Faculty-Staff ENEWS
In this Issue
Faculty reminder - Academic Regulations- Mid-Semester Progress Reports and revised drop date
Second Life Brown Bag lunch discussion Oct 5
MAC/MBA Professional Networking Event Oct. 9
Faculty Senate Open Forum Meeting Oct. 11
Information security technologies survey now open
Third Annual BioPharma Forum - Oct. 26
Last week for State Employees Capital Campaign
Chancellor's State of NC State - a summary
Faculty reminder: Academic regulations and new Oct. 17 drop deadline
The Fall 2007 deadline for course drops at the 400 level and below has been rescheduled. The new date is October 17. Instructors are strongly urged to provide substantive evaluative feedback to students before the end of the drop period. ... more
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch/Discussion: Research, Education and Business in Second Life - Oct. 5
11:50 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
1130 Nelson.
Claudia
Kimbrough, Tony O'Driscoll and Lynda Aiman-Smith will present on this
multi-user virtual environment. Bring your lunch and come join the
experience. [Related story]
MAC/MBA Professional Networking Event Oct. 9
Faculty are encouraged to join in this increasingly popular series of networking events. This one will be held at Vaughn Towers, 6-8 p.m. RSVP by Oct. 1 via the separate email invite sent today or directly to Adrienne Jablonski.
Faculty Senate Open Forum - Oct. 11
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Witherspoon Cinema; presentations and time for Q&A.
Third Annual BioPharma Forum - Oct. 26
Details about this fall's four BioPharma Forum speakers are now available online - ...more
Public is invited to participate in survey about online information security technologies
Julie Earp and her theprivacyplace.com colleagues are seeking information about consumers' experiences with and perceptions of authentication technologies. Your participation in this survey - and your help in getting the word out about this - would be appreciated. A story has been sent to the news media today, but faculty and staff are encouraged to participate and to send the survey link to their friends and colleagues, as well as to students in our academic program. Faculty may want to tell their students about the link to the related story on the college's home page ... more
State Employees Capital Campaign now in last week
College commitments to date: $16,391, with a 33% participation rate in the college
This is our final week of the campaign! For those who still would like to contribute, please hand in your pledge form by this Friday to your dept rep. If you've lost your pledge form, here is a link to the generic form; please use the employee ID number located on the front of your all campus card. Also here is a link to a copy of the resource guide. Thanks to everyone. Every dollar makes a difference. - Andy Nowel
Miss the Chancellor's State of NC State address last week? Here's a summary
University News Services has posted a summary of last week's State of NC State address by Chancellor Oblinger.