Email from Rita

I am posting the email I got from Rita for those of you who still need to register. A decision needs to be made soon, because registration is under a time constraint. The code that Rita mentions only applies to the fourth person. Otherwise, you can pay with a credit card (60.00). I am meeting with her today to discuss taking everyones artwork, and the details of this little excursion.

-Natalie

Dear all,

I am sending this note to those of you attending the CIEL Student Symposium at Fairhaven on April 10-12. Thanks to all of you for being willing to represent the college. If it is like past student symposia, I expect you will really enjoy meeting students from other colleges and hearing them speak in some depth about their work.

Here are the titles and team members for our three presentations:

1. "Skin" LaGuana Smith, Sarah Sweet. Artee Young, Director of the Tacoma Program

2. "Doing Work that Matters" Natalie Miller, Kim Retherford, Kate Clark. Rita Pougiales, Evergreen's CIEL coordinator

3. "PRESS:Creating a Culture of Writing." Tyler Bennett, Meghan McNealy. David Wolach, Evergreen faculty member.

I have logged on to the draft program. It still contains some errors, and I have passed on correct information on titles and participant names. So if you go on and find incorrect information be assured that they have received corrections from me.

So here are details for you. Each of these requires you to respond to me or to go on-line. The most time sensitive step is to go to the on-line registration site. If you can do this by tomorrow, we will get a bit of break on the conference fee. So here goes...

1. Each person has to register individually. They have a very easy on-line process. Just go to http://www.festivalofscholarship.com/ and fill out the form. It requires you to pay the conference fee. We are covering that on what we call a "Purchase Order." The number you should put in for that is R0014394 If any of you have difficulty with this please be in touch with Janet Herbison (facultyhiring@evergreen.edu). Her office is SEM II D 4102. And her phone number is 360-867-6863.

2. We have reserved a van to get folks to Fairhaven College. Once we are there, there will be shuttle service to get people in and out of Bellingham. Please let me know if you would like to go in the van. We won't be able to cover your transportation costs if you drive a private vehicle. Once I hear who would like to take the van, I will ask when you want to leave. Since events get started Thursday morning, we might consider going up Wednesday evening.

3. We will provide lodging for anyone who needs it. Hopefully the students on each team can share a room. Let me know if you want us to make these reservations and with whom you will share a room. We cover the cost for this.

4, The conference fee includes lunches and one dinner. For all other meals, we will ask you to keep your receipts. The state sets an upper limit for what we can reimburse for each meal. I will let you know those amounts before we go.

(Because this has some personal information in it, I will only leave it on the blog for a day or so. I suggest printing it out if you need the info.)