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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please see the email below and the attached documents about the Fall 2016 symposium. I believe this is the fifth annual symposium, and it will be focused on learning communities. Please note that John Lutz
has also been soliciting new linked courses for learning communities as well as new freshmen seminar courses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Michele<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#003366">Go n-éiri an bóthar leat,</span></i><span style="color:#003366"><br>
Michele M. Dornisch, Ph.D.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:teal">Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. [The perfect is the enemy of the good.]- Voltaire</span></i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> John Lutz <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 04, 2016 10:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Abagail Van Vlerah; Brian Sweeney; Dulcie Stoepker; John Lutz; Lawrence Paretta; Lynne Schwartz; Marci Swede; Margaret Boorstein; Michele Dornisch; Nancy Frye; Nicholas Ramer; Niria Leyva-Gutierrez; Shawn Welnak; Vincent Scovetta; Jeongeun Rhee<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Abagail Van Vlerah; Adam Grohman; Albert DeVivo; Amy Freedman; Barbara Applegate; Cheryl Halliburton-Beatty; Erica Frouman-Smith; Glynis Pereyra; Helen Ballestas; Janessa Barrett; Jay Diehl; Jennifer Darcy; Jennifer Snekser; Jeremy Buchman; John
Lutz; John Scheckter; Jon Fraser; Jonna Semeiks; Jorge Rosario; Kaitlin Bathrick; Katherine Ahern; Katherine Hill-Miller; Lynne Schwartz; Margaret Hallissy; Matthew Day; Nancy Frye; Niria Leyva-Gutierrez; Patrick Aievoli; Peter Lipka; Scott Carlin; Shawn Welnak;
Sheila Gunther; Suzanne Thomas; Tracey Christy; Willie Hiatt; Jeffrey Belnap; Patrick Kennelly<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Symposium<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please spread the word about the fall symposium that will be held on Friday, October 14<sup>th</sup>. I’ve attached a flyer and a detailed program of the day’s events. This year’s fall symposium is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences and the Offices of Student Life. It will focus on learning communities and the various initiatives surrounding it. The keynote speaker Scott Evenbeck is an expert on learning communities and the first-year experience. I hope that many of
you will be able to attend.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please RSVP to Pat Kennelly. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John Lutz, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chair and Associate Professor of English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Co-Chair, Outcomes Assessment Steering Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Learning Communities<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">LIU Post<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">720 Northern Blvd<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brookville, NY 11548<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: (516)299-2391<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fax: (516)299-3325<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>“</b>The flourishing life, whose foundation is virtuous intention, is something we continually improvise, and in doing so our souls mature. Our life has usefulness to ourselves
and to the people we touch”-Epictetus<o:p></o:p></p>
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