NEWS, VIEWS, AND CLUES

Please read on for news and contact info on the following:
-Teaching and Technology Conference Today
-Correction on Passover dates
-New ISSC address
-Joining Baruch’s corporate challenge running team
-CUNY Day with city leadership
-Instructors sought for Spring CAPS program
-Dollars & $ense wins award for content and design
-City Voices calls for CUNY writer-performers

(And be warned: other items for announcement will be forthcoming later
today.)
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TEACHING AND TECH CONFERENCE TODAY!

First, an important REMINDER: you’ll recall from the last e-mail
announcements that today at the Vertical Campus Conference Center (14th
floor) is Baruch’s Fifth Annual TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE.
Immediately following welcoming remarks at 9:30 a.m. from, among others,
President Ned Regan and CUNY’s chief information officer, Brian Cohen,
among others, the keynote speaker will be Dr. Allen Renear, Graduate School
of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois.  Lunch is
served at 11:30.  Publisher and vendor presentations go from 12:30 to 1:00.
Break out sessions on a myriad of special topics fill the afternoon.
Registration and luncheon are free.  For more info:
http://baruch.cuny.edu/slas/events/teach_tech_02.html

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Correct Passover Dates…

Second, an important CORRECTION on Passover: Our previous e-mail (note the
editorial “we” once a mistake has to be acknowledged) reminded faculty of
upcoming religious holidays, during which many students can be expected to
miss class.  In that reminder, “we” provided the wrong dates for the
closing days of Passover. Prof. Michael Palley of CIS, along with several
other alert correspondents, have set the record straight.  Writes
Palley: “The closing days of Passover are April 3 and 4 (not 4 and 5, as
per the announcement).  Furthermore,” Prof. Palley adds, “students
observing the holiday will not be in attendance at the start of the
festival, which corresponds to Tuesday evening, April 2.” Thanks to all who
caught this error.  We regret that we don’t know who, on this large team of
communications professionals who labor through the week to bring you these
announcements, might have made the mistake….

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The International Student Service Center has a new address:
155 East 25th Street
Room 808 (8th floor)
The phone number remains the same.

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Baruch to field runners for JP Morgan Chase “Corporate Challenge” races

Attention all faculty, staff, and administrators:

Baruch College will be fielding a team of runners for the annual JP Morgan
Chase Corporate Challenge road race series this spring and summer.  Anyone
interested in running (or walking) 3.5 miles in Central Park as part of the
Baruch team, please contact Dave Gallagher at (212) 802 2900, or via e-mail
at [log in to unmask] The race dates are May 15, June 4, and
June 26.  Baruch can field a team for all races or just one or two.  Please
let us know if you want to join the Baruch team.

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CUNY Day Thursday, March 21st

CUNY Day will be celebrated from 4 pm to 6:30 pm in the Oval Room of the
Vertical Campus Conference Center on Thursday, March 21.  It is “a
recognition of CUNY and the PSC as mutually important institutions in the
educational profile of New York City, and it represents your chance to meet
members of the City Council and representatives of the current NYC
administration. Please join us on this special day and enjoy the company of
your colleagues across the University.”

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Baruch College CAPS Seeks Instructors
The CAPS program, to accommodate increased demand and a restructured
curriculum, seeks instructors for Spring 2002 semester beginning on April 8
for the following courses:

Introduction to Business Statistics
Understanding Business
Employee Benefits
Compensation
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Intro to Psychology
Calculus
College Mathematics

Resumes can be e-mailed to [log in to unmask]
Or faxed to (212) 802-5626

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Dollars & $ense Wins Columbia Scholastic Award

Dollars & $ense, the annual magazine reported and edited by undergraduate
and graduate students in Baruch’s journalism programs and designed by
Baruch’s undergraduate design students, has won gold medals for concept,
content, design, and creativity from the Columbia Scholastic Press
Association.  Profs. Andrea Gabor and Geanne Rosenberg are the faculty
advisors for editorial content; Prof. Terry Berkowitz oversees the design
students. Students also created a special Fall 2001 election issue on the
web.

Link for Dollars & $ense: http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/publications/
Link for the election issue is: http://www.baruchjournalism.com/events

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Pulitzer Prize Journalist David Cay Johnson, Who Covers IRS, to Visit Baruch

In further news from the business journalism program, David Cay Johnson of
The New York Times, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of
the IRS and tax issues, will help teach the graduate program’s “Covering
Policy Issues” class, joining the class for three weeks’ discussion of tax
issues.  Some of these sessions are open to other interested members of the
Baruch community on an RSVP basis.  Please contact Prof. Joshua Mills for
more details: [log in to unmask]

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“City Voices” Calls for Writer-Performers (and Other Hyphenates….)

Faculty members, students, and staff, the group “City Voices,” which
is “the only pan-CUNY creative-writing-in-performance group” invites all
poets, rappers, fiction writers, essayists, and monologuists to apply for
the group’s first performance event.  For more info, call or e-mail George
Guida by April 9, at (718) 260-5394, or at [log in to unmask]