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December 21, 2004

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Icelandic Students Bring New Perspectives To Campus

Elisa Vilbergsdottir and Disella Larusdottir, Westminster's first students from Iceland, revel in our longer winter days and what they consider to be balmy temperatures. They're also immensely enjoying Westminster's voice performance and pedagogy. more info...

Celebration of Lights Pictorial Review

Enjoy the pictorial of the Celebration of Lights, a multicultural holiday observance. more info...

'Tis the Spirit of Giving

Embracing the spirit of giving is a Rider tradition which heightens during the holiday season. more info...

Rider Receives Grant to Support CONNECT-ED

The New Jersey Department of Education has awarded Rider University an $84,534 one-year grant from the New Jersey Department of Education to launch full-scale programming for a major component of its Science Education and Literacy Center (Rider SELECT). The focus of the new grant is CONNECT-ED. more info...

Accounting Department Offers Professional Seminars

The accounting department will offer a series of non-credit professional development seminars on business analysis and equity valuation and fraud detection and prevention in January and February. more info...

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	Faculty Development Day Set for January 18 A new faculty development program will take place Tuesday, January 18, 2005. The program will focus on "Effective Instruction for Rider Students" with presentations by Dr. Eric Hobson, professor of writing & linguistics and director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Hobson will speak about "Motivating Students and Getting Students to Read." Also included will be breakout sessions where faculty can learn and share ideas about what effective instruction for Rider students can look like. The program will end mid-afternoon with a wine and cheese social event. Registration information will be distributed shortly. For additional information, please contact the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) at tlc@rider.edu or 896-5333.

	Weather Hotline In the event that inclement weather forces the University to close, delay opening or cancel classes on the Lawrenceville campus, call Rider's information hotline at (609) 219-2000. The emergency information offered in menu option 1 is always the first medium updated. Westminster Choir College has an emergency number – (609) 219-2001 for the Princeton campus. Information can also be accessed on the front page of Rider's Web site.