Calendar

February 18
University Senate Meetings
Home Basketball vs. University of Mary
February 19
Farm Alarm: Coping with Stress
Home Hockey vs. North Dakota State University
February 20 and 21
Horse Show
February 21
February Fitness Cross-country Skiing
February 23-26
Final Exams
February 23
Stress Free Zone
Texas Social
February 24
Chancellor's Open Discussion
February 25
Brown Bag Lunch Series
February 26
Safety Training
February 27-March 7
Quarter Break
March 8
Spring Quarter classes begin
Monday Evening International Series - India Mystica
March 12
Campus Preview Day

News Items

President's Award for Outstanding Service
An award recognizing faculty and staff who have provided exceptional service to the University was established in 1997 and is presented during the spring. Called the President's Award for Outstanding Service, this award honors active or retired faculty or staff members who have gone well beyond their regular duties and have demonstrated an unusual commitment to the University community. Nominations for this award are due by March 15, 1999.

Nominators must be current members of the University of Minnesota faculty or staff or alumni of the University. Nomination letters should focus on the nominator's personal knowledge of the nominee's exceptional service, such as innovative service to students, the University community, individual units of the University, or outreach beyond the University.

Nominations should be submitted to:

President's Award Committee
c/o Vickie Courtney
University Senate Office
427 Morrill Hall
100 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

For more information about this award or the nominating process, please call the University Senate Office at 612-625-9369.

I urge you to bring forward nominations so that more individuals providing outstanding service to the University will receive well-earned recognition, and the University will continue to be a leader in setting our community's standards of excellence.
--Mark G. Yudof

Web Student Advising Applications
A videotape of the February 8^th presentation by Scott Lindgren, UM Web Development Team, is available for check out at the UMC Library. Information is presented on the new web student academic advising information that will be available with the new student computer systems (PeopleSoft). Scott also presents an overview of the web student portfolio.
--Bob Nelson

Senate Meetings
The University Senate will meet Thursday, February 18, immediately following the TC Campus Assembly Meeting, approximately 2:30 p.m., via phone in Selvig Hall 305. The full University Senate meeting Agenda can be found on the WWW at: http://www1.umn.edu/usenate/u_senate/senagenda.html
--Nicole Boldt

Vacation Leave Accrual
AFSCME, Teamster, and Civil Service employees are reminded that the maximum amount of unused vacation time may not exceed the amount of vacation time earned in two (2) years at the employee's current earning rate. It is the employee's responsibility to monitor the amount of vacation leave accrued, turn in vacation leave requests to his/her supervisor with adequate advanced notice, and use vacation leave prior to reaching the maximum amount allowed.

Before you near your maximum, you should turn in a vacation leave request to your supervisor as soon as you can, so you do not forfeit accrued vacation time. Supervisors shall attempt to grant vacations as desired by employees, subject to the convenience and operating needs of the unit. Departments may implement specific vacation request procedures.

Once a vacation has been approved, unless the circumstances present at the time it was approved have changed, only the department head can rescind it. It an employee is called to work while on approved vacation leave, the employee will be paid time-and-one-half (1.5) the employee's regular rate for the hours worked.
--Les Johnson

Faculty and Staff Accolades

• George French received the Partners in Education Award from the Crookston Chamber of Commerce Education Committee on Monday, February 8, at the Annual Chamber Banquet. This award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the Crookston primary, secondary, or higher educational system. It recognizes efforts in the following areas: service and volunteerism, loyalty, leadership, community relations, commitment, innovativeness, promotion of the educational system, and interpersonal relationships.

• James Thomasson will participate in a conference sponsored by the Center for Applied Ethics, Pace University, at the World Trade Center in New York City, on "The Ethics of Parenting," February 24-26. He will deliver a paper entitled "Parenting as Oppression and Liberation: the Mentoring Function of Parenting as World-Maintaining and World-Challenging." On February 26-27 Jim will attend the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in Washington, DC, before joining an interdisciplinary forum at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. During his trip he will be gathering information on centers of applied ethics and promoting the idea of a national model of a community-based "ethics hotline," which he would like to establish at UMC.

UMC Insight
UMC Insight will be aired Saturday, February 20, at 8:45 a.m. on KROX (AM 1260). Tune in this week to hear "Scientific and Technical Communications" with Traci Kelly.

Attachments
(Attached to the paper copy of this edition of the bulletin)

• 1998-99 Campus Assembly Committees
• A Rural-Urban Conversation, The Crookston-Lucille's Kitchen Connection

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