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Defensive Driver Training - Sept. 16
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 to vehicles@csuchico.edu. Responses 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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Sign Language Class Offered
Are you interested in learning sign language?
Did you know that DSS has offered a Beginning Sign Language class every semester since Fall 98? The class will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 3:30pm - 4:45pm and begins Sept. 17, and will last until Finals Week. The class is fun, low-key, and free, and any faculty, staff, or student staff is welcome to join. Contact Adele Harth at x5959 for more information or to join.
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Counseling and Wellness: Name Change, New Location, and New Groups this Semester
The Counseling and Wellness Center, has relocated to the new student services building (SSC 430). Our new title (we dropped the term “Psychological”) matches the spirit of our new location. It is lighter, brighter and more “student friendly”. The Counseling and Wellness Center offers personal confidential counseling (group, individual, couples) to regularly enrolled students. As group counseling has been found to be more effective than individual work for certain kinds of issues, the following groups will be offered this fall:
Assertive Self-Esteem
Better Relationships
Got Motivation?
Making Peace with Food and Body
Women’s Relationships
Disabled Students Support and
Bipolar Support
For more information about our services and our groups, stop by, visit our Web site, or call 898-6345.
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Religious Holidays Observed
As a follow up to the Provost’s earlier memo regarding the Interfaith Calendar, students observing the Jewish High Holy Days should not be penalized for missing classes and should be accommodated for exams and papers due during this Holy time.
Rosh Hashanah, beginning at sundown on Sept. 29 and ending at sundown on Oct. 1, and Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, begins at sundown on Oct. 8 and ends one hour after sundown on Oct. 9, are intensive holidays involving a great deal of prayer and prohibition against any kind of work being performed. On other Jewish holidays throughout the year, such as Chanukah, work can be performed and missing classes is not an issue.
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Student Computing Workshops
Student Computing is presenting these workshops this week:
Tues., Sept. 16
Excel I 2007
5pm - 6pm in MLIB 457
Wed., Sept. 16
MS 2007 Ribbon Overview
12pm - 12:50pm in MLIB 457
Wed., Sept. 17
Excel I 2007
5pm - 6pm in MLIB 457
Faculty, Staff and Students are welcome to attend these workshops. No sign-up is required - just drop-in.
The Excel I 2007 workshop is an introduction and overview of the concepts and components of worksheets. The workshop will show you how to use the Ribbon and highlights other changes in Excel that will help you make better worksheets.
The MS Ribbon 2007 workshop is an overview of the most noticeable change in Office 2007. The Ribbon is the tall band across the top of the MS Office 2007 screen that contains the most popular commands and editing options.
For more information about the Student Computing workshops visit the Student Computing Workshops Web site or contact Melinda Ferris: x5008.
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Name Change: Jody Medearis is now Jody Prusia
Jody Medearis, ASA II for the Advancement Office for the College of Behavioral and Social Science is now Jody Prusia. My new e-mail address is jprusia@csuchico.edu and my contact phone number remains as 898-3022. Thank you.
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This Way To Sustainability IV, Nov. 6-9
Mark your calendars and register now for “This Way To Sustainability IV” to be held Nov. 6-9, 2008. For more information and to register, please go to the Web site.
This event is free for students/faculty and staff.
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New and Upcoming Trips for Adventure Outings.
We have added an additional American River Rafting trip the weekend of October 25-26. The American is the most commercially rafted river in the US with rapids like Troublemaker, Satan’s Cesspool, and Triple Threat. Sign up today and come see what all the fuss is about, you won’t be disappointed.
October 25, 26
Students: $65
General: $75
Next up, this weekend we have some spots available on a backpacking trip to Juniper Lake in Lassen National Forest. Juniper lake is the largest in a string of lakes on the east side of Lassen. Come explore a natural playground that’s just a short distance from Chico.
September 19 - 21
Students: $55
General: $65
The first weekend of October we will be heading to our Yurt just outside of Jonesville via bicycle. Friday afternoon we’ll take the casual ride in to the Yurt where you can relax and hang out for the evening in comfort. On Sunday we’ll ride up a forest road to the Colby Mountain Fire Lookout, then come flying downhill on your bike on the safety of a wide graded trail.
October 3 - 4
Students: $40
General: $50
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CSU, Chico Warehouse Live Auction Tomorrow
The Office of Property Management at California State University, Chico, would like to invite you to our surplus property auction. Items include desks, filing cabinets, bookshelves, electronics, chairs, tables, and much much more.
These items are cash only and payable at the time of purchase. Viewing hours are 11am to 12noon. The auction will begin promptly at 12:10pm on Tues., Sept. 16, 2008, located at the Warehouse, 810 Oak Street, Suite 100, Chico. Be early, as the auction moves fast.
At the time of purchase, you must provide a vehicle to take all items selected by 3pm. Items will not be held for later removal.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give the Office of Property Management a call at 898-5176 or 898-6559.
Please share this information with your student assistants, your family, and friends. We look forward to seeing you at the Auction.
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Chico World Music Festival Coming Up Sept. 20 & 21
Chico Performances is proud to present the 15th annual Chico World Music Festival held on Saturday, Sept. 20 and Sunday, Sept. 21. Headlining this year’s festival will be a performance by Tommy Emmanuel Friday, Sept. 19 in Laxson Auditorium. A ticket is required for this performance and can be purchased at the University Box Office.
The daytime festivities for Saturday and Sunday are free and include:
Free daytime performances on Saturday & Sunday
Free art classes by Chico Art Center instructors
Free children’s crafts by the Museum of Anthropology
Crafts from around the world
An art display by Chico Unified students
International food booths
The daytime festivities will run both Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 5pm and are free and open to the public.
For more information on the Chico World Music Festival, performer schedules and art class schedules, please visit the Web site.
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International Forum: "Pakistan: A Historical and Contemporary Glimpse at the Land of the Pure," Sept. 23
Professor Mahan Mirza of the Religious Studies Department, CSU, Chico, will be presenting “Pakistan: A Historical and Contemporary Glimpse at the Land of the Pure” on Sept. 23 from 5pm - 6pm In Holt 170 on the CSU, Chico campus.
Mahan Mirza was born and raised in Pakistan. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and has done his graduate work in Islamic Studies from Hartford Seminary and Yale University. His Ph.D. dissertation is on the religious ideas of the medieval Muslim astronomer al-Biruni (d. 1048).
The public is invited. For further information, please contact Tony Waters, 898-4145.
Synopsis
This multimedia presentation on the geography, demographics, history and politics of Pakistan will provide some context to the news heard by the average American observer on this important part of the world.
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Three Cups of Tea Reading Group Meeting, Sept. 23
On Sept. 23 in Common Grounds (inside the BMU) from 4:30pm - 5:30pm, please join us for the formation of campus & community reading groups focused on this year’s Book in Common, Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea.
This gathering is designed to bring together students, staff, faculty and interested community members for mixed reading groups that will meet twice in the fall (in October and in November) at times and places that work for the group members. We are asking that groups meet one more time, in the spring, just before or just after Greg Mortenson’s campus visit. Reading group members are eligible to win tickets for Mortenson’s talk on April 21 in Laxson Hall (this event is already completely booked).
Questions? Call Thia Wolf at 898-6579. Come be a part of our Reading Community — and bring a friend.
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Back by Popular Demand: David Chameides, Sept. 24
Learn about sustainable living. It is the little things that make a difference. Hear how David and his family lived with his trash for one year. He presents an argument in favor of practicing conservation in the broader ambition of living a more sustainable lifestyle. Join us Sept. 24 in PAC 144 at 1pm. Free and open to the public.
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CELT Faculty Development Workshops
In addition to the CELT Conference, Oct. 8-10 (registration at the Web site), CELT is continuing to provide faculty development opportunities with its monthly workshops. We have established a website for registration. The first one will be this week on Wed., Sept. 17 and repeated on Thurs., Sept. 18. This will be followed by a brown bag discussion at noon on Friday, Sept. 19 in Holt 119.
The First Day of Class
12 noon, MLIB Studio A
Presented by: Eddie Vela, assoc. dean, BSS and Thia Wolf, director, First Year Experience.
Register online.
These opportunities to engage with others across the campus can help keep teaching vital and refreshed with new perspectives. While you are in the Web site, take a look and register for the other upcoming workshops. We look forward to seeing you.
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