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Dec.
1 open enrollment deadline approaches
Time is running
out to change university health or dental coverage for 2005. Faculty
or staff wishing to change their coverage for 2005 must do so before
the end of the open enrollment period on Dec. 1.
For
more information on open enrollment, or to fill out an online open
enrollment form, log in to my.american.edu and click on the “2005
Open Enrollment” link in the “Employment” section.
Holiday
reception to be held Dec. 15
Feel like playing
Santa Claus a few days early? AU’s annual holiday reception
gives the community a chance to show its holiday spirit by bringing
gifts of new, unwrapped toys or canned goods to the annual holiday
reception. The festive gathering hosted by AU President Benjamin
Ladner and Nancy Bullard Ladner will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on
Wednesday, Dec. 15, at Bender Arena. The toys and canned goods will
be donated to the Marine Corps Toys for Tots program and D.C. Central
Kitchen.
AU
to nominate four juniors for Truman scholarships
AU will be nominating
four undergraduates again this year for the prestigious Harry S.
Truman Scholarship, whose winners receive $30,000 for graduate study.
The Office of Merit Awards at the Career Center has been working
since summer with the four candidates.
Forrest
Dunbar ’06 came to AU from Cordova, Alaska, and is now studying
in Japan as an NSEP-David L. Boren Scholar. Minoring in Japanese
after having spent a year in the country as a high school exchange
student, Dunbar has also worked on a fire crew in Fairbanks, Alaska,
and interned for the Guam delegate at the U.S. House of Representatives.
Janice
Smith ’06, of Harrisburg, Pa., has been involved for years
in a program to teach civic activism through mock government. Part
of the School of Public Affairs (SPA) Leadership Program, she has
interned for a state representative and is presently in Prague as
part of AU Abroad.
Lacey
Rosenbaum ’06 is a political science and CLEG major from Plymouth,
Nebr., with a long-standing interest in educational issues both
at home and abroad. Active with Teach for America, she has an internship
with the Department of Education and will go to China through AU
Abroad this spring. Rosenbaum also went to Zambia last year as part
of AU’s alternative spring break.
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