Task Force Members include Nydia Bou of Emerson College; Ramesh Kaipa of Oklahoma State University; AnnMarie Knight of Columbia College; Kimberly Meigh of West Virginia University; Donna Pitts of Loyola University (CAPCSD Professional Development Committee Representative); Danielle Watson of Tennessee State University (CAPCSD Admissions Committee Representative); and Yunfang Zheng, Central Michigan University (CAPCSD Online Professional Development Committee Representative). Ned Campbell, CAPCSD Executive Director is the Staff Liaison and Katie Strong, CAPCSD President-Elect is Board Liaison for the Task Force. |
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CAPCSD Annual Conference |
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From the new plenary session formats and new Solution-Focused Dialogue sessions to new networking opportunities and tools to make the conference more accessible and interactive for attendees, the Conference Planning Committee has jazzed up the 44th Annual Conference!
We are excited to welcome 540 of you to New Orleans this week for professional development, networking, and meeting with the exhibitors who have products and services for you to take back to your CSD program and colleagues.
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Thank you to our sponsors for helping make this conference possible! |
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Virtual Conference |
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You can still register today to join the 120 + CSD professionals who have already registered for the Virtual Conference on Thursday, April 4 and Friday, April 5 from 11 AM CT - 2:30 PM CT each day. Click here to register. Presentations Include: No Colleague Left Behind: Culturally Responsive Support for Faculty and Staff
Utilizing Clinical Research to Empower and Advance the Professions of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Ethical Dilemmas in SLP Clinical Education
A New Idea for Academic Metrics: Implications for Equity in Graduate Admissions |
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Enhancing Clinical Competencies: Creative Models for SLP and AUD Education
"Jazz Up" Graduate Education: Active Learning Strategies to Engage and Motivate Students
Registration for the on-demand version of the Virtual Conference will open around May 1, 2024. |
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Student Diversity and Faculty Sufficiency in CSD Academic Programs: Next Steps🗓️ Tuesday, May 7, 2024 🕒 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET No Cost to Attend | .10 ASHA CEUs Speakers: |
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Donation-Based University Clinics: Strategic Considerations for CSD Programs🗓️ Monday, May 13, 2024 🕒 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET .10 ASHA CEUs Speakers: Treasyri Williams Wood, SLPD, CCC/SLP |
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https://www.capcsd.org April 2024 |