KU welcomes America Reads and Dr. Seuss on March 26. See information below.

The Daily Brief
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Announcements

Hot water shut down notice for Old Main tomorrow, Friday, Mar. 11 - The hot water service in Old Main will be shut down on Friday, from 7:30 - 10:30 a.m. Old Main will be without hot water for approximately three hours in order to repair a leak. This only affects the hot water service.
        Kyle Mills, director, Facilities Maintenance 

 Working it Out! Clothing Drive Collection- The Kutztown University Women’s Center and the Career Development Center are holding a professional clothing drive, “Working it Out” in the Old Main concourse for students and faculty in need of professional work attire. This includes suits, jackets, pants, shoes, ties, shirts, sweaters, belts and accessories. All clothing donations must be clean and on a hanger. Drop-off days for the drive are tomorrow and Monday, Mar. 14, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., in the Old Main Concourse.

Distribution begins Mar. 15 for students only, 9 a.m.- 8 p.m, Mar. 16 and 17 are for students, faculty and staff 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. and Mar. 18 is for students, faculty and staff, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m., all in the Old Main Concourse. In exchange for a donation of one non-perishable food item for Friend, Inc., you can get FREE donated clothing for your job, interview or career!

Come to an educational program and learn about the signs, symptoms and statistics about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in PA on Thursday, Mar. 24 from 3 – 4:30 p.m. in MSU Alumni Auditorium. Presenters will be Deborah Delgado, the TBI project director of Disability Rights Network of PA and Melodee Hursey, regional education coordinator of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. The program will also include personal stories of students with TBI. This program is free and open to the public. Persons with a disability, and who require accommodation, should notify the Disability Services Office as soon as possible at x3-4108 or e-mail accommodation@kutztown.edu, TDD number: 610-683-4499, in order to discuss accommodations. Every effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations.
        Disability Services
America Reads is bringing Dr. Seuss to KU! Food, fun, and prizes for kids of all ages. Free and open to the public. Every child receives a FREE book. Join the fun Mar. 26, 10 a.m. - noon in MSU 218.  For more information or directions, please contact Leyna Belinsky at americareads@kutztown.edu
        Leyna Belinsky, coordinator, America Reads
America Reads is selling Philly Soft Pretzels to raise money for our annual Dr. Seuss Reading Event.  We are taking orders for pretzel’s to be delivered Mar. 17, just in time for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Orders can be placed in the Community Outreach Center by Mar. 15. Money is due when the order is placed at $1 per pretzel.  Please contact americareads@kutztown.edu with any questions. 

A test of the campus Mass Notification System will be conducted today, at 10 a.m. This test will affect those buildings with voice-communication fire alarm systems only. Buildings with fire alarm bells or horns are not capable of receiving voice-mass notification signals and messages. In order to become familiar with the Mass Notification message, please click here.
        Stephen Helms, director – Environmental, Health and Safety

CET will be sponsoring a discussion group from 11 - 11:50  a.m. on Tuesday, Mar. 15, in AF102 titled The New General Education Model presented by Professor Randy Schaeffer. Confused by the "new" Gen Ed model? Welcome to the club! This workshop will briefly look at the history, motivation, and development of the new model and then quickly turn to a discussion of the four parts of the model. We will delve into how to help students (and advisors) navigate the intricacies of the new model. What counts where? When does a student have to take what? Can one course fulfill more than one requirement? What if a student changes his/her major? What's a "Competency Across the Curriculum" and how does one get approved? Where can I go for more information? All these questions and more will be addressed in this workshop. If you plan to attend the workshop, please respond to sreed@kutztown.edu.
Join the Kutztown University Foundation for their annual scholarship event, Beacon on the Hill, in Schaeffer Auditorium at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Apr. 14. At the event, chaired by Martin K. Till and Tiffany Cavanaugh of the Lehigh Valley, enjoy hors d’oeuvres, socialize with guests and bid on items in the silent auction. Then at 8 p.m. enjoy a KUPresents! performance of Jami Tyzik’s Femmes Fatales, presented at Ursa Minor’s Café in the MSU MPR. 

Registration for this event is through the KU Foundation, 610-683-1394. Tickets are $150 per person.

Proceeds from Beacon on the Hill help to finance the Beacon Scholarship, established to provide four-year merit scholarships to incoming freshmen based on criteria established from year-to-year by each undergraduate college dean.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for this event and/or assisting in attaining auction items, please call the Kutztown University Foundation office for more information.
        Stephanie Deni-Iaeger, director, Annual Giving, Kutztown University Foundation
Wordpress - Monday, Mar. 14 , 10 – 11 a.m. or Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2 – 3 p.m. in The Learning Technologies Center, RL30. 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. 

D2L Quiz Tool - Thursday, March 24, 10 – 11 a.m. or Friday, March 25, 10– 11 a.m. in the Learning Technologies Center, RL 30. - Attend this workshop to learn how to use the D2L quiz tool.  Discover how to import questions from a publisher’s course cartridge-even a non-D2L cartridge.  Find out how to use the quiz library and the D2L random section feature.  Learn how to configure D2L so quiz scores are automatically transferred to the D2L gradebook. 

To register for either one of these workshops, please contact Eleanor (El) Ambrose, Dept. of Learning Technologies Secretary, at ext. x3-4900 or e-mail 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 via e-mail at wjeffers@kutztown.edu. Please visit our website to learn about other upcoming workshops and events www.kutztown.edu/academics/lt.

ARAMARK

 Open Dining Locations during Spring Break:

Viewpoints: Open Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. 

Java City in the Bear’s Den will be open Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. and will resume normal hours on Monday, Mar. 14.

All other locations will be closed during Spring Break and will resume normal hours on Monday, Mar. 14.

In Case You Missed It:
 (Announcements and other information that have previously appeared in the Daily Brief.)


 The next University Curriculum Committee (UCC) meeting will be held on Mar. 24. The deadline for submission of all proposals for this meeting is today at noon. Please submit new proposals prior to this deadline to the UCC secretary, Bethany French, in the Provost’s Office, 309 Stratton Admin. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. French at x3-1312.
        Ms. Bethany French, secretary, University Curriculum Committee
KU Senate Governance Committee willingness-to-serve opens Monday Mar. 14. More than 80 positions are available on 24 senate governance committees. Specific committee vacancies, descriptions, and the nominations procedure will be posted and will run in Profs Online. This is a (user-friendly) self or colleague nomination process unrestricted by years of service. Committee terms are usually two or three years. Nominations close Monday, Apr. 4, 11:59 p.m. Appointments are made by the Committee on Committees and approved by Senate in late April. Service begins Aug. 29, 2011.    
        Joanne Cohen Hamilton, chair, Committee on Committees  
   

 The Office of President would like to invite you to The Making of an Expert:  Conversations with K. Anders Ericsson. Dr. Ericsson, Conradi Eminent Scholar and professor of Psychology at Florida State University, is widely recognized as one of the world's leading theoretical and experimental researchers on expertise. He has demonstrated through his research that building top expertise is more than anything else a matter of long and repeated deliberate practice. Please join us for discussions with Dr. K. Anders Ericsson on issues that can have a far reaching impact on how we teach and learn at KU. We will discuss with Dr. Ericsson how to best employ his research to improve instruction at KU and what his research means to our students and their futures. 

Monday, Mar. 14
9:30-11 a.m.                 Introductions and Discussion, McFarland Student Union Building, Multipurpose Room
Noon-12:50 p.m.       Jazz Ensemble I Rehearsal with Dr. Ericsson, Old Main C31
5-6:30 p.m.                  Discussion - The Making of an Expert, McFarland Student Union Building, Alumni Auditorium 

Tuesday, Mar. 15
9:30-11 a.m.         Discussion, McFarland Student Union Building, Multipurpose Room
3-5 p.m.                Wrap-Up Discussion, McFarland Student Union Building, Alumni Auditorium 

For more information on Dr. Ericsson, please visit http://www.coachingmanagement.nl/The%20Making%20of%20an%20Expert.pdf

Saturday, Mar. 12 at 1:30 p.m. - KU Presents! director Andy Cassano hosts a public open house in Schaeffer Auditorium to talk more about renovations to the Nathan C. Schaeffer Auditorium. The event is open to all.  

The Schaeffer Auditorium is scheduled for an 18-month long renovation and remodeling beginning in January 2012. This is the first major work on the auditorium since it opened in 1938. At the open house, Cassano will be sharing project details, showing renderings and floor plans, as well as taking people on a backstage tour of the facility. 

The hours for the McFarland Student Union during Spring Break are as follows:

 Monday, Mar. 7 through Friday, Mar. 11, 7:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Closed Saturday & Sunday, Mar. 12 & 13
Regular hours will resume Monday, Mar. 14 
        Jennifer Tanzos, secretary, Student Union & Involvement Services
The Student Recreation Center will be operating under the following special hours during spring break:

Mar. 7 - 11:  6 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday, Mar. 12:  CLOSED
Sunday, Mar. 13: (regular hours resume):  1 - 11 p.m. 

The Keystone Hall Swimming Pool will be closed from Friday, Mar. 4 – Saturday, Mar. 12.  Regular hours of operation will resume on Sunday, Mar. 13, from 7 - 10 p.m.

There will be no group exercise classes beginning Mar. 4. Classes will resume Mar. 13.  
        Tracy Turner, office manager, Recreational Services