All administrative offices in S Building are closed. These include the Center for Student Leadership & Activities, the Student Health Care Center, the Office of Diversity, the Counseling Center, the Disabilities Resource Center, and the Santa Fe Bookstore.

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Staff and evening classes in S building are being relocated.  Look for notices to be posted on and around S building and visit sfcollege.edu for more information.

College staffers expect to have the outage corrected by tomorrow, Wednesday September 8.

As the nation begins its transition to electronic health records, this non-degree program will provide opportunities for healthcare specialists to learn about information technology, and vice versa. Already, 56 students have expressed interest in the program through its newly established website, a number which nears the program's stated goal of 150 students per year.

Being entirely online, Santa Fe's HIT Workforce Training Program will train students from a total of 50 counties, including 38 from Florida and 12 from Alabama. In six months or less, the participants can train in one of five workforce roles, including implementation support specialist, implementation manager, technical support staff, trainer, and information management redesign specialist.

Tuition ranges from $800 to $1,000. The program offers compensation for students who complete the program and begin working in relevant jobs. About half of what a student paid in tuition would be refunded through the stimulus grant. The college would benefit too, since it is scored on how many students graduate and find work.

The HIT workforce training program represents one in a wave of newly founded HIT programs. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information has issued a first-of-its-kind workforce training grant for HIT, and Santa Fe was one of three Florida schools to receive this federal funding. 

The need for these programs has been prompted by the Obama administration's mandate that by 2015 all paper health records must be transferred to electronic media as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Santa Fe's HIT workforce training program received $1,070,000 in stimulus money to initiate the first two years of its program. 

The transition to electronic records will open up an estimated 50,000 new positions for trained professionals in health information technology, and is also expected to improve access and communication among healthcare professionals, thus reducing healthcare costs. 

For more information call Grant Coordinator Tracy L. Jones at 352-381-3780 or go online to www.sfcollege.edu/hit.

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This is a free, 12-hour course spread over three nights. RAD is a self-defense course designed specifically to teach women realistic defense tactics and techniques. RAD focuses primarily on enhancing awareness, risk reduction and avoidance skills, before progressing to the basics of hands-on defense training. 

The next RAD class will be held Sept. 9, 13, and 14 from 5:30-9:30 p.m. in Building S-29/30.

The class is free, but enrollment is limited to ensure the highest quality of instruction. Pre-registration is required. To register for this course, please contact Officer John R. Santos at 352-395-5452 or e-mail to rad@sfcollege.edu.

For more information about the RAD program, please visit our website at http://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/  and click on the "RAD Program" link on the homepage.

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The classes will blur the line between the Digital Media and Fine Arts programs. The final goal is to create the ability to do "real film production through the college," said Graphic Design Professor Marc Shahboz.

There are already courses taught on some of the more technical aspects, but Shahboz, who is the mainspring behind this new push, wants to create a more comprehensive program. 

Casting agent coming to campus Sept. 12

While the details of the new classes are still being hammered out, several events are already in play to support this new focus.

On Sept. 12, MGM casting agent Paul Weber (in photo) will be giving a cold reading workshop designed to help the working actor land roles. Weber is involved in TV and feature film casting and sees everyone from raw beginners to experienced stars like Dakota Fanning. He has taught the popular "The Working Actor, Get the Audition, Book the Job" at UCLA, and discusses the importance of this skill; people who don't do cold reading well don't get the job.

The workshop will be open to students of Professor Gregg Jones' TPP2260 Acting for the Camera class and will have a limited number of seats open for non-SF students at a price of $100 per seat. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Fine Arts and Digital Media departments.

48 Hour film competition slated for April

In April 2011, Digital Media will sponsor a 48-hour film competition. Five-person teams will have 48 hours go from idea to finished product and deliver a 3- to 5-minute film for judging. Teams will be given a prop, a line of dialogue, and a topic; they must supply their own creative inspiration.

The filmmaking program now has its own website at http://www.sfcollege.edu/film/ where updates and more information will be posted at they become available.

For more information, contact Marc Shahboz, 395-5347 or marc.shahboz@sfcollege.edu.

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This exhibit, which also features the work of SF students, Devin Cole and Lynn Paluga, is comprised of 2-D and 3-D art that has been created using recycled, re-purposed, and/or reconstructed materials. What we find is a creative art form that is both socially and environmentally responsible.

For more information please contact Krista Froiseth at krista.froiseth@sfcollege.edu. The gallery, which is in the Student Life conference room, is open Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m.-9 p.m. and Fridays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., except when meetings are being held.

Web gallery from Opening Reception Sept. 2

Who is killing off the literary villains? Was it Lizzie Borden with her ax? Bonnie and Clyde? Ivan the Terrible? Or did the butler do it? Come to the Library Mystery Night to find out!

This year's Library Mystery Night takes place at 2 p.m. and then again at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 9 in the Library (Y-building) lobby. 

Win great prizes! Learn about the library! Have fun!

Library Mystery Night

Donations Needed for the Library's Book & Bake Sale, Sept. 15-16

The Library's Fall Book and Bake Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 15 and 16. Visit the library's front porch and peruse the great selection of used books, CDs and DVDs. The used books sell between 50 cents and $2; the magazines are free; and homemade baked goods are only 50 cents!

If you have any items you would like to donate, please contact Trenita White at 395-5771. The library also asks that you do not bring barcode scanners to the sale and that all book store representatives wait until Sept. 16 to visit the sale.

Explore the CSI world of laboratory sciences and learn about the employment opportunities, salaries, and unique career personalities.  Additionally, faculty will discuss the successful academic path into each training program.

The tour for opportunities in emerging technologies will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Perry Center for Emerging Technologies in Alachua. (Map)

If you have questions, please contact Scott Fortner. 

I hope you will join me and lots of other child advocates and interested folks in making the wellbeing and education of our children the state's highest priority.

This new initiative is called the Children's Movement of Florida -- and is being spearheaded statewide by a large, influential and non-partisan group of state leaders.

This state tour will host 15 "milk and cookies" parties across the state starting in Pensacola and working down to Key West.

We would like to show our community and our state that Gainesville truly cares about its children by getting at least 1,000 people to participate. Hope you will join me in the one-hour rally on Wednesday, Sept. 8 in Gainesville to raise awareness of and support for the movement.

• Time: 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8
• Place: SF Northwest Campus, Gymnasim
• Goal: 1,000 people per location in order to attract the media and to make a statement to the Florida legislature that kids are our priority

Each site will attract families and advocates with refreshments, local bands and choirs, balloons, entertainment, local celebrities, milk and cookies, and buses to get folks to the event, etc. It is backed by grants from the Kellogg Foundation among several others. This is not a request for money and/or involvement in campaigns -- just an hour of your time and sending a few emails.

For more information email to david.abrams@childrensmovementflorida.org.

The first two seminars are described below. Select "read more," below for the entire series.

Leadership Institute website

Session I: Understanding the true meaning of leadership.

If everyone agrees on what good leadership is, there would be no need for a two-party system, football coaches would never be fired, and my dog would obey me. My dog needs treats, coaches need wins, and the talking heads on TV need jobs. Why are there so many differences of opinion? How does this affect leadership effectiveness?

Date: Sept. 15, Time: 2 p.m., Location: S-326/327

Session II: Assessing your leadership potential. 

My only qualification for chairing this committee is that I was absent for the meeting when officers were elected. I have two years to serve. Is my self esteem about to take a dive? What kind of legacy will I leave behind me? Are there any hints that can indicate whether I will be successful?

Date: Sept. 29, Time: 2 p.m., Location: S-326/327

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"I have started a new club, Scrabble Lovers of Gainesville, and I want to invite interested members of the SFC family to join. If you love Scrabble like I do, then you know exactly why I started this group! And you also know why you want to join this group...to play Scrabble, and to play Scrabble, and to play Scrabble. So join the group! Then plan to come to the monthly meeting.

First meeting is Sept. 7

"The meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of every month from 5:30 until 8:30 p.m. The first meeting is September 7. Bring your Scrabble board, bring your Scrabble dictionary, and bring your A-game. (Don't worry if you don't have your own board and dictionary, I will bring a few). The meeting room at the Tower Road Library has been reserved for 3 hours. This means that each person can get in at least three (two-player) games during each meeting.

• Game #1 will be from 5:40-6:30 p.m.
• Game #2 will be from 6:35-7:25 p.m.
• Game #3 will be from 7:30-8:20 p.m.

You can pick and choose which games you want to play. Just show up in time for the time slot that interests you. Players will have 25 minutes each for every game. That way, each game between two people lasts no more than 50 minutes. Feel free to bring your own snacks! Note: This group is open to the public. So, inform and/or bring along Scrabble lovers that you know.

For more information, call Naima at 352-395-4477.

Scrabble Lovers of Gainesville online

David Crown is in the midst of his second career and first love: art. The retired physician laid down his stethoscope in 1982 after 35 years in practice, moved to Gainesville and picked up a paintbrush. 

His new show is focused on one art form that has fascinated him more than any other: mezzotint. This ancient type of printing was developed in the 1600s and became very popular until the early 1800s. The name comes from the Italian mezza tinta, meaning middle tone. The standout feature of mezzotint is its ability to create rich, velvety blacks. No other method can match it, says Crown.

Crown is the director of the International Mezzotint Society, which he founded 14 years ago. For this exhibition, there will be 135 mezzotint prints. Some are color but most are black-and-white. By nature, the scale tends to be small. The largest is 9" by 12"; the smallest is ½" by ½".

"Big can be beautiful, but small can be exquisite," says Crown. 

The exhibition will be up through Nov. 4. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Gallery Director Jayné Grant at 352-395-5464 or jayne.grant@sfcollege.edu. The Santa Fe Gallery is open weekdays, noon-4 p.m.

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