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Issue: November 2024
Newsletter for PG Business & Information Technology Students
SBIT BITS
News for Students
Issue: November 2024
Newsletter for PG Business & Information Technology Students
NEW SBIT PROGRAM!
"The School of Business and IT would like to remind you that we have an exciting internship opportunity available to business and IT students who meet the qualifications. Read more about the Benefits and the Requirements for participating in our Internship course. "
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November Trivia
Daylight Saving Time isn’t new! Back in 1784 Benjamin Franklin suggested the idea to the Continental Congress as a way to conserve candles (Only night light back then!) However, it wasn’t until World War I that Daylight Saving Time was formally adopted – and Germany was the first country to implement it in 1916. There have been many iterations in the US since the first implementation back in 1918, and the current system is part of the Congressional Law in the Uniform Time Act of 1966.
Another November trivia – it was November 26, 1783, when the US Continental Congress first met in Annapolis, Maryland. Their top agenda – to discuss the Paris Treaty, signed the prior September, in which England formally recognized the Thirteen Colonies as independent of Great Britain. This was on Wednesday – as Thursday November 27, 1783, was Thanksgiving Day!
More Thanksgiving Trivia:
Which president refused to recognize Thanksgiving?
Thomas Jefferson was famously the only Founding Father and early president who refused to declare days of thanksgiving and fasting in the United States. Unlike his political rivals, the Federalists, Jefferson believed in “a wall of separation between Church and State” and believed that endorsing such celebrations as president would amount to a state-sponsored religious worship. Read more.
What does the poem, 'Mary had a little lamb,' have to do with Thanksgiving?
The first official proclamation of a national Thanksgiving holiday didn’t come until 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln called for an annual Thanksgiving celebration on the final Thursday in November. The proclamation was the result of years of impassioned lobbying by "Mary Had a Little Lamb" author and abolitionist Sarah Josepha Hale.
How did a botched Thanksgiving order lead to the TV tray dinner?
In 1953, an employee at C.A. Swanson & Sons overestimated demand for Thanksgiving turkey and the company was left with some 260 tons of extra frozen birds. As a solution, Smithsonian reports, a Swanson salesman ordered 5,000 aluminum trays, devised a turkey meal and recruited an assembly line of workers to compile what would become the first TV tray dinners. A culinary hit was born. In the first full year of production, 1954, the company sold 10 million turkey TV tray dinners.
Christyne Baxter, MBA 2024, Purdue Global
Chief Sales Officer for Chamberlain Coffee
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Who are they? SAS was once known as The Center for Disability Services (CDS). The department name was recently changed to Student Accessibility Services (SAS) to create a more inclusive environment that provides accessibility to all. Student Accessibility Services (SAS) at Purdue Global is the primary office responsible for the coordination of services for students with disabilities. Pursuant to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, Purdue Global will provide reasonable accommodations for students who have met the eligibility and verification requirements of SAS.
What do they do? SAS works directly with the student to provide accommodations that aid the student in being successful in their classes. SAS works as a liaison between the student and their instructors and notifies instructors of the student's approved accommodations each term. Students with temporary medical conditions can also request accommodations on a temporary basis.
How do you request an accommodation? Students with disabilities are responsible for requesting an accommodation. If you are a potential Purdue Global student, or already enrolled at Purdue Global, and are seeking accommodation(s) due to a diagnosed disability, you may request to be referred to Student Accessibility Services (SAS) through your university representative and/or contact SAS directly by telephone, or email. Actively enrolled students may also submit a self-referral to SAS through their student portal. SAS will then send an email to the student with information about requesting accommodations and will provide the required accommodation request forms attached to the email.
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