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Seeking Feedback on the AVP of Facilities Candidates
The Search Committee seeks constructive feedback from the campus community as it relates to the candidate’s qualifications for the Associate Vice President of Facilities and Business Services position. The three candidates are:
Charles Roberts – Interviewed Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Brian Wilcox – Interviewed Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Daniel Papay – Interviewed Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Please complete the survey by July 24, 2020 at https://tntech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PT8Xl7PVBytZzL
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Tennessee Tech Today this week
Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_7-17-20.mp3
This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes provost Lori Bruce discussing her lecture that reached more than 14,000 students and faculty world-wide; and, Tennessee Tech alum Scott Stallings talks about life on the PGA Tour, his mentor Bobby Nichols and a life-changing physical transformation.
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Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Training Program
Fostering diversity and cultivating inclusion is a core value of Tennessee Tech. The Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program is designed to provide employees with the knowledge and skills to help Tennessee Tech achieve our diversity goals and create an inclusive environment for everyone. This program will also provide employees with the skills to foster inclusive excellence in all they do.
The certificate program is an 8-week virtual program that partners with colleagues across campus. Each participant will be awarded a certificate, recognized in Tech Times, receive a specialty item, and invited to the Scholars luncheon. Participants must be able to devote a minimum of 2-3 hours a week for 8-weeks to complete the program and have supervisor approval to participate in the full program.
The next class starts August 3, 2020.
For more information and to register for the program visit: https://www.tntech.edu/hr/training/dei_training.php
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Congratulations to those who earned externally funded awards in June
The following individuals earned externally funded awards last month:
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- Jeff Boles (PI) and Jeremy Wendt (Co-PI): National Science Foundation
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- Adam Holley (PI): National Science Foundation
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- Martha Kosa (PI): Private Agency
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- Satish Mahajan (PI): Oak Ridge National Lab
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- Ambareen Siraj (PI): Private Agency
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- Daniel VandenBerge (PI): Private Agency
- Liqun Zhang (PI): Private Agency
Please visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php for more information.
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Dinner with Dean Zagumny
Greetings College of Education Alumni!
Please join us for “Dinner with the Dean.”
Monday, July 27 | 6:00-6:30 p.m. (central)
Held in the comfort of your own home via Zoom! Prepare your favorite dish while your host, Dean Lisa Zagumny, prepares hers, and dishes on updates and good news about the College of Education!
For more information, please email education@tntech.edu
or call 931-372-3124.
For planning purposes, please register via the button below by
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Steam and Hot Water Outage Wednesday, July 15
There will be no hot water or steam on campus Wednesday, July 15. Steam will be off from midnight until late Wednesday afternoon. This is necessary to connect equipment in the central steam plant. Wednesday was selected to minimize impact to SOAR activities.
Natural gas and electric water heaters will continue to operate at Tech Village, New Hall North, Southwest Hall, RUC (for food service only), East Stadium, West Stadium, APC, Foundation Hall, Hooper Eblen and Fitness Center.
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Volunteers Needed for PPE Distribution
If you are interested in volunteering to help distribute PPE on campus to students and your department will approve you to help, please sign up here: https://signup.com/go/xnAjErL
Masks, along with personal bottles of hand sanitizer, will be distributed on:
• Thursday, Aug. 20
• Friday, Aug. 21
• Monday, Aug. 24 (first day of classes)The following distribution centers will be located across campus to provide easy access to students:
• Memorial Gym
• Roaden University Center Multipurpose Room
• Volpe Library, Information Desk
• Hooper Eblen Center Concourse
• Bryan Fine Arts LobbyQueues at the distribution sites should incorporate proper social distancing (6 feet apart).
Distributors will be expected to wear masks during their volunteer shift.
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Counseling Center Virtual Open House
Join the TN Tech Counseling Center for a summer virtual open house via Instagram Live on July 15, July 29, August 5, and August 19 @tntechcounsel. For more information, please contact the counseling center at 372-3331.
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TCRI Receives $300,000 CARES Act Grant
The Center for Rural Innovation (TCRI) has received a $300,000 CARES Act grant through the federal Economic Development Administration (EDA). The grant will establish the TCRI CARES project, which will respond to economic injury as a result of coronavirus in the rural Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. The project will help 200 local businesses, create 20 student internships, broadcast 50 interactive community Zoom calls, and produce a monthly PBS television series. “This project will help our region’s entrepreneurs survive and thrive throughout the pandemic and beyond through a comprehensive approach to technical assistance, commercialization, applied research, and workforce development,” said Michael Aikens, the TCRI CARES director and PI. Read the official EDA press release here https://eda.gov/news/press-releases/2020/07/10/cookeville-tn.htm
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Access Health & Safety Signs for Your Area
Campus signage designed for the health and safety prevention of COVID-19 is now available for download. You may download and print the standard signs for your area. Custom signage is also available. https://www.tntech.edu/return/signage.php
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Tennessee Tech Today this week
Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_7-10-20.mp3
This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes David Mullinax, director of campus recreation, discussing the opening of the Marc L. Burnett Fitness and Recreation Center and Golden Eagle head football coach Dewayne Alexander talking about how COVID-19 has impacted the Tech football team.
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Virtual Engineering a Future Camp for Girls
Virtual Engineering a Future Camp Activities are FREE this year!
Engineering a Future (EAF) is a virtual Summer Camp for girls rising into the 8th or 9th grade in the state of Tennessee. The camp is designed for girls who are interested in becoming problem solvers and creative thinkers. Due to the Pandemic, EAF is being held virtually for the first time. It is a neat opportunity for young women to spend time exploring the ever-changing and exciting field of Engineering. TN Tech faculty, their students, and professional engineers will lead the activities. This year’s experiences will revolve around space exploration.
Sessions include Cyber Puzzles, Missions to Mars and Surfing the Stars, and are offered July 10 through the 24th.
All participants will be required to have access to an internet-ready device in order to join the activities.
Time is of the essence since one of the activities begins July 10th!
This camp is sponsored by NASA and the Society of Women Engineers.
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July 14, 2020 Question and Answer Session for AVP of Facilities Candidates
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to a question and answer session with the candidates for the AVP of Facilities position.
The Zoom link to attend the July 14, 2020, session is below.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
https://tntech.zoom.us/j/91291858873?pwd=ZGtUNFhRVUE5RGhrbUJidWt5cUI3dz09
Meeting ID: 912 9185 8873
Password: 574293
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Great Move In Day 2020 Volunteering Canceled
Greetings:
It is with deepest regret that we must announce the cancellation of volunteers for Great Move-In Day 2020.
We enjoyed an excellent response from our university faculty and student organizations in last year’s annual event. We were prepared for a normal academic year and were excited about the enthusiastic responses from the Tech community, including a potential record breaking volunteer number. However, given the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and out of concern for our students, their families, staff, and faculty, we made the difficult decision to limit the volume of individuals gathering during the move-in process. Our department worked hard to be proactive in addressing these challenges and in brainstorming collaborative solutions. But, with the coronavirus numbers on the rise again, we made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel the volunteer portion of Great Move-In Day.
Again, we are appreciative of our faculty and Tennessee Tech student organizations for such an enthusiastic response to our request for volunteers. We remain hopeful that we will be able to overcome these challenges posed by COVID-19 and that Great Move-In Day will return next year in 2021. We are deeply sorry about not being able to execute our event and any unfulfilled expectations this may cause. We hope to see you in the very near future. If you have any questions, please email Residential Life at ResLife@tntech.edu.
Thank you.
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CAT Virtual Training Workshop
The Center for Assessment & Improvement of Learning (CAIL) and the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) are excited to offer a critical-thinking and real-world problem-solving workshop at Tennessee Tech University July 22nd & 23rd to kick-off our Authentic Assessment Academic Learning Community (ALC). This 2 half-day virtual workshop is based around the Critical-thinking Assessment Test (CAT). The CAT was developed at TNTech with support from the National Science Foundation and is used across the country to support institutional assessment and academic research. During the first half-day workshop, we will introduce the CAT and take a look at the test and see how our TNTech students respond to critical-thinking questions. On the second half-day workshop, we will introduce critical-thinking frameworks used in the CAT, practice the development of interdisciplinary critical-thinking activities, and brainstorm/develop content specific critical-thinking activities (CAT Apps) for your courses.
Click HERE to register!