• The Metropolitan Campus Wellness Committee will be publishing an online cookbook, Recipes on the Run, with recipes to be sampled at a luncheon in January. Recipes should be quick and healthy and have 12 ingredients or less, with preparation time of 20 minutes or less (unless they can be prepared the night before) and cooking time no longer than one hour. Submissions should be made before December 22 to Joan Leder, senior director, continuing education (Metro), at H-DH1-02 or joan_leder@ fdu.edu.

• Last week's blizzard not only shut down the University but it forced the cancellation of the annual benefactor’s donor recognition dinner. University officials acted quickly to turn a bad situation into something positive for the community. A call was made to the Interfaith Food Pantry, which helped the University deliver thousands of dollars worth of prepared food to the Community Soup Kitchen in Morristown, N.J. The kitchen is open seven days a week providing meals to the needy. “We were delighted to be able to assist the Community Soup Kitchen which does so much good for people in our area,” said Rick Reiss, senior vice president for University advancement. “It’s great when something good comes out of an unfortunate situation.”

• Fairleigh Dickinson’s distance-learning initiative and its Global Virtual Faculty program were featured in the December 5 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Specifically, the story focused on University College’s online course, The Life of the Mind, and included an interview with Jason Scorza, philosophy/political science (Metro), who developed the course collaboratively with Christopher Devine, chemistry/philosophy (Metro); Leonard Grob, philosophy and University coordinator/director of University Core (Metro); and Lana Tiersky, psychology (Metro).

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College at Florham, Madison, N.J.

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