Daily Brief

State Representative Barton Visits KU

President Hawkinson welcomed Pennsylvania State Representative Jamie Barton to campus Friday, March 24. Barton serves District 124, which includes the KU campus.

University Relations

Student Recognized at March Council of Trustees Meeting

Sport management major Sadie Doss was recognized by the College of Business as the college’s featured student speaker at the recent KU Council of Trustees meeting, Thursday, March 23. Doss is from Mechanicsburg, Pa., and a student-athlete on the women’s volleyball team. She was a team captain, an All-PSAC player, a Dean’s List student with a 4.0 GPA and a member of the CSC Academic All-District Team. She currently serves as an intern for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Doss is pictured with (L to R): Renee Hellert, director of athletics; Dr. Anne Carroll, dean of the College of Business; Dr. Kenneth S. Hawkinson, university president; and Robert Grim, Esq., chair of the KU Council of Trustees.

University Relations

Greek Life Students Host Community Clean Up

Sunday, March 26, more than 200 Greek Life students and many others participated in a community clean up in effort to keep Kutztown beautiful. Thank you to all who attended.

Amanda Garcia, Greek Life

Student Trustee Search

Faculty and staff, please nominate those students who could best serve the university as its student trustee. Kutztown University Council of Trustees is searching for a new student trustee. A student is qualified if he/she is a full-time undergraduate student and will have completed 30 or more credits by the beginning of the 2023 fall semester, is in good standing, has a GPA of at least a 2.5 and will graduate no sooner than May 2025. The Council of Trustees, the governing body of the university, is composed of an eleven-member board, one of whom is an undergraduate student. The student trustee is a full-voting member of the council. The nomination deadline is April 7. All nominations must be submitted in writing and must include the student's name, email address and telephone number. We will immediately contact students nominated for the position.
     For more information about the position or to download an application please visit https://www.kutztown.edu/news-and-media/announcements/student-trustee-search.html.
     Forms are available in the Office of the President, MSU Information Desk, residence halls, Multicultural Center, Student Recreation Center and Rohrbach Library. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Toyia Heyward, Office of the President, at 610-683-4102 or heyward@kutztown.edu.
     Application deadline is April 14.

Evan Santos, Student Trustee Search Committee

Dave Culp's Retirement

Dave will be retiring from the university Friday, March 31. The Facilities Project Services team would like to thank Dave for his many years of dedicated service. We wish him the best entering his next chapter.

Bill Leech, Facilities Project Services

New Coordinator for Student Success & First-Year Experience

Please join me in welcoming Alyssa Oakley to the Student Success and Academic Excellence team. Alyssa received her bachelor’s degree from KU and will receive her MSW at our May commencement. Her email is alyoakley@kutztown.edu. Please don't hesitate to reach out to her.

Andrea Kirshman, Student Success & Academic Excellence

SourcePoint/SAP/ESS Outage

The SAP production system (PRD) will go offline 3 p.m. Friday, March 31; this includes all portal applications (ESS/MSS/E-time/BW/Travel/SourcePoint). All systems are scheduled to be back online 6 a.m. Monday, April 3.

Tammy Moyer, Financial and Business Services

Your Opinion Matters (Correction)

Faculty, staff and students are invited to share your thoughts about the Kutztown.edu website. There will be multiple chances for your input to be heard. Please attend any of the below sessions:
- 2-3 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, 325 MSU.
- 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, March 30, 322 MSU.

https://www.kutztown.edu/about-ku/administrative-offices/web-and-digital-media.html

Kelly Smith, Web & Digital Media