Daily Brief

Starting today, Dixon Marketplace and Dixon Creamery will be open from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Monday through Friday in order to serve our staff, faculty, summer students, and camps and conferences. In addition, we will have evening hours from 7 – 11 p.m. on July 8, 12, 15, 19, 21, 26, and August 4. Stop in and treat yourself to something sweet.

A group of Chinese students (ages 10-13) will be arriving at the end of July for a two-week-long program to study conversational English and American culture. We are looking for caring families to open up their homes to these students. A student from our America Reads/America Counts program is putting together weekday activities for them, based in the Fleetwood/Kutztown area. We are still in need of some host families for this wonderful experience. If you would like additional information including stipend and expectation information, please contact Jerry Schearer as soon as possible at schearer@kutztown.edu or ext. 3-4923. Thank you.

Rollout 1 of the new KU PeopleSoft Student Information System (SIS) was successfully implemented Wednesday, June 30!

Only the Office of the Registrar is affected by the Rollout 1 configuration, which covers two components: the course catalog and the schedule of classes. These components form the foundation for the remainder of the Student Information System.

The PeopleSoft system will be fully implemented for the fall 2011 term. The remaining individual module rollout dates are as follows:

Rollout 2 – September, 2010 – Recruitment and Admissions covering admissions of the fall 2011 entering class.

Rollout 3 – March, 2011 – Student Records covering current students’ summer and fall 2011 registration, financial aid for fall 2011 awards, student financials for student account balances carried forward from the KU Database and all charges going forward.

For more information on the KU PeopleSoft Student Information System implementation e-mail, Lynold McGhee, Assistant Provost, at mcghee@kutztown.edu.

Come and enjoy lunch at the Festival! From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, July 6 through Friday, July 9, admission to the Kutztown Folk Festival is free for employees who present a KU ID at the Festival entrance on College Boulevard.

Academic Forum - Emergency Generator Maintenance: On Friday, July 9 the Academic Forum’s emergency generator will be serviced most of the day as part of our ongoing preventive maintenance program to assure proper operation during an emergency power outage. During the day, power to the building may be interrupted in order make adjustments to the emergency generators sequence of operation and to perform routine maintenance work.

Construction Update: Concrete demolition and sidewalk construction will begin on the DMZ between Deatrick Hall and Beck Hall starting today through Friday, August 6. Protective barricades (approximately 200 ft.) will be installed to prohibit pedestrian and vehicular traffic during this time. Building egress will not be affected.

7/6: Spaghetti and meatballs, cheese enchiladas, Santa Fe potatoes, green beans with almonds. Soups of the day are cream of tomato and crabby Swiss.

7/7: Tijuana tacos, cheese tortellini, white rice, seasoned corn. Soups of the day are cream of tomato and lentil.

7/8: Grilled chicken chili bowl, cavatappi with zucchini, Yukon gold smashed potatoes, orange spiced carrots. Soups of the day are cream of tomato and broccoli cheddar.

7/9: Curried tilapia, Latin beans and rice, jasmine rice, summer squash. Soups of the day are cream of tomato and New England clam chowder.

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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.