We do have some amazing and fun people at Genesee… people of all genders…
If you’ve not looked at either game, do so. It’s fascinating what people do or have done in their lives.
Here’s the answers to the Men of Genesee game: GCC Men Matching Game-ANSWERS-April-May 2013
The GCC Diversity committee thanks everyone who has participated in this and all of their activities this year!
Try your luck at this matching game to learn more about the men at Genesee Community College (and possibly win a prize)!!
Directions: Match up the GCC employee with the correct fact about him. Submit your answers to Joanna Barefoot (Student Activities) either by filling out and sending this form electronically to jebarefoot@genesee.edu, or print out, write in your answers and bring to the Student Activities Office.
Form must be received in person to the office no later than 4:30pm on May 3rd or in email by midnight on May 3rd. Answers will be revealed after deadline and a prize awarded to the person with the highest number correct!
Word format: GCC Men Matching Game-April-May 2013
PDF format: GCC Men Matching Game-April-May 2013
Good luck to everyone!
So.. here are the answers: GCC Women Matching Game-March 2013-Answer Key
How many did you get right? I knew a few of these, but many of the anwers were very surprising and fun!
We’re a pretty diverse lot at Genesee! That’s what makes us better!
Thanks to those of you that played!
There are a couple of major semester decision points coming up soon and it’s important to understand the implications.
These dates are for full semester courses, so if you’re in 8 or 12 week courses the date will be different but the concept is the same. If at the end you need to know more for 8 or 12 week courses, do ask!
Sunday, March 24 is the last date you can withdraw from a class and earn a grade of “W”.
In order to ‘earn’ your Financial Aid, you must be in attendance in your courses on Friday, March 29.
Here’s the dilemma.
If you’re taking 15 credit hours and you need to drop a class because you’re really going to earn an F, then you really don’t care about this because you’ll still have 12 credit hours and still are a full time student.
If you’re taking 12 credit hours and you need to drop a class, this becomes important.
It’s a “pay me now, pay me later” sort of deal.
If you drop a class and it drops you under 12 credit hours, then you’re not in attendance in the class for Financial Aid purposes and the amount of Financial Aid you get will be affected. You still owe the college for full time tuition (hey! I never said this was fair!) but you may not be entitled to full time Financial Aid — it depends on the number of credits you are still ‘attending’. Instead of getting a refund on April 8, you may end up owing us money. Whoa!
If you stick out the class because you’re going to be in a financial bind otherwise, then if you earn enough poor/failing grades it may affect your eligibility for Financial Aid for the next semester. If you do not make Satisfactory Academic Progress, you can lose your Financial Aid eligibility. If you’re doing poorly in only 1 class and earning B or C grades in the other 3 classes, you may not be in too bad of shape. If you’re doing poorly in all of your classes and going to be getting D and F grades in all of them… you’re probably in trouble.
This is week 9 of the full semester. There may or may not be time to catch up — that’s between you and your instructor. But if you think you’re in a hole, talk to your instructor. Talk to your advisor. Talk to the Business Office. Talk to someone… don’t suffer in silence!
March is International Women’s month.
To celebrate, through a GCC Diversity Council initiative, Joanna Barefoot in Student Actvities has gather together facts about many of the women at Genesee. Interests, hobbies, and skills you would never suspect from most of them.
So we do want you to guess… guess who matches up with the facts listed and maybe even win a prize!
Try your luck… the list is available here as a Word document: GCC Women Matching Game-March 2013 as well as a PDF document: GCC Women Matching Game-March 2013 (they are both the same, use whichever works better for you!)
Take your best guess at the matches and submit your entry to Joanna either by email (jebarefoot@genesee.edu) or get it to her in the student activities office.
Deadline:
The winner and the answers will be posted here after the event closes! Good luck and have fun!
On Wednesday, January 30 between 9:00 pm and 1:00 am (technically into the next morning), Banner will be offline for some upgrades that need to be installed.
During this time you will not have access to:
This also means there will be very limited Help Desk assistance. When Banner is offline, the Help Desk staff cannot authenticate your identity and cannot reset passwords during this window. If you need assistance other than passwords, do call the help desk at 1-866-614-5004 and the folk there can help with what they can and/or set up a ticket for you.
On the ride to work, I listen to WNED and they have the BBC news every half hour in the morning. Listening to the BBC news is actually fascinating because it’s an entirely different perspective than the American news will give you. What’s ‘important’ in the US may not be important to the rest of the world.
Well, today there was a piece that kind of made me go “What?”
Evidently, the Egyptian Army Chief (General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, if you want to know) made a stern statement to the population about the growing unrest in the country. He warned that the political strife could push the country to the brink of collapse.
The statement was posted on Facebook.
Now. I understand about getting a message out. And in a country where the population is unsettled and I suspect newspapers and news reporters are few and far between, it’s probably the only reliable way to get a message out to the major portion of the population.
Just that until I had a chance to think about it, it was odd…. funny-odd and thoughtful-odd.
More here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100415121
