Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017

Come practice your networking skills with employers and alumni:

4:30-5:30 p.m. (optional FREE Professional LinkedIn headshot)
5:30-7 p.m.
Today
Morris University Center, Second Floor Conference Center

Workshop presentation begins at 5:30 p.m. with a practice networking reception afterwards.

Dress professionally and RSVP to the Career Development Center, 650-5708. 

For more information, visit the Career Development Center.

Shelley Price-Williams, PhD, coordinator of Student Services and Transitions, was elected as the Advising Graduate and Professional Students Chair for NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising.

Price-Williams will assume her leadership role at the end of the 2017 NACADA Annual Conference being held in October in St. Louis. She will serve in this position until October 2019.

NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising was chartered as a non-profit organization in 1979 to promote quality academic advising and professional development of its membership to ensure the educational development of students. Since that beginning, NACADA has grown to 14,000 members consisting of faculty members, professional advisors, administrators, counselors, and others in academic and student affairs concerned with the intellectual, personal, and vocational needs of students. In addition, NACADA is the representative and advocate of academic advising and those providing that service to higher education.

NACADA hosts an annual conference each fall that has attracted more than 4,000 attendees, as well as 10 regional conferences, and intensive study of advising through Administrators' and Assessment Institutes, special topic seminars, and two Academic Advising Summer Institutes held annually.

NACADA also provides a network and professional identity for the thousands of faculty, full-time advisors, and administrators whose responsibilities include academic advising.

The Exercise Science Club is hosting its annual “Commit to be Fit” competition for all faculty and staff. This friendly competition encourages SIUE faculty and staff to be active by competing as teams of 5-7 to accrue active fitness minutes each week.

Some things to know:

• Form your own team with your co-workers or friends on campus (teams do not have to be from within the same department).
• Graduate and teaching assistants are welcome to participate.
• If you DO NOT have a team, you will be randomly assigned.
• Each team will be assigned a student coach from the Exercise Science Undergraduate Program or the Exercise Physiology Graduate Program to help with goal setting, motivation and accountability.
• The competition officially runs from Monday, Feb. 27-Friday, April 21.
• The last day to sign up is Wednesday, Feb. 15.

Need more information? There will be two optional informational sessions held:

11:30 a.m-1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Student Success Center (SSC) room 1202

4-5 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 9
Morris University Center, Missouri Room

We have a team, now what?
• Once you have your team together, assign a team captain and decide on a winning team name! An award will be given for the most creative team name.
• Team captains should email committobefitsiue@gmail.com with their team name in the subject line or their last name, if they are signing up as an individual to be assigned to the team.
• The email should include ALL team members' first and last names, as well as their primary email to be used for this competition.
• Coaches will begin emailing their teams during the week of February 20, after all teams have been registered!

Still have questions? You can email them to the above email address and the C2BF organizers will get back to you with an answer.

Please note the below Lifelong Learning programs this week:

“Latin America’s Political Pendulum,” presented by Dr. Carolina Rocha, associate professor, Foreign Languages and Literature at SIUE
10:30-11:45a.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Morris University Center, Hickory Hackberry Room

“Fibromyalgia,” presented Emma Christensen, CPA, MPA, assistant director of Financial Services, SIUE Foundation and Alumni Services
1:15-2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Morris University Center, Hickory Hackberry Room

The cost for Lifelong Learning programs: $2 for members and $5 for the public.

The Office of the Provost and the Office of International Affairs will hold two informational forums to address the issues surrounding the Presidential Executive Order signed on Jan. 27, about restricting entry from non-immigrants and immigrants to the U.S., and the effect on SIUE international students and faculty.

Who: International Faculty Members (by invitation through the Provost’s Office)
1:30-2:30 p.m. 
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Morris University Center, Maple-Dogwood Rooms
Agenda: Discuss how the Presidential Order effects international faculty members

Who: All Interested Faculty and Staff Members
3-4 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8
Morris University Center Oak-Redbud Rooms
Agenda:
1. Key provisions of the Presidential Executive Order
2. How does the Order impact students at SIUE?
3. How can the campus community provide support to students affected by the Order?
4. Resources
5. Questions and Answers

We know that this Executive Order has caused turmoil for many SIUE international students and faculty. SIUE is closely monitoring this issue. The Office of the Provost and the Office of International Affairs will keep students and faculty informed of major developments impacting immigration status.

International students and faculty are welcome at SIUE.

SIUE values global citizenship and inclusion, including providing a welcoming and supportive environment as well as respect for individuals, difference and cultures. All international students and faculty are highly valued regardless of their country of origin, religion or culture.

If you are unable to attend the forum, you may come to the Provost’s Office or Office of International Affairs, and we will ty our best to answer your questions.

The SIUE University Marketing and Communications Department received seven awards from the 2016 Collegiate Advertising Awards competition. SIUE enhanced its standing from a year ago when it received five total awards, including four gold for the 2015 competition.

With entries judged on creativity, layout/design, typography, production, quality and overall effectiveness, SIUE earned gold awards in five categories:

• The SIUE Chancellor’s Report in the annual report category
• East St. Louis Marketing Brochure in the brochure-multiple pages category
• Summer Concert Series Signage in the poster/display series category
• SIUE Cougars Wrestling Poster in the sports/specific category
• Taggables in the TV/video/advertising/PSA-series category

The 57 Things to do at SIUE series received a bronze award in the social media marketing category. The SIUE marketing and communications website also earned a bronze in the website design category.

The Collegiate Advertising Awards is an elite national program seeking to recognize today’s most talented marketing professionals for outstanding excellence in all forms of advertising, marketing and promotion specific to higher education products and services. The Collegiate Ad Awards allows institutions’ marketing and advertising efforts to compete against similarly sized colleges and universities from across the nation. 

SIUE's  Alumni Networking Breakfast:
9 a.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 21
L. Keely Construction
500 S. Ewing Ave. Suite G
St. Louis, MO
Register today! 

Meet the SIUE Alumni named to St. Louis Business Journal’s 40 under 40 class of 2017:

Damon Harbison, MBA '04
Chief Operating Officer, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Dave Ruby, BS Business '03
Vice President and Commercial Banking Relationship Manager, Simmons Bank

Bill Stahlman, BS Civil Engineering '05
Director of Engineering and Construction, America's Central Port

World-renowned architect Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) will be the inspirational focus of a film screening and a free full-day conference at SIUE.

The Louis H. Sullivan Architectural Ornament Collection at SIUE is the largest known collection of physical ornaments from Sullivan constructions. The events will feature this unique academic resource and showcase its significance to individuals interested in architectural history, design and preservation.

Register here for: “Louis Sullivan Architectural Ornaments at SIUE Conference: Bringing the Past to Life in the 21^st Century.”

8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 24
Sessions at SIUE’s Morris University Center, Lovejoy Library, and the Edwardsville Arts Center

The free day-long conference will provide attendees with an increased awareness of SIUE’s collection, an understanding of the vital role played by Richard Nickel in the existence and documentation of the Louis Sullivan architectural ornament collection, and a greater knowledge of past and current efforts made to preserve these, and other Chicago historic and cultural artifacts and buildings.

Keynote speakers include Mark Richard Smith, John Celuch, Inlandesign director and first curator of the SIUE Sullivan Collection, and Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago.

Registration is limited to 100 with the deadline Friday, Feb. 17. Free parking is available for the first 50 non-SIUE registrants. The conference is sponsored by the SIUE Graduate School Conferences and Workshop Program, Friends of Lovejoy Library, SIUE’s Arts & Issues and Preservation Chicago.

Registration to the conference will also include the opportunity to purchase half-price tickets to Arts & Issues’ presentation of “Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture." Student attendance is free but tickets are required.

For program information and event details, visit the Sullivan Conference webpage, or contact Therese Dickman at tdickma@siue.edu or 618-650-2695.

Arts & Issues' presents “Louis Sullivan: The Struggle for American Architecture,” a feature-length documentary about the revolutionary and brilliant Chicago architect. 

7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 23
Dunham Hall Theater

Film director, Mark Richard Smith, will introduce the film and discuss Louis Sullivan’s legacy and show footage of SIUE’s extensive Sullivan collection afterward.

Tickets to attend the film may be purchased at artsandissues.com, the Morris University Welcome Desk or by calling 1-866-698-4253.

SIUE Alumni Association will host its annual Trivia Night:

6 p.m. doors open
7 p.m. Trivia begins
Saturday, March 11
SIUE Student Fitness Center Gym

Proceeds will support Alumni Association scholarships.

The cost is $200 per table of eight, which includes some beverages from Recess Brewing. Additional beverages will be available for cash purchase. You are welcome to bring your own snacks, but no outside beverages are allowed.

In addition to trivia, enjoy the silent auction, live auction, raffles and more!

First place table wins $500 and second place wins $250.

Register your table online, or call Cathy Taylor at (618) 650-5176.