Volume 23, Number 26, March 22, 2004
Calendar
News Items
UMC Receives
Approval to Offer Degrees in Communication,
Computer Software Technology
UMC has received approval from
the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota to offer new
bachelor of science degrees in two areas: communication and computer
software technology. The approval was conferred during the Regents
meetings on Thursday, March 11, and Friday, March 12, at the McNamara
Alumni Center on the University’s Twin Cities Campus.
“This is wonderful news for our campus,” said W. Dan Svedarsky, interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at UMC. “These programs will offer more choices for our students while building on our existing strengths and expertise. They also bring us closer to Chancellor Velmer Burton’s goal of making UMC a more comprehensive university in order to better serve our students and Northwest Minnesota.”
Plans are being finalized to offer both new degree programs—along with a new bachelor’s degree program in health sciences / pre-professional, which was approved by the Board of Regents in November 2003—beginning this coming fall semester 2004.
Learn more about the two programs at <www.umcrookston.edu/newsevents/notices03-04/CommCST.htm>.
Finalists
Named for Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Four finalists have been selected by the
search committee for the position of vice chancellor for academic
affairs at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC). During the
next two weeks each finalist will visit the campus to interview with the
search committee, to present at a public forum to be held in Youngquist
Auditorium, and to meet with various campus and community groups. Mark
E. Huglen, Ph.D., chair of the UMC VCAA Search Committee, made the
announcement Monday afternoon, March 15.
The finalists are:
Robert Steven Aronstam, Ph.D., Director and Senior Scientist, Guthrie Research Institute, Sayre, Pennsylvania;
Adenrele Awotona, Ph.D., Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana;
Mark McColloch, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
W. Daniel Svedarsky, Ph.D., Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UMC, Crookston, Minnesota.
Robert Steven Aronstam’s public forum will be held Wednesday, March 24, at 1 p.m.
Adenrele Awotona’s public forum will be held Thursday, March 25, at 1 p.m.
W. Daniel Svedarsky’s public forum will be held Monday, March 29, at 1 p.m.
Mark McColloch’s public forum will be held Tuesday, March 30, at 1 p.m.
After campus interviews conclude, the search committee will gather campus feedback and submit a report to Chancellor Velmer S. Burton, Jr.
Final Offering in
International Seminar Series to Focus on Viet Nam
The
2004 International Seminar Series concludes Monday, March 22, with “Viet
Nam: My Native Country,” presented by UMC students Hung Tien Vo and Anh
Nguyet Chu. Hung “Bob” Tien Vo, a native of Viet Nam, moved to the U.S.
with his family in July 2001. He is currently a freshman studying
information technology management at UMC. Anh Nguyet Chu, also a native
of Viet Nam, is a junior majoring in business management.
The ethnic dinner begins at 6 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. by the program. The dinner is served in Brown Dining Room of UMC’s Sahlstrom Conference Center and is by reservation only. Cost is $8.50 per person. Please make reservations for the seminar series by calling Angelika Huglen at 218-281-8540 or Brent Melsa 218-281-8538.
Great Conversations
Series to Focus on Bioethics March 23
The Great Conversations Series,
produced by the U of M College of Continuing Education and broadcast to
the Crookston Campus from the Twin Cities, will continue Tuesday, March
23, at 7:30 p.m. in Dowell Hall 220. The conversation “Bioethics in the
National Spotlight” will feature Jeffrey Kahn and Harold Shapiro. The
event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
From health care reform to genetic engineering to human cloning, the debate over biomedical ethics remains a focal point for policymakers and health care professionals nationwide. Two of the leading thinkers at the center of this debate will reflect on the interface of bioethics, public policy, and scientific research. Dr. Jeffrey Kahn is Director of the University's Center for Biomedical Ethics and author of Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research. Harold Shapiro is President Emeritus and Professor of Economic and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He chaired the National Bioethics Advisory Commission for President Clinton and served as a member of President Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1990-92.
Learn more about the series at <www.cce.umn.edu/conversations/index.shtml>. The series is sponsored on the UMC campus by the Concerts and Lectures Committee.
Spring Convocation
Set for March 24
UMC’s Spring Semester Convocation
is scheduled for Wednesday, March 24, at 10 a.m. in Kiehle Auditorium.
All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend.
Guest speakers will be Richard and Glinda Crawford, who will present “Becoming a Student of the Universe through a University Education.” The Crawfords have evolved their academic specialties of wildlife management and home economics to embrace a broader view of looking at the universe in a holistic way through art, poetry, nature conservation, feminism, and ethics.
Glinda Crawford is currently a professor of sociology at the University of North Dakota (UND), where she teaches ecofeminism and environmental studies. She most recently received the John Meagher Ecology Award from UND. She is also a well-known wildlife artist.
Richard Crawford is a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of Biology at UND. He teaches courses in wildlife management and advises graduate students and various conservation boards. He is the author of numerous technical articles and books as well as popular conservation articles and poems.
As part of the program, the UMC Choir will perform a set of musical selections under the direction of George French, associate professor of music. UMC Chancellor Velmer S. Burton, Jr. will recognize members of the Chancellor’s 4.0 Club from Fall Semester 2003. Varsity athletics team captains will recognize their respective teams and provide updates on their accomplishments this season, including the UMC Golden Eagles Hockey Team, who won the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association (MCHA) Championship Title and took home the Harris Cup for a second consecutive year.
Call for Awards Notification - Deadline Date: Wednesday, March 24
All UMC faculty and staff members are invited to take part in the Student Awards Reception, set for Thursday, April 15, with 6 p.m. social in Kiehle Rotunda and 6:30 p.m. program in Kiehle Auditorium. As in other years, several faculty, staff, offices, and departments will present various awards. Awards presented may be certificates, plaques, trophies, books, or other items appropriate to your discipline, office, organization, or department.
Please note: awards presented at the Student Awards Reception should be geared toward student recipients or be from student groups. Other awards recognizing faculty and staff will be channeled to the end of the year faculty and staff celebration set for May 11.
If you plan to present any awards, please contact Andrew Svec or Pam Holsinger-Fuchs by noon on Wednesday, March 24, so they can plan the program accordingly and add your award to the program list.
The number of awards tends to change each year, so even if you’ve presented the award or awards on a regular basis, please contact Andrew or Pam to confirm your place in the program. You do not need to provide the name of the award recipient at that time, but please let Andrew or Pam know the name of the award to be presented. They will also need to know the name of the department and person or persons who will be presenting each award so program information can be sent.
To review the awards presented last year,
refer to
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/newsevents/notices02-03/StuAwards2003.htm>.
--UMC Student Awards Committee
Singer Bari
Koral at UMC March 24
Singer
Bari Koral will perform at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC)
Wednesday, March 24, at 8 p.m. in the Eagles Nest Lounge in Sahlstrom
Conference Center. The performance is free and open to the public.
Koral, whose music has been called “folkish funk,” has garnered praise in dozens of magazines across the country, including feature articles spotlighting her 2001 full-length CD “Joy” in Billboard Magazine and Rolling Stone. She released her second CD, “Cloudwalking,” in 2002 and has been touring the college circuit across the country while planning, writing, and recording her third CD. For more information, visit the artist’s website: <www.barikoral.com>.
The performance is sponsored by UMC’s Student Programming and Activities for Campus Entertainment (SPACE) committee. Disability accommodations are available upon request and can be made by calling 218-281-8506.
Faculty
Seminar Series Continues March 25
The
UMC Faculty Seminar Series will continue Thursday, March 25, with
”Ecology and Management of Shallow Lakes: The Lake Christina Example,”
presented by Professor Malcolm G. Butler, Ph.D., Department of Zoology,
North Dakota State University. The seminar will begin at 4 p.m. in
Kiehle Auditorium. All students, faculty, staff and interested members
of the Crookston community are invited to attend.
Malcolm Butler has taught at NDSU since 1981, following a year as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow in Germany. He is a native of western Massachusetts, and received his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts before attending graduate school at the University of Michigan. He conducted his graduate research on tundra ponds in the Alaskan arctic.
Butler's research focuses on limnology and wetland ecology, with emphasis on ecological roles of invertebrates and vertebrates in lake systems. Recent research projects include the effects of fish on restored wetlands in the prairie ecosystem, limnology of a shallow prairie lake following biomanipulation, and use of benthic invertebrates as indicators of environmental conditions in lakes and wetlands. This presentation will highlight changes in Lake Christina since 1985, based on data collected by Butler and his students in collaboration with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and other parties interested in waterfowl management. Lake Christina is a shallow lake in Douglas County that has historically served as an important staging lake for migrating waterfowl.
Additional information is available at the DNR web site <www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/index.html> using the lake’s ID number 21037500.
Women
Inspiring Hope and Possibility March 25
We don’t always have to look far
away to find women who inspire our dreams, challenge our thinking, and
nourish our spirits. They are often right here among us as mentors,
colleagues, neighbors, and friends. In celebration of Women’s History
Month UMC will present “Women Inspiring Hope and Possibility,” an
informal evening of sharing and discussion with nine area women who know
what it is to live fully, faithfully, and joyfully in these modern
times.
The event will take place Thursday, March 25, at 7 p.m. in Yougquist Auditorium of the Agricultural Research Center. Admission is free and open to the public, and the event is suitable for all ages.
The discussion will be facilitated by Lynnette Mullins, assistant professor of communications at UMC. In addition to the discussion, the recipient of the 2004 Aspire Scholarship, created to celebrate, support, and encourage women who have returned to college to fulfill their academic, personal, and career goals, will be announced. Refreshments will follow. Come and bring a friend, a mother, sister, a daughter or anyone who inspires you!
Workshop on
Protecting Food Systems from Terrorists Set for
March 30
A workshop on “Protecting Our
Food System from Intentional Attack” is scheduled for the new Crookston
Regional Center of the University of Minnesota Extension Service,
Tuesday, March 30.
The four-hour workshop runs from 1 to 5 p.m. in Sahlstrom Conference Center rooms A and B and is sponsored by Extension, the U of M Center for Public Health Preparedness, and the U of M Center for Public Health Education and Outreach. The cost is $10, which includes a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units/Credits for nurses, food managers, peace officers, registered dieticians and sanitarians.
The workshops are aimed at the local food production and processing infrastructure and the emergency management and response network that helps protect our rural homeland. For more information, contact the Crookston Regional Extension Center at 218-281-8027 or 1-888-241-0781. Refer to http://safety.coafes.umn.edu/AgPHP for more information.
Staff Updates
Carrie
Tollefson has joined the staff of the Office of the Chancellor at
UMC. Her responsibilities include:
facilitating the coordination, leadership, planning, and follow-up for a
variety of campus projects and special assignments for the chancellor
and administrative team; assisting in the coordination and reporting of
annual programs of work and staff evaluations; assisting with the agenda
of institutional commitments and responsibilities; acting as
liaison for the chancellor with faculty, administrators, staff members,
students and external constituents of the University; planning and
organizing administrative and operational functions of and internal and
external communication from the Office of the Chancellor. Carrie
previously worked in the UMC Office of Admissions for two years as an
admissions and financial aid representative. She earned her degree in
scientific and technical communication from UMC in 2001.
Judy
Neppel has moved to the Office of Development, where she will serve
as assistant to the director of development. Her new office is 115
Kiehle Building; her new phone number is 281-8441. Judy’s new
responsibilities will be to focus on planning special events related to
development initiatives. She will also continue to work with the
coordination and scheduling of campus facilities for use by off-campus
groups.
Farewell to Heidi Hughes
Please
join me in congratulating Heidi Hughes on landing a plum of a position
that will allow her to follow her birding passions. Heidi departs UMC
after this week and will be joining the World Birding Center (www.worldbirdingcenter.org)
in Mission, Texas, as their executive director. The World Birding
Center, in association with Texas Parks & Wildlife, U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service, and nine valley communities, plans to expand awareness about
the Rio Grande Valley along the state’s southern border, long recognized
as a world-class birding destination and an ecological gem.
Although Heidi's tenure with the Nature Northwest Project at UMC has been brief, her creativity and energy has made a lasting impression. She will continue to be involved with the project and will continue to lead the creation of the Traveler's Guide to Natural Destinations in Northwest Minnesota (watch for it in bookstores in about a year or so).
We will be hosting a farewell reception for Heidi on Wednesday, March 24, in Owen 210, at 11:00 a.m. (immediately following Convocation). Light refreshments will be served. Join us to wish her well and question her sanity for going to south Texas as summer approaches; please check you scorpions and jalapeños at the door.
--John Loegering, director, Nature Northwest Project
Thank You from Paul and Alice
Holm
Alice and I would take this
opportunity to say thank you to the entire University of Minnesota,
Crookston community. Especially we appreciate all of the kind words and
good wishes that were expressed at the campus coffee party on Feb. 9.
We had a wonderful time.
Thanks for all of the
cards and gifts that we received. We used the gifts to help purchase a
"retirement" recliner chair, and it is getting good use as the attached
photo will attest.
We would like to especially thank Chancellor Burton and Dr. Odom for their presentations. The campus photo will become part of our photo wall and will help us recall all of the very good times we've had over the last 28 years.
Thanks to all of my colleagues in Science and Math who during my tenure at Crookston have given me more than they can imagine. Their support and encouragement are responsible for my 28-year tenure. Without it I would have been gone long ago. My campus colleagues have contributed to whatever success I have gained. Their contributions provided the challenge and sustaining support to continue to change and innovate. My students have been an ever present source of joy, excitement, concern and rejoicing when they succeed. Their success both in the courses I've taught and in their careers are the true measure of my accomplishment. Thanks also to all of the others that joined in making this campus the wonderful and dynamic place that it is. We have accomplished much and you, who remain, have much left to accomplish. I wish you all the very best in reaching toward those goals that will make the University of Minnesota, Crookston all that it can be.
Many have asked about our retirement plans. About a year ago we purchased a building lot in Cloquet, Minnesota, with the intention of putting a house on that lot and moving there. That plan is progressing pretty well. We are examining price quotations for a Modular Home built by either Schult Homes of Redwood Falls, Avex Homes of Manitoba, Canada, Wick Homes of Wisconsin and perhaps one or two others. It looks now as if Schult Homes has the inside track. We are also requesting quotations for Site preparation, Excavation, Basement, Electrical work, Plumbing work, Heating and Cooling and Garage. We have tentatively suggested a target of October 2004.
Many wonder, "Why Cloquet?" It is a wonderful community with tremendous potential. It is a community similar in size to Crookston. It is growing. It is close to good health care, transportation as well as opportunities for recreation and relaxation. Our youngest daughter , Karin, and her family currently live in Hermantown which is only about 30 minutes from our future home. It is a full day closer to our eldest daughter, Katie, and her family, who currently live in Alma, Michigan. It is closer to the Twin Cities where my mother, a sister and two brothers live. St. Paul and Minneapolis also provide many exciting offerings beside the relatives.
It has been a wonderful
28 years. I regret not one of them. I am also very happy to be moving
into a new phase of life. THANKS TO ALL!
--Paul and Alice Holm
Tyler
Janke, a senior from Frazee majoring in natural resources - water
resource management, recently received the 2004 Scholarship Award from
the Minnesota Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society at the
group’s annual meeting in Owatonna. In announcing the award, Lowell
Busmann, the Society’s awards committee chair, said, “Tyler Janke was
selected from a strong pool of candidates from around the state.
Candidates are judged on their integrity, skills gained through training
or experience, interest in natural resource related fields, grade point
average, and their expressed commitment to the field of resource
management.”
Tyler has been active with the UMC Natural Resources Club and has earned placement on the Dean’s Academic List. He has gained work experience with the East Otter Tail Soil and Water Conservation District, the NRCS at Perham, Minn., the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Detroit Lakes, and more recently as a project assistant with the Nature Northwest Project at UMC. In 2003, he received the Becker County Sportsman’s Club Scholarship and the John Polley Soil and Water Conservation Award at UMC. He plans to work as a watershed assistant this summer and is also considering graduate school possibilities.
Don
Cavalier, director of UMC’s Counseling and Career Services, was
honored on March 16 by the Northwestern Minnesota Counselors Association
as Outstanding Post Secondary Counselor of the Year. Since he began
working at UMC in 1976, Don has held several offices in the NWMCA,
including one term as president, and has also held several offices at
the state level including that of president of Minnesota School
Counselors Association. Throughout his term of employment, Don has
served on several state and regional boards and on many University
committees. In addition, he provides leadership and organization for
the Rotary Youth Leadership Association camp, held yearly at UMC.
Congratulations!
VolunTEAM
Update
Service Learning Fact:
57% of UMC faculty incorporates a service-learning project into their
courses.
A volunteer or volunteers is needed to pick up approximately 4 large boxes of groceries and other commodities every third Friday of the month between 1 and 3 p.m. in East Grand Forks and deliver them to two clients in Crookston. This could be a great opportunity for a club to sponsor. For more information, please contact LouAnne Olson at Polk County Social Services at 218-281-0637 or louanne.olson@co.polk.mn.us.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Crookston VolunTEAM, please contact Lisa Loegering in the VolunTEAM office (Dowell 112) at 281-8526 or loege005@umn.edu. Or, simply visit <www.volunteam.org>.
Special Dates
Birthdays
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March 19 - Kent Freberg
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March 23 - Jerry Knutson
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March 23 - Dan Lim
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March 25 - Les Johnson
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March 28 - Donna Larson
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@umn.edu and/or Sue Dwyer at sdwyer@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 27, to hear another interesting interview. UMC
Insight is hosted by Andrew Svec, UMC director of communications.
UMC Bulletin
The UMC Weekly Bulletin is posted
at:
<www.UMCrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm>
Publication Information:
The UMC
Weekly Bulletin is published by University Relations weekly September
through May. Copy deadline is noon on Tuesday of each week. The Weekly
Bulletin is edited by Andrew Svec, director of communications, with
production assistance by Sue Dwyer, word processing specialist. Please
send items for the bulletin electronically to Andrew Svec at
asvec@umn.edu with a copy to Sue Dwyer at
sdwyer@umn.edu.
Disability accommodations will be provided upon request for all events. The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.