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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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In This Issue:
Women's Leadership Academy - Apply by October 11!
Alfred Credit Union
Free blood pressure and pulse oximetry screening DEMO - ENDNOTE
Banner 7 Overview Session - Oct. 18 Bergren Forum
Global Awareness Roundtable: Gay Cultures Jay Peak trip for Spring Break
Coming Out Day!
Send a Singing Happy Birthday Card!
Visiting Painter Don Kimes: Public Lecture Apollo night at Alfred
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Women's Leadership Academy - Apply by October 11!
As an Academy member you will devise a plan for leadership that suits your needs and interests. You will also learn skills that are essential to success in any field, including how to speak with confidence, how to manage your time and manage stress, how to lead and inspire others, and how to use technology effectively.
Women's Leadership Academy is more than a series of events, it's a network of women who help each other succeed!
Interested? Apply by October 11, 2006. Click on the link below to download an application, or contact the Women's Leadership Center at 871.2971 or [email protected] for more information.
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Alfred Credit Union
Alfred/Allegany Educational Employees Federal Credit Union members are eligible for the "Holiday Havoc" loan between now and November 10, 2006. Borrow up to $1000 at 10% for 6 months if you qualify. Leave those high interest credit cards at home when you go holiday shopping this year! Call 587-4319 for information. You must apply by Friday, November 10.
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Free blood pressure and pulse oximetry screening
Personnel from WorkFit Medical Inc. are on campus today and Thursday for pulmonary function testing. They have graciously offered go do free blood pressure and pulse oximety (measures blood oxigen levels) screenings for AU employees. Please stop by Myers Hall 117 if you are interested.
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DEMO - ENDNOTE
Event Date: 10/10/2006 Event Time: 11:20 a.m. - 12:10 Location: Scholes Library - Room 304
Learn how to use the EndNote solftware available on the U:Drive. Let EndNote help create your reference list for scholarly report writing.
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Banner 7 Overview Session - Oct. 18
BannerINB 7 Overview Session
There will be another offering of the Banner 7 Overview session since the last 2 classes have been full.
Banner 7 will be ready for you to use the week of October 23rd. If you would like to attend a brief overview session of what is new in Banner 7 and have hands-on experience at the same time, please sign up for this review session.
These sessions are aimed at Banner INB users primarily since this is the application with the most changes. Please let me know if you are interested in attending. It should last no more than an hour and will give you time to access and try out your usual Banner forms. This session will be held at the Banner Training Center located in the left wing of Howell Hall.
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 18th, 10:30
Give me a call (2602) or send me an email ([email protected]) if you would like to register for the overview session listed above.
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Bergren Forum
Event Date: 10/12/2006 Event Time: 12:10 PM
Location: Nevins Theatre, Powell Campus Center
The Bergren Forum sponsored by the Division of Human Studies will be meeting at 12:10 PM on Thursday September 12th in the Nevins Theatre, Powell Campus Center.
Bring a brown bag lunch; coffee and tea will be available.
SPEAKER: Robert Amico
TOPIC: "The Curriculum Transformation Project"
Bob Amico, Professor of Philosophy at St. Bonaventure University, will explain what curriculum transformation is and will describe the history of the four-college curriculum transformation project, its strengths and weaknesses, and how it has come to involve university staff along with the faculty.
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Global Awareness Roundtable: Gay Cultures
Event Date: 10/18/2007 Event Time: 7 pm Location: Knight Club
Craig Arno, Francisco Alegria, Jessica Barnthouse and Edgard Rivera will discuss Gay Cultures in
Spain, Puerto Rico, Turkey and Australia.
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Jay Peak trip for Spring Break
Event Date: 03/05/07 Event Time: early morning Location: Vermont
Jay Peak in Vermont -FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASED ON DEPOSITS!
$356/person @ 24 people, 6 people/condominium right on the mountain.
Have contacted covered wagon for transportation, they will work up the rate and get back to me Jay will provide a welcome party.
$35 deposit needed one week from today, Friday, October 13th. put check or cash in PCC 177(include name and email with deposit. Checks made out to Albert Garr.
Trip will be Monday March 5th - Thursday March 8th
We will shop for food at a grocery store, you are welcome to bring your own food as well.
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Coming Out Day!
Event Date: 10/11/2006 Event Time: 10am-12pm Location: Powell
Its that time of year again...time to COME OUT!!! Yep its Coming Out Day and the Gay? Fine By Me t- shirts are back. Best of all they're FREE!!! Yep totally and absolutely FREE!!! We do ask though that if you got a shirt last year not to take another one, but instead to wear your Gay? Fine By Me T-Shirt proudly in support. We'll also have an information table on GLBTQQIA issues along with fundraising events! So COME on OUT and play with SPECTRUM!!!
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Send a Singing Happy Birthday Card!
Musical birthday greetings available
The Alfred University Chamber Singers are again offering their "Singing Birthday Cards," but this year the group will even send that message by phone for those of you with friends or lovers too far away for an "in-person" greeting. "Live" birthday cards are available for $10 (on campus), $15 (within the village of Alfred), $25 (within a 15-mile radius of Alfred); phone greetings are $8. To insure the highest-quality singing, reservations should be made at least five days in advance by calling or e- mailing the contacts below. Please be sure to leave your name, the name of the birthday person, the day and time (this needs to be exact and it is helpful if you can provide more than one option for time) you wish the "card" to be delivered, and directions to the address if off campus. If leaving a phone message, please be sure to speak very clearly. Your phone call or e-mail will be returned with the exact time and date a quartet will show up at the door. Payment may be made via check to Division of Performing Arts-Chamber Singers and sent to Luanne Crosby, Division of Performing Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 14802, or by cash-on-delivery if you plan to be with the birthday person on that special day.
NEW FOR 2006-2007!!!!!
"Way to Grow" florist is offering a special 10% discount if you'd like to send flowers along with the song. To do this, you'll need to call "Way to Grow" at 607-587-8866, mention that you are sending flowers along with an AU Chamber Singers Singing Birthday Card and be sure to give her the date and time of delivery. Payment for flowers must be made at the time of order, directly to "Way to Grow" with a credit card.
Contacts:
Luanne Crosby 607.871.2572 John Kalish [email protected] Jeff Baxter [email protected] Back to top
Visiting Painter Don Kimes: Public Lecture
Event Date: 10/11/06
Event Time: 4:30 PM
Location: Binns-Merrill Hall, Room C
Visiting Painter and Printmaker Don Kimes will talk about his work. Kimes' work has been presented in more than 150 exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Florence Biennial, the Corcoran Gallery of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Kimes is also Artistic Director in the Visual Arts at the Chautauqua Institution. A short 15 minute introduction to the Visual Arts at Chautauqua will follow his presentation.
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Apollo night at Alfred
Event Date: 10/21/2006 Event Time: 8PM
Location: The Knight Club Come bring your best act!
All talent welcome....sign up at the information desk!! Hope to see you there!!
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