* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is the final edition of E-News for 2001. E-News will resume on Jan. 8, 2002. Happy Holidays. 1. Nebraska Unions Web Page Directory 2. UAAD Graze and Mingle features UNL baseball coach 3. University Health Center Holiday Hours 4. Oldt and Donaldson Awards 5. Construction Remodeling Projects for Summer 2002 6. Microsoft Windows XP Upgrade for General Purpose Classroom PCs 7. Distance Education Opportunities! 8. FREE Trial Membership @ Campus Rec 9. PURCHASING AND THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS AT UNL 10. Information Services - Spring 2002 Technology workshops 11. College Independent Study offers open seats in closed courses. 12. Sheldon: Comic Art Symposium ************************************************************************* 1. Nebraska Unions Web Page Directory Do you want to know what room your meeting is in at the Union? Do you want to order catered refreshments ONLINE? Do you want to contact someone at the Union? All of these questions and many more can be answered by going to www.unl.edu/neunion. You can either bookmark this page or use it as your default page. http://www.unl.edu/neunion ************************************************************************* 2. UAAD Graze and Mingle features UNL baseball coach Coach Dave Van Horn is the featured speaker at the Dec. 19 UAAD meeting. He will discuss the Huskers winning season and offer a glimpse into the new season, which will be the first in the new stadium. The meeting, UAAD's annual Graze and Mingle, will be held in the Culture Center, 333 N. 14th, from 11:50 a.m. to 1 p.m. Please bring a food item to share. http://uaad.unl.edu/ ************************************************************************* 3. University Health Center Holiday Hours University Health Center holiday hours will be as follows: December 22: 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. December 23 - January 1: Holiday Closedown January2 - January 4: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. January 5: 10 a.m.-noon January 6: closed January 7 - January 11: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. January 12: 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. January 13: closed January 14: resume regular hours http://www.unl.edu/health ************************************************************************* 4. Oldt and Donaldson Awards AWARDING EXCELLENCE!! Don't wait until we are even closer to the Holiday Season....take time now to nominate a colleague!! Nominate one or more of your colleagues for the 2002 Carl A. Donaldson Award for Excellence in Management and the Floyd S. Oldt Award for Exceptional Service to the University. These two awards, which include a beautiful plaque and $1,000 stipend, will be presented at the February 2002 UAAD General Membership Meeting. Please note the January 11, 2002 deadline. Nomination forms and more information are available at: http://uaad.unl.edu/ ************************************************************************* 5. Construction Remodeling Projects for Summer 2002 If you are planning a construction or remodeling project that you would like to have done during the summer of 2002 for completion by the fall of 2002, please contact Terry Haubold by 1/15/02. This allows him time to provide you with a cost estimate as soon as possible in March. Terry will need to receive funding for at least the design and bidding costs from you by 3/29/02 in order to complete your project by Fall 2002. For more information about this process, please reference our website: http://busfin.unl.edu/fmp/fpcpolicy.html ************************************************************************* 6. Microsoft Windows XP Upgrade for General Purpose Classroom PCs All PCs in the ITG multimedia-enhanced classrooms will be upgraded to Microsoft Windows XP Professional during the semester break. All files will be removed from the PC before the WinXP install takes place. A complete list of procedures and effected classrooms is available at the following website. http://www.itg.unl.edu/facilities/ITG_news.html ************************************************************************* 7. Distance Education Opportunities! Distance education workshops and courses are available through the Departments of Agronomy/Horticulture and Entomology. These classescan be taken for non-credit, CEU credit, or UNL academic credit. http://agronomy.unl.edu/test01.htm (Details on Agronomy courses) http://entomology.unl.edu/courses/deccourses.htm (Details on Entomology ************************************************************************* 8. FREE Trial Membership @ Campus Rec Try out Campus Rec programs and facilties for FREE January 14-20, 2002. Valid for faculty & staff who are not currently Campus Rec members. Must pick up a trial membership pass at Rec Center office Jan. 7-18 and present current UNL I.D. card. Call Todd Lanham at 472-3467 for more information and details. http://www.unl.edu/crec ************************************************************************* 9. PURCHASING AND THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS AT UNL The Purchasing Department will be presenting a workshop for all faculty and staff regarding Purchasing and the procurement process at UNL. This workshop will be held twice on January 9, 2002, 9:00am - 10:30am - Nebraska Union and again, 1:30pm-3:00pm - East Campus Union. http://busfin.unl.edu/purchase/admin_services_workshop.htm ************************************************************************* 10. Information Services - Spring 2002 Technology workshops Information Services offers introductory classes for the latest multimedia software throughout the year. We provide an easy, low cost way to keep your skills fresh on the latest technology tools for teaching and research. For workshop information: See our web site at: http://itg.unl.edu/training/ or contact Leona Barratt 2-6163 or training@unl.edu http://www.itg.unl.edu/training/schedule/workshops.html ************************************************************************* 11. College Independent Study offers open seats in closed courses. UNL's College Independent Study offers a chance for students to take Spring 2002 courses that have no open seats or are not offered in the Spring semester. Some of these courses include: Accounting 201 o Accounting 202 o Economics 212 o English 150 o Geography 150 o History 202 o Marketing 341 o Nutrition 151 o Philosophy 110 o Psychology 181 Plus more than 30 other courses that are either closed or are not offered. Visit dcs.unl.edu/closed for a complete listing and more information about the College Independent Study program. http://dcs.unl.edu/closed ************************************************************************* 12. Sheldon: Comic Art Symposium On February 1-2, 2002 the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden will host a comic art symposium in conjunction with the exhibition "Comics, Heroes, and American Visual Culture." The symposium will take place in the Sheldon's auditorium, and is free and open to the public. http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/PR/2001/Comics_Symp.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *