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RCE News and Updates
You Are Invited!
Upcoming MBA Information Sessions in Redding and Chico - August 16 & 17
Please plan to attend our next Professional MBA Information Sessions at Shasta College and CSU, Chico.
Come on out, learn about the program, meet the adviser, and receive an application to join our next cohort of students.
We hope you can join us.
Details:
Wednesday, August 16 - 6:00pm to 7:30 pm - Shasta College Boardroom (100)
Thursday, August 17 - 6:00pm to 7:30 pm - CSU, Chico Continuing Education Bldg. (107)
We are looking forward to meeting you!
Please RSVP today by calling CSU, Chico Continuing Education - 530-898-6105 or drop us an email rce@csuchico.edu.
For more information please visit http://rce.csuchico.edu/mba.
For academic advising and admissions information please contact Ray Boykin, Associate Dean, College of Business, at rboykin@csuchico.edu or call 530-898-5895.
We are delighted to announce William Dantona, the new Director of CSU, Chico American Language and Culture Institute.
Dantona has more than thirteen years of experience working with international students and business professionals. Prior to appointment, Dantona coordinated the successful Teachers Training Teachers Program (3TP 2006), and taught communications in business for the Department of Management, College of Business on the Chico campus.
Before coming to Chico, Dantona was a member of the University of Pennsylvania English Language Programs (UPENN-ELP) faculty where he coordinated the Summer Institute for International Business Students pre-MBA program.
Dantona has extensive experience in English language training for global business leaders. He served as a corporate language trainer and workforce language proficiency consultant for the School of International Training (SIT) and World Learning for Business (WLfB). There he conducted language training for graduate-level international students as well high-potential executives from international corporate and governmental entities, including: ABN-AMRO Bank, JPMorgan-Chase, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, McKinsey Consultants Group, KEPCO, Toyota, Goldman-Sachs and Proctor & Gamble.
Dantona has also been engaged in secondary and post-secondary instruction (University of Puerto Rico, Greenfield Community College, Massachusetts) and graduate-level teacher-training research in both US and international settings.
After completing coursework and a two-year research program in Nepal, Dantona earned his M.A.T. from SIT in 1998, and completed the Wharton Management Program in 2004. He now makes his home in Chico, California with wife, Lilith, and daughter, Michelle.
An anticipated 1,000 scientists and students from around the country will visit Chico for Botany 2006, the joint annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America (BSA), the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT), the American Fern Society (AFS), and the American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS).
Botany 2006 has special significance as it will be the 100th anniversary celebration of the Botanical Society of America. The conference will be hosted on the Chico State campus, July 28 - August 3, 2006.
The meeting will include a full schedule of more than 850 scientific presentations, papers, posters, lectures, symposia, and workshops from prominent botanists whose contributions have shaped and advanced the varied fields of plant biology. Also included on the schedule will be a full slate of field trips which will demonstrate the unique botanical nature of Northern California.
The full conference begins July 31 with, “The Lessons of History: A Historian Reflects on 100 years of American Botany,” a plenary presentation by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, professor of zoology and history, University of Florida.
On August 2, Peter Raven, former Home Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and President of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Edward Schneider, BSA President and CEO of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, will host a special awards ceremony to honor more than 100 scientists who have contributed significantly to the advancement of plant biology and the Society.
The 5th Educational and Outreach Forum, for teachers and professors involved in the teaching of biology and plant science will take place July 29-30. The Forum will include interactive sessions, and a keynote lecture, by Roger Hangarter, biology professor, Indiana University. Hangarter is internationally recognized for his scholarly work and his strong record of public outreach, sharing his passion for plants with community groups, children, teachers, and museums throughout the country. His talk is titled “Communicating an Awareness of Plants through Science and Art.”
“CSU, Chico is happy to host this important academic conference. For a few days this summer Chico will be the place to be if you are a botanist. It’s a great opportunity for local teachers to meet the researchers in the field, for our professors to network with colleagues, and for Chico to welcome hundreds of guests to our city and the North State,” commented Professor Kristina Schierenbeck, CSU, Chico, Department of Biological Sciences, Herbarium Director.
CSU, Chico Continuing Education is coordinating the local arrangements for the Botanical Society of America. For more information please visit http://www.2006.botanyconference.org.
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), is a peer-led, learning-in-retirement organization that offers members age 60 or retired (and spouses of any age) an opportunity to explore new topics, discuss current events, and network with other talented and interesting people from the community. The OLLI Fall peer-led classes begin September 11, 2006.
The Fall Welcome Back reception for all new and continuing OLLI participants is September 6, 2006 from 10am-noon at the Chico Masonic Family Center, 1110 W. East Avenue, Chico.
For more information please contact Barbara DaDalt, 530-898-6679, bdadalt@csuchico.edu and visit http://rce.csuchico.edu/osher.
Funding and support for the Osher Lifelong Institute is provided in part by the generous contributions of the Bernard Osher Foundation, San Francisco.
California State University, Chico American Language & Culture Institute welcomes 43 Nevada-California International Consortium students from Japan who will participate in this year’s Summer Bridge Program on the Chico campus.
The five-week, Summer Bridge Program runs through August 4, and features a combination of intensive English language coursework, academic preparation, and cultural immersion.
Many of these students are improving their language skills in preparation for admission into an academic program at CSU, Chico, Butte College or another institution.
“Now in its fourteenth year, the Summer Bridge Program is a Chico tradition,” remarked, William Dantona, American Language & Culture Institute Director. “We are pleased to welcome our friends from Japan. We have a lot planned beyond the classroom and campus experiences, they will have a chance to see the beauty of the area, enjoy downtown, catch a baseball game, and experience the culture of California.”
For more information concerning The American Language & Cutlure Institute at CSU, Chico please visit http://rce.csuchico.edu/alci and call the ACLI office at 530-898-6821.
If you are sixty (60) or older, you are eligible for ElderCollege. ElderCollege allows you to attend University courses on a non-credit, guest basis for a nominal fee, with the permission of the instructor.
For more information please visit http://rce.csuchico.edu/eldercollege and plan on attending the Fall semester ElderCollege Orientation Meeting, August 10, 2006, 10AM-11AM, in the Continuing Education classroom on campus (CE 107).
Questions? Give us a call, 530-898-6105.
Do you want to take a university course but haven’t applied for admission?
Applying late, but want to start?
Want to attend part-time?
Denied admission?
Disqualified?
Open University provides an opportunity to access Chico State classes on a space-available basis, without formal admission to the University.
Fall semester starts August 21, 2006
For more information please visit http://rce.csuchico.edu/openu/
or call our office: 530-898-6105.
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