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News Release: College of Business' SIFE Program Receives Grant from Target
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 24, 2008
CONTACT: Joe Wills
Tel: 530-898-4143
College of Business’ SIFE Program Receives Grant from Target
California State University, Chico has received a $5,000 grant from Target in recognition of its efforts in volunteerism through SIFE - Students in Free Enterprise. This grant will be used for SIFE’s Wise Kid/Healthy Kid program, in which SIFE helps 4th, 5th and 6th graders learn entrepreneurial skills.
Each semester SIFE invites the elementary school children to campus for four Saturdays to teach them the basics of business. This fall there are approximately 70 youngsters in the program.
During the program the students are shown how to develop a product, create a business and marketing plan, then create their product and sell it at the Chico Farmers Market. Each student is given $10 from SIFE for their start-up capital. On a Saturday following the program, the students sell their products.
The complete news release is available online.
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Property Management's Tips of the Quarter
Property Management would like to invite you to view our surplus furniture selection at 810 Oak St., Suite 100. We have desks in a variety of shapes and sizes, executive chairs, task chairs, filing cabinets and much more. Our hours are from 9am - 11am and 1pm - 3pm the first Thursday of every month. We look forward to seeing you there.
Does your department have office equipment that just isn’t being used anymore and would like to have taken away? If the equipment has a state decal, fill out a Property Management Transaction Form to transfer the equipment from your inventory and submit a move request with FMS to have the moving crew pick up the items and deliver to the PMO.
The Property Management Staff would like to say “thank you” to all departments for completing the Spring 2008 inventories.
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Register Now - Low Enrollment in 2 Literature Courses
Two English department classes for Spring 2009 are about to be canceled due to low enrollment. If you want to take these classes be sure to register now.
The following courses will be canceled soon unless more students sign up for them:
Eng 358-01 Survey of Early American Literature, TR 2pm - 3:15pm. Course description available online.
Eng 356-02 Survey of Early British Literature, TR 11am - 12:15pm. Course description available online.
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WREC Electrical Shutdown 11/28-29
Good Morning Wildcats - the contractor has extended the scheduled electrical shutdown to connect the Wildcat Recreation Center to the main 12KV line on Friday, Nov. 28 at 6am through Sat., Nov. 29 at 6pm. Buildings on the south side of campus will lose power, heating and ventilation, so occupancy is prohibited. Please take precautionary measure to turn off your computer and sensitive electronic devices during this shutdown. For safety reasons, power will be restored to campus for night lighting. Traffic control will be in effect along W. 1st Street at the construction site.
Thanks for your continued patience as we get closer to opening the WREC. Questions or concerns, please contact Lynda H. Miracle , Construction Projects Manager x3466.
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Building Temperature SSC, Nov. 24-25
Greetings Wildcats - before our days become blustery, Turner Construction will be making adjustments to the air handler unit in the Student Services Center. Beginning Mon., Nov. 24 at 7am and completing work on Tues., Nov. 25 at 5pm, the cold air handler unit will be down. Other building fans will be operating throughout to maintain the building’s air quality standards. However, some areas may experience slightly cooler or warmer temperatures than usual. Cool daytime temperatures are forecast, giving us ideal conditions for this work. FMS recommends that you dress in layers and bring a sweater as temperatures will fluctuate throughout the day. Your indulgence is greatly appreciated as we tie up construction loose ends. For questions or concerns, please contact Rob Thacker, Project Manager, Student Service Center x3890.
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End of Year Donations to CSU, Chico
As the end of the year approaches, many CSU, Chico supporters will want to make gifts to the University. While the campus is officially closed from Dec. 22 through Jan. 2, University Advancement staff will be on campus during the closure to accept and process gifts.
You can help us ensure donors giving by cash, check, or credit card are credited with their 2008 tax-deductible gift in the following ways:
1. Direct donors to University Advancement’s secure online giving site. Donors can use their credit cards to make a gift that will be processed immediately.
2. Deliver any gifts received during the month of December directly to Sapp Hall, zip 155 for immediate processing.
3. Donors may mail their gift directly to: The University Foundation, CSU, Chico, 95929-0155 to ensure they are postmarked by December 31.
4. Deliver any December gifts received after January 2 to Cashiering as soon as possible the week of January 5 to ensure proper credit.
For process details and deadlines related to gifts of securities, please contact Gary Salberg at extension 5959. Submit signed gift-in-kind forms to University Advancement at zip 155 by Jan. 9, 2009 in order to be counted for 2008.
Please call University Advancement at extension 5297 if you have any questions regarding end-of-year donations, processes, or issues.
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Announcement Publication Schedule
Due to the upcoming holiday, Campus Announcements will not be published on Wed., Nov. 26 and Student Announcements will not be published on Friday, Nov. 28. Announcements will resume their normal publication on Mon., Dec. 1.
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Postbaccalaureate Applications Open Until March 1
The Graduate School will be accepting applications until the published deadline of March 1, 2009. You may have heard that undergraduate applications may be closing on November 30 this year. However, this will not apply to applicants for master’s programs and qualifying for a credential. Please advise any potential graduate students to apply on CSUMentor.edu.
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Auschwitz Survivor Will Speak After Break, Dec. 1
Monday, December 1
7:30pm, PAC 144
Living with her family in Hungary. Renee Firestone was deported with hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in 1944. Her mother was gassed immediately upon arrival at the extermination camp. Her 14-year-old sister was subjected to medical experiments and died. Her father died soon after Allied troops liberated the camp. Renee was one of the lucky few who survived. Since then, she has devoted her life to those who perished by fighting hate in their memory. She is a tireless leader in many areas of social justice and Holocaust remembrance and education. For the last thirty years, Firestone has worked with the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Educational Outreach Program in Los Angeles, a program that she helped create. She has told her story often to many different education, religious and community groups around the country. She was featured in Spielberg’s Academy Award winning documentary, “The Last Days.” She is also in two additional Academy Award nominated films, the “Freedom Writers’ Diary” and “Swimming in Auschwitz.” Her visit is sponsored by the Departments of Sociology and Religious Studies and the Nelson Avenue Middle School in Thermalito. This event is free and open to the public.
Contact Carol Edelman, x6148, for further information.
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TSA Fund Sponsors (ING and Fidelity) on Campus, Nov. 26
ING and Fidelity, two of the fund sponsors for the new TSA program, will be on campus Wed., Nov. 26, to provide information to employees and answer questions from 11:30am to 1pm in Kendall hall room 207 and 209. For a full schedule of fund sponsor visits please see the schedule by going to the web site and clicking the link to view the scheduled visits. If you have any questions please contact the campus TSA alternate Coordinator, Cindy Chamberlain, x6483.
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Please Come to the First GE Design Forum on Dec. 12
A General Education Design Team has been charged by the Provost to “engage in a deep, deliberative examination of the current General Education program and the policies that guide it, and through consultation revise General Education to improve student learning of the essential knowledge, skills and attributes for an educated participant in civic and intellectual life in the 21st century.”
The team invites all interested faculty, staff, students, and alumni to the first Forum on GE Design on Dec. 12, 2008 in Kendall 207/209 from 2pm - 4pm. The objective of this first Forum is to orient the campus to the general goals of GE and seek input on specific ideas for GE structure, intellectual focus, and design. This will be one of many opportunities to bring your creative ideas about this important part of our curriculum to the forefront. This cumulative effort is essential for creating a GE program for the 21st century.
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CSU, Chico Warehouse Live Auction
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 Thurs., Dec. 18, 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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TSA Fund Sponsors (AIG and MetLife) on Campus, Nov. 25
AIG and MetLife, two of the fund sponsors for the new TSA program, will be on campus Tues., Nov. 25, to provide information to employees and answer questions from 11:30am to 1pm in Kendall hall room 207 and 209. For a full schedule of fund sponsor visits please see the schedule by going to the web site and clicking the link to view the scheduled visits. If you have any questions please contact the campus TSA alternate Coordinator, Cindy Chamberlain, x6483.
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Humanities Center Gallery in December: David Johnson@Eighty: A Retrospective (1947-2008)
December 2-19
Humanities Center Gallery, 898-4642
Trinity 100 and Hallway, hours: M-F 8am - 5pm
Thurs., Dec. 4, Reception, 5pm - 7pm
Artist’s talk at 6pm, introduced by colleague and friend Ira H. Latour
The Humanities Center Gallery joins the University Art Gallery (UAG), The Turner, 1078 Gallery, and Avenue 9 Gallery in this fall’s tribute to the photography of Ansel Adams and the photographers and artists Adams influenced. David Johnson is one such photographer, and we are fortunate to be showing his works — because of the good efforts of his friends Ira H. Latour (whose Portraiture and Place just closed at the 1078) and Tom Patton, director of the photography program at CSU, Chico and co-curator with Jason Tannen of the UAG’s recent Nature & Spirit: The Landscape Photographs of Ansel Adams.
A photographer with over half a century of experience, David Johnson has the distinction of being Ansel Adam’s first African American student at the California School of Fine Arts, now known as the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduating from CSFA, Johnson went on to establish his own studio on Fillmore Street diligently documenting the development of the neighborhood during the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s.
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University Film Series: 'The History Boys,' Dec. 2
University Film Series
Tuesdays at 7:30pm
Ayres 106
898-4642
$3 donation appreciated
Dec.2
The History Boys (2006, U.K.) 109 min. Written and directed by Alan Bennett. Hosted by Laura Nice, Humanities Program, for the History Club (PHATHH) and in conjunction with the Humanities Center’s year-long theme “Regarding Beauty.”
In 1980s Britain, a group of young men at Cutlers’ Grammar School all have the brains, and the will to earn the chance of getting accepted in the finest universities in the nation, Oxford and Cambridge. Despite the fine teaching by excellent professionals like Mrs. Lintott in history and the intellectually enthusiastic Hector in General Studies, the Headmaster is not satisfied. He signs on the young Irwin to polish the students’ style to give them the best chance. In this mix of intellectualism and creative spirit that guides a rigorous preparation regime for that ultimate educational brass ring, the lives of the randy students and the ostensibly restrained faculty intertwine that would change their lives forever.
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Czech it Out, Dec. 2
Study Abroad Office presents - Czech language lesson and goulash.
When: Tues., Dec. 2 at 7pm
Where: SSC 406 - Study Abroad Office
Interested in studying in the Czech Republic, curious about the language or already been there and want to go back? Then come join us for a quick lesson in Czech basics and some FREE goulash, a common Czech meal.
For more information, contact the Study Abroad Office at 898-5415.
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German Film Night, Dec. 2
Study Abroad Presents: Good Bye Lenin!
When: Tues., Dec. 2 at 7pm
Where: Langdon 104
Come enjoy a great German film with us! Snacks and drinks will be provided.
Questions? Contact us at studabr@csuchico.edu or (530) 898-5415.
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