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SGA Meetings
Student Fee Proposal Meetings Next fall SGA meeting Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:30 am-12:30 pm SSCB Lecture Hall Rm 1.100.03 Student Orgs: Attendance will be counted.
Small, in-depth group seminar for those choosing a major, changing careers, or setting future career goals by Career and Counseling Services. Open to everyone. $30 for UHCL students. Requires intake appt. See CEW, 281.283.2590
CEW 2009 Fall Schedule
Fall Workshop 1 Sat, Sep 12, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Sat, Sep 19, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Fall Workshop 2 Fri, Oct 16, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Fri, Oct 23, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Fall Workshop 3 Fri, Nov 6, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Fri, Nov 13, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Fall Workshop 4 Sat, Dec 5, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Sat, Dec 12, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Cost: $25.00 Eligibility: Available to current UHCL students, faculty and staff. Recipients should not have an allergy to eggs, and no fever in the last 24 hours. A pregnant woman must have a written note from her Obstetrician.
Film Festival: The Tournées Festival Time: TBA, Location TBA The Tournées Festival, a program of the French American Cultural Exchange, brings new French films to universities. Film selections, locations, dates, times and ticket prices will be announced shortly. Join us for the best of new French cinema! Sponsors: French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Centre National de la Cinématographie, the Grand Marnier Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, Highbrow Entertainment, the Franco-American Cultural Fund (Directors Guild of America, Motion Picture Association, SACEM & Writers Guild of America) and Student Life's Film and Speaker Series Contact: Sonia Hernandez, 281-283-2560
Student Conference: 13th Annual Student Leadership Conference Schedule. See website for details. Registration required. Free for UHCL Students. Join us again this year and be inspired by our keynote speaker, participate in a variety of interest sessions that explore the many facets of leadership, and unlock the creativity that is key to your success. Sponsor: Student Life Student Leadership, Involvement & Community Engagement (SLICE) Contact: Jennifer Clark, 281.283.2611 or ClarkJen@uhcl.edu
Twogether in Texas: Marriage and Relationship Workshop Registration Deadline
Workshop: Saturday, Nov 14, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, SSCB 2311
Free. Open to all couples who are seriously dating, engaged, or recently married.
Registration required by Nov 7: Contact Julie Smith, smithj@uhcl.edu, 281.281.2578 to register
Learn the skills for a lasting relationship; effective communication, managing stress and anger, and supporting each other. Lunch provided.
Sponsor: Family Services of Greater Houston's Twogether in Texas
Contact: IISS Julie Smith, smithj@uhcl.edu, 281.281.2578
Sunday, November 8
Film Festival: UN SECRET/A Secret 3:00 pm, SSCB Lecture Hall 1.100.03 Open to all. Cost $3.75 On his fifteenth birthday a family friend tells Francois a shattering truth - tying his family's past to the Holocaust - that may enable him to develop his own sense of self. Until then, the secret had lain silent, known only to a few, including his mother Tania, his father Maxime and lifelong family friend Louise. Sponsor and Contact: Student Life, 281.283.2560
Wish Tree Program Open to All. The Intercultural & International Student Services (IISS) Office in correlation with the Salvation Army will be sponsoring the Wish Tree Program on the UHCL Campus. Stop by the IISS Office starting November 9th to pick-up a wish list of a disadvantaged child or senior citizen. Gifts need to be brought back to the IISS Office by December 2nd. Celebrate this season of giving by participating in the Wish Tree Program! Sponsor: Intercultural and International Student Services Contact: Susana Hernandez, hernandezsu@uhcl.edu, 281.283.2565
Tuesday, November 10
SGA
Student Fee Proposal- Presentations 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, SSCB Lecture Hall Open to all. Members of the UH-Clear Lake community will present fee increases to the SGA Council and other constituencies. ALL students are encouraged to attend this important meeting. Questions from the students will be entertained. Come and voice your concerns. Your school! Your voice! Your money! Sponsor: Student Government Association (SGA) Contact: SGA Executive Council sga@uhcl.edu, 281-283-2556
NSLS Live Videoconference: Me to We: How to Find Meaning in a Material World Presenter: Marc Kielburger 6:00 - 7:00pm, SSCB Lecture Hall Free. Open to all. Registration required. Co-author of three bestselling books, Marc Kielburger is a man with a message people around the world want to hear. Marc began his lifelong journey of volunteerism and global action as a pre-teen, and has been building momentum since. As the Chief Executive Director of Free the Children, Mark continues to expand the ways in which he and the company he spearheads empower youth around the world. Sponsor: Student Life Student Leadership, Involvement & Community Engagement (SLICE) Contact: Jennifer Clark, 281.283.2611 or ClarkJen@uhcl.edu
Wednesday, November 11
NSLS Encore Videoconference: Me to We: How to Find Meaning in a Material World Presenter: Marc Kielburger 12:00 noon - 1:30pm, Bayou 1313 Free. Open to all. Registration required. Co-author of three bestselling books, Marc Kielburger is a man with a message people around the world want to hear. Marc began his lifelong journey of volunteerism and global action as a pre-teen, and has been building momentum since. As the Chief Executive Director of Free the Children, Mark continues to expand the ways in which he and the company he spearheads empower youth around the world. Sponsor: Student Life Student Leadership, Involvement & Community Engagement (SLICE) Contact: Jennifer Clark, 281.283.2611 or ClarkJen@uhcl.edu
Thursday, November 12
Workshop: Leadership Training Day Programs 4:00 am - 7:00 pm, SSCB 1.202.07 Free. Open to all. Registration required. Leadership Training Days Leadership Training Day is an exciting experience because it offers students an opportunity to hear a number of outstanding excerpts from various videoconferences from the National Society of Leadership and Success, as well as providing interactive exercises to get students to experience the points being made. Sponsor: Student Life Student Leadership, Involvement & Community Engagement (SLICE) Contact: Jennifer Clark, 281.283.2611 or ClarkJen@uhcl.edu
Class Ring Days with Herff-Jones 3:00 -7:00 pm, outside Bookstore, Bayou 1206 Herff-Jones Representatives will be available to help you with your class ring decisions and orders. Contact: Bookstore
Friday, November 13
Workshop: Leadership Training Day Programs 9:00 am - noon, SSCB 1.202.07 Free. Open to all. Registration required. Leadership Training Days Leadership Training Day is an exciting experience because it offers students an opportunity to hear a number of outstanding excerpts from various videoconferences from the National Society of Leadership and Success, as well as providing interactive exercises to get students to experience the points being made. Sponsor: Student Life Student Leadership, Involvement & Community Engagement (SLICE) Contact: Jennifer Clark, 281.283.2611 or ClarkJen@uhcl.edu
Film Festival: LE FILS DE L’ÉPICIER/The Grocer’s Son 7:00 pm, SSCB Lecture Hall 1.100.03 Open to all. Cost $3.75 When Antoine offers to lend money to Claire, his best and only friend, he is far from imagining where his promise will lead him. Because Antoine doesn’t in fact have any money. At 30 years of age, he drifts from one dead-end job and disaster to the next. In order to keep his promise, he has no other choice than to agree to cover for his father, a travelling grocer, who is in a convalescent home recovering after a heart attack. Sponsor and Contact: Student Life, 281.283.2560
Monday, November 16
IISS: Global Expo noon - 5:00 pm, Bayou Atrium II Open to all. Free. Be exposed to the world through a series of exhibits presenting a unique view of various countries, cultures, traditions, and customs around the globe. Enjoy native clothing, artifacts, music, food and more! Sponsors: Intercultural and International Student Services Contact: Susana Hernandez, hernandezsu@uhcl.edu, SSCB 1.203, 281-283-2575
Student Fee Proposal Meeting - Show of Support or Non-Support 11:30am - 12:30pm, SSCB Lecture Hall 1.100.03 Open to All. Members of the UHCL community will recap fee increase presentations to the SGA Council and other constituencies. ALL students are encouraged to attend this important meeting. Questions from the students will be entertained at this meeting and show of support or non-support from the students present will be taken. Come and voice your concerns. Your school! Your voice! Your money! Sponsor: www.uhcl.edu/SGA Contact: SGA Executive Council sga@uhcl.edu 281-283-2556
Workshop: Manage Your Time, Don’t Let Time Manage You! Presenters: Jennifer Clark and Tiffany Shaw 5:30 - 7:30 pm, SSCB Lecture Hall, room 1100 Open to all. Do you find there just isn’t enough time in your day or week to get everything done that you want to get done? Where does the time go? This workshop will help you identify what traps might be wasting your time and diminishing your productivity, and help you learn better ways to avoid those traps and increase productivity and improve your sense of self. Sponsor: Student Life's Student Leadership Institute Contact: Student Life, 281.281.2560
Tuesday, November 17 - Wednesday, November 18
Vagina Monologues Auditions 5:00 – 8:00 pm, Student Org. Room, SSCB Free. Open to All females. The Vagina Monologues is a powerful play designed to empower women and bring awareness to the plights of women around the world. It is a part of the international VDAY Campaign to stop violence against women and girls. The play will be held on February 19, 2010. Sponsor: Intercultural and International Student Services Contact: Julie Smith 281-283-2578 or smithj@uhcl.edu
Wednesday, November 18 Untitled Document
IISS Voices of Colour: Making it in a Man's World Speaker: Mrs. Nandita Berry, UH System Board of Regent member and Senior Counsel at Locke Lord Bissell and Liddell, LLP noon - 1:00 pm, Bayou Garden Room Open to all. Free. RSVP requested to smithj@uhcl.edu Desiring to inspire and empower women, Mrs. Berry shares her insight and journey to success as senior counsel in a renowned law firm and her governor-appointed seat on the Board of Regents. Sponsor: Intercultural and International Student Services, 281.283.2575 Contact: Julie Smith, smithj@uhcl.edu, 281.283.2578
Open Mic
Open Mic Poetry Reading 5:00 -6:30 pm, SSCB Cappuccino Bono (1st floor off plaza) Free. Open to all. Read your own work or someone else's. Or, just sit and enjoy. Hosts: Dr. Stephen "Arch" Erich, Dr. John Gorman, and Dr. Shreerekha Subramania. Contact: Dr. Shreerekha Subramania, 281.283.3430
Thursday, November 19
Transgender Day of Remembrance noon – 1:00 pm, Garden Room Free. Open to All. Transgender Day of Remembrance is a nationally recognized day created to honor the memory of those members of the transgender community who have been killed by hate and ignorance. This day is also meant to bring awarenss to the magnitude of the violence and the need for more inclusive hate crime laws. Our speakers will speak to both purposes. Sponsor: Intercultural and International Student Services Contact: Julie Smith 281-283-2578 or smithj@uhcl.edu
Workshop: The Stress Factor (Stress Management) Presenter: Ron Klinger, UHCL Human Resources 10 :00am - noon, SSCB 2310 Open to All. This session will test your limits, not in fear, but in stress. What are your breaking points? How do you handle stress when it enters into your everyday life? You will walk away a winner as you battle your own “Stress Factors”. Sponsor: Student Life's Student Leadership Institute Contact: Student Life, 281.281.2560
Vagina Monologues Auditions 1:30 – 3:30 pm, Student Org. Room, SSCB Free. Open to All females. The Vagina Monologues is a powerful play designed to empower women and bring awareness to the plights of women around the world. It is a part of the international VDAY Campaign to stop violence against women and girls. The play will be held on February 19, 2010. Sponsor: Intercultural and International Student Services Contact: Julie Smith 281-283-2578 or smithj@uhcl.edu
Saturday, November 21
Film Festival: ENTRE LES MURS/The Class 7:00 pm, SSCB Lecture Hall 1.100.03 Open to all. Cost $3.75 French director Laurent Cantet's THE CLASS is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year. François Begaudeau--an actual teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based--is utterly convincing as François, an openminded teacher in charge of a classroom of youngsters from a wide variety of backgrounds. Sponsor and Contact: Student Life, 281.283.2560
Monday, November 30 - Tuesday, December 22
World AIDS Day Art Contest All day, Level II Atrium II Bayou Building Free. Open to All. Preregistration: We are limited by space to 20 pieces - please reserve your space with Julie Smith. Submissions due by Monday, November 23 The theme for the contest is "Universal Access and Human Rights". Art must be 2 dimensional and equipped for hanging; dimensions not to exceed 20' x 24' (including framing). The purpose of World AIDS Day is to raise money, increase awareness, fight prejudice, and improve education. Awareness is cruicial to the fight against this disease and this contest was created to raise awareness on campus. Sponsor: Intercultural and International Student Services Contact: Julie Smith 281-283-2578 or smithj@uhcl.edu
Thursday, December 3
Finals Prep Zone Open to all. Free. 3:00 - 7:00 pm, Bayou Atrium II and B1135 Come relieve some stress before finals week with a massage, make your own stress ball, yoga moves, a zen garden, and comfort food. Sponsor: Student Life Office Contact: Dana Chitty, chitty@uhcl.edu, 281-283-2560
Saturday, December 5
Film: District 9 Speaker: TBA 7:00 pm, SSCB Lecture Hall. Cost: $3.75. Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction classic. Rich in metaphor, District 9, examines many ideas such as notions of community, social justice, culture and assimilation. Sponsors: University Advancement and Student Life's Film and Speaker Series Contact: Sonia Hernandez, 281-283-2560
Sunday, December 6
Film: District 9 Speaker: TBA 3:00 pm, SSCB Lecture Hall Cost: $3.75 Technically brilliant and emotionally wrenching, District 9 has action, imagination, and all the elements of a thoroughly entertaining science-fiction classic. Rich in metaphor, District 9, examines many ideas such as notions of community, social justice, culture and assimilation. Sponsors: Student Life's Film and Speaker Series Contact: Sonia Hernandez, 281-283-2560
Monday, December 7 - Friday, December 11
Bookstore
Cash for Books Bookstore, Bayou 1206 Contact: Bookstore
Saturday, December 19
Fall 2009 Commencement Reliant Arena, Houston, TX 10:00 am: Human Sciences and Humanities, Science and Computer Engineering 3:00 pm: School of Education, School of Business Sponsor and Contact: Academic Records, www.uhcl.edu/records
If you require an accommodation for a specific disability to participate in an event, contact the sponsoring department, organization or office at least one week prior to the date of the event.
