This is a general talk given on how the 21st century college campus is necessarily evolving to be more student-centered. The presentation is broadly themed and intentionally provocative. It touches on the roles that administrators, faculty and students play on a higher education landscape impacted by changes in technology, pedagogy and higher education funding models.

Register here.

Do's and Don’ts of Creating Successful Student Success Programs
10:45 a.m.-Noon
Today
Cougar Pavilion, Lukas Athletics Annex

Dr. David Laude engages the audience in a workshop environment on what to do and what not to do in creating and implementing programs to increase student persistence and achievement. Talking points are drawn from a broad range of successful programs developed over the last 20 years at the University of Texas at Austin (UT), including traditional academic success programs, incentivized financial aid programs, teacher certification programs, and experiential and service learning programs.

Register here.

Laude is a chemistry professor at UT Austin He has held various administrative positions in the dean’s office and the provost’s office. While serving as senior vice provost for enrollment management, he was charged with improving four-year graduation rates for the campus.

Laude has been on the forefront of hybrid course design and spearheaded a successful drive to reduce non-passing rates in large gateway courses at UT. He also has been a leader in program reform at the undergraduate level at UT. Some of his initiatives include: the Texas Interdisciplinary Plan as a way to improve graduation rates for economically disadvantaged students, Freshman Research Initiative that today enrolls 900 incoming freshman students in the research programs of science faculty, and The University Leadership Network that better integrates at-risk students into the UT community.

Please Note These Educational Outreach Courses

Check out these exciting courses and continuing education opportunities offered by Educational Outreach this fall.

Creating Zentangle Inspired Designs
6:30-8 p.m.
Thursdays, through Oct. 25
Cost: $49

This course is designed for individuals at any skill level. Zentangle is a meditative art form, which is easy to create using simple deliberate strokes that build on each other to create unique pieces. At first glance, a Zentangle creation can seem intricate and complicated, but when you learn how it is done, you realize how simple it can be. A $12 supply fee will be collected on the first day of the course.

Immigrants in our Midst – Continuing Education Opportunity
8-4 p.m.
Today
Cost: $25

The "Immigrants In Our Midst - One Nation" Conference is designed to assist professionals interested in working with immigrant population in the surrounding Metro East area. Continuing Education Units are available.

Microsoft Excel: Beginner Level
6-8:30 p.m.
Tuesdays, Oct. 9-Nov. 13
Cost: $129

Designed for students with limited or no previous experience with Microsoft Excel, this beginner-level course will introduce new users to Excel 2016 with an overview of Excel basics that provides a beginner-level foundation of the application. Elements covered in this course include creating and managing multiple worksheets, rearranging data, working with basic formulas and formatting, inserting charts and graphics, and sorting and organizing large amounts of data. A brief introduction to Windows is included. Basic mouse and keyboarding skills are required for this course. Textbook and online resource materials are provided.

Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: Memoir
5:30-7 p.m.
Wednesdays, Oct. 10-Nov. 7
Cost: $49

Presentational and practical application of creative non-fiction, focusing on the memoir in both short and long form.

For more information and to register for these amazing opportunities, please visit the educational outreach website.

Check out these exciting courses and continuing education opportunities offered by Educational Outreach this fall.

For more information and to register for these amazing opportunities, please visit the educational outreach website.

Flu Shots Available

Health Service has received its shipment of flu vaccine (Fluarix® Quadrivalent), and is pleased to offer flu vaccine to faculty, staff, retirees and students.

Health Service is able to provide flu shots to employees and retirees who are the primary insurer in a state sponsored insurance plan at no charge.

In order to receive the vaccine at no charge, employees must:
1.) Document the last four digits of your social security number
2.) Present your University ID and
3.) Present your state health insurance card

Retirees must
1.) Document the last four digits of your social security number and
2.) Present your state health insurance card

Health Service is able to provide flu immunization at a cost of $30 (cash or check only) to SIUE employees not covered under a state health plan.

Pease plan to wear clothing for easy access to the upper arm injection site.

WALK IN Flu Shot Clinics will be available in the Lower Level of the Student Success Center. In order for us to continue to provide dedicated nursing service to our students during this time, we will use the meeting rooms close to our clinical office. There will be signs to identify the appropriate place.

9-11:30 a.m. and 1:30– 3:30 p.m.
Today and Oct. 8, 11 and 12

A dedicated Flu Shot Clinic will be available at the East St. Louis Campus:

10 a.m.-Noon
Wednesday, Oct. 10
East St. Louis Campus, Building D Suite 2015 (We Care Clinic)

For more information on the importance and benefits of receiving a flu shot, please visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website, cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2018-2019.htm.

Segue Highlights SIUE Alumna Schwartz, Breast Cancer Surgeon

On this week’s episode of Segue, the radio program that discusses the lives and work of the people of SIUE, Chancellor Randy Pembrook, interviews Theresa Schwartz, MD, breast surgical oncologist at SSM Health Saint Louis University (SLU) Hospital and associate professor of surgery at SLU.

The duo’s conversation will air at 9 a.m. this Sunday, Oct. 7, on WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound.

An SIUE double alumna, Schwartz earned a bachelor’s in biological sciences/medical science in 1999 and a master’s in biological science in 2000. She attended SLU for medical school, completed a residency there and went on accept a fellowship at the University of Michigan. She has worked as a physician and surgeon at the SLU School of Medicine since 2011.

Her research focuses on breast cancer, and she is committed to supporting women’s health through numerous groups, such as the Show Me Healthy Women’s program, The Breakfast Club and the Ghana Collaborative Project.

Little Cougar Basketball Clinic for Girls, Oct. 7

Preview SIUE Welcomes Hundreds to Campus, Oct. 8

The Office of Admissions, in partnership with many in the SIUE community, will welcome more than 200 prospective students and their guests, totaling more than 500 individuals on campus on Monday, Oct. 8.

Preview SIUE will begin at 9:15 a.m. in the Morris University Center (MUC) and will continue throughout the day.

The majority of the program will be held in the MUC. Our guests will be on campus until 2 p.m. Please note that the MUC will be busy during the day, especially the lunch hour.

Thank you in advance to so many who are part of this important visit program. Please join the Office of Admissions in welcoming these guests to campus. Let’s show them why SIUE should be their future home to achieve their educational goals.

Diversity Day at SIUE, Registration Deadline Oct. 8

You are invited to participate in the SIUE Inaugural Diversity Day on Tuesday, Oct. 16.

SIUE Inaugural Diversity Day 2018 is a celebration of our institution’s past, present and future as it relates to advances in cultural-responsiveness and inclusion. This goal is encapsulated in the day’s theme, “From Awareness to Action, SIUE Shaping a Changing World."

Designed with community engagement and participation across SIUE’s campuses in East St. Louis, Alton and Edwardsville in mind, this multi-event day will showcase the multitude of ways in which membership in the global community is core to our values and mission.

You can see the event schedule on our website.

Please RSVP online here for the opening breakfast by Monday, Oct. 8.

Please RSVP online here for the luncheon by Monday, Oct. 8.

Nominate Someone for an Honorary Degree, Deadline Oct. 8

The Honorary Degrees and Distinguished Service Award Committee invites nominations from the University community for consideration by the committee. All departments and schools are asked to consider and submit deserving nominations.

Please visit siue.edu/ugov/faculty/hdegree/ for details on the criteria for submission and the nomination forms. A list of former recipients is available for review on the University Archives website siue.edu/lovejoylibrary/archives/commence.shtml.

Please note that current University employees are not eligible for awards.

Nominations must be received no later than Monday, Oct. 8. Submissions should include the appropriate nomination form along with biographical information. The subject librarians in Library and Information Services can provide assistance in locating documentation that can strengthen the nomination at siue.edu/lovejoylibrary/research_tools/librarians.shtml.

For more information, contact Juliet Kerico Gray at jkerico@siue.edu or at 650-3129

Attend Chancellor Pembrook's Annual University Address, Oct. 10

Dear Colleagues,

Please accept this invitation to Chancellor Pembrook’s annual address to the University.

2 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 10
Meridian Ballroom

Dr. Pembrook will provide a brief overview of the many successes of the past year and discuss strategic planning for our future. He will also discuss future plans designed to maintain SIUE’s positive momentum.

You will be able to visit with your colleagues and Chancellor Pembrook over refreshments at the reception immediately following in the Goshen Lounge.

Please note that classes will not be canceled. If you are unable to attend, the address will be recorded and available for viewing online.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Best regards,
Denise Cobb
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

"Radium Girls" on Stage, Oct. 10-14

The SIUE Department of Theater and Dance begins its 2018-19 fall season with D.W. Gregory’s "Radium Girls."

7:30 p.m.
Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 10-13
2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 14
Dunham Hall

General admission is $15 for adults (18 and older); $12 for seniors (65 and up); $12 for non-SIUE students with a valid school I.D.; and $12 for SIUE faculty and staff. SIUE students are free with a valid SIUE I.D.

Tickets are now available. To purchase, visit the Theater and Dance Department box office located inside Katherine Dunham Hall in room 1042b or charge by calling 618-650-2774 or toll free at 1-888-328-5168, extension 2774. Sorry no reservations are held without payment.

For more information, please call the above phone numbers or send a message to theater-tickets@siue.edu. For directions and parking, please visit the SIUE website at siue.edu\maps.

In 1926 radium was a miracle cure, and luminous watches were the latest rage until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story and written with warmth and humor, "Radium Girls" is a fast-moving, highly theatrical ensemble piece that offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth and the commercialization of science.

Enjoy the Annual Reading of Ginsberg's "Howl," Oct. 10

Jeffrey Skoblow, emeritus professor of English, and Eric Ruckh, associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies, will read Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” on one of the small knolls:

12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 10
On the Quad

We will be joined by itinerant artists and musicians.

Ginsberg wrote “Howl” in Berkeley, California in 1954-1955 and read it for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955.

Ginsberg’s reading of “Howl” is a signal moment in the history of American culture and letters. With this poem, Ginsberg aligns spirit and body, breadth and idea—“that’s the measure, one physical-mental aspiration contained in the elastic of a breadth”—to assault the madness of American culture and society (then and now) and redeem the holiness of the body and its manifold, myriad pleasures.

For more than 15 years, we have been reading and re-reading Ginsberg’s “Howl.” Why? To paraphrase Emerson, to inspire, to be inspired, to remind ourselves and others of the divinity of the “poet chanting.”

We hope many of you will join us.

For more information, contact Ruckh at eruckh@siue.edu.

Fall 2018 Safe Zone Ally Training, Oct. 10

Safe Zone will be offering Ally training for faculty and staff:

10 a.m.-Noon
Wednesday, Oct. 10
Morris University Center, Hackberry Room

The training will provide participants the skills and understanding for supporting the LGBTQIA community.

Space is limited and pre-registion is required. Faculty and staff, please register here.

What is Safe Zone?
Safe Zone is a community of people who:

Will be understanding, supportive and trustworthy if LGBTQIA people need help, advice, or just someone to talk to
Will not tolerate homophobic, heterosexist, cisgenderism comments and actions but will address them in an educational and informative manner
Have attended Safe Zone training and have information on campus and community resources

For more information, contact Dr. Shelley Price-Williams at shewill@siue.edu.

SBDC Seminar, Oct. 11

SIUE Police Department's Rape Aggression Defense Courses, Oct. 13

The SIUE Police Department will present Rape Aggressive Defense (R.A.D.) class:

9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 13
Evergreen Hall Multipurpose Room
Free of charge

This one-day course is for WOMEN ONLY (faculty, staff, students and their guests).

R.A.D. is a nationally certified self-defense program designed specifically for women. We will spend the day teaching different techniques on how to defend yourself should you ever be in immediate danger.

At the end of the day, we put an officer in a padded suit and allow the students to use the skills taught to defend themselves. This is done in a safe environment, and everything is completely optional.

Appropriate clothing would be tennis shoes, T-shirt with sweat pants or shorts. Bring money for lunch options in the Morris University Center or bring a sack lunch.

Please respond by email to Officer Maria Ferrari at mnoto@siue.edu.

Those with Disabilities can Apply for Workforce Recruitment Program Positions

Are you a current student or recent graduate with a disability seeking employment?

Each year, SIUE participates in the Workforce Recruitment Program to give students with disabilities the opportunity to apply for internships or permanent positions at federal agencies across the U.S.

The WRP Program is an excellent way to:
• Find an internship or permanent position at federal agencies
• Explore careers in the federal service
• Promote skills and abilities
• Gain resume development and interviewing experience

To be eligible for the WRP Program, students must be:
• Current, full-time undergraduate students with a disability
• Current, full-time graduate students with a disability
• Alumni, who have graduated within one year
• U.S. citizen

Student registration for the WRP Program closes Wednesday, Oct. 17.

To learn more about the WRP Program and the registration process, please contact the Career Development Center at (618) 650-3708 to schedule a WRP appointment with Jamie Doss, MA, LPC, Career Counselor/WRP campus coordinator.

Friday, Oct. 5, 2018

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