Daily Brief

Unity Day: Today

Kutztown University will celebrate Unity Day at 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 31, on Schaeffer Lawn. Dr. Kenneth S. Hawkinson, university president, along with university leaders, representatives from the student body, the community and other campus officials will give remarks celebrating KU's diversity and multicultural makeup. The event will take place during the university's annual Community Link Fair, which brings together local businesses with the campus community.

University Relations

KU Alert Account Creation/Check-up

KU Alert, the university's text message warning system, powered by Omnilert, advises the campus of life-threatening situations as well as weather-related closures and concerns. Faculty and staff must opt-in to receive the text messages. If you already have an account, now is the time to review it to make sure your account is up to date and validated. Please take note of the expiration date that is seen after you log in. To create or review your account, use your KU single sign-on credentials at the link below. Register for Omnilert text alerts/Returning User Login.

Josh Leiboff, Web and Digital Media

NYTimes, WSJ and Washington Post Access

The library is pleased to remind the KU community that you have free online access to three of America's most popular newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Instructions for how to sign up for an account or renew your access here: https://library.kutztown.edu/newspapers. Please contact Bob Flatley at flatley@kutztown.edu with questions.

Bob Flatley, Rohrbach Library

Faculty and Staff Yoga Class

Join the Faculty and Staff Yoga Class 4:45-5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in the North Studio, Student Recreation Center. No membership required, just present your ID at the Information Desk.

Student Recreation Center

Boxwood Bash Open House Event

Join us to chill out at the Boxwood Bash, 3-6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 6, Boxwood House. Faculty, staff and all students are invited to tour the house, where the Women's Center and LGBTQ+ Resource Center are located, and to learn about our services, resources and upcoming programs. Also, check out the student clubs that we work with at Boxwood which include: FLMA, Allies, It's On Us and learn how to get involved. There will also be a Kona Ice truck, music, food, games, giveaways, crafting and more.

https://engage.kutztown.edu/event/9203403

Diane Biehl, Women's Center and LGBTQ+ Resource Center

University Senate Meeting

The next University Senate meeting is 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, in 103 Academic Forum. The agenda can be found on the University Senate website. Minutes and documentation are available in the September 2023 SharePoint folder. Please email any Senate representative changes to senate@kutztown.edu.

University Senate web page

Lisa Frye, Office of University Senate

Please Excuse Students Attending Adirondack Field Trip

Please excuse the following students from class on Thursday, Aug. 31 and Friday, Sept. 1.  These students will be traveling on a five-day geology field trip to the Adirondack Mountains to learn how chemicals in nature interact to form rocks (subterranean flow of mineral-rich natural springs through fractured aquifers, superheated geothermal waters that eat marble and deposit crystals, molten magmas that freeze many miles deep underground, and the brute-force recrystallization in the unfathomable heat and pressure of metamorphism). These students will return circa 10 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4, so should be in class Tuesday. They will probably still be pretty tired.
Cassidy Bordonaro, Isaias Caba, Jamie Cook, Tyler Glass, Willow Grimaldi, Jessica Lackey,  Thomas Long, Fred Martin Jr., Todd Messner, Venus-Gene Miller, Joaquin Perez, Joshua Scherer, Jake Simins, and Maddy Will.

https://www.kurtfriehauf.org/

Kurt Friehauf, Department of Physical Science