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Volume 21, Number 14, November 21, 2001
Calendar
News Items
Regents' Policy on Code of
Conduct
I want to alert you to the fact
that included with the November 14 payroll is a copy of the Regents'
Policy on Code of Conduct. This is a policy that applies to all
employees as well as others who receive funds administered by the
University or who speak or act as agents for the University. As
members of the University community, I urge you to read the Code.
Distribution of the Code in this way will be an annual event and will
provide you with an opportunity to reacquaint yourselves with its
provisions. The policy may also be found, on-line, at <www.umn.edu/regents/policies/academic/Conduct.html>.
If you have any
questions about any part of the Code, please direct those questions to
your supervisor.
--Mark G. Yudof, President, University of Minnesota
Photos
for Your Presentations
Faculty, staff, and
administrators who wish to use “stock” photo images of UMC and our
students in action are encouraged to check out the online stock photo
file at
http://www.umcrookston.edu/special/photofile/. Simply click on the
thumbnail image for a larger version, then right click on the image to
copy it. Feel free to use any of these images in your presentations.
Check back occasionally to see new photos as we add them.
--Andrew Svec, Director of Communications
Athletic
Scholarship Raffle Tickets
Athletic Scholarship Raffle
Tickets are now on sale. As a ticket owner, you have an opportunity to
win $100 each week for 16 weeks. Tickets are on sale until December 7,
2001. First drawing is December 12. Ticket price is $20. All proceeds
go to the athletic scholarship fund. Please contact any Teambacker
member for tickets or call Rose at 8439.
--Curt Almlie, Director, University Relations
Sugarbeet
Scholarship
A $500 cash scholarship is
available if you are:
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Full-time UMC student – Sophomore, Junior or Senior, who will graduate no earlier than May 2002;
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Son or daughter of an American Crystal Sugar Company shareholder family;
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Seeking an agricultural degree pertaining to crops, especially sugarbeet production, or planning a career in sugarbeet production or a field closely related to the industry; and
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Available to attend the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association Annual Meeting in Fargo on Thursday, December 6, 2001.
Applications are available at the Northwest Research and Outreach Center (NWROC) office, 202 Ag Research Center, or call Patti Malme at 8602 for more information as soon as possible. Applications are due by November 27.
Security
Services Information
All faculty and staff are
encouraged to please review and familiarize themselves with Safety and
Security on Campus--the UMC Security Services website. The site
contains information about programs and services, the campus drug and
alcohol policy, Sexual Assault Victim's Rights Policy, parking
regulations, and campus crime statistics relating to our campus.
To learn about UMC Security Services
click on the following link:
http://www.umcrookston.edu/people/services/reslife/security.htm
To learn about UMC's Crime Statistics
click on the following link:
http://www.umcrookston.edu/people/services/reslife/Stats/crimestats.htm
To review Crime Statistics from other
Universities in the USA click on the following link:
http://ope.ed.gov/security/
--Gary Willhite, Director of Residential Life/Security Services
Recommended Academic Year Calendars
The UMC Calendar
Committee has forwarded its recommendations to the UMC administration
for the academic year calendars 2003-04 through 2006-2007. The calendar
for 2002-03 had been finalized last year.
Several changes were recommended in the calendars to more closely align UMC's calendar with the U of M-Twin Cities and Bemidji State.
Notable calendar characteristics include:
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reducing the number of instructional days during fall semester from 75 to 73
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reducing the number of instructional days during spring semester from 75 to 74
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moving the starting date for 2003 to the Tuesday after Labor Day
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eliminating the October in-service (no classes) day
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providing for a 3-week break between fall and spring semester
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starting spring semester the Monday prior to Martin Luther King Day
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eliminating the February in-service (no classes) day
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matching spring break with the UM-Twin Cities
The recommended calendars can be accessed at:
UMC Academic
Calendars and Calendar Drafts
http://webhome.crk.umn.edu/~nelson/calendars.htm
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Final 2003-2004
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Draft 2004-2005
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Preliminary 2005-06
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Initial 2006-07
Calendar Committee
Members
Tara Mattson, Student
Kevin Poppel, Student
Sarah Meyers, Student
John Zak, University Relations/Media Services
Brian Miller, Health and Human Services
Chris Przemieniecki, Athletics
Meloni Rasmussen, Student Activities
Kelley Nelson, United Staff Association
Bill Peterson, Learning Foundations
Twyla Treanor, Business and Technology
Chuck Habstritt, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Bob Nelson, Student Affairs/Registrar (Chairperson)
Reports
of Degrees Granted and Scheduled Courses Now Available on the Web
Information Management Systems
has published new reports to help University staff and faculty find
information about degrees granted and scheduled courses and instructors.
Reports can be found at
http://www.umreports.umn.edu .
Official Degrees Granted
Look under Student Records
to find Official Degrees Granted. This new report lists all
degrees granted for each college and term/month with majors, minors,
subplans, and degree honors.
Students are listed once for each major, minor, certificate, or honor awarded and may appear on the report multiple times. Those who receive dual degrees in two different colleges appear on the list of both colleges.
The collegiate degree count at the bottom of the report counts the distinct degree types per student identification number ("emplid") owned by the college selected in the prompts.
The Official Degrees Address List link in the header takes you to a diploma address file for the students on the list. If no diploma address is available, the report displays the current mailing address.
Scheduled Courses
Look under
Enrollment/Course Reports for the new Scheduled Courses
report. It allows colleges and departments to view the classes they
offer beginning with fall semester 2001. The report is for each term,
college, and subject, and will display course information including
instructor name, role, and enrollment counts.
The report can be
sorted to easily identify missing instructor names and downloaded to
Excel to create a spreadsheet to update missing instructor employee I.D.
number ("emplid"), name, and role. It also provides a count of active
courses and active class sections.
--The Record; News about admissions, records, and student systems;
Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost; November 2001, Vol.
25, No. 9
Soo-Yin Lim Thompson, assistant professor of early childhood
education, and Steve Shirley, instructor of marketing, will
attend the Denmark International Study Program (DISP) International
Educators Workshop at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. While
there, they will meet with faculty members in the international business
and early childhood programs. They will also meet with potential
internship employers for the educational programs in London, England.
They will be away from UMC November 16-26.
Steve Shirley, marketing instructor at UMC, and Glenn Olsen, professor in the Teaching and Learning Department at UND, together recently published an article in Child Care Informational Exchange, a national journal for early childhood education. The article, “Resolving Staff Conflict: The End Justifies the Means,” appears in the September/October 2001 issue.
This Week’s Special Dates
Birthdays
November 23 - Mario Prada
November 27 - Pam Holsinger-Fuchs
November 27 - Doug Knowlton
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.
UMC Insight
UMC Insight, the weekly radio
show about UMC, will air Saturday, November 24, at 8:45 a.m. on KROX
Radio 1260 AM. Tune in to hear Mike Christopherson, assistant director
of service learning, talk about the new volunteer clearinghouse project
for Crookston. This edition of UMC
Insight is hosted by Andrew Svec, UMC’s director of communications.
UMC Insight files are
also available via the Web at:
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/newsevents/insight/01-02/index.htm>
UMC Bulletin
The UMC Bulletin is posted at:
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm>