Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018

Jeffrey Skoblow, PhD, emeritus professor of English and Eric Ruckh, PhD, associate professor of history, will read Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl." They will be joined by itinerant artists and musicians:

12:30 p.m.
Today
One of the small knolls in the Main Quad

Ginsberg wrote "Howl" in Berkeley, California in 1954-55 and read it for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on Oct. 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 to assault the madness of American culture and society (then and now) and redeem the holiness of the body and its manifold, myriad pleasures.

We hope many of you will join us.

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

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.
Today
Lovejoy Library Friends Corner

Please invite your students and colleagues.

Be sure to enjoy our SIUE Day Rally Week activities, and FREE offers and incentives:

10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Today-Thursday, Oct. 25
Morris University Center, Goshen Lounge

Today: Axis Edwardsville – Take time to learn more about our luxe apartments and receive FREE cups and T-shirts!

Scott Credit Union – Visit our table, use our Snapchat Geo-filter and take home a bag of Chef’s Shoppe popcorn (while supplies last)!

Thursday, Oct. 25: A Wildflower Shop – The first 75 faculty, staff or students to stop by our table will receive a FREE rose! Enter for a chance to win the Bouquet of the Month Club for three months (a $165 value).

SIUE Credit Union – Speak with our friendly staff, and enter our baby rattle battle contest! Winners of each battle will be placed in a drawing for a $50 gift card. Drawing will take place at 1:50 p.m. 

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 students:
5-6:15 p.m.
Today
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.

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.
Today
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.”

Please take note of the following upcoming voting and election announcements.

Grace Period Voting began Oct. 22 at any Early Voting location in Madison County. You may update your voter’s registration and vote at that time. This requires 2 forms of identification, one including your correct home address. A list of Early Voting locations is available here.

Madison County Early Voting began Oct. 22. SIUE is an Early Voting location, and will be available on the following days and times in the Morris University Center's Willow Room on the second floor:

12-5 p.m.
Through Friday, Oct. 26

10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 29-Friday, Nov. 2

Early Voting is only open to registered Madison County, Ill. residents and proof of residency is required. Those wishing to vote will receive the ballot for their precinct.

General Election – Tuesday, Nov. 6
SIUE is in Precinct 21. Only those registered to vote in Precinct 21 for Edwardsville are allowed to vote at this polling place on this day:
6 a.m.-7 p.m.
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom

Questions about voting or elections should be directed to your Illinois County Clerk or to the State Board of Elections for the state in which you are currently registered to vote.

If you are registered to vote in Madison County (Ill.), you can search for your polling location here.

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.

Thursday, Oct. 25
Monday, Oct. 29
Thursday, Nov. 8
Friday, Nov. 9

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

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

Open Figure Drawing
12:30-2 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 26
Cost: $8

Figure drawing is a time-honored practice studying the human form as an artistic subject. It engages a professional collaboration between model and art students in which dynamic poses are held still for various lengths of time in order to capture movement and expression. Those who practice figure drawing regularly learn the underlying thought and process that aid in conveying the human form convincingly.

Hospice Conference – 6 CEU Workshop
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 8
Cost: $75

A conference designed for professionals, para-professionals, volunteers and others who work with chronically ill, terminally ill or grieving persons of all ages in hospitals, hospice programs, long-term care facilities, home health, schools, churches and other community agencies, as well as support groups, funeral service programs and counseling services for the bereaved. CEU's available for social workers, nurses and funeral home directors.

Social Work Workshop – 6 CEU Workshop
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 9
Cost: $85

Moving from Trauma to Resilience: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the Impact Across the Lifespan

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

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

The intent of the education sessions 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.
2. Everyone will do their part to prevent violence.

Fall faculty/staff sessions are listed below:

Thursday, Oct. 25
10:30 a.m.-Noon
Morris University Center, Mississippi/Illinois Rooms

Tuesday, Oct. 30
1:30-3 p.m.
Morris University Center, Mississippi/Illinois Rooms

Monday, Nov. 19
1:30-3 p.m.
Location TBD

Please sign up at Green Dot Education Sessions.

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

Candice Johnson, program coordinator for the “STEM Meets Humanities” initiative at the Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities, will present an overview of her work with this innovative exploration:

2 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 26
Peck Hall, room 1405

Johnson will discuss the ways in which enduring humanistic questions can influence student interest in STEM inquiry. She will describe the different activities in the program, including Digital Humanities Clubs, Urban Gardening, Math Games, Robotics and discuss tips on how to engage students in programming.

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

Members of the campus and surrounding communities are invited to a public meeting as part of the speech-language pathology graduate program’s reaccreditation site visit.

4:30-5:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 29
Founders Hall, Room 1208 – Instructional Materials Center

The program is under review for reaccreditation by the Council on Academic Accreditation and Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA).

During this public portion of the CAA site visit, stakeholders are welcome to offer questions, comments and concerns regarding the program’s national accreditation status. Those unable to attend in person may submit comments in advance of the meeting to accreditation@asha.org. 

Details on the public meeting and CAA visit are available at siue.edu/academics/degrees-and-programs/graduate/slp/.

For directions and/or questions, please contact program director Steffany Chleboun at schlebo@siue.edu.

Campus Kitchen at SIUE is once again hosting a food drive for “Give Thanks Give Food.”

This themed food drive will collect nonperishable and canned food donations that will be used to make Thanksgiving meal grocery bags for Community Care Center clients in Granite City.

Donations can be purchased through Thursday, Nov. 1 for free delivery to Campus Kitchen at SIUE at the following link, https://yougivegoods.com/siue-turkeypalooza-2018.

Additionally, donation boxes will be located in various campus locations until Nov. 1 in the Vadalabene Center, Kimmel Student Involvement Center, Lovejoy Library (Information Desk), Peck Hall and Rendleman Hall.

The items requested for the Give Thanks Give Food Drive include:
• Stuffing
• Canned vegetables
• Canned yams and potatoes
• Instant mashed potatoes
• Gravy
• Macaroni and cheese
• Applesauce
• Canned fruit
• Gift cards to grocery stores are also appreciated

For more information, contact Brittany Buchanan at bribuch@siue.edu. Your support and generosity is much appreciated!