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Did you know that between Transfer Enrollment, CTE Enrollment, Non-Credit Workforce Training, and Adult Basic Education, CSI served more than 20,000 students in 2016-17?
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(Source: CSI Internal Report; some students may be duplicated across categories
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"Did You Know?" brought to you by the CSI Office of Institutional Effectiveness.
Chris Bragg
Associate Dean of Institutional Effectiveness
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Encourage your students to watch their e-mail every other Friday for our digital CSI student newsletter. It is titled "The Eagle Informs". Important deadlines, events, and campus happenings will be included. If you are interested in submitting information for the student newsletter please send what you have to Kimberlee LaPray at
[email protected]. The first newsletter when out Friday, January 19, 2018.
Kimberlee LaPray
Public Information Officer
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Erin Giesler
Graphic Design Specialist
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Samra Culum
Student Development Coordinator
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The Eagle Squad will be in the Taylor Building this week to help students with tech questions. An Equal Squad help desk will also be set up in the Library soon!
Eric Ness
Service Desk Team Leader
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Doug Maughan will be offering an employee photo session from
10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 1, in the Canyon Building Studio.
You will receive a digital copy of your photo to use as you please and it will be put on the website directory. There is no need for an appointment, walk-in's are welcome.
Kimberlee LaPray
Public Information Officer
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Spring 2018 BLOG - Strategies to Retain and Engage Students
P.S. You might need to sign in to Office 365 with your CSI account to access these articles.
Janea Triplett-Newell
Instructional Designer
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Welcome to spring semester. By now, students have started to figure out what their semester will look like. For some of them college is new and exciting, for others this is their last year here and they're wondering about the options they have moving forward. The Alumni Association has started an alumni mentor program. Life is all about making connections and sharing passions. The Alumni Mentor Program is used to connect current students at CSI to an alumni with common interests. Once a student has a match they will receive information about their alum. This is a great way to get insight on their major, classes, and future career in their field. If you know of a student who might be interested have them fill out this application:
https://quondam.csi.edu/alumni/mentor.asp
. The deadline for students to apply is January 31.
Reylene Abbott
Alumni Relations Coordinator
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The CSI Student Recreation Center is now offering a fitness pass for drop-in classes only! That means 40 fitness classes a week for ONLY $10 per month! If you want to utilize any of the weight rooms or fitness equipment in the cardio hall, loft, or track, then you have the option to purchase a full membership and only pay the remaining balance. The drop-in class membership will begin on January 22, so if dancing to music, doing HIIT workouts with a group, or spinning under a blacklight is more your jam than treadmills and free weights, then check out this incredible deal!
Purchase your drop-in class membership at the CSI Student Recreation Center front desk or call 208.732.6470 for more information!
Christa Gessaman
Outdoor Recreation Coordinator and Instructor
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Herrett Center for Arts and Science
College of Southern Idaho
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Museum, Planetarium, Observatory
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Year round hours. *
*Closed Sundays, Mondays, and federal holidays.
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Tuesdays
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9:30 am to 9:00 pm
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Wednesdays
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9:30 am to 4:30 pm
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Thursdays
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9:30 am to 4:30 pm
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Fridays
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9:30 am to 9:00 pm
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Saturdays
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1:00 pm to 9:00 pm
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Jan. 23
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6:45-9 pm
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Observatory:
Telescope Tuesday
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7:00 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Dinosaurs at Dusk: The Origins of Flight.
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Jan. 26
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7:00 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Dinosaurs at Dusk: The Origins of Flight.
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8:00 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Rock On Demand!
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Jan. 27
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1:30 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Dinosaurs at Dusk: The Origins of Flight.
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2:30 pm
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Planetarium Show:
The Longest Night / live sky tour.
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3:30 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Dinosaurs at Dusk: The Origins of Flight.
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4:30 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Cosmic Colors & Sky Quest.
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7:00 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Dinosaurs at Dusk: The Origins of Flight.
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8:00 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West.
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Jan. 30
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7-9 pm
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Art Reception:
Heritage Habitats
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7:00 pm
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Planetarium Show:
Dinosaurs at Dusk: The Origins of Flight.
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Jan. 31
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4:30-7:30 am
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Observatory:
Total Lunar Eclipse
viewing session (weather permitting).
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Rick Greenawald
Manager, Faulkner Planetarium
Observatory Activities
Tuesday, January 23rd, 6:45 to 9:00 PM
Telescope Tuesday - Waxing crescent (41%) moon, Uranus, Neptune, binary/double stars, star clusters. Admission: $1.50, ages 6 and under free, free to all with paid planetarium admission.
Wednesday, January 31st, 4:30 to 7:30 AM
Total lunar eclipse - The full moon will begin to enter Earth's penumbral (partial) shadow at 3:51 AM, but won't begin to darken noticeably until around 4:30 AM, when the observatory opens for public viewing. First contact with the umbral (full) shadow occurs at 4:48 AM, and totality (with the moon full inside the umbra) begins at 5:52 AM. Greatest eclipse is at 6:31 AM, minutes after the moon will have dropped too low for the Herrett 24" telescope to track (at 6:25 AM), so viewing will continue with small telescopes on the stargazers' deck. The moon begins to emerge from the umbra at 7:08 AM, and sets still partially eclipsed at 7:58 AM. (The observatory will close at 7:30 AM, around the time the moon will have disappeared into the trees to the NW.)
Chris Anderson
Observatory Coordinator, Herrett Center
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Topic This Week:
To Be Decided
Wednesdays:
12:00 - 1:00
p.m.
Hepworth 176
Thursdays:
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Hepworth 176
Fridays:
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Taylor 233
~The CSI Brown Bag Committee~
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MEN AND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
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Opponent |
Location |
Time |
Team |
| Jan. 25 |
Snow College |
Ephraim, UT |
5:30 pm |
Women |
| Jan. 25 |
Snow College |
Ephraim, UT |
7:30 pm |
Men |
| Jan. 27 |
Colorado Northwestern CC |
Twin Falls, ID |
3:00 pm |
Women |
| Jan. 27 |
Colorado Northwestern CC |
Twin Falls, ID |
5:00 pm |
Men |
| Feb. 1 |
Salt Lake CC |
Twin Falls, ID |
5:30 pm |
Women |
| Feb. 1 |
Salt Lake CC |
Twin Falls, ID |
7:30 pm |
Men |
| Feb. 3 |
USU Eastern |
Price, UT |
3:00 pm |
Women |
| Feb. 3 |
USU Eastern |
Price, UT |
5:00 pm |
Men |
MEN AND WOMEN'S INDOOR DISTANCE TRACK
| Date |
Opponent |
Location |
Time |
| Feb. 2-3 |
Mountain State Games |
Pocatello, ID |
TBA |
WOMEN'S SOFTBALL
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Opponent |
Location |
Time |
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Jan. 26
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PIMA CC |
Henerson, NV |
9 am |
| Jan. 26 |
Arizona Western College |
Henderson, NV |
11:30 am |
| Jan. 26 |
Eastern Arizona College |
Henderson, NV |
2 pm |
| Jan. 27 |
Yavapai College |
Henderson, NV |
9 am |
| Jan. 27 |
Central Arizona College |
Henderson, NV |
11:30 am |
| Feb. 1 |
PIMA CC |
Yuma, AZ |
1:00 pm |
| Feb. 1 |
Arizona Western College |
Yuma, AZ |
3:30 pm |
| Feb. 2 |
Yavapai College |
Yuma, AZ |
1:00 pm |
| Feb. 2 |
Central Arizona College |
Yuma, AZ |
3:30 pm |
| Feb. 2 |
Phoenix College |
Yuma, AZ |
6:00 pm |
| Feb. 3 |
South Mountain CC |
Yuma, AZ |
10:00 am |
| Feb. 3 |
Glendale CC |
Yuma, AZ |
12:30 pm |
MEN'S BASEBALL
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Date
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Location
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Time
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| Feb. 1 |
Scottsdale CC |
Las Vegas, NV |
1:00 pm |
| Feb. 2 |
Scottsdale CC |
Las Vegas, NV |
12:00 pm |
| Feb. 2 |
Scottsdale CC |
Las Vegas, NV |
2:00 pm |
| Feb. 3 |
Scottsdale CC |
Las Vegas, NV |
12:00 pm |
Karen Baumert
Sports Information Director
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HATHA YOGA
Dates: Jan. 22 - Feb. 26
Days: Mon/Wed
Time: 6:15 - 7:15 p.m.
Fee: $99
Location: Gym 231A
Instructor: Morgan Jeno
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GLASS BLOWING: BORO PENDANTS
Dates: Jan. 24 - Feb. 28
Days: Wednesdays
Time: 7 - 9 p.m.
Fee: $40 (+$60 paid to instructor for supplies)
Location: 496 Madrona
Instructor: Cody Thornton and Diane Glick
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GLASS BLOWING: MARBLE-MAKING
Dates: Jan. 25 - Mar. 10
Days: Thursdays
Times: 6:30 - 9 p.m.
Fee:
$60 (+$100 paid to instructor for supplies)
Location: 496 Marona
Instructor: Wes Overlin
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If you prefer, you can also call 732-6442 to register by phone or come into the Community Education Center in the Fine Arts Building.
Camille Barigar
Director of Community Enrichment
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"Know Before You Go" Seminar
Friends of the Sawtooth Avalanche Center will be presenting an Avalanche Awareness Workshop for the Southern Idaho Region in partnership with the CSI Outdoor Rec. Center. The target audience is for the winter backcountry traveler, or anyone looking to increase their knowledge of winter travel. Whether you ski, snowmobile, snowshoe, snowboard or nordic ski in the backcountry, recognition of avalanche danger is an essential and potentially lifesaving skill. This session introduces and explains where and why avalanches occur and provides a basic approach to managing risk in the backcountry. Learn to access local avalanche bulletins and weather reports, recognize basic signs of avalanche danger, and learn simple ways to help avoid avalanche danger.
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Date: January 25, 2018
Location: Fine Arts Recital Hall
COST:
CSI Students: Free with CSI ID,
CSI Staff/Faculty: $5,
Community: $5
*Pay at the door. Cash or card accepted.*
Door prizes and special giveaways will occur at the event!
This presentation will be held in Fine Arts Recital Hall!
Outdoor Recreation Coordinator and Instructor
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"...for the prodigal daughter these is no return. Were she with her wasted form and bleeding feet to drag herself back to home, she, the fallen and the lost, which would be her welcome?"
from The Soiled Dove Plea, Temple Houston, 1899
In 2011, The Nevada Shakespeare Company wrote produced an original play, Voices in the Life, based on interviews and research exploring the history and cultural impact of prostitution and human trafficking in the state of Nevada. CSI's Shane Brown and Camille Barigar, in collaboration with Cameron Crain, founder of The Nevada Shakespeare Festival, and Norman Stephens, executive producer of the original play, have revitalized the project, and rewritten the script, to explore the same concepts in the Magic Valley. Join us as members of the Twin Falls theater community perform a table reading of the original script Soiled Doves. This script promises to illuminate the lives of the women who have worked in the prostitution industry and been coerced into dark world of human trafficking, as well as explore the implications for the women themselves, and our rural community as a whole.
Community Enrichment Director
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All current and retired, full- and part-time employees are invited by the CSI Wellbeing Program to paint a bowl FREE OF CHARGE for the Empty Bowls Fundraiser at Hands On in downtown Twin Falls.
This is an opportunity for you and a buddy (spouse, friend, child, parent, coworker) to let your creative juices flow in a fun and interactive activity that raises awareness and funds for our local SC Community Action program to fill food banks and soup kitchens in our area.
You and your buddy may engage at any time the shop is open, up to the 25th of January, and the CSI Wellbeing Program will pay your fees. Simply register as a CSI employee with status/department noted when you arrive to obtain free bowls for each of you.
Judy Heatwole
Wellbeing & Development Coordinator
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The Student Disability Services Office is sponsoring a webinar entitled 'Emotional Support & Comfort Animals: Policy Considerations to Eliminate Confusion & the Potential of a Lawsuit'. All staff and faculty are invited to the webinar. I was hoping an announcement could be put in the CSI enotes publication.
The webinar will review the legal requirements for emotional support animals and service animals according to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ACA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and state law. The webinar will also discuss how to develop, implement and effectively enforce policies related to students' rights to have emotional support animals on campus.
Date: Tuesday, January 30
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: Taylor/SUB 247
Scott Lindquist
Student Disability Services Coordinator
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Heritage Habitats by
Ginger Owen-Murakami and Vicki Vanameyden
THIS ART EXHIBIT WILL OPEN AT THE HERRETT CENTER JANUARY 30, 2018
According to the artists:
The goal of this work is to engage community and school groups in discussions that address the ties that bind individuals: memory, history, culture, humanity and ancestry. This work also challenges audiences to interact and experience non-traditional materials and art making methods as contemporary artistic practice.
Artist Statement:
Heritage Habitats is a series of physical spaces for contemplation and invocation of ancestry. Framed around nostalgia and memory,
Kites, Cairn, Grove, Heartwood and
Roots are large scale, sculptural and experiential installations that engage in viewers' unique memories and experiences. In essence, the work emphasizes commonalities that bind people and cultures and serve as an expression of humanism.
Methods for creating these works involve appropriating imagery from our respective family albums then, framing ideas around the experience generated from remembering our past. The images we select are iconic in nature, typical of pictures that exist in all family photo albums. They reference concepts linked to blueprints of identity and help us to find our place in a larger historical picture. We value history and tradition as the staples of human life while acknowledging that representations of realities are altered by elapsed time and convoluted memories.
The six installations that comprise
Heritage Habitats explore collective memories, vernacular photography and the act of pursuing one's history as a universal human experience. Ultimately, the works are a residue of the process of self-discovery and catharsis. They are concerned with aspects of imaging oneself in a genealogical lineage while contemplating basic life stages: birth, infancy, youth, adulthood, old age and ultimately death.
Kites represents a communal conversation on the influence of family history and the life stage of youth. A young girl's dress form is tethered to images of her past with umbilical cord-like lines. Ghostlike images of her ancestors metaphorically hover above on carefree kites.
Cairn references a burial mound or marker. This installation operates like a box of photographs - piles of images to sift through. Structured like a gravestone it memorializes the passing of life.
Hankies suggests a history of a western world viewpoints and mediated experience through the domestic lens. The photographic images, appropriated from 1920's National Geographic subscription magazines, are symbols of humanity that tie and bond people worldwide.
Joey Heck
Exhibits/Collections Manager, CSI Herrett Center
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Class Title: QuickBooks for Your Business
Dates:
February 1, 6, 8, 13, and 15, 2018
Time:
6:00-9:00 PM
Location:
CSI Main Campus Evergreen C93
Fee: $200
Class Description:
QuickBooks Pro 2016 Beginning through Intermediate Combo Course for Business. This course takes you from setting up a company to the details of payroll using QuickBooks Pro 2016. Learn how to use the program, then how to make it the most valuable tool in your business toolkit. The course will be 5 sessions long.
Jordan Gentry
Training Coordinator/Office Admin
Idaho Small Business Development Center
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Explosion Box Album - XART 039 C50
An
Explosion Box Album
is a mini album that can also double as a gift box. On the outside, it looks like an ordinary box, but once you lift the lid it reveals multiple layers that can each be decorated the way you want them, with plenty of room left for a surprise gift to be hidden inside. Come and use your imagination and creativity to design your own box. Just in time for Valentine's Day.
Day: Thursday
Date:
Feb 1
Time:
6 - 8 p.m.
Location:
Jerome Center
Fee:
$25 (plus $20 supply fee paid to instructor at class)
Instructor: Diane Gause
Beginning Meditation - XMSC 033 C50
Learn the art and benefits of meditation through mindful breathing and visualization. Calm your mind and relax your body. Begin living with more ease and joy and reduce your daily stress.
Day:
Tuesday
Dates:
Feb 6 - 27
Time:
6 - 8 p.m.
Location:
Jerome Center
Fee: $48 (plus optional CD purchase ($5) paid to instructor at class)
Instructor: Sandra Bernsen
Anna Dovenmuehler
Jerome Center Coordinator
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Hosted by: 
Michael Howell
Assisted by:
Debra Wilson - Executive Director, CSI Foundation
Scott Lindquist - Student Disability Services Coordinator
Bill Ebener - Department Chair/Instructor, Biology
Jason Ostrowski - Dean of students
Shelly Wright - Professor, Active Aging Director
When:
January 9, 2018
February 6, 2018
March 6, 2018
April 3, 2018
May 1, 2018
For more information call Amy Barker at (208) 732-6800.
*Please be respectful of others and do not bring children or pets and please turn your cell phone off.
Thank you.
** The College of Southern Idaho is Handicap Accessible.
Michael Howell
Traumatic Brain Injury Group Host
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Join us at the Herrett Center for Arts and Science
on Valentine's Day for Romance Under the Stars.
This experience has options from $80-$120 per couple which includes a catered dinner, a rose, and gift for your sweetheart followed by a special presentation by Rick Greenawald in the Faulkner Planetarium: Romance under the Stars: Tales of Love, Lust, and Longing.
There is one exclusive table available in the planetarium with dining in the dome under a night sky of your choosing, personalized dining music, and special show seating for $250.
You can contact Cari Eskridge at the Herrett Center to reserve your seats.
Cari Eskridge
Events and Academic Coordinator
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Kelsey Brizendine
Prevention/Fire Information, BLM
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The Idaho Office of Emergency Management is updating the State's Hazard Mitigation plan! Follow the link below to a survey that will help them determine areas of importance to Idahoans in all 44 counties and Tribes:
Kelsey Brown
Mitigation Planner, IOEM
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Note:
We want to make this document something you look forward
to
reading each week and your feedback will help tremendously!
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Nondiscrimination Statement:
It is the policy of the College of Southern Idaho to comply with all federal, state and local authorities requiring nondiscrimination, including but not limited to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Executive Orders 12898 (Environmental Justice) and 13166 (Limited English Proficiency). College of Southern Idaho is an equal opportunity employer. The college does not exclude from participation in, deny the benefits of, or subject any individual to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, income, protected veteran status, limited English proficiency, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Gainful Employment data for specific programs may be found on our GE website:
www.csi.edu/ge
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