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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: 2OPEN ENROLLMENT the 2WELLNESS 3NEW FACES GARNET connection 4COMMUNITY GATHERING 5 HR N EWS SWARTHMORE COLLEGE HUMAN RESOURCES NEWS 6MILESTONES 7INAUGURATION PHOTOS Inauguration of College’s 15th President Calendar of Events Through Nov. 6 Benefits Open Enrollment Wednesday, Nov. 4 Compensation Study Community Meetings 9–10 a.m. and 1:30 –2:30 p.m., Bond Hall Nov. 4 –6 Faculty/Staff Development Week Details on Campus Calendar Friday, Nov. 13 Swarthmore College Self-Study on Learning, Working, and Living Valerie Smith greets 10:30 a.m.–noon and well-wishers. 12:30–2 p.m., Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema alerie Smith, a distinguished scholar of African-American Thursday, Nov. 19 Vliterature and culture, was All Staff Meeting installed as the 15th president of 10:30 a.m.–noon, Swarthmore Oct. 3 during a Lang Concert Hall ceremony in the Lamb-Miller Field House. In addition to remarks by Thursday, Nov. 19 President Smith and Chair of the New Hire Reception Board of Managers Tom Spock ’78, 3:30 p.m.–5 p.m., Bond Hall the installation featured community greetings from Tom Stephenson, representing the faculty; Lynne Thursday, Dec. 10 Cottman, a 42-year College staff Lynne Cottman Winter Gathering member in Dining Services (pictured from other institutions of higher 10 a.m.–noon, Lang Concert Hall right); Christine Kim ’17 and Stephen education. The ceremony also Sekula ’17, co-presidents of Student included performances by the Government; Kimberly Wright Gamelan Semara Santi and the Cassidy ’85, representing alumni; Chester Children’s Chorus. and Tim Kearney, mayor of Submit items of interest to: Swarthmore, along with greetings Continued on page 7 [email protected] the GARNET connection 1 FALL 2015 Open Enrollment Season for Faculty, Staff Wellness s Halloween approaches, it’s For more information on open With the new academic year well that time of year again: Open enrollment, please visit the human under way, the members of the AEnrollment, which will run resources (HR) website . Committee on Work Life until Friday, Nov. 6. Initiatives are excited by Important update: Annually, High Deductible Health Plans renewed emphasis on community the new plan year will begin Jan. 1. (HDHP) and Health Savings wellness. The committee is Accounts (HSAs) partnering with Student Health This means any changes you choose and Wellness and Athletics to during the 2015 open enrollment will If you enroll in the high deductible health plan (HDHP) and are a full- create robust wellness be effective on Jan. 1, 2016. programming for all members of time, benefits-eligible employee, the As in the past, please review your our community. benefit elections carefully. If you plan College will make an annual to make changes to your contribution to your health savings In September, the Independence Blue Cross Mobile Express health/dental/vision insurance account (HSA) in the amount of 50 percent of the medical insurance arrived on campus and provided selections or plan to open or flu shots and other educational continue a flexible spending account deductible. An HSA allows employees to health materials. Flu shots and (FSA) or a health savings account biometric screenings also were save pre-tax money through payroll (HSA), you must make an active offered at the Benefits and election through mySwarthmore . deductions and to use those funds to Wellness Fair. pay for qualified medical expenses. The Athletics Department soon will have a schedule of free fitness classes, open to all In remembrance members of the College community. Later this semester, In July, the Swarthmore community mourned the loss of Alan Swarthmore will host a Fitbit Berkowitz, Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Movement challenge to inspire Classical Languages and Professor of Chinese. Friends, community members to take family, and colleagues remembered Berkowitz, who joined strides to being more active. the College faculty in 1989, at a memorial service in Consider stopping in and enjoying September in the Scott Outdoor Amphitheater. The Matchbox, the state-of-the- art fitness center, or exploring After earning a bachelor’s in Asian studies and comparative the beauty of the campus literature from the University of Vermont, Berkowitz completed a master’s walking trails. Let’s get moving. and doctorate in classical Chinese language and literature at the University of Washington. His primary research interests spanned the poetry and During Faculty/Staff Development culture of the Six Dynasties and Tang period of Chinese history. He also Week in November, there will be studied the cross-section of traditional literature and thought; individualism workshops on Mindfulness and in conduct and portrayal; and with relation to environmental studies, Healthy Cooking, along with a mountains, tea, and culinary traditions. heart-pumping Zumba class. In partnership with Family Foods, The community has also mourned Cornell Science Librarian on-campus nutrition counseling Meg Spencer, who died in a car accident in September. Her will continue. life was celebrated with a memorial last month in a packed Lang Concert Hall, where she was remembered by friends The community will also once and family as someone who shared her wit, knowledge, and, again participate in the Maintain perhaps most significantly, her love of books and reading. Don’t Gain Challenge. This program supports healthy living Spencer came to Swarthmore 34 years ago as a research and weight management over the assistant in the Psychology Department. She joined the library staff in 1983, holidays. Weigh in session will be later serving as acting science librarian until she formally took on the role in held the week of Nov. 16, with 1999. For more than 10 years, she co-led an internship program to interest more details to come. undergraduates and underrepresented U.S. minorities in pursuing careers in If you have any suggestions library science. Spencer received a bachelor’s degree from the University of about future programming, Richmond and a master’s degree from Drexel University. please email [email protected] . the GARNET connection 2 FALL 2015 met ropolitan Nashville, Tenn., and communications at the Davis served on Vanderbilt’s multicultural School of Gerontology at the New Faces admitted student weekend University of Southern California committee. (USC) and as the managing editor of Moe earned bachelor’s degrees Instinct , a monthly magazine. He in political science and in also taught writing at the Alice Holland came journalism and mass communication undergraduate level. to campus July 1 as with a concentration in public Riggs earned a bachelor’s in the new director of relations and strategic media. He journalism and in English from the Health and Wellness received a master’s of education in University of Kentucky as well as a Services. She brings a higher education from Vanderbilt master’s in professional writing from vast array of and is a doctoral student in USC. experience and knowledge of education in higher education at student health and wellness issues the University of Pennsylvania. with a focus on diversity and New Hires inclusion. Michelle Ray joined Beginning in 2013, she served the Dean of Students To introduce new members of our as director of Student Health division as the case community, the Garnet Connection Services at Quinnipiac University, manager and will list recently hired staff, as space in Hamden, Conn., where she grievance adviser to permits. Below are the individuals developed a strategic plan for support students who began working at the College inclusion, multiculturalism, and involved in student conduct issues, between March 1 and Oct. 1, and globalism and established A from academic misconduct to who have not already been Sexuality 101 and Ally Training. She sexual assault and harassment. She recognized in the Garnet Connection : was the director of Student Health will also help educate the Emily Almas , assistant dean, Services at The Pennsylvania State community about the College’s Admissions Office University–Berks Campus from process and policies, and students’ Christie Ashton , staff accountant, 2005–2013. rights and responsibilities. Business Office She earned her bachelor Most recently a part of the Alejandra Barajas ’15 , degrees at Cedar Crest College, University of Pennsylvania’s admissions counselor, Admissions Allentown; a master’s at Division of Equity and Access in the Office Misericordia University in Dallas, Penncap Office, Ray worked with Rebecca Bernstein , Title IX Pa.; and from Widener University, pre-freshman. Previously at the fellow, Office of the President Chester, Pa., her master’s and university, she worked in the areas Scott Cassidy , production doctorate in human sexuality. She is of crisis intervention, student manager/technical director, also a nationally certified sexuality conduct, and graduate student Department of Theater educator. residence life /programming. Celia Caust-Ellenbogen ’09 , She earned a master’s degree in archive associate, Friends Historical Andrew Moe joined Swarthmore student affairs in higher education Library as a senior assistant dean of from the Indiana University of Kathryn Cording , post-doctorate Admissions and director of access Pennsylvania. psychology resident, Counseling and programming Aug. 31 after and Psychological Services nearly eight years at Vanderbilt Jonathan Riggs is Michelle Crumsho , administrative University. At Swarthmore, he will the new editor of the assistant, Communications