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Friday, March 24, 2023
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CANCELLED:
Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: A rigorous four-week, fully online certification course that introduces faculty to the current research and best practices for online teaching and learning. Using their own discipline-specific course materials for activities, faculty will work independently, collaboratively with peers from across campus, and with Instructional Designers to design and build one unit of online instruction in a myCourses site. This unit will meet the Quality Online Course Review Rubric criteria and be a model that faculty can reference and replicate as they continue to develop their upcoming fully online course(s).
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
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2:00 PM
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3:00 PM
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Virtual Drop-in Study Abroad Advising
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: International Programs Office
- Description: Have a quick question about study abroad? Would you like to start planning your study abroad experience? Meet us over zoom with your questions! Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Please email intl_programs@umassd.edu for zoom link.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, University Community, Study Abroad
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10:00 AM
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11:15 AM
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Accounting and Finance Department Research Seminar
- Location: Online
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The Accounting and Finance Department announces the following research seminar.
Speaker: Assistant Professor. Mi Zhou (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Title: Do Images Provide Relevant Information to Investors? An Exploratory Study
Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:15 AM
Location: via Zoom Meeting
https://umassd.zoom.us/j/4387551509?pwd=bVB2QzdtRmFCdkk1WTVQSUxHMS9iQT09
Meeting ID: 438 755 1509
Passcode: Contact Prof. Xu below.
Abstract: We introduce the concept of "visual-readability" in annual reports and use novel machine learning algorithms to construct visual-readability metrics. We innovate by creating a novel measure of content reinforcement, representing the information content investors can extract from images, complementing and reinforcing particulars contained in the textual narrative. An increase in visual prevalence and in the degree to which images convey reinforcing information is associated with greater (lower) analyst forecast accuracy (disagreement) in subsequent quarters. Effects of visual readability are distinct from those of textual readability. Using Kelly and Ljungqvist (2012)'s identification, we find that firms increase the use of visuals when facing an exogenous drop in analyst coverage. Our metrics are further associated with lower risk, lower cost-of-equity, and higher credit ratings during the subsequent year. In the age of information overflow, our results highlight the importance of visual readability for information assimilation.
For additional information, please contact Prof. Hongkang Xu at hxu5@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Academic Affairs, Accounting and Finance, _Charlton College of Business
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3:00 PM
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Financial Aid FAFSA Help Labs LARTS 202
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Financial Aid Services wants to remind all students to file their FAFSA! Join Financial Aid Services for FAFSA Help Labs in LARTS 202 on Wednesdays and Fridays from 3-4pm for help filing your FAFSA and learning more about financial aid.
Contact Mark Yanni
myanni@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Financial Aid
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