WELCOME TO SPRING SEMESTER
Tiffin University’s Weekly Electronic Newsletter
Vol. 15, Issue 15
January 13, 2015
TU to Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day In This Issue: ● This week’s activities page 2. ● Join TU’s Residence Life Staff page 2. ● Greek Pledge Interviews page 3. ● Murphy Center News page 3. ● TU Tech page 4.
Tiffin University will celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 19, at 11:00 a.m. in the Osceola Theatre located inside of the Gillmor Student Center. The public is invited. The keynote address, “Quit telling me we are post-racial: Revisiting the Dream,” will be delivered by Dr. Robert Simmons, III. Recently featured on CNN and currently serving as the Chief of Innovation and Research for the District of Columbia Public Schools, Dr. Simmons was the founding director of the Center for Innovation in Urban Education, and a tenured professor of urban education, and associated faculty member in African and African American Studies program at Loyola University Maryland. Additionally, he is a member of the nationally recognized social justice collaborative Edchange which is a coalition of educators providing professional development on educational equity and modeling a commitment to moving beyond celebrating the joys of diversity and toward educational equity in schools and communities. For more information, contact Dr. Sharon Perry-Nause at 419-448-3504 or perrynauses@tiffin.edu.
Professor Rovira Invited to Lecture in Brazil Associate Professor of English James Rovira has been invited by The Milton Studies Research Group at the Federal University of Minas Gerais to deliver a lecture as part of the 2015 Milton Lecture Series in Brazil. Rovira's talk will bring together philosopher of language theorist Robert Brandom with Milton's famous tract on freedom of the press, Areopagitica. The paper is titled “Pragmatics in the Public Square: Robert Brandom and Milton’s Areopagitica."
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Apply to become a part of Tiffin University's Residence Life Staff for the 2015-2016 school year!
This Week’s Activities Tuesday Letter Art Gillmor Student Center Lobby 11:00am Glow Bowling Heritage Lanes 10:00pm **MUST have Student ID to Participate** Wednesday Welcome Back Food Table Gillmor Student Center Lobby 11:00am Rice Jewelry Gillmor Student Center Lobby 11:00am Magician Daniel Martin Osceola Theatre 9:30pm Thursday Smelly Jelly Jars Gillmor Student Center Lobby 11:00am Friday Sandy Candy Gillmor Student Center Lobby 11:00am Trip to Paint Pottery Gillmor Student Center 4:45pm - 9:00pm *Students MUST Sign Up to Attend*
We are looking for approximately 28 Resident Assistants, 4 Community Advisors, and 3 Head Residents. Please visit http://www.tiffin.edu/residencelife/ ra-application/ for details, job descriptions, and application. Applications available NOW! Timeline: Information Tables in Gillmor Lobby Monday 1/19: 5pm-6pm Tuesday 1/20: 11am-12pm Wednesday 1/21: 6pm-7pm Thursday 1/22: 12pm-1pm Friday 1/23: 5pm-6pm January 30 - applications due to the Office of Residence Life by 5:00pm February 5 - Group Process* 6pm-8pm, Osceola February 6 - Group Process* 6pm-8pm, Osceola Attendance at ONE group process is mandatory. Sign up sheet will be available. February 7th- Interviews 8am-12pm, Student Affairs Offices. Sign up sheet will be available. February 16th - Position offers.
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Welcome Back to Campus! Spring Semester is here, which means Greek pledging is right around the corner! Kick off TU's Pledging Season with Greek Pledge Interviews!
Murphy Center News The Murphy Center staff would like to welcome everyone back from, what we hope, was a restful break. There is some new information we would like to share with you.
NEW HOURS
January 19 - 23
Monday-Friday—8:00 am to 12:00 am
(Various Times)
Saturday/Sunday—12:00 pm to 12:00 am
Look out for information on each Greek Organization's interview dates and times in your email!
Students will be able to use the Murphy Center for general use such as studying and computer use and athletes may also get their study table requirements in at these times. Remember to bring your I.D. to the center. We are tracking all the traffic at the Murphy Center with new software and we need your I.D. to do this.
For questions, please contact Greek Life Coordinator JoElle Hall at HallJN@tiffin.edu!
Tutoring will begin the second week of classes. Appointments will be taken starting on Thursday, Jan. 15. To make an appointment you may stop in at the Murphy Center and make an appointment with the front desk or you may call at 419-448-3324, or you may e-mail the Murphy Center at tutor@tiffin.edu. The staff at the Murphy Center is looking forward to working with you this term!
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TU TECH Information & Technology Services Welcome back!
We hope the semester has gotten off to a good start for everyone. While the campus was on break, there have been a couple of changes that we would like to tell you about. The campus network has been extended to the St. Mary’s classrooms and we have welcomed Jason Marson as the new Support Manager of ITS. Jason comes to us from St. Clair Community College in Port Huron, Michigan. He had been working there in IT support for the last 4 years. Jason will oversee the ongoing technology support services for ITS. He will focus on the Help Desk and manage all the things that go into keeping PC’s and laptops running reliably. This will include ensuring that processes are in place and are being followed to provide support to those using the University’s hardware and computer applications. He will be “hands on” in all of this. When you get a chance to work with Jason, please welcome him to Tiffin University. The St. Mary instructor station computers are now on the campus network. Back in November, work began on boring under South Sandusky Street to run fiber to the St. Mary’s building. Once the fiber was into the building, a new network switch was installed and the classroom computers were attached to the switch. With this complete, anyone using these computers can now log into these computers with their network username and password. You can now access these computers just like you access other University computers across campus. A quick reminder, if you have any issues with the computers in St. Mary, or with any other University owned computer, please contact the Help Desk immediately to report the issue. The Help Desk can be reached at: On Campus
x3430
Off Campus
(855) 664-1200 (This information is posted at each instructor station)
Classroom issues are Priority 1. We will get to other issues just as soon as we can. We can’t fix it if we don’t know about it. With the campus network now in St. Mary, we can now begin looking at expanding our wireless network coverage to that building. First of all, we will need to do a signal survey of the building to determine how many wireless access points will need to be installed to get reasonable coverage in all areas. The concrete block walls in the building will likely require several extra access points to cover the rooms. The required number of access points will determine the necessary work and dollars to complete the project. As always, the timing of when this can occur is dependent on when dollars will be available. A new year and new progress! Adding the classrooms in St. Mary to our campus network, is moving us forward to getting consistent instructor stations in all classrooms. A new Support Manager will help us further improve the level of service we can provide and allow us to begin looking at more proactive actions we can take to avoid issues before they can occur. It seems to be a good start to the new year.
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TIFFIN UNIVERSITY ARTS & EVENTS MASTER CALENDAR 2015 DATE: Monday, January 19, 2015, 11 a.m. EVENT: MLK, Jr. Day Celebration PRESENTED BY: Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity LOCATION: Osceola Theatre CONTACT: Sharon Perry-Nause, 419-4483504 or perrynauses@tiffin.edu. ADMISSION: Open to the public, free admission DATE: Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. EVENT: Food & Culture of United States PRESENTED BY: International Student Programs LOCATION: Osceola Theatre CONTACT: Jamie Marinis, 419-448-3357, marinisjl@tiffin.edu ADMISSION: TU students, faculty, and staff, free admission, co-curricular credit available DATE: p.m. EVENT: Meeting PRESENTED BY: LOCATION: Hall CONTACT: marinisjl@tiffin.edu ADMISSION: free admission DATE: 5:30 - 7 p.m. EVENT: ra WF Miner INFORMATION:
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DATE: 7:30pm EVENT: PRESENTED BY: LOCATION: CONTACT: Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 1 3360 ADMISSION: International Dinner Kick-off International Student Programs Chisholm Auditorium, Franks Jamie Marinis, 419-448-3357, TU students, faculty, and staff,
Thursday, February 5, 2015, Opening reception for BarbaMiner is an installation artist
Diane Kidd Gallery Diane Kidd Gallery Lee Fearnside, 419-448-3427 Open to the public, free admis-
Thursday, February 5 - March 5, Barbara WF Miner Exhibition Diane Kidd Gallery Diane Kidd Gallery Lee Fearnside, 419-448-3427 Open to the public, free admis-
Friday, February 6, 2015, First Friday at the Ritz Music Department The Ritz Theatre, Tiffin OH Music Department, 419-448Open to the public, $10