Tuesday, November 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Downs Hall. The Office of Health Services will be administering the H1N1 vaccine to people 25 years and under. It is strongly recommended for students who live on campus and children currently enrolled in the Kean University Child Care Center. People under 18 years of age must have parental consent prior to the administration of the vaccine. All those attending must bring their Kean University ID card and a second form of identification, such as a driver's license. This event is strictly for members of the Kean community. For further information, please contact Health Services at 908-737-4880.

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Sundays, November 8 and 15, 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.

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Monday, November 9, from 3:20 to 4:15 p.m. in the University Center Little Theatre. This Professional Enrichment Series presentation will examine the artistic process as a deep and dimensional form of human intelligence, and invite thinking about ways that these understandings can enrich teaching and learning both in and outside of the arts. A PowerPoint presentation will examine artwork of children and adolescents who have been taught based upon the methods discussed.

"The presentation has significant implications for all those interested in education and furthering their understandings about teaching, learning, and the children, adolescents, and university students we serve," said Dr. Joseph Amorino, coordinator of the Art Education program. "It can also generate reflective thought for visual and performing artists, students, administrators, and policy-makers."

Click here to view the flyer for the event. For further information, please contact Dr. Joseph Amorino at 908-737-4403.

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Tuesday, November 10, from 3:20 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. in the University Center, Room 226 A & B. For further information, please call Gloria Duff at 7-4235.

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Tuesday, November 10, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the University Center Little Theater. The Middle States Self Study Steering Committee (MSCHE) of Kean University will provide information regarding Kean’s current involvement in the decennial reaccreditation process. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend.

The MSCHE panel will be comprised of executive committee members: Dr. Barbara Lee, co-chair; Dr. Linda Best, self study consultant; Dr.Shiji Shen, director of Institutional Research; Nitza M. Gallardo, student trustee; and Dr. Kenneth B. Sanders, co-chair. For more information, please email the MSCHE at msche@kean.edu.

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Tuesday, November 10, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble, located at 240 Rt. 22 W. in Springfield, N.J. Jeff Bunin, senior loan officer for Capital Lending Corp. and Franco Callocchia, financial consultant for AXA Advisors, LLC, will discuss topics such as the importance of business plans, financial data, sources of financing, management and personnel, how to approach lenders, and cash flow projection. They will also discuss the business operation, location, a P & L Balance Sheet, risk management, supporting documents, investment planning and marketing.

Admission is free. Special arrangements for people with disabilities can be made upon request. Be sure to bring business cards and brochures for networking purposes. For further information or to register for the workshop, please contact the Small Business Development Center at 908-737-4220.

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Wednesday, November 11, at 11 a.m. on the plaza in front of the University Center. The Office of Veterans' Affairs and the Kean University Veterans Association invites members of the campus community to attend. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be held in the University Center Atrium. Please join us as we remember and honor military men and women who have served and are currently serving our country. For further information, please contact Steve Vence at 908-737-4124.

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Thursday, November 12, from 3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Hennings Hall, Room 113. For further information, please call Norma Hall at 7-3925.

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Thursday, November 12, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:50 p.m., in L-145. In the third installment of this year’s Faculty Seminar series, The Age of the Witness: Testimonies, Memoirs and Other Perspectives from Below, Dr. Janet Yedes, assistant professor in the Department of Communication, will present her work on the testimonies of Mayan women. For more information, including links to background reading, please contact Dr. Dennis Klein at dklein@kean.edu.

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Friday, November 13, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Maxine and Jack Lane Center for Academic Success, Room 302. The ESL program will hold a workshop during which participants will explore various approaches to helping English language learners improve their grammar and fluency. For more information, please contact Ruth P. Griffith at 7-0387.

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Friday, November 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Business Resource Center, located on the second floor of the Department of Labor Building, at 200 West Second Street in Plainfield, N.J. Patrick J. Guidotti, president of PJG Consulting in Robbinsville, N.J., and former director of the Small Business Office for the N.J. Department of Commerce, will explain how to qualify for, find and bid on state contracts and take advantage of the governor’s new Executive Order 151 procedures for set-asides. Guidotti will discuss a host of topics, including types of contracts, mandatory pre-bid meetings, set-aside contracts for small businesses, bid thresholds, receiving bid notices via email. He will also explain bonding requirements, formal and informal bids, do’s and don’ts when preparing a bid, and opportunities with local government and boards of education.

Admission is free. Special arrangements for people with disabilities can be made upon request. Be sure to bring business cards and brochures for networking purposes. For further information or to register for the workshop, please contact the Small Business Development Center at 908-737-4220.

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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 Fazioli Grand Piano.

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Monday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m. at Stat 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.

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Tuesday, November 17, from 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. in the Nancy Thompson Library, Room 157. In celebration of International Education Week 2009, the Center for International Studies (CIS) and the Center for Professional Development will host an orientation session designed to provide information on academic and extracurricular opportunities that provide global and cross-cultural understanding, according to Tim Torre, director of the CIS. Torre, as well as panel of faculty members who have hosted successful Travelearn programs, will be on hand to share their experiences on how Travelearn has enhanced their curricula and benefited students. Click here to view a flyer for the program. Click here to register.

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Thursday, November 19, at 8 p.m. in the Gene and Shelley Enlow Recital Hall. Guests are invited to celebrate Felix Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday year with Kean's Concert Artists and stunning performances of his Trio in C Minor, Viola Sonata, and Piano Sextet in D. Performers include Gabriela Martinez, piano; Brennan Sweet, violin; Brett Deubner and Joanna Frankel, violas; Susannah Chapman, cello; and Anthony Scelba, double bass. Tickets are $20 for the general public; $15 for faculty, staff, seniors and alumni; and $5 for students and children. For further information or to purchase tickets, please call the Kean Stage Box Office at 908-737-SHOW (7469).

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Monday, November 23, at 3:30 p.m. in the Little Theatre in University Center, renowned theater producer and director Woodie King Jr. will teach a master class as part of the 2009 Premiere Artists Series. The event is free.

Mr. King, a pioneer of the Black Theatre Movement, is one of the most prolific and prestigious African-American theater producers in America. He is the founder of the New Federal Theatre in New York City, now in its 34th season. He has produced and directed on Broadway, off-Broadway, at regional theatres nationally and around the world. Also a writer, actor and filmmaker, his publications include several anthologies of plays, including Black Theatre Present Condition and Impact of Race: Theatre and Culture. Among numerous other awards and honors, King was awarded an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement and an Actors’ Equity Association Paul Robeson Award.

King will be offering a combination master class and lecture based on Kean students’ presentations of monologues, songs and scenes. The student presentations will be a catalyst for larger discussions with King about the craft of directing and producing, in which all attendees will be involved. While slots to present scenes are limted to Kean University Theatre majors, the event is open to the public and will offer an opportunity to meet and talk with King about his life, career and current projects.

Past visiting artists who have participated in the Premiere Artists Program include Daphne Rubin-Vega, Norbert Leo Butz, Olympia Dukakis, John Lee Beatty, Rick Sordelet and Lee Blessing.

Anyone interested in attending is asked to RSVP by calling Erica Nagel at 908-737-4092.

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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.

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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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Sunday, December 6. Bus departs Wilkins Theatre at 5:30 p.m. Members of the Kean community are invited to celebrate the holidays with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, performing holiday classics at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $5 for students, two tickets per Kean ID. Tickets will go on sale on Friday, November 6, for graduate and part-time undergraduate students, and on Friday, November 20, for all other students. Tickets for faculty staff and alumni are $15, two per Kean ID, and will go on sale on Friday, November 27. For further information, please contact Carli Hench in the Office of Student Government at 908-737-5251 or via e-mail at cahench@kean.edu.

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The annual maximum contribution amounts for Supplemental Retirement Accounts (including SRA(k), Deferred Compensation, ACTS, and SACT) will remain the same in calendar year 2010:

• $16,500 - Annual Contribution Maximum
• $5,500 - Catch Up Contribution for individuals age 50 or older

For those who have an existing supplemental retirement account, their annual maximum contribution amount for plan year 2010 will automatically be set to $16,500 (or $22,000 for those age 50 or older). However, their percentage of contribution will not be altered. (For example, for those contributing to this account at 3 percent in 2009, their contribution rate will remain at 3 percent at the start of the new 2010 calendar year.)

Please note that those who would like to change their percentage of contribution may complete a Salary Reduction/Allocation Agreement Form and return it to the Office of Human Resources no later than December 11, 2009. Additional catch up limits may apply. For further information regarding supplemental retirement accounts, please contact Yrelys Tapanes, benefits manager, at 908-737-3313 or via e-mail at ytapanes@kean.edu.

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Students should be advised that there is still time to participate in Kean’s Travelearn program for Spring 2010. Travelearn is a unique opportunity to combine international travel with academic study here at Kean. All programs include excursions, lectures and other “hands-on” activities that will enhance students’ learning, while providing them with a memorable and unique experience in a new country. Click here for more information regarding Travelearn.

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