SHSU
Update For Week Of Jan. 22
W-2s Available For Pick-Up Through
Month
The Cashier’s Office will disburse W-2 forms in its
office, on the first floor of the Estill Building, through
the end of January.
The forms will be picked up by the Payroll Office after 5
p.m. on Jan. 27 and will be mailed out on Jan. 31.
In order to pick up your W-2, you must present a photo identification
card.
The Cashier’s Office is open Monday through Friday,
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Disabilities Reception
To Welcome New Coordinator
The Disability Services program will have an open house and
formally introduce its new coordinator to students, faculty
and staff during the Students With Disabilities Reception
on Wednesday (Jan. 25).
The reception, which will include refreshments, will be held
at 2:30 p.m. in Lowman Student Center Room 320.
The event will introduce students with disabilities to the
program and allow them to voice any concerns they may have,
according to Kelley Osborn, disability services coordinator.
The program, part of the Counseling Center, was administered
through the center’s director until October 2005, when
Osborn took over.
“We assist students through disability accommodations
both in and out of class, but primarily classroom accommodations
to grant them fuller access to the learning experience,”
Osborn said.
“For example, students with learning disabilities may
need to have additional time on exams, distraction-free test
site or volunteer student note-takers to assist with the note-taking
process,” he said.
In addition, the program coordinates other forms of aides,
such as assistive technologies and adaptive software packages
for people with reading problems and has equipment for students
with low vision or who are deaf or hard of hearing.
These issues hit close to home for Osborn, who himself lives
with a disability.
“I’m legally blind due to a retinal problem—a
visual disorder that causes blind spots in my central vision,”
he said. “It certainly gives me an affinity for disability
issues and some life experience to relate from.”
Osborn, a licensed professional counselor, earned his bachelor’s
degree in sociology from Texas Tech University in 1986 and
his master’s degree in clinical psychology from the
University of Texas—Permian Basin in Odessa in 1995.
Before coming to SHSU, he worked primarily in three arenas
in community mental health, through MHMR in West Texas and
at Samaritan Counseling Centers in West Texas in its pastoral
counseling center, as well as in the chronic pain management
field.
One of his first projects is to start a support group from
students who suffer with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
ADHD, and Attention Deficit Disorder, ADD.
While reservations aren’t required for the reception,
they are encouraged and can be made through the day of the
event.
For more information on any of the program’s services,
or to RSVP, call Osborn at 936.294.1720.
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COBA To Give Excellent Teaching
Basics
Five professors who have been recipients of SHSU’s
Excellence in Teaching award will be featured during a symposium
presented by the College of Business Adminstration’s
Teaching Effectiveness Committee on Thursday (Jan. 26).
Valerie Muehsam, Frank Fair, David Gerling, Vic Sower and
Charlie Capps will all be on hand for the event, entitled
“The Basics of Teaching Excellence,” from 3:30-5
p.m. in COBA’s New Auditorium, located in Smith-Hutson
Building Room 186.
The program is open to all faculty, staff, administrators
and students.
For more information, call 936.294.1254.
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Series To Enhance Entrepreneurial
Skills
Richard M. Alderman, “The People’s Lawyer,”
will kick off the Piney Woods Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Success Program series on Monday (Jan. 30).
The luncheon, hosted by SHSU’s Small Business Development
Center and the College of Business Administration, will be
the first of a four-part series hosted free for business owners
and managers.
“The program will focus on enhancing small businesses,
profits and profitability, through concentrating on entrepreneurial
skills,” said Ce Cowart Schlicher, training coordinator
at the SBDC.
Alderman will discuss “What Every Small Business Needs
to Know About Our Changing Laws” from 11:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. at the West Hill Mall’s Community Center.
The program, which has been in place since 1995, is free because
of an educational grant the SBDC received through the SBC
Foundation’s Excelerator Grant Program, according to
Schlicher.
“We expose small business people to (business-oriented
topics)—this year it’s technology and communication,”
she said.
“He (Alderman) will throw in stuff about how technology
relates and how fraud and white-collar crime relate to small
business,” Schlicher said. “He’s very user-friendly.
He likes to give his talks, but he likes Q&A (the question
and answer format).”
Known as “The People’s Lawyer” because of
his regular appearances on KTRK-TV, Channel 13, Alderman is
currently the director for the University of Houston’s
Center for Consumer Law and is editor-in-chief of “The
Journal of Texas Consumer Law.”
The series is typically scheduled for the fourth Thursday
of the month but will be held on Monday for the first program
to accommodate Alderman’s schedule.
Those interested in attending should reserve their place by
Jan. 26 by calling the SBDC
at 936.294.3737.
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Symphony, Orchestra To
Wish Mozart ‘Happy Birthday’
The Sam Houston State University symphony and chamber orchestras
will present a concert in celebration of the 250th anniversary
of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth on Jan. 28.
The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. at University Heights
Baptist Church.
Carol Smith, director of orchestral studies and conductor
of the symphony orchestra, will share the podium with graduate
assistants in orchestral studies Veronica Wilson and Scott
Simmons.
The program will open with the overture to Mozart’s
coronation opera “La Clemenza de Tito, K. 621”
conducted by Simmons, a first year graduate student.
Faculty clarinetist Patricia Card will follow the overture
with the second movement of the “Concerto for Clarinet
and Orchestra in A major, K. 622.”
The concert will also feature professor of violin Andrew Wilson,
joined by his wife, violist Veronica Wilson, in an interpretation
of the opening movement of Mozart’s “Sinfonia
Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364,” and Kathryn
Daniel, professor of flute, will follow with the slow movement
“Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C major, K.315.”
Closing the program will be the second and third movements
of the “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C major,
No. 21, K. 467,” featuring faculty soloist and professor
of piano Jay Whatley.
The orchestra will be under the direction of Wilson, a second
year graduate student.
Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for non-SHSU students and children,
and free for SHSU students, faculty and staff with an ID.
For more information, call the School
of Music at 936.294.1360.
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SAM Center Offers Study Advice
The Student Advising and Mentoring Center will teach students
how to “study smart” with its Study Skills Workshop
series beginning Monday (Jan. 30). The six, one-hour sessions
will introduce study skills, as well as discuss procrastination,
time management, reading textbooks, note and test taking strategies
and stress management.
Sessions will also be held at a variety of times each day
to accommodate student schedules. A second workshop series,
also for study skills, will begin the week of March 20.
For more information, or to register, call 936.294.4444 or
drop by the SAM
Center, in Academic Building 4 Room 210.
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Four PC Events To Give Reasons
To Smile
The Program Council will start the week off encouraging
students to laugh about life and change with its PC ComicView:
Judson Laipply on Tuesday (Jan. 24).
Known for his “Evoluation of Dance,” Laipply draws
from his vast array of experiences that include: working on
a cruise ship, playing four years of varsity baseball, working
at a camp in Colorado, being a certified aerobics instructor,
teaching college courses, being a published poet, part- time
auctioneer, and weekly columnist to relate to his audiences.
Laipply, a graduate of Bowling Green State University with
a master’s degree in human movement, sport, and leisure
studies, was chosen as the Upper Midwest Region's and Wisconsin
Region's “Outstanding Educational Session Presenter”
for his programs.
“I always tell people how much I love what I do for
two simple reasons,” he said. “One, because I
get to meet and work with great people all over the country
and am always amazed with the people I meet, and two, for
the concept that I might just help to make someone else's
life a little bit better. For me there is no greater reward.”
The event will be held at 7 p.m. in the Lowman Student Center
Ballroom.
On Wednesday (Jan. 25), Mike da Roving Guy will hand out balloons
in any imaginable shape and also perform on stilts at 11 a.m.
in the LSC Mall Area.
Also that day, McVicar the Trickster, a master magician, will
perform his award-winning illusions from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
in the LSC Mall Area.
Finally, on Thursday (Jan. 26), the artist who has sketched
the likes of Bill Gates, Alex Trebek, John Goodman, Emmitt
Smith and Vanessa Williams will be featured from 11 a.m. to
3 p.m. with “The Original Buttsketch.”
The event, which will be held in the LSC Atrium, has been
featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and has
been seen on TV's America's Funniest People, CNN and World
News Tonight.
For more information on any of these events, call the Program
Council at 936. 294.1763.
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SHSU Media Contacts: Frank
Krystyniak, Julia May,
Jennifer Gauntt
Jan. 22, 2006
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