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 Adoption Support and Awareness Alliance (ASAA) is one of a handful, at most, of organizations like its kind in the country! ASAA meets every Tuesday from 7-8 PM in Williams 202 

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 If you guessed Adoption Support and Awareness Alliance, then you guessed correctly! 

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 Make your voice heard in drafting the Student Bill of Rights with Student Body President Dominick Recckio. 

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As students begin to plan and shop for Halloween, the Office of Public Safety and Emergency Management would like to provide a reminder to please be thoughtful and safe with regard to Halloween costumes and decorations.  In particular, the use of simulated weapons can be a dangerous practice that creates a great risk to student safety.

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Kevin Murphy, Professor in the Department of English, has had his essay, “Heaney Translating Heaney: Coupling and Uncoupling the Human Chain,” accepted for publication by Texas Studies in Literature and Language.  Murphy’s essay focuses on Seamus Heaney’s use of translation in his final volume of poems, Human Chain, to address critical elements in his poetic formation.

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Take advantage of the next two week of concerts offered by the School of Music. A full listing of all concerts and events is available at ithaca.edu/concerts; some highlights are featured below.  

Can't make it? Web-streamed performances are available live and on demand at ithaca.edu/music/live. Check the expanded webcasting schedule for more information!

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On Thursday, October 8th, at 6 p.m. in the Handwerker Gallery, On the Verge will present a staged reading of Arthur Miller’s first major Broadway success, ALL MY SONS. The reading was directed by Claire Gleitman (Professor, English), and the cast will include faculty members (Greg Bostwick, Kathleen Mulligan, Jennifer Herzog, Theatre; Chris Holmes, English) and students (Dan Wisniewski, Hailee Murphy, Justin Albinder, Adam David, and Fiorella Fernandez). Danica Kelley assistant directed and Kelsey Dunne was the stage manager.

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Asma Barlas, Department of Politics, was interviewed at an annual festival, "Il tempo delle donne," organized by women journalists of the Italian newspaper, Corriere della sera, on October 1st in Milan. She was asked about Islamic scriptural traditions that, according to ISIS men, permit them to enslave Yazidi women. (A short radio interview with Barlas and her co-panelist, Amina Wadud, on women and Islam can be found here: http://27esimaora.corriere.it/articolo/tempodelledonne-la-donna-nellislam-non-e-sottomessa/)

We are very excited to announce that distinguished alumnus and former NBC News correspondent Bob Kur '70 will be joining us to interview our special alumni guests.

• J. Christopher Burch ’76, chairman of J. Christopher Capital
• Tatiana Sy ’09, director of special events at Downtown Ithaca Alliance
• Will VanDyke ’05, director of digital accounts at Warner Music Group

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Is there a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) person in your life? Do you work with LGBT students? Does your curriculum include topics about LGBT youth, adults, or families? National Coming Out Day is October 11. Many resources are available to you, both on and off campus, to assist you in supporting LGBT people during this time and throughout the year.

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 I would like to invite you to the inaugural and informal gathering of folks on campus interested in SoTL (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.)

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Contributed on behalf of Danette Johnson

Ithaca College is launching a national search for a Vice President for Human Resources, following the June 19th departure of Mark Coldren for the University of Buffalo. Mr. Tom Phillips and Ms. Elizabeth Neumann of Brill Neumann will be assisting with the search. Campus visits by finalists are anticipated to occur in December and the committee’s goal is to have the new vice president in place shortly after the beginning of 2016.

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Jerry Koch-Gonzalez will lead a hands-on, experiential workshop on Dynamic Governance at Ecovillage (for co-housing communities and non-profits) on November 6 to 8, 2015. 

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The next installment of the Dollars and $ense Discussion Series will take place on Wednesday, October 7th. 

Faculty and Staff are invited to participate in the discussion, which takes place in Emerson Suite B at 9 am. 

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Carly Hills in the office of finance and administration (274-3118 or chills@ithaca.edu).  We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Please join us as math majors Lima Hossain and Emily Barrett will give presentations on their summer work.

Tuesday October 6th, 4pm in Williams 309

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In this talk, Dr. Hayes will discuss the challenges of using art and culture to develop, re-develop, build or re-build less privileged communities of color. The framing question is how do we use the arts to work collaboratively with communities of color to inspire change, empowerment, and reinvigoration so that the community is left in a better, stronger position than when the arts system entered it? From the lens of art museums, arts non-profits, artists, and local governments, I hope to expose where the structures breakdown, where they are sustainable, and to support a stronger community.

Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 

Time: 7-9

Location: Clark Lounge

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Belisa Gonzalez at bgonzalez@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3921. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Sponsored by the CFE, Office of International Programs, & the Office of the Associate Provost for Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement.

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Due to the Parnassus upgrade last weekend, the Online Tax Forms screen in Employee Self Service is currently not available.  We are actively working with Oracle Support to resolve this issue.  If you need to change your federal W-4 information, please complete a paper form and deliver to the Payroll Office, Garden Level of the Peggy Ryan Williams Center. The W-4 form can be found at: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf

To change your New York State Allowances, complete the IT-2104 found at: http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it2104_fill_in.pdf?_ga=1.228205214.2009885386.1414699603

We will let you know when the issue has been resolved.  Feel free to contact the Payroll Office at (607) 274-3874, (607) 274-3133 or payroll@ithaca.edu with any questions or concerns.  Thank you for your patience.

The deadline for summer session 2016 undergraduate course proposals is November 1st.

If you'd like to propose a summer session undergraduate course, contact your department chair.

Questions? Visit the For Faculty site or contact Jen Wofford at jwofford@ithaca.edu.

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The H & S Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship Program welcomes three new faculty members for this year on Wed. Oct. 7th from 4-5:15pm in Klingenstein Lounge. Refreshments served!

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