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Issues 09 Speaker Series Continues
The Issues 09 Speaker Series will conclude with award-winning poet, writer and educator Naomi Shihab Nye, who will examine multiculturalism in a lecture, entitled Variety is the Solution: A Look at How Literature Brings Us All Together in the World, on Monday, November 16, at 11 a.m. in Wilkins Theatre. An advocate for shared humanity, Nye has spent 35 years traveling the world leading writing workshops and inspiring students through her work. She is an expert on multiculturalism and author/editor of more than 25 volumes, including seven prize-winning poetry anthologies for young readers.
Individuals wishing to attend these lectures may contact Hattie Williams in the Office of Media & Publications at 908-737-0580 or via e-mail at hawillia@kean.edu.
Wiley Student Cover Design Challenge
Contest began on October 5 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on December 18, 2009. Global publisher John Wiley & Sons is looking for student talent in designing the cover of the second edition of Robin Landa's Advertising by Design. This popular book is used in design programs nationwide. The contest will be judged by an internal panel of Wiley judges, including professionals from marketing, editorial, and creative services, as well as the author, Robin Landa, a distinguished professor in the Department of Design. In addition, the covers will be judged by a panel of external judges: Mark Chamberlain, vice president and associate creative director for Mullen; Drew Neisser, CEO of Renegade; Robynne Ray, co-founder and principal of Modern Dog Design; Nick Law, EVP, and chief creative officer for North America, R/GA. Click here for further contest information on Facebook. Click here to view a video on the contest.
Sunday Mass
All Saints Day, November 1; and Sunday, November 8, at 8 p.m. in University Center, Room 226 A. For further information, please contact Father Thomas Blind at (908) 737-4835 or via e-mail at tblind@kean.edu.
Voices from the Roof of the World: A Panel on Tibetan Culture, History and Religion
Monday, November 2, from 2 to 3:20 p.m., in the Kean Hall Conference Center. A panel of scholars from China Tibetology Research Center will present their academic research: Professor Dramdul (Zheng Dui) will present Modern Tibetan Buddhism Studies in China; Professor Nanjia Cairang will address The Leru Festival - Communication between the Mountain God and Local People; Professor Sangding Cairen will speak on The First Tibetan Buddhist Mani Stones of the World - Yulshul Sengse Gyanag Mani Stone; and Professor Wang Xiaobin will present The Peaceful Liberation in Tibet and the Dalai Lama's Political Status.
This program is funded through the generosity of the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and is co-sponsored by the Department of History, Center for Professional Development, GMBA Student Club, and Kean Chinese Student Association. Classes are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. For further information, please contact Dr. Dongmin Ke at 908-737-4170 or via e-mail at dke@kean.edu. Click here to view a flyer for the program.
Faculty Senate Executive-Committee Meeting
Tuesday, November 3, from 3:20 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. in the Maxine and Jack Lane Center for Academic Success, Room 308. For further information, please call Gloria Duff at 7-4235.
KFT Executive-Council Meeting
Thursday, November 5, from 3:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Maxine and Jack Lane Center for Academic Success, Room 205. For further information, please call Norma Hall at 7-3925.
Kean University Department of Music Showcase to be Featured on Telemundo
Kean’s Department of Music will present a student showcase on Thursday, November 5, at noon, in the Elizabeth Public Library, located at 11 S. Broad Street in Elizabeth, N.J. The 50-minute lunchtime concert is free and open to the general public.
Coordinated by Dr. Matthew Halper, a professor in Kean’s Department of Music, the concert will be taped and later broadcast on Telemundo television network. Select students from the department will be performing a wide range of works for piano, voice, guitar and percussion ensemble, with an emphasis on music and performers of Spanish and Latin-American heritage.
"We are very excited about presenting the best of our student performers to the community and the Spanish-speaking television public," said Halper. "There is nothing more edifying for an emerging young professional than to test his or her mettle in a high-visibility public forum."
For further information, please contact Dr. Matthew Halper at 908-737-4337 or via e-mail at halper@kean.edu.
Kean University to Host Two-day Workshop for Occupational Therapists
Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the university’s East Campus, room 134. The Department of Occupational Therapy at Kean University, in collaboration with the American Occupational Therapy Association, will host a Fieldwork Educator Certification Program workshop.
Knowledge, supervision and direction are critical to an occupational therapy (OT) student’s success and to the future of the OT profession. The two-day training workshop is designed to provide OT fieldwork educators and academic fieldwork coordinators with a deeper understanding of their roles, to develop effective strategies to integrate learning theories and supervision models, and to increase skills to provide high-quality educational opportunities during fieldwork experiences.
The workshop will engage four curricular modules, including administration, education, supervision and evaluation. Therapists participating in the workshop will have the opportunity to interact with colleagues and trainers and to discuss and reflect on past fieldwork experiences. Attendees will earn continuing education credit (15 contact hours) toward licensure renewal.
The cost of the workshop is $225 for AOTA members and $359 for nonmembers. Registration is required. For more information, contact Sonia Moorehead, academic fieldwork coordinator in Kean’s Department of Occupational Therapy, at smoorehe@kean.edu. Visit www.aota.org to register for the workshop.
Upward Bound Financial Aid and Scholarship Workshop
Saturday, November 7, from 9:30 a.m. to noon in the Maxine and Jack Lane Center for Academic Success, Room 106. The Upward Bound program will host its annual parent-student financial aid and scholarship workshop.
Danette Edwards, assistant director for Public Outreach of the Higher Education Assistance Authority (HESAA), will facilitate the workshop. Edwards is graciously providing her services pro bono to Upward Bound and the Kean University community. This event is open to the Kean community.
The mission of Upward Bound at Kean University is to provide the skills and motivations for high school students to pursue and graduate from a post secondary institution. The students are low-income first generation college bound students. Those interested in participating are asked to RSVP with Veronica Jackson, director of Upward Bound, or Kerlange Claude, Upward Bound counselor, at 908-737-3603.
TIAA-CREF Individual Counseling Sessions
Tuesday, November 10, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the University Center, Room 344; and Thursday, November 12, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the University Center, Room 345. To schedule an appointment, please visit www.tiaa-cref.org/moc or call TIAA-CREF at 1-800-842-8412. For a list of additional seminars, click here.
Self Image, Empowerment and Change
Thursday, November 12, from noon to 4 p.m. in the University Center Little Theatre. The M.A. program in Sociology and Social Justice will host Ron Martino, life teacher and author of The Self Image Solution, for an inspiring lecture. All members of the Kean community are invited to attend.
Martino, who created a personal training program for managing situational stress-related debilitations, as well as achieving maximal performance levels, will speak on the principles and methodologies of his program. He will also speak about his views on establishing direction, purpose and happiness in life.
Martino has made it his life’s work to find the keys to correcting the low self-image that he identifies as the common denominator at the core of all life disconnections. The Self-Image Solution is the culmination of the author’s search for the answers to building high self-image.
The life teacher is being hosted partly as a means of connecting students in the M.A. program to the theme of empowerment and change, according to Dr. José Sánchez, chair of the Department of the Sociology and Anthropology, and coordinator of the program. "We teach our students all of these various methodologies, but we may not be as effective at teaching them how to have a strong self image," said Sánchez. "They need to learn that there is a commitment that comes with empowering one’s self to go out and create change, and to make the lives of people better and communities better." Admission is free. For further information, click here or contact Sánchez at 908-737-4053.
Kean University Symphonic Wind Ensemble Concert
Thursday, November 12, at 8 p.m. in Wilkins Theatre. Under the direction of Dr. Thomas Connors, the Kean University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will present a program of American music. Baritone Concert Artist Richard Hobson will be featured in two works by Aaron Copland, including the Lincoln Portrait, being performed as part of a nation-wide celebration of the bicentennial of Licoln's birth in 1809. New Jersey composer Bruce Yurko will guest conduct his Pastorale Nocturne. Other works in the program include music by Leonard Bernstein and David Maslanka. Admission is free. For further information, please contact Dr. Thomas Connors at 7-4327 or via e-mail at tconnors@kean.edu.
Key to the Execution of your Estate Plan - The Hartford Retirement Seminar
Thursday, November 12, from noon to 1 p.m. in the University Center, Room 226A. To schedule an appointment, please call Scott Pollack, Hartford representative, at 973-783-2555 or via e-mail at scott@polackfinancialgroup.com.
Kean University Concert Choir and Chorale presents Gloria!!
Sunday, November 15, at 3 p.m. in the new, state-of-the-art Gene and Shelley Enlow Recital Hall, located on Kean’s East Campus at 215 North Avenue in Hillside, N.J. Admission is free.
This program will begin with an instrumental prelude featuring pianists Mayling Martinez and Jennifer F. Torres, performing Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto in G Hob XVIII4. The Kean University Chorale, a small, select vocal ensemble, will then perform the Gloria from Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit pour Noel and Ich Will Den Namen Loben from J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 142. In the concluding section of the program, the Kean University Concert Choir will perform Haydn’s stirring The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God from The Creation, the Kyrie and Gloria from Schubert’s Mass in G, Mendelssohn’s sublime Hear My Prayer and the Qui Sedes and Laudamus Te from Poulenc’s magnificent Gloria.
Featured soloists for the concert will be Carol Baldessari, Tatyana Boyechko, Nicholas Bucci, Stephanie Chelston, Christine Danelson, Michael Harris, Veronica Khalil, Mayling Martinez and Christine Quagliato. The accompanist will be Dr. Myron Leshowitz and the program will be directed by Dr. Mark Terenzi, director of Choral Activities at Kean University.
For further information, please call the Kean University Box Office at 908-737-SHOW (7469) or by visiting www.kean.edu. Experience Kean’s acoustically and aesthetically magnificent new Enlow Hall with its 10’ Fazioli Grand Piano.
A Holy Hour of Meditation
Monday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Walburga Monastery in Elizabeth, N.J. All students are invited to spend quiet time meditating. Light refreshments will be served. For further information, please contact Father Thomas Blind at (908) 737-4835 or via e-mail at tblind@kean.edu, or Sister Mariette at 908-352-4278, Extension 274.
The Holocaust Resource Center Presents Lecture on the Warsaw Ghetto
Monday, November 30, at 7:50 p.m. in Wilkins Theatre. The Holocaust Resource Center (HRC) at Kean University will host historian, award-winning author and Holocaust scholar, Dr. Samuel Kassow, who will lecture on History and Catastrophe: The Secret Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto. For more information on this and other HRC events, please visit www.kean.edu/~hrc/events.htm.
Kassow is a leading authority on Emanuel Ringelblum and the secret Jewish documentation of the Warsaw Ghetto. His written works include Who Will Write Our History: Emanuel Ringelbum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (2007), The Distinctive Life of East European Jewry (2004), Students, Professors and the State in Tsarist Russia (1989), and numerous articles in professional journals. He is the recipient of the 2008 Orbis Books Prize and nominee for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award. In addition, Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College. He also holds fellowships from Fulbright, Princeton University, Danforth, Oxford University, Woodrow Wilson, Moscow State University, University of Warsaw and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
University Promotion Committee Announces Procedures and Schedule for In-person interviews
To view a full listing of these procedures and the schedule, click here.
Presidential Scholars Challenge Program
The application period for the Presidential Scholars Challenge program (PSC), a new internal grant program announced by President Farahi on Opening Day, opened on Friday, October 9. PSC provides funds to support faculty research projects with the objective of securing external funding to continue the research program.
Up to $450,000 is available to fund approximately 10 to 15 awards. The average award size is expected to be $25,000 to $50,000, but proposals above $50,000 will be considered, if appropriate to the scope of the project. Allowable expenses include up to 6 credits release time, summer II salary, project related travel expenses, and supplies and equipment required by the research. The award period is January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010.
There is a very short turn around time for this year’s grant process. The deadline for applications is November 9, 2009. Detailed program requirements, full instructions and application packets can be found on the ORSP Website.
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Kean University’s Speech Club Making a Difference
The weather was no match for the 27 Kean University students who walked to raise awareness of autism spectrum disorder during the annual Walk Now for Autism Speaks event on October 18, at Nomehegan Park in Cranford, N.J. The students are all members of Kean’s Speech, Language, and Hearing Student Association (SLHSA), a club that takes prides in servicing the community.
SLHSA is a dynamic and active group of students from Kean’s communication disorders and deafness program. Students in the program earn a bachelor’s degree in speech, language and hearing sciences and many pursue a master’s degree in Kean’s speech language pathology program.
Each year, the students participate in a variety of community-minded services, including charitable fund raising and volunteer activities. Recent bake sales and member donations have resulted in generous donations to the Smile Train, an organization that funds surgery and treatment for children from impoverished countries suffering with cleft palate. The group has also donated to Kean's Institute for Adults Living with Communications Disorders, a community-based clinic that provides expanded speech, language and rehabilitation support services, at minimal cost, to people living in New Jersey.
SLHSA is affiliated with the New Jersey Speech Language Hearing Association and the American Speech Language Hearing Association. In the past five years, the club has grown in membership, attendance and community service. For more information about the communication disorders and deafness program, visit www.kean.edu/~cdd.
Newspapers Continue to be Vital to the Community
An award-winning panel of journalists gathered October 22 at the Little Theater in the University Center to contribute their thoughts during Newspapers: Then and Now, the fourth forum in the Issues 09 lecture series.
The panelists included Fran Wood, a former editor and columnist at The Star-Ledger; Betty Ming Liu, a former New York Daily News reporter and a current college professor; Dan Barry, a national columnist for The New York Times; and Jon Lender, a reporter for The Hartford Courant.
While newspapers have gone through seismic changes of late, each panelist concurred that they won’t fade away forever.
"As newspapers go through this shift (economically), there will still be a need for people to stand and bear witness," said Barry, who is the brother of Dr. Mark Lender, Kean’s interim vice president of Academic Affairs. "I think newspapers may get smaller, but they’ll still be around."
Besides, Barry said, people remain drawn to newspapers. "They view them as an institution in town, like city hall is," Barry said. "And we still take on ‘the man.’ There’s something honorable about the profession." Lender agreed, saying that "people relate to papers. What kid doesn’t look forward to seeing his name in the paper for sports?"
In an age of blogging and internet news, the panelists said that newspapers continue to have a leg up on the competition. "There are plenty of blogs that are serious and fully reported out, but newspapers strive toward objectivity," Barry said. "That’s our mandate. Blogs don’t have that mandate."
Wood added that sometimes it’s unclear where bloggers get their information. "I don’t know if readers have a lot of understanding about what has gone into finding the news," she said. "Some (blogs) shoot from the hip and it’s not clear what’s going on."
For future newspaper writers, Lender and Liu advised that they beef up their core skills. "Try to find an interesting and lively way to say something," Lender said. "Remember, you’re competing against TV and the Internet."
Liu added, "Go outside the box and surprise the read with what they don’t expect. Get something fresh. And write for your college newspaper. People who will get the jobs are those who have that passion for the truth."
Kean Students Win First Place Award at UMBC’s Undergraduate Research Symposium
Eight students from the departments of Biological Science and Psychology, and the New Jersey Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, participated in the 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, hosted by the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) on October 10.
Robin Bagley, a student in the New Jersey Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, and Wei Dong, a biology major, presented their work, entitled Bimetallic Ruthenium-based compounds as photo-dynamic chemotherapeutic agents, and won a first place award for outstanding research. Gisele Andrade, a Psychology major, and Stephanie Brennan, a Biology major, presented their work, entitled Preliminary Report on the Spectral Sensitivities of the Retinal Visual Pigments from the North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis); Joanna John, a Biology major, presented her work entitled, New Uses for Old Drugs: Screening of an FDA Approved Drug Library to Identify New Treatments For Pancreatic Cancer; Samantha Mahmoud, a NJCSTME student, presented her work, entitled Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Ruthenium Based Compound Used in Chemotherapy; and Kathryn Bednarz, a NJCSTME student, and Steve Romanides, a Biology student, presented their work, entitled Optimization of experiments for identification of proteins in reproductive tissues for Primula acaulis.
Faculty advisers for these projects included Drs. Jeffry Fasick and Farshad Tamari of the Department of Biology, Dr. Matthew Mongelli of the Department of Chemistry, Dr. Dil Ramanathan of the New Jersey Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, and Dr. Jeffrey Toney, dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences. These research projects were supported by Kean University’s Students Partnering with Faculty program, Kean University’s New Research Initiative for Interdisciplinary Projects and the Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program.
Kean University Participates in the 2009 ACM Greater New York Programming Contest
Best Performance Ever Recorded by Kean’s Teams
Pictured (left to right) are Kean students Ibtisam Ali, Swetha Medicherla and Hanan Teleb, at the ACM Programming Contest, ACM Greater New York Regional Collegiate Programming Contest, held on October 18 at Hofstra University. This competition includes teams from all over the northeast, and is a qualifying tournament for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), to be held in February 2010 in Harbin, China. Sponsored by the ACM, an association for Computer Science and Information Technology professionals, and IBM, Kean University has participated in this annual contest for more than 10 years. Teams of two to three students work to solve correctly the largest number of computing problems in the allocated time. The winning team(s) advance to the international competition. This year, Kean University’s had their best showing ever, as they competed against more than 40 teams, including Cornell, Columbia, and SUNY-Binghamton, and finished the day at the top of the team standings. Kean’s student participants are now immortalized by the Department of Computer Science, as the team members’ names are engraved on a plaque displayed in the department hallway.
Kean University Child Care & Development Center Says Thanks!
Thank You, Kean University Alumni Association! This summer, the children at the Kean University Child Care & Development Center enjoyed playing on a new piece of equipment, monkey bars, which was funded by the Alumni Association.
Sincerely,
Kathy Berkowitz
Director, Kean University Child Care Center
Sports
Chunn Selected Kean Athlete of the Week
Senior Jared Chunn was selected as the Kean Athlete of the Week, for the Week of October 19, following Kean's sixth conference win of the season. Chunn finished with 13 carries for 115 yards and one touchdown, giving him exactly 3,100 career rushing yards and 25 career rushing touchdowns.
On the second play of the game, Chunn, who needed just 15 yards to become just the second player in program history to have at least 3,000 yards rushing, broke a 59-yard touchdown run to give the Cougars the 7-0 lead after the extra point, only 32 seconds into the game.
Janicky Tabbed NJAC Rookie of the Week
Freshman Jaclyn Janicky of the Women’s Soccer Team was tabbed as the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Rookie of the Week, as announced by the conference office on October 26.
Janicky earned the honor after tallying four points in a pair of matches during the week for the Cougars. After not scoring at Western Connecticut, she netted a pair of goals in the Cougars' 6-5 overtime NJAC defeat to Richard Stockton. After trailing 2-0 early in the match, she scored the first two goals of her collegiate career to give Kean a 4-2 lead in the second half.
Home Schedule
October 31 – Football
vs. Rowan University in Kean University Alumni Stadium, 1 p.m.
November 3 – Field Hockey
vs. William Paterson University in Kean University Alumni Stadium, 7:30 p.m.
Away Schedule
October 31 – Volleyball
vs. Marywood University at 1 p.m., and University of Scranton at 3 p.m., at Marywood University.
October 31 – Women’s Soccer
in NJAC Tournament First Round, TBA
November 3 – Women’s Soccer
in NJAC Tournament Semifinal, TBA
November 6 – Women’s Soccer
in NJAC Tournament Championship, TBA
In The News
In an effort to fast-track math and science teachers, Kean University and the New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning began co-sponsoring a teacher training program called the Progressive Science Initiative. The program launched this summer in response to the shortage of physics teachers in the state. Susan Polirstok, dean of the College of Education at Kean, provided comments in an article featured in The Star-Ledger (10/25).
In 2003, artist Paddy Shaw, academic specialist for the Theatre Management and Programming Office and scenic director for Premier Stages at Kean University, painted a portrait of Dame Alice Kyteler, who escaped being burned at the stake on witchcraft charges in 1324. Much to his surprise, Shaw’s painting recently made headlines in the largest selling newspaper in South East Ireland, Kilkenny People (10/21).
Reminders
Kean University Farmers Market
Fridays, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Guests are invited to visit the market and choose among a wide selection of locally grown fruits and vegetables, organic products and flowers. For further information, please contact Mary Roman at 7-0673.
Design Center Exhibition Debuts at Brookdale Community College
The exhibition, 100 Greatest Designs of the Past Thousand Years, which first appeared on the Kean campus in 2000, has been remounted at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J. The show will run through Friday, October 30. The exhibition showcases a wide range of design innovations over the past millennium, from the spinning wheel and the Model T, down to the paper clip and the zipper. The exhibition was originally created for The Design Center at Kean University by Professors Alan Robbins and Martin Holloway, with design majors helping in the research and production. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. For further information, please contact Professor Alan Robbins at 908-737-4439.
Global Education and Innovation presents the 21st Century Learner Series
The School for Global Education & Innovation will present a workshop program, as part of the ongoing 21st Century Learner Series for Kean University faculty and staff. These workshops will examine contemporary tools, issues and techniques that explore 21st century learning. These are BYOL (bring your own laptop) workshops - guests are welcome to bring their own laptops, or one will be provided. All workshops will be held in Kean Hall, Room 225, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. For a full listing of workshops, click here. All workshops are free of charge. Preregistration is required. Click here to register. For further information, please call the School for Global Education and Innovation at 908-737-3869.
Donating Time for Jennifer Curving
Jennifer Curving, a program assistant for the Department of Theatre, is out of work due to a serious illness and has exhausted all accrued time. Those who wish to donate sick or vacation time to her should complete a Donor Transfer Certification Form available in the Office of Human Resources or online here.
Donor Requirements:
Donors must have a sick leave balance of not less than 20 accrued sick days after transfer of time.
Donors must have a vacation leave balance of not less than 12 accrued vacation days after transfer of time.
Donation of less than 5 days will result in conditional approval until minimum of 5 days have been donated to the recipient.
For additional information on donating time, please contact Lorice Thompson-Greer at 7-3309 or via e-mail at lgreer@kean.edu.
Holiday Break
This is to inform all employees that most academic buildings will be closed from Friday, December 25, 2009, through Friday, January 1, 2010. Departments and office heads are to consult with their respective vice presidents to determine what services are essential and what can be closed during this period. Employees in non-essential units, who wish to work during the December 28 to December 31 period, must notify their supervisor and the Office of Human Resources in writing, or e-mail skierney@kean.edu no later than November 30.
Election Day (Tuesday, November 3) and Veterans' Day (Wednesday, November 11) are state holidays in which the University is open and classes will be held. Employees in non-essential operations who are asked by their supervisor to work either or both of these days can "bank" the compensatory time earned and may use it during the December 28 to December 31 period. Managers and professional staff are no-limit (NL) employees and earn straight time. Classified non-exempt (NE) professional employees earn time and a half after working forty (40) hours within that week.
As in previous years, non-essential CWA, PBA, and IFPTE represented employees who work Election Day and Veterans' Day for 2009 may take three days off between December 28 to December 31 (except NL or NE titles). Employees may also charge leave without pay if they wish. Employees in non-essential units who choose to work may do so at a designated site to be announced at a later date.
It is expected that most facilities, administrative and Campus Police services will operate under normal scheduling as determined by their department heads.
Any questions regarding the use of leave credits should be directed to the Office of Human Resources at 908-737-3312 or 4-3308.
The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture
Currently running through Saturday, November 7, at the School of Visual Art’s (SVA) Visual Arts Gallery, located at 601 West 26th Street in New York City. Organized in recognition of School of Visual Arts Department Chair Richard Wilde’s 40th anniversary at the college, the show will feature iconic and culturally significant works by select alumni from all four decades of Wilde’s tenure. As an alumnus, Steven Brower, director of The Design Studio, has several pieces featured in both the show and accompanying catalog, including two posters created for the Thinking Creatively conference.
The Visual Arts Gallery is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is closed Sundays and federal holidays. The gallery is accessible by wheelchair. For more information, or to purchase student's work (the gallery takes no commission), please contact the SVA call 212-592-2145 or via e-mail proffice@sva.edu. For further information, click here.
Graduate and Part-Time Student Council Bus Trip to see Baila Mi Gente at NJPAC
Friday, October 30, departing Wilkins Theatre Bus Stop at 6 p.m. Members of the Kean community are invited to celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with a Latin Dance Party for only $5. Tickets are on sale now for part-time and fulltime graduate students at the Wilkins Theater and University Center Box Offices. Faculty, staff and alumni tickets are $10 and go on sale on October 26. Two tickets per Kean ID. For further information, please contact the Graduate and Part-Time Student Council Bus Trip at 908-737-5251 or via e-mail at cahench@kean.edu.
Evolution and Education Forum
Friday, October 30, at 8:30 a.m. in the University Center, Room 228. This event will be a one-day forum for teachers concerning the teaching of evolution in the public school system. Speakers include Dr. Sylvio Codella, associate professor in Kean’s Department of Biology; Dr. Holly Dunsworth of Northeastern Illinois University, and noted paleoanthropologist Dr. Ross Nehm of Ohio State; All speakers will address the current aspects of evolutionary biology education, history and the latest news. Click here for further information or to register.
Kathy Erteman: Monoprints and Clay
From Tuesday, November 3, through Thursday, December 17 in the Karl and Helen Burger Art Gallery, located in the Maxine and Jack Lane Center for Academic Success. An opening reception will be held on Tuesday, November 3, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Erteman creates art with a sense of confidence and style that has evolved over a lifetime of creative experiences, diverse influences, and extensive world travel. Her parents were Dutch and Austrian refugees who moved to California to escape the Nazi occupation. In the 1960s and 1970s, she came of age in Los Angeles, when design and studio art were rapidly merging with the world of fine art. In the 1980s, she had already made a name for herself with her well-known black and white studio ceramics.
As demand for her work increased, Erteman would travel to factories in Thailand and Peru to oversee production of her designs. Over three decades, she has designed for such companies as Tiffany, Dansk, and Crate & Barrel. Her artwork is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts. Recently she lectured at the United Nations headquarters in New York City and worked as a design consultant to ceramic artisans in Tibet through the United States Agency for International Development.
At mid-career, Erteman freely works in two and three dimensions. Her art includes architectural installations, encaustic painting, printmaking, and even an occasional ceramic funerary urn. Within this wide range of expression, she consistently makes reference to her cultural and artistic influences: Bauhaus design, Minimalist sculpture, and Japanese printmaking. In 1994, she moved from Northern California to Manhattan, where she continues to live and work.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free to all visitors. For image requests, please contact Neil Tetkowski, gallery director, at 908-737-0392 or via e-mail at ntetkows@kean.edu. For further information rergarding this exhibit, click here.
A Dialog With Ken Bain
Friday, November 6, beginning with registration at 10:30 a.m., in the Kean Hall Conference Center. The Kean Faculty Network invites all Kean faculty members for a dialog with the author of the 2004 award-winning book, What the Best College Teachers Do, published by Harvard University Press.
Bain is the vice provost for Instruction, a professor of History and director of Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Montclair State University. He has taken a long interest in teaching and learning issues and, in recent years, has contributed to the scholarship in that area.
Internationally recognized for his insights into teaching and learning, as well as for a 15-year study of what educators do, he has been invited to present workshops and lectures at more than 300 universities and events throughout the world. His learning research has concentrated on a wide range of issues, including deep and sustained learning and creation of natural critical learning.
"It is the pleasure of our new faculty development group to welcome Ken Bain to Kean University and offer an opportunity for faculty to dialog with an award winning author who has researched teachers and teaching," said Maria Perez of the Center for Professional Development. "His research and presentation is relevant to all educators, whether they have been in the field for an extended period of time or new to teaching. We look forward to a morning of valuable discussion with an outcome of a better understanding of the role that teachers play in the lives of their students."
Check in, and light refreshments will be served, at 10:30 a.m. Bain’s presentation will begin at 11 a.m., and will conclude with lunch at 12:30 p.m. Click here to view the flyer. Click here to RSVP. Reservations will close on Tuesday, November 3, at 11 p.m. Seating is limited.
Educating the Creative Mind: Developing Capacities for the Future Conference
Thursday to Saturday, March 4 to 6, 2010 at Kean University. Featuring Howard Gardner as the keynote speaker, this conference aims to heighten public awareness of the significance of the arts in children’s lives and education. "We seek to generate conversations about ways to strengthen arts-based education for young children by inviting educators to share their theories, research and practices," said Lily Chen-Hafteck, associate professor in the Department of Music. Deadline for proposals is November 1, 2009. For further information, click here.
Former Kean Professor to Address Occupational Therapy Students
Wednesday, November 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Kean University’s Department of Occupational Therapy will host author and stroke survivor Dr. Rebecca Dutton for a lecture. Dr. Dutton will speak to Kean’s master’s level occupational therapy students and discuss the effects and perspectives of a person living with a stroke.
Dr. Dutton is a former professor of occupational therapy at Kean and worked as an occupational therapist specializing in stroke rehabilitation before suffering a stroke in 2004. Her new book, My Last Degree: a Therapist Goes Home after a Stroke, tells the ironic story of how a therapist, who spent years rehabilitating stroke survivors, learned firsthand the problems that are often overlooked by traditional therapy, from bed mobility to getting on an airplane. Using her background as a therapist, professor and stroke survivor, Dr. Dutton will discuss the challenges of overcoming a stroke.
For more information, please contact Dr. Laurie Knis-Matthews at lknis@kean.edu or 908-737-3380.
Upward Bound to Host Kean University Day
Friday, November 6, from noon to 2 p.m. in Downs Hall. The Upward Bound program will host Kean University Day. During this groundbreaking event, participants will be provided with the many attributes of university life, thereby encouraging them to pursue a world class undergraduate education at Kean University. The university panel discussion will begin at noon and will conclude at 2 pm. Kean University administrators, faculty, staff and students are invited to share and encourage the participants of the program to pursue a degree at Kean University. Those interested in participating are asked to RSVP with Veronica Jackson, director of Upward Bound, or Kerlange Claude, Upward Bound counselor, at 908-737-3603.
