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Ellen Deering Endowment Fund Call for Proposals for 2008/2009
In the late 1970’s, Ellen Deering established an endowment as a memorial to the C.E. Deering family. Her intent was to support research projects about the history of Northeastern California and the history of CSU, Chico, particularly the development and organization of the University Archives. Mrs. Deering required that copies of all projects funded from the Endowment be deposited in Meriam Library Special Collections.
Proposals for the 2008/09 competition should be sent to Carolyn Dusenbury/Deering Endowment Project Director/Meriam Library/CSU, Chico/Chico, CA 95929-0295.
Applications must be received by or postmarked on May 2, 2008.
Proposals are reviewed by the Ellen Deering Committee. Successful applicants will be notified by June 15, 2008.
For Deering Endowment Fund information and guidelines, please contact Carolyn Dusenbury.
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Free Speech Evaluations
The Communication Sciences and Disorders Program provides assessments for a variety of communication disorders (articulation, language, voice, stuttering and problems associated with brain injury, stroke and neurological impairments).
We are currently offering free speech/language evaluations to faculty, staff, students and their dependents. Please call the Center at 898-5871 to schedule an appointment.
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Turner/Chico Museum to Present Marcel Duchamp Art Exhibit, March 12-April 27
The exhibition “Marcel Duchamp: About the Large Glass and Related Works” will be held at The Turner/Chico Museum, March 12 to April 27, 2008.
The centerpiece of this exhibition will be a replica of Duchamp’s major work The Large Glass that was produced in 1990 by Chico students under the direction of CSU, Chico Art Professor James McManus. Related works include reconstructions of Fountain, Three Standard Stoppages, and Bicycle. Joining these objects are important works by Marcel Duchamp, borrowed for this exhibition, including his Notes in a Green Box and A l’infinitif.
On March 12, Dr. Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of several books, including the definitive work on Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass, will be the guest speaker in the Humanities Center (Trinity Hall 100) at 5:30pm. The title of her talk is “Readymade Talk of What Goes on in the [Large] Glass”: Marcel Duchamp, Science/Technology, and Bergsonist Cubism.”
A reception for Professors Henderson and McManus will follow the lecture at the Chico Museum.
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Organic and Grass-Fed Ground Beef Sales: College of Agriculture
The college of agriculture is now providing Organic, Grass-fed and a Grain-fed variety of ground beef to the campus community. The beef was raised locally at the CSU, Chico Agriculture Teaching and Resource Center by CSU, Chico agriculture students. Orders can be made online and the beef will be delivered to your campus address or you can pick it up on-farm every Friday.
Visit our web page and get your ground beef today.
Contact Kari Dodd, Research Associate of the College of Agriculture, for more information: 530-898-5921 or buybeef@gmail.com
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New - Paper Sample Books from University Printing Services
University Printing Services is very pleased to announce that we now stock 32 paper colors to make your documents stand out and be noticed. All but two of the color choices are recycled and contain a minimum of 30% post consumer waste; three are 100% recycled.
New paper sample books were sent to departments via campus mail. Each color sample is clearly marked with recycling information and size availability. In addition, all of our stock papers are available in both bond and cover weights. For those needing detailed information regarding the weight of each paper, please go to our online paper matrix.
To go along with the sample books, the price guide has been updated. While most of our prices remain unchanged since 2006, the updated price guide and sample book are designed to work together so you can easily determine your cost per copy based on the paper you choose. As always, you will find our prices are extremely competitive.
If your department did not receive a new sample packet, or would like to have extra sample books, please contact us:
University Printing Services
Siskiyou Hall, Rm 118, x5992
Hours: M - F, 8am to 5pm
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Study Skills Workshop This Week
March 12 (Wednesday)
Planning Your Study Time- 6pm - 7pm Julie Brown (presenter)
Location: MLIB 226
Workshops are free - students can sign up in advance at the Student Learning Center (Meriam Library 458) or by calling 898-6839.
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Sustainability and Cost Saving Benefits of the IKON/Ricoh Machines
The University is encouraged to use all features of the IKON Convenience Copiers—copy, print, fax—to increase the University’s sustainability and to reduce overall costs. Use of the IKON/Ricoh machines is supported by AS Recycling, The Institute for Sustainable Development, and University Printing Services. The many benefits associated with full utilization of the IKON Convenience Copiers are detailed on the web site.
IKON representatives will be on campus March 19 & 26 and are available to train departments on all the features of the IKON Convenience Copiers—copy, print, fax. To schedule training or for more information, please call University Printing Services at x5992. You may also go to University Printing Service’s web site for instructions to connect your computer to the copier for network printing.
To schedule training with the IKON representative, please contact:
University Printing Services; PH x5992
Hours: M - F, 8am to 5pm
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Defensive Driver Training
The CSU Vehicle Use Policy requires that State employees (including student employees) complete Defensive Driver Training every four years in order to drive a State, rental, or privately-owned vehicle on State business. In an effort to meet the needs of the Campus, the Vehicle Reservations Office is offering Defensive Driver Training each week.
Employees can confirm the date of their last training by inquiring at vehicles@csuchico.edu. Reponses will typically be by return e-mail on the next business day.
Please have your California Driver License number and expiration date, and CSU, Chico employee/student ID number available at the time of the class.
Location and time varies by session. To view the availability of sessions, location, and to register, log into the Web Based Training (WBT) system and click on the Course Catalog menu — the workshops are posted under the EH&S tab.
If you need assistance logging into the WBT system, please contact EH&S.
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New Student Group: The CSU, Chico Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Please announce the first meeting of this new group to your students.
The CSU, Chico Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence will prevent gun violence through legislation, outreach, working with survivors of gun violence, working with the media, and building local coalitions. The first event will be on April 16, 2008 (the one year anniversary of the 32 murdered at Virginia Tech) in the form of a lie-in in memory of all victims of gun violence.
Students interested in participating with this group are invited to attend the first meeting this Wed., March 12 at 5pm at Woodstock’s Pizza (East 2nd and Main St) for free pizza.
Questions? Call Christian (530)897-5304 or email him at ChicoStateBrady@aol.com. You may also address inquiries to Michael Coyle, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science. Please announce.
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Symphonic Wind Concert to Trace Evolution of Band Music, March 13
Symphonic Wind Ensemble: Evolutions
Thurs., March 13 at 7:30pm
Harlen Adams Theatre
For a remarkable walk through musical time, conductor Royce Tevis illustrates band music’s evolution from Holst’s First Suite (1909) to Grainger’s Colonial Song (1918) to Three Japanese Dances (1933) by Bernard Rogers to Prokofiev’s March, Op 99 (1943) to Perischetti’s Symphony for Band (1956). The 2001 Timepiece by Condy McTee completes the show.
Purchase tickets at the University Box Office, 898-6333.
More information is available online.
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Anthony Grafton Rescheduled, March 26
Wednesday, March 26
CSU, Chico’s Presidential Scholar and Humanities Center’s Book Theme Guest Lecture “Explosions in the Scholars’ Garden: The Forgotten Tradition of Libraries in the Western Tradition” 7:30pm, PAC 134 (Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall)
And again on
Thursday, March 27
Interview with Lawrence Bryant, Department of History: “Scholars, Students, and Books: From the Middle Ages to Today” 3:30pm, Trinity 100 (Humanities Center Gallery)
Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, is one of the most respected historians of early modern Europe in the world. He has published widely on the history of libraries, books, and scholarship. Grafton has been the recipient of many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the prestigious international Balzan Prize for the History of Humanities, the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award. Grafton is a public intellectual, whose fluid, witty writing makes his deep erudition accessible beyond the academy. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar and The New Yorker, and he enjoys the reputation of being an excellent public speaker.
Call Troy Jollimore, director of the Humanities Center, for more information: 898-5122.
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Chico Bach Festival Begins Tonight
The Sixth Annual Chico Bach Festival will present “The Legacy of J. S. Bach” at 7:30pm this evening in the Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall and at 7:30pm on March 11 in Harlen Adams Theatre.
Tonight’s concert will feature two Bach works for solo voices accompanied by strings and harpsichord. Soprano Daun Hayes and alto Ruth Greenfield will perform Bach’s motet “Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden”, based on Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater”. Soprano Dara Scholz and baritone Lawrence Weller will perform Bach’s famous secular cantata “Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht.” This piece, known as the “Coffee Cantata,” features a humorous father-daughter satire about caffeine addiction.
There will be a free student recital tomorrow, Tues., March 11, at 3pm in the Recital Hall (PAC 134) featuring works of Bach, Handel and Mendelssohn for harpsichord, piano, violin and guitar.
Tomorrow evening the CSU, Chico A cappella Choir and Chamber Singers will present Bach’s motet, “Lobet den Herrn” and his famous chorale cantata, “Christ lag in Todesbanden”, as well as Mendelssohn’s chorale cantata, “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten”, and his beautiful motet “Grant Us Thy Peace.”
Tickets for the evening concerts are available at the University Box Office.
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University Film Series: THE NINTH GATE (Polanski, 2000), hosted by Troy Jollimore, March 25
University Film Series
Tuesdays at 7:30pm
Little Theatre (Ayres 106)
$3 donation appreciated
898-4642
March 25
The Ninth Gate (2000, Spain/France/U.S.A.) 133 min. Directed by Roman Polanski. Introduced by director of the Humanities Center, Troy Jollimore, Philosophy.*
Johnny Depp is hired to find the two remaining volumes of a 16th-century demonic text, “The Nine Gates,” in which one supposedly holds the key to summoning Satan himself. Frank Langella is a rare-book dealer who hired the book finder to search for the Satanic volume he needs to complete his collection. This conspiracy thriller involving murder, ritual, and the supernatural also stars Lena Olin and Emmanuelle Seigner.
*Part of the Humanities Center’s year-long theme, “The Book.”
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Conversations on Diversity, Perceptions of Powerful Women, March 12
Facilitated by Dr. Lori Beth Way, Professor of Political Science
While women are increasingly visible and vocal participants in medicine, business, politics, and other prestigious fields, most of the powerful positions in the U.S. are still held by men. Why is that? This conversation will focus on the dynamics of women and power. How do women gain power? How are women with power perceived? What kind of issues do powerful women encounter? In what ways do women hold personal, professional, and institutional power? A panel consisting of women from campus and the community will begin our conversation.
Please join us for our Women’s History Month COD in exploring the role of women in our society today. We will be meeting in BMU 210 from 12-1 pm.
Beverages and snacks will be provided. Contact Tray Robinson (898-4764) for more information.
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CSU, Chico Staff Vacancies - Week of March 10, 2008
Closing the Week of 3/10/08:
(08-0020) WEB SERVICES SUPERVISOR (PA/CS III)
(On-Campus Only)
ATEC
Closes: 3/10/08
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(08-0022) ASA I
SOCI
Closes: 3/24/08
(08-0021) ITC - CAREER LEVEL
(Web Development Technician) (On-Campus Only)
WEBD
Closes: 3/24/08
(08-0013) OSA-CAREER LEVEL (Server Administrator)
ESYS
Open until filled; application review: 3/24/08
(08-0011) HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER (Administrator I)
SHR
Open until filled; application review: 2/5/08
(08-0009) HEAD RESIDENT I (ARCC)
UHFS
Open until filled; application review: 3/3/08
(08-0002) CHIEF OF POLICE (Administrator III)
VPBF / UPD
Open until filled; application review: 1/7/08
(07-0160) DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND SERVICES (Administrator III)
FMS
Open until filled; Application review: 1/7/08
(07-0151) DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS (Administrator III)
ADMS
Open until filled; Application review: 1/7/08
(07-0137) DIRECTOR, PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACT SERVICES (Administrator II)
PURC
Open until filled; Application review: As received
Job announcements are on the Web site.
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Faculty TILT Symposium, "Vista Communities Showcase," March 14
Vista sections are not just for the classroom anymore. There are about 50 sections of Blackboard (WebCT) Vista being used by groups and communities on our campus. Some are departmental areas for sharing materials and inviting committees to share collaboratively. Some are areas for communication among student groups. Some are set up as centers for tutoring students; others are graduate students sharing best practices and resources for finding jobs.
Our presenters will show you how they are using their communities, and will discuss their reasoning for using Vista this way. This is a chance to see how Vista can be used beyond the classroom in a variety of different ways. Come with questions and with your own ideas. New communities may be requested through Laura Sederberg, Manager of the Technology and Learning Program, x4326. View the flyer for more information.
Studio A, basement of Meriam Library from 1pm to 3pm.
Laura Sederberg
Manager, TLP
CSU, Chico
lsederberg@csuchico.edu
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