Campus Announcements
KVIE spotlights Sac State artists
Sacramento State art students will be featured on KVIE Channel 6 on Arts Alive: Student Artists, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 22; 4 p.m., Friday, April 24; and 6 p.m., Sunday, April 26.
The episode looks at photography majors who discovered a common passion for the medium after taking a documentary photography course.
The program is part of the ViewFinder series, funded in part by the Sacramento Cultural Arts Program of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission with support from the city and county of Sacramento and is underwritten by AT&T and SAFE Credit Union.
Submitted by Public Affairs
Road delineators installed
Road delineators have been installed on State University Drive East by Capital Public Radio in order to prevent drivers from making illegal left turns into the CPR parking lot.
Additional delineators will be re-installed on State University Drive East to prevent drivers from crossing the double yellow lines to turn left onto College Town Drive.
The delineators are similar to those installed on State University Drive South near Napa Hall. Since those delineators were installed, there have been no accidents or complaints of near misses in that area.
For more information, contact Public Safety at (916) 278-6851.
Submitted by Public Safety
USA nominations
The University Staff Assembly is seeking nominations for election and appointment to several campus committees. The positions and associated web pages are:
USA Executive Board (president) - Term ends 2011
http://www.csus.edu/usa/about.htm
USA Executive Board (secretary) – Term ends 2011
http://www.csus.edu/usa/about.htm
Academic Policies Committee – Term Ends 2011
http://www.csus.edu/acse/apc/charge.htm
Academic Standards Subcommittee – Term Ends 2011
http://www.csus.edu/acse/chrg_Acstandards.htm
Alumni Association - Term ends 2010
http://www.sacstatealumni.com/.
Associated Students Inc., Audit Committee - Term ends 2010
Children’s Center Parent Advisory Board – Term ends 2010
www.csus.edu/umanual/AssociatedStudentsChildrensCenterAdvisoryCouncil.htm
Committee for Diversity and Equality – Term ends 2011
www.csus.edu/acse/chrg-CODE.htm
Curriculum Policies Committee - Term ends 2011
www.csus.edu/acse/cpc
Faculty Policies Committee – Term ends 2011
www.csus.edu/acse/fpc/index.htm
GE/Graduation Policies Committee – Term ends 2011 (1 staff position)
http://www.csus.edu/acse/gep/charge.htm
Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee – Term ends 2011
University Sustainability Committee – Term Ends 2010 (1 staff position)
http://www.csus.edu/acse/archive/0809/fsa09_feb_19_B.htm
To nominate someone or yourself, submit a name, phone number, department, e-mail address, committee name and a brief explanation of interest in the committee or executive board to Cossette@csus.edu. For nomination details visit http://www.csus.edu/usa.
WAC retreat
Writing Across the Curriculum invites full and part-time instructors to attend a free one-day retreat focused on teaching reading and writing skills 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday, Aug. 24, in the Alumni Center. Topics include designing reading and writing assignments, sequencing assignments, teaching reading and writing as a process and peer response. Breakfast and lunch will be served. RSVP to Dan Melzer at melzer@csus.edu or call 278-6925.
Submitted by the English Department
Project Administration Essentials Workshop
Research Administration and Contract Administration will offer a workshop on University Enterprises, Inc. processes related to the administration of externally funded projects 9-11 a.m., Wednesday, April 22, in the Hornet Bookstore Building Boardroom (suite 3010).
The workshop will be of interest to principal investigators and project administrators responsible for daily project/account administration. Topics covered will include personnel hiring, payroll and expenditure processing, obtaining reimbursements, travel regulations, running real-time financial reports and tracking project deliverables. To reserve a seat, register online at http://www.csus.edu/research/registration/workshops.htm.
Submitted by Research Administration
Life in the FastLane
Research Administration will hold a FastLane demonstration 9-10 a.m., Thursday, April 23, in the Hornet Bookstore Boardroom (suite 3010).
FastLane is the interactive, web-based system used for the submission of grant proposals and project reports to the National Science Foundation. This workshop is designed for those who are new to FastLane and will demonstrate the steps to preparing and submitting a proposal through the system. Participants will also be registered to use FastLane.
Submitted by Research Administration
Serna Center director
Nadeen Ruiz, a faculty member with the Department of Bilingual and Multicultural Education in the College of Education, has been appointed as the director of the Serna Center beginning in the fall.
Professor Ruiz has been a member of the Sacramento State faculty since 1992 and recently served as her department chair. She has also served as the director of the Cross Cultural Resource Center. While on leave at Stanford University from 2003-2005, she founded and directed Stanford‘s Elementary Education Program.
Her numerous publications in her research areas have earned her national and international recognition as an authoritative voice in bilingual and multicultural education.
Submitted by the College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies
Multicultural event
Epsilon Sigma Rho Fraternity Inc., UNIQUE Programs and Associated Students, Inc., will sponsor the Sixth annual Multicultural Night 7-9 p.m., Thursday, April 30, in the University Union Ballroom.
There will entertainment, performances and activities. It is free and open to the campus community.
Submitted by Epsilon Sigma Rho Fraternity Inc.
Food drive results
Sacramento State donated an equivalent of 7,610 lbs worth of food for the needy in the Sacramento region during the 2008 State Employees Food Drive held at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009.
The food drive, carried out by staff employees in University Transportation and Parking Services, included monetary donations of $2,312.
Submitted by University Transportation and Parking Services
New hours
Beginning Monday, April 27, the offices of Staff Employment, Classification and Compensation and Training and Development will be open to the public 8 a.m.–3 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. The offices are located in Sacramento Hall, room 173. The lobby office in room 173 will remain open for mail drop off and pick up 3-5 p.m.
Employees who need to conduct business with those offices between 3 and 5 p.m., can contact staff members by telephone, e-mail or by appointment. Questions regarding this schedule should be directed to Elizabeth Redmond, interim associate vice president for Human Resources, at 278-4488.
Submitted by Human Resources
Global money crisis
L. Randall Wray, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, will discuss the global financial crisis 2 p.m., Thursday, April 23, in the University Union’s Orchard Suite.
His lecture links the crisis to the long-term transformation of the economy from a robust financial structure in the 1950s to the fragile one that existed at the beginning of this crisis.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Submitted by the Economics Department
Anthropology Museum
The Anthropology Museum will host a reception for the exhibit, "American Indian Histories: Art, Object, Text" noon-2 p.m., Friday, April 17 in Mendocino Hall, room 1000. Light refreshments will be served. The exhibit is open noon-3 p.m., Tuesdays-Fridays through Wednesday, April 29. It is free and open to the public.
Submitted by the Anthropology Muesuem
Author visits campus
California Lectures, in partnership with the English Department and the Community Engagement Center, presents an afternoon with author Andrew Sean Greer, 1 p.m., April 20, in the University Union. A lecture preview with English professor Sheree Meyer is at 12:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase and a book signing will occur after the lecture.
Greer is the author of a number of bestselling novels, including “The Path of Minor Planets,” “How It Was for Me,” and “The Confessions of Max Tivoli.” Greer’s stories have been anthologized and have appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and other national publications.
For program information, call (916) 737-1300. Free parking is available in Lot 10 For a campus map visit www.csus.edu/utaps
Submitted by the English Department
Sac State Night at the River Cats
Tickets are available for the third annual Sac State Night at the River Cats Thursday, May 7, when the Pacific Coast League Champion River Cats take on the Reno Aces.
Tickets are on sale at the Recreational Sports Office located on the first floor of the University Union. Tickets are $7 each, or $5 each in groups of 10 or more.
For information, call the Recreational Sports Office at 278-4111.
Submitted by the Recreational Sports Office
Human Resources
Catastrophic leave donation program
Sacramento State employees may voluntarily donate to other employees up to a maximum of 40 hours of sick or vacation leave credits in one-hour increments each fiscal year. Bargaining Units 1, 8, 10 and 11 may only donate up to 16 hours per fiscal year. If employees are interested in donating time, a donation form can be obtained at www.csus.edu/hr/forms.htm#Disability, or by visiting the Human Resources Disability Leaves office in Sacramento Hall 162, or by calling 278-3522.
The following employees have been approved for the Catastrophic Leave Donation Program:
Janelle Robinette, Nursing
Julie Bradley, Math Department
Wandarah Anderson, Division of Social Work
Michael Wilson, Economics
Misty Sisneros, Community Engagement Center