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On April 20, Dr. Donald McCabe will speak in the Olin College auditorium from 12:00 -1:00 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to come help kick off the first Annual Honor Code Values and Ethics Speaker.
Dr. McCabe 's research was especially helpful during the development of Olin's Honor Code and he is now returning to see how it has evolved. In addition, Dr. McCabe will speak with interested faculty/staff members and with the Honor Board in two special sessions. RSVP to Nick Tatar if you would like to attend one of these sessions.
Dr. McCabe has published in a number of education, sociology and ethics journals. His areas of expertise include college education, ethical development and ethical decision making and cheating in college. In his speech, Dr. McCabe will discuss ethics and decision making. When a student sees or hears about a friend cheating, what are they most likely to do? When a student sees someone abusing alcohol or drinking when they are under-age, what should they do? Should a student take a job with a company that doesn't create environmentally or socially conscious products? How much community service is enough?
Dr. McCabe is a professor of management and global business at Rutgers University and the founder of the Center for Academic Integrity.
The Office of Post Graduate Planning is pleased to announce a new website: http://careers.olin.edu/. The new site offers information about the internship and career exploration process, a post grad planning database, resources for applying to graduate school, competitive international and national scholarship information and much more. The site also includes a web-service tool for job-seekers, MonsterTRAK. Questions or feedback can be directed to Leslie Larocca and/or Michelle Knight.
The Big Conversations Committee wants to thank everyone who participated in Big Conversations and especially those who gave of their time in the afternoon. Notes from the small conversations will be posted in the Link and the CORe Digest as they become available. Notes from the discussions on Socially Responsible Business and Psychology of Community Service are available for review.
The committee wants your feedback. Please take a few minutes to fill out a short survey at: http://surveys.olin.edu/surveys/S05BigCon.htm.
The entire Olin community is invited to an open house at East Hall on Friday, April 29 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Take the opportunity to tour the newest addition to the campus. Students can check out all of the spaces before room draw for next year.
Please note that this event is still somewhat tentative. We will make the final decision on whether to have the open house as we get closer to the date. Many areas of the building are almost completely finished while a few still have significant work remaining. We will need to cancel the event if we cannot be sure of providing a safe environment for everyone. However, we are currently confident that the building will be completed enough to have the open house.
Special thanks to everyone who has been involved in the design and construction of the building, including Childs, Bertman, Tseckares (architects) and all of their sub-consultants, Jackson Construction Company and all of their subcontractors, Hanscomb, Faithful and Gould (construction managers), VHB (civil engineers), Carol R. Johnson Associates (landscape architects), Haley & Aldrich (geotechnical engineers), Space Plan Interiors (furniture design), Baldwin Design (signage design) and GCGL Electronic Security. The student building design team: Adam Horton, Leighton Ige, Dan Lindquist, Nicole Hori, Luis Cabezas and Ransom Byers. The student furniture design team: Steven Krumholz, Alison Lee, Dan Lindquist, Jake Graham and Lindsay Gordon. Departments: Student Life, Campus Services, Facilities Services, Information Technology, Environmental Health and Safety, Purchasing, Financial Services, Risk Management and Administration and Finance.
If you are hosting a program or event that involves school age or younger children interacting with the Olin Community, you must ensure that all Olin Community members participating in the program have met the guidelines of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) law. Processing CORI checks can take a while, so please contact Joe McDonald as soon as you start planning an event involving minors. These guidelines must be met to ensure the safety of the children and Olin's legal obligations. For more information contact: Joseph McDonald, Director of Campus Services, Campus Center, suite 332.
To help students afford education expenses, Olin College is pleased to make the services of Tuition Management Systems available. Tuition Management Systems' Interest-Free Monthly Payment Option allows students to spread education expenses over ten installments for only a small enrollment fee. There is no interest and no pre-qualification or credit check for this service. With this payment option there is 24-hour access to account information through Tuition Management Systems' web site (https://www.afford.com), toll-free automated account information through InfoLine, and personal account service Monday-Saturday. Education Payment Counselors are available to help determine the best payment option for education costs.
More information will be forthcoming. Please contact Katherine O'Keefe, Student Account Manager, at 781-292-2346 or katherine.okeefe@olin.edu with any questions.
The College is currently seeking qualified candidates for several positions. Employees are reminded that HR is always happy to accept referrals.
All are invited to attend the following faculty candidate seminars:
- Ozgur Eris, Ph.D., Associate Research Director, Stanford Center for Design Research, Stanford University is a candidate for the faculty position in Design. Dr. Eris will present “Modeling Engineering Design Thinking and Performance as a Question-driven Process” on April 11 at noon in AC 126.
- AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas, California Institute of Technology, Art Center College of Design is a candidate for the faculty position in Design. She will present “Designing Robo-Squid: Pulsatile Jet Propulsion for Underwater Vehicles” on April 13 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in AC 126.
- Anthony J. Hornof, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon is a candidate for the faculty position in Design. Dr. Hornof will present on April 14 from noon – 1:00 p.m. in AC 113. His topic and abstract will follow at a later date.
Once again, the Office of Student Life is sponsoring a student/staff lunch at noon on Thursday, April 14 in the dining hall. This will be an opportunity for students and staff to get to know each other in a casual lunchtime environment. Student hosts will “adopt” a staff member and join other students for lunch and light conversation. Big Sibbs, ask your little Sibb to join you and come help foster the Olin community spirit! Contact Carol Kelley if you would like to participate or require more information.
If yesterday's Big Conversations inspired you, attend the Alternative Post Graduate Experiences Panel on Tuesday, April 12 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in AC 109 to learn more about service opportunities to consider after graduation. As with all events sponsored by the Office of Post Graduate Planning, freshmen, sophomores and juniors are invited to participate – this is a valuable event for all. Faculty and staff are welcome too.
Take advantage of this opportunity to learn about some of the alternative experiences you might embark on after graduation. Come hear personal accounts from participants in City Year, Peace Corps, Teach For America and WorldTeach. Alternatives to the “usual” post graduate employment options will be presented and your questions will be welcomed. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Jessica Gaines, Graduate Intern, at jessica.gaines@olin.edu.
The Babson/Olin Jazz Ensemble will be host a repeat performance of their Tuesday-night jazz on April 19 at 6:30 p.m. in Babson's Trim dining hall. All are invited to attend. Those who witnessed this past Tuesday's performance in the Olin dining hall gave it two enthusiastic thumbs up!
On Monday, April 11 at noon in AC 113, the Research Working Group will feature Alex Dorsk, Char Laughlin and David Wurtz will presenting the research they have conducted with Burt Tilley and Zhenya Zastavker – “The Puck Stops Here: An Elementary Study in Tribology” People who want bag lunches should edit the wiki.
On Friday, April 29, the Representative from TIAA-CREF will be on Olin's campus to conduct individual counseling session for all faculty and staff. The sessions will take place from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. in the Olin Center, room 321. Please contact Dauphne Houlihan (1-800-842-2776) at TIAA-CREF to set up an appointment.
Please join the Babson and Olin Jewish community in our Shabbat evening service, this Friday night, April 8 at 6:00 p.m. in the Glavin Family Chapel. Services are highly informal and participatory, with a mix of Hebrew and English, and conclude with kiddush at about 6:45. All are welcome.
Here are three great reasons to join or renew:
1. Get $15 Off the $40 Annual Membership Fee (only $25.00)
2. FREE Additional 3 Months of Membership
3. FREE Second Membership Card
This special offer is not available online or at any BJ's Club location. This promotion will only be offered twice a year – this April and again in September (date to be announced). To take advantage of this opportunity fill out an application and return it to Beth Schirick by April 13, 2005.
The Homegrown Coffeehouse will host David Roth on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00 p.m. Roth, a Chicago native who performed the national anthem twice for the NBA's Michael Jordan-era Bulls, had his writing published in Chicken Soup for the Soul and his music performed by Peter, Paul and Mary. He has gained national attention for his unique songs, moving stories, and powerful singing and subject matter.
The Homegrown Coffeehouse is located at the First Parish Unitarian Church, at the corner of Great Plain and Dedham Avenue in Needham center. There is free parking and wheelchair access. Admission is $15 for the general public and $12 for students and seniors. Proceeds will benefit the Church. For more information call (781) 444-7478.
Dean Patricia Greene, author of “Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses,” will speak in the Olin auditorium at Babson College on Tuesday, April 26.
Greene is dean of the undergraduate school at Babson. She previously held the Ewing Marion Kauffman/Missouri Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and served as Scholar in Residence at the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. In her talk she will discuss the hurdles women face in starting, funding and growing a new venture.
Event registration will take place at 5:00 p.m., Greene will speak at 5:30 p.m. and her remarks will be followed by a networking reception at 6:30 p.m. To register, send an email to cwl@babson.edu.
The updated Olin HR Training Update is now available. This newsletter has information regarding upcoming Lunchtime Seminars, a variety of workshops, volunteer opportunities, upcoming computer training sessions and much more. Contact Beth Schirick with questions.
The Link is pleased to launch a new feature -- “Inquiring Minds” -- that will enable members of the Olin Community to submit questions about the college and have them answered. Send your questions to Jennifer Thomas, and the communication staff will endeavor to get an answer for the next issue of The Link.
On March 31, Olin sophomores Nathaniel Smith and Zachary Brock earned top honors in the Babson College 2005 John H. Muller Jr. Undergraduate Business Plan Competition with their plan for Wildfire Inc., a company that makes meeting management software. The sophomores teamed up with Babson undergraduates to write the business plan and claim the Muller Prize and $5,000. Smith, Brock and their Babson teammates Michael Banu ('05), Kiara Barrett ('06) and Tori Smyly ('05) originally wrote the business plan for the entrepreneurial venture, Wildfire Inc., during the 2004 fall semester. More information on this competition is available at http://www3.babson.edu/ESHIP/programs/bplan.cfm.
Olin College was recently selected to participate in a multiyear study of experiments aimed at innovation and excellence in undergraduate education funded by the Spencer Foundation. The study group will be known as the Forum for Excellence in Higher Education, and is led by Professor Richard Light of Harvard University. Participation in this group is by invitation only, and includes the following institutions: Amherst, Bowdoin, Davidson, Duke, Georgetown, Haverford, Harvard, M.I.T., Macalester, Middlebury, Olin, University of California-Merced, Wellesley and Williams. The study is funded for at least four years, and should provide an opportunity for Olin to obtain advice and counsel from some of the best educators in the country during our experimentation with new ideas. It will also provide the opportunity for the best of Olin's ideas to be reviewed and possibly adopted at much larger campuses, thereby potentially inspiring innovation in the larger context of higher education, as identified in the long-term aspiration in Olin's strategic plan.
Olin students Alex Epstein, Amy Holbrook and Jon Cass (Team H+) and Nicole Hori, Andrew Bouchard and Laura Stupin (the Flaming Sparrows) competed in the Needham Spelling Bee April 7. Although they didn't win, both teams did make it to the final round. Team H+ won't be forgetting the word “gnomon” any time soon, and the Sparrows will remember “pursuivant” for a long time.
On April 4, Jeff Stern joined the Olin community as the Media Services Technician. His office is located in the IT Suite in the Lower Level of the OC.
Emily Cullen also joined the Olin team on April 4. She was hired as a temporary Circulation and Library Assistant to assist Dee Magnoni. Emily's office is located in the library.
Prior to joining Olin, Emily worked at the Needham Free Public Library as a Library Assistant focusing on patron services and circulation. She earned her B.S. in zoology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her M.A. teaching from Boston University. She has taught in and out of the traditional classroom setting. Emily's interest in libraries grew from all the enjoyable hours and hours she spent in various libraries studying, socializing, researching, preparing for teaching and relaxing with a great book. At home Emily enjoys her time chasing around her toddler daughter. She also enjoys going to markets and yard sales with her little one and husband.
In the last issue we asked for the current student enrollment at Olin College. According to Registrar Linda Canavan there are 215 students currently enrolled. Jay Gantz was the first to respond correctly and he will receive Olin Gear.
Olin trivia buffs do you know....
Q: How many members of Olin's President's Council have gone on to become (current) members of the Board of Trustees?
A: First person to correctly respond to Jennifer Thomas receives a prize.
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