The semester is now officially over. Grades were due (and, one hopes, submitted) by 3 p.m. today.
The faculty hope that everyone has a happy and safe holiday break. For those not taking intersession courses, we will see you all when you return for the start of the Spring 2010 semester on Monday, Feb. 1.
Happy Holidays!
For those who missed this email from the Provost’s office…
Please note that this is NOT a POSTPONEMENT but an information message only!
Due to the inclement weather conditions that are forecasted for our area tonight and into tomorrow morning (Wed., December 9, 2009), we would like to send you information in advance for a POSSIBLE contingency plan. If the predicted weather conditions do materialize, these plans would most likely affect the 8:00AM exam and possibly the 10:15 exam.
*Please check the Registrar’s website at: http://matrix.scranton.edu/academics/ac_ro_finalexams.shtml, for the contingency plan make-up times. You can also check this webpage for re-assignments.
*This contingency plan applies only to those courses for which an exam was to have been given according to the instructor and course syllabus.
*If this contingency plan causes a conflict with an already scheduled exam, students should attend the originally scheduled exam and then contact the instructor of the rearranged course to make plans to make it up at a later date.
*Note that we are trying to avoid using the Saturday afternoon special period for conflicts. Using that period creates significant other problems. Also, we want to leave it open in case of other weather events later in the week.
*If the contingency schedule causes a severe hardship for students with fixed travel plans or, if in a student’s judgment it is unsafe to travel to campus, those students should contact their instructor to request an incomplete grade, with the exam to be made up at a later date.
*If a faculty member cannot make the trip to campus or make other arrangements, the faculty member should email the affected students.
REMINDER: THIS IS NOT A POSTPONEMENT AT THIS TIME. We will watch the weather and make the call, if needed, tomorrow morning via, email, phone, TV and text.
Please print or save this email to reference.
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and the Community Outreach Office will kick off a six-month hunger awareness and food drive campaign Monday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the first floor of the DeNaples Student Center.
Students, faculty and staff may donate money, canned food and other non-perishable items to feed hungry people in the local community. Participants can also call 941-6333 to have their donations picked up.
Scranton Tomorrow is looking for a communication intern to assist in the launch and branding of the new Main Street Scranton economic development initiative.
Duties may include general non-profit marketing and communication tasks including volunteer management, special event planning, web site content management, social networking site maintenance, writing and submission of press releases, responsibility for editing and layout of monthly e-newsletter.
Internship duties may also include writing, editing, special event planning, photography, general office tasks and other projects as assigned.
Contact Leslie Collins, Executive Director, Scranton Tomorrow at 570-963-5901 or via email at leslie@scrantontomorrow.org
The Society of Professional Journalists is looking for submissions f\to be considered for its Mark of Excellence Awards honoring the best in student journalism.
Winners will be honored during the SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference in Las Vegas Oct. 3-6, 2010.
To submit an entry, simply use the online submission format.
The deadline is Jan. 27, 2010. Read the contest rules and submit your work here.
Questions? Contact Lauren Rochester at (317) 927-8000, ext. 210.
The Hope Horn Gallery will host the second annual exhibition of The University of Scranton Photography Club from Nov. 30 to Dec 11, according to a release from Media Newswire.
The exhibit, entitled “In Color,” will display photographs taken by students in the photography club, and all photographs will emphasize color.
A public reception will be held on Dec. 4 in the Hope Horn Gallery from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. An awards presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m.
The Hope Horn Gallery, located in Hyland Hall, is open Sunday through Friday, from noon to 4 p.m., and on Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. For additional information, contact the Hope Horn Gallery at 941-4214.
The University of Scranton Public Relations Office is looking for a student to take on a paid internship within the office next semester.
The intern would work in the Public Relations Office between 10 to 12 hours a week through the semester.
The position reports to the director of news and media relations and would involve writing releases, hometown releases and media advisories. The intern will also have the opportunity to work with local media covering campus events and stories.
The student will gain news-clips, writing experience and learn about different functions performed in the University’s PR Office. This is a paid internship.
Students should have previous writing or broadcast experience with student and/or other publications.
Interested students should send their resume to Stan Zygmunt at zygmunts2@scranton.edu.
Dr. Rebecca Mikesell of the University of Scranton’s Department of Communication will chair a panel on Adoptive Family Communication at the annual conference of the National Communication Association today in Chicago.
The panel, which will be held from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m., will feature research by scholars from the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Nebraska.
The National Communication Association, formerly the Speech Communication Association, is the largest and oldest national organization dedicated to the field of communication. It has more than 8,000 members in every state and more than 20 countries.
Beth Egan, managing partner and account director of AT&T Mobility at mediaedge: cia, will speak to communication students Friday from 10 a.m. to noon in Brennan 228.
A lunchtime career session will follow from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. in 4112 St. Thomas Hall.
As an innovative, seasoned Communications Strategist with more than 20 years experience, Egan has developed integrated communication plans for such varied clients as L’Oreal Paris, Coca Cola USA, Kraft Foods, Continental Airlines, Starwood Hotels and Verizon Wireless.
She currently oversees AT&T Mobility’s $800+ million communications planning investment. AT&T reaches consumers in a variety of media including television, radio, newspaper, online and out of home.
She has led her clients through the ever changing media landscape ensuring that their advertising dollars are invested efficiently and effectively. Her work has been recognized by MediaWeek magazine with Media Plan of the Year/Cable Television for the Starbucks/Bravo Independent Film Series which was the first time an advertiser sponsored an entire series of commercial free programming.
She also worked with L’Oreal Paris on building out the Project Runway partnership and has also pioneered integrations for Oreo in the NBC series “American Dreams” and Planters Peanuts in the Tom Hanks film, “The Terminal.”
Egan graduated from Southern Methodist University with an MBA in Marketing and the Syracuse University Newhouse School of Communications with a BS in Advertising. She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University.
She is a member of Advertising Women of NY. She is a mentor with Upwardly Global, an organization which helps professional immigrants navigate the US job market teaching resume writing, interviewing and networking skills. She is also a volunteer with the Taproot Foundation which provides marketing consulting services to non-profit organizations in New York City.
Mediaedge:cia is one of the world’s leading media agency networks with more than 4,400 employees working across 84 countries. It was voted Adweek’s and Advertising Age’s “Global Media Agency of the Year” in 2006 and 2007.
Only 60 percent of journalism and mass communication graduates nationally were employed full-time six to eight months after graduation, the lowest level in more than two decades, according to a recent report from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication:
The drop in the level of full-time employment–from 70.2% of graduates in 2007 to 60.4% in 2008–is the largest change recorded in levels of employment in the 23 years that the same methodology has been used to track these statistics.
The job market that had plummeted after its peak in 2000 and had begun to improve in 2003 simply crashed. Only half of the graduates had full-time work in the field of communication.
The only good news for 2008 graduates was that those who did find work received the same average salary as graduates a year earlier. With deflation, that actually represented a very slight increase in purchasing power capability.[Continue reading Job Market]
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