Month: April 2014

OLLU’s annual Literary Festival will run Wednesday-Saturday. The festival includes a series of literary events presented by renowned poets, scholars and authors. This year’s festival, “Rebirth and Renacimiento,” will explore the themes of rebirth and renewal through various events throughout the course of several days.

Headline presenters for this year include San Antonio Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero, Anel Flores, Ito Romo and OLLU’s very own Nan Cuba.

All events are free and open to the public.

For a complete list of events, visit www.ollusa.edu/LitFest.

Learn more about the new MA-MFA program offered by the English department

As part of the Literary Festival, the English department will also be hosting a discussion panel to launch the new Master of Arts-Master of Fine Arts in Literature, Creative Writing and Social Justice, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Providence Hall, Blue Room. The panel will introduce the new program to the community and discuss how the program will benefit students and the local community. The panel will feature:

• Shelia Black – Poet and Executive Director of Gemini Ink
• Pam Johnston – Author and professor at Texas Lutheran University
• Leah Larson – Professor and Graduate Program Director at OLLU
• Dexter Gilford and Erica Seiler – OLLU English graduate students

For more information on the panel, contact Leah Larson at 210-434-6711, ext. 2260 or llarson@ollusa.edu.

President Slater has announced the closing of University offices at noon this year on Holy Thursday, April 17. Both Good Friday (April 18) and the Monday after Easter (April 21) remain official University holidays.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR FACULTY AND STUDENTS: Fast Track B will conduct classes as scheduled. If you have any questions related to academic matters and this announcement, please email Dr. Marcheta Evans, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the School of Professional Studies and the Worden School, at mevans@ollusa.edu.

The OLLU community is invited to a lecture by University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) Moody Professor, Theresa Tiggeman, CPA, on April 14 at noon in Providence Hall, Blue Room. Her lecture, “A Service-Learning Tax Course: Ideas that Transfer,” will deal with Tiggeman’s work as an advocate for the working poor and her association with the Volunteers in Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. She will also discuss the service-learning she has designed for her students who work in the VITA Program.

The Moody Professorship is a shared program with UIW. It was established in 1971 through a gift from the Moody Foundation of Galveston. It provides two endowed professorships each year—one at OLLU and one at UIW. Moody professors from both universities present lectures on each campus. Mark Green, PhD, professor of Leadership Studies, is the OLLU 2013-2014 Moody Professor. He presented his OLLU lecture on March 18.

The OLLU community is invited to attend the music departments’ spring recitals next week.

• The voice recital is April 14 at 7 p.m. in Thiry Auditorium.
• The classical guitar and strings recital is April 15 at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Building, Room 200.

The events are free and open to the public.

OLLU is piloting a campus license to Atomic Learning, an online training library of more than 250 applications, including Microsoft, Adobe, Blackboard Learn and more.

The license will be available for students and faculty to use via New Lake Online until April 30. The decision to proceed with purchasing the product will be determined by the number of students and faculty who feel it is a useful product.

To add the Atomic Learning Module, select the “Add Module” option on the home page of the New Lake Online. For more information, contact the Teaching Learning Technology Center (TLTC) at tltcevents@ollusa.edu.