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Decmeber 19, 2005
HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS
The Southwestern University community continues its outreach to persons affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita:
 APPROVED ABSENSES FOR VOLUNTEERING
In order to support faculty, staff and students in their efforts to provide assistance through various organizations offering relief support, Southwestern University is authorizing up to two days of paid leave for staff members and up to two days of approved absences from classes for faculty and students. Staff members must schedule their leave time through their supervisors. Faculty should coordinate their absences with their respective department chairs. Finally, students should work with their respective faculty members to ensure that all work missed during their absence is completed in a satisfactory manner. Students should not plan to be absent from classes on days when exams are scheduled.
CAMPUS SUPPORT
TECH REVIVAL: PROGRAM HELPS DILLARD U. PROFESSORS REBUILD COURSE MATERIALS AND RAISE SPIRITS
When Hurricane Katrina's storm surge overwhelmed New Orleans's broken levees, the murky waters of Lake Pontchartrain swallowed up Gloria C. Love's ground-floor office at Dillard University, ruining her computers, books, research notes, and syllabi.
Three months later, with no home, no electricity in her recently installed government-issued trailer, and a shuttered campus, she was hard-pressed to begin planning for spring-semester classes, which are scheduled to begin on January 9 at a downtown hotel and various campuses around New Orleans.
But for two weeks ending today, she and a dozen colleagues were invited here to Southwestern University to begin resurrecting their course materials and creating new ones so they would have something to teach with when classes resume. The program was established by the Texas university and its regional technology laboratory, with the help of a $160,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Read more from this 12/16/05 feature in The Chronicle of Higher Education
SU WELCOMES DILLARD FACULTY MEMBERS AS VISITING SCHOLARS
Southwestern University has received a $160,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to work with faculty members from Dillard University as they prepare to reopen in January 2006. Dillard is an historically black college in New Orleans that was severely impacted by Hurricane Katrina. About a dozen faculty members from Dillard will be coming to Southwestern to use technology available at the NITLE Technology Center, in the A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library, to recreate course materials lost in the hurricane and develop new online courses that can be offered to students regardless of their location. Most faculty members will stay through mid-December.
KATRINA BOOK PROJECT GOING WELL
The Katrina Book Project sponsored by the Southwestern Library is going extremely well, with nearly 1,000 children's books collected so far.
"The campus community, local book stores, and families and children in area schools have been wonderfully responsive to our effort," says Lynne Brody, dean of library services.
The drive will continue through the end of November, and books will be distributed in December.
Books can be donated at the Circulation Desk of the Smith Library Center.
Education students at Southwestern collected 130 books and raised $2,064 for additional books at a Scholastic book fair held on campus Oct. 27-28.
MULTICULTURAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE CONDUCTING UNDERWEAR DRIVE
The Multicultural Coordinating Committee is conducting an underwear drive to provide new underwear for hurricane refugees in the San Antonio area. For more information on this project, contact .
APO TRIP TO AID DILLARD UNIVERSITY
Alphi Pi Omega service fraternity is planning a three or four-day trip to New Orleans to assist Dillard University's recovery efforts. A goods drive will be held on campus before the trip. For more information, contact .
DONATION UPDATE
Southwestern students, faculty and staff have donated more than $1,000 in cash to the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and have also donated more than 40 health kits for hurricane victims. UMCOR is still collecting health kits, flood buckets and school kits. Collection boxes are located in the residence halls as well as the chapel lounge. For more information on how to make kits, follow this link.
In a separate drive, students collected nearly $1,500 from the Southwestern community to support the American Red Cross. They also sent three carloads of food, blankets and clothing to the Houston Astrodome.
Studio art students headed by April Mosher collected $500 to purchase art supplies for the victims of Katrina. The supplies were packaged in sets for elementary, high school and university students and sent to Louisiana State University, which is coordinating distribution to students who relocated to Baton Rouge.
FROM PRESIDENT SCHRUM
A MATTER OF HEART
President Jake Schrum shares his thoughts on Hurricane Katrina in a brief essay titled "A Matter of Heart." To share your thoughts on the hurricane, please send them to .
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