Monday, Oct. 22, 2018

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Health Service has a limited supply of flu vaccine left after our initial walk in clinics. If you were unable to attend and still want to receive your shot with us, we will be offering the following dates and times as long as we have vaccine:

All times will be 8:30-10 a.m. near our office located in lower level of the Student Success Center.

Today
Tuesday, Oct. 23
Thursday, Oct. 25
Monday, Oct. 29
Thursday, Nov. 8
Friday, Nov. 9

Please remember to bring your SIUE ID and state insurance card.

Counseling Services presents the Distress Tolerance in Self and Others series. 

You are invited to attend one of the distress tolerance sessions as Dr. Courtney Boddie, director of Counseling Services, guides us in learning how to effectively support someone in distress and when to refer them.

Participants will also learn more about their own responses to being with someone in distress.

Session for faculty:
12-1:15 p.m.
Today
Morris University Center, Missouri Room 

Session for students:
5-6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
Student Success Center, room 1202

Session for staff:
12-1:15 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 29
Morris University Center, Maple/Dogwood Rooms

For more information and to RSVP, contact Lisa Thompson-Gibson at lithomp@siue.edu or (618) 650-2842.

The Office of Human Resources is proud to announce Gail Erb as the October 2018 Employee of the Month. Gail is the financial aid advisor manager in the Office of Student Financial Aid.

Please join us in congratulating Gail as the Employee of the Month:
2:30 p.m.
Today
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration
Rendleman Hall,
Conference Room 2228

You can also send Gail a congratulatory email at gerb@siue.edu 

“SIUE is truly a great place to work and an institution that puts students first," said Erb. "I am thankful to work with a wonderful group of caring, kind and hard-working people in the Office of Student financial Aid."

“Gail embodies and epitomizes the values of SIUE," said Amy Koshinski, IT manager/administrative coordinator. "She serves as a diligent steward in the Financial Aid Office. She has the honesty, dedication and integrity needed to work with the Financial Aid Office staff and other institutions, as well as serving students and parents. Gail takes great pride and fulfillment in working toward the best interests of students and their families, while continuing to be a superior employee and source of strength for the department.”

For more information, contact Jen Oates-Blair, joatesb@siue.edu or ext. 2127.

The SIU Board of Trustees is hosting its 2018 Diversity Lecture, featuring notable diversity strategist Craig B. Clayton Sr.

6 p.m. reception
6:30 p.m. lecture
Today
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom

Also, an SIU Board of Trustees Diversity Excellence Award will be given to an individual or group that encourages the SIU community to think and practice equity, diversity and inclusion in creative and collaborative ways.

Clayton is the founder and CEO of iNSPIRAR Consulting. He also recently launched the Equitable Workplace Institute, which is an eLearning platform designed to provide organizations with access to training and professional development tools.

Clayton specializes in providing organizations with executive strategies and business practices that create measurable processes that improve employee performance, productivity and profitability through the development of culturally competent leaders, managers and organizations.

Don't miss your chance to enjoy the Land of Goshen Community Market this fall! 

3:30-5:30 p.m.
Tuesdays through October
Stratton Quad 

Vendors will bring crafts, homemade breads, local grown produce, eggs and meats to students, faculty and staff at SIUE.

Customers can use their Illinois Link Card and receive matching coupons of up to $25 to purchase additional fruits and vegetables.

In M.J. Kaufman's play, women and gender non-conforming people play men trying to understand the intricacies of masculinity and violence.

"Will" is a freshman at Watson college. "Jordan" is a senior film major. "Tyler" is writing a novel for his thesis. They are all members of the Men’s Peer Education group and ask questions like, "What is male privilege? What can we do about it?"

Then some accusatory posters appear around campus suggesting that a member of the group committed sexual assault. Could it be that even sensitive guys, guys working on their privilege, sometimes turn violent or aggressive?

After the staged reading, a moderated conversation on masculinity, allyship, and sexual violence will be held in the Morris University Center Oak/Redbud Rooms. At the same time, a counselor from Call for Help will lead a survivor session in the Hickory/Hackberry Rooms for any survivors who would like to process their emotions from the staged reading and share their stories.

The staged reading is directed by Tiffany Smith and features Rachel Bailey, Karen Pierce, Fox Smith, Sierra Smith, Laurell Stevenson and Melody Valen. "Sensitive Guys" is the start of Solid Lines Productions' fifth season.

Donations are optional and admission is FREE. Solid Lines is partnering with Safe Connections and St. Martha's Hall to collect donations for St. Martha's Hall, a shelter for abused women and their children.

The following donations will be collected at the door of each performance:

• Toilet paper
• Children's band-aids (cartoon ones)
• Stickers
• Halloween candy
• Target gift cards

Angela Kim, PhD, assistant professor of piano in the Department of Music, will present the concert project "When the Night Falls" with two composers from Berklee College of Music, Richard Carrick and Yoon-Ji Lee.

7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 23
Dunham Hall, Choral Room 1109
FREE admission

Selections include:

• L. V. Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata
• R. Carrick, Preludes
• F. Chopin, Nocturne Op. 62, No. 2
• Y. J. Lee, Night Sketches
• I. Stravinsky/G. Agosti, Firebird Suite

SIUE Office of Educational Outreach invites you to attend the fall 2018 Lifelong Learning Speakers Series every Wednesday on the campus of SIUE.

Wednesday, Oct. 24
Morris University Center, Mississippi-Illinois Rooms

10:30-11:45 a.m. – South Africa’s Fragile Democracy, presented by Timothy Lewis, PhD, assitant professor in the Department of Political Science

1:15-2:30 p.m. Political Persuasion, presented by Sorin Nastasia, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Communication Studies

Cost: $5 for general public, $2 for Lifelong Learning members and FREE for alumni and students (with valid student ID).

You don’t want to miss this exhilarating semester jam-packed with presentations that are sure to inform and educate!

To view the fall brochure or to become a Lifelong Learning member, please visit our website or contact coordinator, Eboni Buckels at 618.650.3233.

Please join us for a Black Studies Lecture Series event, featuring Anthony Cheeseboro, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Historical Studies.

"Horror and the Black Body"
2-3 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
Lovejoy Library Friends Corner

Please invite your students and colleagues.

SIUE’s Tiana Clark, MFA, will read from her new collection of poems "I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood," which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

6 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 24
SIUE Cougar Store

Clark is an assistant professor in SIUE’s new master of fine arts creative writing program.

“This will be my first public reading at SIUE! I'm excited and eager to share my work with the incredible faculty and students," said Clark. "I delve into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family and faith by making and breaking received forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, my own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna.”

Campus Recreation’s Club Sports program is once again raising money and awareness for breast cancer research, a disease that severely impacts students and their families.

Special Club Sports pink T-shirts will be sold at various Club Sports events during the month of October.

The Sport Club Executive Council will vote at their next executive meeting to select a charity to donate the funds.

Please visit the SIUE Campus Recreation website for a detailed list of Club Sport Home events in October.

For more information on how to donate and/or purchase a Club Sports pink T-shirt, please contact Natalie Hawkins at nrosale@siue.edu  or 618-650-3242.