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Todd announces revision to leave policies for adoption, child birth President Todd announces revision to leave policies for adoption, child birth
In a groundbreaking move, University of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr. took his first step toward improving the balance between work and life of UK employees by approving the use of accrued temporary disability leave (TDL), commonly known as sick leave, for time off during the adoption of a child. Also, TDL can now be used more extensively by a father for the birth or adoption of his child. The policy amendment is a more generous benefit than any provided by the university's benchmark institutions. “One of our goals at the University of Kentucky is to improve the balance between work and life of our employees,” Todd said. “This is a great step toward that end. It is a greater benefit than any our benchmarks provide, and we are pleased to be able to offer this to our faculty and staff who give so much to this university.” The revision allows both male and female employees to use up to a maximum of six weeks (30 working days) of accrued TDL for the adoption of a child. The previous policy, which followed the guidelines of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, stated that any employee who had been at the university for 12 months and had worked at least 1,250 hours during the previous 12-month period could take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for one of four possible qualifying events, one of which was the adoption of a child. The employee could take any available accrued vacation time for such leave but was not allowed the use of TDL unless the adopted child was ill. Until now.
“This new policy certainly enhances the University's climate as a family friendly employer,” said T. Lynn Williamson, director, UK Human Resource Services. “This new policy is extremely generous for employees adopting a child as well as for the fathers of children. It places the university in the forefront of the adoption and childbirth policies of our benchmark institutions.” UK policy also previously stated that male employees could take just five days of TDL for the birth of a child before using accrued vacation leave, but under FMLA could still have up to a maximum of 12 weeks unpaid leave. Under the new provision, that amount is increased to a maximum of six weeks (30 working days) of accrued TDL to increase the total amount of time an employee can remain in a paid status. David Hoke, director of the Wellness Program, and his wife had a child under the old policy, and they are embracing the new. “I think this is a tremendous benefit,” Hoke said. “Life is busy for all of us, and this gives us a greater pool of paid time in the event that it is needed.” Also benefiting from the new policy is Craig Amos, senior technician in Distance Learning Library Services, whose wife is expecting a child in December, and Amos says this policy comes just in time. “It is a wonderful opportunity for the staff to spend time with family at such a wonderful time,” Amos said. “I was planning to take a week of vacation time to be home, now I don't have to. This just provides a great safety net if needed.” UK is not the first entity to address this particular work-life issue. In September, the state of California enacted a law that allows workers to be paid about 55 percent of their salary for six weeks of leave for the birth or adoption of a child from a pool of funds that is funded through employee payroll deductions. However, UK's policy is more beneficial by not requiring payment from the employees and providing a means for receipt of 100 percent of their salary through use of their accrued TDL. topBoard fills three administrative postsThe University of Kentucky Board of Trustees on Oct. 29 filled three central administrative posts, appointing Michael T. Nietzel as the university's first provost, UK graduate Wendy Baldwin as vice president for research, and UK College of Law graduate Paul C. Van Booven as UK's new general counsel.
Nietzel has been acting provost since July 2001, when Todd moved the university from a chancellor style of governance to a provost system. Nietzel's former UK administrative posts include dean of the Graduate School (1997-2001), chairman of the Department of Psychology (1991-1997), and three terms as director of the Clinical Psychology Program during the 1970s and 1980s. Nietzel received his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College and his master's and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a professor of psychology, with a joint appointment in the UK College of Law. He is a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialization in forensic psychology. He has authored or co-authored 13 books on clinical and forensic psychology.
As deputy director of the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Baldwin advises the director on extramural policy issues and is responsible for developing and overseeing policies and procedures for extramural research and training programs. In addition, she works closely with other federal agencies and private foundations to develop co-funding for strategic initiatives. She graduated magna cum laude from Stetson University, Deland, Fla., in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in sociology and received her master's and doctorate degrees from UK in 1970 and 1973, respectively. In 1973, Baldwin be-gan a 20-year period of service to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Devel-opment. Since 1993, Baldwin has served in her current capacity at NIH.
UK's new general counsel, Van Booven, has been with the UK Office of Legal Counsel since 1989. A UK College of Law graduate, Van Booven has served as managing editor of the Kentucky Law Journal, assistant dean of the college from 1976 to 1979, associate dean from 1979 through 1989, and chair of the University Judicial Board from 1980 through 1989. A native of Hopkinsville, Van Booven has a bachelor of arts degree in economics from DePauw University. Before being named UK's general counsel, Van Booven served as acting general counsel twice, from April through September in 1994 and from May of this year until today. Staff Report topDelta Dental gives UK, UofL endowment to enhance oral health in Kentucky
Delta Dental Plan of Kentucky has awarded the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry and the University of Louisville School of Dentistry a $1.5 million endowment that will be used to enhance research efforts and improve oral health for Kentuckians. The Commonwealth of Kentucky Research Challenge Trust Fund is matching the endowment for both universities, boosting Delta Dental's investment to a total of $3 million. UK will use its half for the Delta Dental Plan of Kentucky Clinical Research Center. The College of Dentistry, with the UK Chandler Medical Center, established the Center for Oral Health Research (COHR) to enhance interdisciplinary research and nurture cross-fertilization of research expertise. The Delta Dental Center will be the clinical arm of the COHR, researching ways to define and impact oral health disparities in rural Kentucky. “Delta Dental is Kentucky's largest dental benefits provider making an effort to address a Kentucky problem,” said Jeffrey Ebersole, director of the UK Center for Oral Health Research. “By aiding this collaboration between Kentucky's two premier research institutions, Delta Dental's funding should position oral health research in Kentucky to more effectively compete for national funding initiatives in both research and training, which can only be a benefit for the academic institutions, the economy of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the citizens of the state.” Kentucky has the second highest rate of edentulism - loss of all teeth - in the U.S., often resulting from periodontal disease. Also, when the bacteria or toxins from the mouth get into the blood, they clearly increase the risk for general health problems, like endocarditis and diabetes, and also appear to contribute to pre-term and low birth-weight babies. Currently underway at the Delta Dental Center is a multi-institutional National Institutes of Health study that examines and treats pregnant women's oral health. Two hundred and four Kentucky women with periodontal disease, and 816 women nationwide, will be divided into two groups. Half of the women will receive dental care intervention during their pregnancy. Researchers will see if those treated have babies closer to full-term and at a normal weight, as opposed to those treated after delivery. The University of Minnesota is the principal site of the study. The Delta Dental Center is a clinical site and the central laboratory for immunological analyses, where samples will be sent from all four sites, including Columbia University and the University of Mississippi. John Novak is co-investigator of the study, as well as Arthur T. Evans, professor and director of maternal-fetal medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UK College of Medicine. “Such studies linking oral disease to overall health offer the opportunity to lower the extensive rate of oral disease at all ages in the Kentucky population,” said Leon A. Assael, dean of the UK College of Dentistry. “With UK and U of L in collaboration, this can be accomplished more effectively.” “If we had an unlimited amount of money for dental care, we probably wouldn't need to do research,” Ebersole said. “But, we can't eliminate oral disease in Kentucky by treating one mouth at a time, so we're doing it through research and prevention.” topGraduate School to host forumsThe Graduate School will host Graduate Forums in various areas around campus. Doug Kalika, acting dean of the Graduate School, will be giving a presentation on support and professional development opportunities for graduate students, followed by an open discussion of graduate student issues. Forums are open to all graduate students and take place from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. •Nov. 8, 323 Center
for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems toptopFirst drug to prevent cell loss in spinal cord injury foundA drug currently used for treating organ transplant re-jection prevents the delayed degeneration of nerve cells in spinal cord injury, according to the results of a study at the Univer-sity of Kentucky Spi-nal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC). Stephanie Nottingham, graduate student, and Joe Springer, professor of anatomy and neurobiology, College of Medicine, have demonstrated that the immunosuppressant drug FK506, also known as tacrolimus, can prevent the delayed degeneration of the oligodendroglial cells in the experimentally injured spinal cord. This is the first demonstration of a specific drug therapy that blocks the loss of these cells. The results of the study have been published in Experimental Neurology, a leading neurosciences journal. Oligodendroglia form the insulation for spinal cord nerve cells; this insulation is essential for nerve cells to conduct impulses from the brain to the spinal cord. The delayed loss of these cells after spinal cord injury is likely a major reason for the limited neurological recovery seen in many spinal cord injury victims. Finding a drug that would protect these cells eventually may lead to an improvement in the recovery and quality of life of spinal cord injury patients.
This project is a highly promising step in that direction. “If the ongoing work in Dr. Springer's laboratory continues to show promise for the treatment of acute spinal cord injury, a clinical trial with FK506 should be feasible,” said Edward D. Hall, director of SCoBIRC. “This is highly possible because the drug is already marketed for human use.” The laboratory of Pamela Knapp, associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology, College of Medicine, was integral to the success of the study. Knapp and Springer, in addition to their primary appointments in anatomy and neurobiology, are faculty associates of SCoBIRC. They and 21 other faculty at the center, which was created just over four years ago, are actively exploring various potential drug, cellular transplant, rehabilitation or biomedical engineering treatments for spinal cord and brain injury. These efforts focus on preventing the secondary degeneration of nervous tissue after traumatic injury or promoting functional recovery. Springer has great hope for the future of spinal cord injury research. “The spinal cord will tell us,” he said. “The answers are there in the spinal cord. All we have to do is ask the right questions.” topOdyssey magazine highlights UK’s spinal cord research
A paraplegic rises from his chair and stands - this is not a distant goal of spinal cord injury research, but a present reality. Such exciting developments are the result of innovative and comprehensive research efforts at the University of Kentucky Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC). “Regenerating Hope: Spinal Cord Research at UK” - one of the featured stories in the current issue of Odyssey, the magazine of UK research - highlights SCoBIRC's active research endeavors in various potential drug, cellular transplant, rehabilitation and biomedical engineering treatments for spinal cord injury. The article features researchers that are working in the laboratory on long-term strategies to re-establish lost neuronal function, as well as those that are focused on improving the quality of life and the functional recovery of spinal cord injury patients. Odyssey also features recent work by two College of Education professors who are using children's literature to teach math and science and a look at UK's John Jacob Niles Center for American Music. The cover story of the fall issue focuses on the University's efforts in battling bioterrorism, highlighting the wide-ranging activities of emergency health care providers and scientists from diverse departments who are working to better understand - and fight - infectious disease, one of terrorism's major threats. Odyssey covers the latest research advances, innovative scholarship, and outstanding people that are part of the University's over $200-million-a-year research enterprise. The award-winning magazine, published through the Office of the Vice President for Research, is also available at www.rgs.uky.edu/ca/odyssey. toptopUK wins $1.17 million to create poverty research centerThe University of Kentucky has received a $1.17 million grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services to establish a Kentucky Center for Poverty Research in the Gatton College of Business and Economics. The three-year grant was awarded to the UK Department of Economics after a nationwide competition for proposals for three area poverty research centers as well as a national poverty research center. UK's proposal won one of the three area poverty research center awards. The Kentucky Center for Poverty Research will focus on the causes, consequences and effects of poverty in Kentucky and the south, in relation to the nation as a whole. HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said the UK team will bring significant cross-disciplinary expertise to bear in the study of poverty in the region. “So much of the progress we have made in the country on issues related to reducing poverty and reforming welfare was through careful research. The Area Poverty Centers will play a critical role not only in contributing to this body of research at the regional level but also in preparing researchers to meet this challenge in the future,” Thompson said. James P. Ziliak, professor of economics and holder of the Carol Martin Gatton Chair in Microeconomics, will be the center's director, said Richard W. Furst, dean of the Gatton College. The center's initial projects will include: •Evaluating the impact of Medicaid managed care on infant and child wellbeing in Kentucky; •Monitoring child health outcomes, with a particular focus on links between obesity and Type-II diabetes among children on Medicaid in Kentucky; and •An ethnographic study of links between poverty and intimate-partner violence and possible implications on labor-market status for welfare mothers. The center's research emphasis will be multidisciplinary, drawing on expertise of scholars across UK's campus. Faculty will come from economics, political science, public policy, sociology, social work and other areas. Among those who will be involved are Mark Berger, director of the UK Center for Business and Economic Research; Edward Jennings, professor of public policy and administration; James Hougland, professor of sociology; and department liaisons Aaron Yelowitz, associate professor of economics; Colleen Heflin, assistant professor of public policy; Jeffrey Talbert, associate professor of public policy; Joanna Badalgiacco, associate professor of sociology; and Mary Secret, professor of social work. The center also will mentor students and young academics through an emerging scholars program, a dissertation fellowship program and research assistantships. It also will support numerous research activities including a competitive internal-grants program, a regional small-grants program and a joint poverty and policy seminar series. HHS awarded the National Poverty Research Center to the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and the two other area poverty research centers to the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Rural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. topA message from President ToddI am pleased to announce a new initiative at the University of Kentucky designed to deal with the rising costs of health benefits for our employees and retirees. The new Health Literacy Project is a result of recommendations from the Health Benefits Task Force that I appointed immediately after becoming president due to campus concerns. The Health Literacy Project incorporates several components targeted at making us better consumers of health care and health care benefits: • A major campus-wide education campaign will include increased communications about health benefits and about a new assessment tool that will help employees and retirees determine what health plan best fits their individual needs. • A new consumer-driven health benefit option is being added to the HMO and PPO already offered. • A prescription drug counseling service called “co-pay counseling” will soon be available from the College of Pharmacy, offering counseling from certified pharmacists about whether prescribed medications could be replaced with less expensive generic drugs with no change in safety or effectiveness. • BeH.I.P. is the name of a new program providing personal healthy lifestyle counseling. It targets seven problem areas for our employees and retirees: sedentary lifestyle, smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, self-reported depression and chronic over-stress. Complete information about the Health Literacy Project will be available in coming weeks at www.uky.edu/HealthLiteracy/. topStempel resigns as director of Patterson School, will stay on as a faculty memberJohn Stempel, director of the University of Kentucky Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce for the past 10 years, has announced that he will resign that position at the end of the academic year. “This is a young person's game,” said Stempel, 64. “We have very talented people waiting in the wings.” Stempel will continue teaching in the Patterson School, sharing the knowledge he acquired during 23 years with the U.S. Foreign Service. His experience includes a key diplomatic posting in Iran before, during and after Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Fundamen-talist revolution -- probably his most exciting assignment Leaving Iran, Stempel became the State Department's diplomatic professor at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he wrote the definitive book on the revolution, “Inside the Iranian Revolution.” From 1981-83, he was director of the State Department's worldwide Crisis Center, dealing with terrorists and the Falklands War. Stempel also served in three African countries and India. His last post before coming to UK was American Consul General to South India at Madras, where he quadrupled U.S. commercial collaboration with South India. Stempel's Washington assignments featured duty for both the State and Defense Departments, including a two-year tour as Director of the State Department's Crisis Center. Stempel received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965. He did his undergraduate work at Princeton University and received his master's and doctorate degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Stempel grew up in Bloomington, Ind. Staff report topPT students use “hippotherapy” to assist children with disabilities
University of Kentucky physical therapy students who volunteer at Central Kentucky Riding for the Handicapped are finding out what service learning truly means. It's not a one-way track. “Service learning is a balanced partnership between meeting learning objectives and serving the community,” said Janice Kuperstein, associate professor, UK College of Health Sciences, Division of Physical Therapy. “We're meeting the need of our students and meeting a true community need.” Physical therapy students participate in providing “hippotherapy” for children in the program, which is a treatment that uses the movement of the horse to stimulate the rider. Kuperstein teaches an eight-week course offered as an elective in the summer and fall in conjunction with the Central Kentucky Riding for the Handicapped Program. Misty Rehkop, a 1997 graduate of the physical therapy program and UK Hospital employee, is the class instructor for the children. Rehkop began volunteering as a student and just completed her eighth year with the program. She has witnessed many students' progression. “Kids have spoken their first words while on the horses,” Rehkop said. “The most outstanding thing is seeing both the psychological and emotional benefits as well as physical benefits.” The experience takes place each week at the Kentucky Horse Park where physical therapy students provide care to children who have impairments such as cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome and sensory integration dysfunction. Many of the children cannot walk or must use assistive devices to move about. While sitting atop the tall creatures at the Horse Park, however, the children undergo a sense of movement they typically do not feel in every-day life. Smiles spread across their faces as the horse trots beneath them, propelling the riders to speeds their own feet aren't able to match. “Most of these kids can't do many of the things their peers can do,” Kuperstein said. “But they can ride a horse, and not all of their peers, even the able-bodied ones, can say that. It's amazing to watch, really. Even some of the kids that are nonverbal, you look into their eyes and they communicate beautifully. It brings me to tears sometimes.” Ten-year-old Courtney Marshall, who has a form of cerebral palsy, must use a walker to move about-except for when she's riding her horse Chico. One look at Marshall's expression as she bounces across the field on Chico is proof that UK physical therapy students are helping with something that's very special to the children. “You look at her with her rolling walker, and then you see her up on a horse, and it's like she's transformed into this totally different person,” Kuperstein said. Marshall's mother, Suzi Luciano, has the same reaction. “You can see on her face how much it means to her. There's nothing more special or important than that. Nothing.” As the horses walk across the green pastures at the Kentucky Horse Park, the physical therapy students raise their hands to give high-fives to the riders. Even the motion of slapping the raised hands of their therapists is therapeutic for the children. They ride sidesaddle, on their hands and knees, and even backwards, sometimes throwing balls to the physical therapy students close-by. All the while, the movement improves the children's physical capabilities such as posture security and trunk control. Physical therapy students have volunteered at Central Kentucky Riding for the Handicapped over the past four years, helping about 50 children gain confidence and enhance their physical ability. During the semester, students give a presentation to classmates, detailing the physical impairments of the children they have been paired with. The class discusses the changes they see in each child and what other treatment options would be appropriate, from a framework of looking at the entire child-not just the physical impairments. Kuperstein sees the opportunity for the students to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real-life situations as a real asset. “Someone once said, 'Tell me, and I'll forget, show me and I might remember, involve me and I'll understand,'” Kuperstein said. “That's what these students are doing-gaining a greater understanding of their field while serving the community, which in fact, is part of the professionalism.” topNIH awards drug abuse research grantThe University of Kentucky Center on Drug and Alcohol Research (CDAR) has been awarded a $2,443,102 five-year grant to establish a center to focus on improving the transitions of drug abusers from prison to the community and to community treatment. The grant, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), establishes the Central States Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Research Systems (CJ-DATS) Center in Lexington as one of seven centers in the U.S. The overall aim of the Central States Center is to design and carry out research to improve interventions for drug abusers involved in the criminal justice system in order to reduce recidivism, drug abuse and crime. The Central States Center builds on previous and ongoing research in Lexington, which began in 1935 when the first facility to treat heroin users in the United States was established. The center will add to that tradition with capacity to plan, research and implement studies, collect and analyze data, and develop clinical publications. The grant also involves two initial multi-site trials across six other sites in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, New York, Texas and California. The first trial will examine an enhanced employment intervention focused on getting a job, keeping a job and getting a better job, which was developed by UK. The second trial will evaluate a case management intervention, which incorporates a criminal thinking errors approach. Carl Leukefeld, director, CDAR, UK College of Medicine, is the principal investigator of the grant. The Central States Center studies will add information to better understand the relationship of drugs and crime, particularly among individuals who live in rural areas like Kentucky. The center also will add to information about understanding the criminal justice system, which has numerous offenders who are drug abusers. Few approaches have been developed that focus on criminal justice involved drug abusers as they transition from prison to community treatment, particularly those from rural areas. Such approaches are needed because it is estimated that 500,000 U.S. prisoners will return to the community each year for the next several years, and 83 percent of those returning are believed to be drug abusers. top
topSG-sponsored campus directories to be distributed this month
University of Kentucky Student Government members and UK staff began work on the UK Phone Directory this summer in order to have them available in November. The directories, which are free to all UK students, faculty and staff, will be distributed throughout campus and will be available through the SG Office. The directory provides information and phone numbers of students, faculty and staff and is divided into five colored sections. The introductory White Pages consist of all information that students, faculty or staff members need to know about UK. The Blue Pages contain the listings for departments, organizations and individual faculty and staff. The Green Pages offer numbers of student services, as well as instructions for making changes to individual listings. The final White Pages provide student listings, while the Yellow Pages contain the advertising directory and coupons. “Students sell advertisements for the directory's yellow pages, and a portion of those sales fund Student Government events like 'Hoosier Daddy,'” said Edwin Orange, SG administrative support. The directory is compiled over several months in which students and staff members complete the cover, yellow pages and information pages. The directory listings are completed once students arrive on campus in the fall for most accurate information. The directory listings for students, faculty, and staff are received from the Communications and Network Systems Department, while SG is responsible for the cover and portions of the information pages. “Student Government student staff members chose UK's new image campaign as the spotlight for this year's telephone directory cover,” Orange said. SG worked with the UK Public Relations Department to create a cover that highlights the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff. According to John Herbst, director of the Student Center, “SG members brainstorm to get a general concept or theme appropriate for the year.” “We have a very dedicated group of students involved with Student Government each year,” Herbst said. “They take their charges very seriously and work to make services available to students and the UK community.” For more information on the phone directories, contact Marilyn Szczygielski in Communications and Network Systems at 257-2667 regarding information about directory listings or SG at 257-3191 with general questions about the directory or directory distribution. Kimberly Williams toptop
topLCC Dental Hygiene Program holds symposium, alumni gatheringThe Dental Hygiene Program at the UK Lexington Community College had an unforgettable day on Oct. 4. After months of planning, generous contributions from program supporters and a joint effort across the college, LCC hosted a combined continuing education and alumni event that far exceeded anyone's expectations. “With more than 400 graduates, we felt for some time that a 25 year reunion would be a nice idea,” said Larry Chiswell, coordinator of LCC's Dental Hygiene Program. “However, we recognized that to be successful we would need financial support and a special event to attract alumni back to campus.”
The timing of this idea could not have been better. Shortly after presenting the proposal to the advisory committee, Bill Daugherty offered the financial encouragement to support the initial planning, and a timely change in the law provided the special event they needed. Responding to a proposed change in the Kentucky State Dental Practice Act, more than 360 dental hygienists from across the Commonwealth attended LCC's inaugural “Management of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office” symposium at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Lexington. Led and developed by Chiswell, the half-day course satisfied one important requirement of the new law which, with proper processes in place, will allow dental hygienists to provide services to a patient when a dentist is not physically present. Co-sponsored by Procter and Gamble, the course mixed informational talks with case studies and audience participation to provide a valuable session for the attendees. “This is a very important initiative for Kentucky,” Chiswell said. “Dentists, dental hygienists and patients will all benefit from the new law.” Most importantly, Chiswell added, “the new law recognizes hygienists' extensive professional preparation and accords them a greater, and well deserved, professional status.” Later that evening, dental hygiene classmates and their guests from as far back as 1981 reunited at a special banquet in the Hyatt. Approximately 100 people registered for the reunion, some responding from as far as Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Memphis and Arizona. LCC President Jim Kerley and Mary Ann Birch, past president of the Kentucky Board of Dentistry, welcomed the alumni and their guests with remarks about the importance of these events. Melanie Jackson, director of Alumni Affairs, LCC, was also very pleased with the alumni participation. “The good turnout tells me that our alumni feel strong loyalty to LCC and appreciate their experiences while in our program,” Jackson said. Brad Shelton, coordinator of continuing education, added, “We see continuing education specifically directed to our alumni as a strategic priority. Our plan is to use this event as a model to help promote continuing education, alumni relations, individual departments and the College as a whole.” Proceeds from the event will be used by the Dental Hygiene Program to update their equipment and materials for current and future students. Submitted topTIAA-CREF consultants to visit campusMark your calendars! On Dec. 4-5 TIAA-CREF consultants will be available for 15 minute drop-in personal consultations in 113 and 115 Student Center from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Appointments will be held on a first-come first-served basis. To make the most of the counseling session, be sure to bring your pay stub, your quarterly retirement statement, and any other financial statements you would like to discuss. Consultants will be available to discuss such questions as: •How
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