Tuesday December 1, 2009
SVCAA Campus Forum Today
Dr. Susan Poser
As part of the search for the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the campus is invited to participate in an open forum with Dr. Susan Poser at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 1 in the Regency Suite of the Nebraska Union, City Campus.
Poser has a Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley and is currently a full professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Law College. She has held the position of Associate to the Chancellor since 2007 and is Director of the Ethics Center, which is funded jointly by the Law College and the UNL Offices of Research and Academic Affairs.
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Fall Issue of Great Plains Quarterly Available
In the fall issue of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Quarterly, researchers wrote about women homesteaders in Western Canada, the role of newspapers and railroads in the settlement of Nebraska, and the romantic travel accounts written by men in the 19th-century fur trade business.
In "'Daughters of British Blood' or 'Hordes of Men of Alien Race': The Homesteads-for-Women Campaign in Western Canada," Sarah Carter writes about the struggle by single Canadian women to acquire land for homesteading. "In both nations married women were prohibited from homesteading, but the Canadian land laws departed from the U.S. model in one important respect: single women were not eligible to homestead," writes Carter, University of Alberta history professor. more...
GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY
An Education, Trucker Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents An Education and Trucker. Both films will screen through December 3.
More information about each of the films and schedules are available at the Ross website.
H1N1 Page at UNL Updated for Fall
The university continues to closely monitor the worldwide and local impact of H1N1 flu. At this time there is no immediate impact on UNL, its community or operations, except heightened alert and awareness, and efforts to communicate the necessity of proper hygiene and stemming the spread of the virus.
For more information, including Student and Employee attendence policies, visit the H1N1 Information page at http://emergency.unl.edu/.
