Thursday, March 6, 2008 - AURA - Alfred University

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

In This Issue

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Official News

· Temporary locations for Thursday, Friday classes listed

· Student Service Center Closing at 3 p.m. on Friday

· Undergraduate Students - Financial Aid Deadline 3/15/08 General Announcements

· Lifesaver CPR/AED

· Scholes Library Spring Break Hours

· Smart Start Workshop - Register Now!

· How To Work A Room - Networking 101 - Room Change

· Blood Drive Friday, March 21

· Summer School Registration Begins March 17

· Win a Free iPod Touch!

· Hot Dog Launching Competition 2008!

· Become a Tour Guide! Show off AU!

· Overnight Hosts Needed

· Book Signing for - Haps and Mishaps

· The Sunny Side of Alfred Video Contest

· Name That Space: A Contest to Name the Herrick Library Cafe

· ALANA Reunion 2008!

· 2008 Top Intern Employers

· Internal Posting - Procurement Assistant

What's Happening?

More Events...

TODAY

10:00 Grand Opening - ASC Microelectronics Laboratory 11:30 Alpha Phi Omega

presents: Pi in the face!

12:10 Bergren Forum: Susan Strong

2:20 How to Work a Room Networking 101

5:00 How to Work A Room - Networking 101

Art Opening

·Safe Spring Break Program

TOMORROW 9:00 Lifesaver CPR-AED

Training

·Safe Spring Break Program

·Name That Space

·Take the CORE!

SATURDAY

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Temporary locations for Thursday, Friday classes listed

The Registrar’s office has found temporary locations for all classes normally scheduled in Olin Building on Thursday and Friday. While it is anticipated that the building will remain closed on Thursday, it is possible that it may open for classes on Friday. Please check Alfred Today and our.alfred.edu or my.alfred.edu for updates.

Attachment: Complete list of temporary locations

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Student Service Center Closing at 3 p.m. on Friday

The Student Service Center (Registrar's and Student Accounts) will be closing at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 7, for staff training. If you need any services from this office, please stop in prior to 3 p.m.

Thank you.

Undergraduate Students - Financial Aid Deadline 3/15/08

IMPORTANT: MARCH 15, 2008 IS THE DEADLINE FOR FILING THE 2008-09 ALFRED UNIVERSITY FINANCIAL AID APPLICATION AND THE FREE APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL STUDENT AID (FAFSA).

If you will be an undergraduate student at AU for the 2008-09 academic year and do not have these documents, please stop by the Financial Aid Office to pick them up. We are located in Alumni Hall and are open 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday.

Attachment: Alfred Univeristy Financial Aid Application

Lifesaver CPR/AED Friday, March 7 Knight Club, PCC 9 a.m. - noon

We invite employees and students to attend adult and child CPR-AED training this Thursday.

Must preregister - call 871.3020 or e-mail [email protected]. You may download a copy of the CPR-AED training manual from our Web site; just follow the instructions available online for unzipping the file.

Limit: 6 participants per session (one session per week will be offered for most of the semester). See our full training schedule on the EH&S Web site.

Fee: Students - $7 to cover the cost of the face mask; the course is free to all faculty and staff.

Scholes Library Spring Break Hours Fri, 3/7 8 am-4:30 pm

Sat, 3/8 Closed Sun, 3/9 Closed

Mon-Fri, 3/10-14 8 am-4:30 pm Sat, 3/15 Closed

Sun, 3/16 5-9 pm

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Regular hours resume Monday, 3/17.

Link: http://scholes.alfred.edu//index.php?

option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=88

Smart Start Workshop - Register Now!

Smart Start Workshop: Dr. Evelyn Murphy, President of the WAGE Project.

Wednesday, March 19, 5:30 p.m. at the Knight Club in the Powell Campus Center.

Learn essential negotiation and research skills to ensure you get paid fairly after you graduate!

Students will learn how to benchmark starting salaries, evaluate fringe benefits, and conduct fruitful negotiations. They will then practice their negotiation skills through role-playing.

Brought to you by the WLC with support from AAUW's Leadership and Training Institute. Dinner provided. One person will win a terrific door prize.

Attachment: evelyn_murphy_poster6.pdf

How To Work A Room - Networking 101 - Room Change 3/6 - "How to Work a Room - Networking 101"

2:20 - 3:10 PM and 5:00 - 6:00 PM in Seidlin 114

Students will learn effective networking strategies and how to get great job and internship leads from guest speaker and networking extraordinaire Bruce Kulp, Senior Product Development Manager at Choice One Communication.

Topics will include: Job Search 2.0 / using Networking & Social Media and the :15 second elevator speech

Blood Drive Friday, March 21

Please consider giving blood at the Alfred University Blood Drive on Friday, March 21. Our goal is to collect 90 units. You may make an appointment using the link below. If you donated on or before Jan.

25, 2008, you are eligibile to donate again. Walk-ins are welcome. Photo ID is required to donate.

Link: http://givesblood.org/go.php?bdc=427749

Summer School Registration Begins March 17

Summer School registration will begin Monday, March 17. The Summer School Schedule Booklet including course information, registration instructions, housing contract and other details will be available at the Student Service Center, the Mail Room and the Office of Summer Programs by Friday, March 14. This information, including a PDF version of the Booklet, can also be found on the Summer School Web site.

Summer School consists of two six-week sessions along with special one, two, three or four-week

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short-term courses. Summer Session I will begin Monday, May 19. Summer Session II starts Monday, June 30.

A preliminary summer course list is attached, but please understand that additional courses will be added and course changes will be made before Summer School begins. The purpose of this list is to provide you with early information so you can begin planning your summer.

Complete summer course information is accessible in Banner.

Questions concerning Summer School registration may be directed to the Student Service Center (871- 2123) or the Office of Summer Programs (871-2612, [email protected]). If you have questions about art courses, please contact Beth Woodworth at 871-2412, [email protected].

Link: Summer School Website

Attachment: Preliminary Summer School Course List

Win a Free iPod Touch!

Help out AU ACTIVATE by taking their Tobacco Survey and you could Win a Free iPod Touch. Someone from this campus will win. Head to alfredactivate.org to participate.

Link: Tobacco Survey

Hot Dog Launching Competition 2008!

Register your hot dog launchers for hot dog day! The 2008 rules are attached!

1st place -- $75 and a trophy 2nd place -- $50 and a trophy

3rd place -- hot dogs and buns and a trophy

Attachment: Hot_Dog_Launching_Competition_2008.doc

Become a Tour Guide! Show off AU!

Do you have a dynamic personality? Do you love talking about all the great things AU has to offer? Do you want to be an integral part of the recruiting process? Then apply to be a tour guide!

When we ask incoming freshmen why they chose Alfred, many say "I knew I wanted to come to AU after my campus tour - it just felt right!" We in Admissions know that a great campus tour with an excellent tour guide is critical to our success. We will be hiring tour guides for the 2008-09 academic year.

If you are interested, please fill out the attached application and return it to the Admissions Office receptionist, Vicky, in the lobby of Alumni Hall by Tuesday, March 18. This can be either a work-study or non-work-study job. We look forward to meeting you!

***Faculty: Please encourage your most engaging students to apply!***

Attachment: Tour Guide Application 2008-2009

Overnight Hosts Needed

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The Office of Admissions is looking for current students, who live on campus, to hosts perspective students overnight during March and April. Any student that hosts will be compensated for their time.

The application to be a host is attached. You can fill this out and drop it off in the Admissions Office in Alumni Hall or e-mail to Chris Wszalek. Help show other students what makes AU great!

Attachment: host_application.doc

Book Signing for -Haps and Mishaps

Carol "CB" Burdick, part-time faculty member in the AU English Department, has published a

paperback, "Haps & Mishaps," a collection of many of her columns which have appeared in The Alfred (NY) Sun.

CB will be signing copies of her book at Hair Care, 15 N. Main St., Alfred, on Friday, March 14, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday, March 15, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Profits from book sales will go to the Alfred Food Pantry. Visitors are also asked to bring an item for a food basket.

Rob Price, editor of the Bath (NY) Courier, writes, "These finely chiseled essays offer vivid

representations of Carol Burdick's natural world, ranging from a reedy beagle in search of a free lunch to an antique bed loaded with memories; from a doomed road trip through Naples (NY) to the ups and downs of operating a wood-burning stove."

The Sunny Side of Alfred Video Contest

The Admissions Office is looking for talented students to create upbeat videos about all things Alfred (professors, the community, where people live and play).

1st place: AU Alfie; 2nd Place: Sony MiniDV Camcorder; 3rd Place: Ipod Speakers/Docking System.

Submit your entry by Friday, April 11.

Link: http://my.alfred.edu/index.cfm/fuseaction/videocontest.contest.cfm Attachment: Poster1(contest2)_copy.pdf

Name That Space: A Contest to Name the Herrick Library Cafe

The cafe area in Herrick Library needs a name! The name will be determined by contest, and everyone in the Alfred University community is invited to participate.

Contest rules:

*Contest is open to Alfred University faculty, students, staff, and community members

*One entry per person

*Entries will be judged by their creativity and how well they describe the cafe area

*The top five entries will be selected by a committee of Herrick librarians and staff

*Herrick's student employees will vote on the top five entries to identify first, second, and third place prizes

*The name of the person submitting the entry will be masked during judging

*The deadline for entries is Friday, March 7

*Winners will be announced on Friday, March 21 Prizes:

First Place: $100 gift certificate to an Alfred area business Second Place: iPod Shuffle

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Third Place: $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble Attachment: submission form

ALANA Reunion 2008!

The 2nd ALANA Reunion will be taking place April 11-13, 2008! Here is the official schedule:

Friday, April 11, 2008

8 pm Welcome Back Reception Fasano Welcome Center Saturday, April 12, 2008

10 am Drawn to Diversity breakfast Ade Lobby

-special presentation of D2D project to Wegmans Food Markets 1 pm Surprise Lunch

Location: TBA

4 pm Dinner and Speaker Powell Knight Club

8 pm Raices in Holmes Auditorium -cultural performances by students 12 am After party in Susan Howell Hall

$25 per person (includes dinner & gift) To rsvp, by Marc 31, contact:

Jessica Cabrera, Reunion Coordinator at [email protected] Dan Napolitano, Director of Student Activities at (607) 871-2925

You can also get informed on our facebook site under ALANA Unity Celebration. Feel free to join.

Attachment: ALANA_Reunion_20081.doc

2008 Top Intern Employers

CollegeGrad.com has compiled a listing of Top Intern Employers based on new results from the top entry level employers survey. According to the survey, the Top 200 Intern Employers together plan to hire more than 46,000 interns in the coming year.

Link: http://www.collegegrad.com/topemployers/internships.shtml

Internal Posting - Procurement Assistant Employment Opportunity NYSCC

Link: Procurement Assistant Posting

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