ICPSR Bulletin, Summer 2020
Vol. 40, No.2
5 Things to Know and Love About the 2020 ICPSR Summer Program
- Your course, your time! The ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research has moved online this year, and participants can now take our courses from anywhere in the world. Each lecture is recorded and posted for registered participants to view, so there is no need to stay up until 2 a.m. watching a lecture.
- Concurrent courses for the first time ever! Another benefit to online and recorded courses: Our schedule is more flexible than ever before. For the last 57 years of the program, participants had to choose between two courses that overlapped in time. Now, participants can take one course live, and catch up with another later.
- New social events! Picnics, coffee and donuts, all of our usual social events are on hold. But participants in our four-week sessions can join in now on live trivia (with exclusive swag!) and daily Zoom chats about everything from surviving grad school during COVID-19 to creating furniture out of wine bottles. More events to come!
- Connect through our Slack Community! As much as we are pushing towards new things with a fully online program, we still want to maintain part of what makes the Summer Program so great. The collaborations and friendships that grow out of the program are special to us, and we’ve set up a Summer Program Slack Community to help keep our participants in touch.
- Still the best place for methods training! Aside from our social events, places to connect, and the changes to the structure of the Summer Program, at our core we are still offering world-class training in data analysis and quantitative methods from experts in the field.
By Scott Campbell , Summer Program Communications Coordinator
Editor’s Picks
- We Hear You. We See You. We Support You.
- ICPSR and RCMD Celebrate Pride Month with Data
- ICPSR Highlights Data on Slavery, Black History, as Nation Observes Juneteenth 2020
- ICPSR Director Issues Statement on Continued Support to Data Community Amid Global Coronavirus Battle
- 2020 Data Resource Page: Coronavirus, Activism, Policing, Census, Elections, and More
New Projects
- ICPSR Launches New Repository for COVID-19 Data
- ICPSR Announces ResearchDataGov Portal to Streamline Researchers’ Access to Federal Statistical System Microdata
- NSF Selects AERA and ICPSR to Create New STEM Research Data Hub
- ICPSR and Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Launch Revamped Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies (REES)
- African Studies Center and Institute for Social Research Partner on Summer Program Scholarship
ICYMI
- Save the Date: 2020 ICPSR Data Fair Goes Live Sep 21-25
- Webinar Recording: How to Access and Use the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Study Restricted-use Data Sets
- Webinar Recording: Maximizing Your ICPSR Membership Value
- Webinar Recording: Hidden Gems of ICPSR – A Peek Into the Data Vault
- Best Practices for Measuring the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of Epidemics
People
- Together again: A Moment from the (virtual) ICPSR Council Meeting for June 2020
- Introducing the 2020 ICPSR Innovators of the Year
- ICPSR Announces Winners of 2020 Research Paper Competitions
- ICPSR Summer Program Welcomes Interim Director Michael Traugott
More to Come!
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Special thanks to Scott Campbell, Anna Shelton, Shelly Petrinko, Sarah Pearson, and Wendi Fornoff.