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October 29, 2013 In the Spotlight
Purdue Profiles: Jane BrooksJane Brooks is helping to redefine the term "success" on the campus of Purdue North Central. As the coordinator of the Student Success Center, Brooks works to ensure that students meet their academic and professional goals. Brooks describes her position, which she has held since 2010, as the ideal mix of what appeals the most to her in a job -- education, student advocacy and policy development. Through her work, Brooks says, she wants to help her students become what they want to be and sometimes what they don't know they want to be.Faculty and staff newsToday's benefit enrollment eventsToday (Oct. 29), a walk-in lab will be held 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in Freehafer Hall, Room 1-5. For a schedule of live sessions and additional help during benefits open enrollment, visit www.purdue.edu/benefits/enroll.html. Open enrollment ends at 6 p.m. (ET) Nov. 15. Blackboard Vista files should be moved as shutdown date approachesBlackboard Vista is scheduled to be discontinued at the end of this calendar year, and faculty members who still need to retrieve course content or student data from the old course management system should do so as soon as possible. ITaP educational technologists are available to help. Information session to be offered about eye-tracking deviceThe Discovery Learning Research Center is offering an information session for those interested in learning more about the eye-tracking device now available in the Hall for Discovery and Learning Research. The session will cover user policies and procedures, device specifications and basic eye-tracking theory. General newsPurdue to host veterans for entrepreneurship programPurdue will host 29 veterans beginning Friday (Nov. 1) for the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. Purdue sportsKovacs wins Big Ten singles titlePurdue men's tennis players Mark Kovacs and Aaron Dujovne swept the Big Ten Singles Championships on Monday at the Schwartz Tennis Center. Ninth-seeded Kovacs won the Main Singles Draw title by defeating Dimitrjie Tasic of Indiana and Dujovne downed another Hoosier, Daniel Bednzrxzyk, in the Consolation Singles Draw. For more information on Purdue sports, go to www.purduesports.com. |
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