Campus Talk Schedule
Please mark your calendar for the next “Campus Talk” events: Wednesday, March 14, 3 p.m. at the Student Center Ballroom and Thursday, April 12, 3 p.m. at Ida Waldran Auditorium. Please also note the change of venue for each of these events. These informal meetings are held once a month to give all faculty, staff and students the opportunity to ask questions and to provide the campus with information.
Board of Trustees Meeting Schedule
The UCA Board of Trustees will meet May 4, Sept. 7, and Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. in the Board of Trustees Conference Room in Wingo Hall, unless otherwise announced. The board will hold a budget workshop on April 2 meeting.
Second Annual UCA Out of the Darkness Campus Walk
The UCA Out of the Darkness Campus Walk is scheduled for March 3 at 9 a.m. at the UCA Alumni Pavilion. The event is sponsored by the Student Nurses’ Association at UCA.
UCA hosted the largest campus walk in AFSP history back in March 2011 raising over $18,000 with almost 500 registrants. The Out of the Darkness Campus Walks are 3-5 mile walks taking place in communities across the country, with the proceeds benefitting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).
By walking in the Out of the Darkness Campus Walks, you will be walking with thousands of students nationwide to raise money for AFSP’s vital research and education programs to prevent suicide and save lives, increase national awareness about depression and suicide and provide support for survivors of suicide loss. In deciding to walk you are taking us a step closer to making suicide prevention a national priority.
For more information, contact Kassi Lowry at kassilowry@gmail.com
Office of Disablity Support Services Seeks Team Leader for College Band Camp
The DSS is looking for successful college students with disablities to serve as a team leader for College Bound Camp. This camp provides high school students the opportunity to stay on a college campus and attend workshops to give them an idea of what college is like and if it is right for them. A team leader would supervise five to six high school students. Applications can be picked up in the DSS Office. Deadline for applications is April 6.
Noted Speaker Linda Martin Alcoff to Appear at UCA March 7
Linda Martin Alcoff, a profesor of philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, will give a talk at UCA on Wednesday, March 7 at 7 p.m. in the College of Business Auditorium. This lecture, “Rape After Foucault: Rethinking Experience and Resistance” is free and open to the public. A catered reception will follow. Martin Alcoff is globally renowned as a public speaker and writer focusing on social identity and race, politics, sexual violence, epistemology and Latino issues in philosophy. The lecture is sponsored by a UCA Foundation Grant, the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Philosophy and Religion at UCA.
UCA Career Services Spring Job Fair set for March 7
UCA Career Services will host the 2012 Spring Job Fair March 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Center Ballroom. Individuals participating in the job fair are encouraged to bring plenty of resumes. For more information, call (501) 450-3134.
Arkansas College Art History Symposium set for UCA
The University of Central Arkansas will host the 22nd Arkansas College Art History Symposium on March 8-9 in the Art Lecture Hall, McCastlain 143. This year’s symposium will feature guest scholar Kevin Concannon, professor of art history an director of the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech, and is an opportunity to “show off” student research and prepare undergraduates for graduate school and their professional careers. Concannon will deliver the keynote address, “War Is Over If You Want It: John and Yoko’s Year of Peace,” on Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 pm. The following afternoon at 4:30, he will discuss the student papers and present another lecture, “Yoko Ono’s Touch Piece: A Work in Multiple Media, 1960-2008.”
For more details and information about the symposium, contact Gayle Seymour, professor of art and associate dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at (501)450-3295 or gayles@uca.edu or Dito Morales, assistant professor of art history at (501)450-5779 or rmorales@uca.edu.
UCA Percussion Festival set for March 10
The UCA Percussion Festival is scheduled for Saturday, March 10 in the Snow Fine Arts Center. The festival will begin at noon with clinics, master classes and presentation by the guest artists. The day will conclude with a finale concert featuring the UCA Percussion Ensemble and all of the guest artists.
Craig Robinson from “The Office” to Perform March 11
Comedian Craig Robinson from NBC’s “The Office” will perform on Sunday, March 11 at 8 p.m. at Reynolds Performance Hall. Tickets are $10 for UCA students and $20 for faculty, staff and the general public. Tickets can be purchased online at www.uca.edu/tickets. The Reynolds Box office is open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Call 450-3265 for more information.
Staff Senate Accepting Employee of the Year Nominations
The Employee of the Year Selection Committee is now accepting nominations for the Employee of the Year Awards. This year the Selection Committee will name two EOY winners – one classified staff member and one non-classified staff member. The nomination forms can be found online. Nominations must include one nomination form per nominee due March 9 and three reference forms per nominee due March 16. For more information, visit the Staff Senate website or contact Stephanie McBrayer at smcbrayer@uca.edu.
Travel Author Rick Steves to Speak March 16
Travel author Rick Steves will talk with residents of Conway during Bravo! at Reynolds Performance Hall on Friday, March 16, 2012. Tickets are $75 a person, and $100 for a VIP ticket, which includes an invitation to a pre-dinner cocktail party at the home of Madelyn and Jerry Adams.All of the donations accepted at the lecture will support the College of Fine Arts and Communication writing students that are planning to attend conferences to learn more about their chosen profession. To make reservations, visit uca.edu/Bravo, or call Lesley Allen at (501)-450-3293. Paper tickets will not be printed for the event, but registration confirmation will be received in the mail.
“Doubt” to continue Broadway series at UCA
The Montana Repertory Theatre will present the off-Broadway and Tony award-winning classic, John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt: A Parable” in the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall on March 1. The 7:30 p.m. production will continue UCA Public Appearances’ Broadway series. “Doubt” tells the dramatic story of five characters in a Catholic school in the Bronx during the 1960s and possible misconduct and falsities among the characters. Tickets, available at the UCA Ticket Central Box Office, are $30-$40 for adults, $27-$37 for senior citizens, $25-$35 for UCA alumni, $28-$33 for UCA faculty and staff and $10 for students. For tickets, call (501)450-3265 or toll free from anywhere in Arkansas at 1-866-810-0012, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. or visit www.uca.edu/reynolds. For more information, contact Jerry Biebesheimer at (501)450-3682 or jerryb@uca.edu.
Holocaust Survivor to speak in Central Arkansas
Estelle Laughlin will share her heroic story of survival in Conway Senior High School’s James H. Clark Auditorium on Wednesday, March 14 at 7 p.m. Laughlin was born in Warsaw, Poland, and her family was placed in a concentration camp in Majdanek in April of 1943. For more information, contact Phillip Spivey at (501)450-3690 or pspivey@uca.edu.
Professional Development
Sexual Harassment
Participants have the option of attending the Sexual Harassment on-site or online.
April 3 9 – 10 a.m. Student Center #213
Diversity
This year’s topic of discussion – Disabilities
March 9 2 – 3:30 p.m. Student Center #215
March 12 10– 11:30 a.m. Student Center #215
March 29 4:30 – 6 p.m. Student Center #215
New Staff Orientation (For non-faculty hired as of May, 2011)
April 13 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. Student Center #213-214
Seminars
March 8 noon – 1:30 p.m. Student Center # 215 – Weather Safety Lunch
Arch Jones, UCA University Police
This seminar will address preparing for possible tornados, earthquakes, floods and/or other natural disasters. Where do you go on campus, how do you respond in the midst of a class, how do you report damage or injury? These questions and more will be answered at the seminar.
March 27 1:40 -2:30 p.m. Student Center #213 “Are You a Super Supervisor?” Afternoon Break
Doug Isanhart, Executive in Residence & Internship Recruiter, Management Dept – College of Business
What skills are necessary in order to be a good supervisor? This seminar will address those skills and provide helpful tips on consistently leading others well.