Blues sensation Shamekia Copeland is just one of many superstars performing at KU through KUPresents! this year!
See more information below. 



The Daily Brief
Thursday, September 1, 2011


 ANNOUNCEMENTS

 Where were you on September 11, 2001? Let us know by clicking here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/911Memorial. Your stories will be presented late next week.

It is with great sadness that we inform the campus community of the passing of Doug Wesner. Doug was the husband of field hockey coach Betty Wesner and father of head lacrosse coach Sarah (Wesner) Greer. Doug passed-on Monday morning, Aug. 29, with his family by his side. There will be a memorial service in his honor on Friday, Sept. 2 at 11 a.m. at Reading Country Club located at 5311 Perkiomen Ave., Reading. Please keep Betty and Sarah and their family in your thoughts and prayers.
        Greg Bamberger, director, Athletics
Open House reminder - The University Writing Center in OM132 invites faculty and staff to attend our Open House from 4 - 6 p.m. today. Meet the director and the graduate assistants, see the newly redesigned space, and enjoy a free beverage and homemade cookie.
        Amanda Morris, director, University Writing Center
Come out to the MSU MPR, Sept. 6, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., to 'Spread the Love' by making PB&J's for residents of the Opportunity House in Reading and to support the 24/7 daycare services are provided there. For more info, please drop by MSU281 or contact hungerhomelessness@kutztown.edu.


50% off KU Presents! tickets:  Now through Labor Day, a welcome back week special for all KU students, you can get 50% all new single ticket orders to all evening performances. Don’t miss this chance to get great seats for only $2.50 - $5 to Woodstock, blues sensation Shemekia Copeland, our Louis Armstrong tribute with Wycliffe Gordon, jazz pianist Gerald Clayton, the Rock Opera “Mayhem & Majesty,” Celtic diva Eileen Ivers, dance mavericks Keigwin + Company, the eclectically talented Calder String Quartet and innovative So Percussion Quartet. All tickets are on sale, so you can bring friends and family at half-off, too. To get tickets, order online at www.KutztownPresents.org or go to the MSU Info Desk; please use the code “movein2011.”
        J. Andrew Cassano, director, KU Presents!
Attention Faculty and Staff:  The Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority, is seeking a campus staff or faculty member to serve as an advisor for the Kutztown University chapter. Please contact Krista DeRosa at kdero837@live.kutztown.edu if you would like more information. Thank you for your time and consideration.
        Trisha J. Scarcia-King, director, Student Union and Involvement Services
Work by Art Education & Crafts assistant professor Ron Longsdorf is included as part of the group exhibition New Trails this Friday, Sept. 2. There is an opening reception at Main Gallery, 8517 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia from 6-9 p.m. For more information, please click here:  http://newtrailsphila.org/
        
Academic Department Chairperson List-Fall 2011 
DEPARTMENT FIRST NAME LAST NAME
Academic Enrichment* Edwin Nieves
Anthropology/Sociology James Delle
Art Education & Crafts John White
Athletics* Martha Anderson*
Biology Carol Mapes
Business Administration Roger Hibbs
Communication Design Karen Kresge
Computer Science Linda Day
Counseling/Human Services Deborah Barlieb
Counseling/Psychological Services* Lisa Coulter
Criminal Justice Alexander Pisciotta
Electronic Media Joseph Chuk
Elementary Education Jeanie Burnett
English Janice Chernekoff
Fine Arts Cheryl Hochberg
Geography Richard Courtney
History Michael Gambone
Instructional Technology/Library Science Eloise Long
Mathematics Paul Ache
Modern Language Studies Karen Rauch
Music Willis Rapp
Nursing Mary Ann Dailey
Philosophy John Lizza
Physical Sciences Edward Simpson
Political Science Thomas Stewart
Professional Studies Elizabeth Rogol
Psychology Anita Meehan
Rohrbach Library* Bruce Gottschall
Secondary Education Theresa Stahler
Social Work John Vafeas
Special Education Debra Lynch
Speech, Communication & Theatre Lisa Weckerle
Sport Management Lorri Engstrom
            Elsa G. Collins, Office of the President


Remembrance Day recognizes those we have lost as a result of tragedies on 9/11/01 and on campuses across the country. We also remember KU students, veterans and those in law enforcement. KU's Remembrance Day is  Tuesday, September 13.  A schedule is below:

 

8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. On the Bell Plaza between Stratton and Old Main - join us as we remember those we lost on 9/11 with ringing of the bell at the exact times the WTC towers were struck.

11 a.m. Music from the KU Music Ensemble will play as community members gather on the MSU lawn.

 

Trisha Scarcia-King welcomes and highlights the boards and banners around the lawn and introduces Dr. Cevallos who will present remarks. John Dillon, acting director of Public Safety & Police Services shares a personal story followed by Charlie Jones and a heartwarming story his son's loss of comrades.

 

The Foundation's director of Alumni Engagement, Alex Ogeka, follows with comments on KU alumni lost and is then followed by remarks by SGB president Paul Keldsen.

 

Dr. Scarcia-King follows with an introduction of KU's project on random acts of kindness. The ceremony concludes with the floral presentation by the memorial on the MSU lawn.

 

The ceremony takes no more than 20 minutes - so, please join us.
 
If you have any questions, please contact Petritsa Chatziziva with Student Union & Involvement Services at chatzitz@kutztown.edu.

                              


2011 Genealogy Conference and Bus Tour - The Genealogy Conference, held in the Academic Forum on Sept. 10, is set to feature keynote speakers Helmut Schmahl with his talk called “Beyond Lederhosen and Sauerkraut: Everyday Life in Germany in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” Philip Otterness and “The 1709 Palatine Migration and Its Colonial Legacy,” and John T. Humphrey discussing “Des Landmanns Advokat.” Registration cost for this event is $60 per person.

Held in conjunction with the Conference is the Genealogy Conference Bus Tour: Tour the Tulpehocken. Participants will tour the historic Tulpehocken region, viewing sites such as the Conrad Weiser Homestead, Fort Zeller and Reed's Cemetery. This tour is only open to those who also attend the Conference. Registration for the Bus Tour is $60 per person. Registration forms are available at http://www.kutztown.edu/community/pgchc/library/. For more information, please call Lucy Kern at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center Library, 484-646-4165.
        Amanda Richardson, public relations coordinator, Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center

ATHLETICS

 Get your Women's Basketball discount card - The Kutztown University women's basketball team is selling discount cards for $10 that will enable you to save money each time you support a business in Kutztown. It's the best deal around. For more information and to order, please contact head coach Janet Malouf at malouf@kutztown.edu or at x3-4337. (CLICK HERE FOR DISCOUNT DEALS)
       
 Home Athletics Schedule
 Friday, Sept. 2
Women’s Volleyball vs. College of Saint Rose, 2:30 p.m.
Women’s Volleyball vs. University of the Sciences, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 3
Women’s Volleyball vs. Stonehill, 10 a.m.
Women’s Volleyball vs. C.W. Post, 6 p.m.


ARAMARK

 Check out the new changes to Viewpoints for the Fall 2011 semester and be sure to take advantage of this great offer!
Any employee who walks into Viewpoints and pays with faculty/staff Dining Dollars, the cost will be only $5! To set up your faculty/staff Dining Dollars account simply…
        • Visit the KU Card Office located in MSU288.
        • Open up a Dining Dollars account with $100 and you get a $10 bonus.
        • Accounts can be opened with lesser amounts, however, the bonus will not apply.

a. Cash paying customers will pay the same amount as the South Side Café door rate of $6.60 for lunch if they choose not to use Dining Dollars.
b. Instead of the buffet in Viewpoints, you can now select your food options in the South Side Café which includes the following: salad bar, bread bar, soup bar, pasta bar, pizza bar, grill, Mongolian Grill featuring daily specials, Chef Dan’s Table featuring weekly gourmet specials, deli bar, home style meals featuring freshly cooked meats from the rotisserie, dessert bar, hand-dipped ice cream, soft-serve ice cream and ice cream floats.
c. Private employee seating area will remain available in Viewpoints.
d. Silverware and beverages will be available in Viewpoints for your convenience.
e. Cash customers will pay the same amount as the South Side Café door rate of $6.60 for lunch.

Make sure you take advantage of the incentive now by setting up your Dining Dollars account. We look forward to serving you. Please contact the Food Contract Office at x3-1314 or email foodcontract@kutztown.edu with any questions.

In Case You Missed It:
 (Announcements and other information that have previously appeared in the Daily Brief.)
Did you miss Opening Day festivities - here's a link to the video of the event including the presentation of the Arthur & Isabel Wiesenberger Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching to fine arts professor, Evan Summer - http://www.kutztown.edu/about/presidential/statements/addresses/sua2011.aspx.


Evening classes cancelled due to weather conditions are made-up according to the following schedule.  Exceptions to this will be subject to approval by the Provost.    
                                      
                Classes Canceled                    Make-up Date                                        
                Monday evening                    First Friday of the month                                         
                Tuesday evening                    Second Friday of the month                                         
                Wednesday evening             Third Friday of the month                                         
                Thursday evening                  Fourth Friday of the month 

However, due to the first Friday of September being the beginning of the Labor Day Holiday an exception is being made.  Therefore, the following is the make-up date for evening classes:                                             
               
                Classes Cancelled                                          Make-up Date                                            
                Monday, August 29, 2011                Friday, September 9, 2011
        Carlos Vargas-Aburto, provost & vice president, Academic & Student Affairs 

Activating your D2L courses - Please remember that courses in Desire2Learn are created as "inactive." This simply means you will be able to have access to your D2L learning space sooner, since your students will not have access to your course until you choose to make your course status "active." Past courses will be unaffected, if you have already closed a past course it will not be opened. Please contact D2Ladmin@kutztown.edu with any questions.

 Join us in welcoming the Rosenbach Museum's Patrick Rodgers, curator of the exhibit 'In a Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak' currently on view in the KU Rohrbach Library's cafe area on the main floor. In addition to his talk, Rodgers will show exclusive clips from his most recent interviews with Sendak: Thurs., Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. in Room 100B (Voices + Choices Center); snacks and drinks provided. For more information, please visit these websites: http://www.kutztown.edu/library/events or http://libguides.kutztown.edu/sendak or vcc@kutztown.edu
        Bruce Jensen, librarian, Rohrbach Library
Faculty Service Notice - Nominations are now open for elected representatives to three KU Senate Governance Committees:  the Committee on Committees, the Grade Appeal Board, and the Strategic Planning and Resources Committee. Eligibility to serve these committees depends on college or unit vacancy, all terms are three years (2011-2014), and no prior service at KU is required to run. Look for Senate Governance Committee Nomination Form in an email coming soon from the Senate office, or request one at senate@kutztown.edu. Nominations are also underway for two at-large representatives to Senate. Faculty with three years' service to KU are eligible to run, and terms are for three years. Additional information about senate may be viewed at www.kutztown.edu/admin/usenate. Nominations for all above positions will close Sept. 16, 2011, at 4 p.m.
        Jo Cohen Hamilton, vice president, Senate
Please note that Tutoring Services has moved to Rohrbach Library 27. Students seeking tutoring should report to RL27, as should students seeking positions as tutors, Supplemental Instruction (SI) leaders, and Classroom Helpers. The office hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 - 4:30 p.m.
        Tom Stewart, director, Tutoring Services, Academic Enrichment
Some of KU's neighbors prove that the tried and true ways of transportation sometimes work the best in all kinds of weather. This video was shot on Normal Avenue near Sacony Apartments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=R2pKKnys99A 
Glogster Competition for the LRC - The LRC will be holding a Glogster competition (www.glog.com) on Sept. 15 as part of its LRC Day. Faculty are asked to encourage their students to submit a glog that explores a topic related to one (or more) of the following topics:  Multiculturalism and Diversity, Francophone, Hispanic, Germanic or Chinese Language/Culture, Linguistics Language Education Best Practices Educational Technology for Language Learning Globalization and Cross-Cultural Topics. Glogs are easy and fun to create. And the LRC is offering a Glogster workshop to students and faculty on Thursday, Sept. 8 from 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. in DF109.  As seats are limited, please RSVP.  See the LRC Website for more details: http://www.kutztown.edu/academics/liberal_arts/lrc/index.html

Mark your Calendars - LRC DAY Sept. 15 - Students and faculty are invited to join us for a day of games, workshops and prizes as you learn about new technology and fascinating languages around the world. Grab your “passport” and we will see you there! More details coming soon to the LRC Website:  http://www.kutztown.edu/academics/liberal_arts/lrc/index.html  
        Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo, director, Language Research Center  

This is a yearly reminder about travel reimbursement requirements - Please review the reverse side of the Travel Expense Form. Before any travel occurs or money is spent, you need to complete a travel expense form, sign the form, and obtain authorization (in the form of a signature) from the following:
•Supervisor or Chair
•Dean or Director/Manager (if greater than $500)
•Vice President (Provost) if greater than $2,500
All international travel must have approval from the Provost before any travel occurs. Failure to provide advance authorization may result in your request being denied and will definitely result in a delay in processing your travel expense reimbursement.

If you are attending a seminar or workshop, an agenda needs to be attached to your travel expense form. You need to reduce your allowable per diem for any meals that are offered by the seminar and workshop.
•Reduce your daily per diem by 21% if breakfast is offered.
•Reduce your daily per diem by 21% if lunch is offered.
•Reduce your daily per diem by 58% if dinner is offered.
The University can only reimburse for the lower of shuttle, cab/car service, or car rental when traveling from the airport to your hotel destination. “Frequent Flyer Miles” are not permitted on any University paid travel.

*IRS increasing Mileage Rate to 55.5 Cents per mile: The rate will increase to 55.5 cents per mile for all business miles driven from Jul. 1, 2011 through Dec. 31, 2011.
        Denise Schell, Accounts Payable


 On Aug. 16, Kutztown converted Desire2Learn to use Active Directory authentication. This changed all D2L usernames to email addresses and synchronized D2L passwords with email passwords. You will now need to log in with your official Kutztown email as your username and use the same password as you use to access your email. Your old username and password for D2L will no longer work. We hope that you will appreciate this change and quickly adjust to having one less username and password to remember.


The Rohrbach Library recently took responsibility for the audiovisual collection, equipment, and services of the Audiovisual Center (AVC), formerly located on the ground floor of the library. The collection, equipment, and services of the center will now be distributed throughout the Library. During the transition, the library staff will endeavor to meet the audiovisual needs of the campus community efficiently. The main contact telephone number for audiovisual services that are now a part of the Library is x3-4480 at the Information Commons desk.

Catalogers are working to reclassify more than 5,000 DVDs to the Library of Congress classification scheme so that they can be shelved in a new location open to browsing called Media which will be located on the second floor of the library. The reclassification will be completed by the end of September. Until the reclassification project is completed, DVDs awaiting reclassification and some other audiovisual materials will be available on request at the Information Commons desk.

Course reserves, some audiovisual equipment, laminating, poster printing, and color printing services may be requested at the Information Commons desk. The Ellison Die Cut system has been relocated to the Curriculum Materials Center. The Macintosh lab remains in its customary place in room 1 on the ground floor.
        Barbara Darden, dean, Library Services

To request assistance with “locking and unlocking buildings” after hours ( 4:30 p.m. -7 a.m.) from Public Safety and Police Services, please email publicsafety@kutztown.edu. During the hours of 7 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, please contact a custodial supervisor at x3-4127 for assistance. Thank you.
        Public Safety & Police Services
"Getting Started with Desire2Learn (D2L)" workshops offered:
  • Wed., Aug. 31, 9 - 10:30
  • Thurs., Sept. 1, 3 – 4:30
  • Wed., Sept. 14, 10 – 11:30
  • Thurs., Sept. 15, 9 – 10:30 
Join us for a hands–on workshop to learn the basics of D2L to help you get started.  We'll explore the learning environment, navigation, personal settings, and create your first module.  Please contact Bo Zigner (zigner@kutztown.edu or x6-5828) with any additional questions. To register, please contact Brenda Booz (booz@kutztown.edu or x3-4142). Space is limited. All workshops will be in Stratton, 102.
"An Introduction to MyKU" workshops offered:
  • Wed., Aug. 31, 2 – 3:30
  • Fri., Sept. 2, 9 – 10:30
  • Thurs., Sept. 15, 3 – 4:30
Join us for a hands-on workshop to learn the basics of MyKU, the University's new student information system. To register, please contact Brenda Booz (booz@kutztown.edu or x3-4142).  Space is limited. All workshops will be in Stratton 102.
ELIZABETH!