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UNH Study Abroad Creates Facebook Global Group
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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Towards this definition, UNH study-abroad has created a “global group” to connect current, potential and prospective UNH study-abroad students to each other. Through UNH’s agreements with study abroad organizations such as Cultural Experiences Abroad (CEA) and the Center for International Studies (CIS), students from other universities are now receiving UNH transcripts when they study abroad. Students from other colleges and universities who travel with these organizations often meet UNH students, offering UNH students opportunities to network with American and Foreign colleagues. This UNH study-abroad network can include students from any college or university around the world.

So far the new global group is relatively small but will certainly grow as more students experience semesters abroad and when students who have already been abroad join the network. Students can easily share pictures, notes, stories and videos from afar.

Of course no material posting on the global group will be harmful, threatening, unlawful, abusive, vulgar or otherwise obscene to any ethnic, cultural, religious, minority or national group.

The site is a friendly way to encourage students to think and act globally. Anyone who has an existing Facebook profile is encouraged to join the global group. The global group can be found by searching Facebook groups for “University of New Haven study abroad”, to join the group click on “request to join”.

“It’s a great medium to connect students to each other and to keep up with friendships made abroad. “ Says study-abroad graduate assistant and I/O student Ernest Byers.

Required Harassment Prevention Training
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I am writing to you to announce the launch of a new Harassment Prevention Training Program. Similar training has taken place in the past but with limited focus. We have expanded our concentration to include other types of harassment training besides the mandated sexual harassment training.

While portions of this training are mandated by State and Federal law, I believe there is a much more important reason behind it. It is critical to our success as a University in that we stay motivated and focused toward our goals, objectives and our overall strategic plan. A campus environment free of harassment will help facilitate these goals and create a better place to work and learn.

I am requesting that each supervisor that has not gone through the former program to complete the on-line program as soon as possible as there are time requirements in the law. You will receive an email from Workplace Answers with log in details very soon and you will have 90 days to complete the training. This log in is specific to you and cannot be transferred. For those who have gone through the former program, a packet of information on other types of harassment will be sent to you for your review.

I am also requesting that most non-supervisory employees go through an employee version of this training. The employee version takes approximately one hour and the supervisor version takes two hours. You will receive an email from Workplace Answers with log in details very soon and you will have 90 days to complete the training.

In the event on-line training will not work for you or some of your employees, Human Resources will conduct in person sessions periodically throughout the year. In compliance with the laws and regulations, Human Resources will be monitoring attendance.

I am personally committed to striving toward a campus environment free of all types of harassment. Please support this initiative by covering the topic in your next department meeting, taking the course if necessary or reviewing the materials. The University of New Haven embraces the philosophy that all community members should enjoy an environment free of sexual harassment or any other type of harassment. It is the policy of the University to prevent and eliminate harassment. This training is one way we put our words into action.

My best,

Steven H. Kaplan
President