Reminder: To contact Public Safety and Police Services for assistance to unlock and locking buildings Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., please e-mail  publicsafety@kutztown.edu.  For assistance after hours, please contact our Communication Center at 610-683-4002.

        Public Safety and Police Services

Registration is still open for the President’s Opening Day Gathering and Convocation! Responses will be taken until noon today.

The Opening Day Gathering will take place in Schaeffer Auditorium on Monday, August 30. A continental buffet at 7:30 a.m. will precede the annual address by President Cevallos and presentations by our union and senate leaders at 8 a.m.

Convocation will take place on Sunday, August 29 at 4:15-5 p.m. in Keystone Arena.

Please visit www.kutztown.edu/openingday today to register or call Ms. Toyia Reed at 610-683-4102.

        Joseph P. Robinson, Office of the President

Work Schedule - Effective Monday, August 30, offices and functions that are currently working on the modified summer schedule will be returning to the normal academic year schedule of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with a one hour lunch.  These hours will be in effect through Friday, May 6, 2011. 

        Gerald L. Silberman, Vice President for Administration and Finance 

Desire2Learn Faculty Update: Please remember that KU is no longer using Blackboard as its learning management system, instead, we have fully transitioned to Desire2Learn (D2L).  As you work on updating and editing your courses please feel free to contact Professor Will Jefferson in the Department of Learning Technologies for questions about D2L training.

Other helpful resources for D2L can be found by clicking on the following links and e-mail addresses:

For faculty: http://www.kutztown.edu/academics/lt/ltc/D2L.html

For your students: http://www.kutztown.edu/online/D2L_student/

For general questions or training on D2L: Professor Jefferson; wjeffers@kutztown.edu

For questions about putting courses online: zigner@kutztown.edu

For D2L difficulties or help: Brenneck@kutztown.edu  

Updates on workshop opportunities and new resources will be sent to you on a regular basis between now and the beginning of the Fall 2010 semester.

** Students will be given access to courses on August 25 and 26.  If you need them to have access to your course earlier than that please contact Jim Brenneck.

        James Hubbard, Provost Office

Important Turnitin® Announcement/Outage: There will be a special maintenance window and outage for the Turnitin service on Saturday, September 4 from 1 - 9 p.m.  All Turnitin services may be unavailable for all users during these times. For assignments due during this window, we recommend that instructors change the due date and alert their students.

        James Hubbard, Assistant Provost

The Student Union and Involvement Services is holding student staff training this week. Since part of training is a community service project, we have chosen Hope Lodge, a facility run by the American Cancer Society that houses cancer patients and their families while they receive outpatient treatment to be the recipient. 

We are asking the KU community to donate the following items for our student staff to collect and deliver:

·  paper towels/toilet paper/tissues/tissue purse packs

·  aluminum foil/plastic wrap/food storage bags

·  garbage bags (kitchen-size and large)

·  disposeable utensils

·  dish detergent/dishwasher detergent/hand soap/hand sanitizer

·  NO FOOD

If you are interested in participating, please drop your items off at the McFarland Student Union info desk anytime Wednesday, August 25-Friday August 27. For more information, please e-mail Jen Topp: jtopp516@live.kutztown.edu.

        Jennifer Topp, graduate assistant, Student Union & Involvement Services

Viewpoints menu for the week of August 3

Monday: Rotisserie roasted pork loin with sweet pecan sauce, macaroni and Swiss cheese, herb roasted red potatoes, stewed tomatoes, and stir fried vegetables. Soups of the day are beef vegetable and potato chowder.

Tuesday:Chicken enchiladas, Asian sesame pasta, yellow rice, carrots Vichy, and Mexican corn. Soups of the day are minestrone and vegetable barley.

Wednesday: Carved roast beef and cheddar sandwich with crispy onion straws, Creole vegetables and rice, papas rancheros, summer squash, and peas, mushrooms and red pepper medley. Soups of the day are chicken noodle and cream of mushroom.

Thursday: Classic chicken parmesan, spinach quiche, spaghetti, herbed vegetables, cauliflower. Soups of the day are navy bean soup and California bean.

Friday: Crispy fish, Mediterranean wheat pasta, cheesy mashed potatoes, baby corn and Bok Choy, and oriental broccoli. Soups of the day are New England clam chowder, cream of tomato

        Heather Reinsel, marketing coordinator, Aramark Higher Education