UNCSA UPDATED EMAIL POLICY
The UNCSA Email Policy has been updated to improve and ensure effective and well-organized campus communications.
Access to the campus-wide email distribution lists is limited to the chancellor, chief academic officer, chief operating officer, chief advancement officer, chief information officer, chief of police, associate vice chancellor for facilities management, director of media relations, and their designees. Mass distribution of individual messages must be relevant to the UNCSA community, urgent or time sensitive in nature, and/or providing essential information (i.e., regarding budget, campus safety, messages from the chancellor, etc.).
All other non-urgent or non-time sensitive messages are included in the “Every Friday Emails”. To include announcements in weekly distributions, send announcements via email to efe@uncsa.edu by 5:00pm on Thursdays. Upon review for appropriateness by the director of media relations, these announcements will be included in the weekly distribution. Announcements received after the deadline will be held until the next week unless authorized by the chancellor, chief academic officer, chief operating officer, chief advancement officer, director of media relations, or their designees.
Please read the policy at www.uncsa.edu/informationtechnologies/emailpolicy.pdf.
Submitted by Lisa Smith, Chief Information Officer
FIGHTING PICKLES MASCOT DESIGN CONTEST
We are empowering YOU to design our new mascot! UNCSA is conducting a contest to create the new “UNCSA Fighting Pickles” mascot to represent our school. The contest begins on March 1, 2010, with design entries due my April 3rd. It ends on May 21, 2010 with the unveiling of the new mascot in The Pickle Jar on the 3rd floor of Hanes Student Commons, on the UNCSA campus. This competition is open to UNCSA students, alumni, faculty, staff, and former faculty and staff. For complete rules, deadlines, and further details, please visit: www.uncsa.edu/mascot
Submitted by James Pao, Communications & Marketing
ATTENTION GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL & COLLEGE STUDENTS
Information and ticket order forms were put in your UNCSA mail boxes on Friday, February 26th
Please look this information over and fill the provided form out and drop your ticket order form in the designated boxes in the Mailroom or at Watson Hall. Please make sure to specify on your ticket order form if any of your invited parties has a disability, so that we will be able to better accommodate them.
The deadline is Friday, March 26th “
Submitted by Kathi Rainwater, Stevens Center
UPCOMING DRAMA PERFORMANCES
Mar. 3 – Mar. 7 (Wednesday – Sunday)
“The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Matt Bulluck / Featuring members of Studio III
A classic tale of “greed is good” which resonates freshly with our modern day situation, by one of America’s most powerful female playwrights.
Mar. 3 – Mar. 6
8:00 p.m. at Catawba Theatre, Performance Place
Mar. 6 and Mar. 7
2:00 p.m. at Catawba Theatre, Performance Place
$12 adults / $10 seniors and students
Submitted by Mary Jane Degnan, School of Drama
CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANTS FOR SPRING TERM 2010 COMING SOON!
Applications will be available to all students beginning the first day of Spring Term.
Career Development Grants are available to all UNCSA full-time students for any project that has a positive impact on professional career plans. The maximum amount awarded per grant is $500. Only one application submission per funding round is permitted.
Deadline is April 9, 2010
For samples, questions or applications, please contact Career Services at 631-1202 or careerservices@uncsa.edu
Submitted by Gabriela Camacho, Outreach and Career Services
CALLING ALL ARTISTS FOR SUBMISSIONS & PERFORMANCE PROPOSALS FOR AN ALL-SCHOOL ART SHOW: UNBOUND!
Weirdo. Crazy. Schizophrenic. Bipolar. We live in a world of labels that can often be oppressive.
Stories of resistance, recovery, and emotional liberation are absent within contemporary
culture.
Unbound showcases the heroic narratives of people transcending labels and reclaiming their lives.
All art forms are welcome! Space is available for film screenings, dance, drama, spoken and written word, music, instillation art, visual art, & more
- Artists may submit works that speak to this theme that were created at any time
- UNCSA students, faculty, and staff as well as community members are all encouraged to
participate - Have your art featured in a professional art show, invite your family and friends to the
opening, and build your resume!
The Unbound committee will select art — for display or performance — from works submitted on a
rolling basis. The deadline for submitting a proposal / piece is MARCH 31st.
Contact: Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, Clinical Case Manager, Kenan Student Life Center (336)631-1223
frisbiefultong@uncsa.edu
Submitted by Dr Tom Murray, Counseling and Testing Services
THE BIG SCREEN FILM SERIES PRESENTS ONCE UPON A TIME…WHEN WE WERE COLORED
The Kenan Institute for the Arts and the UNCSA School of Filmmaking are proud to present The Big Screen: Treasures from the UNCSA Moving Image Archive, a film series for the general public presented with state-of-the-art sound and projection (not DVD!) on a big screen. The next film of the series is:
Once Upon A Time…When We Were Colored
Saturday, March 6, 7:00 pm
Main Theatre, ACE Exhibition Complex
Tickets sold at the door only: $8 general admission, $2 UNCSA students with ID.
Ticket proceeds from The Big Screen will support UNCSA Film School scholarships.
Faculty and Staff please note: In order to maximize the fundraising aspect of this series, there is no discount for UNCSA faculty/staff. UNCSA students only receive the $2 ticket price.
For more information about this film and future films in the series, please visit our webpage: http://www.kenanarts.org/project/show/id/14
AND view the series trailer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utSCVXaqwd4
AND become a fan on Facebook
About this film:
Directed by Tim Reid. With Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Paula Kelly, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Anna Maria Horsford, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes and Willis Norwood Jr.
In the segregated South, a tightly-knit African-American community finds strength in friends and family, even as it deals with the struggles of being black in the mid-20th century. Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored is based on the 1989 best-selling memoir by Clifton L. Taulbert. Actor Tim Reid, best known for playing Venus Flytrap on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” was so struck by the authenticity of Taulbert’s writing that he set out to adapt the book as his feature directorial debut. Reid envisioned the film as a sprawling, multi-generational ensemble piece (there are 83 speaking parts) that dramatized the old African proverb: It takes a village to raise a child. After the project was turned down by all of the major movie studios, Reid scraped together a shoestring budget of $2.5 million for a 28-day shoot in Wilmington, NC. Once Upon a Time…When We Were Colored received a very limited theatrical release in early 1996, but still managed to garner plenty of acclaim; movie critic Roger Ebert showed the film at his annual Overlooked Film Festival in 2004.
…coming on Saturday, April 3, 7:00 pm: A Face In The Crowd (1957, not rated – this is Andy Griffith’s screen debut…and it’s NOT Sheriff Andy!)
Submitted by: Suzanna Watkins, Kenan Institute for the Arts at UNCSA
SWORD PLAYS – SCHOOL OF DRAMA STAGE COMBAT PROJECTS
Come see a public presentation of the 3rd year Drama students stage combat projects. Over 30 different swashbuckling scenes featuring broadswords, shields, rapiers, daggers, cutlasses, katanans and much more. Scenes are choreographed by Drama faculty member Dale Girard, coached by guest artists Angela Bonacasa (professional fight director and Certified Teacher of the Society of American Fight Directors) and adjudicated by guest artist J. David Brimmer (Broadway fight director and one of only 15 Fight Masters of the Society of American Fight Directors). It should be a terrific evening action and adventure!
WHERE: The Thrust Theater, Performance Place
WHEN: Monday, March 8th at 7:30pm
Submitted by Dale Girard, School of Drama
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CHECK RUN CYCLE FOR MARCH
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||||
| All Items needed for Thursday’s check run | AP CHECK RUN | STUDENT REFUND | AP CHECK RUN | All Items needed for Tuesday’s check run | |||||
| checks available for pick up from Tuesday’s run | checks available for pick up from Thursday’s run | ||||||||
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||||
| All Items needed for Thursday’s check run | AP CHECK RUN | STUDENT REFUND | AP CHECK RUN | All Items needed for Tuesday’s check run | |||||
| checks available for pick up from Tuesday’s run | checks available for pick up from Thursday’s run | ||||||||
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | |||||
| All Items needed for Thursday’s check run | AP CHECK RUN | STUDENT REFUND | AP CHECK RUN | All Items needed for Tuesday’s check run | |||||
| checks available for pick up from Tuesday’s run | checks available for pick up from Thursday’s run | ||||||||
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | |||||
| All Items needed for Thursday’s check run | AP CHECK RUN | STUDENT REFUND | AP CHECK RUN | All Items needed for Tuesday’s check run | |||||
| checks available for pick up from Tuesday’s run | checks available for pick up from Thursday’s run | ||||||||
| 29 | 30 | 31 | |||||||
| All Items needed for Thursday’s check run | AP CHECK RUN | STUDENT REFUND | |||||||
| AP PERIOD CLOSING CHECK RUN | |||||||||
| checks available | |||||||||
NOTE: It is still Accounts Payable policy (section 3) that 7 days be given to process direct pay request!
PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY!
Submitted by Debbie Spence, Financial Services
CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK POLICY REVISION
On February 18, 2010 the Board of Trustees approved amendments to the Criminal Background Check Policy. The modifications were proposed to address budget concerns while ensuring the safety of our students and employees. The following highlights a few of the modifications to the policy, but only the policy itself contains the details. As such, please be sure to read the policy in full by visiting http://www.uncsa.edu/humanresources/forms/crime.pdf.
The revisions:
- eliminate the need for multiple criminal background checks for certain employees within a single academic year (see additional detail in policy)
- eliminate the need for criminal background checks for certain employees hired on a yearly basis for more than 3 consecutive years (see additional detail in policy) add credit checks for employees in financially sensitive positions (see additional detail in policy)
- add self reporting requirement of criminal activity during employment (see additional detail in policy)
An excerpt from the policy includes:
Reporting requirement: A current employee who is convicted of a criminal offense other than a traffic infraction must notify his/her supervisor within 5 calendar days of the entry of the criminal conviction. Failure to report a conviction as defined above within 5 calendar days is grounds for discipline up to and including termination of employment.
To review all of the details of the newly amended policy, please visit http://www.uncsa.edu/humanresources/forms/crime.pdf. Should you have questions, contact Human Resources at 770-1428 or General Counsel at 770-3273.
Submitted by Ashley Sanders, Human Resources
WHO’S NEW TO UNCSA?
Paula Pressley has joined the Advancement staff as Director of Individual Giving. In addition to a degree in fine arts, Paula brings significant experience in major gifts fundraising and non profit administration to this position. She recently relocated to Winston-Salem to be near family. Previously, she worked in NYC and Baltimore, MD, where she worked with some of these cities most respected non profits, the Partnership for the Homeless and SAGE among them. Please join me in welcoming Paula to UNCSA.
Submitted by Suzanne Hilser-Wiles
UNCSA, THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND THE CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM WILL HOST A FREE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SKYWARN TRAINING SESSION ON THE CAMPUS OF UNCSA
Advanced Severe Weather Spotter Training – March 12, 2010
10 am – Noon
UNC School of the Arts
Eisenberg Hall
1533 S Main St
Winston-Salem, NC 27127
This training program is designed to help students better understand the meteorology and dynamics behind all types of severe weather. The class will provide insight into the thunderstorm spectrum and how and why different types of storms develop. Instruction includes:
- relation of instability to updraft intensity
- wind shear impact on storm behavior and severity
- radar clues and detection or severe and tornadic storms
- processes necessary for tornado development
- weather patterns conducive to severe weather outbreaks
For more information, contact:
Jeff Orrock – (919) 515-8209 ext. 223
Michelle Brock (Forsyth County Emergency Management)
Office: (336) 661-6440
Sponsored by the Professional Development Committee of Staff Council
Submitted by Ashley Sanders, Chair
SCHOOL OF MUSIC NEWS & EVENTS
On Tuesday, March 9th, Lawrence Dillon will be in Cologne, Germany for the world premiere of his String Quartet No. 5: Through the Night, performed by the Emerson String Quartet at the Kölner Philharmonie.
On February 24 high school pianist Baron Fenwick played the first movement of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Charlotte Symphony as the Senior Division Grand Prize Winner of the Symphony Guild of Charlotte, Inc.’s Young Artists Competition. Baron is a student of Clifton Matthews.
Composition student Leo Hurley’s Mirror, Mirror Overture was premiered by the Winston-Salem Symphony on March 4th, with two subsequent performances on scheduled for March 8th, on the orchestra’s Mary Starling concert series.
Upcoming Performances
emerging artist concert: Undergraduate Opera Scenes
(Sun) Mar. 7, 2:00 p.m., Thrust Theater
Scenes from the operatic repertoire. Steven LaCosse, stage director; Mary Ann Bills, music director. FREE
Submitted by Martha Urbanik, School of Music
ARTS & IDEAS LUNCHTABLE
Must one learn to draw in order to design?
Do computers make us better knowers?
Is science a performance art?
Is teaching and learning a bodily practice?
These and other questions are discussed in the next book we’ll be reading and discussing at the Arts & Ideas Lunchtable:
Simulation and its Discontents, by Sherry Turkle.
See more about the book here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11677
WHEN?: Thursday, APRIL 1st (no foolin’!), NOON to 1 PM, Gray 206 conference room
So buy that book, y’all, and c’mon over! Bring your lunch. All are welcome!
FULL SCHEDULE: http://www.mikewakeford.com/AIL/?page_id=3
Submitted by Mike Wakeford, UAP
OPPORTUNITY TO WIN AN $250 BEST BUY GIFT CARD
To the UNCSA Campus Community:
We are conducting a survey to better understand your campus lifestyle and preferences. By sharing your thoughts, we will gain valuable insight to help improve your overall campus dining experience.
Each participant in the survey will have the opportunity to enter to win a Best Buy Gift Card. The sweepstakes is open only to legal residents, those who are 14 years of age or older at the time of entry and are registered students, faculty or staff members of the school.
This online survey will take 5 to 10 minutes and your responses are confidential.
The Survey will be live Feb. 22 thru Mar.19
Click on this link on Feb. 22nd to begin the survey:
http://www.college-survey.com/uncsa
If you cannot click on the link, copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser address bar and hit enter.
We appreciate your time and thank you for your assistance
Submitted by Heather Pinks, Director of Dining Services
THE NEW ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR THE STATE HEALTH PLAN
****OPEN ENROLLMENT IS SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 15TH – APRIL 9TH. More information coming soon.
The benefits department, in partnership with the State Health Plan, is implementing a new benefits enrollment system. This new system replaces the paper forms used in the past and will be accessible from any computer with Internet access February 01, 2010. You will have access 24/7 to view your current benefit information, get information on benefit offerings, view information on different benefit topics, enroll, and make changes to your benefits.
How to enroll or make changes online?
Go to https://uncsa.hrintouch.com
Click Login
Enter the following information:
Login ID: Your first name, the first initial of your last name and the last 4 digits of your social security number
Initial password: your social security number without spaces or dashes
Example for employee John Doe with SSN 111-22-3333:
Login ID is JohnD3333 and Password is 111223333
Once you are logged in, click the eBenefitsNow link below in blue box and VIEW your Basic Personal and Benefit information. Please let me know if your information is incorrect.
Log Out.
Trouble accessing a computer?
Ask your supervisor, department head for computer locations
Visit your Learning Community office
Visit the local County library
If you have questions, please contact Keyona McNeill 336-770-1451 or mcneillk@uncsa.edu
If you need help enrolling or accessing the internet, please attend one of the Open Enrollment Sessions that will be held in the Student Computer Lab (Hanes Commons -1st Floor) Dates and Times below:
March 15th (9am-11am)
March 17th (12:45-2pm)
March 18th (1pm-3pm)
March 24th (12:45-2pm) By Appointment only due to limited computers
April 1st (1pm-3pm) By Appointment only due to limited computers
April 8th (1pm-3pm) By Appointment only due to limited computers
April 9th (1pm-3pm) By Appointment only due to limited computers
Call Keyona McNeill
Submitted by Keyona McNeill, Human Resources
INVITATION TO FACULTY AND STAFF TO CREATIVE LEARNING CENTER ART EXHIBIT
Faculty and staff treat the children at Halloween each year, so the children want to treat you to their art exhibit on display March 8-18 in the lower level of the Commons Building. Their colorful and happy expression of themselves via their art will brighten your day!! You are also invited to their Art Opening and Silent Auction in Eisenberg Hall on Sunday, March 14, from 3:00-5:30 pm. Check our web site (www.CreativeLearningCenterOnline.com) for some great buys. Please join us in celebrating the children!!
Submitted by Othella Johnson, Creative Learning Center for Very Young Children
2010 Women’s History Month
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
2010
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, in 1980 the President of the United States proclaimed the first National Women’s History Week, which became National Women’s History Month in 1987; and
WHEREAS, the 2010 theme for National Women’s History Month is Writing Women Back into History; and
WHEREAS, in 1774, fifty-one women organized the Edenton Tea Party, one of the earliest political acts taken by North Carolina women in protest of the taxation of the colonies without representation within the British government; and
WHEREAS, women throughout our nation’s history have played key roles in securing voting rights, civil rights, human rights, protecting our natural resources, and in every movement that has helped shape our nation and the world; and
WHEREAS, through their pioneering efforts, women have opened the door for others in the area of business, science, politics, philanthropy and medicine; their achievements are vast and have benefitted the people of North Carolina, our nation and the world; and
WHEREAS, North Carolina women of every race, class, and ethnicity including famed educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Scotland-born heroine Flora MacDonald, United States First Lady Dolly Madison, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Gertrude Elion, and Folk School founder Olive D. Campbell, have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of North Carolina in countless recorded and unrecorded ways; and
WHEREAS, March 2010, is the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim March 2010, as “WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH” in North Carolina, and call upon the citizens of this State to observe and commemorate Women’s History Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities and to rediscover the contributions of women in North Carolina, our nation, and the world.
BEVERLY EAVES PERDUE
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this eighth day of February in the year of our Lord two thousand and ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty fourth.
The Governor of North Carolina has proclaimed March 2010 as “Women’s History Month” in North Carolina and has called upon the citizens of this state to observe and commemorate Women’s History Month. To view Governor Perdue’s Proclamation on Women’ History Month, click here. Proclamation
2010 marks the 30th anniversary of celebrating women’s achievements in the month of March. This year’s theme, “Writing Women Back into History”, seeks to uncover the “hidden” stories of Did You Know…
Bette Nesmith Graham - To hide her typing mistakes, Graham developed a substance out of tempera water-based paint, combined it with an artist’s brush to create what later became a multi-million dollar business, Liquid Paper. She was worth $50 million when she died. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham
Did You Know…
Dr. Annie Lowrie Alexander graduated from Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia and became North Carolina’s first licensed female doctor.
Visit the links below to discover women’s achievements:
Facts for Features 2010
Facts for Features 2010 Women’s History Month
The History of Women’s History Month
http://www.biography.com/womens-history/history.jsp
Women’s History Biographies
http://www.biography.com/womens-history/index.jsp
Women’s History in North Carolina
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/nchh/womenshist.html
National Women’s History Project
National Women’s Hall of Fame
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewAll
Submitted by Ashley Sanders, Human Resources