Volume 22, Number 6, September 25, 2002
Calendar
News Items
One Stop
Open House September 25
The Academic Assistance Center,
Student Support Services, Counseling and Career Services, and
Disability Services are hosting an open house on Wednesday, September
25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Owen Hall 270. Faculty, staff, and
students are welcome, with a special invitation extended to all
adjunct faculty. Snacks and refreshments will be served all day long,
and soup will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Additional information sessions offered throughout the day will include:
10:00 a.m. –
Graduate School Information Session
1:00 p.m. – JAWS Screen Reading Demo
2:30 p.m. – eRecruiting Network (Career Management Solutions)
Join us and learn more about what we can offer the campus.
Student Center Design Open Forum September 25
An Open Forum has been scheduled
for Wednesday, September 25,
at 3 p.m. in Hill 4 to present initial design concepts
for the new student center building.
Representatives from YHR Partners Architecture Planning and Stanius Johnson Architects will share their conceptual design for the building and receive input from the campus community. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend.
--On behalf of the
Student Center Design Committee:
Bob Nelson, Chairperson
Jerry Knutson
Jim Myers
Kent Freberg
Lon Boike
Jill Anderson
Tom Feiro, ex officio
Brent Melsa, ex officio
Pam Holsinger-Fuchs, ex officio
Preliminary Official Fall 2002 Enrollment
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New Students |
Fall 2001 |
Fall 2002 |
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NHS (New High School) |
269 |
276 |
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NAS (New Advanced Standing) |
144 |
147 |
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Total-New |
413 |
423 (+10 or +2.4%) |
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Continuing Students |
741 |
736 (-5 or -0.7%) |
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Total Degree Seeking Students |
1154 |
1159 (+5 or +0.4%) |
Total Headcount Fall
2002: 2387
Degree seeking: 1159
Non-degree: 1228
Other enrollment
characteristics will follow.
--Russ Kreager, Director of Enrollment Management
“Best
College” for a Fifth Year
UMC has been ranked
one of the best public colleges in its category in the Midwest for a
fifth consecutive year, according to U.S. News and World Report’s
rankings for 2003. UMC was again ranked among the top four colleges
in the category “Top Public Midwestern Comprehensive
Colleges–Bachelor's.” Read more at <www.umcrookston.edu/newsevents/notices02-03/USnews2003.htm>.
State of the University
Address October 3
Interim
President Bruininks will give his State of the University Address on
Thursday, October 3, from 3 to 4 p.m. The address will be available as
a live downlink at UMC in Hill Hall, Room 15. A phone line will be
available for UMC faculty, staff, or students to call in for the
question and answer session immediately following Bruininks’ address.
UPlan
Open Enrollment Employee Benefits Forum September 27
Employee Benefits is sponsoring
information forums on your UPlan options on Friday, September 27, in
Sahlstrom Conference Center A, B & C.
Session I – 9 to 11
a.m., Forum for retirees and those interested in retirement
Session II – noon to 1:30 p.m., Forum for all active UMC employees
Your options:
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If you currently have dental coverage, you must select a new dental plan during this year’s Open Enrollment period. Representatives from the various dental plans will be on campus to help you make informed choices.
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If you plan to start or continue a pre-tax flexible spending account, you need to complete a new application every year.
Dental and medical plan representatives will be at each session to answer all your questions
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Delta Dental
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HealthPartners
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Definity Health
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PreferredOne
--Les Johnson, Director of Human Resources
Homecoming
Royalty
Homecoming royalty for 2002 were
named at Coronation on Thursday, September 19. They are Princess Sara Krippner of Kimball, MN, Prince John Burger of Afton, MN, Queen Megan
Brorson of Crookston, and King Ben Loll of Campbell, MN. The royalty
were selected by the UMC student body through a series of nominations
and voting.
Other members of the Junior Court included: DeAnn Ebert of Fairmont, MN; Kyle Rollness of Langdon, ND; Steph Brodeur of East Grand Forks, MN; Pete Kvien of Roseau, MN; Ellen Larson of Ottertail, MN; Dan Beitzel of Oakdale, MN; Andrea Prudhomme of Crookston; Brandon Sykora of Wheaton, MN.
Other members of the Senior Court included: Lisa Voth of Goodhue, MN; Tony Lorentz of Howard Lake, MN; Jaime Brause of Fergus Falls, MN; Jeremy Pape of Sanborn, MN; Susan Boeddeker of Brandon, MN; Tim Mareck of Albany, MN; Alaina Burt of Jacobson, MN; and Josh Kuchinka of Montgomery, MN.
Also at the Coronation program, Ben Loll and DeAnn Ebert won the “Dude Contest” with their ode to Dell computers bringing people together. They took home a Dell flat screen monitor and a Palm PDA, respectively.
Homecoming
Parade Winners
Saturday, September 21, featured the biggest and best
UMC Homecoming Parade ever. Nearly sixty parade entries participated.
We want to especially thank the UMC Band and the Crookston High School
Marching Band for providing music.
Thanks again to everyone who took part.
The winning entries in the Homecoming parade each take home $50 for their organization. They are:
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Best Illustration of the Homecoming Theme – Ag Industries Club
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Biggest Crowd Pleaser – Dairy Club
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Best Overall – Delta Theta Sigma
Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Program
Application material for
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program projects to be conducted
from January 1 through June 15 is now available in the Academic Affairs
Office. The maximum award is $1,700 – stipend up to $1,400 (hourly rate
is $10.84) and expense allowance up to $300. Completed applications
should be returned to the Academic Affairs Office by 4:30 p.m. on
October 7, 2002. Late applications will not be accepted. UROP offers
financial awards to undergraduate students for research, scholarly, or
creative projects undertaken in partnership with a faculty member. UROP
affords undergraduates the unique educational experience of
collaborating with a faculty member on the design and implementation of
a project. At the same time, faculty have the opportunity to work
closely with students and receive valuable assistance with their own
research or professional activity. UROP encourages students to conduct
research and pursue academic interests outside of their regular courses
by employing them to work on special projects. UROP applications are
judged on the quality of the proposed project and the educational
benefit to the student. Copies of UROP proposals submitted by UMC
students that have been funded are on reserve in the library.
--Academic Affairs
DARwin is coming in mid-October
DARwin—the new system for processing
transfer students and creating degree audit reports—is on schedule for
implementation in October.
The UM Twin Cities Office of
the Registrar and the Office of Admissions are now in the process of
converting mainframe data to DARwin from the existing Degree Audit
Reporting system/Academic Progress Audit system (DARS/APAS).
DARwin is the client-server version of the mainframe-based DARS. It is coming online because the University's mainframe computer eventually will be eliminated.
The change to DARwin will mean several new things for students and staff.
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In October, staff who now process APAS report exceptions will do it through a Web application. The exception panels will be similar to the mainframe screens they currently use. APAS reports will also be viewed, and printed copies available, from a Web panel. This will mean logging on to one application to all processing for APAS reports. Training for the new application will be held in early October.
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Students will be able to run their own audit reports from a Web application. They will also be able to search for degree programs--or "major shop"--on all U of M campuses.
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Advisers of record as well as staff who currently ahve access to run APAS reports will be able to run reports for their advisees.
More information and training sessions will be available in the coming months.
The project team is made up of staff from the Office Admissions, the Office of the Registrar, Applications Development and Maintenance, Central Computing Operations, and Web Development.
For questions or
information please contact Margo Mueller at
m-muel@mun.edu (UMC contact is Val Uttermark at
val@mail.crk.umn.edu)
--reprinted from The Record, August
2002, Vol. 26, No. 8, Student Services Communications, Office of
University Relations, University of Minnesota
UMC Student Loan
Default Rates
The US Department of
Education recently released default rates for student loans. The
University of Minnesota, Crookston rate for FY 2000 was 2.6%. This
compares to a national rate of 5.6% and a Minnesota state rate of 3.6%.
The national student loan default rate reached a high of 22.4 percent in
FY 1990 and declined steadily to the FY 1999 low of 5.6 percent. Schools
with excessive default rates of 25 percent or greater for three
consecutive years, or greater than 40 percent for one year, face loss of
eligibility to participate in the loan and/or Pell Grant programs.
UMC's rates for the past three years are: 1998 (5.3% ), 1999 (5.7%), and 2000 (2.6%).
Cohort default rate is defined by statute as the percentage of borrowers who enter repayment in a certain fiscal year and default before the end of the next fiscal year. The new national default rate is for FY 2000—the most current data available—and represents the cohort of borrowers whose first loan repayments came due on or after October 1, 1999, the beginning of FY 2000, and who defaulted before September 30, 2001. A default is defined as 270 days without a payment.
The national rate reflects loans made to borrowers who attended some 6,400 individual schools that participated in the Family Federal Education Loan Program (FFEL) and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program.
Congratulations to
UMC's Office of Student Financial Aid for their efforts in improving
UMC's default rate.
--Don Sargeant, Chancellor
ITC Fall Faculty Technology
Presentations
The ITC will be hosting three
Faculty Technology Presentations (each month at noon on a Friday) this
Fall. We would like to cluster the presentations around three areas:
Real-World Learning, Assessment, and Student Motivation. We hope you
can showcase your completed project or work in progress. Please e-mail
me if you plan to present on any of the following dates:
Oct. 11: Real-World Learning Through
Technology Integration
Nov. 08: Assessment Through Technology Integration
Dec. 06: Motivation Through
Technology Integration
Location will be
confirmed later.
--Dan Lim, Director, Instructional Technology Center
New
Learning Interactives
Some 20 new Flash learning games
(mostly Millionaire) have been created since July 2002. They are
available at the
ITC website (Click "Flash Games"). Here are some highlights:
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Website games by Zach Albaugh, UMC
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Nutrition games by Kari Vallager, UMC
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Food games by Ken Myers, UMC
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Communication games by Mark Huglen, UMC
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Business 1100 games by Cheryl Stansfield of North Hennepin Community College
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Music Millionaire game by Jim Lucas of Northern Illinois University
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Library Trivia game by Lori Mardis of Northwest Missouri State U
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Feeds & Feeding game by Harouna Maiga, UMC
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Soils Jeopardy game by Aziz Rahman, UMC
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Vocabulary game by Dan Lim, UMC
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Study Skills game by Claudia Barton, UMC
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U of M (history and trivia) games by Kari Vallager
If you need a game or
two (Millionaire, Jeopardy, and Clue) to help your students learn and
remember terms, concepts, and some other difficult content, feel free to
contact me or Rebekah. We can get your game up within a day or two.
--Dan Lim, Director, Instructional Technology Center
Special Dates
Births
Dave Arscott, Research Assistant Professor, Natural Resources, and his
wife Yeda welcomed their new baby boy, Lewis Zachary Arscott, into the
world on Thursday, September 19, at 1:55 a.m.
Lewis weighed 8 lbs. 8 oz. and
was 22 inches long.
Birthdays
September 28 - Don Cavalier
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 Saturdays at 8:45 a.m.
Tune in Saturday, September 28, to hear from the 2002 inductees of the UMC Athletic Hall of Fame. This edition of 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>