Wednesday
September 8, 2004
Vol 2, No 11

1. Five veteran Metro Staters receive Distinguished Service Awards

On Sept. 1 five long-time Metro State employees received the prestigious Distinguished Service Award at Fall Convocation. The award is the highest honor the college can bestow on an employee.

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2. College reminds faculty of conflict-of-interest policy
3. Do you know? Aerospace Assistant Professor Jeff Price
4. Guest Commentary: The 9/11 Commission Report: Aviation Security
5. Career Services holds open house
6. Holocaust scholar to speak
7. Auraria police changes name
8. BOT meets today
9. Bush, Kerry discuss higher ed

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2. College reminds faculty of conflict-of-interest policy

Metro State is taking steps to make sure that professors are aware of an important conflict-of-interest policy that has existed for years, but that is easy to miss, according to college attorney Lee Combs.

To read more go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol2/conflict_twv2090804.htm

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3. Do you know? Aerospace Assistant Professor Jeff Price

The deadly turn of events on Sept. 11, 2001 made Jeff Price's area of expertise extremely desirable.

To read more go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol2/Price_twv2090804.htm

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4. Guest Commentary:
The 9/11 Commission Report: Aviation Security
by Jeff Price

As the nation approaches the third anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, aviation security expert Jeff Price illuminates the findings of the 9/11 Commission for @Metro readers.

To read Price's commentary go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol2/911_twv2090804.htm

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5. Career Services holds open house

The Career Services Office invites the college community to its Open House, Sept. 9, 2-5 p.m., in Central Classroom 203.

Come meet the new director Gary Boley, as well as career specialists Bridgette Coble, Lee Shores and Thesala Jones. Learn about the many upcoming events including the Metro State Business Fair on Nov. 2.

Refreshments will be served.

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6. Holocaust scholar to speak

Susanne Kaul, an assistant professor of literature and linguistics at Germany's Bielefeld University, will speak Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 4 p.m. in Tivoli 320 B and C. The title of her talk is "Literature, the Holocaust and Memory: Looking at the Past through the Reader." Kaul is a guest of the Political Science Department's Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership and the Department of Philosophy.

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7. Auraria police changes name

AHEC Campus Police and Security has changed its name to the Auraria Campus Police Department. This new name should be used in all internal and external publications and Web sites. The address and telephone number for the Campus Police Department is 1201 Fifth St, room 110 of the Administration Building, 303-556-3271. Campus Police also has a satellite office in the Tivoli Student Union, room 228.

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8. BOT meets today

The Board of Trustees will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday, Sept. 8, from 8 a.m. to noon in Tivoli room 320. Among the agenda items are a report on the presidential search by John Buechner, head of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee, and a presentation on student success and the admission index by Bill Hathaway Clark, interim associate dean of student services and director of admissions.

Following the public meeting, the Board will meet in Executive Session to discuss several candidates for the position of college president forwarded to them by the Search Committee.

The full agenda is available at
http://www.mscd.edu/welcomectr/trustees/boardmeetings.htm

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9. Bush, Kerry discuss higher ed

Three times a week, the Associated Press picks an issue and asks the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates a question about it. The Sept. 5 question and responses were about higher education.

To read the article go to
http://www.boston.com:80/news/education/higher/
articles/2004/09/05/bush_kerry_on_the_issues_college_costs

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