Volume 22, Number 13, November 13, 2002
Calendar
News Items
Major Fair November 13
UMC will host a Major Fair on
Wednesday, November 13, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Brown Dining Room.
This fair is open to all students on campus with the purpose of
inviting them to learn more about UMC’s various A.A.S. and B.S.
programs.
A special invitation has been extended to all of UMC’s undecided/undeclared students. This invitation is special in that it requests their attendance, but also gives them the opportunity to mingle with UMC‘s experienced and involved students, faculty, and staff. The objective is to permit these students to learn more about why students chose what program as well as to allow undecided and degree seeking students to gather more information about our fine programs and the opportunities each host after graduation.
Center Offices have the necessary information. Please see Center Directors Richard Nelson, Marsha Odom, or Rob Smith for additional information.
Guest Lecturer on Plant
Pathology November 13
Jason A. Smith,
Research Assistant for the Department
of Plant Pathology at the
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,
will be a guest
lecturer on the UMC campus on Wednesday, November 13. He will be giving
two separate lectures that will be supplements for several UMC classes
but that are also open to any interested students, staff, faculty, or
community members.
At 11 a.m. he will present "Diseases of Ornamental Trees and Shrubs" in Youngquist Auditorium of the Ag Research Center.
At Noon and repeated at 1 p.m. he will present "Forest Pathology in Minnesota" also in Youngquist Auditorium of the Ag Research Center.
Smith’s appearance is cosponsored by the UMC Golf and Turf Systems Program and UMC Concerts and Lectures.
Julie
of MTV’s Real World to Speak at UMC
November 13
Julie, a
member of the cast of MTV’s The Real World –
New Orleans,
will speak at UMC on Wednesday, November 13. The event will begin at 8
p.m. in the newly renovated Kiehle Auditorium on the UMC Campus.
Admission is free and the event is open to the public.
With a very conservative background, Julie was brought up to "obey the rules" always, but quickly found out that she enjoyed breaking them. She has been suspended from Brigham Young University because of her involvement with the MTV program. She is currently capitalizing on her newly found stardom through a national speaking tour of college campuses—a part of the larger “Keeping It Real” Tour, involving many alumni of the MTV show.
Julie speaks about her behind-the-scenes experiences on the hit “reality TV” show and shares her positive message of self-discovery. In addition to this tour, she is a national spokesperson for abstinence, a member of the "truth" campaign, and speaker against drug and alcohol abuse.
Social
for NSIC Champion Golf Team November 14
There will be a social in honor
of the UMC Men’s Golf Team on Thursday, November 14, in Brown
Dining Room. On October 3 and 4, the Men’s Golf Team finished first at
the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) championships to
bring home UMC’s first ever NSIC championship! The social will begin at
3:30 p.m. and go until approximately 4:30 p.m. with a short presentation
and recognition of players at 4 p.m. Punch, cheese and crackers, and
chips and dip will be served. We hope you will be able to stop by and
congratulate coaches Jason Tangquist and Brad Heppner and the rest of
the Men’s Golf Team.
--Nick Kornder, Sports Information
Director
Pizza Party November 14
The Center for Agriculture and
Natural Resources is hosting a pizza party Thursday, November 14, from 4
to 6 p.m. in the Bede Ballroom. Meet your advisor; win a door
prize!
--Michelle Christopherson, Program Associate
Community-wide Service
Dialogue November 15
The Service Learning office is
planning a community-wide dialogue with various non-profit agencies and
leaders from Crookston and the surrounding area this coming Friday,
November 15, from 8 to 10 a.m. in the Ottertail Power Building Community
Room. Any faculty member who might have an interest in hearing some of
the needs of our community members for future service learning projects
is welcome to attend. If you plan to attend please let me know. Rolls
and juice will be provided.
--Pam Holsinger-Fuchs, Director of Student Activities and Service
Learning
Campus Assembly Set for
November 15
The Fall
2002 meeting of the UMC Campus Assembly is set for Friday, November 15,
at 3:00 p.m. in Dowell Hall 225.
Refreshments will be available. Agendas have been sent via campus mail,
and relevant documents have also been posted at the Campus Assembly
website <www.umcrookston.edu/academics/campusassembly/>.
Thanksgiving Sale November 18-27 at UMC Bookstore
Pull a turkey feather for your
discount of 25% to 50% off UMC “turkey” clothing including clearance
items. Also on sale: 35% off Novelty items … frames, figurines and 15%
off UMC giftware. Stop by the UMC Bookstore, 119 Bede Hall, for these
great savings from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, November
18-27.
--Leela Hier, Program Director, UMC Bookstore
Depression Awareness and Suicide Prevention Training November 21
Please mark your calendars for
this important opportunity. On Thursday, November 21 in Sahlstrom
Conference Center, Brown Dining Room A&B, from 1 to 3 p.m. for faculty
and staff, and from 3 to 4 p.m. for students, UMC will host training on
“Depression Awareness and Suicide Prevention” which are subjects of
importance to each of us as members of a college community. Learn more
about depression vs. “the blues.” Find out about the very effective
modern treatments that exist to alleviate the illness of depression.
Learn to understand how to get and stay healthy and battle the very real
impact of seasonal affective disorder in our northern climates. Work
together to construct a strategy for intervention with a friend or
colleague who may be depressed or suicidal. Know when, where, and how
to get help if you need it.
Trainers are Don
Christie and Mike Anderson of Northwestern Mental Health Center. This
training opportunity is brought to you by the Suicide Prevention
Planning Committee with members from the Office of the Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs, Student Health, Disability Services, Counseling,
CSA, Student Activities and Service Learning, Residential Life,
Athletics, SSS/AAC, Campus Ministry, AODAP, Diversity Programs and SAAC.
--Laurie Wilson, UMC Counseling and Disability Services
Campus Committees for
2002-2003
The listing and
membership of various campus committees have been updated on the Campus
Assembly website. Faculty Assembly committees have also been posted
there. Please refer to <www.umcrookston.edu/academics/campusassembly/>.
Comprehensive Review Committees Established
Committees have recently
been appointed to conduct comprehensive reviews for the
following Professional & Administrative (PA) personnel per University
policy.
Les Johnson Review
Committee members: Richard Nelson, chair; Sue Brorson; Brent Melsa
Judy Neppel Review
Committee members: Jane Sims, chair; David Seyfried; Russ Kreager
Kent Freberg Review
Committee members: Del Roelofs, chair; Lynne Mullins; Don Wieland
New Student Center
Design
A PowerPoint presentation showing exterior and interior renderings of
the proposed design for the new Student Center can be accessed at:
http://webhome.crk.umn.edu/~nelson/other/StuCtrYHR1102.ppt
Please feel free to
share any comments you may have with members of the planning committee.
--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
Campus Signage Update
We wish to thank the UMC staff
and faculty for their input and help with the UMC Interior Campus
Signage Project. We have experienced a few problems with some of the
signs and they are being replaced. The University of Minnesota Sign
Shop staff will be on campus November 19 (in afternoon) and November 20
to complete the repairs on our signs.
--John Zak, University Relations
Message received from Gerald Meissner, Supervisor, University of Minnesota Signs & Graphics Unit
“As supervisor of the Signs & Graphics Unit I want to apologize for the difficulties your staff has had with regard to signs made recently. We value the business that we receive from the Crookston Campus and, although it sounds like the new room number signs that have been made are working out well, I acknowledge the difficulties you have been experiencing, namely with the insert holders. We have tried to make the appropriate fixes in good faith but have come up short.
“Partly because of a greater amount of work than normal and a decreased staff size, your project was delayed, which I am sorry for and take full responsibility for. We attempted to make up for this delay by subcontracting some of the sign components which ended up causing unforeseen difficulties. Many of the acrylic pieces cut for us were out of square to the point of needing to be re-cut. To speed up the fabrication we had the cut material re-cut to what I thought would still be an acceptable size. As it turns out, this did not work out. Even though the insert holders we had been checking seemed to be OK, many of the holders were such that it was still difficult to slide paper into them and a number of the retrofit corrections that we made (at our cost) have not been holding up.
“As a result, we are going to replace all of the defective holders at our cost and will be sending someone up to your campus in the next couple of weeks to make the necessary holder changes. We will continue to do what is necessary to make things right. If anyone has questions they can call our shop at 612-625-9317 or they can e-mail me at meiss002@umn.edu.”
Respectfully,
Gerald Meissner
Supervisor
University of Minnesota Signs & Graphics Unit
Important Dates and
Deadlines
Listed below are several
important dates and deadlines for awards and activities relevant to the
academic work of UMC.
Faculty Semester Leaves and Sabbatical requests need to be in Academic Affairs office by March 17, 2003. Application forms can be found <http://process.umn.edu/groups/hr/documents/form/semester.doc>.
Deadline: January 30, 2003, for the 2002-2003 John Tate Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. Copies of the complete guidelines, nomination form and a list of previous award recipients are located in the Academic Affairs office. These nomination guidelines are also located at the following web address <http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/awards/>.
Deadline: January 30, 2003, for submission of dossiers to Twin Cities for the Horace T. Morse-Alumni Undergraduate Education Awards. Detailed instructions regarding nominations are available in the Academic Affairs Office. Nominations for qualified candidates will be forwarded to a UMC nominating committee (membership to be determined). Dossiers should be completed by January 7, 2003.
Deadline for submission
of Faculty Tenure, Promotion or Nonreappointment Recommendations and
Annual Appraisals of Probationary Faculty must be in Academic Affairs
office by January 10, 2003.
--Doug Knowlton, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Grades
to be Submitted on the Web in Spring 2003
Beginning in spring 2003,
final grades posted on all University campuses will be submitted on the
Web. Instructors will log onto the Web-based system using their x.500
username and password. The system will automatically display courses for
which he or she is listed in PeopleSoft as the instructor of record. The
instructor will then choose the course for which the grades are being
entered and submit a grade for each student.
Last March the Council of Undergraduate Deans approved the following policies to govern the Web grading process:
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Faculty will be required to enter a valid grade for every student before posting the class.
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The system must allow "pending" grades to be entered and saved prior to posting.
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Approvals will not be required for initial or supplemental grade submissions.
Faculty and departments
will receive more information about submitting grades on the Web later
this fall. E-mail questions to Tina Falkner at
rovic002@umn.edu.
--Reprinted from The Record, News about admissions, records, and student
systems. October 2002, Vol. 26, No. 10
Regents’ Policy on Code
of Conduct
The Regents' Policy on Code
of Conduct 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 a member of the University community, I urge you to read
the Code.
Distribution of the Code is an annual event
and will provide you with an opportunity to reacquaint yourself with its
provisions. The policy may be found, online, at
http://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.
--Robert Bruininks, President, University of Minnesota
Portfolio Access to APAS
Students and advisers can
use the Portfolio information management tool to access their APAS
reports at <http://portfolio.umn.edu>.
This capability went online October 23. Advisers can access their
advisees' APAS reports by going to Adviser View. Click on any advisee's
name to display an academic profile that consists of various
information, including the APAS report.
The project has been a collaborative effort of the Office of Admissions, Office of the Registrar, Enterprise Web Development, and Applications Development and Maintenance.
Send questions about
Portfolio to
portfolio@umn.edu.
--Reprinted from The Record, News about admissions, records, and
student systems. November 2002, Vol. 26, No. 11
College Bowl Players Needed
Later this month, on Wednesday,
November 20, there will once again be a College Bowl competition here on
campus. I’m writing to faculty and staff in the hopes that you will
maybe encourage those students who you feel would do well in this
Jeopardy-like competition. Topics vary across the spectrum of pop
culture, history, the sciences and arts, etc.
So if you have students
in your classes or know students who exhibit outstanding knowledge in
any area, please encourage them to join a team or form a team to
compete. If you have any questions, feel free to contact myself or Pam
Holsinger-Fuchs, and we’d be glad to answer them. Thank you for your
time.
--Jonathan Roffers, Productions Coordinator, Student Programming
(SPACE)
VolunTEAM Update
This week’s featured Crookston VolunTEAM project is the annual Crookston
Area Habitat for Humanity Holiday Tour of Homes. It takes place on
Sunday, December 8 from 3 to 7 p.m. Julie Follette, Habitat VISTA
Volunteer in Bede 106, says that volunteers are needed in the
pre-selected homes along the Tour route.
If you’re interested in helping out, or just want to know more about the project, please visit www.volunteam.org. Julie can be reached at jfollett@umcrookston.edu or by calling 281-8525.
The VolunTEAM is Crookston’s new volunteer clearinghouse, headquartered in Bede 106 at UMC. Local agencies and organizations in need of volunteers to get project(s) done are encouraged to visit www.volunteam.org, click “Register a Project” and describe their need using as much detail as possible. One simple click later, and the project will be on the site for potential volunteers to see.
In September, a UMC chapter of this new, community-wide volunteer clearinghouse, the UMC VolunTEAM Club, was born. On the evening of Friday, Dec. 6, the VolunTEAM Club will join 10 other UMC student clubs at the Winter Wonderland downtown. The clubs’ home base will be at 103 South Broadway, where much holiday magic will be found.
Interested in learning more about the Crookston VolunTEAM or UMC VolunTEAM Club? Call Mike Christopherson at 281-8526, email him at chris282@umcrookston.edu, or simply visit the website.
Accolades
Don Cavalier, Director of
Counseling and Career Services at UMC, was elected Vice Chairperson of
the Minnesota State Department of Economic Security’s Job Service
Employer Committee (JSEC) at the organization’s 2002 fall conference,
held recently in Nisswa, Minnesota. Cavalier is a member of Crookston
Area Job Service Employer Committee and served as its chairperson in
1997-98. He will serve as Vice Chairperson of the State JSEC in
2002-2003 and will chair the committee in 2003-2004.
Pam Holsinger-Fuchs, Director of Student Activities and Service Learning at UMC, has been named one of 25 “Women on the Go” by Minnesota’s American Council on Education (ACE) Network and the Office of Women in Higher Education. She and the other recipients were honored on November 7, at the Minneapolis Café in Minneapolis. According to Minnesota ACE Network officials, the accomplishments of these 25 women clearly mark them as women destined to be leaders in higher education. The recipients were selected from a pool nominated by Minnesota campus leaders, by colleagues, and by members of the Minnesota ACE Executive Board. The recognition event kicked off the annual statewide conference of the ACE Network – a national identification program committed to advancing women’s leadership in higher education.
Special Dates
Birthdays
November 17
-- Fred Eldridge
November 20 – Rose Ulseth
Anniversary
November 20 -- Stephanie and Tommy Helgeson
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, November 16, to hear another exciting edition of Insight hosted by Andrew Svec, UMC Director of Communications.
UMC
Bulletin
The UMC Bulletin is posted at:
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm>