Faculty & Staff
July 17, 2012
The Employee Wellness Program will offer two free Zumba classes July 25, noon–1 p.m., and July 29, 12:30–1:30 p.m. Both classes will be held at 121 Fitness Center. Participants will have full access to shower, sauna, locker and vanity area facilities at 121. Zumba classes fuse Latin music with…
July 16, 2012
Leaders of this week’s UCITE lunchtime session will discuss “How to Teach Public Speaking,” offering suggestions, tips and guidelines for teaching students how to prepare and deliver oral presentations. Sarah de Swart, the associate director of UCITE, will lead the session, along with Bill Doll,…
July 15, 2012
The Employee Wellness Program will bring a local cooking celebrity to campus July 19 for a special demonstration. Vel Scott, of Vel’s Purple Oasis, will be the guest chef at the event, held July 19 from noon to 1 p.m. in Nord Hall 310, where she’ll teach how to cook healthy soul food. Samples will…
July 12, 2012
Do you work with students or clients who are resistant or ambivalent to change? If so, join the Case Western Reserve University Career Center staff in welcoming Liz Lierman, associate director of Career Services at Oberlin College, for a workshop on motivational interviewing in career…
July 11, 2012
The LGBT Center, Human Resources and The Office of Inclusion, Diversity & Equal Opportunity will offer an interest session for CWRU employees who identify as part of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community. The session will be held July 18 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Thwing Center’s…
July 10, 2012
The Employee Wellness Program will host a free health seminar on first aid and safety July 12 from noon to 1 p.m. in Nord Hall 310. Attendees will learn basic first aid and safety tips to prepare them to be ready to assist when needed. They also will be introduced to the automatic external…
July 10, 2012
At Case Western Reserve University, everyone has free access to a suite of more than 40 Google Apps, from mobile to media, geo to social. These Apps for Education products are a lot more than email, calendaring and docs, but many people are not aware of how to access and use them all…
July 09, 2012
Faculty members are invited to apply to participate in the fourth Mentor Fellows program, to be conducted by UCITE during the fall semester. This series of seminars is designed to engage faculty in thoughtful discussions with other faculty on mentoring and on how to improve the quality of mentoring…
July 08, 2012
Tenured women faculty members are invited to apply for a program targeted to mid-career women who are considering administrative leadership positions or other career paths within academia. The three-session program will be held Oct. 29, Jan. 28 and March 25, 9 a.m.–1:30 p.m. The objectives of the…
July 02, 2012
Arthur Blum, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor Emeritus in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, died June 21 in Ann Arbor, Mich., from complications of cancer. He was 86. A native of Cleveland, Blum earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Western Reserve University. He…