Author: Marty Morrison

The UMW Dahlgren Campus, in support of the Rappahannock United Way’s first King George Day of Caring, invites you to join Team UMW Dahlgren as a volunteer on Thursday, October 21.  You’ll join other regional volunteers who will invest their time and energy to assist a Rappahannock United Way member agency complete a project that is valuable to the agency and meaningful to the agency’s clients.  Classified staff, with supervisor approval, may take one day (8 hours) of paid School Assistance and Volunteer Leave.  Administrative/Professional Faculty, with supervisor approval, may take one day (8 hours) of Leave to Provide Community Service.

To volunteer or for more information, contact Mark Safferstone, executive director of the Dahlgren Campus at msaffers@umw.edu or 540/286-8013.  Volunteers will be accepted on a first-come basis until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, October 12, and Team UMW Dahlgren will be limited to a maximum of 14 team members.

For more information, go to the United Way’s website: www.rappahannockunitedway.org/daysofcaring.html. To see photos of the 2010 Fredericksburg Day of Caring that was held on September 16, go to http://picasaweb.google.com/RappUnitedWay/DayOfCaring2010#.

The Governor has given state employees 12 additional hours for Thanksgiving and Winter break, 2011. The University has adopted the 2011 holiday schedule linked here:  http://www.umw.edu/hr/whats_new/default.php.

If you have questions regarding this schedule, please contact the Office of Human Resources at 654-1214.

The Office of Human Resources is pleased to announce that we have discount savings from the following business:

• Borders (Educator Appreciation Week, Oct 6-10) – 25% off discount coupon
• Feld Entertainment (for Disney on Ice Toy Story 3, Oct 20-24) – $5 off regular ticket price

To print discount coupons, please visit the following website:  http://www.umw.edu/hr/whats_new/default.php.

If you need further assistance, please call Human Resources at 654-1214.

Come out and support your fellow co-workers who are being honored for reaching milestone anniversaries during the Employee Recognition Luncheon on October 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., in the Great Hall of the Woodard Campus Center.

View the list of service recipients, the menu, and the program agenda at the following website:

http://www.umw.edu/hr/employee_recognition_luncheon_20102/default.php

If you have special dietary needs and/or questions about the event, please contact the Human Resources Office at 654-1214.

Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion, has recently published Islamic Philosophy: An Online Text Book for Colleges.

“This text book provides the reader with a comprehensive and thorough discussion of the Islamic philosophical tradition from historical and thematic perspectives,” said Aminrazavi. “This work offers a survey of the development of Islamic philosophy (Falsafah-Hikmah) in different periods and schools of thought.” Various themes and debates among philosophers concerning such topics as ontology, epistemology, metaphysics, eschatology, ethics, and political philosophy are among the issues discussed.

This book will be used in the master’s program at Middlesex University and the Islamic College for Advanced Studies, both located in London, and will be used for their online Islamic philosophy courses in 2010 through 2011. The book is available only in electronic format. For more information, visit  www.mdx.ac.uk or www.islamic-college.ac.uk.

In addition, Aminrazavi’s book An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia was selected as one of the superior books in the field of humanities for the International Department of Tehran’s 23rd International Book Fair.  Aminrazavi,  who is director of the Middle Eastern Studies program and co-director of the Leidecker Center for Asian Studies,  accepted the honor at a special ceremony in Tehran in May.