Volume 21, Number 18, December 19, 2001
Calendar
News Items
Spring Semester
New Student Orientation January 8
The First Year Experience
office will be hosting Orientation for new students for spring
semester on Tuesday, January 8. Students will have the opportunity to
attend financial aid sessions and technology workshops, check out
their laptop computer and receive their U Card, and meet faculty,
staff and student leaders.
Faculty and student services staff are invited to meet our new students at a lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Sahlstrom Conference Center A, B, C. Lunch will be provided for those who attend.
A
detailed schedule is available on the FYE website at
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/fye/Orientation/Index.htm>.
If you have any questions regarding Orientation, please contact the
First Year Experience office at #8339 or
kmattson@mail.crk.umn.edu.
--Kami Mattson, Director of First Year Experience
Farewell for Moen and
Voigt December 20
All faculty and staff are invited
to a farewell reception for Diane Moen, Center for Technology Support,
and Tom Voigt, Information Technology Management, from 2 to 3 p.m. in
the Bede Ballroom on Thursday, December 20. Diane and Tom will be
leaving UMC at the end of the semester, and this will give everyone a
chance to thank them for their service to the campus.
Annual Staff Potluck Set
for December 21
The annual campus community
employee seasonal celebration potluck dinner will be held on Friday,
December 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Morsels, Sahlstrom
Conference Center. All faculty and staff are invited including UMC,
NWROC, Minnesota Extension (Polk County, Area, and District), Valley
Technology Park, and AURI. All are encouraged to bring any food
items they wish. Food should be brought to Morsels at 11:00 a.m.
Refrigerators and ovens are available in the kitchen and hookups for
crock pots are also available.
Anyone who would like to take part in the White Elephant Gift Exchange should bring a “white elephant” gift of garage sale quality. If you bring a gift, you'll get a number. Once your number's drawn, you select your gift--either from the tree or you can steal from someone else! It's really quite fun! The gift exchange will start at noon.
Faculty and staff are also encouraged to bring nonperishable food items for the local food bank. Please join us for some fun and fellowship!
Bookstore
Holiday Hours
The UMC Bookstore will be closed December 24, 25, 31 and January 1,
2002. Bookstore hours from December 26 through January 4 are from
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The bookstore will resume normal hours of 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday on January 7, 2002. For the first
day of classes, the bookstore will have expanded hours of 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
--Leela Hier, Program Director, UMC Bookstore
Flu Shot Clinic January 10
There will be a Flu Shot Clinic
on Thursday, January 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in Sahlstrom Conference
Center A & B. This will be offered free for students; all others will
be charged $10.00. Check out the following web site from the Center for
Disease Control for more information.
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/flu/default.htm. Sponsored by Student Health
and Polk County Public Health.
--Stacey Grunewald, Student Health
Campus Master Plan
Approved
Faculty, staff, and students are
encouraged to review the revised UMC Campus Master Plan, which is
available online at <www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/masterplan/MP-2001.htm>.
A printed copy is also available in the UMC Library. The U of M Board
of Regents gave preliminary approval of the plan at their November
meeting and gave final approval on December 12.
--Judy Neppel, Assistant to the Chancellor
Award
Nomination
UMC’s
Office of Service Learning is pleased to announce that nominations are
now being accepted for the 2002 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service
Learning, to be presented by Campus Compact at its first National Summit
on November 7-9, 2002 in Providence, RI. In addition to the national
recognition, the recipient of the award—named in honor of the former
chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and President Emeritus of
Indiana University—will receive $2,000.
For the first time in the award’s history, in addition to nominations put forth by presidents of member campuses, nominations can also be made by faculty, students, administrators and community partners. Also for the first time, more than one nomination may be submitted from each campus. Nomination materials must be received by Campus Compact no later than 5 p.m. on February 15, 2002. Stop by UMC’s Office of Service Learning, located in Bede Student Center 106, to pick up a form or learn more about the nomination process and award criteria. For more information, visit Campus Compact’s website, www.compact.org.
Ten finalists will also
be selected and recognized, with the award recipient being notified in
March 2002. The winner will be asked to attend the National Gathering
of Educators for Community Engagement in June 2002 to give a keynote
address.
--Mike Christopherson, Assistant Director of Service Learning
UMC Link Site for Great Conversations Series
The U of M’s College of Continuing Education is sponsoring the Great Conversations series in early 2002 and has generously offered this series to the coordinate campuses via ITV. UMC’s Concerts and Lectures Committee is cosponsoring this series here on our campus. Five nationally renowned individuals will discuss a topic with a U of M dignitary on one Tuesday each month. The series will be free and open to the public at our UMC site.
At UMC you will be able to see and hear these conversations in UTOC 30, beginning at 7:30 p.m. each night. Faculty may want to keep these dates in mind as they are planning their course syllabi and their spring schedules.
Scheduled topics and speakers include:
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
The Stem Cell Revolution with Catherine Verfaillie,
Director, U of M Stem Cell Institute, and Austin Smith, University of
Edinburgh, Scotland
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
The Media with Jane Kirtley, Director, Silha Center of
Media Ethics and Law, and Brian Lamb, Founder and CEO, C-SPAN
For more information about the series go to: <www.cce.umn.edu/conversations>.
Assessment Website
A website has been developed to
archive and post new info regarding UMC’s assessment plans. The site is
located at
www.umcrookston.edu/UMCadmin/AcademicAff/Assessment/index.htm and has
links from the UMC general academic info web pages. As the year
progresses, more information will be posted there and made available to
the campus community. Marsha Odom will serve as the UMC Assessment
Coordinator.
Media Reminder
Dear faculty
and staff, please consider informing the Office of University Relations
when you have any contact with the media—interviews for newspapers or
with TV crews, etc. We send out many news releases and story ideas to
the media, but reporters and interviewers often do not notify us when
they decide to visit our campus. It helps us to be proactive if you
notify us whenever you’ve had contact with the media on campus. That
way we can prepare to record the local newscast or look for the
newspaper or magazine article and help promote the campus and its
programs. Keep us alerted! Thanks.
--Andrew Svec, Director of Communications
Accolades
The
December 2001 issue of American Red Angus Magazine, a national
publication for the cattle industry, features an article by UMC junior
Alaina Burt. Alaina is an agricultural business major. The article,
“Growing in the Right Direction,” is a series of interviews that
showcases the support of cattle industry leaders and producers for
younger industry professionals, many of whom are college students
majoring in agriculture-related programs.
Congratulations to students Emily Spinler, Dan Oberg, and Kara Clancy on
their presentation at the Student Leaders Forum held in conjunction with
the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, December
9. The students were on the same speaker's platform with fourteen “Big
Ten” and “Big Twelve” universities. Their presentation about the UMC
Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society incorporated a video segment on
the group’s visit to a winter den of a black bear and her cubs.
According to Dan Svedarsky, UMC professor of natural resources, “In
fact, I can say without stretching things, that [this] presentation was
THE best of the lot. Not bad for a club that is just getting out of the
starting blocks!”
This Week’s Special Dates
Birthdays
December 23 – Lynne Mullins
December 26 – Jo Gast
December 28 – Cleon Melsa
December 29 – Gayle Schuster
December 31 – Debi Brule
January 1 – John Rodseth
January 6 – Twyla Treanor
January 6 – Michelle Christopherson
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 on KROX Radio 1260 AM over the holidays in its
regular Saturday 8:45 a.m. time slot.
Tune in Saturday, December 22, at 8:45 a.m. to hear holiday musical selections performed by UMC’s Chamber Singers.
Tune in Saturday, December 29, at 8:45 a.m. to hear an interview with Information Technology Management instructor Martin Lundell.
Tune in Saturday, January 5, 2002, at 8:45 a.m. to hear John Loegering, assistant professor of natural resources—wildlife management, discuss his new research project dealing with attracting finches to bird feeders.
UMC Insight files are
also available via the Web at:
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/newsevents/insight/01-02/index.htm>
UMC Bulletin
The UMC Weekly Bulletin will not
be published the next two weeks due to the holidays. Look for the next
edition of the Weekly Bulletin dated January 9, 2002.
The UMC Bulletin is
posted at:
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm>