Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018

The SIUE Suzuki Program is proud to offer its newest class, Little Listeners.

This Suzuki early childhood education class is for children, ages 0-3, and will meet on Saturday mornings beginning Saturday, Sept. 8. Registration is still open, for more information, contact desingh@juno.com. 

Looking for private lessons in violin, viola or cello? The SIUE Suzuki Community Strings program provides lessons for students, ages 9-adult. Receive extra help on school orchestra music, learn note reading, prepare for solo and ensemble contest, or play folk songs, hymns, and fiddle tunes! Register now for Suzuki Community Strings.

The Land of Goshen Community Farmer's Market is held in downtown Edwardsville Saturday mornings through October 20. At the market, businesses and farmers gather in tents—rain or shine—to sell their locally made products.

The City of Edwardsville has again graciously offered the University booth space. Each week, a different department will host the SIUE tent to provide information on events, issues or offerings.

8 a.m.-Noon
Saturdays through Oct. 20
St. Louis Street (by the Madison County Courthouse)
Edwardsville

Upcoming Goshen Market events:
Sept. 8 - Suicide Prevention Week
Sept. 15 - The Gardens at SIUE
Sept. 22 - Athletics
Sept. 29 - Friends of Lovejoy Library

SIUE now offers a dual Master of Science degree in healthcare and nursing administration and healthcare informatics. This dual degree program prepares nurses for entry into management positions in healthcare organizations and refines the skills of experienced nurse managers to mentor them for executive-level positions.

Graduates of the dual degree program are prepared to guide and lead other nurses by becoming managers, leaders or executives. Additionally, graduates are prepared to analyze and interpret clinical data and work with other allied health professionals to plan, implement and optimize healthcare information systems providing training, project management and leadership within their organizations.

For more information, visit siue.edu/nurse-admin-informatics.

Accessible Campus Community & Equitable Student Support (ACCESS) is the new name for the former Disability Support Services at SIUE.

Located in the Student Success Center, Room 1270, ACCESS is dedicated to providing reasonable curricular and co-curricular accommodations to diverse learners with major life impairments at SIUE. Each year, ACCESS assists hundreds of students with a variety of diagnoses as they pursue their academic disciplines.

ACCESS also provides resources that students can use to increase skills in learning, time management, and test-taking. Both accommodations and resources are offered to students who have provided appropriate documentation and are approved through the application process.

The ACCESS office is open Monday-Friday year-round at 8 a.m., and starting the fall 2018 semester will have extended hours past 4:30 p.m. to provide testing accommodations for evening courses, as needed. ACCESS is closed on days when the entire University is closed. Students must register and request accommodations from the ACCESS office.

Students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to register for the all-day Suicide Prevention Conference:

8:30 a.m. registration
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 12
Morris University Center, Conference Center

The conference is a collaboration between iCare and campus partners intended to further knowledge, skills and abilities in understanding contributing factors to suicide and existing best prevention practices.

The registration fee is $80 for faculty, staff and community members and $10 for students. Lunch is included, and six CEU opportunities are available for social workers and nurses.

For more information, visit Educational Outreach at Professional-Non-Credit Programs, contact Cindy Cobetto at (618) 650-2164 or cgorsag@siue.edu, or Lisa Thompson-Gibson at (618) 650-2842 or lithomp@siue.edu.

Students, faculty and staff are invited to create anonymous postcards during a presentation by Frank Warren, creator of the popular PostSecret blog. The postcards will be displayed:

7 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 12
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom

Active Minds PostSecretU is designed to build community and give students a forum for expressing thoughts and experiences that they might otherwise hide. Active Minds’ mission is to eliminate the stigma around discussing and seeking help for mental health issues.

Active Minds PostSecretU is an Active Minds program created in cooperation and with the support of Warren. 

Warren will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in the Meridian Ballroom as a culmination of PostSecretU and the suicide prevention conference, being held on campus earlier in the day.

Blank postcards can be obtained by contacting Lisa Thompson-Gibson in Counseling Services through today at 650-2842 or lithomp@siue.edu. Completed postcards should be returned to the drop box in Counseling Services by Sept. 5. Please be sure that postcards contain no identifying content, names, hate speech or nudity.

Green Dot is a comprehensive violence prevention program with objectives to decrease the likelihood of dating and domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault.

The education session's intent is to train faculty and staff to endorse, model and support two Green Dot values: (1) power-based personal violence is not tolerated in our campus community, and (2) everyone will do their part to prevent violence.

Fall faculty/staff sessions will be held:

10:30 a.m.-Noon
Monday, Sept. 17
Hickory/Hackberry Room

1:30-3 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 19
Oak/Redbud Room

10:30 a.m.-Noon
Thursday, Oct. 25
Mississippi/Illinois Room

1:30-3 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 30
Mississippi/Illinois Room

Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0844a8a72ca0ff2-fall.

For questions about Green Dot at SIUE, please contact greendot@siue.edu.

The SIUE STEM Center announces its FY19 Community Impact Fellowship program. This is a competitive fellowship, open to tenure-track or tenured faculty members, to support faculty as they leverage their research to engage area learners through STEM-based high impact community engagement products and practices.

The successful applicant will be a faculty fellow with the STEM Center beginning in fall 2018 through summer 2019, during which time the applicant will work with STEM Center faculty and staff to develop their research into a practice and/or product that engages area learning communities. To support the faculty member’s efforts, fellows will receive a stipend of $1,500 upon project completion.

Find more information and application details at: http://www.siue.edu/stem/impact.shtml. Applications are due Monday, Oct. 1.

Please feel free to contact Carol Colaninno at ccolani@siue.edu with any questions.

The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion invites the SIUE community to nominate a faculty or staff member for the 2018-2019 SIUE Champion for Diversity Award.

This award is presented to a faculty or staff member who has demonstrated an exemplary level of dedication to SIUE’s mission of fostering equal opportunity, positive interactions with students, staff and faculty, and who respects and values differing backgrounds and points of view within SIUE.  

Nominations are now open and should be received by Wednesday, Oct. 17. The Champion for Diversity Award will be recognized annually during December commencement and will consist of a plaque and $500 donated to a University diversity and inclusion project of the recipient’s choice. 

To learn more and to nominate someone, please visit Champion for Diversity Award webpage.