Daily Brief

The 2010 Faculty and Staff phone directories are ready for pick up at the Copy Center (TAF-107). Please visit the Copy Center for your copies. The booklets are grouped by department and will be distributed accordingly.

Student Union & Involvement Services in conjunction with the Community Outreach Center, will be collecting donations for the Haiti Earthquake victims at the Involvement Fair on Thursday, Jan. 21. We will be collecting monetary donations as well as non-perishable food items. All donations will be sent to the American Red Cross to support their relief efforts. The Involvement Fair will take place from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. in 218 McFarland Student Union, the Multipurpose Room. Every little bit counts so clean out your cupboards and your wallets and donate to this important cause.

Kristen (Snyder) Gallagher, assistant director, Student Union & Involvement Services

The January edition of the Student Union & Involvement Services newsletter can be located at

Check out the newsletter for upcoming events and interesting information on campus activities.

You can incorporate The New York Times into your course to enrich your student’s academic experience. It is a quality primary source for up-to-date world news and information. Students, faculty and staff may subscribe in room 171 McFarland Student Union for $2.50 a week (Monday-Friday subscription). Ask for Jessica Rahn, ext. 3-4090 or Rahn@Kutztown.edu. Newspapers can be picked up every day at the Information Desk.

Faculty that incorporate the NY Times into their syllabus may receive a free subscription. To receive your copy, please e-mail Elaine Koziak, regional education manager, The New York Times at Elaine.koziak@pcfcorp.com with a copy of your syllabus requiring The Times, along with your delivery address and phone number. Your paper will be delivered to your home or to the McFarland Student Union Info Desk, depending on where you live.

The Kutztown University Council of Trustees will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 3 p.m. in 301 Stratton Administration Center.

Films Media Group (FMG) Workshops: The FMG video-on-demand system enables you to incorporate video into your classroom instruction and/or your Blackboard course shells. Faculty FMG training sessions are scheduled for Jan. 26 11 a.m. to noon; Jan. 27 3 to 4 p.m.; Jan. 28 11 a.m. to noon and Jan. 29, 9 to 10 am. Other training sessions can be arranged upon request. All FMG training sessions will be located in the FMG training area near my office (RL19) on the ground floor of the Rohrbach Library.

Please contact Anne Manmiller, the Learning Technologies Department secretary, at 3-4900 or manmille@kutztown.edu to make a reservation. Feel free to contact me at ext. 3-4261 or thpham@kutztown.edu.

To submit items for the Daily Brief, please e-mail dbrief@kutztown.edu (no attachments) to the University Relations Office by 2 p.m. on the day prior to publication.

Persons with a disability and who require accommodation should notify the KU Disability Services Office two weeks prior to the event at 610-683-4108 (TDD: 610-683-4499) or e-mail accommodation@kutztown.edu in order to discuss accommodations. Every effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations.