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Celebrate Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month with Some Salsa Dancing

Today, Wednesday, October 5 at 7:00 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge, the ALANA Student Center will host a Salsa dancing class in recognition of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month.

Sarah Haykel, from Love is Real LLC, will join us in teaching us some traditional dance moves. Authentic food and refreshments will be available. The first 25 people in attendance will receive a free ALANA Student Center T-shirt.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the ALANA Student Center at asc@canisius.edu.

Submitted by: D. Williams, Assistant Dean of Students, ALANA Student Center

October is CyberSecurity Month

October is CyberSecurity month and here at Canisius we would like you to spend some time thinking about how to can make your online presence more secure.  First, I would like to remind everyone that you need to complete the online training sent out by Human Resources Department by the end of the month.  It is available in the portal under the Human Resources link from the Launchpad.

The first topic this month I would like to bring your attention to is your use of Email for personal and professional life.  This information was presented to the campus last year but I would like to revisit it again.  It is always best to separate work from your home life.  How you live on the internet is no different.  On this note, the college strongly recommends that you do not mix your work and personal communications and online accounts.  In accordance with newly adapted Canisius “Acceptable Usage Policy,” we recommend that you do not use your Canisius Email (ending @canisius.edu) for personal communications or as the Email address connected to various personal accounts, unrelated to your work at Canisius College, on the internet.

Please review your campus Email use and take this time to establish an external Email address (such as a free Google Mail or “gmail” account) if you have not already done so.  Use this external Email address for any accounts unrelated to Canisius College, such as social media, personal finance, shopping, etc.  Share your personal, external Email address with your family and friends and ask them to contact you there for non-work related matters.

Free Email services such as Google’s Gmail often have a mobile app for your phone, so you can maintain your two Email addresses in separate apps, for convenience.  By maintaining a personal email address separate from your professional Canisius College address, you enhance the security, privacy, and organization of both spheres of your online life.

Below is a good article on the subject.

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-separate-your-work-and-personal-life-on-your-dev-1824208389

You can sign up for your free Gmail account here

https://accounts.google.com/signup/v2/webcreateaccount?flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=SignUp

The College’s Acceptable Use Policy and other technology related policies can be found here:

https://wiki.canisius.edu/display/HR/Volume+II%3A+2.4+Information+Technology+Policies

As always if you have any questions, concerns or comments please contact the ITS Help Desk at 888-8340, email to helpdesk@canisius.edu or visit http://helpdesk.canisius.edu 

Submitted by: Scott Clark, Director of User Services/ITS

Not Too Late to Join OFDC!

It’s not to late to join the current Online Faculty Development Course!

The Center for Online Learning & Innovation offers a five-week mini-course for Canisius College faculty, that prepares professors to teach online and hybrid courses.  This course provides many practical tips for teaching online, but more importantly, helps faculty explore new pedagogies for active learning, social presence, and community building in courses on the internet.

The OFDC can help professors craft engaging, interactive online experiences for students that go hand-in-hand with limited use of the classroom. This spring semester, we are offering two courses, one starting on October 3rd and ending on November 4th, and a second one starting October 17th and ending on November 18th. To RSVP for either, please check out the COLI faculty development events here.