Increase the Green in Your Life

Use creativity and teamwork to foster an environmentally friendly workplace. Do you want to explore ways to help your office be kinder to the environment and more cost-effective? Participate in this workshop to gain tips on how to:
• Raise your team’s environmental awareness,
• Reduce energy and water use,
• Reduce waste (of paper, disposables, plastics),
• Increase recycling,
• Encourage alternative transportation,
• Engage in environmentally preferred purchasing,
• Plan and manage green events,
• Track impact, and
• Make environmentalism fun by using creativity, recognition, and incentives!

Learn about concepts of sustainability and share ideas for ways we can make our everyday activities more sustainable. Whether you want to green your own practices or learn about ways your overall office can reduce its environmental impact, this interactive workshop will inspire you and provide you with tools needed to make a positive difference.
Participants are encouraged to bring 5 ideas for how, with the right tools, their office might be able to reduce its environmental impact. For details or to share ideas, email recycle@suffolk.edu.

Facilitator: Erica Mattison, Campus Sustainability Coordinator
Date: Tuesday, February 5th, 12-1pm-CANCELLED
Thursday, March 27th, 1-2pm
Monday, April 14th, 12-1pm
Location: Linnehan Conference Room, 13th Floor, Stahl Building
Brown bag lunch. Drinks and dessert will be provided.

Interacting with the Different Generations: What are the Expectations?

At Suffolk, just like other colleges, universities, and the workplace, there are multi generations working and studying here.  Along with that, there are different expectations, demands, and ways of interacting.  In this seminar, we will talk about what these expectations are and how they impact all of us.  You will learn some strategies that will help in working with these expectations and demands.

Facilitator: Dr. Carol Zulauf
Date: Wednesday, March 26th, 12-2 pm
Location: Linnehan Conference Room, 13th Floor, Stahl Building
Lunch is included

Research Resources and Techniques-Using Sawyer Library Databases

Do you need to do scholarly research? Would you like to find information on health matters or investments? Perhaps you’d like to be able to do quick lookups in dictionaries or encyclopedias without leaving your home or office? Sawyer Library provides access to many high-quality databases that can help. Kathi Maio, of the Sawyer Library Reference Department, is available by appointment to describe the available resources, and how to access and make good use of them. These sessions can be for a single individual or for a staff group. Don’t rely on the unauthenticated junk out on the general Internet! Learn how to the use the "good stuff" that Suffolk provides for students, faculty & staff.