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Building to be named after
Worcester Entrepreneur and WSC Nursing Graduate Featured in Good Housekeeping
Magazine
Spring Volume of Peer Reviewed Online Journal Launched
Event Planning Calendar for 2009-2010 Chartwells Summer Hours/Meal Plans Get Payroll and Benefits Announcements Sent to your Inbox
In honor of 'May is Better Hearing and Speech Month,' the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) partnered on a project with Deb Cashman, speech-language pathologist at Chandler Magnet School. Graduate students from the CSD Department presented an 'Ears are For Listening: Voices are for Speaking' (ELVS) program to third grade students from Chandler Magnet School. Several students drew posters that are now hanging in the hallway outside room 115 in the Ghosh Science Center. CSD students judged the posters and the top 3 vote-getters received gift certificates to Barnes and Nobel. A Simulation User’s Network (SUN) Group workshop hosted by the WSC Department of Nursing this past Friday was a great success. The Vital Sim Workshop was attended by representatives of nine regional colleges, Blackstone Valley Vocational High School and Brockton Hospital School of Nursing. The educational sessions were run by Shaun McGovern and Tara Landry of Laerdal Medical Corporation. Participants reviewed the use of Vital Sim scenarios during two hands-on break-out sessions. Many compliments were received for the Ghosh Science Center and the Departments’ Health Assessment and Skills labs. There are plans for future SUN workshops to be hosted by other participants.
Rodney Oudan (Business
Administration/Economics) recently published an article titled 'Advertising
Advantage' in the Worcester Business Journal. The article provides advice on how
to plan an effective advertising campaign and the key elements necessary for a
successful campaign. The article offers good recommendations for senior
management personnel in these difficult economic times.
To see photo galleries from the Class of 2009 commencement,
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Spring Volume of Peer-Reviewed Online Journal Launched Volume 1, Number 2 of Currents in Teaching and Learning, WSC’s new peer-reviewed electronic journal, is now online at www.worcester.edu/currents. Individual articles can be read online or the entire issue can be downloaded.
Currents was launched in Fall 2008 by the Worcester State College Center for Teaching and Learning to foster exchanges among reflective teacher-scholars across the disciplines, to explore issues and challenges facing teachers today, and to improve teaching and learning in higher education.
Published twice a year, Currents carries short teaching reports, longer research, theoretical, or conceptual essays, book reviews, announcements of work in progress, and selected “Current Clips & Links” featuring interesting teaching-and-learning-related websites.
Currents is reaching out to centers and networks of teaching and learning within the Colleges of the Worcester Consortium, the region, and the wide world beyond. Submissions come in from all across the United States and from abroad as well.
The spring 2009 issue carries articles, reports, and reviews from contributors in Connecticut and Massachusetts (including Worcester State College and Fitchburg State College), Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, and Nevada. There are also links to websites created at colleges, universities, and other non-profit institutions from Maine to Singapore.
Topics covered in the spring 2009 issue of Currents include, among others: a “basic toolkit” for new and early-career faculty with advice and resources for managing a whole range of challenging classroom situations; a case for the importance of writing across the curriculum, and a teaching report making a case and offering a strategy for teaching reading across the disciplines.
Interested in receiving a free subscription to Currents? Click here to subscribe. You will then be notified when each new issue becomes available online, and will receive (very infrequent) calls for submissions and other announcements.
Details Dates: June 24 -26, 29 & 30 Time: 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Cost: $650.00 - Graduate and professional
development credit awarded Location: Student Center - Blue Lounge Authors for 2009 Wednesday, June 24 – Barry Moser Thursday, June 25 – TBA Friday, June 26 – Marissa Moss Monday, June 29 – Vera Williams Tuesday, June 30 – Mary Ann Hoberman Course Description The Author Institute is held each year at the end of June
and features notable and award winning authors who present to graduate students
and teachers from across New England. It takes place over a one week period and
features a different children’s author each day. The presenters/authors work
diligently to present not only their literature, but also a variety of genre’s
and literacy elements, ways to motivate and develop student interest in
literature and authoring and formalizes teacher based activities and creativity
for classroom use and interest in writing by both teachers and students. The day
consists of author presentations, background to the literature being presented,
roundtable discussions and activities, personal insight into author process and
life experience and author signing. Author and book interest and readability
levels span from K through the middle grades/school.
Healthy Homes for All: Dr. Chalupka
Receives Grant A three-year $897,000 grant from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development will aid Dr. Stephanie Chalupka (Nursing) and Dr. David Turcotte, of UMass Lowell, with their initiative Healthy Homes for All: Improving Children’s Health in Diverse Communities. ABSTRACT:
The partnership proposing this project is highly experienced
in working with diverse communities; the partnership brings together the
outreach arm of the city’s only university, the housing authority, the largest
CDC, multi-service community action agency and community health center, a first
time home buyers education program and a multi-member faith-based organization.
The proposed demonstration draws on our team’s unique
experience in developing cross-cultural healthy homes interventions and
impacting the quality of housing to:
The planned demonstration will take place in
EVENT PLANNING CALENDAR FOR 2009-2010 The annual Planning Calendar meeting was held on May 7th and has been completed. Instead of distributing via paper memo you may access it at http://www.worcester.edu/StudentActivities/Shared%20Documents/planningcalendar.pdf.
For those of you who attended please carefully double check the calendar to make sure it is accurate. In some cases a room change had to be made but just about every event that was brought up at the meeting was able to be scheduled. Academic and administrative departments should contact Lynda Shusta at lshusta@worcester.edu with any changes or questions. Student organizations and their advisors should contact Tim Sullivan.
Don't forget to add your event to the online
campus calendar and contact
CHARTWELLS SUMMER HOURS/MEAL PLANS
Lancers Loft Dining Hall will be open for summer hours
starting on Door rates and hours of operation will be as follows: 8:30 -10:15 a.m. Breakfast $4.25 (Cooked to Order) *Special Offer* Purchase a 30-lunch only meal plan for $160 ($5.33 per meal)
GET PAYROLL AND BENEFIT ANNOUNCEMENTS SENT TO YOUR INBOX Did you know you can now get announcements from the Payroll and Benefits office sent to your Microsoft Outlook 2007 inbox through an RSS feed? Go to www.worcester.edu/Payroll. Click on the orange "RSS" symbol Then click "subscribe to this feed" Whenever Payroll and Benefits posts an announcement it will automatically come to your RSS feed folder in Outlook. Not sure where your Outlook RSS Feed folder is? In Outlook, look in your left column of Mail Folders and look for the orange RSS Feeds symbol.
Athletics will be hosting their All Sports Camp from July 27-31. The camp is
open to kids ages 8-13. The aim is to teach the essentials of the many sports:
baseball, football, floor hockey, basketball, volleyball, ultimate frisbee,
kickball, track, stickball, and soccer. Kids are separated into groups of their
own age. Each camper is taught the fundamentals of each sport through a series
of talks, demonstrations and drills. Games are played each morning and
afternoon. Campers leave a harder worker, with better skills, and more
confidence. All sessions are designed for individual improvement. Camp structure
allows equal time for instruction and
enjoyment. Kids have a blast! The WSC women's basketball team will be hosting their 13th annual Girls Basketball Camp, July 20-24 for girls ages 7-16. The coaching staff and players are committed to providing campers with personal attention to improve their fundamentals, and develop their skills and teamwork during game situations. Kids leave camp with improved skills, enthusiasm and motivation for basketball! Click here for a brochure or call Coach Karen Tessmer at 508-929-8769 (ktessmer@worcester.edu).
TRANSITIONS Births Congratulations to
Julie Carmel on the birth of her twin
boys on May 15. Retirements Good luck to Dennis Lindblom, Director of Disability Services and Dr. Joshua Aisiku (Education) on their retirement from Worcester State College.
WSC IN THE NEWS
WSC to
name building for noted alumna
WSC building, theater to get names
College Town
College Town
Easton's Hart, East Bridgewater's Dowd earn college baseball honors
Searching for early man
Advertising Advantage
More college baseball honors for Easton's Hart
The challenge of the Armenian Genocide for the 21st century
Nicely knit
Easton's Hart had a baseball season to remember at Worcester State
Rona Balco chosen as Unsung Heroine of 2009
Mass. officials make available renewable energy bonds
Salute to Nurses 2009
'Hobbit' was a dwarf with large feet [pdf]
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