Getting Started

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Join the EDPS Listserv!

The EDPS listserv is used to announce upcoming events, post assistantship job announcements, scholarship info, important deadlines, promote new courses, etc. All EDPS graduate students should sign up as soon as possible. To join EDPSCOMM all you need is an email account.

To subscribe: Send an email message to: Listserv@listserv.umd.edu with the following 4 components in the body of the email:
Subscribe, EDPSCOMM, firstname, lastname (a space between each, no quotes, no commas).

For example: Subscribe  EDPSCOMM  John  Doe

You will receive a confirmation message when you successfully subscribe to the list and the confirmation message will require your reply.


Join the EDPS Newsvine Group!

Want to keep up on eduation news and discuss it with your peers? The EDPS Newsvine group will allow you to more easily keep up on education news by streamlining it onto one webpage. Submit and discuss news of the day along with students and faculty.

Here's how:

  1. Create an account at www.newsvine.com
  2. E-mail GSA secretary Tom Hurst at thurst@umd.edu to be invited
  3. Once a memeber, bookmark the "Seed Newsvine" function and join the conversation.

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