Friday, May 5, 2017

SIUE Chancellor Randy Pembrook will oversee the 2017 Spring Commencement exercises happening tonight and Saturday for 1,957 eligible graduates. All the ceremonies will be streamed live on siue.edu/tv.

The first of four exercises will begin at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the Vadalabene Center on campus. The festivities begin tonight with Graduate School, School of Business and School of Nursing students receiving their degrees.

Ceremonies resume at 8:30 a.m. Saturday with the Graduate School and School of Education, Health and Human Behavior. The Saturday afternoon ceremony begins at 12:30 p.m. with the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) followed at 5 p.m. by the School of Pharmacy, CAS graduate students and the School of Engineering.

Frankie Muse Freeman will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. SIUE emeritus professor and former administrator Johnetta Randolph Haley and renowned architect Gyo Obata are being honored with the University’s Distinguished Service Award.

Donate your gently-used books for children who are between 6 months-old and 6 years-old.
 
To donate you can either:

• Send books via campus mail to Steve Hupp, Box 1121
• Drop them in the red tub across from the Department of Psychology in the basement of Alumni Hall
• Email Steve to come pick them up, at sthupp@siue.edu 

We’d love to have as many as possible by today, but we will continue to accept them all year!
 
Most of the books will be sent home with children attending the SIUE Head Start program. These kids LOVE books!

The books will come with a letter to parents that emphasizes:

• The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends daily reading starting at birth
• Incorporating reading into the bedtime routine is a good way to make sure that reading happens every day
• Several research-based tips for making daily reading more effective.

Thank you to all of the SIUE Head Start teachers and staff who make such a difference in these kids’ lives every day.
 
Thank you to everyone who has donated any of 10,000 books we’ve collected in the past few years!

Support the University Staff Senate Scholarship at SIUE by dining at Texas Roadhouse in Edwardsville.

Present the invitation (either in paper or by phone) to your server on Tuesday, May 9 and Texas Roadhouse will donate 10 percent of your total food purchases to the scholarship fund.

Please RSVP to the Facebook Event or access the invitation on the Staff Senate website at siue.edu/ugov/staff/.

The scholarship is awarded during the fall and summer terms at SIUE to deserving high school graduates or continuing undergraduate students at SIUE.

Since the scholarship was first awarded in 1980, more than $40,000 has been awarded to more than 70 students. Each student receiving the award has made it to graduation.

SIUE faculty interested in proposing a faculty-led travel study program during the terms of January, Spring Break or Summer 2018 are now invited to submit their plans. Proposals are requested no later than Monday, May 15.

The proposal form is located on the Study Abroad website under Information for Faculty. Please print the completed form and have it signed by the department chair, dean and the International Affairs director. Faculty planning to repeat a previous program need only complete the EGC section (page 2), and update the dates and budget.

Faculty who would like assistance in planning a travel study program should contact Kim Browning, study abroad advisor, at kbrowni@siue.edu or ext. 2419.

Register for Kindermusik Summer Camp Register by Friday, June 30 for the 2017 Kindermusik Summer Camp!
 
Kindermusik is a music and movement program with curriculum for children ages birth through seven years old. More specifically, Kindermusik classes provide a holistic musical and learning experience in the critical first years of young children and their families. This developmental program, guided by a proven methodology combining music and childhood development, provides opportunities to foster child-parent relationships and gain a lifelong love of music and learning. Kindermusik is great preparation for future Suzuki students as well! It is taught by a trained and licensed Kindermusik educator. The SIUE Suzuki Program presents "Kindermusik with Ellen Singh" which provides you with this program!
 
"Carnival of Music" for children ages 2-5

5:45-6:30 p.m.
Monday-Thursday, July 10-13
SIUE Early Childhood Center
 
Children are compulsive music makers. They hum while they play, sing along with music in the car and love the opportunity to use wooden spoons and pots from the kitchen as drums. That’s why they will absolutely love Carnival of Music. They will develop comfort with instruments and their ability to play them, increasing their likelihood of playing instruments as they get older. The music and activities in this unit will invite and expand their natural tendency to sing and move, allowing the development of a strong musical foundation for future enjoyment and pursuit.

First child registration fee is $75 with each additional child at $25 each. All class and digital at-home materials are included with the camp fee. One digital at-home materials package per family. The non-refundable class and digital at-home materials fee is due in full with registration form, and confirms your space in class.
 
At least one participating adult must accompany the enrolled children in the summer camp class. Please feel free to contact Ellen Singh with any questions, at esingh@siue.edu or ext. 2839.