News to know
...
ALL diversity seminars
cancelled. Presenter Damon Sims is unable to fulfill
his commitment for our diversity/harassment sensitivity sessions
this week. All sessions scheduled for Thursday, March 27 and Friday,
March 28 are cancelled. We hope to reschedule early next fall.
Applause!
Applause!
Scott Strode (communication studies) and Charles Boebel (emeritus
English) are taking Charles’ one-act play
Neighbor Tarkington on
the road for their part in the North Manchester “Community Read” of
Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer Prize novel
The Magnificent Ambersons.
Scott has performed for Timbercrest, Peabody and North Manchester
High School audiences … next:
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 9
Wine Recital Hall
7 p.m. Tuesday, April 15
North Manchester Public
Library
(The Library
ignited “Everybody Reads” to commemorate its 100th anniversary.)
$9.9 million
… that’s how much Manchester College is awarding in
academic scholarships for the 2008-09 school year, including 198 to
high-performing high school seniors. The total scholarship amount
sets an enormous record for the College.
Read more here or on our
home page.
Postage is on the ups, again.
USPS, that is. Rates rise on May 12. First Class will cost 42 cents,
with an average of 3.5 percent increases for standard (bulk) mail.
Prepare your budgets accordingly.
Brown Fitness Center is getting a
face-lift! We’ll install the new equipment on Wednesday,
March 26. Bidders have until 10 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, March 25, to
place their offers on the old equipment. Winning bids will be
notified Wednesday morning and must collect their prizes from the
sidewalk. All should be paid for, removed Wednesday. Makes check
payable to Manchester College. Questions:
Tami Hoagland, x5390.
Junior Melanie DeGrandchamp will
receive the highest student honor of the American
Alliance for Health Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance at its
national convention next month. She is 2008 Undergraduate Adapted
Physical Education Student of the Year. “This is a really special
national award,” notes her mentor, Lana Groombridge (exercise/sport
sciences). “Only the very best receive this recognition.”
Read more here.
Mark that calendar
...
One more chance for Aurora photos!
The photographer will set up this
Wednesday, March 26 in the balcony over Haist Commons in the College
Union.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Peace activist Anna Baltzer,
author of
Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied
Territories, is available for classroom visits,
gatherings on Friday, April 11. The former Fulbright scholar and
granddaughter of Holocaust survivors is a three-time volunteer with
the International women’s Peace Service.
Click here for more
about her. Contact campus pastor,
Steve Crain x5243, to
hook up with her.
April 9-18. That’s when students
register for 2008 summer and fall and 2009 January and
spring classes. Students have received their course request forms.
Information available on the
Registrar’s web pages. Summer forms available in the Registrar’s
Office.
Cubs vs. the Reds. That’s
the matchup for the quick 50 people who register for our Alumni
offering, A Day at Wrigley Field. Chicago takes on Cincinnati on
Thursday, July 10 and our group has reserved infield seats in the
upper deck. Cost is $60 for the ticket and transportation. The bus
departs the College Union at 8:30 a.m.; returns 11 p.m. Contact the
Alumni Office,
x5223 or register online at
www.onlinemanchester.org/cubs
Notable
...
Thanks to three MC scientists
who helped more than 120 area high school scholars consider global
warming and other environmental issues at the Rotary World Affairs
Conference earlier this month. Following a video presentation by
Purdue University scientists, Jerry Sweeten, Jeff Osborne and David
Hicks shared their knowledge and various treasures with the rapt
youths.
More Advising
and Registration Days …
we’ve added another date to the schedule for our
new students to meet one-on-one with faculty, settle
financial details, smile for their ID photos and register for
classes. Here’s the schedule:
June 3, June 10,
June 17, June
26
July 1
August 19
Are you bilingual? Campus
Safety and Security maintains a list of local volunteers, who may be
called upon to interpret for College and local public safety
officials. Interpreters may be called at odd times, as emergencies
occur at all hours. To volunteer, contact
Karen Burns, x5001.
Learning. Benson Onyeji
(political science) will attend the 49th annual convention of
International Studies Association in San Francisco on March 26-29
AND he will deliver the keynote address, “Another Africa,” on April
1 for the celebration of the new Wabash College chapter of
Africa Network, which
promotes the study of Africa in the nation’s liberal arts
institutions.
More presenters at Governor’s
Conference … We left out Korinne Gust (education) and
sophomore education major Kelsey Morris presented "Engaging
Pre-Service Teachers in Service for the Community." They focused on
the work our students do with Partners in Learning, an after-school
tutoring program at Manchester Elementary and Junior High schools,
and their work with the Wabash ARC clients.
Nine psychology students and three
faculty members will present
posters at the 20th
annual convention of the Association for
Psychological Science on May 22-25 in Chicago. Their titles are
links, if you’d like to read the abstract:
Education for Conflict Resolution in a Prison Population,
students Zach D. Miller, Aubree A. Walgamuth, Amy M. Bricker and
Danielle R. Walker, with Marcie Coulter-Kern (psychology)
Learning Communities Benefit Students' Socialization in a College,
students Natasha W. Miller, Heather D. Hannan, Latefa H. Abdel-Khaleq
and Patricia G. Thacker, with Marcie
Practice With Feedback Versus Practice Only in the Development of
Mediation Skills, student Lindsey Bryant with Rusty Coulter-Kern
(psychology)
A Qualitative Analysis of the Impact of Religious Faith and Student
Experiences in a Service-Learning Course, Lindsey Bryant, with
Rusty and Barbara J. Burdge (social work)
Blogging for Thomas Marshall …We’ve
opportunity to pitch in our 2 cents to help the community woo an
$8,500 grant from General Mills and Hamburger Helper to complete the
final phase of the Thomas Marshall Restoration Project. The North
Manchester community already has invested countless hours of
volunteer labor, fund-raisers and $57,000 in local dollars toward
restoration of the birthplace home of our 27th vice president, now
located next to the public library on Market Street.
Here’s the link to lend verbal support to the grant proposal.
The website is My Hometown Helper.com.
Human Resources
...
Faculty and Staff Openings:
Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant Professor of Economics,
Assistant Professor of Asian History, Assistant/Associate Professor
of Computer Science, Residence Hall Directors, Admissions Counselor,
Publications Assistant (part-time), Women’s Softball Head Coach,
Women’s Soccer Head Coach
Go to job descriptions
Take me to Spartan Weekly!
MC's weekly update by Doug Shoemaker, sports information director
Oldies but goodies from recent MEMOs
...
Don’t wait! Sign up to receive emergency alerts on
your phones, cells.
We will NOT use this system except for dire emergency, but it WILL
help us speed urgent messages should we face a crisis on campus. Log
into MC Connect and follow the instructions. We need your e-mail
wireless address AND your phone numbers.
Example: Centennial Wireless = tendigitphonenumber@cwemail.com
(tendigitphonenumber = your wireless phone number)
For other wireless providers,
click
here
It only takes a minute to fill out our Emergency Medical Card
online. Just
click here, and you’re almost done! Health Services then can
quickly reference our notes if we suffer a medical emergency on
campus. Or, stop by Health Services in Calvin Ulrey 114 to verify,
update your card.
