Volume 22, Number 28, March 12, 2003
Calendar
News Items
United
Staff Association Spring Semester Meeting March 12
The UMC United Staff
Association will hold a meeting on Wednesday, March 12, at 10:30 a.m.,
in Brown Dining Room A&B of Sahlstrom Conference Center. The agenda
includes an update from Don Cavalier on the Wellness Program and from
Chancellor Don Sargeant on the budget situation. Treats will be served.
"Voices
Merging" Poetry Reading March 17
A special poetry reading is
scheduled for Monday, March 17, at 4 p.m., in Kiehle 116. The event
will be presented by students from the Twin Cities Women's Center in
celebration of Women's History Month. All persons who enjoy listening
to poetry are invited to attend, and those who write poetry are
encouraged to share their writing at this session.
March
17 International Seminar Spotlights Colombia
The second dinner in the annual
UMC International Seminar Series will focus on “Colombia: Not Just
Coffee…Nor Drugs.” Among the presenters for the program will be UMC
students Pilar Cardenas, Luis Guillermo Cardenas, and Andres Felipe
Monroy. Each evening in the series will begin at 6 p.m. with an ethnic
dinner, followed at 7 p.m. by a program focusing on the culture and
traditions of the respective country. The dinner will be served in
Brown Dining Room of UMC’s Sahlstrom Conference Center and is by
reservation only. Cost is $8 per person. Please make reservations for
the seminar series by calling Brent Melsa at 218-281-8540 or
218-281-8538.
March
17 Great Conversations: Corporate Responsibility
Will the scandals and shady
business practices give rise to a new era of corporate responsibility?
Will congressional actions amount to window dressing or true reform?
Hear Norman Bowie, Elmer L. Andersen Chair for Corporate
Responsibility at the Carlson School of Management, and Thomas Dunfee,
Joseph Kolodny Chair of Social Responsibility in Business at the Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania, discuss these issues during
the second installment of the 2003 Great Conversations series, sponsored
by the College of Continuing Education. The event will be held on
Monday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m., in the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the
Twin Cities Campus. At UMC the conversation will be shown in Dowell
Hall Room 220, and it is free and open to all students, faculty, staff,
and the general public. Refreshments will be served.
Learn more at <www.cce.umn.edu/conversations>.
UMC
Celebrates First Year Students March 19
The
First Year Experience office is hosting a celebration honoring
first-year students on Wednesday, March 19 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in
Sahlstrom Conference Center 131. The first year of college is
challenging, therefore we’d like to honor those students what
successfully completed their first semester at UMC by providing
recognition and support for their accomplishments. All faculty and
staff are invited to stop by to congratulate students on their
accomplishments. Refreshments will be provided.
--Kami Mattson, Director of First Year Experience
Safety
Training March 20
The University of Minnesota,
Crookston and Northwest Research and Outreach Center will hold annual
required safety training on Thursday, March 20, at the Youngquist
Auditorium, Ag Research Center Building. The same session will be held
twice, once in the morning and again in the afternoon. Training
sessions will be refresher courses on Laboratory Safety, Minnesota
Employee Right to Know, and Hazardous Waste. Administrators and
supervisors, please make sure your employees and student workers attend
the appropriate refresher course(s) for your work area.
First Session:
10 to 10:15 a.m. Laboratory Safety
10:15 to 10:30 a.m. Employee Right to Know
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Hazardous Waste
Second Session:
1 to 1:15 p.m. Laboratory Safety
1:15 to 1:30 p.m. Employee Right to Know
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Hazardous Waste
Please bring coats if
you wish as we will be going over to the Hazardous Waste facility. If
you have questions please call Tom or Anne. Thank you and see you on
March 20.
--Tom Feiro, Environmental Health & Safety Tech, UMC; x8300
--Anne Burke, Compliance Officer, NWROC; x8610
Update
on Chancellor Search
I want to take this opportunity
to update you on the status of the UMC chancellor search. In short, we
are moving full steam ahead. Chuck Bunting, search consultant from A.T.
Kearney, has been working tirelessly to generate a strong pool of
candidates for the position and, based on our recent conversation, he
has succeeded. The search committee has begun reviewing applications
and the first set of interviews will take place in the first week or two
in April. Final on-campus interviews will take place at the end of
April or beginning of May. We are on track to have a new chancellor in
place by this summer or, at the latest, the beginning of the academic
year.
I want to thank the campus community for its continued support of this
process and for your participation in the discussions with Chuck Bunting
in January. As always, please feel free to contact me or one of the
search committee members if you have any questions or feedback regarding
the search.
--Robert J. Jones, Vice President
& Executive Vice Provost, Chair, UMC Chancellor Search Committee
2003 S.O.S.
Leaders Selected
The First Year Experience office
is proud to announce that 35 student leaders have been hired to serve as
the 2003 Student Orientation Staff. The group will participate in an
off-campus training retreat at Itasca State Park Hostel Center on March
22-23, 2003. Fall training is scheduled for August 26-28, and new
student orientation August 29-September 1. For a list of the SOS
leaders, visit <http://www.umcrookston.edu/fye/FYE_Staff/Index.htm>.
Brandon Sykora, a sophomore from Browns Valley, MN and Ben Loll, a
junior from Campbell, MN were selected by their peers to serve as Team
Leaders for the Student Orientation Staff. Their responsibilities
include assisting in the recruitment, selection, and training of the new
staff, and planning the orientation schedule. The team leaders and Kami
Mattson will present a session “Building a Community of Leaders –
Retreat Style” at the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA)
Region V conference in Normal, IL on April 12, 2003.
--Kami Mattson, Director of First Year Experience
Reminder
of Web Portal “CMyU” Services
UMC Web Services would like to
remind you of what is available through CMyU, the UMC web portal.
Please note the sample channels mentioned below and the URL for CMyU is:
<http://cmyu.umcrookston.edu>.
Students:
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Student Performance Notification (check your mid-term grade notices)
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Dining Services Account (check the balance of your meal plan and morsels account)
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My Notebook Inventory (check your assigned computer inventory or Dialup account info)
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CMyU Messenger (send instant messages and chat with friends in real-time)
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Academic / Registration Records (check your grades, course schedule, & register for classes)
Faculty:
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My Classes - Faculty (using x500 login, go directly to view or print class lists)
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My Advisees (view advisee's Student Performance Notification)
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Student Evaluations Manager (open and close SEoT for each course when needed)
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My Notebook Inventory (check your assigned computer inventory or Dialup account info)
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Pay Statement Information (using x500 login, go directly to view or print pay statements)
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Retirement / Leave Accounts (using x500 login, go directly to view your online accounts)
Staff:
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Pay Statement Information (using x500 login, go directly to view or print pay statements)
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Retirement / Leave Accounts (using x500 login, go directly to view your online accounts)
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My Notebook Inventory (check your assigned computer inventory or Dialup account info)
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CMyU Messenger (send instant messages and chat with friends in real-time)
As a service to our UMC community, CMyU is a web portal, a virtual desktop, to view many UMC Channels of information or web pages, and to add and view your own Channels. The over 700 active users have logged into CMyU more than 9000 times including over 100 guest accounts created by users from other universities such as UNC, Chapman, MSUGF, WSU, BHSU, NDSCS, and NTCMN; other countries such as hunca.com.tr, utic.kiev.ua, videotron.ca; and other networks such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, sjm.com, mcleodusa.net, and marvin.com.
We hope that this
website will continue to offer you convenient and easy access to the UMC
community and all its resources. To report problems or if you have
questions, please use the CMyU Feedback link. You can also call
218-281-8374 or send an email to:
tmulvane@mail.crk.umn.edu
--Tom Mulvaney, UMC Web Services
Space Assignment Recommendations
The campus Space Assignment
Committee has made the recommendations to the Executive Committee listed
below.
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Assign Hill 15 as student lounge/study area and Hill 115 as conference room during Student Center Construction.
At the time the original decisions regarding re-location of Bede services and programs were made last year the assumption was that the Atrium would continue to be available for use as a student study/lounge area to serve the east side of campus, specifically Owen and Hill halls. However, with the incorporation of the Atrium within the new Student Center this will not be possible. Therefore, the Committee has received a request to re-assign Hill 115 as an interim student lounge/study space during the construction period. A review of the current year’s class schedule reveals that one class was scheduled in this room Fall 2002 (Math 0992) and one class in Spring 2003 (STC 3652). Due to concerns by the Committee regarding potential noise problems affecting nearby classrooms the recommendation is to assign Hill 15 as an interim study/lounge area and move the existing conference room table and chairs to Hill 115. Hopefully this will minimize any noise problems. -
Assign Owen 104 as additional storage location for AODAP and RYLA materials.
Room has already been designated as shared space for PIM lab prep, AgNatR storage, and outing equipment seasonal storage. The Committee received a request for storage space for AODAP and Camp RYLA materials (8 boxes of material and posters, 4 tubs of information, 100 4'by8' posters). The recommendation is to assign these to Owen 104. This is in addition to the previous assignment of storage space for out-of-season outing equipment materials. -
Assign Dowell 123 as Multicultural & International Programs office and Multicultural Lounge and Dowell 115 as office for Silvernagel and Yon.
Dowell 115 was previously occupied by Dan Lim who has moved to Kiehle. Mario Prada, Multicultural and International Programs Director, was recommended to be assigned to Dowell 115 with the move to be effective 3/15/03 during Student Center construction. Craig Silvernagel and Tamara Yon (adjunct) had previously been sharing office space in Dowell 215 with Eric Burgess and were temporarily assigned to Dowell 115 when Dowell 215 was re-assigned to DeMuth and Center for Faculty Research (Summer 2002). Dowell 123 had originally been assigned to be shared by AODAP and Diversity Coordinator. AODAP position will not be filled and Diversity Coordinator has requested to remain in adjunct space in Selvig.
--Bob Nelson, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs/Registrar, Space Committee Chairperson
VolunTEAM Update
If you’re interested in learning
more about the Crookston VolunTEAM, please contact Mike Christopherson
in the VolunTEAM office (Dowell 112) at 281-8526 or
chris282@umcrookston.edu. Or, simply visit
www.volunteam.org.
Accolades
The UMC Golden Eagles Women’s Basketball Team upset Concordia St.
Paul for the second time to advance to the semifinals of the NSIC
tournament. Amy Kuznia, a junior from Stephen, made two free
throws with 1.7 seconds remaining in the game to give UMC the win 66-65
over Concordia-St. Paul in the Northern Sun Conference first round game
on Wednesday, March 5.
UMC’s Cinderella hopes were kept alive on Saturday, March 8, when Cathy Behr, a junior from Willmar, scored 17 of her 24 points in the second half that afternoon to lead the Golden Eagles to a 79-73 victory over Northern State in the second round semifinals of the NSIC tournament.
That win allowed the Golden Eagles to advance to meet U of M, Duluth in the championship game on Sunday, March 9, with the winner receiving the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division II tournament. Despite a competitive game where Karna Plaine, a freshman from Hatton, N.D., scored 20 points to lead UMC, Cathy Behr added 15, and Amy Kuznia took 14 (4 of 6 shots from 3-point range), the UMD Bulldogs outlasted UMC 68-60, ending the Golden Eagles' hopes for a trip to the NCAA Division II tournament. Still, kudos to Coach Mike Curfman and all the members of the 2002-2003 UMC Golden Eagles Women’s Basketball Team for their hard work and accomplishments!
Special Dates
Birthdays
March 12 - Dave Hoff
March 19 - Kent Freberg
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, airs on KROX Radio 1260 AM Saturdays at 8:45 a.m.
Tune in Saturday, March 15, to hear a conversation with Kami Mattson, Director of
UMC's First Year Experience Program. Insight is hosted by Andrew Svec, UMC
Director of Communications.
UMC
Bulletin
The UMC Bulletin is posted at:
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm>