Category: What’s New @ UMW

Esfuerzo de Amor is having a holiday sale!  We need to clear out our inventory so that we have a reason to buy more products when we return to Honduras this January.  Our gifts are perfectly priced for the holidays, with six priced under $10!

The following items are available in the UMW Bookstore or online at http://host1.sequoiars.com/ePOS?store=313&form=shared3%2findex.html:

Bobby Pins: $3

Headbands: $5

Earrings (Straight): $6

Earrings (Hoops): $7

Clutches (XS): $7

Clutches (S):  $9

Clutches (M): $11

Clutches (L): $15

Clutches (XL): $26

They make great stocking stuffers and are perfect for gift-exchanges with friends and co-workers, for your babysitter, for your mail carrier…the possibilities are endless!

Each Esfuerzo de Amor product is hand-crafted in the homes of our artisans out of discarded chip bags and soda labels.  When you buy an Esfuerzo de Amor product:

• You generate needed income for our Honduran artisans and their families who live below $2 a day.
• You support our microloan program in Honduras which is funded by the profits from every purchase.
• You support a UMW student-run social enterprise.

Esfurezo de Amor products are gifts that give back. Happy Holidays!

LEARN MORE: http://esfuerzodeamor.org/

LIKE US on FB: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/ESFUERZO-de-AMOR/238912846163408

Message from Shawn Humphrey, associate professor of economics

Student callers ended the fall Phonathon session with a grand total of $382,104 in gifts and pledges. During the nine-week calling session, 20 student callers and four student supervisors headquartered in Hamlet House reached out to UMW alumni and parents. They attempted 68,282 calls to receive a total of 4,419 pledges and 548 outright gifts by credit card.

The Office of Advancement hosted the callers for a celebration banquet at the Jepson Alumni Executive Center on December 7. The next calling session begins February 6, 2012.

Starting in January 2012 the EagleOne Card Center located in Lee Hall, Room 110 will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday – Friday.

Faculty and staff with a valid UMW ID are eligible and can activate their EagleOne debit account with an initial deposit of $25 or by signing up for automatic payroll deduction.

EagleOne is now accepted at over 20 off-campus  locations and virtually everywhere on campus.

UMW will present its 2012 Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series beginning in January and running through April. The popular program, which will examine the lives of a wide range of intriguing historical figures, is open to the public free of charge. The lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. in George Washington Hall’s Dodd Auditorium on selected Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

The series begins Tuesday, January 24, with a lecture on Kurt Vonnegut by Charles J. Shields, associate director of the Great Lives Series. Shields is the author of the recently released “And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life,” the first full-length biography of Vonnegut. The book has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Shields also is the author of “Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee,” the bestselling biography of the author of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

The 2012 series will continue with lectures on major figures such as Christopher Columbus, Marquis de Lafayette, Marie Curie and the Wright brothers. The recent biographers of Aaron Burr, Noah Webster, Clarence Darrow and Marie and Pierre Curie also will present lectures.

For more information or for a complete listing of lectures, contact the Office of Events and Conferencing at (540) 654-1065 or visit www.umw.edu/greatlives.

Several offices will be leaving their Centre Court offices and relocating to the fourth floor of Eagle Village, from Wednesday, December 14th to Friday, December 16th.  The move will involve some or all staff in the following offices:

Accounts Payable

Budget

Finance (including its training and support staff)

Information Technology

Internal Audit

Payroll*

Purchasing

If you have an emergency and cannot reach an alternate staff member from of these offices, you may call my office at 654-1020 and we will try to assist.

*Bi-weekly timesheets due on 12/15 (for the time period of 12/5-12/18) that are faxed to 654-2020 can be verified of receipt via email to Cheryl Dunn (cdunn@umw.edu).

Message from Richard R. Pearce, Vice President for Administration and Finance and CFO