Volume 20, Number 27, March 7, 2001
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News Items
Veden
Chair at UMC
It
is indeed a pleasure for me to forward to you an announcement calling
for proposals for Professorships and Fellows for the Veden Chair.
(Word
document available here.) This is UMC's first Endowed
Chair, and it provides a significant opportunity to enhance UMC's
mission as well as faculty and staff professional growth.
Ken Broin of the Veden Trust and Executive Vice President Bob
Bruininks have been involved in the development of the enclosed
operating guideline to ensure that this Chair fits UMC and our unique
role within the University of Minnesota.
I encourage you to read and discuss this information with your
colleagues and to submit an application.
--Don
Sargeant, Chancellor
Comprehensive
Review for Leela Hier
In accordance with
University policy, I have appointed a review committee to collect and
evaluate information concerning Leela Hier in her role as the UMC
Bookstore Manager. The
members of the review committee are:
- Marsha Odom (chair)
- Eric Burgess
- Sharon Stewart
- Sue Kreager
- Lisa Detloff
The committee will be
soliciting input from faculty, staff, students, and other constituents
in the near future.
--Dean McCleary, Vice
Chancellor for Finance
U
of M Receives $15 Million Gift from 3M
The University of
Minnesota has received Campaign Minnesota gifts of $15 million from
3M. The gifts will be used primarily to attract top students in
science and technology and to expand hands-on learning opportunities
for students and faculty to evaluate new technologies as products or
businesses.
While the bulk of the
money is earmarked for use within the Twin Cities Campus (Carlson
School of Management, U's Institute of Technology, Academic Health
Center, College of Biological Sciences, and graduate fellowships),
$1 million of new campaign giving will be set up as a challenge
grant for 3M employees to establish the 3M/Alumni Undergraduate Merit
Scholarships for students on all University of Minnesota
campuses majoring in business, engineering, and science-related
disciplines. The gift will support 129 students.
Campaign Minnesota
aims to raise $1.3 billion in private gifts for endowment and ongoing
support of the university. $1,022,500,000
has been raised through January 2001.
Endowment priorities include faculty, students and strategic
opportunities. Counting
began in July 1996 and will conclude in 2003.
Revised
Mission Statement
UMC's
draft mission statement as revised by the Chancellor with input from
the UMC Executive Committee has been posted to the web (best viewed
with Internet Explorer) at: http://webhome.crk.umn.edu/~nelson/other/mssndrf4.htm.
The
Chancellor has forwarded this version to the UMC Faculty Assembly and
Campus Assembly for discussion. He has also shared the draft with President
Yudof and Executive Senior Vice President Bruininks so there
likely will be additional input and revisions. The revised
mission statement is tentatively on the Regents docket for the May
meeting.
--Bob Nelson, Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs
Rocket
eBooks and Reader Available at Library
The
UMC Library has a Rocket eBook reader available for check out. Initially we are limiting its use to faculty and staff.
If you have a long trip via car or plane over spring break and
like to read while you travel, the Rocket eBook reader is the way to
go. The Rocket eBook
reader was featured on Oprah's Christmas gifts show.
It is fun.
What
is it?
It is a small (5" x 7½" x 1½”) handheld text
reader weighing about 22 ounces.
It has a high resolution LCD screen with built in back light.
Powered by an internal rechargeable battery, it can run for 17
hours (with back light) to 33 hours per charge. The reader can hold
about 40 books.
What
can you do with it? You can read books and text
anywhere. You can insert
notes, underline text, and put bookmarks into the text. What's more, you can search the contents of books.
The RocketWriter software feature in RocketLibrarian allows you
to load your own text documents on the Rocket eBook.
In addition it is possible to select Web pages and download
them to the Rocket eBook. This
feature permits the library to load full text periodical articles, UMC
publications, policies, and directories onto the Rocket eBook reader
for you.
Who
uses it? Most
users are constant readers who use Rocket eBook’s portability and
large memory to take recreational reading, and business and
professional documents with them wherever they may be.
Its long battery life, small size, and ease of use make it a
natural on the plane or in the car. Loading Web pages permits offline reading of online
materials.
Stop in and take a look at it anytime.
--Jim Carlson, Assistant Librarian
Website
Reports for February 2001
Any
faculty and staff interested in viewing log reports from UMC's main
web server can access the reports from http://webhome.crk.umn.edu/~asvec/webreports/index.htm.
These reports give information on which web pages are being
accessed—at least the top 200 most accessed pages. There is some
interesting information here for anyone interested.
--Andrew
Svec, Director of Communications
Student
E-mail Is Official Means of Communication
University
assigned student e-mail accounts shall be the University's official
means of communication with all students.
Students are responsible for all information sent to them via
the University assigned e-mail account.
If students choose to forward the University e-mail
account they are still responsible for all the information including
attachments that were sent to the University e-mail account.
--Policy approved by UMC Executive Committee, 3/1/2001
Huglen
to Serve as Guest Editor
Mark
E. Huglen, assistant
professor of speech communication at UMC, has been invited to
serve as the guest editor for the “special section” area for issue
4.3 of the American Communication Journal, which will be
published in May of 2001. In
addition to writing his own response, Huglen’s task is to invite a
new set of authors to respond to a set of essays that appeared in
issue 4.1 with the goal of extending the conversation.
The
initial set of essays dealt with objectivity and politics in
criticism. Essays
included “On Objectivity and Politics in Criticism" by Edwin
Black, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin; “Must We All Be
Political Activists” by Jim A. Kuypers, Dartmouth College;
“Criticism of Political Rhetoric and Disciplinary Integrity” by
Craig R. Smith, California State University, Long Beach; and
“Critical Claims, Critical Functions:
Autoethnography and Postscholarship” by Jill Taft-Kaufman,
Central Michigan University.
The editor of ACJ is
Stephanie Coopman, Ph.D., San Jose State University, and the Associate
Editor is Norman Clark, Ph.D., Appalachian State University.
The URL for the journal is http://acjournal.org/.
UMC
Featured in Online Learning Magazine Article
UMC
is one of the colleges featured in an article entitled “Laptop
Lessons,” appearing in the March 2001 issue of Online Learning
Magazine. The
Minneapolis-based magazine focuses on innovative strategies for
business and learning.
Although
the article debates the merits and challenges of colleges providing
notebook computers to students, Doug Knowlton, UMC’s Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs, relays UMC’s success in infusing technology
into the curriculum. The
end result is that UMC students gain a very high level of
technological skill along with their college degree.
The
article is available online at www.onlinelearningmag.com
(click current issue) or directly at www.onlinelearningmag.com/new/mar01/feature4.htm.
Note: online readers must click the “next” button at the
bottom of the page to read the second half of the article.
Free subscriptions to the print version of the magazine are
available at www.onlinelearningmag.com/freeoffer/.
--Andrew
Svec, Director of Communications
High
School Career Day March 13
The
Crookston Chamber of Commerce, Education Committee, is again
sponsoring a Career Day to be held on the UMC Campus on Tuesday, March
13. There will be nine
area high schools bringing their 11th graders and counseling staff to
our campus. Over 40
community and area occupational speakers will be here to talk to the
students about their occupation.
The schedule is as follows:
|
9:30 |
Opening
Session |
Brown
Dining Room |
|
10:00 |
Session
1 |
Various
Campus Rooms |
|
10:30 |
Session
2 |
Various
Campus Rooms |
|
11:00 |
Session
3 |
Various
Campus Rooms |
|
11:30 |
Conclusion |
|
Every
available room on campus will be busy during the morning hours and
this has been scheduled with Sharon Olson.
Please welcome our visitors to campus if you have the
opportunity to do so. Thanks
to the many UMC faculty and staff who are also participating as
speakers, your time is appreciated.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to let me know.
--Jason Tangquist, Program
Advisor, Student Support Services
Civil
Service Committee Vacancies, July 2001
The Civil Service
Committee will have six (6) vacancies for 3-year terms beginning July
2001: one in Crookston,
one in Duluth, and four on the TC Campus.
The last day for applications is Monday, April 2, and
interviews will be scheduled during the week of April 16.
For questions, contact John Felipe, Chair of Search, at
612-624-9547 or felip001@tc.umn.edu.
Application information is available from the Committee’s web
page at http://www.socsci.umn.edu/civilserv/.
--John Felipe, Office of Equal
Opportunity and Affirmative Action,
U of M
Piano
For Sale
The
Music-Theater Department is offering a piano that is currently located
in the hall directly south of the Kiehle Library.
This upright piano will be sold “as is” to the best offer
and is tunable. It is
ideal for beginning piano students.
Contact George French at 8266 if interested. (Click photo
for larger image.)
--George French, Associate
Professor of Music/Theater
UMC
Insight
UMC
Insight will be aired Saturday, March 10, at 8:45 a.m. on KROX (AM
1260). Tune in to
hear an interview with Evan Ramstad, writer for the Wall Street
Journal who visited the campus in January.
His feature on UMC will appear in the Monday, March 12, edition
of the Wall Street Journal. The
interview is hosted by Andrew Svec, UMC’s Director of
Communications.
UMC Insight files are
also available via the Web at http://www.umcrookston.edu/newsevents/insight/00-01/index.htm.
UMC Bulletin
The UMC Bulletin is posted at:
http://www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm
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