Dear Students & Visitors,

Below are some important dates to note in regard to the

RELOCATION OF SEVERAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS/PERSONNEL.

We thank you for your patience and understanding as we improve to better serve you.

Beginning Thursday, February 2nd, Mr. Chris Hart, Dean, Enrollment Management will be permanently located in ELC, 3^rd floor.

Beginning Monday, February 6^th, Academic Advising will be permanently located in ELC, 2^nd floor.

Beginning Tuesday, February 7^th, Patty Goodman, Director of Admissions and Matt Elder, Associate Director of Admissions, will be located in ELC, 2^nd floor.

Beginning Wednesday, February 8^th, Advancement & Philanthropy will be located in TSAC, 2^nd floor.

Beginning Tuesday, February 14^th, Michelle Reiss, Chair, School of Business and Claire Rayburn, Administrative Assistant, College of Business and Communication, and the eventual Director of the MSBC program, will be located in Mansion West, 1^st floor.

Beginning Wednesday, February 15^th, Financial Aid and Enrollment Services will be located in ELC, third floor and first floor, respectively.

Beginning Thursday, February 16^th, the Registrar and Bursar’s Office will be located in ELC, 3^rd floor.

Beginning Wednesday, February 22^nd, University Admissions and the Switchboard will be located in ELC, 2^nd floor.

Beginning Monday, February 27^th, Student Development & Campus Life will be located in ELC, 3^rd floor.

Beginning Tuesday, March 6^th, Marketing, along with Mike Marshall and Beth Nolte will be located in TSAC, 2^nd floor.

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Next week, many of you will be starting or returning to classes and may need assistance with your portal (http://my.spalding.edu), Spalding email, Blackboard or the new Spalding Moodle. Spalding University’s Information Technology Department provides 24/7 support to Faculty, Staff and Students. Please review the following support options and other helpful information below.

Spalding Portal and General Support
Students who need help accessing the portal, resetting a Spalding password, using email, Web Advisor or Blackboard may visit our Student Help Desk Site or call 1-866-604-5605 (extension 2398 on campus). Faculty and staff may visit the Staff Help Desk at (http://helpdesk.spalding.edu), call extension 2398 or email techsupport@spalding.edu.

Moodle Support
Students and Faculty with Moodle support questions may call 1-866-681-0842, email spaldinguniversityhelpdesk@perceptis.com or do an online chat at https://chat.perceptis.com/c/spalding. Please consult our Moodle brochure http://spalding.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/MoodleBrochureFYI.pdf and review this introductory video http://youtu.be/L5UeL0nLTng.

Technology Discounts

As a member of the Spalding Community you are eligible for a number of discounts on software, computers, cell phones and other technology. Please visit http://spalding.edu/about/technology/purchasing-technology/ for more information.

Campus Printing

If you have not taken advantage of our WEPA Printer Kiosks, please do. Each student (excluding faculty and staff) is given a one-time $4.00 printing credit. You can print from anywhere on campus or from home and pick up your documents at one of the 7 kiosks on campus. We have change the pricing on duplex printing to provide a discount for double sided printing. For more information on printing visit http://spalding.edu/about/technology/campus-printing/.

For any questions you have please visit http://www.spalding.edu/technology or email techsupport@spalding.edu.

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Spalding University’s Festival of Contemporary Writing, the state’s largest fall-spring reading series, will be held November 12-18, featuring readings by faculty, guests, and alumni of Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. All readings are free, ticketless, and open to the public.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the program. A reading at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, November 13, serves as part of the birthday celebration, with reception and cake-cutting to follow.

Festival of Contemporary Writing events will be held at Spalding’s Egan Leadership Center lectorium, located at the corner of Fourth and Breckinridge streets, and at the Brown Hotel (335 W. Broadway) as noted. Plenty of free parking is available for the campus readings. Authors may or may not read from the work listed below.

5:30-6:45 p.m. Saturday, November 12 (ELC Lectorium)

• Helena Kriel (screenwriting), Skin

• John Pipkin (fiction), Woodsburner

• Joyce McDonald (writing for children & young adults), Devil on My Heels

• Randall Horton (poetry), The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street

• Dianne Aprile (nonfiction), The Eye Is Not Enough: On Seeing and Remembering

• Kira Obolensky (playwriting), Raskol

3:30-4:45 p.m. Sunday, November 13 (ELC Lectorium)

This reading is part of the MFA Program’s 10^th anniversary celebration. A reception and cake-cutting follow.

• Silas House, author (with Neela Vaswani) of Same Sun Here

• Maureen Morehead, author of The Melancholy Teacher

• Eric Schmiedl, playwright of Fishing for Something

• Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Adam & Eve

6:00-7:00 p.m. Sunday, November 13. Celebration of Recently Published Books. (ELC Lectorium)

• Lesléa Newman (writing for children & young adults), Donovan’s Big Day

• K. L. Cook (fiction), Love Songs for the Quarantined

• Robert Finch (nonfiction), A Cape Cod Notebook

• Susan Campbell Bartoletti (writing for children & young adults), Naamah and the Ark at Night

Book signing to follow. Books provided by Follett Bookstore at Spalding University

7:30-8:45 p.m. Monday, November 14 (ELC Lectorium)

• Louella Bryant (fiction; nonfiction), Full Bloom; While in Darkness There Is Light

• Kirby Gann (fiction), Our Napoleon in Rags

• Robin Lippincott (fiction), In the Meantime

• Debra Kang Dean (poetry), author of Precipitates

• Roy Hoffman (nonfiction), Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations

• Julie Brickman (fiction), What Birds Can Only Whisper

• Charlie Schulman (playwriting, screenwriting), The Fartiste

5:15-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 15 (ELC Lectorium)

• Philip F. Deaver (fiction), Silent Retreats

• Molly Peacock (poetry, nonfiction) The Second Blush; The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72

• Rachel Harper (fiction), Brass Ankle Blues

• Sam Zalutsky (screenwriting), You Belong to Me

• Eleanor Morse (fiction), An Unexpected Forest

• Luke Wallin (nonfiction), The Everything Guide to Publishing Children’s Books

• Kathleen Driskell (poetry), Seed Across Snow

6:00-7:00 p.m. Friday, November 18, Featured Author (Brown Hotel, Gallery, 16^th floor)

• Gregory Orr, author of The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems and The Blessing: A Memoir

Book signing to follow. Books provided by Carmichael’s Bookstore.

The reading schedule may change without notice. Check the website for updated information: www.spalding.edu/mfa. For more information, call 502-873-4400 or 800-896-8941, ext. 4400 or email mfa@spalding.edu.

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Spalding’s Brief-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Celebrates Its 10th Birthday, Announces Gift

Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program celebrates its 10^th birthday with a party, reading, and announcement of a donor gift at 3:30 p.m. November 13 in the Egan Leadership Center, 901 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

The celebration features 10-minute readings by faculty members: acclaimed Appalachian author Silas House, Kentucky Poet Laureate Maureen Morehead, award-winning playwright Eric Schmiedl, and Program Director Sena Jeter Naslund. Spalding University President Tori Murden McClure, herself an alumna of the MFA program, will make remarks.

Media welcome. McClure, Naslund, House, Morehead, Schmiedl will be available for interviews 3:00-3:30 p.m.

A panel of alumni will speak briefly. Panelists include J. Terry Price (fiction), president of the Spalding MFA alumni association; Frank X. Walker (poetry), author of Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride; Diana M. Raab (creative nonfiction), author of Healing with Words: A Writer’s Cancer Journey, and Kelly Creagh (writing for children and young adults), author of the Nevermore young-adult fantasy trilogy.

In addition, Raab will be recognized for a monetary gift to the program to fund a lecture series beginning in May 2012. Each spring, a major author will be named The Diana M. Raab Distinguished Writer in Residence at Spalding University. The author will present a public lecture at Spalding and meet privately with Spalding MFA students and faculty. The recipient for Spring 2012 is to be announced at a later date. Raab was a member of the Spalding MFA program’s first incoming class in 2001.

A reception and cake-cutting begins at 4:45 p.m. in the Egan lobby. Afterward, guests are invited to stay for the program’s semiannual Celebration of Recently Published Books, featuring Spalding MFA faculty members, beginning at 6:00 p.m. Featured authors include K.L. Cook (Love Songs for the Quarantined, a collection of short stories), Lesléa Newman (Donovan’s Big Day, a picture book), Robert Finch (A Cape Cod Notebook, a collection of essays), and Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Naamah and the Ark at Night, a picture book). Cook, Newman, Finch, and Bartoletti will sign books afterward. Book sales will be handled by Follett Bookstore.

The birthday celebration and readings are free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Parking is available nearby.

WHO:

Tori Murden McClure, M.Div., J.D., M.F.A., President, Spalding University, author of A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean

Sena Jeter Naslund, Ph.D., Program Director, Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program

Silas House, acclaimed Appalachian author and Spalding MFA faculty member

Maureen Morehead, Kentucky Poet Laureate and Spalding MFA faculty member

Eric Schmiedl, award-winning playwright and Spalding MFA faculty member

WHEN: November 13, 2011.

Remarks, gift announcement, and reading at 3:30 p.m. Cake cutting at 4:45. Celebration of Recently Published Books at 6:00 p.m., with book signing to follow. Books provided for sale by Follett Bookstore.

WHERE: Egan Leadership Center, 901 S. Fourth Street.

Free parking is available in Egan Leadership Center lot, off Fourth Street.

WHY: In October 2001, Program Director Sena Naslund and Administrative Director Karen Mann launched the brief-residency MFA in Writing program. It was a nervous time, just a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and Naslund and Mann were uncertain whether the 40 enrolled students would still be willing to board planes to travel—some from as far as California and Alaska—to Spalding, not knowing what the as-yet-untested program would hold. Despite the founders’ concerns, all 40 students and eight faculty members made the trip, coming together for the first of the program’s intensive 10-day residencies. “Our goal was to create a superior, innovative creative writing program of national importance. We wanted the Spalding MFA to be intellectually stimulating and emotionally supportive—a uniquely wonderful place to work and study,” Naslund said.

Since the program launched, the number of low-residency MFA in Writing programs in the U.S. has jumped from five to about fifty, and Poets & Writers magazine has named the Spalding program a Top Ten low-residency MFA in Writing program every year since it began ranking low-residency programs in 2010. In the low-residency model, each semester begins with a residency in which students and faculty come together for workshops, lectures, and other curriculum; students are paired individually with faculty mentors and complete the rest of the semester in independent study conducted at home.

Since the first class entered the program in 2001, the program has quadrupled in size. Current enrollment stands at 167. Screenwriting and playwriting have been added to the original areas of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and writing for children and young adults. In 2007, the program added a summer semester with residency abroad. The program has graduated 381 students from 40 states as well as several foreign countries. Alumni and current students have published or produced more than 240 books, films, and plays.

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The relationship between the Spalding University College of Education and Milburn T. Maupin Elementary is a true partnership in every sense of the word. Since its inception, the College of Education’s faculty, administration and students have worked with the faculty at Maupin to promote academic development in struggling elementary school children through afterschool programs and career-oriented classroom activities that provide real-world application.

“The opportunities for this partnership to grow are limitless…. there are new creative ideas coming forth each and every time that we meet,” says Dr. Keepers, Dean of the College of Education.  “Our mission is to foster student engagement and develop students who will have a life-long love for learning.  At Maupin Elementary, this is definitely possible.”

The Spalding-Maupin partnership exposes Maupin students to a variety of programs related to academic and personal development. Students have designed and assembled hydroplanes, communicated with pen-pals and participated in activities to raise cultural awareness.

“What I have noticed in the three years that we have been [at Maupin] is a growth in the children, the faculty and the overall atmosphere of the whole school,” says Dr. H.A. Hasan, Associate Professor in the College of Education. “The energy has increased. For example, young children today tell me that they want to be surgeons, architects and math specialists. So, at a very early age they are looking on to their future. It’s amazing. When we started, we weren’t hearing that.”

This fall the Spalding University community collected backpacks for students in need, and this winter the university will host a book drive so that every student at Maupin will have a book to read over the holiday break.  According to Terri Davenport, Principal of Maupin, the partnership between Spalding and Maupin has helped her staff to break down the barriers—such as attendance, hunger, lack of school supplies—that stand in the way of a successful education for many of her students.

“The Spalding-Maupin partnership not only has an impact on our students but it has a direct impact on our staff as well,” Dr. Davenport says. “I have staff members that are Spalding graduates. They are prepared they are ready to meet and prepare our students for the future.”

Now, in its third year, the partnership has proven to be just as beneficial to Spalding’s College of Education and the development of its teacher candidates as it has been to the students of Maupin Elementary.

“Over the years, both the university and Maupin have grown in terms of our development, our commitment and our connectedness in preparing the teachers,” says Dr. Rita Greer, Director of the Doctoral Program in the College of Education. “Every college that prepares teachers is looking at the amount of field experience that students get and what they are doing to prepare [teachers candidates] not in the classroom of the university but in the classroom of a real school. We from [Spalding] get the opportunity to come [to Maupin] and actually work in a school that is moving forward, that is very innovative and that is willing to accept our students. We can’t prepare teachers in a vacuum, so working with our partner school gets our students out in to the real world in a very diverse setting.”

Those directly involved with the partnership understand that this type of collaboration has the potential to grow and impact the lives of both parties for years to come, paving the way for educational success of both the students at Maupin and the future educators at Spalding.

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On October 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Spalding University will be the host site for the Louisville Financial Planning Day—a public event where dozens of Louisville-area financial planners will offer free advice on budgeting, retirement planning, income taxes, investment strategies, and more.

The event will feature experts from the Financial Planning Association^® and highly qualified Certified Financial Plannerâ„¢ professionals, all volunteering their time and expertise to work with local residents one-on-one to address important financial issues. In addition to personal conferencing, there will be a series of free, educational finance workshops.

Louisville Financial Planning Day is organized by City of Louisville in partnership with FPA Kentuckiana as part of a national Financial Planning Days initiative created by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Financial Planning Association, Foundation for Financial Planning and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

For more information or to register for free, please visit www.financialplanningdays.org/louisville

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What is 1stGEN+?

1stGEN stands for first generation students … any student whose parents have not graduated from college.

+ is for anyone else who wants to be a part of the group! Everyone is welcomed!!

Grab your lunch and come join us.

Everyone is invited … Students, Faculty, Staff

When:  Tuesday,Sept 20 from

11:40 am—12:20 pm

Where:  Mansion East, room 302

For more info: 873-4164

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Programs in Louisville, Covington, Bowling Green, Lexington, and Owensboro

For an enjoyable activity with lifelong benefits, we
recommend one of our eight different reading skills
programs designed and taught by instructors from the
Institute of Reading Development. Programs are offered as a community
service by Spalding University, Academic Resource Center, a non-profit
organization.

For information, or to enroll online, please select an age group below:

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Poet Randall Horton will join the faculty of the Spalding University brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program as a guest during the program’s Fall 2011 residency, November 11-20. During the ten-day residency, he will co-lead a poetry workshop for MFA students, participate on a panel on the topic of ekphrastic poetry with other faculty members, and give a 10-minute reading during a session of faculty readings. The faculty reading session is open to the public; time, date and location will be announced in October and posted on the Spalding MFA website, /mfa.

As a guest faculty member, Mr. Horton will also deliver a lecture titled “Cultural Memory and The Black Radical Tradition,” exploring a poetics that operates from a position of blackness or the black radical tradition. Using Derrida’s critique of différance and difference and his concept of trace, this lecture will demonstrate how language can resist the dominant narrative of life and literature through the play of language. In the course of this exploration, Mr. Horton will explicate the solo improvisations of Bobby Timmons and Lee Morgan of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the song Monin. The lecture is open to enrolled Spalding MFA students.

Randall Horton has an MFA in Poetry from Chicago State University and a Ph.D. in creative writing from SUNY Albany. He is assistant professor of English at the University of New Haven.  He is the author of two collections of poems: The Definition of Place and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street, both from Main Street Rag. He is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, and most recently a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature.  His creative and critical work has appeared in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, and The Packingtown Review. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and a member of The Symphony: The House that Etheridge Built.

Spalding University’s four-semester, brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program combines superb instruction with unparalleled flexibility and offers studies in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, writing for children and young adults, screenwriting, and playwriting. At the beginning of each semester, students and faculty study together at a 10-day residency in Louisville or abroad, after which students return home to work with their expert mentors in guided independent study that provides an intense, individually tailored approach and one-on-one instruction.

Spalding University was established in 1814 and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The MFA Program is a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). The MFA program began in 2001 and has 363 alumni and 155 students. Its students and alums have published or produced more than 200 books/plays/films.

For more information about the Fall 2011 residency or the Spalding University MFA in Writing Program, please email mfa@spalding.edu, call (800) 896-8941, ext 4400, or visit /mfa.

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The 2011 Commencement exercises will take place at the Canaan Christian Church located at 2840 Hikes Lane on Saturday, June 4 at 10:00 a.m.  Graduates check-in at 8:30 a.m. and line-up by 9:00 a.m.

Each graduate will be allotted 4 guest tickets for seating on the first floor and balcony of the church sanctuary. Additional seating for other guests will be available in satellite areas with video monitors.  Families with small children are requested to use the satellite/video viewing areas.

Wheel chair and scooter-accessible space for guests with tickets is available on a limited basis within the direct viewing area in the sanctuary.  We ask that you contact us in advance to reserve one of these spaces.

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