RECREATION CLASS SCHEDULESpring 2008 |
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YOGA: at 4:30pm in the Aerobic Studio located in the Gym. |
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YOGA: at 12:15pm in the Aerobic Studio located in the Gym.
PILATES: at 5:10pm in the Mat room located in the Gym. |
| WEDNESDAYS | YOGA: at 12:15pm in the Aerobic Studio located in the Gym.
YOGA: at 4:30pm in the Aerobic Studio located in the Gym. |
| THURSDAYS |
PILATES: at 5:10pm in the Mat room located in the Gym. |
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JANUARY |
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Thursday, 31st 2:00pm CCS |
Q and A on the New UUP-NYS Contract Chief Negotiator Fred Floss will be on campus this Thursday, January 31st, at 2:00 pm for a presentation on the tentatively-settled UUP-NYS contract. There will be an opportunity for any member to ask questions about the contract at this meeting in Southside RSVP |
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FEBRUARY |
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Friday, 1st 10:00am NS1004 |
UUP Office Open House Everyone is welcome to stop by the refurbished union office from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Refreshments served. No RSVP necessary. |
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Monday, 4th 12:30pm SS0025 |
Blackboard Course Management Marie Sciangula - Library and ITCDISC The Blackboard Course Management System is a powerful tool that can be used to provide an online component for your classes. Blackboard can be used to post your syllabus and readings, and contains other useful tools you may want to such as a class discussion board, a grade book, and online quizzes. Come and see an overview of these tools and how others are using them here at Purchase. Lunch will be provided courtesy of UUP. RSVP |
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Tuesday, 5th 12:30 LIB SC |
Smart Classrooms T. Lemieux - NSS The College currently has 26 Smart Classrooms, and will be adding more this year. This workshop includes a demonstration of the components common to our smart rooms (Sympodium touch screen, projection, Smart Boards, Clickers, and video), with real-world tips and strategies for their effective use from professors who have used them successfully. This session meets in the Library Smart Classroom. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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Wednesday, 6th 12:30pm SS0025 |
Web Security Issues and Threats Bill Junor - CTS Worms, Bots, Viruses and Spyware, Oh My! There are a bewildering array of security issues and threats out there, along with regulations, procedures and policies designed to protect confidential data held by the college. This workshop provides an overview of security issues and threats and how to spot them, and protect your home computer. This session meets in CTS Training Center SS0025. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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Wednesday, 6th 5:00pm Admin Bldg |
Faculty Colloquium
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Thursday, 7th 4:30pm SSB CR3 |
Art of Lecturing L. Schlesinger Professor Schlesinger will lead a discussion on the art of classroom lecturing in the MTV era. The workshop will be held in the Student Services building 3rd floor conference room. Dinner will be served. RSVP |
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Monday, 11th 12:00pm Red Room |
Supervisors’ Training (Invitations sent to supervisors and BOS coordinators) |
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Tuesday, 12th 12:30pm SS0025 |
Microsoft Visio Bill Junor - CTS Microsoft Visio is an easy-to-use but extremely powerful tool for creating charts and diagrams. This hands-on workshop provides an introduction to Visio that shows how you can use it to create a variety charts and diagrams. This session meets in CTS Training Center SS0025. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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Thursday, 14th 12:00pm LIB SC |
Smart Classrooms Shablinski - NSS The College currently has 29 Smart Classrooms, and will be adding more this year. This workshop includes a demonstration of the components common to our smart rooms (Sympodium touch screen, projection, Smart Boards, Clickers, and video), with real-world tips and strategies for their effective use from professors who have used them successfully. This session meets in the Library Smart Classroom. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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Thursday, 14th 12:30pm SS0025 |
Social Networking: Free Tools for Teaching & Professional Development Carrie Eastman, Susanne Markgren, and Leah Massar - Library Ever wonder what blogs, RSS, Flickr, wikis, Facebook, MySpace, Furl, and del.icio.us are? Want to know how these might be useful in your teaching or in other professional activities? This workshop will introduce you to these social networking tools and will include examples of how Purchase faculty and staff, as well as the faculty and staff of other colleges, are using them. Lunch will be provided courtesy of UUP. RSVP |
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Thursday, 14th 7:00pm Gym |
UUP Night at the Gym UUP will provide refreshments and support for the Purchase women’s and men’s basketball teams as they play Yeshiva on Valentine’s night. |
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Tuesday, 19th 4:15pm HUM 1021 |
Grant Writing : Part I RSVP |
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Thursday, 21st 4:15pm HUM 1021 |
Grant Writing : Part II RSVP |
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Tuesday, 26th 12:00pm Red Room |
New Supervisors’ Training (Invitations sent to supervisors and BOS coordinators) |
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Tuesday, 26th 5:00pm Red Room |
AAA Driving Course : Part I RSVP |
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Wednesday, 27th 4:30pm SSB CR3 |
Memory Research Pertaining to Students W. Needham Professor Needham will lead a discussion on how students remember and its relation to learning. Dinner will be served. RSVP |
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Thursday, 28th 5:00pm Red Room |
AAA Driving Course : Part II RSVP |
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Friday, 29th 12:30pm SS0025 |
PowerPoint Carrie Eastman - Library This session will take you through the basics of creating presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. You’ll learn how to create slides, add images, and how to run through a presentation. Lunch will be provided courtesy of UUP. RSVP |
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MARCH |
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Saturday, 1st 12:00pm Red Room |
Assessment Workshop Dr. Barbara Walvoord Noted author Dr. Barbara Walvoord of the University of Notre Dame will facilitate a 3-hour workshop on “How to Improve Student Learning in Humanities and Social Science (without dying of overwork).” Lunch will be served. (Joe Skrivanek will be handling the RSVPs for this 3-hour workshop) |
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Tuesday, 4th 12:30pm Library - TBA |
RefWorks Susanne Markgren and Carrie Eastman - Library Want to create bibliographies in seconds? Learn how to use RefWorks, a tool for managing references, creating bibliographies, and doing in-text citations. Lunch will be provided courtesy of UUP. RSVP |
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Tuesday, 4th 5:00pm Admin Bldg |
Faculty Colloquium |
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Wednesday, 5th 4:30pm SSB CR3 |
Understanding the Millennial Student L. Mahoney Professor Mahoney will lead a discussion on the millennial students, and how faculty can be even more effective in teaching this generation of students. Dinner will be served. RSVP |
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Thursday, 6th 12:00pm PAC |
Motivation and Purpose Bruce Tamlyn Renowned speaker Bruce Tamlyn will visit Purchase to deliver a presentation on motivation and intrinsic value of one’s work for all faculty and staff. A catered lunch will be served.) RSVP |
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Monday, 10th 12:00pm Red Room |
Supervisors’ Training (Invitations sent to supervisors and BOS coordinators) |
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Tuesday, 11th 12:30pm SSB CR3 |
Preventing Plagiarism W. Baskin Professor Baskin will facilitate a workshop on methods to detect and prevent student plagiarism. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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Thursday, 13th 12:30pm SS0025 |
Social Networking: the Good, Bad, and the Ugly Bill Junor This hands-on workshop covers social networking tools – good, bad, and ugly - that have gained popularity over the last 5 years. After a brief look at the popular commercialized sites (Myspace, Facebook, etc) we will look at other sites and services that define social networking, and then at a variety of virtual worlds like Second Life that are the next technological leap forward. We also look at the College’s social networking site - Planet.Purchase.edu - a Wiki / Blog tool for the Purchase Community. This session meets in CTS Training Center SS0025. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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APRIL |
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Tuesday, 1st 12:30pm SS0025 |
Microsoft Word (Intermediate) A. Miller / D. Rossi - CTS The focus of this workshop is Styles and how they can help with everything from formatting to navigation to Tables of Contents. This class is for those who create large documents and need to edit and manage them easily. Participants should have a strong working knowledge of Word basics including character and paragraph formatting, copy/cut and paste, indenting and using bullet and number lists. This session meets in CTS Training Center SS0025. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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Thursday, 3rd 12:00pm Red Room |
New Supervisors’ Training (Invitations sent to supervisors and BOS coordinators) |
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Tuesday, 8th 11:00am PAC |
Benefits Fair A number of vendors dealing with health care to retirement will be on hand for three hours to meet with all faculty and staff. Lunch will be served. (Reservations will be handled by H.R.) |
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Wednesday, 9th 12:30 Library |
Social Networking: Free Tools for Teaching & Professional Development Carrie Eastman, Susanne Markgren, and Leah Massar - Library Ever wonder what blogs, RSS, Flickr, wikis, Facebook, MySpace, Furl, and del.icio.us are? Want to know how these might be useful in your teaching or in other professional activities? This workshop will introduce you to these social networking tools and will include examples of how Purchase faculty and staff, as well as the faculty and staff of other colleges, are using them. Lunch will be provided courtesy of UUP. RSVP |
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Thursday, 10th 12:30pm SS0025 |
Microsoft Excel (Intermediate) Ed Stewart This hands-on workshop provides an overview of Excel basics including headers, functions such as AutoSum, such as SUM and AVERAGE, copy/cut/paste, navigating multi-page workbook, and referring to values on other worksheets or other workbooks. This session meets in CTS Training Center SS0025. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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Monday, 14th 12:00pm CCS |
Supervisors’ Training (Invitations sent to supervisors and BOS coordinators) |
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Tuesday, 15th 12:30pm SS0025 |
Resource Scheduling/Master Calendar Bill Junor An overview of the new Beta version of the Master Calendar / Resource Scheduling system used to track and manage events, spaces, equipment, and service personnel. This session meets in CTS Training Center SS0025. Lunch will be served. RSVP |
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Tuesday, 15th 5:00pm TBA |
Building Consensus Tally Klingel Senior Associate Sally Klingel from the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution will facilitate a 90-minute workshop on "Building Consensus in a Political Environment." Dinner will be served. Invitations Forthcoming |
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Monday, 21st 12:00pm Red Room |
Managing Your Career RSVP |
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Wednesday, 23rd 12:30pm Library |
Turning Point (Clickers) Leah Massar - Library This hands-on session will go through the basic steps for using Turning Point software in conjunction with Microsoft PowerPoint and Turning Point clickers to create quizzes and other interactive components for your classes. Lunch will be provided courtesy of UUP. RSVP |
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Thursday, 24th 12:30pm SS0025 |
Database Searching Using 360 Search Carrie Eastman and Susanne Markgren Need to find articles in the Purchase College databases, but don't want to have to search each database individually? Want to be able to cross search databases of your choosing? Come to this workshop to learn how to make the most of our new Cross Database Search tool. You’ll learn to query all databases in a particular subject, or specific databases of your own choosing from a single interface. We’ll also show you how to use the Find It! at Purchase button to link you directly to full-text articles, to the library’s catalog, to InterLibrary Loan for items we do not have, and to export citations into RefWorks. Lunch will be provided courtesy of UUP. RSVP |
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MAY |
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Thursday, 8th 12:00pm PAC |
UUP End-of-Year Luncheon Join your colleagues to celebrate the end of the academic year. RSVP |
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Upper Lobby of the Performing Arts Center |
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Computer Services Lab in Social Sciences, room 0025
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| Library | Classroom in the Library |
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Southside Lounge in Campus Center South |
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Student Services Building, 3rd Floor Conference Room |
| Red Room |
Multi-Purpose Room in the Student Services Building |
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