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Announcements
Help
for summer students
Faculty and staff are encouraged to tell summer session students
about the online workshops and resources available at www.sfsu.edu/~testing.
Students
can increase their reading rate and comprehension, manage their
time better, improve their writing and more. The site also contains
a list of videotapes of SFSU academic skills workshops that can
be viewed
in the Library's Media Access Center.
Fee
waivers due
this month
Both employee fee waiver and dependent fee waiver applications and
information sheets are now available in the Human Resources Department,
room 252 of the Administration building.
All
fee waiver participants enroll through the Touch-Tone Registration
process. Participants should submit fee waiver applications and
fees to the Cashier's Office, by Wednesday, June 18,
to ensure the Touch-Tone deadlines are met.
Employees
with eligibility questions or concerns should contact the Fee Waiver
Help Line at ext. 8-2678.
Chase
away blues
with winter cruise
The
2004 University Women’s Association (UWA) cruise sets sail
Jan. 10, 2004, on an eight-day/seven-night cruise of Tahiti, Raiatea,
Tahaa, Bora Bora and Moorea.
Prices
start at $2,650 per person and include airfare, shipboard gratuities,
complimentary wines with lunch and dinner and complimentary in-room
bar setup.
UWA
cruises generate money for the UWA scholarship endowment fund. During
the past 12 years, the cruise has raised thousands of dollars for
dozens of scholarships for SFSU students.
For additional information, contact Lin Bushart Ivory at linivory@attbi.com or Tom Fell Sr. of Fell Travel Inc. at 1-800-321-FELL.
A
deposit of $400 per person reserves a stateroom. Final payment is
due Sept. 30.
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News
CampusMemo enters new era
Beginning with this issue, CampusMemo moves to an electronic only
format. While the content remains the same, CampusMemo will now
be delivered Monday mornings to e-mail inboxes. As always, it can also
be
viewed
on the Web at www.sfsu.edu/~news/campusmemo.htm.
The next
issue will be published Monday, July 14. CampusMemo will resume
its weekly schedule August
25.
SFSU
offers reward in hit-and-run case
SFSU is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of the driver who struck and killed SFSU graduate Srijaya
Dalton in the early morning hours of May 26.
Anyone
with information about this case is asked to call the Hit and Run Division
of the San Francisco Police Department at (415) 553-1641 or Lt. Jerry
Trobaugh of the SFSU Department of Public Safety at ext. 8-2623.
Read more
about Srijaya Dalton and
the reward: www.sfsu.edu/~news/2003/95.htm
Fine
Arts building to be repaired
The Fine Arts building is currently undergoing repairs to deteriorated
and leaking exterior wall joints on its five-story addition. In a second
phase of construction, concrete wall surfaces on the original two-story
building section will also be repaired, and new aluminum windows on the
south, east, and west sides of the building will be installed. Work on
the entire building will be completed by fall 2004.
There will
be some dust and noise in areas adjacent to the work and restricted
access to the second floor south terrace.
Read more
on this and other campus contruction projects: www.sfsu.edu/~build/construct.htm
Commencement
wrap
The
University's 102nd Commencement featured a stirring performance by musician
Peter Yarrow, a pithy speech by Alumnus of the Year rock journalist Ben
Fong-Torres, and more than 4,000 happy graduates.
"I learned that my life was made meaningful when I was
walking the walk of caring about others, when I was devoted to
changing the world so that there was less suffering," said
Yarrow, who also performed "Puff, the Magic Dragon," one
of his signature songs.
The
ceremony also featured student speaker Nelly Lau, a graduate
in electrical engineering and the hood recipient for the College
of Science and Engineering. Bernard Goldstein, provost, vice
president for academic affairs and chief academic officer at
Sonoma State University, professor emeritus of biology at SFSU
and CSU faculty trustee, was awarded the President's Medal for
his years of dedication to higher education.
Read
more about and view photos of Commencement: www.sfsu.edu/~news/2003/89.htm
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June
STAR: Ray Kuan
 Ray
Kuan, Web and online forms coordinator for the College of Health
and Human Services (HHS), is a patient man. It's a quality well-suited
for a job that requires helping (often impatient) humans work with
(often frustrating) computers, and it's one of the main reasons
that he is the June STAR of the Month.
"Ray
is a top-flight employee," said Ryszard Dziadur, director of college
operations for HHS. "A jack of all IT (information technology) trades,
he always goes beyond the call of duty. He considers all faculty,
staff and students to be valued customers and treats them as so.
He is a true professional."
Kuan
updates the HHS Web site, provides support for the software and
hardware needs of the college, and works to move all of its various
forms from paper to electronic format. Thanks to his efforts, everything
from college travel forms to student pay vouchers can be filled
out online, a step that eliminates problems caused by poor handwriting
or miscalculations.
He
is quick to deflect credit to the other members of his IT group
and his fellow HHS employees.
"This
STAR doesn't represent just me -- it represents the whole group,"
he said. "I really enjoy working with people in the college. They
keep me motivated."
A
San Francisco resident, Kuan earned dual undergraduate degrees --
mathematics and computer science -- at San Jose State University.
He worked for a year at the Port of San Francisco before joining
HHS two and a half years ago. It was a change he was happy to make.
"I
always wanted to work in the academic area and serve students,"
he said. "For me, it's a bigger picture than the port. It helps
the community more."
As
befits one of the college's underlying philosophies, Kuan is an
active person. He enjoys swimming and playing tennis and loves to
ski. He skis 10 or more times each winter, usually at Northstar
at Tahoe, and dreams of one day skiing Whistler Blackcomb, a world-class
resort in Canada.
Nominate
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