Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences

A Call for Papers

The Corporate Communication Institute has issued a call for papers for its Conference on Corporate Communication 2006 to be held Friday, June 2, through Monday, June 5, 2006, at Wroxton College, England. Sponsored by the institute in association with Corporate Communications: An International Journal, the conference has a global focus on the theory, practice, roles, processes and issues of concern to corporate communication scholars and practitioners. The deadline for submission of proposals to the Corporate Communication Institute is January 16, 2006.

The three-day conference will feature speakers from industry and universities. Past representation has been from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The institute encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary proposals for original research, complete sessions devoted to an issue, panel discussion, case studies, workshops and demonstrations. For additional information, a PDF of the call for papers and details for submission of conference papers go to http://www.corporatecomm.org/conference.html, e-mail cci@corporatecomm.org or call 973-443-8709.

Main Stage Productions Increase Performances

Due to the expected audience popularity of future main stage musical productions, Stephen Hollis, director, theater arts (Flor), has announced that there will be two additional performances for the spring 2006 musical, “Cabaret.” Performance dates are as follows: Thursday, March 30, through Saturday, April 1, at 8 p.m.; the high-school matinee on Wednesday, April 5 at 11 a.m.; Thursday, April 6, through Saturday, April 8, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, April 9, at 2:30 p.m. March 31 is billed as faculty night, and an alumni gathering will be scheduled for April 7, 8 or 9.

Leaders Forum

The Corporate Communication Institute announces the 2006 Corporate Communication Leaders Forum to be held on Tuesday, January 3, through Saturday, January 7, in the Mansion, College at Florham.

The forum offers an intensive professional and academic experience in the current theory and practice of corporate communication. It combines presentations, panel discussions, case studies and interaction with leading professionals and scholars. Sessions are conducted on campus and site visits are planned to area corporate headquarters and locations in New York City, including a tour of The New York Stock Exchange.

For more information call 973-443-8709, e-mail cci@corporatecomm.org or visit the Web site http://www.corporatecomm.org .

Silberman College of Business

New Jersey high school students are invited to compete in an innovative program, conducted by FDU’s Rothman Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, that recognizes their bright, commercially feasible ideas.

The “2006 New Jersey Business Idea Competition” is open to all New Jersey high school students (grades nine through 12). The deadline for applications is February 17, and the winners will be announced and honored on the evening of March 31 at the College at Florham.

The competition, now in its third year, divides the state into three regions: north (Bergen, Passaic, Sussex, Morris, Essex and Warren counties); central (Hunterdon, Somerset, Union, Middlesex, Mercer and Hudson counties); and south (Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cumberland and Cape May counties). Each region will recognize five finalists and 10 semifinalists who will be awarded $150 and $100, respectively. In addition, winners will be chosen from each region and will receive an additional $250 each. All winners will receive plaques or certificates at the awards ceremony.

James Barrood, executive director, Rothman Institute (Flor), said the objective is to “foster an entrepreneurial mindset among New Jersey’s high school students and recognize those who develop the brightest and most commercially feasible ideas. Many of our young people have very good ideas and simply need to be encouraged to submit them. They are, after all, the future business leaders of our state.”

The entrepreneurial studies faculty will judge the competition. Sponsors include the Edison Venture Fund; Sovereign Bank; the NJ Commerce, Economic Growth & Tourism Commission; and New Jersey 101.5 FM.

For more information visit http://www.fdu.edu/rothman and click on “NJ Biz Idea Comp” or call 973-443-8842.

Anthony J. Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies

School of Administrative Science

Master in administrative science courses will be conducted at a new off-site location in the Mount Olive School District in Budd Lake, N.J. This new Morris County site will serve the northwest region of the state. For further information go to http://sas.fdu.edu or call 201-692-7172.

Puerta al Futuro

The following grants were recently received by Puerta al Futuro:

A $5,000 grant from the Victoria Foundation for the October 1 Celebrate Familia Newark Cultural Day.

A $20,000 grant from Verizon toward the creation of a language lab in Hackensack and two mobile labs for the Newark and Dover sites. The first part of this grant will be used to renovate the Computer Lab located in Edward Williams Hall and to purchase needed audiovisual equipment for all three sites.

A $21,100 grant from Lumina Foundation for Education for the development of a College Study Skills course for Latino adults, an innovative bilingual 1-credit course for incoming Puerta students designed to improve academic performance and retention.

The program invites the FDU community to the third annual Three King’s Day celebration on Friday, January 6. This event takes place at 6 p.m. in the Commons in Edward Williams Hall, Metropolitan Campus. Refreshments, gifts and music will be provided. The event will be sponsored by GOYA and Patsy Gatsy Toys. Children’s books are being collected to be given away at the event. All book contributions can be sent to Ruth Soto at H-EWC1-01. To R.S.V.P. or for more information, call 201-692-2625 or e-mail puerta@fdu.edu.

Last month, 20 Puerta al Futuro program students received Reiner Foundation scholarships, based on achievement and financial aid. From left are: Andrew Raleigh, administrative science (Metro); scholarship winners Arturo Zevallos and Soledad Cespedes; and Kenneth Vehrkens, dean, Petrocelli College.

Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies

Faculty, staff and students of the BA in interdisciplinary studies program participated in an Association for Integrative Studies-sponsored teleconference/Web-conference on November 10 on the topic, “Interdisciplinary Studies: Where Are We Today?” The conference offered participants the opportunity to pose questions to a panel of leading scholars including Julie Thompson Klein of Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.; Carolyn Haynes of Miami University and William Newell of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Anyone interested in viewing a DVD copy of the conference can contact Richard Castellana, humanities/fine arts and director, interdisciplinary studies (Metro), at rcast@fdu.edu or 201-692-2741.

Continuing Education Division

The Office of Continuing Education will be offering a 12-week Web Developer Certification course at the College at Florham beginning on February 25. Courses will run on Saturdays or Tuesday and Thursday evenings. For more information visit the Web site http://www.fdu.edu/web-skills .

Five $1,000 scholarships were awarded to hotel and restaurant management students by the Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, whose national headquarters is housed at the College at Florham’s Chaîne House, during a Beaujolais Nouveau Celebration on the campus. Pictured in the front row are the recipients, from left, Andres Osorio, Meghan Brophy, Melissa Somers, Eliana Frigo and Kristin McGuire. At the scholarships’ presentation were, back row, from left, Clyde Braunstein, executive director, Chaîne; Richard Wisch, associate dean and director, international hospitality/tourism management (Metro/Flor); and Kenneth Vehrkens, dean, Petrocelli College (Metro/Flor).

University College: Arts • Sciences • Professional Studies

A brief look at University College happenings is included here.

The artworks of Chung-Tse Hsu, BA’05 (Metro), are on exhibit through January 20, in University College Gallery, Room 11, University Hall, Metropolitan Campus. The gallery is closed December 21 to January 1.

The Henry P. Becton School of Nursing and Allied Health hosted its fall Nursing Demonstration on November 30, in Dickinson Hall, Metropolitan Campus. An exhibit of the past, present and future of clinical nursing education in the school was the highlight of the open house.

Wroxton College

Wroxton College students visited World War I cemeteries and other sites in France at the beginning of October.

As part of their Anatomy of 20th-century Britain course, the students visited Vimy Ridge, a vital part of the German defense, which Canadian troops finally took on April 9, 1917. The students then visited the war memorial commemorating the 3,598 Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in the attack. Afterward, on the Somme, they went to Beaumont-Hotel, walking the half-mile route taken by the 1st Newfoundland Regiment in its attack there on July 1, 1916, against heavily defended German trenches where, in less than half an hour, the regiment lost three-quarters of its men.

They then visited the Australian War Memorial on the side of the road near the village of Pozieres, where scores of Australian troops died in their attempt to take an isolated farmhouse on a hill, half a mile away — the farmhouse and memorial are chilling reminders of the bravery and sacrifice of colonial soldiers in the Great War.

Finally, they visited the huge memorial at Thiepval, commemorating more than 72,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who died during the Somme battles and have no known graves.

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