1. Baruch at the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge: join the team! (deadline
Mar. 28)

2. Faculty Seminar: Using the News, Mar. 7

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1.
Baruch will once again be fielding a team of runners and walkers for the 2003 JP
Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge, a 3.5 mile "race" on May 14, 2003 at 7:00 PM
in Central Park.  This race attracts more than 15,000 people from the NYC business
and non-profit communities.  You do not need to be a real runner -- you can run any
pace or walk -- and the event is a true New York spectacle.  It also offers a wonderful
opportunity to mingle with your fellow members of the Baruch family -- last year's
team had a ball!  I encourage you and all Baruch employees (faculty, staff, and
student workers) to join our team and come out to "race" on May 14th.

The entrance fee is $25 (checks payable to Baruch College Fund) which includes
entry to the race, and both a Baruch College team T-Shirt as well as an official JP
Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge T-Shirt.  Please email Dave Gallagher
([log in to unmask]) to confirm you plan to participate -- you must
download a race application from the website (jpmorganchasecc.com) and drop it off
with your check at Dave's office (College Advancement-- 9th floor -- 135 East 22nd
Street) no later than March 28th.

See you in the Park!

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2.
Faculty Seminar
Using the News: Integrating the New York Times
(and other print media) into Communication Intensive
(and other) Classes

Friday, March 7
10:00 am - noon (refreshments starting at 9:30)
Faculty/Staff Lounge VC 14-290

Because of its broad range of coverage and the depth of its articles,
the New York Times lends itself to the classroom teaching of virtually
any subject. Glenn Petersen has been using the Times in all his
anthropology, geography, and international affairs classes (undergraduate
and graduate) for more than a decade, and would like to invite fellow faculty
to consider using it, and other print sources, as well. Journalism professors
Sarah Bartlett and Andrea Gabor join him in a panel discussion that will
consider how the news is put together and how we can take it apart in the
classroom in order to use it to best effect. Regular use of newspapers can
enhance the teaching of any subject by serving to convince students of the
day-to-day relevance of their course materials, to help them learn to become
active readers, and to provide intensive exposure to source materials they are
likely to continue engaging long after their formal education is done.

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