Upward Bound Tutor Advisor Positions Available For Spring 2007

The Upward Bound Projects, a federally funded TRiO program, is a year round program for motivated students with academic potential who want to continue their education after high school.

WAGES: $8.02 per hour starting until probationary period is completed and up to $9.37 per hour, depending on UB promotional track.

Please email cfalvarez@csuchico.edu to obtain a complete job description or stop by the Office.

Applications can be obtained from the Upward Bound office located in Siskiyou Hall Room 102, CSU Chico, Chico, CA 95929-0712. Out of area applicants may call (530) 898-5181 to request an application

Further program information at the Web Site
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Archived under Opportunities on December 8, 2006

NEW COURSE - CIMT 363: Sustainability in the Built Environment; the Role of Concrete

Tuesdays
Langdon 105
5pm - 7:50pm

Sustainable development is about balancing human needs with the earth’s capacity to meet them. Concrete offers a wide range of capabilities to help achieve this balance. This course will explore sustainability concepts and concerns from the perspectives of the concrete industry. Through readings, lectures, and discussion, students will learn about the basic concepts of sustainability, green buildings and LEED. The class will focus on the role of concrete in helping to meet LEED Certification. This is a participatory class, your attendance is required to earn the highest grade possible. The class will draw on the campus as a living laboratory and the community for service learning exposure. All majors welcome.

For more information, contact Kristin Cooper Carter at 898-4037. Enroll or go to the first day of class.

Archived under Information on December 8, 2006

HFA Tour to Ireland with President Zingg

Students: A few Scholarship-level trips are available for the Golf in Ireland with CSU, Chico President Paul Zingg
July 21 through 31, 2007

President Paul Zingg, California State University, Chico, will lead a tour to Ireland next summer from July 21­-31. Zingg is an expert golfer and the author of An Irish Journey: In Search of the Golf Gods, which will be released in spring 2007.

The trip will include four nights in Dublin, three in Killarney and two in Adare. There will be golfing at Druid’s Glen Golf Club, Portmarnock Golf Club, The European Club, Killarney Golf & Fishing Club—Killeen Course, Waterville Golf Links, Tralee Golf Course, Doonbeg Golf Course and the Old Course at Ballybunion.

Non-golfers are also encouraged to join the group. There will be many activities for them, including a tours of Dublin led by a local guide to such sites as St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Trinity College. Entrance fees will be covered for non-golfers to such places as Malahide Castle, Powerscourt Demesne, Cliffs of Moher and Bunratty Castle.

If you would like to find out about the scholarship-level trips, contact Thomasin Saxe, group coordinator, immediately at 530-898-4642 or e-mail her at tsaxe@csuchico.edu.

Archived under Opportunities on December 8, 2006

Beautiful Campus Photo on Calendar

Great Stocking Stuffer —The Academic Technologies’ 2007 Chico Poster Calendar - send a bit of Chico to everyone you know.

This 2007 wall calendar features a beautiful photo of the campus by Jeff Teeter. To see a copy, visit the Web Site

Calendars are available at the library copy center (Rapid Graphics) MLIB 204, the Presentation Graphics Lab MLIB 010, or we’ll deliver to your department office.

— 17” × 23”poster, $3.99 each, 6 or more $2.99 each
— Add $3 per poster for lamination
— Sales tax will be added to cash, ATM, and credit card transactions, but not to CAFs
— Large quantity discounts available

For quantity discounts or deliveries call x4499.

Archived under Information on December 8, 2006

Call for Papers: Student Publication Opportunity for All Majors

The College of the Humanities and Fine Arts and the English Graduate Student Council hope to begin a dialogue between all of the disciplines which can be exhibited in a periodically published journal.

This issue’s theme is “The Economics of Inequality: The seen and unseen costs of discrimination.” Society is based on structures of subordination and domination of all sorts, not only those we are accustomed to think of negatively.

We are seeking submissions of academic papers, short stories, creative nonfiction, B&W photography, and line drawings that explore these topics in creative and insightful ways.

The full CFP is posted at the Web Site

The call is open to CSU, Chico graduate students in all majors, as well as undergraduates who include an instructor’s letter of recommendation. The submission deadline is Feb. 28, 2007.

For more information please contact Byron Wilson and Michelle Barber at CSUCpublication@gmail.com

Archived under Opportunities on December 7, 2006

Announcing New Course - CIMT 363 Sustainability and the Built Environment

CIMT 363 - Sustainability in the Built Environment: the Role of Concrete

Announcing a new Spring 2007 course for the proposed Concrete Industry Management (CIM) Program in the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management. All majors welcome.

Tuesdays
Langdon 105
5pm - 7:50pm
Instructor: Kristin Cooper-Carter

Sustainable development is about balancing human needs with the earth’s capacity to meet them. Concrete offers a wide range of capabilities to help achieve this balance. This course will explore sustainability concepts and concerns from the perspectives of the concrete industry. Through readings, lectures, and discussion, students will learn about the basic concepts of sustainability, green buildings and LEED. The class will focus on the role of concrete in helping to meet LEED Certification. This is a participatory class, your attendance is required to earn the highest grade possible. The class will draw on the campus as a living laboratory and the community for service learning exposure. All majors welcome.

For more information, contact Kristin Cooper Carter at 898-4037. Enroll or go to the first day of class.

Archived under Information on December 7, 2006