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Major Exploration Fair
Please join us on Wednesday, March 20 from 12 to 2 p.m. in the Union Atrium for the annual Major Exploration Fair. This is an excellent and informative opportunity for students to meet with representatives from all academic departments as students prepare to declare their major during the upcoming advisement and registration period. Undeclared students will be able to declare their major at the event.
Social Security reform
Please join us on Wednesday, March 20 at 4:30 p.m. in the Kairos House chapel for a Faculty Forum presentation by business professors Cathyann Tully and Donnie Crooks on “Social Security: Transparent Transition from Unsustainable Entitlement to Personal Sustainability.” Will our children and grandchildren collect Social Security in their old age? Will this benefit become extinct? Not on our watch! The authors present a set of steps designed to change the administration of the Social Security system in order to restore its solvency and provide financial relief to future generations of middle-class wage earners.
Women’s History Month dinner panel
On Wednesday, March 20 at 6 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, please join us for a Women’s History Month panel hosted by the Campus Life Social Justice and Diversity Committee. The panelists are three amazing professional women from Staten Island who will speak about their careers, challenges and achievements — and how to get to where they are now. The panelists are: Donna Grant, director of CSI’s Adult Learning Center; Patricia Tooker, FNP, nursing professor and dean of integrated learning at Wagner College, and Leticia Remauro, CEO of the Von Agency and political activist. Food will be provided.
For information about all Women's History Month activities, visit the Campus Life website.
ODE looks at Social Security
Join Omicron Delta Epsilon, the economics honor society, on Wednesday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. in Spiro 2 for a presentation by Wagner College business professors Cathyann Tully and Donald Crooks on their research into a plan to stabilize and enhance America’s Social Security retirement program. Will today’s Wagner College students receive Social Security benefits in retirement? Become informed about the present state of the Social Security system and the need for reforms. The authors present a set of steps designed to change the administration of the system in order to restore solvency to the ailing Social Security system and provide financial relief to future generations of middle-class wage earners. For more information, email ODE President Tom Kendris.
Cartoonist Leigh Rubin
On Wednesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in Harbor View Hall’s Gatehouse Lounge, please join cartoonist Leigh Rubin for a discussion entitled “A Twisted Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste.” Rubin is the creator of “Rubes,” a cartoon syndicated in more than 400 newspapers and media outlets.
In the video below, cartoonist Leigh Rubin of Rubes Cartoons teaches Paul Robins and Bethany Crouch of KTXL TV, the Fox affiliate in Sacramento, California, the tricks of his trade.