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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
SUNY Fredonia will enter its annual energy-saving, year-end shutdown period at the close of business on Friday, Dec. 21. With the exception of a few offices, all buildings, services and operations across the campus will be curtailed until Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008.
Assistant Professor Jill Marshall of the College of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction provided a curricular change to the graduate course, Issues and Trends in Elementary Social Studies Education, which benefitted local social studies teachers.
Chairpersons Raymond Rushboldt and Martha Smith have announced that SUNY Fredonia’s goal of $43,000 for the State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) has been met and exceeded with a new recording in giving.
STEPS, a student organization at SUNY Fredonia, hosted Chautauqua County’s first annual AIDS walk recently, raising over $6,200 as well as campus and community awareness of the AIDS pandemic in Africa.
Moog Music, Inc. has donated a Theremin to the Department of Communication at SUNY Fredonia through the efforts of Communication/Audio-Radio major Christopher Rosebrough.
On Friday, Dec. 7, volunteers swept the SUNY Fredonia campus collecting donations for the annual effort to benefit the local agencies of the Holiday Caregivers Coalition.
A local holiday tradition continues Saturday, Dec. 8, as the Women’s Choir of the State University of New York at Fredonia presents the 21st Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at 8 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Fredonia, located at 25 Church St. in the village.
President Dennis Hefner and the SUNY Fredonia Convocation Committee have announced the 2008-2009 Convocation theme: “Human Rights: With Liberty and Justice for All?”
More than 125 people at SUNY Fredonia, including many first-timers, generously rolled up their sleeves in late November to donate blood to the American Red Cross.
SUNY Fredonia professor of philosophy, Dr. Dale Tuggy, will present the lecture, “Apparently Contradictory Religious Beliefs,” as part of the university’s Brown Bag Lecture series on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at noon in Williams Center Room S-104.