The broadcast of tonight's Auburn-West Virginia game has been relocated to the 2nd floor of the Student Center because of impending weather. The event, sponsored by the UPC and SGA, will feature free food starting at 5:30 p.m. Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m. Come watch the game on the big screen with lots of other Auburn fans!
All students, staff and faculty need to be aware of emergency procedures in the event of a tornado warning. When a tornado warning is issued, you should IMMEDIATELY take shelter in the nearest safe location and stay in the shelter area until the warning expires. Classes are suspended for the duration of the warning.
After hours, there are designated severe weather shelters in each residence hall for students living on campus. Students living off campus are encouraged to have a plan for where they will go during a tornado watch and warning. For students who live in mobile homes or who do not have a safe location to shelter off campus, Greene Hall at the College of Veterinary Medicine and the RBD Library will be open if a tornado watch is issued. Students are encouraged to stay in close proximity to a safe location (on or off campus) when a watch is issued so that they can immediately shelter in the event of a warning.
Please read more about severe weather procedures on the AU emergency management website (www.auburn.edu/emergency).
Due to severe weather, the Auburn University campus will close at 11 a.m. today. Employees may leave, unless your position is essential to emergency operations. Please monitor the weather and visit www.auburn.edu for updates. It is encouraged that you shelter in place if weather turns severe.
Auburn University will award 1,195 academic degrees at its summer commencement ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, in Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum. Of the degrees Auburn will award, 840 are bachelor's degrees, 265 are master's degrees, 86 are doctorates, two are specialist degrees and two are professional degrees. The College of Liberal Arts will award the most undergraduate degrees with 281, followed by the College of Business with 212. The Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the College of Human Sciences will each award 76 degrees. The College of Architecture, Design and Construction will award 67 degrees, the College of Education 49, the College of Sciences and Mathematics 44, the College of Agriculture 30, and the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences five. The ceremony can be viewed live at www.auburn.edu/graduationlive. The broadcast begins at 1:45 p.m. Auburn has awarded more than 210,000 degrees at it main campus since its founding as East Alabama Male College in 1856.
Auburn University Photographic Services is offering Graduation Portraits Aug. 6 and 7. Portraits will be taken in the Photographic Services studio studio located at 104 Foy Student Union. Caps, gowns, tassels and folders are provided if you choose to use them. Hoods and other honors accessories are NOT provided. Photographs can also be taken in your choice of attire (one outfit per package). Please note that retouching will not be available for your initial package.
Each package includes one 5x7 and four wallets of each background (portrait, Samford Hall & bookcase background). For $29.95 (plus tax) you'll receive a total of three 5x7's and twelve wallets. Payment is expected at the time of your appointment (Cash, checks, Visa, MasterCard and Tiger Club cards.) Call (334) 844-4560, 844-4286 or come by Photographic Services at 104 Foy Student Union for more information.
The Auburn University Athletics Department has launched the Auburn Olympic Web site at http://auburntigers.cstv.com/ot/olympians.html. The page includes biographies of Auburn's 25 athletes and coaches participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Also available is a schedule of events denoting when Auburn athletes are competing, a listing of Auburn's all-time Olympic competitors and a listing of Auburn's all-time medalists. A PDF version of the Auburn Olympic media guide also is available on the page. For more information, contact Matt Crouch at mcrouch@auburn.edu.
Tiger Transit will suspend normal operations May 8-21. The night security shuttle will suspend operations May 11-15. During the semester break May 8-21, Tiger Transit will operate only the stadium deck bus to Haley Center Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Limited transportation to and from graduation ceremonies at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum on May 10 will be provided by Tiger Transit from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Transportation may be obtained from either the stadium parking deck and/or the Credit Union/Max Morris parking lot. Summer operations begin May 21 with limited service 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Effective May 22, the regular daytime routes will operate 7 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The external Night Transit will operate 5-8 p.m., Monday through Friday. The night security shuttle van service begins summer operations May 15 and operates 6 p.m.-7 a.m., Monday through Sunday. Beginning May 15, passengers must call 844-7400 to obtain night security shuttle van service. The name of the Magnolia Extension route has changed to Old Row-West Parking. Service on the Hill-West Parking and Haley-West Parking routes will be suspended during the summer semester. Passengers should also note the following realignment of bus stops for the East University, South Auburn and South College routes. The Southern Edge stop is now serviced by South College, and The Edge Apartment is serviced by the South Auburn route. The Edge and Research Park bus stop is located to the rear of the apartment complex on DeVall next to the Auburn University Research Park Building 1. For the most current route information, go to the Tiger Transit Web site at www.auburn.edu/administration/parking_transit/transit/.
AU Recycling will hold PaperJam '08 on the Haley Center concourse and Roosevelt concourse May 2, 5 and 7 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. each day. You know how you always have a ton of notes at the end of the semester that you'll never need again? AU Recycling has decided to try to capture some of that paper before it hits the landfills. They also will be collecting any unwanted notebooks and binders.
To the Auburn University Community:
Last week, the Board of Trustees hosted a day-long workshop to discuss Auburn University’s strategic plan. Faculty and student representatives of Auburn’s main campus and the Montgomery campus attended, and we had an open, positive, and participatory dialogue.
The Board identified six overarching priority areas for the next draft, beneath which the 62 tactics from the original draft will be organized and prioritized. The areas include academics, research, extension/outreach, faculty development, financial resources, and continuous improvement. None of the original tactics were eliminated at this point. In fact, several ideas were added.
Our next step is to establish prioritized actions, timelines, measurement benchmarks, responsibility areas, and estimated costs of the recommendations and submit the expanded draft to the Board at the June 26-27 meeting.
Of special note is that all present agreed that the plan, while moving us forward, will also protect our considerable strengths: Auburn has been a top 50 public institution for 15 years in a row; we have 20 programs ranked in the top 20 nationally; we have engaged alumni who carry their love for the Auburn family throughout the world; we’ve been among the first institutions in the country to conduct national assessments which reveal that our students – who are already extremely bright when they arrive as freshmen – make substantial gains in knowledge by the time they graduate; our junior faculty identify Auburn as an ideal place to work; and 96% of our alumni say if they had to choose all over again, they would choose Auburn.
Such strengths provide an outstanding foundation upon which to continue.
We look forward to sharing further plans with you this summer. Thank you for your interest in, participation in, and support of this planning process.
Sincerely,
Jay Gogue
President
Auburn University
Welcome Week 2008 will be held August 16-23. Welcome Week is a way to welcome AU’s new and returning students to campus fall semester. If interested in sponsoring a program or event during Welcome Week 2008 please fill out an event request form on the Welcome Week Web site at www.auburn.edu/welcomeweek. Event requests are due Friday, May 30 by 4:45 p.m. For more information, call or e-mail Michelle Murphy at 844-5292 or murphmi@auburn.edu.
In addition to regular operating hours, the Auburn University Bookstore will be open the following hours:
Saturday, May 3, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (Finals, first final begins at 9 a.m.) and Saturday, May 10, 8 a.m.-2:15 p.m. (Graduation, ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., cap and gown distribution begins at 8 a.m.)
Auburn faculty, staff and students should mark their calendars for Thursday, April 24, at 4 p.m. for the formal installation of Jay Gogue as the university's 18th president. The half-hour ceremony will take place on the Cater Hall lawn. In the event of rain, the installation will move to the Foy Student Union ballroom on Friday, April 25, at 9 a.m. The entire campus community is invited to attend. For those who cannot attend in person, the ceremony will be streamed on the Web at www.auburn.edu/installation.
The play, "Little Shop of Horrors," will continue at the Telfair Peet Theatre April 15-19. Audrey II, the infamous bloodthirsty plant, pays a visit to the Auburn University theatre in this spring production. The popular rock musical is based on the 1960 Roger Corman cult movie of the same name. The musical boasts music by Alan Menken and lyrics and the book by Howard Ashman, the duo who created other memorable characters including Ariel in "The Little Mermaid" and Belle in "Beauty and the Beast." For more information, see http://media.cla.auburn.edu/theatre/.
Tim Dodge, reference librarian and history subject specialist at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, will speak on the influence of gospel music on early rock and roll at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the RBD Library. Using a combination of lecture and brief samples of recordings, Dodge will trace the multifaceted and sometimes surprising connections between the sacred and profane worlds of gospel music and early rock and roll. Dodge holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of New Hampshire and a master's degree in library science from Columbia University. As "Dr. Hepcat," he hosts the Golden Oldies show on WEGL FM 91.1 from 5-7 p.m. on Fridays. His lecture at AU is part of the Discover Auburn series that is cosponsored by the Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and the Auburn University Bookstore. A reception will follow the program. For more information, call 844-4946.
The Auburn University Women’s Resource Center and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs will host a one-day Women’s Leadership Conference Tuesday, April 8, in room 217 of Foy Student Union. The theme for the second annual conference is “Acting Locally, Thinking Globally.” The mission of the conference is to promote the development of leadership skills, provide information about important issues affecting women’s lives and promote women’s active involvement in their communities, countries and in the world. Opening remarks will be presented by Susie Gogue. Keynote speakers will be Sally Jones Hill, alumna of the College of Liberal Arts, and Christa Slaton, associate dean of education affairs in the College of Liberal Arts. Lauren Hayes, president of the Student Government Association and Alison Penuel, president of Delta Gamma sorority, will also speak.
Workshop topics will include financial management, body image, stress management, balancing work and personal life, sustainability, networking and philanthropy, women’s rights and health issues, violence against women and civic engagement. The conference will close with a panel of student activists who will address current issues that impact women and identify ways that students can become actively engaged in social issues.
The conference will also have a dedication ceremony in memory of Auburn student Lauren Burk who died tragically in March. The conference is open to the public, but seating is limited. To register for the conference or for more information, contact Angela Tickle at ticklan@auburn.edu or Latoya Harris at harril3@auburn.edu.
Cap and Gown orders are currently being taken in the AU Bookstore located in the Haley Center. The deadline to reserve regalia was April 4. Students who miss the deadline may still be able to reserve regalia for another week. The price is $32 for Bachelors degree, $52 for Masters and $57 for Doctorates. Please call the bookstore at 844-4241 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to reserve regalia. When contacting the AU Bookstore, please have head measurement, measurement of where a baseball cap would fit to nearest ½ inch and credit card information available. The bookstore does not keep regalia on hand so students must rent it to guarantee having it available for graduation.
Student Government Association Elections is one of the largest events on campus and provides students with the opportunity to develop skills in event planning, logistics and the elections process. In addition, elections provide an opportunity to interact with highly qualified candidates for Auburn elections. Applications for Assistant Director of Elections and Elections Board are now available in the SGA office in 332 Foy Student Union or on the SGA Web site, www.auburn.edu/sga. The Assistant Director of Elections application is due in the SGA office by 5 p.m. Monday, April 14 and the Elections Board application is due in the SGA office by 5 p.m. Monday, April 21. Interviews will be held at separate times for each position. For more information, visit www.auburn.edu/sga or email hartwil@auburn.edu.
The Auburn University Sustainability Initiative invites faculty and advanced graduate students to participate in the third Auburn University Sustainability in the Curriculum Workshop, May 12-13. Based on a nationally recognized model, the workshop offers an intellectually stimulating and collegial experience for faculty across the range of disciplines at Auburn. Please register by April 11. For more information please visit the workshop Web site at http://www.auburn.edu/projects/sustainability/Fallline.php.
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