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Greetings!
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Ten Years, Five Strategies, and
A Thousand Little Things
"Eckerd College has made remarkable progress over the past decade toward its ambition to provide the finest possible undergraduate experience. This progress has resulted not from one great masterstroke but from a committed community doing a thousand little things to carry out the key strategies for success."
Dr. Donald R. Eastman III, president of Eckerd College, distributed copies of his tenth anniversary report at a recent board of trustees meeting. The campus community is invited to view the online version; faculty and staff will be receiving copies via campus mail over the next few days. |
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Staff and Faculty Appreciation
All staff and faculty are invited to attend the annual Staff and Faculty Appreciation Luncheon on Wednesday, October 26, from 12 - 1:30 pm in Fox Hall. Find out who has been on board for 5, 10, 15, and even 40 years. (Hint: he has been around as long as EC-SAR!). The Staff Member of the Year award will also be presented.
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Cell Phones for Soldiers
(From the desk of Sustainability Fellow Evan Bollier '11)
Eckerd College is proud to participate in Cell Phones for Soldiers, a program that recycles old cell phones and turns the profits into prepaid calling cards for soldiers abroad. The donations are sent to ReCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each phone - enough to provide an hour of talk time to soldiers abroad! Actual cell phones are not sent abroad. However, if you wish to erase your phone's data, visit ReCellular's free data eraser for simple instructions before donating.
Drop off your broken, unused or old cell phones at one of the following locations in the designated Cell Phones for Soldiers bins across campus: Armacost Library, Campus Safety, Facilities Management break room, Human Resources, PEL office, Office of Service-Learning, Student Affairs, or the Office of Sustainability.
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Campus News
(click on a link to read each story)
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Eckerd in the News
(click on a link to be redirected to the article)
Occupy fever spreads in bay as St. Petersburg joins Tampa in protests
St. Petersburg Times, October 16, 2011
Comments by Max Martinez '12 and Liz Argento '12
Toxins in water, soil close nature park
Tampa Tribune, October 15, 2011
Comments by Kip Curtis, assistant professor of environmental studies
At Eckerd College environmentalist Bill McKibben warns about climate change
WMNF 88.5 fm, October 14, 2011
Presidential Events Series speaker Bill McKibben
Students buzz about energy drink bans on college campuses
USA Today, October 11, 2011
Comments by senior Danielle Brown '12
Surgeon, big donor to UF Dr. J. Crayton Pruitt dies at 79
St. Petersburg Times, October 10, 2011
Comments by Matthew Bisset, vice president for advancement
Cloud Email: The Good, the Bad, and the Uptime
University Business, September 26, 2011
Comments by John Duff, director of information technology services
QR Codes Gaining Popularity on Campus
Today's Campus, Sept/Oct 2011 issue
Comments by Casey Paquet, director of marketing, communications and web services
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Congrats, Junior Ford Scholars! Now in its 25th year at Eckerd, the Ford Apprentice Scholars Program selects the newest group of future college and university professors.
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Only at Eckerd Because of You, We Did It!Raising $82.7 million, the Many Experiences, One Spirit: The Campaign for Eckerd College is the most successful fundraising campaign in the College's history. Eckerd Review 2012 - Call for SubmissionsAll members of the EC community are invited to send in their short stories, poems, nonfiction and art on or before Nov. 23 for consideration. Nov. 3, 4 & 5: Celebrate EC-SAR's 40 Years of ServiceFrom a modest collection of boats and Wally Watt buildings to a state of the art communications center and the Wallace Boathouse, the Eckerd College Search and Rescue (EC-SAR) Team and Waterfront Program have progressed hand in hand... changing and saving lives for 40 years! Nov. 12: Save the Date for a Daylong "Celebration of the Arts"Presented by the Creative Arts Collegium, this Saturday celebration will feature the creative inspiration of Eckerd College's faculty, staff, students and alumni through visual art, music, poetry and fiction reading, song and theater. It all starts at 11 am. Stay tuned!
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Events@Eckerd Art: "The 3rd Annual IA Majors Show"
Through Oct. 21, Elliott Gallery Art: "A Sense of Place: A series of reproductions of major works by Christopher M. Still"
Through Jan. 13, 2012, Cobb Gallery CPS: Peter Crane, "The Future of Plants"
Thur., Oct. 20, 7 pm, Fox Hall Art: "EC Residential Visual Arts Faculty and Staff Exhibition"
Oct. 23 - Dec. 2, Elliott Gallery Opening reception: Sun., Oct. 23 3-5 pm Fall Recess, Oct. 24 & 25 CPS: EC Faculty, "Frankenstein across the Disciplines"Thur., Oct. 27, 7 pm, Triton Room Film: "The Last Circus"Fri., Oct. 28, 7 pm, Miller Auditorium CPS: Dr. Don Luong, "Cancer Awareness/Relay for Life" Wed., Nov. 2, 5 pm, Fox Hall Thur., Nov. 3, 7:30 pm, Miller Auditorium Nov. 3-16, Thur.-Sun., Bininger Theatre Fri., Nov. 4, 7pm,Miller Auditorium
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