Marketing the UMW Experience
Learn the results of the UMW on line marketing survey conducted in February, and hear how UMW is planning to enhance our image and reputation in the months ahead. Educational Marketing Group consultants Bob and Marlene Brock will present their findings and observations about our university on Thursday, March 17, 11:30-12:30, in Lee Hall 411. Everyone is welcome.
Afro-Latin American Women’s Writings in Latin America
March 29, 2011 :: Lee Hall, 411 :: 6 p.m.
The legacy of Black women’s writings in Latin American remains at best one of the least known bodies of literature in the Americas. This presentation takes up that issue as it seeks to confront some of the situations that surround that body of work, at times paying special attention to the writers themselves. Presented by Dr. Dawn Duke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at The University of Tennessee . Dr. Duke specializes in Afro-Latin American literature and cultural studies.
New Faculty Publication
The UMW Bookstore would like to invite you to a special book signing event. UMW Professor of Modern Languages, Jim F. Gaines will be available to answer questions and sign copies of his new book, “Moliere and Paradox: Skepticism and Theater in the Early Modern Age.” This event will be held in the bookstore on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 from 3 to 5 p.m.
UMW to Host Shred Event, March 29
Do you have old files or bulky documents to get rid of? Bring them to the university’s Shred Event on Tuesday, March 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Fredericksburg and Stafford campuses. Mobile trucks equipped with industrial shredding equipment will destroy office materials at the Stafford campus parking lot and at the UMW parking lot on William Street at Sunken Road.
Materials acceptable for shredding include office paper, folders, paper clips, staples, binder clips, spiral bound notebooks, checks, checkbooks, and credit card slips. Examples of unacceptable materials are newspapers, magazines, cardboard, three-ring binders, CDs, DVDs, hard drives, floppy disks, videotapes, data tapes, items wrapped in plastic, metal or plastic objects, paper that has been wet, X-rays and MRI images.
When collecting items for destruction, faculty and staff are expected to adhere to state policy on shredding confidential documents.
The public is invited to bring documents to the Shred Event. Neighbors and friends are encouraged to participate in this community-wide, eco-friendly initiative. Please note the per-person limit of five boxes of materials.
PROSHRED of Northern Virginia, based in Sterling, is charging no fee for providing staff and mobile shredding trucks for the event. Its staff will place the contents of each box or bag in a secured, wheeled cart and take it to the truck, where the cart will be mechanically lifted to the shredder. PROSHRED will transport the shredded paper to a recycling facility. Anyone using bags, boxes or other containers to bring their materials for shredding will be responsible for recycling, reusing or properly disposing of these containers.
The shred event could give a big boost to UMW in the national RecycleMania competition that kicked off Feb. 7 here and at universities nationwide. Materials brought for shredding by faculty, staff and students will count toward the total weight of UMW’s recyclables for the eight-week RecycleMania contest.
By making the Shred Event a success, faculty and staff will help steer the university toward greater sustainability.
Make-up Drive to Benefit Hope House
The Women’s History Month Committee is sponsoring an event on March 25, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. titled, Fresh Face to the World…Easy, Breezy, No Makeup on that Covergirl. The purpose of the drive is to inform students, faculty, and staff that true beauty is far beyond the general products some individuals administer to their bodies each day and encourage them to participate in a one-day attempt to eliminate beauty enhancing products from their daily routine.
We encourage everyone to please donate any unused and unopened makeup they may have to benefit this wonderful cause. All donations will go to help the women of Hope House, a local nonprofit organization geared toward assisting homeless women and their families during their journey of regaining financial independence.
Donations can be made throughout the entire month of March to the James Farmer Multicultural Center (Lee Hall, 211). In advance, thank you to all that donate and plan to participate!
DUCC Bullying Forum
The Diversity and Unity Coordinating Committee of UMW is to provide the UMW and Fredericksburg area communities with a Bullying Forum. Faculty and administrators from UMW’s College of Education, Psychology Department, Counseling and Psychology Services and the Office of Judicial Affairs will facilitate the discussion and serve as experts
in their respective fields. The purpose of the forum is to provide participants with an opportunity to productively discuss bullying as it comes into conflict with our communities. Various forms of bullying and its repercussions will be explored from the perspective of the bully, the victims of bullying, as well as the onlookers of these acts. The forum is scheduled for 6 o’clock in the evening Thursday, February 17, 2011 in Lee Hall Room 412 on UMW’s Fredericksburg campus. For more information or questions, pleasecontact Lee Gilliam at lgilliam@mail.umw.edu.
Taiwo Ande
Taiwo Ande, the assistant provost for Institutional Analysis and Effectiveness, co-authored an article titled “Christian’s Perceptions of Hypothetical Case Studies of Five Pastoral Approaches to Marital Therapy: An Exploratory Study,” which was published in the 2010 fall volume of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity.
Afro-Latin American Women’s Writings in Latin America
March 29, 2011 :: Lee Hall, 411 :: 6 p.m.
The legacy of Black women’s writings in Latin American remains at best one of the least known bodies of literature in the Americas. This presentation takes up that issue as it seeks to confront some of the situations that surround that body of work, at times paying special attention to the writers themselves. Presented by Dr. Dawn Duke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at The University of Tennessee . Dr. Duke specializes in Afro-Latin American literature and cultural studies.