The Daily Brief
Monday, February 28, 2011
Announcements

AFSCME Local 2234: Members meet the 3rd Monday of every month. Please join us for this month’s meeting which will be held Monday, Mar. 21, 7 p.m. at Janelle’s Catering and Restaurant, 360 Fleetwood Road, Bowers. This month’s meeting will include nomination for an open Trustee position. Nominations and votes will also be held for 2 delegates to attend the AFSCME 13 Conference in Hershey,  Apr. 1-3.
        Annette M. Christman, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Dr. Cevallos will hold an open meeting with students tomorrow, Mar. 1 at 11 a.m. in Boehm 260.
        Toyia Reed, Office of the President
This week a new show is up on the Brick Wall - Emily Wilcox is displaying "polaroid paintings" in a show titled "Split Second Art." The show will be on display from now until Mar. 17 with a catered opening reception tomorrow evening, Mar. 1 from 6 - 7 p.m.
        Alicia Bonilla-Puig and Elizabeth Emmett, gallery coordinators
Do you know any students with a 2.75 GPA? Do they partake in service or leadership positions? While the applications are rolling in, we still have some room to accept qualified students into this year’s "Who’s Who among American Colleges and Universities." The deadline can only be extended until Friday, Mar. 4. Please take a moment to drop students an e-mail and forward the web address so that they don’t miss this great opportunity. http://www.kutztown.edu/divisions/studentservices/do/awards.aspx

PASSHE Leadership Institute for Undergraduate Women - The week-long program will be held Jun. 19 -24, at the McKeever Environmental Learning Center in Sandy Lake, Pa. The institute provides a forum for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education to nurture the leadership potential of women students. The application deadline is Mar. 28. Students who believe they could benefit from this forum should access the program brochure and application by visiting http://involvement.kutztown.edu and clicking on the banner advertisement for the PASSHE Women’s Conference. For additional information, please direct all questions to Kristen Gallagher at kgallagh@kutztown.edu. 
        Kristen Snyder Gallagher, assistant director, Student Union & Involvement Services
Facilities is currently planning an SMS Door Access System upgrade for Mar. 8. This upgrade is necessary to take advantage of new software capability and to take full benefit from the new AD style upgradable door readers and hardware. Additional information and support documentation on this software upgrade, as well as detailed information on the impact of the software upgrade has been provided to campus Authorizing Officials. During the system upgrade, door security features will continue to operate and existing user privileges will not be affected. Secured areas will remain secured. If you need additional information on the potential impact of the door access system upgrade, please contact your Authorizing Official or the Facilities Work Control Center at x3-1594.   
        Kim Rhode, director, Facilities Business and Campus Services

ACADEMICS
D2L Blogs and Wikis - Wednesday, Mar. 2, 2 - 3 p.m., Learning Technologies Center, RL 30. Attend this workshop to learn how to add a reflective component (blog) or group project workspace (wiki) to your D2L course.

 Wordpress - Monday, Mar. 14, 10 - 11 a.m. or Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2-3 p.m., Learning Technologies Center, RL30 i - Wordpress is a free, web-based tool that can be used to create easy-to-maintain blogs or faculty websites. Attend this workshop to learn Wordpress basics and see how Wordpress is being piloted on the KU Campus. 

To register for either one of these workshops, please contact Eleanor (El) Ambrose, Dept. of Learning Technologies Secretary, at x3-4900 or email El at eambrose@kutztown.edu. One-on-one training can also be arranged by contacting Will Jefferson, Learning Technologies Center Coordinator, at x3-4757 or email at wjeffers@kutztown.edu. Visit our website to learn about other upcoming workshops and events www.kutztown.edu/academics/lt.
The University Curriculum Committee (UCC) will meet this Thursday, Mar. 3, at 11 a.m. in MSU 312, to consider the remaining curricular proposals on its February agenda, along with recently submitted General Education proposals (addition of the "new" General Education component to unchanged major checksheets). The agenda can be found online at http://www.kutztown.edu/committees/ucc/agenda.html.  As always, individuals and/or departments with proposals on the agenda are invited and encouraged to attend to answer any questions that may arise. 
        R.S. Schaeffer, chair, University Curriculum Committee

ATHLETICS

 Kutztown men's basketball is hosting a playoff game! Kutztown University men's basketball is hosting a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) quarterfinal game tomorrow against East Stroudsburg at Keystone Arena at 7 p.m. Ticket prices are $7 for adults and $2 for students. Students from member institutions will be admitted free with a valid I.D. There will be no complimentary tickets and only PSAC passes will be accepted at the door. For fans that can’t make the game in person, it will be shown live on KUTV, which is Service Electric Channel 24 and Hometown Utilicom Channel 28 in Kutztown and eastern Berks County.

The Kutztown University field hockey team was recognized for its academic aptitude. The Golden Bears were one of 15 Division II schools who received the 2010 Gladiator by SGI / NFHCA Collegiate National Academic Team Award. The National Academic Team Award recognizes those institutions that achieve a minimum GPA of 3.0 during the first semester of the 2010-11 academic year. The Golden Bears’ overall team GPA was 3.29.

ARAMARK

 Celebrate Mardi Gras early - The Cub Café will be featuring some Cajun inspired foods during lunch tomorrow from 10:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. Please note, Mexican entrees will not be served during this time but will resume for the Dinner Zone at 3:30 p.m. The Academic Forum will be featuring their Mardi Gras celebration on Wednesday, Mar. 2.

Viewpoints Menu - Today: Roasted turkey with gravy, vegetarian enchiladas, potato filling, broccoli and glazed carrots. Soups of the day are chicken ditalini and potato leek. 

Tuesday: Open face roast beef sandwich, crispy vegan tofu, steak fries, wax beans and sesame vegetables. Soups of the day are cream of turkey and vegetarian soup. 

Wednesday: Roast pork loin with apple sage stuffing, veggie quiche, whipped red skin potatoes, corn and refried beans. Soups of the day taco soup and cream of mushroom. 

Thursday: Roasted chicken with gravy, black bean cakes, whipped potatoes, cauliflower and peas, mushrooms and red peppers. Soups of the day are turkey vegetable chowder and cheddar soup. 

Friday: Baked whitefish polonaise, macaroni and cheese, Caribbean sweet potatoes, stewed tomatoes and vegetable medley. Soups of the day are new England clam chowder and tomato rice.

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 (Announcements and other information that have previously appeared in the Daily Brief.)


 The Office of the President of Kutztown University and the KU Department of Social Work invite you to the 9th Annual Community Forum on Friday, Mar. 18, featuring "Designing the Social Work Enterprise: Promoting the Profession, Micro to Macro."  Forum 2011 seeks to raise awareness of the need for the social work profession to strengthen its entrepreneurial spirit and skill sets and identify best practices in the area of business and management of the social work profession as well as strengthen alliances that will promote the social work enterprise.  To register, please call 610-683-4235 or visit http://socialwork.kutztown.edu.
        Kathleen Dougherty, graduate assistant, Social Work Department
CET will be sponsoring a discussion group from 11 a.m. - noon on Thursday, Mar. 3 in OM 297 titled "Using Microsoft Excel 2007 for Basic Statistical Analyses" presented by Dr. Anita Meehan. Topic description: This hands-on workshop shows participants how to install and use Excel 2007's Analysis ToolPak, a little known “wizard" that performs most descriptive and inferential statistics procedures (central tendency, variability, correlation, t-tests, one-way ANOVA). The ease of importing and exporting data files between Excel 2007 and SPSS will also be demonstrated. If you plan to attend the workshop, please respond to sreed@kutztown.edu
        Sharon Reed, Office of Graduate Studies
March is Women’s History Month - Please join us for a fun evening with the “Guerrilla Girls,” feminist masked righters-of-wrongs who use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose sexism, racism, and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture. They've appeared at more than 90 universities and museums in the past 16 years expressing their philosophy of activism, and their campaign against the appalling lack of ethics in the art world. See their extraordinary and unconventional program at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Mar. 2, in the MSU Multipurpose Room.   
        Grace Hill, associate director, Women’s Center