E-NEWS YOU CAN USE
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES: E-NEWS YOU CAN USE—SPRING 2011
Please review the workshops and cultural events available for the spring 2011 semester. Reminder… students receiving grant aid and/or the Chancellor’s scholarship funds must attend at least two of the workshops listed below. Grant aid and scholarship applications are available online (http://ualr.edu/studentsupport/) and in SPCH 101.
January Workshop
Communicating With Your Professor
When: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 12PM, 2PM or 5:30PM
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12PM or 2PM
Where: Speech Building Room 116A
Description: Your professors may appear to be intimidating but they are human just like you. Sometimes they just need you to reach out to them. This workshop is focused on helping you identify different ways to communicate with your professors.
February Workshops
It’s a Multigenerational World so Get Ready
When: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 12pm – 1pm
Where: Donaghey Student Center Room A
Description: Mark Taylor will speak about generational differences in behavior both in the classroom and the workplace. Refreshments will be available.
Money Matters- Introduction to Investing
When: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 12pm – 1pm
Where: DSC- SGA Leadership Lounge Area
Description: Drop by for lunch and find out how you can begin to invest wisely.
March Workshops
Academic Integrity
When: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 12PM, 2PM or 5:30PM
Where: Speech Building Room 116A
Description: What is plagiarism? Can I turn in the same paper to two different classes? What exactly is academic integrity and does it affect me?
Students Fight Back
When: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 12pm – 1pm
Where: Donaghey Student Center Room C
Description: This workshop offers proactive safety tips for: party situations, safe sex, binge drinking, predatory drugs, air/car/hotel safety, and ways to avoid crime targeted at tourists. The speaker will also demonstrate her favorite self-defense techniques that could be used to escape a violent confrontation.
April Workshop
Test Taking
When: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12PM, 2PM or 5:30PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12PM or 2PM
Where: Speech Building Room 116A
Description: This workshop explores various test taking strategies and tips to manage test anxiety. A sign-in sheet will be available for each workshop.
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES CULTURAL EVENTS
Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Please plan to attend “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre on Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. This award-winning drama tells the story of an African American family living on Chicago’s south side in the 1950s. Recently widowed, Lena Younger receives a life insurance check and plans to buy a house for her family, freeing them from the cramped tenement she shares with her two children, daughter-in-law and grandson. Her son, Walter - now the man of the family - has other ideas. In the struggle that ensues one dream will be fulfilled, another deferred. Will the family collapse or will they seize this opportunity to create a better life? Don’t miss this powerful and unforgettable portrait of one family’s quest for the American dream.
Philander Smith College - Bless The Mic
Please plan to attend Philander Smith College’s Bless The Mic Lecture featuring Dr. Ian Smith on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 7 p.m. in the M. L. Harris Auditorium.
Dr. Ian Smith is currently a medical contributor to ABC’s nationally syndicated The View, a medical columnist for Men’s Health magazine, and the medical/diet expert on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club. Dr. Smith is also the host of the nationally syndicated radio show “Healthwise” on American Urban Radio Networks. He is the former medical correspondent for NBC News network and for News Channel 4 where he filed reports for NBC’s Nightly News and The Today Show, as well as WNBC’s various news broadcasts. He has written for various publications including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Daily News, and has been featured in several other publications, including People, Essence, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, and University of Chicago Medicine on the Midway.
Dr. Smith’s work has been honored by several organizations, including the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his coverage on the momentous events beginning on September 11, 2001. Dr. Smith is very active in charitable causes, serving on several boards including the New York City Mission Society, Cancer Research Foundation of America, American Council on Exercise, New York Council for the Humanities, and the Henry H. Kessler Foundation.
Dr. Smith graduated from Harvard College with an AB and received a master’s in science education from Teachers College of Columbia University. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and completed the last two years of his medical education and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Dr. Smith is also the author of four books, the recently released The Fat Smash Diet, the critically acclaimed The Blackbird Papers (2005 BCALA fiction Honor Book Award winner), Dr. Ian Smith’s Guide to Medical Websites, and The Take-Control Diet.
Murry’s Dinner Playhouse
Please plan to attend “Abie’s Irish Rose” at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. This long-running romantic family comedy is the template for many subsequent successes. Jewish Abe “Abie” Levy, brings home as his bride Rosemary Murphy. To appease his father, Abie introduces Rosemary as “Rosie Murphyski.” Papa Levy is fooled until Rosie’s father, Patrick Murphy, arrives. A comic war erupts.
William J. Clinton Presidential Library
Please plan to attend the The William J. Clinton Presidential Library on Saturday April 9th at 12:00 p.m. The library is 20,000 square feet of information, video, photos, documents and artifacts. The Archives comprises approximately: 78 million pages of official records, 20 million email, 2 million photographs, and 12,500 videotapes documenting the life and career of the 42nd president of the United States.
The Clinton Library is the nation’s 11th presidential library, administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Library opened on November 18, 2004. Presidential Libraries are not libraries in the usual sense. They are archives bringing together the documents of a President and his administration. Presidential Libraries and Museums, like their holdings, belong to the American people without regard for political considerations or affiliations
If you would like to attend these cultural events, please contact Cassandra Woods at 569-8746.