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- (June 15 & 20) FW: Diversity Training at Sinclair
- (June 17) FW: FW: Art Exhibit and Juneteenth Celebration
- (June 21) FW: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to Celebrate "Bee City USA" Designation
- (June 24) FW: Dayton Police Department Scenario Based Training - Spots Still Open
- FW: Thank you
- FW: Year 1 Community Health Improvement Plan Annual Report
- FW: [OFFICIAL-L] A message from interim President McCray
with related information & DDN articles
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From: NCCJ of Greater Dayton
Subject: (June 15 & 20) Diversity Training at Sinclair
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From: Simeon Oyeyemi
Subject: FW: Art Exhibit and Juneteenth Celebration
On Sat., June 17, NAAMCC, in partnership with the African American Visual Artist Guild of Dayton (AAVAG), will open the fourth Annual Black Heritage Through Visual Rhythms Juried Art Show. The show will include 79 original pieces and will run until January 13, 2018. This mixed media exhibit highlights the diversity, beauty, and power of the work of visual artists of African descent from across Ohio and the nation.
In addition to the art show opening, NAAMCC will celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of enslaved African Americans throughout the Confederate South.
Exhibit opening and Juneteenth program schedule:
- 10:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. Black Heritage Through Visual Rhythms Art Show
Continental Breakfast reception with the artists and judges - 10:30 a.m.— 11:30 a.m. Juneteenth Genealogy Workshop:
Object Collections and the Family Historian —Learn how to care for a set of china or an antique chair that you've had in the family for generations. Find out how to handle objects, maintain proper lighting, and temperatures to protect your valuable heirlooms for future generations to enjoy. Presented by the Ohio History Connection. - 11:30 a.m.– Noon Black Heritage Through Visual Rhythms Art Show
Opening Celebration and Artist Awards Ceremony - 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Juneteenth Express Yourself Saturday —Beads, beads and more beads!!! Design and create unique, colorful beads using paper. Experiment with shape and size to create a strand of cool jewelry.
- 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Juneteenth Musical Performance —S.T.A.R.S. Worldwide Live
S.T.A.R.S. is a music youth program based in Columbus and Cincinnati.
Other current NAAMCC exhibits include The Voices of the Revolution and Celebrating Our Past and Embracing Our Future: The History of Wilberforce University. Riddle's Ribs and Bar-B-Que Pop-up café will be open 11:00 am – 4:00 p.m. on NAAMCC grounds.
Programs and all activities free with paid museum admission. The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center is located at 1350 Brush Row Road in Wilberforce, Ohio. Museum hours are 9:00am – 4:00pm Wednesday through Saturday. Admission prices are: $6/reg. admission; $5/seniors, active military & AAA members; $3/children (ages 6-17 yrs.). Admission is always free to Ohio History Connection & NAAMCC members and children under six.
For more information, call NAAMCC at 800-752-2603 ext. 2113 or visit www.ohiohistory.org/naamcc
or Clifford Darrett (AAVAG) at 263-9907
From: Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Subject: (June 21) Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to Celebrate "Bee City USA" Designation
What is a Pollinator?
A pollinator is anything that helps carry pollen from the male part of the flower (stamen) to the female part of 
the same or another flower (stigma). The movement of pollen must occur for the the plant to become fertilized and produce fruits, seeds,and young plants. Some plants are self-pollinating, while others may be fertilized by pollen carried by wind or water. Still other flowers are pollinated by insects and animals, such as bees, wasps, moths, butterflies, birds, flies and small mammals, including bats.
Insects and other animals such as bats, beetles and flies visit flowers in search of food, shelter, nest-building materials, and sometimes even mates. Some pollinators, including many bee species, intentionally collect pollen. Others, such as many butterflies, birds and bats move pollen accidentally. Pollen sticks on their bodies while they are drinking or feeding on nectar in the flower blooms and is transported unknowingly from flower to flower resulting in pollination.
Life, as we know it, depends on...Pollinators
More than 75 percent of the earth's flowering plants depend on bees, butterflies, birds, bats, and other pollinators. Yet scientists have noted that these hardworking insects and other animals are in trouble. Our own well-being and the welfare of our planet rests upon their wings.
Why are Pollinators Important?
- Do you like to eat? One out of every three bites of food you eat exists because of the efforts of pollinators, including many fruits, vegetables, and seeds. Pollinators not only are necessary for our own food, but support the food and habitat of animals.
- Do you like clean air? Healthy ecosystems depend on pollinators. At least 75 percent of all the flowering plants on earth are pollinated by insects and animals! This amounts to more than 1,200 food crops and 180,000 different types of plants-plants which help stabilize our soils, clean our air, supply oxygen, and support wildlife.
- Do you want a healthy economy? In the United States alone, pollination by honey bees contributed to over $19 billion worth of crops in 2010, while pollination by other insect pollinators contributed to nearly $10 billion worth of crops.
From: Officer Chris Pawelski; Community Engagement, Dayton Police Department
Subject: Dayton Police Department Scenario Based Training - Spots Still Open
We still have several spots open for this training date on June 24th!
The Dayton Police Department will hold the next scenario based exercises for citizens on June 24, 2017. The exercises will consist of:
- Brief Safety Overview
- Traffic Stop Scenarios
- Match House Scenarios
During the traffic stops and match house scenarios you will be playing the role of a police officer, armed with a gun that shoots secure blanks. You will conduct a traffic stop with members from DPD as role players and you will complete a building search for an active shooter in our match house - which resembles a ranch style home. The schedule will be:
- Check-in - 8:30 - 9:00
- Safety Briefing 9:00 (no one will be admitted after the safety briefing starts)
- Traffic Stops
- Match House
There are only 20 spots available for each date. The spots will be filled on a first come first serve basis by replying to this email. If you are able to attend please respond to this email.
If you have already been through this training, please forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested.
To ensure your spot, please respond by soon, we anticipate the spots to be filled quickly.
If you have any questions, please let me (christopher.pawelski=daytonohio.gov@mail129.suw14.mcdlv.net) know.
From: Dayton Muslims; Abdul Shahid; President Ahmadiyya MuslimCommunity, Dayton Ohio Chapter
Subject: Thank you
Assalamoalekum Dear Friends,
We would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to all who were able to make it to our Iftar and discussion program yesterday. We appreciate the fact that despite the late hour you came out to support us in our breaking of the fast as well as to hear us out on the topic of Sharia specifically and Islam generally.
We sincerely hope we were able to remove some misconceptions as well as present the real picture of Islam. We also hope we were able to provide new information to you. However the discussion does not have to end here. We have our weekly program Coffee Cake & true Islam ongoing every single Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Please join us any time with friends and family and with your questions.
You can also contact me (daytonmuslims@gmail.com or : 937 344 7569) directly at this email address or on my cell number provided below.
From: Dawn Ebron
Subject: Year 1 Community Health Improvement Plan Annual Report
Community Members:
It has been a full year since the 2016 - 2019 Montgomery County Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) was finalized. Since then, numerous community organizations have been working to implement activities identified in the action plans addressing the goals of the three selected health priorities: birth outcomes, chronic disease prevention, and behavioral health.
Implementation of the CHIP began in April of 2016. This annual report outlines the progress the community has made during the first year of CHIP implementation.
Additionally, a CHIP Dashboard has been created. It displays the progress that has been made toward the individual action steps associated with each objective. This Dashboard will be updated quarterly.
The annual report, the complete CHIP, and the Dashboard can be found on PHDMC's CHIP webpage, http://www.phdmc.org/report/community-health-improvement-plan.
Feel free to send me any questions, comments, and/or feedback, and please distribute this report as you deem appropriate.
Thank you again for your continued support in making Montgomery County "a healthy, safe, and thriving community."
From: owner-official_list@wright.edu [mailto:owner-official_list@wright.edu] On Behalf Of Curtis McCray, Interim President, WSU
Subject: [OFFICIAL-L] A message from interim President McCray
Dear Campus Community,
Life's patterns are repeated time and again, or so it seems in my 80th year. Life and death and life are as definite as the seasons. Summer and winter and summer are two halves of the same experience--no summer, no winter, and on it goes.
Just so our experience at Wright State. We have come through a harsh winter. And we could leave it at that, nourish our cherished negative attitudes, and not look to the future. But I have faith--also a benefit of my 80th year--that we are prepared for a new journey, a new beginning as this summer season begins.
In this, the university's 50th year, there is every reason to believe that it is also ready--because of what we have gone through--to succeed in its next 50 years. As we emerge from this challenge, let's focus our righteous emotions on ensuring Wright State University remains the superb teaching and learning center it always has been. For, despite a storm of tough choices, the winter did not snow us in. We survived it and sunnier days are ahead. For indeed I am optimistic about the university.
This is a very good place and it has a bright future. We must not, however, once again be overcome by unsupported and unsupportable exuberance, by blind optimism. We have begun to steward our resources and we must continue. Our budget remains fragile; our enrollment, and hence our income, is uncertain. We cannot rest easily until we are confident of our strength--perhaps, not even then.
As I have learned in my short four months here, we have a vast residual of goodwill, strength, and passion that serves us well. Renewed strategic planning across the university for our future and for a rational approach to the many challenges that confront us must begin again. We should also be able to better address questions some have raised about the missions and purposes of university organizations and programs. Your next president, Dr. Cheryl B. Schrader, will play a central role in these efforts. She is committed to new comprehensive planning that makes better use of our talents and resources, and answers the question of "what ought we be?"
In the process of planning for our future, we must unite to steadily reinforce our good standing in the world of education and with the community that we have supported and partnered with for five decades.
There is much to do and there is much good that is possible. I urge you to join together in support of your new president and in the drive to a renewed institution.
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Latest missive from AAUP
See http://www.wright.edu/administration/aaup/2017.06.06-nego-report-e-mail-and-details-in-one-file.pdf
The top part (down through Marty's signature) was sent to all BUFMs in e-mail, and the rest was attached as a PDF.
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Wright State trustees approve more than $30.8 million in budget cuts
Max Filby; Staff Writer, Thursday, June 8, 2017 News
Wright State University's board of trustees approved more than $30.8 million in budget cuts Thursday even as top administrators and trustees panned the proposed reductions.
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The school will lay off around 57 employees as part of an overall elimination of 189 positions, which will save the university more than $13.9 million. WSU will save another $8 million from operational changes, $6 million from last year's voluntary retirement incentive plan and $2 million through additional attrition, according to the school.
The university's budget is $284 million.
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The number of positions being cut is up by 11 but the number of employees to be laid off is down by about 14 as more people decided to voluntarily leave the school. Layoff notices will go out to employees next week, officials said.
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Although the budget proposal was made public on May 19, it was criticized on Thursday by the very people who prepared it.
Interim WSU president Curtis McCray said the university's cuts should have cut around $10 million more.
"I think our problems are a little deeper…I would have preferred that perhaps our cuts had been around $40 million," McCray said after the $30.8-million cuts were approved. "It's going to be a tough year. It seems to me that probably we have yet cutting to do."
Jeff Ulliman, Wright State's vice president of business and finance, also cast doubt on the budget cuts when pressed by a community member during a question and answer session. Ulliman was asked if he had considered the public fallout of the cuts and if they would keep students from coming to the university.
In determining cuts, Ulliman said the university was unable take certain ideas into consideration because officials had a short timeline to find solutions.
"We did not, in my opinion, vet this well," Ulliman said.
RELATED: Recently announced layoffs, cuts won't be enough at Wright State
Like McCray, newly appointed trustee Bruce Langos suggested the budget cuts did not go far enough. He warned trustees that they may be "back in this room" to make more cuts in six to nine months.
Gov. John Kasich may also lose patience with trustees if they are unable to correct Wright State's finances soon, Langos said. Kasich appoints trustees but his office would not comment on Thursday on the suggestion that the governor would want to replace the board.
Wright State will need to add another $45 million to its reserve fund over the next three years, school and state officials have said. WSU is projected to end fiscal year 2017 with around $31 million in reserves, according to the budget. Regardless of the cuts approved this week, the school is on track to be placed on state fiscal watch by 2019.
The cuts the board approved were strategically made to have minimal impact on the university's "academic mission," said vice chairman Doug Fecher.
No faculty members are being laid off but no pay increases have been budgeted either. The only programs the school is eliminating are its Russian, Japanese and Italian language courses because of low enrollment.
RELATED: Wright State hits its 'low point' with announcement of layoffs
If deeper cuts were made, trustees would have had to consider eliminating entire degree programs and the university was "not ready to take that step yet," Fecher said.
"We've said our backs are up against the wall and they are," Fecher said. "You don't make major decisions about degree programs or athletic programs in a 90-day time frame, which is exactly what Dr. McCray had to do to put this budget together."
A 'sacrificial lamb'
Supporters of Wright State's swimming and diving teams may have kept the school from sinking the teams.
Alumni and members of WSU's swimming and diving teams attended the meeting and clapped and stood up as trustees discussed the teams.
Wright State's board of trustees directed McCray to work with the athletic director to see if there is a way to save the swimming and diving teams without increasing the athletics budget for fiscal year 2018. The board gave McCray until June 30 to see if there is a way to preserve the teams.
RELATED: WSU interim president: 'Our financial picture is grim'
Athletics funding has been a controversial topic since budget cuts were announced last month since the athletics budget increased. Fecher said athletics went over budget by so much in previous years that 2018's proposed $1.4 million budget increase will result in a $200,000 decrease in actual spending.
Trustee Grace Ramos said that it was unfair to cut the teams without giving student athletes more notice. Saving $200,000 in athletics does not justify ending the swimming and diving programs, Ramos said.
"We have, I think, jeopardized the swimmers and divers at this school and made them sort of the sacrificial lamb," Ramos said.
Upping enrollment
Amid budget cuts, WSU trustees also approved a 3 percent increase in tuition for out-of-state students and graduate students. Room and board fees will also increase by 3 percent.
Tuition is typically a college's biggest single source of revenue as it is at Wright State.
RELATED: UD Marriott says it's owed money for canceled WSU debate rooms
Wright State's tuition is nearly $1,000 below the national average and the school has one of the lowest tuition costs of Ohio's public universities. WSU's low sticker price can be a good thing but it may not be sustainable, Ulliman said.
"While this supports our commitment to a broader range of students it's not a sustainable model without a corresponding higher level of enrollment," Ulliman said.
But, enrollment is on the decline at Wright State. Enrollment dropped by 2.25 percent last academic year and it is expected to decline again next year by more than 5 percent to 13,861 total students, according to the budget.
Wright State is behind other universities in enrollment growth. WSU's enrollment has increased at 90 percent the rate of other state universities, Ulliman said.
RELATED: Budget analysis shows School of Medicine taking big hit
Officials are forming an enrollment task force to help turn that decline around. To avoid more cuts, the university needs to find a way to attract more students, officials have said.
"We can't continue cutting our way to prosperity," Ulliman said. "We need to increase enrollments."
Beyond the budget
Wright State's board of trustees tackled two other controversial matters Thursday.
The board eliminated 'bumping rights' for non-union classified staff in a five to three decision.
The policy change goes into effect immediately and means that if a position is eliminated, a non-union classified staff member cannot bump someone with less seniority from another position.
The board also responded to an inquiry from the Ohio Inspector General on an immigration investigation that has dogged the university for more than two years.
The OIG has requested access to material WSU provided to the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation and U.S. Attorney's office concerning potential immigration law violations. The board approved a resolution granting a limited waiver of attorney-client privilege in order to provide the materials to the OIG.
RELATED: Ohio Inspector General investigating Wright State for H-1B visa issues
In April, WSU trustees asked the university's attorney to make referrals for further investigations to the state out of "an abundance of caution," Fecher said. The OIG's request was likely the response to those referrals.
"I don't know that it's meaningful in any way other than they're starting the investigation," Fecher said.
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Ohio Inspector General investigating Wright State for H-1B visa issues
9:58 a.m. Thursday, June 8, 2017 News
The Ohio Inspector General's office is investigating Wright State University for matters related to H-1B visa fraud that may have occurred at the school, according to the WSU board of trustees agenda for today.
The board will respond to an inquiry from the Ohio Inspector General on an immigration investigation that has dogged the university for more than two years. The OIG has requested access to material WSU provided to the Ohio Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation and U.S. Attorney's office concerning potential immigration law violations, according to a resolution trustees will consider.
In 2015, a federal investigation came to light of WSU's potential misuse of a the federal H-1B work visa program, which led to four administrators being suspended; two remain on paid leave.
This newspaper revealed that Wright State sponsored 19 foreign workers who came to the U.S. to work at an area information technology staffing company that paid the workers less than what local graduates typically make for similar IT work. Immigration experts say it's possible the arrangement violated immigration laws designed to prevent staffing agencies from trafficking in cheap labor from overseas.
The inspector general's request brings to light a third probe of H-1B visa use at WSU.
The inspector general's office would not comment on any investigation at Wright State.
"It's a policy of the office not to discuss whether or not an investigation is being engaged in or provide updates or statuses of investigations," said Joshua Beasley, investigative attorney with the inspector general's office.
The OIG has a broad mandate under state law. It has authority to investigate not only potential violations of law, but also actions by state or public university employees that are "not in accordance with … such standards of proper governmental conduct as are commonly accepted in the community and thereby subverts, or tends to subvert, the process of government."
In April, WSU trustees asked the university's attorney to make referrals for further investigations to the state out of "an abundance of caution," said Doug Fecher, vice chairman of WSU's board of trustees. The OIG's request is likely the response to those referrals, Fecher said.
"I think this is just a step in the process. I don't think it signals any change," Fecher said. "I think the investigation is in a very early stage and they're still gathering information."
Fecher said he doesn't not know who was mentioned in the referrals or how many WSU's attorney made.
"For any organization, there's uncertainties. I think the outcome of this investigation is an uncertainty we're worried about," Fecher said. "But, I think what the board is most worried about is doing the right thing,"
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