Friday, Feb. 9, 2018

The schedule for the Saturday Studio Art Workshops runs from Feb. 17-April 21. All sessions will be held in the Art and Design West building on SIUE’s campus.

The registration deadline is today.

There will be no class during the University Spring Break on March 10. 

Studio instruction is once again offered for grades K-12.
All classes are designed to stimulate creative growth. Emphasis is placed on developing skills in a variety of media and generating ideas for creative expression.

Art teachers in Saturday Studio classes are becoming certified art specialists and are art majors in the Department of Art and Design.

For registration and more information, contact:
Dr. Sangsook Park at (618) 650-5825, spark@siue.edu 
Morgaine Denison at (618) 650-2824, mdeniso@siue.edu 

View the Saturday Studio website and flyer.

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, serves 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. Feb. 10:       Murray State at 1 p.m.
Thu. Feb. 22:      Austin Peay at 7 p.m.

SIUE’s Office of Educational Outreach will present: "In Search of Wellness: The Wholeness of Health"

7:30 p.m.
Tuesdays, Today-March 27
Glen Carbon Library
198 S. Main St.
Glen Carbon, IL

The cost is $49. 

Are you living with the vitality and energy you desire in your life? Did you know that there is more to wellness than just exercising and eating well? Though there are a number of different models used to represent wellness or well-being, each model represents wellness as a multi-faceted design and focuses on how each component relates to the other with the emphasis on wholeness. In this class, after gaining an understanding of a comprehensive wellness view in week one, subsequent weeks will explore each dimension in depth, paired with tips and actionable ways to improve your own wellness one dimension at a time.

Instructor Carin Dehmer has worked in the health and wellness field for more than 25 years, from fitness instructor to wellness strategist and worksite wellness. She has a bachelor's in biology/exercise science from Missouri State University and a master’s in health education from the University of Central Arkansas. Dehmer is a certified wellness practitioner, and is worksite wellness certified from the Chapman Institute and the National Wellness Institute. 

To register, visit siue.edu/educationaloutreach/registration. Late registration is open through Tuesday, Feb. 13

For more information, call (618) 650-3210.

The SIUE Sustainability Advisory Group (SAG) was created Feb. 14, 2008, by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration to assess progress on existing initiatives and to vet ideas for future efforts around the topic of sustainability. Since then, and despite budget setbacks, sustainability efforts at SIUE have not slowed. Instead, every day more energy is put into building a more sustainable campus and community.

After a brief hiatus, SAG is being relaunched with a new name – the Sustainability ACTION Group – and with a new structure. The new structure involves a steering committee that is charged with:
• Drafting operating papers
• Creating a sustainability plan
• Developing a communication strategy
• Overseeing STARS
• Mapping sustainability assets
• Identifying potential sources of funding for projects

The SAG will also be made up of working groups initially focusing on energy and food, with plans for water, curriculum, transportation, and waste groups to be added in the future.

The SAG is open to all students, staff and faculty who are interested in or are already working in areas related to sustainability. If you would like to become more involved in the steering committee, or in one or more of the workgroups, please attend one of the kick-off meetings listed below, or email Steering Committee Chair Connie Frey Spurlock at cfrey@siue.edu.

12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 14
Peck Hall, room 1412

3:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 15
Peck Hall, room 0412

Thank you for all you do to make SIUE a terrific place to live, work and study.

Please note the remaining activities during SIUE's Black Heritage Month 2018: 

Community Health Fair: "It Happen One Night"
11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 13
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom

Clarence Lang: "Black History and Studies from Obama to Trump: Reflections on the Shadow of the Sixties"
4:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 15
Lovejoy Library, Abbott Auditorium
Clarence Lang is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas.
Sponsored by the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Historical Studies

"He's Not that Into You"
7-9 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 15
Morris University Center, University Restaurant
Sponsored by Black Girls Rock

Protective Styles
7-11 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 19
Morris University Center, Mississippi/Illinois Room
Sponsored by My Curl Friends

The 2018 application process for Springboard to Success Student Leaders is now open.

This is an opportunity for student leaders from various areas of campus life to come together to help create a welcoming experience for future SIUE students. The Office of Admissions is looking for students who meet the following criteria:

• Have completed a minimum of 24 semester hours at SIUE by the end of Spring 2018 and plan to enroll in Fall 2018 classes at SIUE (summer enrollment not required)
• Good disciplinary and financial standing with the University
• Good standing with University Housing
• Good academic standing with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0

If you know any students who meet this criteria, if you have questions, or to receive an application, please contact Regiere Lovett at 650-2754 or relovet@siue.edu.    

The application deadline is Wednesday, Feb. 14.

Dr. Guion “Guy” Bluford Jr., the first African American in space, will speak at SIUE's Arts & Issues presentation:

7:30 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 19
Morris University Center’s Meridian Ballroom.

The SIUE Graduate School and Department of Physics William C. Shaw Lectures Series are jointly presenting Bluford’s “The Future of the Space Program and the International Space Station.”

Tickets can be purchased at artsandissues.com, by phone at 1-866-698-4253 or at the Morris University Center (MUC) Welcome Desk. 

The campus community is invited to attend a guest presentation on the important topic of intractable conflicts.

Michael Pratt, PhD, O’Connor Professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, will present “United We Fall and Divided We Stand?: Unconventional Lessons for Addressing Intractable Conflicts.”
2-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 28
Art & Design Building, Room 1104

Pratt will speak about conflicts between groups that are not only long-lasting, but difficult to move beyond (i.e. political, religious, etc.). He will discuss how such conflicts come about and why groups, at some level, may even be invested in keeping them going. He also draws upon his own research to offer unconventional lessons he has learned about successfully managing these types of conflicts.

Jill Schreiber, PhD, and Jayme Swanke, PhD, assistant professors of social work, are coordinating Pratt’s visit, through CAS’ Targeted Funding Initiative, which is supporting projects of faculty development and innovation. They emphasize the broad appeal of Pratt’s presentation topic, as his background includes experience and expertise of interest to social work, psychology and business, as well as other fields.”

“When people’s identity is tied to “I am not them,” it makes it difficult to mediate and come together to find solutions to issues,” Schreiber said. “Dr. Pratt’s visit will offer a different way of theorizing or framing how to get along and communicate with people who may be different than you, in multiple contexts.”

Contact Schreiber at jischre@siue.edu or Swanke at jswanke@siue.edu with any questions.