Volume 23, Number 27, March 31, 2004
Calendar
News Items
Informational Session on Women and Heart Disease March 30
In conjunction with Women's
History Monday, UMC Student Health will sponsor a session entitled
"Empowering Women to Reduce Risk of Heart Disease" Tuesday, March 30,
from noon to 1 p.m. in SCC 131. Joan Morlan, R.N. from RiverView
Health, will be on campus to provide information related to this
topic. This event in open to everyone. Refreshments and assorted
muffins will be provided.
A few facts related to this issue: Heart disease is the leading cause of death of American women and kills 32% of them; 43% of deaths in American women (or nearly 500,000) are caused by cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) each year; Women who smoke risk having a heart attack 19 years earlier than non-smoking women. For those wondering why the focus on women only, please refer to the following website: <www.womenheart.org/information/women_and_heart_disease_fact_sheet.asp>.
Urban
Forestry Workshop April 2
The 20th annual Northwest Urban
Forestry Workshop will be held Friday, April 2, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in
the Youngquist Auditorium, Agricultural Research Center. The workshop
is cosponsored by UMC’s Natural Resources Department, the UMC Center for
Adult Learning, and the University of Minnesota Forest Resources
Extension.
With registration beginning at 7:30 a.m., the day-long conference will cover local urban forestry initiatives, invasive species, and urban forestry pests. The morning’s schedule will feature three sessions: “What it takes to grow trees to maturity: selection (for quality, not species), planting”; “Keeping trees healthy along the way: minimizing insect pest problems and diseases”; and “Update on problems to look for in 2004.”
At the noon luncheon in UMC’s Brown Dining Room this year’s Tree City USA Award presentations will be made.
Afternoon sessions will include: “Recognizing safe trees, recognizing risky trees” and “Keeping trees safe through maturity: minimizing decay, storm damage and maintenance damage to landscape trees.”
For more information or to register, call UMC’s Center for Adult Learning at 800-232-6466, ext. 8681 or 218-281-8681, or e-mail berna042@mail.crk.umn.edu. Disability accommodations are available upon request and can be made by calling 218-281-8681.
International Dinner April 3
The annual UMC International Dinner will take place
Saturday, April 3, at 6 p.m. in Brown Dining Room. UMC’s international
students participate in this dinner, providing menu items from their
respective home countries as well as entertainment for the program that
follows. Tickets are $10 per person and are available through advance
sales only at the UMC Business Office in Selvig Hall, or contact Brent
Melsa at 218-281-8540 or 218-281-8538. For more information, contact
Mario Prada, UMC’s Director of Multicultural and International Programs,
at 218-281-8508. Disability accommodations are available upon request
and can be made by calling 218-281-8508.
Clothesline Project at UMC April 5-8
The Clothesline
Project, a national art project started by women in Massachusetts as a
memorial to the victims and survivors of domestic violence, will be
displayed on campus in the Eagles Nest the week of April 5 through 8.
The project involves designing shirts which reflect women's personal
experiences with battering, rape, sexual assault, incest, child abuse,
and prostitution. The shirts then are hung on a clothesline and
displayed in a public location. The purpose is to create a visual
memorial to the casualties and survivors of domestic violence. To learn
more about the Clothesline Project and the Minnesota Coalition for
Battered Women go to the following website <www.mcbw.org>.
Blood Drive April 6
The spring blood drive for
UMC is scheduled for Tuesday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Lysaker
Gymnasium. The Anatomy & Physiology class members will be in the
Sahlstrom Conference Center entrance the week of March 29-April 2
soliciting the names of those individuals wishing to sign up. Blood
banks are critically short right now, and your support of this event is
vital to the lives of others. Please call Stacey Grunewald, 8512 with
any questions. Thank you.
College Fair for Faculty and Staff and Their Students April 12
Everyone is invited to the first semi-annual college
fair for UMC faculty, staff, and their dependent middle and high school
students. The event will take place Monday, April 12, from 11a.m. to 1
p.m. in Sahlstrom Conference Center. This is an opportunity to make
sure that the Office of Admissions is effectively communicating with
your students.
We’ll have representatives at various tables from Admissions & Financial Aid, the current academic centers, Student Activities, First Year Experience, and Athletics.
It’s an opportunity for you to get to know the staff of the Office of Admissions, to eat lunch in Brown Dining Room with your student, and to give your student an opportunity to learn about UMC. Lunch is FREE for your students.
Thank you and we look
forward to seeing you on April 12!
Planning Committee: Trish Ramstad, Pam Holsinger-Fuchs, Stephanie
Helgeson, Carrie Tollefson, and the staff of the Office of Admissions
Employee
Benefits Counselor at UMC April 22
Susan Smith, University of
Minnesota benefits counselor, will be on the UMC campus Thursday, April
22, to help employees with retirement planning and answer questions
regarding your U-Plan benefits package.
If you are considering
retirement within the next twelve months, you are encouraged to make an
appointment to visit with the benefits counselor. You may call Jacquie
at 8346 or Les at 8345 to schedule a confidential individual meeting
with Susan on April 22 to discuss any specific retirement or benefit
questions you may have. Individual meetings will be held in the Selvig
Conference Room located on the third floor of Selvig Hall (Room 308).
--Les Johnson, director, Human Resources
Student
Employment Pay Rate Raised
Good news for student employees! The UMC Executive
Committee approved an increase in the base student employment wage from
$6.75 to $7.00 per hour, effective with the pay period in which July 1,
2004 falls.
--Keith B. Knapp, director, Office of Financial Aid
Staff
Updates
Mary Gjerness Myers, Ph.D.
has been hired to serve as director of the UMC College in the High
School Program. She will begin her responsibilities Wednesday, March
31. For the time being, her office will be located in 208 Selvig Hall.
Her responsibilities will be to promote the College in the High School program by visiting school districts and answer questions of those who have an interest in the program; coordinate on-campus activities for students enrolled in the College in the High School Program with the Admissions Office; organize a yearly, on-campus event for faculty, high school coordinators and school administrative staff regarding policies and activities of the College in the High School program; coordinate UMC faculty review of high school faculty credentials and course syllabi, under the direction of the vice chancellor for academic affairs; assist the Admissions Office with registration of students from participating school districts; develop appropriate systems to monitor and report program effectiveness and success; and perform the function of key contact person for UMC’s College in the High School Program.
Mary was most recently employed as the youth development coordinator for the Morris, Minnesota, Area School District, where she led a local youth initiative by promoting youth development, organizing school and community events, developing collaborative relationships with partners, conducting workshops, and developing/implementing various youth programs for the local schools and community. She also managed marketing for the youth initiative and co-authored four funded grants for over $90,000. Prior to moving to Minnesota, she was an assistant professor and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, and a lecturer in the Department of Education at Gwynedd-Mercy College, Gwynedd Valley, PA.
She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; and her B.S. in psychology from University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Accolades
Vanessa Armstrong,
a UMC student from Fisher, MN, will represent UMC as a student panelist
for the Student Views of Technology Enhanced Learning Seminar. The
panel discussion, hosted by the University of Minnesota Digital Media
Center, will take place Tuesday, March 30, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the
Walter Library on the Twin Cities Campus. Learn more at <dmc.umn.edu/spotlight/student-views.shtml>.
VolunTEAM
Update
The Development Office will be hosting a morning and an afternoon tea,
Friday, April 23. They are looking for one club to provide 6-8
volunteers from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to clear tables, wash dishes, and
prepare the tables for the afternoon tea. Volunteers from a second club
are needed to clear tables and wash dishes following the afternoon tea
from 3 to 5 p.m. If you are an advisor of a club still needing to do
community service activities in order to receive funding and are
interested in this activity, please e-mail Lisa Loegering
loege005@umn.edu.
Carpenter needed to install a door and doorknobs and trim out two windows at the new Cathedral Gallery Store located on the top floor of the Humane Society. Please call Kay Hegge, Prairie Skyline Foundation, Inc., at 218-289-1246 or 1-800-646-2240 or email at khegge@rrv.net for more information.
Plumber needed to fix a toilet at the new Cathedral Gallery Store located on the top floor of the Humane Society. Please call Kay Hegge, Prairie Skyline Foundation, Inc., at 218-289-1246 or 1-800-646-2240 or email at khegge@rrv.net for more information.
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
April 1 – Pam Sullivan
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, April 3, 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.