Grant writers can improve skills at February workshops
Grant writers who want to improve their skills are encouraged to sign up for a special workshop that will be offered twice by the Continuing Education Center at Georgia Southern University.
‘Successful Grant Writing” will be held on Thursday, Feb. 14, at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah, and again on Friday, Feb. 15, at the Nessmith-Lane Continuing Education Building on the Georgia Southern campus in Statesboro. Both workshops will run from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Led by instructor Illene Roggensack, participants will learn effective methods to find and develop relationships with funders, write proposals and manage grant funding.
The workshop will also cover trends in grant making and how grants fit into an overall fundraising strategy. In addition, each participant will receive one-on-one feedback on their own proposal writing and research efforts.
Roggensack has more than 20 years of experience as an executive director, fundraising director, board member, volunteer and consultant. She has raised tens of millions of dollars working with governmental, foundation and corporate funding sources.
Recognized as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), Roggensack holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in business.
The fee for each workshop is $179 per person. The fee includes lunch and refreshments.
To register for either workshop, visit http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/grantwriting.html or call (912) 681-5993.
Georgia Southern University, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University, offers more than 120 degree programs serving nearly 17,000 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. The University, one of Georgia’s largest, is a top choice of Georgia’s HOPE scholars and is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit: www.georgiasouthern.edu
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Acclaimed Broadway show “The Producers” at Performing Arts Center on Feb. 7
The touring production of the most highly-decorated musical in Broadway history is coming to the Performing Arts Center (PAC) at Georgia Southern University.
NETworks Presentations will perform ‘The Producers, a Mel Brooks musical” at the PAC on Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m.
The winner of a record 12 Tony Awards, ‘The Producers” is based on the Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name. It tells the story of a down-on-his-luck theatrical producer and a mousy accountant who hatch the ultimate scam: raise more money than needed for a sure-fire Broadway flop, and then pocket the difference.
Their ‘sure-fire” theatrical fiasco? None other than the musical ‘Springtime for Hitler.”
Tickets for ‘The Producers” are $45 per person for the general public. Georgia Southern faculty, staff and students will receive a $5 discount for each ticket.
In addition, if any tickets are available 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the performance, any Georgia Southern student with a valid University I.D. can purchase one ticket for $10.
‘The Producers” dominated the 2001 Tony Awards, earning top honors in a dozen categories, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Orchestrations, Best Choreography, and Best Direction of a Musical.
The 12 Tony Awards won by ‘The Producers” shattered the 37-year-old record of 10 set by ‘Holly, Dolly!”
The NETworks Presentations national tour of ‘The Producers” has received rave reviews across the country.
‘With an energetic ensemble of 22, luscious costumes brilliant choreography and snappy direction, the show comes off as a tightly woven, wonderfully executed celebration of the American Broadway musical,” wrote The State in Columbia, S.C.
‘This is a laugh out loud, I can’t believe they just did that’ extravaganza of bad taste, good fun and high production value,” wrote the Herald Times in Bloomington, Ind.
‘This whiz-bang touring production of the Mel Brooks musical blows a big kiss in the direction of an old-fashioned Broadway extravaganza,” wrote the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal.
The PAC is located on the Georgia Southern campus at the corner of Chandler Road and Plant Drive. The box office is open every Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The box office is also open one hour prior to the start of each performance.
To purchase tickets or obtain additional information, call (912) 486-7999 or toll free (866) PAC-ARTS, or visit the PAC Web site at http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/pac .
Georgia Southern University, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University, offers more than 120 degree programs serving nearly 17,000 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. The University, one of Georgia’s largest, is a top choice of Georgia’s HOPE scholars and is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit: www.georgiasouthern.edu
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Georgia Southern offers refresher course for Fundamentals of Engineering exam
Recent graduates of college engineering programs are invited to prepare for an important professional examination by taking a course hosted by Georgia Southern University.
‘Fundamentals of Engineering Exam Review: A Refresher Course” will run on seven consecutive Saturdays from Feb. 9 through March 22. Each session will meet from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Science and Technology Building on the Georgia Southern campus.
The course is designed for recent graduates who had undergraduate training in engineering or engineering technology. The course will prepare them for the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam, which is given in April and October.
An important step toward becoming a licensed professional engineer, the FE exam is run by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, which calls the exam ‘a measure of minimum competency to enter the profession.” By passing the exam, recent graduates are entitled to be called engineers in training, or engineering interns.
The exam preparation course at Georgia Southern will review topics from 10 fields within the engineering sciences, such as mathematics, statics and dynamics, and strength of materials Participants will review practice problems and go step-by-step through the processes in each field.
The fee for the course is $599 per person, but it will be reduced to $299 per person for Georgia Southern students. The fee does not include the recommended textbook. The deadline to sign up is Friday, Feb. 1.
To register for ‘Fundamentals of Engineering Exam Review: A Refresher Course,” visit http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/examreview.html or call (912) 681-5551. For more information, call (912) 681-5993.
Georgia Southern University, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University, offers more than 120 degree programs serving nearly 17,000 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. The University, one of Georgia’s largest, is a top choice of Georgia’s HOPE scholars and is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit: www.georgiasouthern.edu
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Legal seminar for business owners and managers will be held in Brunswick
Business owners and managers are invited to attend a legal seminar in Brunswick that will address how supervisors should deal with an employee who has filed a harassment claim.
‘Retaliation Under Title VII” will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 12, from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. at Coastal Georgia Community College.
Part of the Legal Awareness in the Workplace (LAW) series sponsored by Georgia Southern University, the seminar will be taught by Jennifer Dickenson, an attorney in the employment law firm of Hunter, Maclean, Exley and Dunn, P.C.
Dickenson will address the Supreme Court’s evolving interpretation of retaliation and how it affects employers in Georgia and South Carolina.
The LAW series will continue in Savannah with ‘Recent Developments in the Fair Labor Standards Act” on March 25, ‘Basics of the Family and Medical Leave Act” on April 22, and ‘Georgia Employment Law” on June 24.
The LAW series will return to Brunswick for ‘Best Practices in Running Background and Reference Checks” on May 13.
The fee for each seminar is $69 per person. The fee will be reduced to $59 for anyone who signs up for three or more seminars, and for groups of three or more people from the same firm.
Each seminar provides 1.5 recertification credit hours for individuals with (Senior) Professional in Human Resources (PHR/SPHR) certification.
Advance registration for any of the seminars may be made by calling Georgia
Southern University’s Continuing Education Center at (912) 681-5551.
For more information on any of the seminars, visit http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/lawseminar.html or contact J. Marie Lutz, SPHR, at seminars@georgiasouthern.edu or (912) 871-1763.
Georgia Southern University, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University, offers more than 120 degree programs serving nearly 17,000 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. The University, one of Georgia’s largest, is a top choice of Georgia’s HOPE scholars and is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit: www.georgiasouthern.edu
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Accounting and Law Construction Conference set for March 6
Georgia Southern University will host a one-day Accounting and Law Construction Conference on Thursday, March 6, at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta. The conference is designed for professionals interested in exploring legal, financial, and fraud issues in the construction industry. Those who attend will earn eight hours of continuing education credit.
The conference is offered through the collaborative efforts of the Center for Fraud and Forensic Studies in Accounting and Business at Georgia Southern University, Lundstrom LLC, Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin, LLP, and the Georgia Chapter of the Construction Financial Management Association. It is directed to professionals with construction industry clients, including CEOs, CFOs, attorneys, accountants, surety underwriters, contractors, subcontractors, and construction industry specialists.
Speakers will present an overview of fraud in the construction industry. The program will also address specific issues including construction fraud schemes, fraud investigations, risk management, defending and proving claims, business planning and succession planning, and immigration issues.
The conference opens at 7:30 a.m. with a continental breakfast, and lunch will provided. It will conclude at 5 p.m.
Cost of the conference is $249 if payment is made by Friday, Feb. 15. After that date, the cost is $275. Go to http://coba.georgiasouthern.edu/forensic/conference08.pdf for a registration form that should be returned to cparrish@georgiasouthern.edu or to Georgia Southern University, P.O. Box 8141, Statesboro, GA 30460. More information is available by calling (912) 681-5678.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Over 200 eAudiobooks are now available at Henderson Library
The Zach S. Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University has expanded its resources with the recent purchase of 211 complete electronic books in audio format.
The Henderson Library’s collection of eAudiobooks from NetLibrary features the work of best-selling novelists like John Berendt, Toni Morrison and Philip Pullman, plus several books in the popular ‘Learn Before You Land” language series.
Georgia Southern faculty, staff and students as well as members of the general public can download the eAudiobooks to their computer, MP3 player or any digital audio device that supports the playback of secure or protected wma files.
Windows Media Player 9.0 or above is required to access the eAudiobooks, which are not compatible with iPods.
Faculty, staff and students can register for a free eAudiobooks account by logging onto a library computer or by contacting the reference desk. The account will allow these users to ‘check out” the eAudiobooks from any location.
‘Patrons who are affiliated with Georgia Southern have off-campus access to our NetLibrary resources because remote users are authenticated via GALILEO,” said W. Bede Mitchell, the dean of the Henderson Library.
An initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, GALILEO is a web-based virtual library available to the faculty, staff and students of more than 2,000 educational institutions.
People from outside the University who are interested in accessing the eAudiobooks must have a Henderson Library card. With proper identification, the cards are available at the circulation desk.
“Community borrowers can download the eAudiobooks to their computer or device while on campus, and the books will be ‘checked out’ and playable for three weeks,” Mitchell said.
The eAudiobooks collection includes ‘The City of Fallen Angels” by Berendt, ‘Beloved” by Morrison, ‘The Golden Compass” by Pullman, ‘The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova, and ‘The Shame of a Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America” by Jonathan Kozol.
In addition to the eAudiobooks, the Henderson Library owns thousands of electronic books that are available to its patrons.
For more information on the Henderson Library, visit http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/ or call (912) 681-5115.
Georgia Southern University, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University, offers more than 120 degree programs serving nearly 17,000 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. The University, one of Georgia’s largest, is a top choice of Georgia’s HOPE scholars and is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit: www.georgiasouthern.edu
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Southern Conference on Children is Jan. 26
MEDIA ADVISORY
This is a reminder that Georgia Southern University will host the 21st annual Southern Conference on Children on Saturday, Jan. 26.
Approximately 700 childcare professionals and parents from throughout the region are expected to attend the conference, which will run from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Nessmith-Lane Continuing Education Building.
The conference is geared toward childcare center directors and personnel, pre-school and pre-K teachers, kindergarten teachers and paraprofessionals, family childcare providers, and the parents of young children.
Thomas Moore and Shirley Garrett will be the keynote speakers. Moore’s talk is titled ‘Celebrating What We Learn from the Children We Teach.” Garrett’s talk is titled ‘Teach from the Top of Your Lungs and the Bottom of Your Heart.”
The workshop topics will include:
- ‘You Can Handle Them: How to Discipline So Kids Will Learn”
- ‘Applied Behavior Analysis and Teaching Children with Autism”
- ‘Prevention of Childhood Obesity by Creating a Healthy-Weight Environment”
- ‘Shifting the Responsibility of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention from Children to Adults”
- ‘Teaching Science/Nature to Young Children Made Easy”
Members of the media are invited to cover the Southern Conference on Children. For more information, including the complete conference schedule and a list of all of the workshops, visit http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/scoc.html or call (912) 871-1755.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
COST Advisement Center celebrates one year of helping young students achieve excellence
It is billed as a ‘one-stop shop” for freshmen in the Allen E. Paulson College of Science and Technology (COST) at Georgia Southern University.
The COST Advisement Center helps young students achieve academic and personal excellence by carefully planning and closely monitoring their first year in the classroom.
Under the direction of coordinator Lisa Vance and supervisor Mary Boyd, the center features a staff of eight faculty advisors, two professional advisors and a representative from the University’s Office of Career Services.
‘Moving from high school to college can be tough for some students,” Vance said. ‘Our goal is help COST students make this transition as smoothly as possible.”
Located on the second floor of the Chemistry/Nursing Building, the COST Advisement Center is celebrating its first anniversary in Spring 2008.
‘The first two years of a student’s academic career are critical,” said Boyd, who is the chair of the Department of Chemistry. ‘The advisement center helps these young students get on the right track toward their degree, and it makes sure they know about all of the career options that are available to them.”
The COST Advisement Center is an example of Georgia Southern’s commitment to increasing the number of students who graduate with a bachelor’s degree in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields.
This commitment is a response to several prominent studies, including one by the National Academy which revealed that America’s advantages in science and technology have started to disappear, thanks in large part to a lack of people who have post-secondary training in these disciplines.
To address the situation, COST began a project called ASPIRES, which stands for Advisement and Scholarship Promoting Inquiry-based Research Experiences in STEM.
Funded in part by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, ASPIRES features five initiatives that seek to improve graduation rates by increasing the retention of STEM students and improving academic achievement in introductory math and science courses.
The project also addresses the Board of Regents’ priority initiative to enhance student progress, which is known as Retention, Progression and Graduation (RPG).
One of the ASPIRES initiatives called for the implementation of a centralized advising center to guide COST freshmen and coordinate activities with Career Services, the Academic Success Center, and the Minority Advisement Program.
‘We wanted to move to a more centralized model,” said Boyd, the project director and principal investigator for ASPIRES. ‘By integrating all of the University’s resources into one location, we can make the students aware of the many services that are available to them.”
Under the old system, each freshman who had declared for a COST major was assigned to a faculty member in the department of their major. Thus, most faculty members were responsible for advising various numbers of students.
‘That system worked well for advising students regarding course selection for their major and other degree requirements,” Boyd said, ‘but it didn’t focus on the other aspects of their academic careers, and it didn’t encourage them to think about career opportunities at an early stage of their college studies.”
The first group of freshmen who used the COST Advisement Center in Spring 2007 are now sophomores. They have been assigned to faculty advisors within their major departments, and these advisors will guide the students through the rest of their academic careers.
However, the freshmen who entered Georgia Southern in Summer and Fall 2007 and all future first-year students will use the COST Advisement Center for both their freshman and sophomore years. Once they become juniors, these students will be assigned to a faculty advisor within their major departments.
The COST Advisement Center includes faculty advisors from the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology, Geology and Geography, Mathematical Sciences, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology, and Physics.
There are also two professional advisors who can counsel students from any department. The center served 623 students during the recently completed fall semester.
‘Each advisor is responsible for all of the majors in his or her department,” Boyd said. ‘This ensures that all of the students within each department are getting consistent advisement.”
The center operates under a concept known as ‘intrusive advising,” which is designed to promote a more confident, disciplined and successful student.
Each student is required to meet with their advisor at least twice every semester, and the center monitors their academic progress.
‘Our advisors try to form a bond with their students,” Vance said. ‘They don’t just hand them a list of classes to take. They talk to the students, listen to their problems and concerns, and answer any questions they may have.”
The students are also encouraged to make an appointment with Wallace Brown, the experiential employment coordinator in Career Services. He spends part of each week in the COST Advisement Center, providing interested students with a plethora of information about internships, cooperative education positions, job-shadowing programs, and graduate school opportunities.
‘A lot of students don’t even think about Career Services until they’re seniors,” Brown said. ‘What’s we trying to do through the COST Advisement Center is make sure that students are aware of what we can do to help them as they proceed through the academic curriculum.
‘It’s never too early to start thinking about what you want to do when you finish college. I’m here to let the students know what their options are.”
In an effort to measure the effectiveness of the COST Advisement Center, students are asked to respond to a couple of surveys. Future retention data will provide additional insight into the center’s performance.
‘We’ve had very positive feedback from our students,” Vance said. ‘As time goes on, we’ll continue to evaluate what we’re doing and how we can do it even better.”
For more information on the COST Advisement Center, visit http://cost.georgiasouthern.edu/Advisement_Center/Advisement_Home or call (912) 681-0649.
Georgia Southern University, a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University, offers more than 120 degree programs serving nearly 17,000 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. The University, one of Georgia’s largest, is a top choice of Georgia’s HOPE scholars and is recognized for its student-centered approach to education. Visit: www.georgiasouthern.edu
Last updated: 2/2/2018
