The Daily Brief
Friday, December 2, 2011
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•Please be sure to submit all considerations by 2 p.m. •Try to keep submissions brief and insert a link to additional information. •Include a contact name to be published. •Format any lists of names into a paragraph. Thank you for all of your past and future submissions! University Relations I am very pleased to announce that Benjamin Trout joined our staff as the new degree auditor on Oct. 10. Ben comes to us from ITT Technical Institute, in King of Prussia, where he held the position of registrar. He has a B.A. in Film and Media Arts, from the School of Communication at Temple University. Ben can be reached via email at trout@kutztown.edu or phone x3-4479. Michelle Hughes, registrar, Registrar's Office Flexible Spending Accounts – Important information has been added to H.R. website regarding updates for those enrolled in Flexible Spending Accounts. Please take a moment to review. Jean Adam, benefits manager, Human Resources This week's MSU Movie Series film is 30 Minutes or Less which will be shown in the MSU Alumni Auditorium on Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is free! Check out the MSU movie website for more information. http://www.kutztown.edu/divisions/studentservices/departments/msub/programs/submovies.asp John Alfero, technical services coordinator, Student Union & Involvement Services OCAC and KCP are asking students to enter to win a poster contest promoting an environmentally-friendly Kutztown downtown and win gift cards ranging from $25-$75. Hand in a hard copy of your poster at the Community Outreach Center 281 MSU or email it in a .pdf to ocac@kutztown.edu by Dec. 16. Contact OCAC for more details, or see our poster "Make Your Mark" around campus. · The PASSHE Academy is a new initiative designed to expand personal and professional development and wellness opportunities for all PASSHE employees. The Academy makes some employee development programs offered at one university available to employees at all PASSHE universities. And most are offered free of charge. Visit the PASSHE Academy web and registration site at www.passhe.edu/academy. Courses are available now and will be updated on an on-going basis. (If training is scheduled during your workday, please be sure to get supervisory approval in advance of registering. If there is a cost associated with the training, you would need pre-approval from your supervisor for funding.)For more information, please contact Alexis Martin in HR at amartin@kutztown.edu. · KU offers some wellness initiatives similar to those offered through the PASSHE Academy. These can be found at http://hr.dept.kutztown.edu/health.html · Have an idea on a future program for the PASSHE Academy? Access to the Training Needs Assessment Survey is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFVpNERUWVFUR203NmdBOHh3bXhsa1E6MQ. New Enterprise Rent-A-Car Employee Personal Use Contract Number – A Kutztown University employee can rent an Enterprise rental car at the University discounted rate provided payment is made with personal funds. Effective Dec. 1, employees renting a vehicle from Enterprise for personal use must give the new contract number XZ57179 to utilize the pricing discount. Personal rentals cannot be made through the Kutztown University website. An employee must contact Enterprise directly and identify themselves as a Kutztown University employee renting a vehicle for personal use. Please contact the Business Services Office at x3-4399 with any questions. Elizabeth Pflugler, assistant director, Business Services Attention Faculty and Staff: On behalf of the General Education Assessment Committee, the General Education Committee, and the CET, I would like to announce the January 2012 Workshop on General Education and Assessment planned for Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The workshop will be held in the MSU multi-purpose room from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and will feature a plenary address to be followed by individual sessions on a variety of topics related to General Education and its assessment. More information will follow in the coming weeks. So save the date and join us on Thursday, Jan. 19. E. Gil Clary, director, Office of Assessment Thank you to all Faculty for submitting your textbook adoptions in a timely manner. Your attention to this allows the Bookstore to buy more used books from our students at Textbook Buyback, putting more money in their pockets and more used copies on our bookstore shelves. As we prepare for the spring semester, we are attempting to ensure all course material information on our website is accurate and complete. We are reaching out to faculty and asking that they please take a minute and check to make sure their courses are listed on our website with accurate information. You can find this information at: www.kubstore.com and click on “Textbooks”, “Purchase or Rent your Textbooks”, select “Spring 2012”, and choose your department, course, and section. If your course and section do not appear, we may have not received your textbook adoption yet. After reviewing your courses, please feel free to contact our textbook department with any questions at x3-4037. KU Student Bookstore AFSCME Local 2234: This is a notice to all AFSCME employees who lost seniority due to parental leave taken prior to July 1993. Please send notice to the Human Resources office, through their work order system, stating that you are requesting your lost time back. This Request must be made before the end of the year. A form to reclaim this time was to have been distributed by the end of this year, but it has not been made available yet. Annette M. Christman Keep KUR as your pre-holiday soundtrack - On Sunday, Dec. 4, tune in for "Free Speech Radio" at 10:30 a.m., "Classical Guitar Alive" at 11 a.m., Later, it's "Anything Goes" (Swing/Big Band/Old-Time Jazz) at 2 p.m., "Fifty One Percent" (Women's Talk) at 3 p.m., and "This Way Out" at 3:30 p.m. On Tuesday, it's our Tuesday block of community access talk programming kicking off at 2 p.m. with a very special FINAL "Kutztown Live" of the semester where this week, host Mike R. turns hosting duties over to KUR alum Kyle "The Green Machine" Greenwood who will be interviewing local jazz artist and KU alum Nick Ruffini to discuss Nick's new solo album "Pressin' On." Then stay tuned at 3 p.m. for the semester's final "The Dan Donahue Show," "The KU Car Show" at 4 p.m., "Notas Latinas" at 5 p.m. KUR's full schedule can be found by clicking on the "Schedule" link on our webpage near the top. Michael Regensburger, KUR Radio KU student, Caitlin Smith, receives BWIC Award! Berks Women in Crisis (BWIC) is holding their 6th annual Celebration of Peace fundraising event on Dec. 12 from 6-8 p.m. in the Yashek Social Hall at 555 Warwick Drive, Wyomissing, Pa. Hors d’oeuvres and cocktails will be served. This event marks BWIC’s 35 years of providing safety, life and hope to victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Kutztown University student, Caitlin Smith, will be receiving the first-ever Youth Voices for Change Award at the celebration. Her on and off campus activism earned her this honor. Currently interning at the KU Women’s Center, Caitlin has been a volunteer, student employee, and Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA) and LGBTQ activist for several years. A trained KU HEART Advocate, she was a Peace Works intern with BWIC last spring, a CAMPpeaceworks facilitator this summer and is currently working weekends at the Safe House. Tickets cost $75. Of the ticket price, $50 is tax deductible. RSVPs need to be made to BWIC by Dec. 5: reservation cards can be picked up in the Women’s Center, OM 126. For more information, please visit BWIC’s website at http://www.berkswomenincrisis.org/Fundraisingevents.html. Chelsea Brink, writing intern, Women's Center Need art for your home or office? Join the Honors Club on Dec. 2, from 8 p.m.- 12 a.m. in the Bear's Den (MSU) for live performances, a raffle, KU student art auction, free coffee and a bake sale. You'll be glad you did. Johanna Forte, director, KU Honors Program Holiday Movie Marathon on Friday, Dec. 2, 6 p.m.- 12 a.m. in MSU 157 and 183. Free Waffles-N-Ice Cream Station plus holiday crafts. 6 p.m. - A Christmas Story 8 p.m. - 8 Crazy Nights 10 p.m. - Elf The Community Outreach Center is offering five different Alternative Spring Break trips from March 10-18, 2012. The trips include New York City, Pochohantas State Park, Assateague Island and two Habitat for Humanity trips to Cleveland, Ohio and Blount County, Tennessee. Applications are available now in the Community Outreach Center in MSU. If you have any questions, please contact asb@kutztown.edu. Jenna Shikoff, Maya Rogers & Ethan Baldwin, coordinators, Alternative Spring Break Lavender Grads Celebration - The Lavender Grads celebration will be held on Dec. 8 in the GLBTQ Resource Center, OM 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cake and light refreshments will be served at 11 a.m. This celebration is to honor the accomplishments of Kutztown University‘s LGBTQ individuals and their allies. Chelsea M. Brink, writing intern, Women's Center Denise Schell, Accounts Payable The Department of Secondary Ed. and Rohrbach Library are sponsoring the movie Race to Nowhere on Monday, Dec. 5, at 5 p.m., in MSU Alumni Auditorium. This is a call to action for educators and policy makers to challenge current assumptions preparing youth through education. Admission is $3.00 donation. Regina Iannello, graduate assistant, Secondary Education |