News
Information
Events
- University Film Series: BLUE VINYL, Oct. 20
- University Film Series: Kurosawa's THRONE OF BLOOD, Oct. 27
- Open House for the Gateway Science Museum, Oct. 16
- Humanities Center Tertulia: Jessica Clark, HC's "Memory, Nostalgia, Ruins" theme, Oct. 29
- International Forum, Oct. 20
- Nikki Giovanni Reading, Oct. 23
- Who Are the Soloists Among Us? A Discussion of Homelessness and Mental Illness in Butte County
- Anti-Traffcking Meeting This Week, Oct. 14
- Chico Performances Presents Rock, Pop and Blues with Joan Osborne, the Holmes Brothers and Paul Thorn, Oct. 15
- Sphinx Chamber Orchestra is coming to Chico, Oct. 21
- Printmaking Exhibition: Two Views/ Two Printmakers
Staff Human Resources/Faculty Affairs
Workshops
CANCELLATION: TILT Symposium Wed., Oct. 14
“Getting Student Feedback with Bb Vista Surveys” has been canceled this Wednesday due to illness. Please check the TLP Web site for when this will be rescheduled, and when the archive is available for online viewing.
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Important Information Regarding Mailing Services
The Shipping and Receiving department will not be staffed on campus wide furlough days. Departments should take into account how their deliveries may be affected on furlough days. Special attention should be given to priority, overnight, and expedited deliveries that may be returned to the vendor if delivery is attempted on these days. This factor becomes increasingly important in relation to temperature sensitive items that require refrigeration or freezing.
Many vendors do not utilize companies with local shipping stations. The use of such carriers, when attempting delivery on a furlough day, will result in the truck drivers having an extended layover. In some such cases, the customer will incur charges relating to the unexpected layover.
Please feel free to contact Warehouse Operations at ext. 4320, if you any questions or concerns.
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Sock Drive for the Homeless
The Health Professionals Association and the department of Health and Community Services (HCSV) have added a sock drive to their annual efforts in the Harvest Food Drive.
Foot problems are the most common and persistent health problem for the homeless. Socks provide prevention and treatment for such problems. Help us by donating socks or cash for the purchase of socks. 50 cents will buy one sock, $1.00 for a pair.
Donations can be dropped off at the HCSV department office in Butte 607 during the month of October. Or come by and donate at the HPA booth on Oct. 21 from 10am - 2pm in the Glenn/Siskiyou breezeway. Thank you for your generosity.
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The Wellness Center Presents "Addicted to Love"
“Addicted to Love” is not your average relationship advice. Are you wondering if your relationship is based on Love or Lust? Are you thinking your relationship is too much work? Do you want simple relationship advice? Come find the answers to those questions and more at the “Addicted to Love” forum Tues., Oct. 20 in Yolo 178 from 5pm - 6pm hosted by the Campus Wellness Center. The forum will be presented by David Hibbard, Ph.D. and Gail Walton, Ph.D., who will answer questions and provide general information on how to build healthy relationships and improve existing relationships. This is a free opportunity open to all students.
Also make sure to check out the Wellness Center’s entire list of upcoming events at the Web site.
For additional information on the Wellness Center and/or upcoming events please contact the Wellness Center via telephone at 530.898.4697, come into the Student Services Building #430 or visit us on the Web site.
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Wellness Center Tabling for Domestic Violence Awareness
Stop by the Wellness Center tabling today to show your support for healthy relationships. The Wellness Center will be in the Glenn-Siskiyou area from 9am - 12pm. We will be making a painting to show support - so come by and lend your artistic ability. We hope to see you there.
Thanks for your support and remember to be well.
For additional information on the Wellness Center and/or upcoming events please contact the Wellness Center via telephone at 530.898.4697, come into the Student Services Building #430 or visit us on the Web.
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Chico State Friends of Animals Announces Facebook Page
Chico State Friends of Animals (FOA) has recently launched a Facebook Fan Page, “Chico State Friends of Animals.” FOA is a nonprofit group of Chico State faculty and staff concerned about the welfare of animals. To learn more about our organization, including our upcoming pet food drive to benefit local Meals on Wheels clients, visit our new Fan page.
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We Need Your Old Lanyards
Dear Faculty and Staff,
I’m sure you all have been to many conferences during your professional career. Please look around and see if you have any old lanyards or plastic name tag sleeves that you could kindly donate to the This Way to Sustainability Conference. We too have been hit by the budget crisis, and would like to stick with our sustainable mission by reusing rather than purchasing new.
If you do find some, please either put it in an inter-office envelope and send it through campus mail to AS Sustainability (zip 750) or save an envelope and drop it off at the front desk in BMU 301. To make it exciting, we will keep track of which department or person provides us with the most, and you will receive a special shout out at the Thursday evening Welcome Reception. Thank you for your help.
Deanna Dottai - TWTS V Planning Team, TWTS@csuchico.edu.
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Cash for a Cancer Cure
Show your support for finding a cure, improved treatment, and prevention practices for cancer. The Chico State Relay for Life team is collecting donations for the American Cancer Society. Cash for a Cure canisters are in various offices around campus and any amount, large or small, is welcome. One hundred percent of funds raised will go the Cancer Society to help with research, services, education, and advocacy. Donations can also be sent to Peggy Armocido at zip 502.
Find canisters in Butte 615, 701, 741; Holt Hall 101; Housing, Kendall 106, 206; Modoc 215; Student Services 406, 440, 460; MLIB basement 001, and other offices.
Thank you for supporting the Chico State Relay for Life Team in the fight against cancer. The Relay team is made up of staff and students and is in its eighth year of participation. The team is sponsored by Staff Council. They will host numerous fundraisers throughout the year, including a pizza fund raiser Nov. 12, prior to the April Relay.
For more information or to become a team member, contact Peggy at x5751 or e-mail parmocido@csuchico.edu.
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"From Where I Sit" Video Series
In honor of Disability Awareness Month, DSS invites you to explore the “From Where I Sit” video series- a powerful video series of eight CSU students with disabilities who share their experiences in the college classroom. A unique aspect of this series is the inclusion of faculty responses. A panel of faculty members viewed each video and discussed the issues raised. Their comments are captured and made available in the Faculty Responses section that follows each student’s story. Including faculty responses highlights the need for dialogue and for serious consideration of what is required to support both students and faculty in creating a more accessible and inclusive learning environment.
Watch the “From Where I Sit” videos online.
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2009-10 AY Outstanding Faculty Nominations Due Oct. 19
Nominations for the 2009-2010 AY Outstanding Professor, Outstanding Teacher, Outstanding Academic Adviser, Outstanding Faculty Service, and Outstanding Research Mentor are due to the Academic Senate Office by 4pm on Mon, Oct. 19.
If you have any questions, please contact the Academic Senate office (x6201) or Michelle Morris, FRAS Committee chair (x4757).
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Printmaking Exhibition: Two Views/ Two Printmakers
MFA Candidates Erin Kelly and Megan Moore juxtapose their original prints at Laxson Fine Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibition Two Views/ Two Printmakers.
Erin Kelly’s prints center on her interaction with nostalgic childhood artifacts such as 33 rpm record albums. Megan Moore focuses on organic nature, and microscopic biology in her meticulous printmaking processes. Two Views/ Two Printmakers opens Thurs., Oct. 8 and will run through Nov. 13, 2009 at Laxson Fine Art Gallery in Laxson Auditorium at California State University, Chico.
For more information please contact Elizabeth Newman Kuiper, CSU, Chico Art Department, 530-898-5331.
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Sphinx Chamber Orchestra is coming to Chico, Oct. 21
Chico Performances is presenting the culturally and ethnically diverse musicians of the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra in Laxson Auditorium on Wed., Oct. 21 at 7:30pm.
The Sphinx Chamber Orchestra is an extraordinary string ensemble featuring the top young Black and Latino musicians in the nation, striving to advance diversity in classical music. Fresh from their standing ovation at Carnegie Hall, they will be performing pieces by Mozart, Piazzolla, Guido Gavilán, Tchaikovsky, Marsalis, Bach, and Michael Abels. Also appearing is the acclaimed Harlem Quartet comprised of principle faculty of the Sphinx Performance Academy.
Tickets for this performances are $28 for Premium, $23 for Adult, $21 for Senior, and $16 for Student/Child.
For tickets and more information, please visit the Web site or call the University Box office at 530-898-6333.
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Chico Performances Presents Rock, Pop and Blues with Joan Osborne, the Holmes Brothers and Paul Thorn, Oct. 15
Chico Performances invites you to an evening of pop and blues music by Joan Osborne, the Holmes Brothers, and Paul Thorn, performing on Thurs., Oct. 15, 2009 at 7:30pm in Laxson Auditorium.
Five-time Grammy nominee Joan Osborne (“One of Us”) has toured with Taj Mahal, Spearhead, the Dixie Chicks, and Bob Dylan, showcasing her honeyed blues delivery around the world. The Holmes Brothers mix roadhouse rock with Gospel fervor that touches the roots of the blues. Son of a prizefighter and Pentecostal preacher, Mississippi bluesman Paul Thorn prompted the San Francisco Chronicle to say “the real deal comes along infrequently these days.”
Tickets are $30 Premium, $25 Adult, $23 Senior, and $18 Student/Child.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit the Web site or call the University Box Office at 898-6333.
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Anti-Traffcking Meeting This Week, Oct. 14
S.T.O.P., CSU, Chico’s anti-human trafficking group, will be meeting Wed., at 5pm in BMU 312. Come join in on our petition drive and help select our T-shirt design. There are plenty of activities for everyone. Or just come and see what it’s all about. Everyone welcome.
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Who Are the Soloists Among Us? A Discussion of Homelessness and Mental Illness in Butte County
Undergraduate Education will host a Town Hall focused on issues of homelessness and mental health in Butte County this Wed., Oct. 14, from 6:30pm - 9pm in the BMU auditorium. This is an active problem-solving session open to all interested campus and community members. Participants will sit down together to learn about and discuss local issues affecting the lives of, and services for, our homeless community members and those seeking support for mental health issues.
This event is free and open to the public. It is helpful to the event planners if you would notify us of your interest in attending this event by contacting Becki Clifford or Thia Wolf.
This event is tied to the Community Reading choice: The Soloist, the ‘09-‘10 Book in Common for CSU, Chico and the City of Chico.
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Nikki Giovanni Reading, Oct. 23
Named one of Oprah Winfrey’s “25 Living Legends” in 2006, American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and Grammy nominee Nikki Giovanni will give a public reading in Bell Memorial Union (BMU) auditorium on Friday, Oct. 23 at 7pm. The author of some 30 books for both adults and children, Nikki Giovanni is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
This talk is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow Professor Giovanni’s reading.
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International Forum, Oct. 20
The guest speaker at the October 20 International Forum is Todd Lindstrom, Executive Vice President of Solar Power, Incorporated. He will be speaking about “Manufacturing Solar Modules in China for the American Market.” He works in the Roseville office of Solar Power, Inc. The lecture will be Tues., Oct. 20, 2009, from 5pm - 6pm in Tehama 108 on the CSU, Chico campus.
The International Forum is a weekly lecture series sponsored by the School of International Studies. For more information, contact Tony Waters, (530) 898-4145.
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Humanities Center Tertulia: Jessica Clark, HC's "Memory, Nostalgia, Ruins" theme, Oct. 29
Humanities Center Tertulia
4pm - 5:30pm
Trinity 100 and 126*
Jessica Clark, Department of History
“The Ruins of Memory: Tacitus on Roman Antiquity”
What connects a memory to the past reality it recalls? In Imperial Rome, this connection was mediated by monuments that presented Rome’s glorious past to its meritorious future, grounding memory in the material world. This commemorative system was challenged when the memories in question were unworthy of monumentalization, however; there was no mechanism for transmitting the traumatic. This talk explores one Roman historian’s search for the means of commemorating civil war amidst the ruins of the past it left behind.
*Part of the Humanities Center’s year-long theme, Memory, Nostalgia, Ruins.
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Open House for the Gateway Science Museum, Oct. 16
The Gateway Science Museum is shaping up. Construction is complete and our exhibits are moving in.
Please join us for an open house and refreshments on Friday October 16 from 3:30pm - 4:30pm for all CSU, Chico Faculty and Staff.
Come see our beautiful building, the emerging exhibits, and the collections we’re already sharing with visiting classroom school kids.
Hope to see you at the Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade. For more information, please call 898-4121.
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University Film Series: Kurosawa's THRONE OF BLOOD, Oct. 27
University Film Series
Tuesdays at 7:30pm
Ayres 106 (Little Theatre)
$3 donation appreciated
Oct. 27
Throne of Blood (1957, Japan) 109 min.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Hosted by Robert O’Brien, English and Humanities Center, and Kimihiko Nomura, Foreign Languages and Literatures*
From Anthony Lane (New Yorker, July 2009): The tensest and most charged of Shakespeare films, [this one] is also the foggiest. For a while … you wonder whether, and how, the action will ever break free of the mist. The sense of release, once the film does snap awake is unforgettable: riders racing through glades, heralds yelling news of desperate conflicts. None of the play’s dialogue survives; or, rather, it is distilled into a stream of images both foul and fair. The divided warrior is Washizu (Toshiro Mifune), who is tempted to seek his destiny by a single, thread-spinning spectre (rather than by the usual trio of witches) and urged along by his formidable spouse (Isuzu Yamada), who is herself no more than a glimmering ghost as she emerges from the gloom with a drug to dope the guards.
*Part of the Humanities Center’s year-long theme “Memory, Nostalgia, Ruins.”
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University Film Series: BLUE VINYL, Oct. 20
University Film Series
Tuesdays at 7:30pm
Ayres 106 (Little Theatre)
$3 donation appreciated
Oct. 20
Blue Vinyl
(2004, U.S.A.) 97 min.
Directed by Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold.
Sponsored by Environmental Action Resource Center (EARC) and hosted by Mark Stemen, Geography
A detective story, an eco-activism documentary, and a rollicking comedy. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning cinematographer Daniel B. Gold set out in search of the truth about polyvinyl chloride (PVC), America’s most popular plastic. From Long Island to Louisiana to Italy, they unearth the facts about PVC and its effects on human health and the environment.
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It's Easy Being Green, Nov. 13
The student run organization SCOOP (Sustainable Consultation of Office Practices) will be putting on a “brown bag” lunchtime event. The workshop will include:
• Overview of our mission to provide sustainable tips and free consultations for offices on campus.
• Discussion about the “This Way to Sustainability Conference.” This event is on Nov. 6, 7, and 8. You can sign up at the Web site.
• Guest Speaker: Halli Bovia, CSU, Chico’s Sustainability Coordinator, will discuss CSU, Chico’s sustainability efforts and programs.
• SCOOP members will be providing a series of sustainable tips to cut costs for the holidays, providing simple and easy ways to have an environmentally friendly holiday.
As a student run organization we want to reach out to our staff here on campus by involving them with students’ passion about becoming more sustainable. We hope that staff members feel the same way and will join us. Bring your lunch.
Title: SHRM - It’s Easy Being Green
Date & Time: Nov. 13, 2009, (Fri) 12pm - 1pm
Location: SSC 206
Presenter: SCOOP (Sustainable Consultation of Office Practices) & Halli Bovia, CSU, Chico Sustainability Coordinator
Click here to download a list of other HR/LEARN trainings scheduled for Fall 2009. For more information or if you have trouble registering, contact Beverly Delker Gentry, Staff Human Resources Management - Training and Development, (530) 898-4666.
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Beginning Business Writing & Editing - Nov. 9
This 90- minute workshop is designed to help campus writers and editors communicate more effectively by examining strategies that good writers use to revise and edit their work. We’ll review the University Style Sheet, analyze common errors in university documents, and work on exercises to sharpen your editorial eye.
Please bring any samples you have from your work and questions you have about writing and editing business communication.
Title: USDP - Beginning Business Writing & Editing
Date & Time: Nov. 9, 2009, (Mon.) 10am - 11:30am
Location: MLIB 043 Studio A
Presenter: Casey Huff is the university publications editor and coordinator of the literary editing and publishing certificate program at CSU, Chico.
Click here to download a list of other HR/LEARN trainings scheduled for Fall 2009. For more information or if you have trouble registering, contact Beverly Delker Gentry, Staff Human Resources Management - Training and Development, (530) 898-4666.
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What I Do "Best" Is My Best Work, Nov. 5
Leading others begins with leading ourselves. Just as a good leader will know the strengths of their team members, so we as individuals must know our own strengths and abilities. Choosing and working within our strengths leads to a better contribution to the organization. At the same time we make a deeper contribution at work, we also find greater satisfaction and energy in the work we do. This seminar will allow you to label and better understand your strengths in the workplace. You will leave not only with a new understanding of your abilities but also a plan to use them at work. Your “next step” action plan takes the seminar back to your office.
Title: USDP - What I Do “Best” Is My Best Work
Date & Time: Nov. 5, 2009, (Thurs.) 10am - 11:30am
Location: MLIB 043 Studio A
Presenter: Robert Sprague, College of Business
Click here to download a list of other HR/LEARN trainings scheduled for Fall 2009. For more information or if you have trouble registering, contact Beverly Delker Gentry, Staff Human Resources Management - Training and Development, (530) 898-4666.
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Stress Management, Oct. 19 & 22
Learning to Flow: 3 Steps to Ending Your Stress
In this workshop you will learn to identify the ways in which you create your own stress along with strategies to bring these patterns to an end:
• Learn to center within Reality rather than fighting it.
• Identify the two operating systems within you that are constantly vying for your support. Which one will free you from your struggle?
• Learn to participate in the current challenge you are facing and allow it to teach and develop you.
• Take responsibility for how you are experiencing your life, rather than feeling like a victim.
• Begin to see those around you as collaborators in a meaningful life, rather than competitors.
Title: USDP - Stress Management
Date & Time: Oct. 19, 2009 (Mon.) 2pm - 4pm & October 22, 2009 (Thurs.) 9am - 11am
Location: MLIB 043 Studio A
Presenter: Scott Wyman
Click here to download a list of other HR/LEARN trainings scheduled for Fall 2009. For more information or if you have trouble registering, contact Beverly Delker Gentry, Staff Human Resources Management - Training and Development, (530) 898-4666.
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Disability Workshop Offered Oct. 28 and Nov. 5
Disability Awareness and Inclusion
Professional Development Workshop - Open to Faculty, Staff, and Students
Description
This presentation will provide basic disability information; provide tips for working with and creating more welcoming environment for diverse students, staff, and the public. This presentation will also provide an overview of Disability Support Services (DSS).
Instructor
Sandy Parsons
Director of Disability Support Services
Details
October 28 or November 5
10:00 am - noon
MLIB Studio A
Register at: https://ehstraining.csuchico.edu/default.asp by:
1) Log in with your portal ID and password
2) Select the Course Catalog in the menu bar across the top
3) Click on Live Event Calendar on the left and select the appropriate month
4) Click on the workshop on correct date
5) Click the blue link towards the bottom of the page- DIVR - Disability Awareness and Inclusion (Ignore the message that the session is not available).
6) Click on the Enroll button directly under the workshop title at the top of the page
7) Select the Session that you want to attend and click the Submit button.
If you have trouble registering, please e-mail Tray Robinson, USDP@csuchico.edu or go to the EHS help document on the Web site.
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