📣Calling all Fall 2024 Graduates This Fall Senior Celebration is your moment to celebrate the end of the academic year, reflect on the amazing memories you've made, and all the excitement your future holds! Throughout the week of Dec 2-6 we will have different events and parting gifts to celebrate YOU and your accomplishments⤵️  Fill out your BGSU Graduation survey (coming Dec. 2) and pick up your BGSU Alumni Mug Enjoy the Senior Lounge in the clocktower area on the second floor of the Bowen Thompson Student Union Join fellow graduates for Senior Toast Celebration to toast all you have accomplished Head back to the oaks for a nostalgic meal one last time

Need a location to study with your friends? Want to work on a group project? Or just want to be around other students to hold yourself accountable? Take action by coming to study in the Radbill Center on Wednesday nights from 6-8pm. These study sessions will be hosted by Life Design Student Ambassadors who bring fun energy to long study nights! Study Nights in the Rad begin September 11st and continue until December 4th. Snacks will be provided! The Radbill Center, known as the RAD, is a space for all students to find their place on campus. With a coffee (and tea and hot chocolate) station, along with tables and comfortable seating, the RAD is a great place to hang out, study, work on group projects or relax! Open 8 am - 9 pm Monday - Thursday, and 8 am - 5 pm on Friday. For questions, please email lifedesign@bgsu.edu or call 419-372-5533  

The 57th annual competitions in musical performance will take place December 4-7, 2024. Preliminary rounds will occur December 4-6 in Kobacker Hall, beginning each day at 10 a.m. The final round of competition will take place December 7 beginning at 10 a.m. in Kobacker. Winners of the competition will be featured soloists with the BG Philharmonia on February 15, 2025.

🎓Graduates, come enjoy the first ever Senior Lounge! A place for all of our December graduates to relax and celebrate.🙌🎉 At the Senior Lounge there will be⤵️ Photo op! Including Polaroid Frame Photos and a great backdrop for all your BG pics Write Thank you cards- Is there a faculty or staff that made all the difference? Let ‘em know! Hang out with your fellow graduating students! Grab a Falcon Outfitters Alumni Discount Card

This week in film club, we will learn other compositing secrets in VFX and CGI.  Then we will learn the President's speculation on the next big media M&A after the Paramount-Skydance merger.  We will then watch clips from "Unwrapped" on how certain cinema candies are made. Learn more at http://bgsu.presence.io/event/other-secrets-in-compositing-in-vfx-and-cgi-animation-the-next-big-media-m-a-clips-from-unwrapped-on-how-cinema-candies-are-made

Join Tammy Schleenbaker from Integrative Massotherapy for a FREE 8-minute, upperbody, chair massage.  The day of, a sign up sheet will be available in Falcon Square, North, near the monitor wall. Please arrive early to ensure you are able to receive your full time. If under the age of 18, a parent or guardian will need to complete a liability waiver.

Please join us for Dr. Lisa Hanasono's interactive workshop titled "Mentoring Up, Across, and Over: Approaches and Strategies that Support Graduate Students’ Success." In this session, we will explore approaches, practical tips and strategies on how graduate students can maximize their mentorships. This event is free and open to the public. It might be of particular interest to graduate students. Faculty, please feel free to let your graduate students know about this session.

"Let's Talk" is a free and confidential service available to all BGSU students. Students can meet for a brief, informal, 15-minute consultation with BGSU Counseling Center staff. They can listen to specific problems, help explore solutions and introduce you to what it’s like to speak with a member of the staff.  Please note: "Let's Talk" does not take the place of therapy, and consultations are not appropriate for urgent concerns or mental health emergencies. During the consultation, BGSU clinicians will listen to your concerns and offer support, information and resources.   Learn more about "Let's Talk">> __________________________________________________________ As the BGSU Counseling Center, we welcome all students and aspire to respect cultural, individual and role differences. Our goal is to create a safe, supportive, and affirming climate for individuals of all races, ethnicities, national origins, genders, gender identities, sexual/affectional orientations, religions, ages, abilities, sizes, socioeconomic statuses, languages and cultures. We invite you to start designing your individualized care plan with us by exploring all of the counseling services we have to offer you.

President Rodney K. Rogers invites you to a reception in celebration of the holiday season. No RSVP is required. Heavy hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be provided. If you have questions, please reach out to Ann Neely, director of presidential and signature events, at alinenk@bgsu.edu or 419-372-2240. Please indicate any dietary restrictions or any special assistance needed to fully participate in this event.

CANCELED. WILL RESCHEDULE IN JANUARY. DATE TBA. “Blue Notes” is a community-engaged experience in discovering how we can promote healing and our movement toward aliveness through art-making. In this conversation-workshop, Dr. Jones draws on practices from her training in Embodied Social Justice, Theatre of the Oppressed, and Theatrical Jazz to guide those gathered through a series of sonic, writing and movement experiences to uncover our “Blue Notes”—truths in our lives that are seldom expressed but can support us in our wholeness. This engaged workshop is an opportunity to think about the connections between intellectual projects and liberation, with particular attention to the ways that Africana spirituality emerges as a healing framework. All of Dr. Jones’ work rests on the premise that deep inner liberation is a necessary building block for lasting social transformation. She has provided workshops for domestic violence first responders through Safe Space (now The Safe Alliance) in Austin, Texas; for The Austin Project which she founded to use artmaking as a productive examination of inner wounds among women of color and our allies; and for The Diaspora Project which gathered Black women throughout the African diaspora to examine how anti-Blackness has created divisions among potential allies. Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. from New York University, and is a Professor Emerita from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, a mother, a Queer wife, and a curious sojourner. For more information about her work see: https://ournextnow.com/called-by-water

Off-campus students, join us at the library for hot chocolate and crafts! Connect with the Commuter Student Network and the Off-Campus Student Lounge, located on the first floor in the Market. Bring your friends to study or relax.The PAWS Team will be there from 4 - 5 as well, so come meet the dogs too! Learn more at http://bgsu.presence.io/event/cocoa-and-cram-commuter-student-network

Weekly PAWS therapy dog visit at Jerome Library during the Fall 2024 semester!  Wednesdays from 4–5 p.m. | Market at Jerome  No study hours Nov. 27. Send questions or comments to Ashley Hartman or call 419-372-4584.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you are struggling with your mental health contact the Counseling Center. An on-call counselor is available at 419-372-2081 for crisis situations from 8:00 a.m. to 5pm Monday-Friday. You can also utilize the Wood County Crisis Line at 419-502-4673 after Counseling Center business hours. The Crisis Text Line is also available. Text HOME to 741741 for a crisis counselor or text STEVE to 741741 for a culturally competent crisis counselor. You can also text or dial 988 to be connected to a crisis counselor 24/7. To individuals with disabilities, please indicate if you need special services, assistance, or appropriate modifications to fully participate in this event by contacting Accessibility Services, access@bgsu.edu, 419-372-8495. Please notify us prior to the event.

Join us for a Senior Champagne Toast Celebration! Doors Open at 5:15 p.m. | Toast Starts at 6 p.m. | Group Photo at 6 p.m. | Mingle from 6:15-7 p.m. Congratulations to our Falcon graduates! Welcome to the F.O.L.D., (Falcons of the Last Decade), a special alumni community celebrating and staying connected with our recent graduates. We hope you can join us for this champagne toast in celebration of YOU and all you have accomplished during your time as a BGSU student. But the journey doesn’t stop here!  Come and hear what it means to be an alumni and the benefits available to you while enjoying giveaways, time with friends, a little nostalgia, photo opportunities, and of course a champagne toast - on us!🥂 **while supplies lasts *Choice of champagne or non-alcoholic sparkling juice available. *Attendees must be a graduating senior to attend. Fall ’24 graduates eligible. *Please bring your BGID and your license/ State ID ✨Event Extras: Words of wisdom from the Alumni Board BGSU branded champagne glass for the first attendees Photo opportunity! – Backdrop and BGSU marquis letters available Did you fill out your BGSU Graduation Survey? Alumni mug pickup is available at this event!

Attention all men of color on the campus of Bowling Green State University: Are you interested in an evening filled with interactive activities, refreshments, meaningful discussions, supportive networking and opportunities to meet peers with similar experiences? Join us every other Wednesday in Bowen-Thompson Student Union, Room 316 from 6-8 p.m. for the K.I.N.G.S. of Color General Body Meeting. Our general bodies consist of an introduction to our organization and the executive members, followed by activities, discussions and speakers, and of course refreshments, with the theme of the event changing every time we meet, whether that be navigating a PWI, or leadership on campus, or mental health, those are just a few examples.  K.I.N.G.S. is an organization created by black men specifically for black men and is the only organization of its kind on campus. Our mission being to be a servant of the community, striving for excellence, dignity and compassion, while vouching for self advocacy and brotherhood. We encourage you to take full advantage of this opportunity to join us and let us hear your voice! If you're interested in learning about us and/or officially joining our organization and our community of men of color, you can do just that at this event. To keep up with us, follow our Instagram, @koc_bgsu, or email President gavenp@bgsu.edu with questions.