Calendar

July 7-13
▪ Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) Camp
July 8-12
▪ ITC Faculty/Staff Technology Workshops
July 8, 15, 22, 29, August 5, 12
▪ Field Soil Morphology Workshop Series
July 9, 16, 23
▪ ITC Web Accessibility Workshops
July 15-31
▪ Lysaker Gym Closed for Floor Work 
July 20
▪ Teambackers Golf Classic, Crookston
July 28-30
▪ Football Camp
July 29
▪ Teambackers Mark Olsonawski Golf Tournament, Hallock 
August 2
▪ Teambackers Heart of the Valley Golf Tournament, Ada
August 4-7
▪ FYE Summer Start
August 6
▪ Teambackers Women’s Golf Tournament, Crookston

News Items

Maziar Appointed U of M Executive VP and Provost 
After an extensive national search, we are delighted to announce that Christine Maziar has accepted the position of executive vice president and provost for the University of Minnesota, effective July 15, pending approval by the Board of Regents.

Christine brings outstanding academic and administrative experience, deep support among both internal and external communities, and a record of accomplishment as dean of the Graduate School and vice president for Research.

During her tenure at the University, Christine has overseen the implementation of a new, nationally recognized grants management system, strengthened graduate programs, developed strong relationships with the external community, and championed a record level of research funding for the University.  She has a deep commitment to our students and to advancing the academic mission of the University.  We are confident that under her leadership the University will continue to improve its academic programs and build on the initiatives we've undertaken.  Read More.

We wish to publicly thank the search committee for its diligent work.
--Mark G. Yudof, President, & Robert Bruininks, Interim President Designate

Oliver to Take on Development Role, Stassen Appointed Head Football Coach
Current head football coach Scott Oliver will take on a new role at UMC effective July 28, 2002, when he will resign as head football coach and will be appointed as an associate development officer with responsibilities of fundraising for UMC athletics.  Shannon Stassen, currently assistant football coach and offense coordinator, will serve as the head football coach for the 2002 season.

According to UMC officials, the change will be “budget neutral,” meaning no new funding will be used.  “There is precedent to adjusting staff assignments and responsibilities,” said Chancellor Don Sargeant,  “and the simple truth is that in order to be viable and competitive in Division II athletics, we need to reorganize our resources to meet those needs and to improve efficiency.  We needed to find a creative way to move forward with athletic fundraising, and I think we have.”  

The appointment will be for one year, renewable, and the major goal of the change will be to bring the amount raised for UMC athletic scholarships from $170,000 to $250,000 per year.  Sargeant said, “The UMC Golden Eagles Football Team has improved each year.  Scott has obviously been successful there, and I’m confident he will continue his success in the arena of development for all our athletic programs.”

Oliver will also maintain some direct ties to UMC’s coaching staff.  He will serve as assistant hockey coach, working with head hockey coach Gary Warren. Read More.

UMC Hosts Camp RYLA July 7-13

Approximately 125 students from Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, will attend the 11th Annual Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) Camp July 7-13.  UMC co-hosts the summer leadership camp with Rotary International District 5580.  Visit www.campryla.org for more info. 

Web Accessibility Workshops Set for July 9, 16, 23
As web accessibility is becoming an increasingly critical issue for departmental and course websites throughout the U of M system, the ITC will offer a one-hour workshop, "Web Accessibility Design Made Easy," at 10 a.m. on July 9, repeated on July 16 and 23. 

Workshop Agenda:

• Web Accessibility Overview 

• Review the Accessibility Guidelines Summary

• View Examples of Good and Bad Websites

• Questions & Answers

• Hands-on practice

Jesse Anderson and Rebekah Stortroen will be conducting the workshop.  Please e-mail me or Rebekah the date you plan to attend.  Thank you for making web accessibility a priority this coming school year.
--Dan Lim, Director, Instructional Technology Center

Update on Summer Golf Events 
Due to heavy rains some of the summer golf events scheduled for June have been rescheduled.  Below is an updated list of events.  Everyone is welcome to participate.  If you have questions, please contact the Office of University Relations at 218-281-8436 or -8439.

Saturday, July 20
Teambackers Golf Classic 
Minakwa Golf Club, Crookston
Registration at 10 a.m., start at 11 a.m.
Registration:  $65 per person

Monday, July 29 
Mark Olsonawski Golf Tournament
Two River Golf Course, Hallock, MN
Registration at 11:30 a.m., start at 12:30 p.m.
Registration:  $25 per person

Friday, August 2 
Ada Golf Tournament 
Heart of the Valley Golf Club, Ada, MN
Registration at 11 a.m., start at 1 p.m.
Registration:  $30 per person

Tuesday, August 6
Women's Golf Classic 
Minakwa Golf Club, Crookston
Registration at Noon, start at 1 p.m.
Registration:  $25 per person

Refer to the website for more info: 
www.umcrookston.edu/people/alumni/alumnigolf.

On-line Pay Statements
A reminder that the University is moving to on-line pay statements beginning in July.  For those employees who receive their salary through direct deposit, the printed pay statements will no longer be mailed to UMC for distribution.  Employees will be responsible for viewing and/or printing their own pay statements. The instructions below provide more details for your review.  I encourage you to try viewing your last pay statement on-line right now to see how easy and convenient this new service is (see link below).  If you do not have an X.500 username and password set up, give the helpdesk a call (281-8000) and they can assist you with this. Any employees who do not have any electronic access and cannot utilize the on-line features should notify Gail Hasbrouck ASAP if they must have a printed copy of the pay statements, as we will need to arrange for these to continue to be printed and mailed to UMC.  Please let me know if you have any questions. 
--Dean McCleary, Vice Chancellor for Finance

WHAT'S NEW?

Beginning with the June 12, 2002, pay date, you can access your pay statement through the Human Resources Self Service (HRSS) Web site at http://hrss.umn.edu. Effective with the above date, all pay statements for all employees will be available online. Paper direct deposit statements will be discontinued July 24 except in cases where employees do not have access to the Internet or have other reasons for receiving a printed direct deposit statement from Payroll. Employees who currently are not on direct deposit can access their pay statements online, but will continue to receive paper checks. 

This exciting new application advances our goal of improving University services and processes by delivering more information online. In March, the University introduced online W-2 and W-4 applications. In addition to this information, you can also access personal information regarding retirement, personal demographics, flexible spending accounts, training history and online training registration, and vacation and sick leave accruals. The HRSS Web site also provides general information on University human resources policies, procedures, resources and much more. 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION 

• Online pay statements will be available beginning with the June 12 pay date. Pay statements will be online and on paper for the following three pay days:  June 12, June 26 and July 10, to help employees become accustomed to the new service. 

• Starting July 24, employees who have direct deposit will no longer receive a paper copy unless circumstances warrant and they make arrangements with their department payroll administrators. Each department will determine how employees should communicate this to their payroll administrators.

• The pay statements of all employees will be online whether or not they receive direct deposit or actual paychecks.

• Employees who do not have direct deposit will continue to receive paper pay statements. 

• The same data that is on printed pay statements will be on the Online Pay Statement.  The exception is that the first two to six digits of your bank account number (depending on the length of your bank account number) will be suppressed.  This will look much like other web applications, like online banking and online use of your credit card number, that hide parts of a number when it is displayed.  

BENEFITS OF THE ONLINE PAY STATEMENT

• Pay information is delivered more securely than the current paper distribution process. 

• Employees can see their pay statement two days before payday. Please note that pay is not deposited sooner.

• Pay statements will be stored online and available for two years (from rollout).

• Employees can access pay statements online from remote locations. 

• Online pay statements are a more efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly process and an improvement to employee services. The University anticipates reductions in paper use and staff time needed in the distribution processes.

SECURITY

This method of distributing pay statements is more secure than the current paper distribution process. The current process is manually intensive, with many people handling the pay statements before they are put in employees' mailboxes, which are often located in non-secured areas. We eliminate all of this when delivering your pay statement online and we can also assure you that the online environment is secure. Our security measures are the generally accepted standards used by other organizations to secure their Web applications. 

PAY INFORMATION Q & A WEB SITE

For more information about Online Pay Statements, visit the Web site at www.umn.edu/ohr/hrss to get answers to commonly asked questions, including (but not limited to) browser recommendations and logon instructions.  You will also find more detailed information about other items mentioned in this communication.  If clicking on the web site from this memo does not directly link you to the Q & A Web site, copy the URL from this paragraph, open your browser, paste the URL into the address window on your browser, and click on enter or Go.

OTHER NEW INFORMATION NOW ONLINE

The new Employee Services section is now available on the HRSS Web site. Find out about Home and Family, University Entertainment, Career Resources, Health and Wellness and New Employee Essentials. In the future, the Life Events section will allow you to browse information in a completely different way. We are adding new content to HRSS continually, so visit often.

Our goal is to provide you with easily accessible, accurate, and useful information to help you with all of your employment related questions. As you use this system, you may have ideas or suggestions for other resources that you'd like to see delivered through HRSS, and if so, I'd like to hear from you.  Please e-mail me at carrier@umn.edu .

Summer Start August 4-7
Nearly 30 students will take part in UMC’s first Summer Start, a unique optional program offered to introduce students to college life at UMC.   The program is also designed to help new students establish new friendships, introduce them to UMC faculty, staff, and student leaders, and guide them in acquiring the skills they need to be successful in college.

Students will register for Computer Applications (CA 1010), a one-credit introduction to technology course that is required for all new students.  In addition to receiving academic credit, participating students will live in campus residence halls and participate in outside social programs to help make the transition to college a little easier.

Results of Student Satisfaction Survey 2002 
The results of the Student Satisfaction Survey completed by degree-seeking students in April 2002 has been posted to the web at the following site: webhome.crk.umn.edu/~nelson/surveys.htm. 

Among the responses: When asked about the overall quality of the University's academic programs, 90.3% of the respondents answered favorably, rating it “good” (30.6%), “very good” (51.5%), or “excellent” (8.2%).

Club Guidebooks Available
Club Guidebooks are now available from Meloni Rasmussen in Bede Hall 106. These books provide the reader with a short synopsis about each of the student clubs and organizations at UMC.   The books were created by scientific and technical communication senior seminar students as a service learning project.  The information was compiled and written by Jen Pederson, Sharon Altepeter, and Twylla Altepeter.

Awards Presented at NWSA Reunion 
Five Northwest School of Agriculture (NWSA) alumni were named Top Aggies at the annual NWSA Reunion, held June 28-29.   They included:  Charles “Casey” Brantner ’50 of Moorhead; David Haugo ’52 of Waubun; Ralph and Carol Green Tucker ’52 of St. Thomas, ND; and Donald Strickler ’62 of Euclid.  Former UMC Director of Development Del Roelofs received the NWSA Distinguished Service Award.

For photos from the day, go to www.umcrookston.edu/people/alumni/NWSA-Reunion/2002/.

Summer Rental of Outdoor Equipment
Bede Student Center has Outdoor Equipment for rent.  You can rent items such as canoes, backpacks, tents, a bug fogger, and sleeping bags.  For a complete list of rental items and their costs go to www.umcrookston.edu/people/services/studentcenter/outdoorctr/index.htm.  If you are interested in renting any of these items, contact Meloni in Bede 106, via e-mail at melonir@mail.crk.umn.edu or call extension 8506.  Meloni's summer hours beginning June 3 and continuing through July 26 are M-F 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.  You can reach her in the morning at 8586.ctivities and Service Learning

Staff Updates
As of July 1, Charla Hollingsworth has joined the staff of the Northwest Research and Outreach Center (NWROC) as a plant pathologist.  Hollingsworth has a Ph.D. in agronomy with plant pathology and plant breeding specialties from the University of Wyoming in Laramie.  Her office is room 114 in the Ag Research Center, and her phone number is 8627.  Please welcome her to the campus.

Accolades 
Eric Burgess, Instructor of Business Management, and Steven Shirley, Instructor of Marketing, gave a presentation entitled "Interactive Technology-Based Learning" at the 14th Annual International Conference of the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) in Houston on June 24.  The presentation focused on their use of technology at UMC to enhance their course curriculum.  The presentation will be published in the conference proceedings.  Refer to www.acbsp.org/conference.html for more information.  

Extending Sympathy

Upcoming Special Dates

Birthdays

• July 11 - Sue Brorson

• July 15 - Ardis Thompson

• July 17 - Betty Murphy

• July 17 - Steve Shirley

• July 28 - Peggy Miller

Reminder:  Faculty and staff are encouraged to share well wishes for birthdays, anniversaries, births, etc. with the rest of the campus.  Please send items for this week’s special dates via e-mail to Andrew Svec at asvec@mail.crk.umn.edu and/or Sue Dwyer at sdwyer@mail.crk.umn.edu. Thanks. 

Bulletin Schedule for Summer
Listed below is the scheduled release date with submission deadline date in parentheses for the final edition of UMC Summer News.  

• July 29 (deadline, July 26) 

Please submit all items for Summer News to Andrew Svec at asvec@mail.crk.umn.edu.  

The UMC Weekly Bulletin will resume weekly publication on Wednesday, August 21, 2002.  Deadline for submission for that edition is noon on Tuesday, August 20, 2002.  
--Andrew Svec, Director of Communications

UMC Insight
UMC Insight, the weekly radio show about UMC, will continue to air on KROX Radio 1260 AM Saturdays during the summer in its regular 8:45 a.m. time slot.  

New this year, UMC Insight will continue to air through the summer in its regular Saturday timeslot, but the program will focus on regional nature-based recreation and wildlife topics.  John Loegering and David Arscott, both of whom are involved with the Nature Northwest Project, will host UMC Insight for twelve weeks during June 1-August 17.  Thanks to KROX 1260 AM for working with UMC on this project.

UMC Insight files are available via the Web at:
www.umcrookston.edu/newsevents/insight/01-02/index.htm.

UMC Insight will return to its traditional, UMC-related topic format on Saturday, August 24.

UMC Bulletin

The UMC Bulletin is posted at:
www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm.

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