Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017

The fall 2017 Safe Zone/LGBT Community and Ally Welcome Reception will be held:

4:30 p.m.
Today
Hickory/Hackberry Room
Morris University Center
Refreshments will be served

This event is sponsored by the Office of Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. 

The primary purpose of this reception is to welcome new and continuing students, faculty and staff who are members of our LGBT community on the campus.

We invite all allies to attend and contribute to this effort. We will share the collective accomplishments of Safe Zone and its allies over the last year and will highlight what is to come.

SIUE’s Police Department has added seven officers to its squad of 27. 

The officers were sworn in last week by Chancellor Randy Pembrook, PhD, as Vice Chancellor for Administration Rich Walker and Chief of Police Kevin Schmoll also participated in the ceremony.

All of the new officers have direct ties to either SIUE or the Metro East.

Dalton Archer is an Edwardsville native and earned an associate’s degree in business from Lewis and Clark Community College in 2016.

Larry Bowles is a U.S. Army veteran, who served from 2013-17. He earned an associate’s degree in applied sciences from Lewis and Clark Community College in 2011. The Godfrey native now lives in East Alton.

Tyler Gallaher earned a criminal justice degree from SIUE in 2016. Originally from Belleville, he makes his home in Glen Carbon.

Anthony Hettinger earned a criminal justice and business administration/marketing degree in May 2017 from SIUE. During his time as an SIUE student, the Lovington native served in Dining Services for two years. He is a Glen Carbon resident.

A former Cougar men’s soccer player from 2011-15, Fairview Heights native Travis Hoguet is completing a degree in criminal justice from SIUE. He arrives on the SIUE campus after serving as a police officer in Gulf Shores, Ala., and now resides in Collinsville.

Dylan Koke graduated from SIUE with a bachelor’s in criminal justice in 2014. The Collinsville resident serves in the Army National Guard.

A Chicago native, Kelly Waters currently resides in Collinsville and is finishing a degree in criminal justice at SIUE.

Entrepreneurs and new business startups are invited to compete in the 2017 Metro East Start-Up Challenge (MESC), Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s fourth annual regional business plan competition.

The MESC is organized by the Illinois Metro East Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at SIUE. The purpose of the Challenge is to identify, encourage and support entrepreneurs and business startups across the SBDC’s service area, including Calhoun, Jersey, Madison, Bond, Clinton, St. Clair, Washington, Monroe and Randolph Counties.

The first-place winner will receive a $7,000 cash prize. Second and third place winners will receive $5,000 and $3,000, respectively. Prizewinners will also receive an array of in-kind professional services. 

SIUE’s School of Business, the SBDC’s host organization, will assist with facilitating the competition.

The 2017 MESC invites entrepreneurs and startup businesses from four target industries: information technology, manufacturing, healthcare and sustainable food. For a startup business enterprise to be eligible, it must have been established after April 30, 2014, and be headquartered in the SBDC’s nine-county service area. For pre-venture entrepreneurs, proposed new business operations will need to be located within the same nine counties.

For more information on the 2017 MESC or to initiate the application process, visit siue.edu/metroeaststartup. The initial entry deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 5. Semi-finalists will be announced Friday, Sept. 8, with finalists notified on Wednesday, Oct. 18. The Challenge will announce its cash prizewinners on Friday, Nov. 3 during the monthly Leadership Council SW IL meeting.

SIUE’s Speech-Language-Hearing Center, located in Founders Hall, is now enrolling for the fall semester.

The Center offers clients two 50-minute treatment sessions per week with a graduate student clinician, under the supervision of a licensed speech-language pathologist.

Current openings for Sept. 5-Dec. 7 include:

Monday/Wednesday: 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday: 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.

The SLH Center provides speech-language evaluations and therapy for children, adolescents, and non-Medicare-eligible adults in the following areas: speech, language, voice, fluency, traumatic brain injury, and transgender voice and accent modification for non-native speakers of English.

Tuition is $605 (payment plan available). Current SIUE students receive a 50 percent discount.

Contact the Center to schedule your child or for more information:
• (618) 650-5623
• slhc-information@siue.edu
• siue.edu/slh-center

SIUE is pleased to announce the solicitation of nominations for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award. This annual award recognizes an outstanding community member who exemplifies the philosophy of nonviolent social change as espoused by King.

The winner will be recognized at the 31st annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration Luncheon at SIUE on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018.

Organizations, businesses, agencies or individuals may nominate a person who is an Illinois resident and at least 21 years old. The person must embrace the humanitarian principles and ideals of King and have initiated, developed, or participated in programs, services or activities which have inspired tolerance, understanding and sensitivity with regard to diversity issues and/or persons of underrepresented groups.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, Oct. 13. Please submit all completed nominations to the SIUE Office of Educational Outreach, Campus Box 1084, Edwardsville, IL 62026.

For more information, visit the Kimmel Student Involvement Center website at kimmel/awards/mlk and click on Awards and Forms to print additional copies. You may also contact Eboni Thompson at (618) 650-3233 with additional questions.