Wednesday, September 24, 2014
In This Issue
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· Scam Update - Toshiba Copier/Printer General Announcements
· 'Galloping in the Grassland' Tonight
· Art History Club Present Robert Reginio
· Environmental Studies Speaker Series: Career Discussion
· Women's and Gender Studies Roundtable
· Like Outdoors? Join Us for Friday Night Hikes!
· Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month - 'Fifty Years On: Brown & Proud'
· 2015-16 Tuition Exchange Application Deadline is Oct. 15, 2014.
· Want to Get Away? Naples Grape Festival This Saturday!
· CLAS Students: What's the Point of Gen Ed courses? Find out Sunday, 9/28!
· Flu Vaccine Clinic Sponsored by Allegany County Health Department
· Pony to Pond Hike Registration and Info!
· Martials Arts Club Wants You!
· **Engineering Career Fair**
· Study Abroad Deadline - Oct. 1, 2014
· Still Looking for the Ideal Work-Study Job? Consider Community Service
· What is the Bias Response Team?
· ICU Seeking Work-Study Student
· Fall 2014 Employee Phone List
· AU's LMS Review
· Former Holmes Technician, Forest People Adviser Dies
· What Did You Do Over the Summer? - Internship Surveys
· Green Tip of the Week
· Employment Opportunity - Associate or Professor of Ceramic Art
· Employment Opportunity - Assistant Professor Ceramic Art
· Employment Opportunity - Turner Teaching Fellow
· Like Reading the Alfred Sun? Subscriptions Now Available!
· Consent is Sexy Tees Available for Sale
· Need to Order Your AU Business Cards?
· AU Bookstore Open Seven Days a Week
What's Happening?
More Events...TODAY
10:00 Walk-In Hours - Career Development Center
TOMORROW
10:00 Walk-In Hours - Career Development Center
FRIDAY
12:20 Environmental Studies Speaker Series: Career
6:00 Yoga Classes 7:00 AU Martial Arts Club
Meeting
7:30 Chinese Concert Women's Soccer vs.
Houghton Galloping in the Grassland
8:00 RESPONSE ABILITY Response Ability
12:10 Bergren Forum ’Calico and the Sturdy Pioneer’
6:30 Art History Club Presents Robert Reginio
Discussion 6:00 Friday Night Hike
Scam Update - Toshiba Copier/Printer
There have been several scamming phone calls from businesses claiming to be from Toshiba. If anyone calls you about ordering anything DO NOT talk to them. Transfer them to Office & Procurement Services at extension 2698. Toshiba does not make calls for orders. Toner is included in our copier contract so you do not pay for toner.
If you have any questions please contact us.
Attachment: Unsolicited_vendor_calls_and_potential_SCAMS.docx Submitted by: Cheryl Foster
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'Galloping in the Grassland' Tonight
"Galloping in the Grassland": A collaborative concert of music presented by faculty from Inner Mongolia Normal University of China with Daisey Wu, Guzheng, and Luanne Crosby, soprano.
Miller Theater, 7:30 p.m.
Refreshments and reception will follow the performance.
Submitted by: Deborah Clark
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Art History Club Present Robert Reginio Robert Reginio - Inscrutable Activities
Thinking About Samuel Beckett And Conceptual Art Location: Binns Merrill Hall, Room 106 - C
Date: Thursday, Sept. 25 Time: 6:30 P.M.
Cost to Attend: Free
Sponsored By: The Art History Club
Robert Reginio will be reading Beckett's late work for the theater in the context of the American Conceptual Art of the 1960s and '70s, particularly that of Sol LeWitt.
Specifically, he will argue that inscrutability - antithetical to the rhetoric of logical clarity and transparency typically associated with minimalism in art and in the theater - resides at the core of Beckett and LeWitt's art.
Submitted by: Shelly Grant
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Environmental Studies Speaker Series: Career Discussion Please join us for this week's Environmental Studies Speaker Series!
Date & Time: Friday, Sept. 26, 12:20-1:10 p.m.
Title: "Career Discussion: A Geologist in the Drilling Industry"
Speaker: Stephen DiLaura, Vice President, Nothnagle Drilling, Inc. (AU Alum '83) Location: Science Center 247 (Roon Hall)
This event is open to everyone.
Refreshments will be served.
Submitted by: Jaime Osborne
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Women's and Gender Studies Roundtable
The next Women's and Gender Studies Roundtable will be on Friday, Oct. 3, from 12:20-1:10 p.m. in the Judson Leadership Center.
The speaker, Alfred University History Professor Vicki Eaklor, will be speaking on "Not a Happy Ending:
Lesbians in Hollywood Films."
The Women's and Gender Studies Roundtables are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Submitted by: Sandra Singer
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Like Outdoors? Join Us for Friday Night Hikes!
Come join WILD About Alfred for a leisurely hike this Friday at 6 p.m.! A WILD about Alfred representative will lead a hike every Friday when school is in session starting at 6 p.m.
We meet on the first floor of Powell Campus Center (near the mailroom). The hike is a little less than three miles long and takes just over an hour depending on pace.
Even if you have never been on a hike or experienced a forest in your life we will be more than glad to help you experience the wonderful outdoors that the Alfred area has to offer!
To learn more about Wild About Alfred Check out: www.alfred.edu/students/w...
Or Check us out on Facebook and Instagram!
Link: Wild About Alfred Webpage
Submitted by: WILD about Alfred Committee
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month - 'Fifty Years On: Brown & Proud'
Alfred University will be hosting Will and Company's "Fifty Years On - Brown & Proud" at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27 in Holmes Auditorium of Harder Hall.
"Fifty Years On" - is a series of seven plays that presents the imperative social justice issues that will need to be tackled by America's next generation, your students.
Specifically, "Fifty Years On - Brown and Proud" explores the social justice issues for Latinos 50 years ago and examines what they have become today: e.g. from The Braceros to the "Illegals."
The play "Fifty Years On - Brown and Proud" specifically compares and contrasts the topics of:
"Fifty Years On" - that was then, this is now. How are we doing?
"Brown and Proud" - the "browning of America" - the future.
"Crossing Borders" - immigration issues still so divisive.
"Putrid In Pink" - the horrors of the justice system for Latinos.
"Maria's Children" - poverty and education - 4 Latino children a day die of maltreatment
"Birth Right" - abortion, religion and the community
"Latin Lovers" - the gay community in a Latino world
Submitted by: Craig Arno
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2015-16 Tuition Exchange Application Deadline is Oct. 15, 2014.
Faculty and Staff - the Tuition Exchange Export Application deadline is Oct. 15, 2014. If your child is planning to begin college (or transfer to another college) next year, 2015-16, you may wish to explore the schools participating in the Tuition Exchange (TE) Program. RENEWAL TE Export applications are also subject to the deadline of 10/15/14.
Please read the attached TE Information Memo for application procedures and details on the program.
Two application forms are required; specifically, the AU TE Export Application and the AU Human Resource (HR) TR/TE form (links and attachments, herewith).
Link: AU HR TR/TE Application
Attachment: TE Information Memo for Campus Community Attachment: AU 2015-16 TE Export Application
Submitted by: Catherine Schnurle
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Want to Get Away? Naples Grape Festival This Saturday!
This Saturday, Sept. 27, the CSI office is sponsoring a trip to the Naples Grape Festival and Grimes Glen. You will have 2-3 hours to walk around the festival or hike the glen.
Check them out at http://www.naplesgrapefes... and http://nyfalls.com/waterf....
The bus will leave at 10 A.M. from the first floor entrance of the Powell Campus Center and return between 4-5 P.M.
Sign up at the CSI office or contact [email protected]. There is no fee for the trip.
Submitted by: Nancy Banker
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CLAS Students: What's the Point of Gen Ed courses? Find out Sunday, 9/28!
If you have ever wondered what a Gen Ed course will do for you, don't miss AU Alumni Connections on Sunday, Sept. 28. Four recent AU grads will speak at two events, each followed by a reception with delicious snacks. These dynamic AU alums will talk about how their liberal arts educations have helped them in surprising ways in their careers, including their transitions from AU to their first jobs.
Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, the Alumni Connections Round Table, 2 p.m. in the Knight Club, is designed especially for you.
First-year students, the Alumni Connections Panel, 7 p.m. in Nevins, is designed especially for you.
If you are unable to attend the event designed for your class standing, you are welcome to attend the other one.
Submitted by: Kaaren Reeder
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Flu Vaccine Clinic Sponsored by Allegany County Health Department Monday, Sept. 29 10 A.M. to 2 P.M.
Powell Campus Center Room 305 Across from Knight Club
Open to Faculty, Staff, Students
Bring Insurance Cards; they will bill insurance. If you have no insurance, they have a sliding fee scale.
Submitted by: Rene Richardson
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Pony to Pond Hike Registration and Info!
Pony to Pond Hike Sunday, Oct. 5 Starting at 10 a.m.
This is a seven-mile hike that is replacing previous years' Horse to Holler Hike. This year's hike will be very similar in that it will start at the Equestrian Center and wander through the sylvan hills
surrounding Alfred. The hike will end at Foster Lake where there will be a food and music.
Registration is required and there is a fee ($10 for all college and local students; $20 for community members). Registration is required to participate. Link found below.
For more information about WILD About Alfred check out www.alfred.edu/students/w... or Check us out on Facebook and Instagram!
Link: Pony to Pond Hike Online Registration
Submitted by: WILD about Alfred Committee
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Martials Arts Club Wants You!
AU Martial Arts Club is focused around training anyone from beginners to black belts in martial arts!
We reserve space so that people of all styles can come train and learn together!
General Meetings are Sunday 7-9 p.m. in the Health and Wellness Center (McLane Annex) and Wednesday 7-9 p.m. in the Kenyon Allen Room.
If you are interested feel free to stop in to one of the meeting times or check out our Facebook group (link below)!
A Martial Arts Tournament is in the works and we would love to see those that would like to help put this together!
If you would like to come learn and train or help out with putting the Martial Arts Tournament together email [email protected]!
Link: AU Martial Arts Club Facebook Group
Submitted by: Jonathan Ugalde
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**Engineering Career Fair**
The Engineering Career Fair, sponsored by World Kitchen, PPG, Corning Inc., and O-I, is taking place Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 from noon-3 p.m. in the Health & Wellness Center (McLane Annex).
Employers will recruit for full-time, internship, and co-op opportunities. To see a growing list of companies attending and the majors/hiring needs they are seeking, please visit the CDC website at www.alfred.edu/cdc/events.
Submitted by: Jill Crandall
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Study Abroad Deadline - Oct. 1, 2014
Do you want to see the world and possibly change your life? Do other cultures interest you? Are you interested in studying abroad? The deadline for Spring 2015 is Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014.
If you are planning on going, you need to make an appointment with the Office of International Programs prior to Oct. 1.
Please go to our website and see all of the wonderful opportunities that are available.
Link: http://www.alfred.edu/studyabroad
Submitted by: Susan Wellington
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Still Looking for the Ideal Work-Study Job? Consider Community Service
There are rewarding Community Service/Off-Campus College Work-Study positions still available for the Fall and Spring semesters for tutoring at the local elementary school in Alfred-Almond.
You must have a Federal College Work Study award and your own transportation. This would be an ideal situation for Education majors. If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Crandall in the Financial Aid Office at [email protected].
Submitted by: Elena Wallace
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What is the Bias Response Team?
The Bias Response Team is a committee of students, faculty, and staff who serve to provide necessary responses to issues or concerns of bias and discrimination at Alfred University.
Anyone may submit a report, and reports may be filed anonymously. All reports will be reviewed with due diligence.
Questions?
Contact Norm Pollard by email [email protected], by phone 607-871-2132 or Craig Arno by email [email protected], by phone 607-871-2671.
Link: Report an Issue or Cocnern
Submitted by: Craig Arno
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ICU Seeking Work-Study Student
The ICU is seeking a Marketing and Promotions Coordinator:
Purpose:
The Marketing and Promotions Coordinator for the Institute for Cultural Unity (ICU) will assist in making the community and prospective students aware of the ICU's mission, goals, programs, events, and announcements. He/she will work closely with the clubs and organizations of the ICU to reach the greatest potential audience.
The duties of the Marketing and Promotions Coordinator are:
* Maintain ICU social media;
* Produce promotional publications informing the community and prospective students about the ICU as well as its programs and events;
* Document and photograph ICU events and programs;
* Assist in the creation of ICU calendar of events;
* Assist in researching and executing community outreach initiatives
* Update all publications and visuals for the ICU as necessary;
* Assist in maintaining ICU's web presence.
The qualifications necessary for the Marketing and Promotions Coordinator are:
* 4 - 6 Hours of available Federal College Work Study
* Familiarity with Adobe InDesign
* Familiarity with Adobe Photoshop
* Understanding how to manage Facebook pages Twitter accounts, and other social media outlets To apply: http://forms.alfred.edu/s...
Link: Apply for this Position Attachment: PDF Job Description Submitted by: Craig Arno
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Fall 2014 Employee Phone List
The Alfred University Employee Phone List is now available on the HR Web page at the following link:
Link: Employee Phone List Fall 2014
Submitted by: Kathy Costello
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AU's LMS Review
AU's Learning Management System (LMS) Committee is in the process of reviewing three products for the campus's consideration: Blackboard (our current system), Moodle, and Sakai. All faculty are welcome to participate by trying one of the alternative products.
A pilot instance of Moodle is available for the 2014 - 15 academic year. Faculty are welcome to log in and use it with their courses. All AU courses are available in Moodle. Training is available from ITS.
Trial accounts for Sakai are also available. A trial account provides access to one course. ITS can assist with adding students to these courses. Training is available from ITS.
For more information and links to Moodle and Sakai, please visit AU's LMS Review Web page.
If you have any questions, or need to schedule training, please contact Meghanne Freivald at 607.871.2363 or via email.
Link: Alfred University LMS Review
Submitted by: Meghanne Freivald
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Former Holmes Technician, Forest People Adviser Dies
Mark J. Cappadonia of Conway, SC, formerly of the Alfred-Almond area, died unexpectedly Sept. 20, 2014 at the Conway Medical Center, following an acute illness.
Mark, a former sound technician in Holmes Auditorium, enjoyed his job at the University where he became a father figure to many students and was an adviser to The Forest People student organization.
He was a son of the late Anthony C. and Zora Babcock Cappadonia. He is survived by his wife Donna Petric Cappadonia; his two children, Anthony Vincent Cappadonia and Rebecca Louise Cappadonia; his stepmother Bebe Cappadonia of Almond; and five brothers and five sisters.
The family will receive friends on Thursday from 4-7 p.m. at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, where a Memorial Service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday with the Rev. Sean DiMaria officiating.
To read a full obituary, please visit: http://www.dagonfuneralho...
Submitted by: Deborah Clark
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What Did You Do Over the Summer? - Internship Surveys
The Career Development Center wants to hear about your summer job, internship, or volunteer experience. Fill out a survey and be entered in a raffle to win a $50 gift card to the bookstore!
Link: Click Here to Start!
Submitted by: CDC Intern 2
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Green Tip of the Week
Did you know that electronic chargers are still using energy as long as they are plugged in even when they are not being used? Unplug cellphone and laptop chargers to save energy.
Submitted by: Jordyn Williams
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Employment Opportunity - Associate or Professor of Ceramic Art Tenure Track Faculty Position in the College of Ceramics
Link: Associate/Professor Ceramic Art Posting
Submitted by: Kathy Costello
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Employment Opportunity - Assistant Professor Ceramic Art Tenure Track Faculty Position in the College of Ceramics
Link: Assistant Professor Ceramic Art Posting
Submitted by: Kathy Costello
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Employment Opportunity - Turner Teaching Fellow Visiting Faculty position in the College of Ceramics
Link: Turner Teaching Fellow Posting
Submitted by: Kathy Costello
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Like Reading the Alfred Sun? Subscriptions Now Available!
Do you enjoy reading the Alfred Sun newspaper? Subscriptions are now available for $5 per semester at the AU Bookstore. This is for campus delivery through campus mail. Stop in to purchase!
Submitted by: Marcy Bradley
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Consent is Sexy Tees Available for Sale
September is National Campus Safety Awareness Month. Please join in the activities this month bringing awareness to issues such as Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, Harassment, and Stalking.
Activities include pledge week, film & discussion, and the "Walk of NO SHAME." Proceeds from tees go to nomore.org and loveisrespect.org
Pick up your tee at the AU Bookstore or Ade Hall for $10.
Submitted by: Marcy Bradley
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Need to Order Your AU Business Cards?
The process for ordering official Alfred University business cards changed as of February 2014. We are now working with the Alfred State College Document Center, and a virtual storefront has been developed specifically for ordering our business cards online.
The link to that storefront is:
https://v2.printsys.net/
Log on: AlfredUniversity Password: AlfredUniversity1
There are two templates from which to choose: the first template is indicated for only Admissions and Financial Aid offices because they require specific phone number options; and the second template is designed to accommodate all other offices.
When you double click on your selection, a new window will open that contains a form with fields to enter your information. As the fields are filled, the information will show up on the template at the right so you will see how the business card will look upon completion. Once all the information has been entered, you will proceed to a shopping cart that has options for quantity and payment, using your AU One Card.
In order to maintain the brand identity of the University, a PDF of the card will be emailed to the Office of Communications for review/approval. Once the cards are printed, you will be notified so that you can pick them up at the ASC Document Center, 10 Upper College Drive (607.587.3532). ASC does not deliver at this time. The design and specifications of color and paper are based upon the official AU business card format that is currently in use.
IMPORTANT: For situations where you do not have access to an AU One Card, or a required deviation from the standard format cannot be included within the two template options, you will need to contact Rick McLay at [email protected] so that a design can be created and provided to the ASC Document Center. In those situations, the online purchase option will not be available and a paper invoice will be sent to you by the ASC Document Center.
Please contact the Alfred University Office of Communications at 2103 if you have any questions.
Submitted by: Deborah Clark
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AU Bookstore Open Seven Days a Week
Bookstore hours are Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday Noon-4 p.m., Sunday Noon-3 p.m.
We do have extended hours for Parents' & Homecoming weekends.
Submitted by: Marcy Bradley
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