In recent years, college campuses have witnessed an increase in violence through technology, thereby adding an additional area for coordinated community response teams (CCRT) to recognize and respond to with intervention and prevention efforts. Emerging technologies pose a challenge for victim safety, privacy, and confidentiality. The webinar will provide practical information about safety risks and the benefits of several technologies.

Please join the ingenious knights and captivating ladies of Barbara Miller's senior seminar on Cervantes's Don Quixote for a student colloquium. Class members will present and discuss their original analyses of the novel, Tuesday, May 11, at 5:40 p.m. in Bishop Hall 125 (the Modern and Classical Languages Seminar Room). This intimate symposium-style event will include light refreshment during question-and answer-segments. Presentations will be given in the language of Cervantes. All interested members of the campus community are welcome.

Relationship violence is the most common form of violence in women’s lives. It is estimated that 21 percent of college students report violence in a current relationship and 32 percent experienced violence in a previous relationship. These workshops will provide information giving counselors, health care workers, police officers, residence life staff, judicial board members, and others a better understanding of relationship violence, how it affects our students, and effective ways to help students in abusive relationships to evaluate their risk and develop strategies to protect themselves from the violence.

Immediate feedback enhances students’ opportunities to learn and can help avoid the formation of misconceptions about the content. Engage in an immediate feedback technique featuring IF-AT forms. Discuss multiple classroom uses for this technique. Receive practical hints for using the forms effectively during instruction. Use the accompanying software to create sample questions. You are welcome to bring your own laptop if you would like to download the software and save your sample files. All interested participants will receive IF-AT forms for use in an upcoming class. Join workshop leader Sue McMillen, Tuesday, May 25, from 9:00 to 11:45 a.m. in Bulger Communication Center N2B.

Father Pat, director of Catholic Campus Ministry, welcomes all faculty, staff, and students to join him on Thursday, May 13, the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, for Mass on campus at 12:05 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 208 or at 6:00 p.m. at the Newman Center Chapel, 1219 Elmwood Avenue. All are welcome.

The Student Personnel Administration Department and graduate program would like to announce several student achievements for summer 2010:

The CDHS Health Fair for faculty and staff will be held on Tuesday, September 14, in E. H. Butler Library 210 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We will have displays and information, health screenings, and group discussions. Refreshments will be served. If you are interested in attending, please call (716) 885-4309 to R.S.V.P. by September 8.

Online registration for Commencement marchers and volunteer ushers is now closed. Marchers with new registrations or changes to their existing registrations should contact Patricia Alessandra in the Academic and Student Affairs Office at ext. 5902. Volunteer ushers with additions or changes should contact Marybeth Wojtaszek in the Events Management Office at ext. 6114.

Learn how to set up data files, create variables, and analyze data using SPSS. We will apply basic statistical procedures to illustrate how SPSS can be a valuable tool in the analysis of data. This class assumes a basic understanding of statistics. If you have data, or plan to collect data, but are unsure what to do next, this workshop is for you! Join workshop leader Howard Reid on Tuesday, May 25, from12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 316.

The Graduate School will be hosting a New Student Orientation program for new graduate students accepted into the summer semester on Monday, May 24, 2010, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. (pre-registration begins at 4:15 p.m.) in the Bulger Communication Center.