Career Center
Career/Job Fair Scheduled Wednesday in the SUB
Faculty and staff members are invited to attend the spring 2008 Boise State Career/Job Fair tomorrow from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Jordan Ballroom of the Student Union. The event is sponsored by the Career Center.
In today’s competitive job market, networking and making contacts becomes
even more important for students who are seeking employment opportunities.
Students at all levels can learn about internships, full- and part-time, summer,
and career opportunities. They can also obtain firsthand information on how
to prepare for their career (what extra classes, activities, club memberships,
etc. will make them more employable). The fair also offers an opportunity for
faculty to see the various career options available to students in their programs.
For more information about the fair, including a list of participating organizations, visit the Career Center Web site at career.boisestate.edu/careerfair.htm, e-mail the Career Center at career@boisestate.edu, or call ext. 6-1747.
HUMAN RESOURCE SERVICES
Training Opportunities Offered for Employees
The Employee Learning and Development division of Human Resource Services will offer a number of free training opportunities for faculty and staff on campus. They include the following:
Troubleshooting Performance Issues — 12:30-4:30 p.m. March 19 in the Hatch C Ballroom of the Student Union. The instructor is Shelley Berg of instructional & performance technology and the class is limited to 12 participants. This workshop will provide supervisors of BSU staff with a proven, systematic strategy for successfully troubleshooting employee performance issues.
Budget Office and Administrative Accounting Drop-in Workshop — 9-11 a.m. Wednesday in Room 209 of the Simplot/Micron Building. Staff members from the university Budget Office and Administrative Accounting will provide instruction.
Budget Office Basics (Part I) — 8:30-9:45 a.m. Thursday in Room 209 of the Simplot/Micron Building.
Budget Office: Budget Best Practices (Part II) — 10 a.m.-noon Thursday in Room 209 of the Simplot/Micron Building. Participants may enroll in either the first (Budget Basics) or second session (Best Practices), or they may enroll in both.
Fundamentals of GroupWise — 1:30-4:45 p.m. Wednesday and Friday in Room 209 of the Simplot/Micron Building. This two-day class features an in-depth look at GroupWise. Learn how to organize and manage e-mail, delve into the sophisticated calendaring system, configure junk e-mail filtering, and set up proxy access.
Register online at cedar.boisestate.edu/hrs/workshops/login.asp or e-mail HRTrainingDevelopment@boisestate.edu.
The Campaign for Boise State
Campaign Update as of Jan. 31, 2008
Campaign Total $83,583,848.34
Percentage of $175 million goal, 47.76 percent
Fund for the Future (revocable gifts) $4,025,003
Percentage of $10 million goal, 40.25 percent
BSU FOUNDATION
Phonathon Will Resume in February
The Boise State Foundation’s annual Phonathon will resume in late February and run through the end of April. During this second phase, callers will continue to contact alumni and friends of the university, asking them to pledge in support of the Annual Fund. Annual Fund gifts are much needed, and provide Foundation leadership with the resources necessary to address the most urgent and critical needs at Boise State.
Callers will also be contacting a select group of lifetime Alumni Association members to share news of the Alumni Association Fund. This fund supports alumni and student outreach programs and advocacy efforts of the Alumni Association. A gift to the Alumni Association Fund is a great way for alumni members, including those who have paid their lifetime dues, to stay involved and continue to support the activities of the Boise State Alumni Association.
MFA READING SERIES
Appelman Will be Featured March 7 as Part of MFA Reading Series
Poet and screenwriter J. Reuben Appelman will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. March 7 in Room 118 of the Interactive Learning Center on the Boise State campus. Appelman’s appearance is part of the MFA Reading Series and is free and open to the public.
Appelman is a poet, novelist and screenwriter who most recently wrote the children’s adventure film “The Five,” currently in post-production. His book of poetry, “Make Loneliness,” was recently published by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions. Appelman is the first graduate of Boise State’s MFA in creative writing program to have a book published.
He worked on the documentary “Playground” about the child sex trade in America, produced by George Clooney; “Cha-Cha-Cha!” a narrative feature that he wrote in collaboration with director and Boise State alum Michael Hoffman; and several other feature-length screenplays, including “Person of Interest,” currently filming in Idaho, and an HBO Project Greenlight semi-finalist script, “Sharing the Drive.”
Appelman’s other work includes the novel “Letters to Paris in Jail.” He is a multiple grant recipient from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and teaches at Boise State.
Free and open to the public, the MFA Reading Series brings nationally renowned authors and poets to the Boise State campus. Past speakers include Rick Bass, Chris Offutt, Rae Armantrout, Alice Notley, Michael Palmer, Joy Williams, Denis Johnson, Richard Bausch and Nathaniel Mackey.
Rescheduled MLK Events
Two Events Rescheduled for Wednesday
Two events that had to be postponed due to inclement weather have been rescheduled for tomorrow on the Boise State campus; both events are part of Boise State’s Martin Luther King Jr./Human Rights Celebration.
The “Human Rights and the LGBT Community” educational session will now be from 5:30-6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Special Events Center. Rep. Nicole LeFavour will host the session. Learn about the results of recent Idaho polls on attitudes toward LGBT people and the way discrimination affects the daily lives of members of this community, as well as what is being done this year to help the situation. Free.
The “Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium” film and facilitated discussion with Alexandra Delis-Abrams will be from 7-9 p.m. tomorrow at the Special Events Center. This inspiring documentary addresses the subject of hate by searching out its origins and how it is taught and learned. Co-presented by the Student Programs Board. Free.
For more information, call ext. 6-1223.
Get Ready for Google Apps
Learn How Google Apps Organizes and Archives E-mail
The university is moving from GroupWise to Google Apps later this year. Get a head start on what you need to know by reading BroncoBytes, the webzine of the OIT Help Desk. This week's featured article concerns the differences between how Google Apps organizes and archives e-mail compared to GroupWise.
Parking and Transportation Services
Restrictions, Available Parking Listed for Upcoming Event Parking
The best place for fans to park for the men’s basketball games in Taco Bell Arena this Wednesday and Saturday is the Lincoln Parking Structure. The entrances are located near Belmont and Lincoln Avenue and University Drive and Michigan Avenue. Parking is $5 per vehicle. A free shuttle will be provided to and from the game. Pickup locations are located on Belmont and University.
Basketball parking will be offered in the Bronco Stadium lots starting at 5:30 p.m. All valid BSU parking passes will be honored in the general areas of the east stadium, Extended Studies, and general Recreation Center lots on a limited basis due to the Bronco Athletic Association reserved parking passes program. The BAA will have reserved parking in portions of the west stadium lot, east stadium lot, Manitou lot, and the Rec Center lot. Parking in the west stadium lot and Bronco Circle is pre-purchased reserved parking only. Paid parking will be offered for those without a permit in the east stadium lot, the Extended Studies lot and the Lincoln Parking Structure.
ALBERTSONS LIBRARY
International Connections Seminar Scheduled Wednesday
“Celtic Dawn to Celtic Tiger,” an International Connections brown bag luncheon seminar featuring Kevin Kiely, Fulbright scholar in literature, will be held from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Hatch B Ballroom of the Student Union. Join Kiely for a cultural history of 20th-century Ireland focusing on the nation’s most famous writers and their impact upon the Irish nation and people. Authors to be discussed include Wilde, Stoker, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, Joyce, Beckett, O’Casey and Behan. Light refreshments will be provided or feel free to bring your own lunch.
The event is sponsored by the Albertsons Library and Boise State International Programs. For more information, call ext. 6-3652.
CRIME LOG
Weekly
Crime Log
Boise City Police and Campus Security present the weekly crime report.
