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TC3 open houses: A series of open houses are being held this month by Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3) to introduce courses and workshops being offered to Cornell staff this spring on the Cornell campus and at TC3's downtown Ithaca Extension Center on the Commons. These increased educational opportunities are the result of a partnership Cornell has recently forged with TC3 to make it easier for Cornell staff to enroll in noncredit seminars and workshops or to pursue a degree through TC3 in academic disciplines relevant to their current or future career at Cornell. It is expected that paid release time will be used for attending these events and educational opportunities, but staff members must first obtain the approval of their supervisors. Representatives from TC3 will be available at the open houses to answer questions, provide career counseling and advisement services and take course registrations for the spring semester. Staff from the Office of Human Resources will be available to answer questions about the Employee Degree and Tuition Aid programs. The remaining schedule for open houses (which require no reservations) are:
·Today: 8:30-10:30 a.m., Rockefeller 190; and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Baker G02.
·Thursday, Jan. 23: 8:30-10:30 a.m., G01 Biotech; and 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 163 Day Hall.
If you have questions about these workshops, call Joann Shepherd, human resources consultant, 254-8393.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: On Monday, Jan. 20, from 11:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. there will be a community program to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, 318 N. Albany St. It is free and open to all. The event will begin with a luncheon and keynote speaker Valerie Hayes, director of the Cornell Office of Equal Opportunity, followed by a variety of performances. Next will be two hours of activities, including drumming, storytelling, poetry, beadmaking, an elders speak-out and more. The last part of the program will be educational sessions about the issues of race and diversity in the workplace. Daycare will be provided for children ages 18 months to 5 years old from 1 to 5:30 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center, the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, the Cornell Public Service Center, the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy, members of the Baha'i community and the city of Ithaca. For information or to volunteer, call Ellen Baer at 255-7513 or Terry Calhoun at 273- 8724.

Faculty computer training: The Academic Technology Center's (ATC) spring schedule of workshops, for faculty interested in learning to teach with computer technology, is now available. The half-day workshops range from Instructional Uses of the Web to more advanced topics involving multimedia. Registration is required, but there is no charge for the workshops. For complete details about the ATC course offerings, visit their Web page at http://atc.cit.cornell.edu/workshops/courses.html . Faculty interested in joining a mailing list that will announce these workshops can contact the ATC (part of CIT's Academic Technology Services division) at 255-8000 or send e-mail to atc@cornell.edu. Anyone interested in joining a listserv (an electronic mailing list) that announces events and discusses computer technologies in teaching should contact Diane Kubarek, ATC consultant/trainer, via e-mail dmk2@cornell.edu . This list is open to all.

Web page service: CU People, Cornell's personal Web page service, is now available. This service, offered free of charge, provides server space for faculty, students and staff to post their personal Web pages. Individuals are allowed up to 5 MB of disk space. For information and registration, see http://www.people.cornell.edu .

nDrug and violence prevention: Grants worth up to $1,000 are available for Cornell student groups to develop prevention-education programs addressing violence and drug abuse on campus. Administered by the university's Gannett Health Center and supported in part by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the grants will be awarded for programs showing potential to change campus social and cultural environments by creating zero tolerance for all forms of violence and drug abuse. Feb. 14 is the deadline for grant applications for 1997 under Project Challenge. More information is available from the Gannett Center's Health Education department at 255-4782.