The Kobacker Center at The University of Toledo Medical Center will celebrate 30 years of serving the behavioral and emotional needs of area youth with a rededication ceremony Friday, Sept. 6.

“As we recognize 30 years of service to the community, we also commit to continuing to provide the needed mental health services for children and adolescents in the Toledo area,” said Karon Price, agency executive director of the center. “Our goal is to provide and improve quality, family-centered care through active research, new therapies, and preventive programming.”

The rededication ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. in the center located on the UT Health Science Campus.

The Kobacker Center was dedicated in 1983 and serves children and teens who struggle with severe emotional troubles such as intense anger, chronic depression and thoughts of suicide.

The center is the only inpatient hospital in the region that cares for the mental health needs of children younger than 9 and the only agency in the area that offers a complete continuum of inpatient and outpatient care in one location.

The center provides diagnostic assessments, medication management, individual and group therapy, and after-school and summer programs.

For more information about the Kobacker Center, click here or call 419.383.3815.

The Supreme Court of Ohio will hold session in The University of Toledo College of Law’s McQuade Law Auditorium on Wednesday, April 9 as part of the court’s Off-Site Court Program. The Supreme Court last sat in Lucas County in 1987, the first year of the Off-Site Court Program, and has never before appeared at The University of Toledo College of Law.

Justice Judith Anne Lanzinger is a 1977 graduate of the College of Law and a Toledo resident and former trial and appellate judge in Lucas County.

“We are honored to have been selected for the Off-Site Program. This will be a wonderful opportunity for lawyers, students, and other members of the public to observe the state’s highest court in person,” said Daniel J. Steinbock, dean of the College of Law. “It also will give alumna Justice Judith Lanzinger a chance to hear cases in the law school she attended.”

The College of Law will host the court in conjunction with the Toledo Bar Association, the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals, and the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas.

“I was delighted to accept the law school’s invitation to hold court in Toledo, and my colleagues and I are looking forward to the visit,” said Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor.

The Off-Site Court Program was founded in 1987 by the late Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer and is designed to teach Ohioans about the state’s judicial system. Twice each year, once in the spring and once in the fall, the Supreme Court relocates from Columbus to hold session in another city, selecting a different county each time.

Area high school students will be invited to attend, and volunteers from the Toledo Bar Association will brief students on the cases to be argued before the session.

Background information and a video illustrating the program, including footage from past off-site court sessions, is available on the Supreme Court’s web site.

Media Coverage
The Blade (April 7, 2014)
The Blade (April 9, 2014)
The Blade (April 10, 2014)

Technology has touched nearly every facet of modern life in one way or another. Communicating. Dating. Driving. Shopping. Now, a new partnership between The University of Toledo and Seelio is infusing a new technology into the way students present themselves in a job hunt.

Beginning this fall, students in the Jesup Scott Honors College and the College of Communication and the Arts (CoCA) will have access to Seelio, an online portfolio technology that enables users to showcase their accomplishments, provide immediate access to projects and publications, demonstrate connections to collaborators and provide potential employers with a multi-dimensional look at their portfolios.

“The University of Toledo is focused on helping our students take their degrees into the marketplace and earn their dream jobs,” said Dr. Scott Scarborough, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. “The Seelio partnership is another example of how we are enhancing the student experience and long-term value of a UT degree.”

Coupled with the University’s relationship with Intern in Ohio, an online internship matching technology, Seelio will enable students to demonstrate the work they performed in an experiential learning setting and bring the typical resume to life in a digital way.

“The thing that excited me most about Seelio was not just the ability to showcase a student’s work, but rather the way that it encourages students to start preparing from day one to market themselves,” said Lawrence J. Burns, vice president for external affairs.

“The University of Toledo is truly on the leading edge of preparing students to enter the job market with a body of showcase-ready work that will help them convey their abilities and identify a role that matches their skills and interests,” said Moses Lee, Seelio’s cofounder and CEO. “We are excited to be a partner in this effort.”

Use by the honors college and CoCA will begin soon as a pilot for the University, with the technology expected to be particularly advantageous to students in these areas, with a potential expansion to other colleges based on the success of the partnership.

For more information about the portfolio technology, visit seelio.com.

Media Coverage
The Independent Collegian (Sept. 18, 2013)

James G. Carr, a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio who served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for six years, will discuss the FISA court’s history and recent controversy during a lecture Sept. 5 at The University of Toledo College of Law.

Carr

The free, public talk titled “A Better Secret Court” will be noon, Thursday, Sept. 5, in the College of Law’s McQuade Law Auditorium.

Congress created the FISA court in 1978 as a check on executive authority. Recent disclosures about vast data-gathering by the National Security Agency as part of its PRISM surveillance program have raised concerns about the court’s effectiveness in protecting American citizens.

Judge Carr has suggested, in a New York Times Op-Ed and in testimony for the Senate Judiciary Committee this month, that Congress take a simple step to restore confidence in the court’s impartiality and integrity: authorize its judges to appoint lawyers to serve the public interest when novel legal issues come before it.

“We are very fortunate to have in Toledo a former member of the FISA court and a national expert on electronic surveillance in the person of Judge Carr,” said Daniel J. Steinbock, dean of the College of Law. “We welcome the opportunity to hear his thoughts on the latest revelations about NSA surveillance.”

Carr is a senior federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He was nominated by President William J. Clinton in 1994, and served on the FISA Court 2002-2008 and as chief judge 2004-2010. Before being appointed to the federal bench, Judge Carr spent time in private practice in Chicago, as a professor at The University of Toledo College of Law, and as a magistrate for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He is a graduate of Kenyon College and Harvard Law School.

Click here to download a photo of Carr.

Media Coverage
The Blade (Sept. 5, 2013)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETINGS

Monday, September 16, 2013
The Hotel at UTMC, Faculty Club Room
1:00 p.m. Board of Trustees Meeting

Tuesday, September 17, 2013
The Hotel at UTMC, Faculty Club Room
7:30 a.m. Clinical Affairs Committee Meeting

Any questions may be directed to the University Communications Office by calling (419) 530-7832 or via email at jonathan.strunk@utoledo.edu.

Joan A. Stasa
Secretary, Board of Trustees

September 3, 2013