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ALBA: ROGRAMS TREAT ILDRE FFER FROM ANXIETY
The University’s Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders has two programs which help
anxiety-troubled children aged six to 16.
Both programs are headed by psychologist Wendy Silverman, One program treats sufferers of
general anxieties and phobias (fear of darkness, loud noises, crowds, dogs, etc.), the other
treats those who fear school,
School phobias may result from a fear of teachers, other children, tests, speaking before
a class, or may be rooted in family problems. Children who have been chronically absent from
school for a year or more are not eligible for treatment.
Treatments are drug-free. Psychologists work with parents as well as children to help the
children cope with and gradually overcome their anxieties,
For more information, call the Center at 456-4127. Dr. Silverman can be reached at that
number, or at 442-4842,
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MEDIA ADVISORY
EDUCATION AND BUSINESS EDITORS
OCTOBER 5 AND 6
According to estimates of the Carnegie Foundation, corporate America
spends nearly as much ($40 billion) each year educating its employees as the
total expenditures of the country's four-year colleges and universities.
Goverrmental agencies spend as much or more on similar training programs. As
part of a year-long study of some of the most involved corporations and
agencies, educators from IBM, General Electric, Motorola, UAW-Ford Employee
Development and Training Program, Johnson & Johnson, and the United States
Post Office will meet at Rockefeller Institute of Government, 411 State
Street in Albany, on October 5 and 6 to explain how they train their om
employees to enhance productivity and performance.
The Educational Enterprises Conference, organized by the Professional
Development Program at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at
the University at Albany, is designed to discover implications for New York
State such as innovative teaching methods used by corporations and
goverrmental agencies to develop a worker's professional knowledge and
foster organizational development. The Professional Development Program
operates the Public Service Training Program which coordinates continuing
education for state agencies and public employees' unions statewide.
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Monday, October 5, 1987
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Opening Remarks
Warren Ilchman, Acting Executive Vice President for Academic
Affairs, the University at Albany
Thomas J. Kinney Director, Professional Development Program
Project Findings .
Michael Thompson, Associate Director, Public Service Training
Program
James B. Northrop, Senior Project Associate, PDP
Organization Culture
Richard Kennedy, Director, General Electric Management
Development Institute, Croton-on-Hudson, New York
Reception and Dinner
Delivery Methods
John Robinson, Manager of External Affairs,
Motorola Training and Education Center, Schaumburg, Ill.
Union Collaboration
Kenneth K. Dickinson, Ricardo P. Martinez, Co-Executive
Directors,
UAW/Ford Employee Development and Training Center,
Dearborn, Michigan
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Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Rockefeller Institute of Government, 411 State St.
8:30 Organizational Planning
James DeVito, Director, Corporate Management Training and
Development, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey
9:15 Investments in Training and Development
John Bowsher, Director, IBM Corporate Management Development
Center, Armonk, New York
10:15 Collaboration in Educational Design
George Dean, Vice President of Educational Research and
Development, DeVry Institute, Evanston, Ill.
11:00 Innovations in Government
Don Geik, Director of Program Planning and Educational
Development, Governor's Office of Employee Relations
David Dubois, Bolger Management Academy, United States Post
Office
Peter Giovannini, Manager of Training and Research Division,
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Peter
Tomalonis, Assistant Manager
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ALL NATURAL HISTORY LECTURE SERIES BEGINS AT THE
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
The Natural History Lecture Series, organized each year by well-known area
meteorologist Ray Falconer, will begin its 26th season on October 6. That evening, and
consecutive Tuesdays through November 17 (except November 3), the University at Albany’s
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and the state Department of Environmental
Conservation will feature free lectures on a variety of science topics. They will begin
at 8:00 p.m. in Lecture Center 7 on the uptown, University at Albany campus, just off
Washington Avenue.
The first fall lecture on October 6 will feature Dr. Alan Meltzer, a professor of
physics and astronomy at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute. Meltzer’s illustrated
presentation will pose the question, E.T. -- Are You There? It will consider the
Possibility of life elsewhere in the universe and will describe the current efforts in
the search for that life.
Meltzer’s talk will begin following a brief, illustrated discussion of the day’s
weather. In future weeks, other scheduled lectures will include:
October 13--The Dawn of the Supercollider. University at Albany professor of
physics, Walter Gibson, and professor of economics, Donald Reeb, will speak about the
Proposed superconducting supercollider. It will be the largest particle accelerator yet.
October 20--Origin of the Earth’s Moon -- The Latest Breakthrough. John Delano,
assistant professor of geo-chemistry at the University at Albany, will present recent
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evidence that the moon was blasted off from the earth during a collision some 4.5 billion
years ago.
October 27--A Naturalist Looks at Florida. A slide presentation by Bob
Budlinger, director of the Bureau of Environmental Education at the state Department of
Environmental Conservation, looking at observed changes in Florida’s flora and fauna in
recent years.
November 10--From the Four Corners of the Earth -- A Look at People and their
Environment. Kay Teale, professor of physical education at the College of St. Rose will
present a slide show on how people across the world view their environments.
November 17--El Nino - Its Devastating Effects Along the West Coast of South
America. Union College biology professor Carl George will talk about the El Nino
phenomenon.
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SENIOR CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS TO BE HONORED ON OCIOBER 8
More than 600 senior citizen volunteers from Schenectady and Albany
i counties will gather at the Convention Center of the Empire State Plaza at
noon on Thursday, October 8, for the annual recognition luncheon of the
Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). The awards ceremony should begin at
1pm.
Mayors Thomas Whalen, Karen Jchnson and Ronald Canestrari; Assemblymen
Richard J. Connors, James Tedesco, Paul Tonko and Michael McNulty; Colonie
I Supervisor Fred Field, and Commissioner Richard Healy of the Albany County
Office for the Aging and Handicapped will be on hand to present certificates
of recognition to each senior with more than 500 hours of volunteer time.
| The highest award, the RSVP-University at Albany Public Service Award, will
acknowledge the contribution of a very special volunteer considered to have
provided exemplary service.
The Retired Senior Volunteer Program in coordinated through the
University at Albany Office of Public Service and is funded by the
University, the Albany County Department of Aging and Handicapped, members
of the commmity and ACTION, a federal agency. Some 850 volunteers
participate in the program, contributing 150,000 hours of service this past
year.
| Volunteers are assigned to serve at nonprofit agencies and perform many
different jobs such as clerical duties, reading for the blind, making home
visits to the elderly, giving telephone reassurance to latch-key children,
gleening crops after farmers' harvests, sorting donated food at area food
banks, and tutoring children.
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