Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - AURA - Alfred University

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

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Official News

· Invitation to Open Meeting - Middle States Monitoring Report Team Visit

· New Employee Safety Orientation

· Summer School 2015/Financial Aid

· New Policy for Summer Motor Pool Use General Announcements

· D.O.G. Fest Tickets

· Math Talk: Mitch Holbrook's 'Stock Market Valuation Through Data Analysis'

· Community Blood Bank Blood Drive

· Coral Penelope Lambert: Bergren Forum "Making Sculpture on Site"

· Study Abroad Information Session

· Choral Concert on Friday at 7

· Free SafeTALK Training

· Pros on Par

· True Talk: Life of the GRE presented by Psych Club

· Purchase Your Senior Week Bracelet Now!

· CDC Appointments/Walk-in Hours

· Institute for Cultural Unity - Now Hiring

· Support Staff Council - Accepting Nominations!

· 'Money Doesn't Grow on Trees...

· DASA Workshop for Certification

· Fidelity Consultant on Campus

· Green Tips

· Broadway Cabaret

What's Happening?

More Events...

TODAY

10:00 Walk-In Hours - Career Development Center 12:20 ’Stock Market Valuation

Through Data Analysis’

1:00 Mentor Training Workshop 3:00 Softball @Home 5:20 Kripalu Yoga

·Virtual Career Fair!

TOMORROW 12:10 Bergren Forum -

’Making Sculpture on Site’

10:00 Walk-In Hours - Career Development Center 11:30 Saxon Swap Open on

Thursdays 12:00 Coral Penelope

Lambert: Bergren Forum

4:00 Women's Lacrosse - Away

FRIDAY 11:00 Spanish Storytime 3:00 Softball - Away 4:00 Men's Tennis @Home 4:30 Zine Machine

Workshop!

7:00 Choral Concert - Time Change

DOGFEST

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5:20 True Talk: Life of the GRE Presented by Psych Club 7:00 Holocaust Talk

7:30 Phi Kappa Phi Initiation Ceremony and Dessert Reception

Invitation to Open Meeting - Middle States Monitoring Report Team Visit

The Middle States Monitoring Report Team will conclude its visit on Wednesday, April 15. Dr. Marie George, Team Chair, will provide a preliminary report to the campus community on Wednesday, April 15 at 11:20 a.m. in Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center.

This is the culmination of our work throughout the self-study process to secure re-accreditation for the University. Your participation is important; please try to attend this open meeting.

The Monitoring Report can be found at the link below. It is a large file (12MB) and in order to have full functionality of the PDF document it's recommended you save it to your computer. Please note an AU login will be required.

Link: AU Monitoring Report

Submitted by: Barbara Timbrook

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New Employee Safety Orientation

Alfred University has recently implemented a new health and safety training program and policy to orient new employees. This policy provides guidance and training to new employees, meeting regulatory guidelines per OSHA General Industry Standard 29 CFR 1910. All new faculty, staff and graduate student employees will attend New Employee Safety Orientation Training in the EHS office (Myers Hall 117) to review general safety guidelines. This training will be approximately 2 hours.

We must train the "newest" of our employees; therefore, we will be individually emailing all employees who started working in the past year to schedule small group training sessions. I am working my way through the alphabet, so if you know you are a new employee, please be patient, I will get to you very soon. Supervisors are being copied on emails to ensure their employees attend this mandatory training.

There is a checklist the new employee will receive that must be signed by the supervisor, and returned to EHS within one week, which will aid in the completion of safety training. All supervisors are being asked to review this safety checklist in detail with their employee. Should there be questions or any needs of safety related items, please contact EHS.

Beginning this fall, all student-employees (assistants, work study...) will also be required to have New Employee Safety Orientation. There will be further communications regarding this training, as we are still in the process of ensuring we can accommodate everyone's needs.

Submitted by: Cherise Haase

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Summer School 2015/Financial Aid

If you plan to take summer classes at AU and are a current financial aid recipient, we are providing you the following information to help you determine if you may have financial aid eligibility applicable to summer enrollment.

Attachment: Summer School Financial Aid Details Submitted by: Catherine Schnurle

New Policy for Summer Motor Pool Use

Due to the increased demand for exclusive, long-term use of fleet vehicles during the summer months, it has become necessary to revisit the current operating procedures to ensure we are able to most effectively serve the needs of the campus community. With currently more than 75% of the vehicles being reserved for the entire summer, the ability to support normal university travel requests and maintain the fleet of vehicles is compromised. Most of these vehicles reserved for the entire summer travel very few miles and the payback does not cover the maintenance on the vehicles during this period. Therefore we have developed the following policy (see below):

Attachment: New Summer Motor Pool Policy Submitted by: Deborah Clark

D.O.G. Fest Tickets

D.O.G.Fest Tickets are available at the CSI office Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. They are

$5 for students and $10 general public. D.O.G.Fest will be held April 17 in McLane Center, doors open at 7 p.m.

This year's artists are Zella Day, Rubblebucket, and Huey Mack. A Diversity of Genres and you can find them all on YouTube to sample their music.

Link: PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Submitted by: Eliza Ordway

Math Talk: Mitch Holbrook's 'Stock Market Valuation Through Data Analysis' Mitch Holbrook will be presenting a Math Talk

entitled "Stock Market Valuation Through Data Analysis"

The talk will be about how the classic axiom of investing is to buy low and sell high. This is a difficult task as most investors do not have a simple method to determine when a market is under or over valued at a given time.

Through the use of mathematical analysis we are able to create a new index that represents the intrinsic value of the S&P 500. We then show that the intrinsic value index is relatively accurate in determining market bottoms, which investors could use as a signal to enter the market with a larger margin of safety.

Join us for this interesting and educational talk!

Pizza and Soda while it lasts!

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All are Welcome and Bring a friend!

Wednesday April 15 at 12:20 p.m.

Myer's Hall Room 334

Submitted by: Bailey Grillo

Community Blood Bank Blood Drive

Come support the local blood bank, Thursday, April 16, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Knight Club. You may sign up ahead of time online at the link below:

http://fourhearts.org/

Submitted by: Valerie Daciw

Coral Penelope Lambert: Bergren Forum "Making Sculpture on Site"

Bergren Forum with Coral Lambert

"Making Sculpture on Site"

Date: Thursday, April 16 Time: Noon

Location: Nevins Theater Cost to Attend: Free