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Summer Delivery of Travel Reimbursement Checks
The mailing process for travel reimbursement checks is delivery to the campus zip of record unless instructions are given to hold the check in Cashiering. In years past many travel reimbursement checks have been misplaced or lost over the summer months due to the absence of employees on 10 or 11 month assignments. Anyone who is expecting a travel reimbursement to be processed in late May, or after, and does not expect to be on campus after the end of the term should attach a SAE to their Travel Expense Claim for mailing to a home or alternate address. Those reimbursement checks without an envelope, or instructions to hold the check for pick-up, will be mailed to the campus zip of record. Therefore, it is recommended, but not required, that SAE’s be included with the TEC for 10 and 11 month employees.
If you are requesting a check be held in Cashiering and you would like to be notified when it is available please attach a note to your travel document with a name and phone number to call.
If you have any questions please contact Travel Accounting at x5766.
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Watershed Literary Magazine Reading, May 15
Watershed Contributors’ Reading
Thurs., May 15
7:30pm
Trinity 100
Come hear contributors from the spring issue read their poetry and fiction. Reading is free. Copies of Watershed, CSU, Chico’s literary magazine, will be available for sale at the reading.
For more information, contact Casey Huff, or 898-5983.
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Songs and Stories: Rob Davidson, English, May 14
The Humanities Center and 1078 Gallery are presenting Rob Davidson in “Warehouse: Songs & Stories,” a one-man, one-hour performance of original music and fiction on Wed., May 14, 7:30pm at 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway. Homemade “bourekas,” small, stuffed and savory pastries, will be on sale.
Rob Davidson’s first book, Field Observations: Stories (Missouri, 2001), won the 2002 Maria Thomas Fiction Award. His second book is The Master and the Dean: The Literary Criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells (Missouri, 2005). His honors include an AWP Intro Journals Project Award, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and ranking as a finalist for both the 2008 Glimmer Train Family Matters contest and the 2006 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize (judged by Chitra Divakaruni). Davidson’s fiction, essays and interviews have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, the AWP Writer’s Chronicle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, ZYZZYVA and elsewhere. As a musician, he has zero credentials—but that is no matter. He is Associate Professor of English and serves on the Humanities Center Board at CSU, Chico.
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Retirement Celebration for Dennis Graham
Please join us in a retirement celebration honoring former Vice President for Business and Finance Dennis Graham on Wed., May 21, from 3pm - 5pm in the Student Services Center lobby. Dennis served as Vice President for Business and Finance for the past 11 years and has been instrumental in our most recent master plan development, and the planning and development of many major capital projects. We are, therefore, extremely pleased to be able to host his retirement party in the newly completed Student Services Center.
Dennis was a leader in bringing sustainability to our campus, which has led to CSU, Chico being recognized as a leader in sustainability in the CSU System. Dennis invited the California Integrated Waste Management board to the table to help in the development of our goal to obtain a GOLD LEED rating for the Student Services building. This planning began six years ago when sustainability and LEED certifications were still developing. He was instrumental in obtaining campus and System buy-in to build sustainable buildings and maintain the existing buildings using sustainable products. His legacy to this campus is not only in the buildings that have been built during his tenure, but also the mindset to build a healthier environment for our future students and generations to come.
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International Forum, May 13
Material Postures: Interrogating Design Responses to Industrial Ruin
Case Studies from Lisbon, Montevideo, London and Beijing presented by Marie Sorenson, Yale University and UC Berkeley
Adaptive re-use is a category of building design and construction that has the potential to stimulate dialogue across historical time periods, beyond social and class boundaries, and between architectural styles from vernacular to classical to high modern. In the best of worlds, industrial buildings and sites survive transformation of an urban or peri-urban district and become fixtures of the everyday public environment. Our cities are filled with grand spaces of the ordinary sort - malls, airport terminals, convention halls. Yet, we lack the ‘sublime’ environments that evoke a popular spirit rather than one of surveillance, consumerism, and authoritarian control. In this talk Sorenson will argue for ‘equal access’ to grand monumental space, and - in contrast - for the necessity of small-scale physical records as well - scuff marks and graffiti, machine parts and stained walls - that are neither sanitized nor ‘archived’ in the sense of being moved off site. Public space can evoke the collective emotion of awe as well as the joy of detail made by the hands of an individual.
Tues., May 13, 5pm - 5:50pm in HOLT 170
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Slow Food CSU, Chico Film Event, May 14
The Slow Food CSU, Chico student organization will be hosting a local cheese tasting and film on Wed., May 14 at 6:30pm in Butte Hall 101.
Come meet local cheese producers just outside of Butte Hall 101 from 6:30pm - 7pm, and join us at 7pm for the Emmy-nominated documentary, “Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the New American Farmer.” For information on this moving film see www.brokenlimbs.org.
Students, faculty, staff, and community members are welcome. $3 donation appreciated.
If you have any questions, contact President Chris Weaver or Faculty Adviser Lori Weber: slowfoodchicostate@gmail.com.
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Anthropology Forum, May 15
Graduate student Alli Bouwman will be presenting this week’s Anthropology Forum entitled, “Effecting Tomorrow’s Today: The Effects of Acryloid B-72 & Duco Cement on the Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen.” The Forum will take place this Thurs., May 15 at 4pm in Ayres Hall 120. This will be the final Anthropology Forum for this semester. The campus and community are welcome to attend.
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CSU, Chico Employees in Need of Donated Leave Credits
The following employees are in need of donated leave credits:
RUBEN CANNY (Staff, Regional and Continuing Education)
LORIE CAVANAUGH (Faculty, School of Social Work)
DIANE CHATLOSH (Faculty, Psychology)
CATHERINE LEY (Faculty, Nursing)
JANE MAURER (Staff, Student Records and Registration)
MARY MINOR (Staff, Student Health Services)
DAVID SIMCOX (Faculty, Recreation and Parks Management)
SANDRA WARNER (Staff, School of Social Work)
SHAWN WRIGHT (Staff, University Farm)
Any CSU, Chico employee who accrues sick leave or vacation leave credits may donate leave credits to other eligible employees on the CSU, Chico campus, regardless of bargaining unit affiliation. Associated Student employees and CSU, Chico University Research Foundation employees are not eligible to donate leave credits to CSU, Chico employees.
If you wish to donate leave credits, you will need to sign the catastrophic leave donation list - which is maintained at the Payroll/Benefits Customer Service Counter (Kendall 222). BECAUSE YOUR SIGNATURE IS REQUIRED, YOUR DONATIONS CANNOT BE ACCEPTED OVER THE PHONE OR VIA E-MAIL.
Per Catastrophic Leave Program guidelines, only the Disability Programs Office or a union representative may solicit for Catastrophic Leave donations; solicitation by any other party is prohibited.
If you have questions, please contact the (Employee) Disability Programs Office, x5436.
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Back by Popular Demand - Faculty GRC Workshop, May 28
Faculty have requested a workshop, after finals week, focusing on the Grant Resource Center (GRC) data base for project funding. RESP staff are happy to oblige.
Join RESP May 28 at 1pm at 25 Main Street for a hands-on session on using the GRC database to search for funding and RFPs. Bring your laptop if you wish. For more information, call 898-5700.
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