Time for OPEN ENROLLMENT. This is your opportunity to make changes to your benefits for January 1. Your action is required by November 30, 2009. Remember this is also the time to elect your annual contribution for any of your flexible spending accounts. Use link in this message to learn more.

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How do you ride the wave of change? Do you dig your heels in and hold on to comfortable, secure behaviors? Do you embrace change as an opportunity? This program will help you open your mind to the possibilities that change can bring and see problems not as threats but as opportunities for growth.

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Voting ends December 5 at midnight. Go vote for your favorites!

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The Skidmore Business Network (SBN), an alumni driven professional networking initiative, has launched a career-targeted program, Fastrack, in partnership with Career Services. The program will enable students, who must apply to the program, an excellent way to jump-start their careers.

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For her new book, Professor of English Catherine J. Golden researched the Victorian Penny Post, considered as revolutionary in its time as email and text messages are today. The lessons of past offer valuable information in the debate over closing post offices, she asserts in this Times Union essay. Read More.

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On Nov. 22, the popular concert takes place for the last time in Filene Recital Hall. This year's focus is "Abbey Road" and Professor Gordon Thompson (left) will be among the performers. (Photo by Andrew Plotsky '09) Read More.

In the space of 40 years American corporations abandoned racially exclusionary employment policies and embraced some form of affirmative action. Historian Jennifer Delton explores the reasons for this in her new book Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940-1990. Read More.