Friday, Jan. 19, 2018

Dear Members of the Campus Community:

Our biweekly dialogues to support critical conversations and understanding around issues of campus climate for black students, faculty and staff, social justice, and our collective responsibility to build a sustainable campus environment will continue:

Noon-1:30 p.m.
Today
Peck Hall, Room 2405

We remain grateful to all who have attended our fall semester sessions, shared their thoughts and/or listened carefully. The following dates cover the spring semester:

Fridays, Feb. 2 and 16, March 2, 16 and 30, April 13 and 27

All sessions will run from noon-1:30 p.m. in Peck Hall, Room 2405.

Thank you,

Denise Cobb
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

FOX Sports Midwest will televise eight SIUE men's basketball games in 2017-18.

This marks the sixth consecutive year that FOX Sports Midwest, which features St. Louis Cardinals baseball and St. Louis Blues hockey, will serve as the television home of the Cougars.

FOX Sports Midwest reaches nearly 6 million homes. This season, for the first time, FOX Sports South and FOX Sports Southeast will televise several of the games in the package, bringing SIUE basketball to as many as 12 million additional homes.

The remaining game schedule:

Sat. Jan. 20:       UT Martin at 1 p.m.
Sat. Feb. 3:         Jacksonville State at 1 p.m.
Sat. Feb. 10:       Murray State at 1 p.m.
Thu. Feb. 22:      Austin Peay at 7 p.m.

SIUE’s Speech-Language-Hearing Center, located in Founders Hall, is now enrolling for the spring 2018 semester .

The Center offers clients two 50-minute treatment sessions per week with a graduate student clinician, under the supervision of a licensed speech-language pathologist.

Current openings for Jan 22-April 26 include:

Monday/Wednesday: 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday: 9:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m.

Description of Services: Provides speech-language evaluations and therapy for children, adolescents, and non-Medicare-eligible adults in the following areas: speech, language, voice, fluency, traumatic brain injury, transgender voice, and accent modification for non-native speakers of English.

Tuition is $605 (payment plan available). Current SIUE students receive a 50 percent discount.

To schedule an appointment or for more information, contact the Center at 650-5623 or slhc-information@siue.edu .

The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center will host a blood drive on campus from 10:30 a.m.–3 p.m. on the following days:

• Tuesday, Jan. 23 - Blood Mobile, Quad
• Wednesday, Jan. 24 - Blood Mobile, Quad

To schedule an appointment, please create an account at bloodcenterIMPACT.org and use sponsor code 9828.

Please reference information regarding eligibility requirements and the donation process here.

The Graduate School will host a discussion about Graduate Student Mental Health.

10 a.m.
Thursday, Jan. 25
Morris University Center, Meeting Room A

The discussion will be led by Jessica Horowitz, PhD, associate dean for Student Services at Loyola University Chicago, Courtney Boddie, director of Counseling Services at SIUE, and Jim Boyle, interim director of Disability Support Services.

Topics will include mental illness, disability, international students, online learners, advising and reporting. Time will be provided for open sharing. All faculty and staff are invited.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The Faculty Development Council of the Faculty Senate and the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, has announced Excellence in Undergraduate Education (EUE) Call for Proposals for FY2019.

Faculty, staff or students may submit proposals by Monday, Jan. 29.

The purpose of the EUE program is to fund innovative projects that will have broad and sustaining impact on undergraduate education.

For more information about the program, current guidelines for funding priorities, application forms and budget guidelines, visit the EUE website.

The ITSpotlight is an e-newsletter designed to keep SIUE up to date on the latest technology news and events on campus. Each month, you will find articles on teaching with technology, course design, and tech updates. The most recent headlines include:

• Create More Dynamic Discussion Boards
• My Courses New to the SIUE Mobile App
• How to Handle Multi-section (Merged) Courses in Blackboard

SIUE Women’s Basketball will host its annual Pink Zone game to raise money and promote breast cancer research and awareness! Please join us!

6 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 3

Health Service is collaborating with SIUE Athletics to promote breast cancer awareness and will be raising money by selling Pink Zone tee shirts for $5! All proceeds from Pink Zone events benefit Susan G. Komen Missouri.

• In 2017, more than 250,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women and 2,400 in men in the U.S.
• Every two minutes, one case of breast cancer is diagnosed in a woman in the U.S.
• In 2017, more than 40,000 women and more than 400 men in the U.S. are expected to die from breast cancer.
• Improvements in early detection and effective treatment contributed to a 39 percent decline in breast cancer mortality (deaths) in the U.S. between 1989-2015.
• Currently, there are more than 3.5 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.
• One in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.

2018 Pink Zone tee shirt sales will be available in the Goshen Lounge and/or Center Court during the next few weeks. If you have any questions, please contact Riane Greenwalt, director of Health Service, at 650-2852 or rgreenw@siue.edu.

You're invited to participate in the next Faculty Development book club featuring: Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success by Tia Brown McNair, Susan Albertine, Michelle Asha Cooper, Nicole McDonald, and Thomas Major, Jr.

10-11 a.m.
Fridays, Feb. 23 and March 30 (Please plan to attend both meetings)
Provost's Conference Room, Rendleman Hall 3117

Leaders: Jessica Harris (Historical Studies and Black Studies) and Earleen Patterson (Director of SOAR-Student Opportunities for Academic Results)

This book club is open to faculty and staff. We’ll provide the book and its yours to keep. Books are limited, so register now.

Boost student success by reversing your perspective on college readiness. The national conversation asking "Are students college-ready?" concentrates on numerous factors that are beyond higher education's control. Becoming a Student-Ready College flips the college readiness conversation to provide a new perspective on creating institutional value and facilitating student success. Instead of focusing on student preparedness for college (or lack thereof), this book asks the more pragmatic question of what are colleges and universities doing to prepare for the students who are entering their institutions? What must change in an institution's policies, practices and culture in order to be student-ready?

Clear and concise, this book is packed with insightful discussion and practical strategies for achieving your ambitious student success goals. These ideas for redesigning practices and policies provide more than food for thought—they offer a real-world framework for institutional change. You'll learn:

• How educators can acknowledge their own biases and assumptions about underserved students in order to allow for change
• New ways to advance student learning and success
• How to develop and value student assets and social capital
• Strategies and approaches for creating a new student-focused culture of leadership at every level

To truly become student-ready, educators must make difficult decisions, face the pressures of accountability and address their preconceived notions about student success head-on. Becoming a Student-Ready College provides a reality check based on today's higher education environment.

The SIUE Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society is offering three awards to students. Applications are due by 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 2, 2018.

The awards include:
Undergraduate Scholarship: One scholarship of up to $750 (which must be applied to undergraduate or graduate tuition and fees at SIUE) may be awarded. Eligibility requirements: Must be an undergraduate with at least junior standing (60 hours) at the end of the fall semester 2017, must have a minimum GPA of 3.5, and must have earned at least 24 semester hours at SIUE by the end of the fall semester 2017. Students with a 100 percent waiver for tuition and fees are not eligible. Please note: Applicants DO NOT have to be PKP members. An additional award of $250 is available if the recipient is a PKP member or an inductee at the April 2018 ceremony.

Undergraduate Paper Contest: Three cash prizes of $200, $100 and $50 will be awarded for papers meeting the criteria. Submissions are to be scholarly essays or research papers on any academic topic that can be understood by a lay audience. This contest is open to ANY SIUE undergraduate.

Graduate Fellowship: Graduating seniors with superior academic and leadership records, who are or will be members of Phi Kappa Phi by the application deadline and who have applied to enroll as a full-time student in a post baccalaureate program of study for the 2018-19 academic year, are eligible to apply. One fellowship award of up to $1,000 will be given through our local chapter, and then this person will be entered into the national contest where 51 fellowships of $5,000 and six fellowships of $15,000 will be awarded (SIUE nominees have won a national award in the past!).