NSAC E-Bulletin

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Presentation by Dale Ells

You are invited to hear Dale Ells, Dean Emeritus, present a talk titled "Fire Completely Destroyed NSAC Science Building, - June 15, 1946." During the 45 minute presentation you will hear about the building, the fire, the reaction of others to the loss and the changes caused by the fire.

People who worked in the building will be present as well as eye witnesses to the event.

This presentation will be at 2:00 pm in the Colchester Historical Society Museum, 29 Young Street, Truro, on Wednesday, April 4. General admission is $2 but no charge for Colchester Historical Society members.

A discussion and complementary treats will follow the talk.

A Morning of Wellness for Administrative Assistants

Register today to participate in “A Morning of Wellness” for Administrative Professional Day. This event will take place on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 from 9:00am - 1:00pm at Summer Street Industries in New Glasgow.

This workshop will provide administrative assistants with a morning of life balancing techniques that will help improve mental, physical and emotional health.

Participants will enjoy concurrent seminars in:
-Stress Management
-Body Composition Analysis
-Techniques to Build Muscle Strength at Work
-Image and Beauty Consultations
-Healthy Eating Tips
-And more …..

Cost is $40 per person (fee includes coffee break, seminars, and luncheon) or $30 per person for current IAAP members.

Register for the seminar and luncheon before Wednesday, April 18 by contacting Aundrea Currie at 755-8307 or via email at acurrie@newglasgow.ca

This event is hosted by The International Association of Administrative Professionals Northumberland Chapter.

Employee Survey

March is Employee Survey month. This is your chance to tell us what you think about your work environment!

If you have already completed your survey, thank you for your participation!

If you haven't completed your survey, please take the time to fill it out. An email with a password was sent to every employee the first week of March. If you have misplaced your password or did not receive one please contact HowsWorkGoing@gov.ns.ca or call 1-888-842-4777.

We want your ideas, not your name. Your participation and responses are confidential.

For more information on this project, go to http://www.gov.ns.ca/psc

Recruitment Update

Over the past two weeks, Recruitment has met with potential students at off campus events such as career fairs, education fairs and "Wine and Trees", hosted by Kings Tech. In addition, Glen Sampson and Raj Lada gave talks at the Tree Grower's Association in Lunenburg last weekend and took NSAC material. As a reminder, please let me know when you are going to give a talk, lecture, presentation, etc. so I can ensure you have an appropriate display and materials.

On that note, Craig and I seem to be missing some key recruitment display materials - so, if there is anyone on campus that has our materials - table cloths especially, please bring them back to Recruitment in the Registry as we are in need of all three sets.

This is a busy time for Recruitment as we are now looking toward mining our applicant data base, while continuing to pursue prospective students as well. We have devised three strategies and are calling on our student volunteers again to assist us. Last year our efforts were noticeable and we hope to continue the momentum!

Last week, I sent each department a copy of our "numbers report" and ask that we begin planning strategy sessions as soon as possible. In light of the huge opportunity that we have to showcase our programs at the CWSF, I hope to hear from each program and begin planning short and long term goals to help recruit students. So far I've booked one meeting.

The CWSF is soon approaching and I've put calls out to departments in hopes of generating some commitment to the Monday, May 14th tour. If you haven't emailed me regarding your portion of the tour, please do so ASAP as I would like to have this finalized and information shared with Ag Awareness.

Finally, this is a good time to begin re-working your websites!

Good luck during the last weeks of classes and exams!
Monica

Congratulations to Dr. Yiridoe

The “TOP25” or “TOP20” is an unsolicited ISI citation data assessment of “most read” articles or “most cited” articles published for specific journals. NSAC's Professor Yiridoe was pleased to hear that in March of this year a 2005 paper published in Agricultural Economics, was ranked as number one out of the “TOP20 most cited” articles in that journal.

A second study published in 2006 in Agricultural Systems was ranked 16th out of the “TOP25 most read” articles in Agricultural Systems, in March 2007. Both journals are among the top peer-review international journals in their respective areas. Last year in March, another paper published in 2000 in the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics was ranked 17th out of the “TOP20 most cited” articles in the CJAE. Such ranking is especially significant for research publications (such as in Dr. Yiridoe’s studies), as opposed to literature review articles.

Advanced Connections Workshop – Tuesday, April 24

Advanced Connections allows NSAC staff to understand what they are good at in terms of dealing with students and what they can improve. Participants will learn how to better work with individuals across campus to provide a positive and memorable experience for students. Most importantly, participants will take key learning's with them that can be implemented right away. We can promise that all participants will find the training session interactive, fun and extremely beneficial. We have excellent facilitators lined up – from our very own faculty.

Advanced Connections Training Session – Tuesday, April 24, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm (lunch and breaks included), in Room #112, Haley Institute.

Please sign up for one of the following sessions by contacting Sandra Murphy either by email at smurphy@nsac.ca or phoning 893-7900. Limited spacing is available so interested participants should sign up early.

Athletic Awards Banquet

NSAC's 43rd Annual Athletic Awards Banquet was held on Sunday evening, April 1st in Jenkins Hall. The event honoured several of NSAC's finest athletes for their successful year.

Pictured above is Dr. Bernie MacDonald with NSAC's athletes of the year, Billy McNutt and Kaili van Vulpen.

Below is Ken Marchant, former NSAC Athletic Director, with NSAC's Marchant Award Winners, Marissa Lynch and Justin Beck. This award is presented to two athletes with the highest academic average.

More award winners...