Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences

Part two of “Perspectives on Reputation,” sponsored by the Corporate Communication Institute (CCI), is scheduled for Friday, December 13, noon to 4 p.m., at Pfizer, 150 Building Conference Center, 50 East 42nd Street, N.Y.C. Experts with essential perspectives will bring their insight to the complexity of building and maintaining an organization’s reputation and will discuss how reputation and sustainability are driving concepts in contemporary strategic communication practice.

Speakers will include Ron Alsop, news editor and senior writer, Wall Street Journal; Jacquelyn Ottman, president, J. Ottman Consulting, Inc.; Ruth Wooden, senior counselor, Porter Novelli; Jeffrey Horn, principal and co-leader, brand consulting initiative, Towers Perrin; and Chris Mykrantz, vice president, GreenPoint Financial, and president, Council of Communication Management. Michael Goodman, CCI director and director, corporate/organizational communication (Flor), will serve as moderator. John Santoro, executive director, leadership communications, corporate affairs division, Pfizer, the symposium host, will welcome the participants.

Sponsoring organizations are Accenture, AT&T, BD, Convergys, Raytheon Company, Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Participating organizations are the Council of Communication Management and NJ-NIRI, the New Jersey Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute.

For more information about the symposium or to register, call CCI at 973-443-8709 or visit its Web site at http://www.corporatecomm.org/.

FDU people in the forum faculty will be Michael Goodman, CCI director and director, corporate/organizational communication (Flor); James Hutton, marketing (Flor); James Lyddy, senior vice president for University advancement (Metro/Flor); and Gary Radford, communication (Flor).

The forum is sponsored by Accenture, AT&T, BD, Convergys, J.M. Huber Corporation, Raytheon Company, Schering-Plough and Wyeth.

For more information about the forum or to register call CCI at 973-443-8709 or visit their Web site at http://www.corporatecomm.org/.

For the new creative writing bachelor degree offering go to New Undergraduate Major in Creative Writing (http://inside.fdu.edu/pt2/otw0212/writing.html).

The modern languages and literatures department will hold its first Spanish Food Sampling on Tuesday, December 17, from noon to 1:30 p.m., in Conference Room 241, Stadler/Zenner Academic Building, at the College at Florham. Sylvia Belen-Ramos, Spanish (Flor), is the contact for the event at 973-443-8649.

The Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies at the College at Florham held a breakfast seminar on November 19 that addressed how fraud in small- and medium-sized companies can be detected and prevented.

The seminar focused on the various types of fraud that are most common in business today and illustrated how employees, as well as third parties, might commit these frauds. The speakers detailed what detection techniques could be used to investigate various types of scams and explored the various options open after discovery of a fraud or scam, including legal options and considerations.

The opening speaker was Robert DiPasquale, CPA, CFE, director of the litigation services department at The Videre Group, LLP, a regional, independent public accounting firm committed to helping middle-market, closely-held and family-owned businesses. The second speaker was Adam Saravay, Esq., special counsel to McCarter & English, LLP, where he practices in the areas of employment, criminal defense and commercial and appellate litigation.

For information on future seminars call the Rothman Institute at 973-443-8842.

Applications/résumés for Camp Discovery teachers and counselors are being accepted by Karen Nelson, senior program director, continuing education (Metro). Camp Discovery is an academic-oriented camp for children in grades 1 to 7, which runs for six weeks each summer. Counselors must be high-school seniors or older; college education majors are given preference. Teaching positions at the Metropolitan Campus include science, art, theater, recreation and directors. The College at Florham positions include science, art, theater, recreation, dance, swim instructors, 1st-grade teachers and directors.

Continuing education’s revised Web Skills Program begins January 25 on the Metropolitan Campus and January 28 at the College at Florham. Classes are offered on Saturdays, weekdays and weeknights. The cost for the 60-hour course is $1,650. A 10 percent discount is available for faculty and staff. For more information visit http://www.fdu.edu/web-skills.

Because of the success of the pilot class GIS and Emergency Administration, which had an initial enrollment of 13, the Office of Continuing Education will offer Introduction to ArcGIS software training in February. Group discounts are available. For information contact Joan Leder, senior program director (Metro), at 201-692-6515.

The Motorcycle Safety Education Program’s courses will resume in March; registrations are now being taken at 201-692-6500.

See also Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program Receives Outstanding Evaluation (http://inside.fdu.edu/pt2/otw0212/inter.html).

The School of Natural Sciences, in conjunction with the Hudson-Bergen Chemical Society, sponsored a lecture, “The Chemistry of Art Conservation,” by Ken Sutherland, conservation scientist, Philadelphia Museum of Art, on December 6 at the Metropolitan Campus. From 1995 to 2001, Sutherland was a research fellow in the scientific research department of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., carrying out a study of the effects of organic solvents on oil paint films, which was completed as a chemistry PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2001.

This talk introduced some of the problems and challenges encountered by the museum scientist, with particular reference to the activities of the conservation department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Numerous examples included a study of the deterioration of a sculpture by the Russian constructivist artist Naum Gabo, made using plastic and dating from the early 20th century. Mihaela Leonida, chemistry (Metro), arranged for the talk.

The Henry P. Becton School of Nursing and Allied Health and Sigma Theta Tau, Epsilon Rho Chapter, International Nursing Honor Society, in conjunction with the Office of Alumni Relations, sponsored a colloquium honoring the scholarship of service at the Metropolitan Campus on December 2.

Titled “Preparing for the Unexpected,” the awareness program focused on preparing for a personal or national disaster. It was presented by Mona Bookman, director of emergency services, American Red Cross Bergen Crossroads Chapter.

The Peter Sammartino School of Education has added a Jewish studies component to its master of arts in teaching program. The program incorporates the 22-credit New Jersey State teaching certification, which enables graduates to work in both public and Jewish schools. Students may concentrate on either the K-8 level or the secondary school level.

Prerequisite requirements to the Jewish Education concentration include Jewish history (6 credits), Hebrew bible (6 credits) of the Melton Adult Mini-school Program (a two-year program accredited by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem) or its equivalent. FDU offers the course at five locations. To accommodate the concentration, 12 new graduate courses have been added to the School of Education’s offerings.

The bachelor of arts in humanities has added four new concentrations: liberal arts; American studies in global perspectives; ethics, politics and society; and science, technology and human values.

Drama and theater arts will be on the agenda for students studying at Wroxton College this spring. They will see performances of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Pericles and Coriolanus” and the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s “Far From the Madding Crown,” as well as seven other productions including “Blood Brothers” at the Phoenix Theatre, “The Duchess of Malfi” at the New Vic Theatre and “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Lyttelton Theatre.

In addition they will be attending classes at the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Tickets and transportation to and from the theaters and classes are provided as an integral part of their classes.

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