Info Transfer!

Hi Everyone,

The Council Office has asked us to pass on the information below, so here it is:

1. October 6, 2009 Staff Council Meeting Summary

Please find a summary of our recent Staff Council Meeting at http://www.uvm.edu/~stffcncl/pdf/sc100609sum.pdf

2. Staff Council Holiday Bazaar: Sign Up

Attention UVM Staff, Students, Faculty, and Retirees: It is that time of year again for the Staff Council Recreation Committee to begin planning for our annual Holiday Bazaar. This is a great opportunity to showcase and sell your own beautiful locally handmade products and artwork to the UVM Community. For more information on how to reserve a table or how to get involved, please visit our website.

3. NextStep: Facilitator and Participant Applications

Occurring each January, the Next Step Retreat provides 65 participants (undergraduate, graduate, staff and faculty) with a personal and collective experience aimed at developing their own knowledge and skills about their own social identities. Participants learn how to become better change agents and activists against racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, religious discrimination, classism and other socially constructed oppressions. If you have experience with social justice education and want to be a part of Next Step, we are currently accepting Facilitator applications! For more information visit: www.uvm.edu/nextstep


4. Dragonheart Vermont Sock Sale: Office of Federal, State and Community Relations

Dragonheart Vermont, a breast cancer survivor and supporter organization is raising money for local cancer programs through the sale of “Mismatched Socks”. The order deadline has been extended to Friday, October 23rd. Please see this flyer for more information, or contact the Office of Federal, State, and Community Relations at 300 Waterman or by phone at 656-2992.

Please consider volunteering, or supporting some of these worthy causes!

Also, it's still Apple Time at the Hort Farm! Information is available at 658-9166, or by emailing Terry Bradshaw at tbradsha@uvm.edu



Let's all think of pie!

Have a good week,

Joanne

October Skies

Hi Everyone,

The next full Staff Council meeting is tomorrow October 6th, at 12:05pm in the Davis Center (Livak Ballroom). This month's guest speaker is President Fogel, and any UVM person is welcome to attend. We aren't sure if there will be much time for questions, but hopefully his presentation will be informative.

Another option for those who'd like the Staff Council to bring issues to the Administration's attention would be to fill out a Contact Sheet on the Staff Council website. We're trying a project to expand the usefulness of this process:

Once a month the Staff Council officers and admin. staff meet with President Fogel and Gary Derr to discuss topics of current interest to the staff. Input from contact sheets helps the Council office know what the staff is most interested in communicating to the administration. Soon there'll be a better explanation and procedure on the website; this is just an early head's-up that it's available. Their next meeting is October 13th, so if you'd like to submit a topic, please send it in soon!

Also, the contact sheets aren't limited to subjects concerning problems; if anyone has a good idea or suggestion, they'd love to hear about those too!

I hope everyone gets a chance to check out the progress of Fall colors--it started out looking like a dull year, but Nature seems to have caught up with the season!


Have a good week,


Joanne