Thursday, March 29, 2018

For more information, visit mehs.org. 

Join us to practice mindfulness and meditation.

12-12:50 p.m.
Today
Morris University Center, International Room
No RSVP is required. 

For more information, contact Lisa Thompson-Gibson at lithomp@siue.edu or 650-2842.

Get your tickets for the 2018 University Staff Senate Scholarship Banquet:

5 p.m. Social hour begins
6 p.m. Dinner
Tuesday, April 10
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom

The cost is $25 per person. Tickets can be purchased online at siue.edu/scholarship-banquet or by filling out the form and returning it to the University Governance Office Rendleman Hall room 0103 or Box 1252. Registration deadline is Thursday, April 5.

You can also purchase tickets in the Morris University Center from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on today and April 2-3 at Goshen Table 5, and on April 4 in the Lower Level/Center Court.

The buffet style dinner will include stuffed pork chop and fried chicken with assorted cheesecake for dessert. There will be an open bar throughout the event with wine, beer and soda included.

There will be a silent auction, 50/50 drawing, High Spirits Alcohol Drawing, attendance prizes, and a drawing for a 2018/19 Green Lot parking pass. Green Lot parking pass drawing tickets and 50/50 tickets can also be purchased in advance. You must be present at the event to win the 50/50 drawing. The Green Lot parking pass drawing is open to all.

The banquet is open to all staff, faculty and retirees, as well as the community at large.

All proceeds from the event benefit the Staff Senate Scholarship, awarded during the fall and summer terms for deserving high school graduates or continuing SIUE undergraduate students who are the child, grandchild, spouse or civil union partner of a presently employed or retired civil service or professional staff employee at SIUE.

High school jazz ensembles throughout the region will swing their way onto the campus of SIUE to participate in the 4th Annual St. Louis Jazz Club Essentially Ellington Festival, a day of performances and workshops.

The concluding concert is free and open to the public, and will feature participating bands and clinicians:
7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 30
Dunham Hall Theater
General admission: $10, SIUE students: free with valid student ID

Co-sponsored by New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center and The St. Louis Jazz Club, the regional festival is a non-competitive, education-focused festival designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and arrangers.

Each band will receive feedback from clinicians in a dress rehearsal, directly followed by written feedback in performance.

For more information, contact Jason Swagler at 650-2355 or jswagle@siue.edu.

The IRIS Center will present "What is a Digital Archive?" 

2 p.m.
Friday, March 30
Peck Hall, Room 1405
Speaker: Kristine Hildebrandt, PhD, associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature

An archive is a collection of documents or records, assembled and curated in order to provide lasting information about a place, a time, a person, an object or set of objects, a movement or a community. Digital archives have proliferated in recent years because of a concurrent rise of "born digital" data and also the need to digitally preserve analog/paper materials.

In this talk, Hildebrandt will provide a general coverage of digital archive initiatives and standards in multiple fields and disciplines. She will discuss debates surrounding archives, including issues of ownership and of access and usability, and will include examples of the archives built in the IRIS Center.

For more information, please contact Katie Knowles at katknow@siue.edu. 

The topic of the next Counseling Services Brown Bag Series is "Suicide Prevention and Awareness Gatekeeper Training for Students," with Lisa Thompson-Gibson, Suicide Prevention Project coordinator; Dr. Kelly Gable, School of Pharmacy; and Joe Wiegert, School of Engineering student.

12-1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 4
Student Success Center, Room 1203

Students are invited to bring their lunch and learn how to support and refer someone who is experiencing thoughts of suicide.

Learning Objectives:
• To learn statistics and vulnerabilities to having suicidal thoughts
• To understand how to detect warning signs for suicide
• To discuss ways to communicate effectively with someone in distress
• To discuss ways to refer students who are experiencing distress and suicidal thoughts

Join us as you advance your understanding, learn how to respond appropriately, and learn about resources.

For more information, contact Counseling Services at 280-2842.

The University Staff Senate's meetings are open to constituency members. Non-senate members can come and listen. Participation depends on the agenda being discussed and/or prior approval from the president of the University Staff Senate. The next University Staff Senate Executive meeting will be held:

9 a.m.
Thursday, April 5
Alumni Conference Room #B273
If larger room is needed, meeting will move to:
Roller Hall, Building #263, Room 1511 

Staff Senate meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month, with the exception of July during which there is no full Senate meeting.

Agendas and minutes may be found at siue.edu/ugov/staff/schedule_of_meetings.

Future guests include:

• HR Director Sherrie Senkfor – April 19 executive board meeting
• VP of State University Annuitants Association Nobby Emmanuel - May 3 full senate meeting
• UPBC Chair Nancy Lutz and Budget Director Bill Winter – May 17 executive board meeting

Questions for guests may be submitted in advance to a current senator. You may find current senators/officers at siue.edu/ugov/staff/senatemembership_staff.

Please feel free to contact President Gretchen Fricke, or any senate member, with questions about the senate or check out the Staff Senate FAQ page.

SIUE in collaboration with Centerstone, a local behavioral health organization, will present:

“Suicide: The Ripple Effect”
7-9 p.m. 
Monday, April 9
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom
Director Kevin Hines will be present to address the audience, and discuss resilience and recovery within mental illness. Hines is a nationally known speaker on suicide awareness and prevention.

We hope you will consider joining us, and please encourage students to attend this event!

Explore the possibilities during SIUE’s Graduate Admissions Open House:

10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Wednesday, April 11
Morris University Center, 2nd floor, Meeting Room A
Please indicate if you need parking on your registration form

Find out more about:
o SIUE’s 100+ graduate programs
o Graduate admission requirements
o Financial support
o Graduate assistantships

Apply during the open house, and the $40 application fee will be waived!

Register for the Graduate Admissions Open House.

The SIUE STEM Center is in the process of moving into its new space in Science East!

Please note that its resource center services will be temporarily suspended during the transition, which is set to be complete by Monday, April 16.

Until then, if you need assistance, please contact Colin Wilson at colwils@siue.edu.

Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to working with you in Science East Room 1276!

Spring Commencement is just around the corner!

To make our Spring 2018 ceremonies a success, volunteer greeters are needed for each ceremony. Please consider taking time to volunteer at this momentous occasion.

Greeters will welcome guests and graduates to the ceremony, hand out programs and answer general questions. Greeters will need to arrive 90 minutes before their assigned ceremony and stay for the duration of the event.

There are seven spring ceremonies scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 4-5. A complete list of ceremony times and corresponding graduates is available at siue.edu/commencement/schedule.

Please contact me if you are interested in helping make this event memorable for all of our graduates and guests. If you would like to volunteer with a friend, please let me know, and I will make sure that you are stationed together.

Thank you!

Kristen M. Schmalz
Marketing and Events Specialist
kschmal@siue.edu 
(618) 650-2252