Scarlet schedule
This is the final weekly edition of the Scarlet for the academic
year. The Scarlet will publish monthly this summer, on June 12
and
July 17. Deadlines for submissions for those editions are
noon June
5 and July 12. Weekly publication will resume for the
fall semester
on Aug. 21.
For information, call 472-8515 or 472-8518, or
e-mail <scarlet@unl.edu>.
Burkey Retirement Reception
Jerry Burkey, director of computer operations for computing
services network, will be honored at a reception from 2-4 p.m.
May
30 at the Nebraska East Union. He will retire that day after
21
years of service. The reception is open to all well-wishers.
Summer bus route hours
Campus buses will operate the following hours this summer:
- Perimeter and 19th/23rd Street routes: 6:30 a.m. to 10
p.m.;
- Express route: Incorporated into the 19th/23rd Street
route;
- 17th and R Garage route: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Please call Parking and Transit Services with any questions,
472-1800.
Hiring Foreign
Faculty
University units that have offered or may offer
faculty positions
to individuals who are not U.S. citizens or
permanent residents
of the United States must contact Peter
Levitov, associate dean
of international affairs, and the
university's immigration attorney.
It is critical that UNL follow
the pertinent immigration regulations.
When possible, international
affairs will help the department
or school obtain the appropriate
visa classification for a new
faculty member. The university can
only employ individuals with
specific authorization to work.
For information, call Levitov at 472-3265 or e-mail <plevitov1@unl.edu>.
E-news process for e-mail to all
E-News is a weekly compilation of notices distributed to all
faculty and staff and replaces the "e-mail to all"
system. The deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Monday; E-News
is
distributed Tuesday evenings. Submitted items must be sponsored
by
a UNL department, program or organization. No commercial or
personal announcements are allowed. Announcements must have news,
not opinion, content. Submit items to: <www.unl.edu/e-news>.
To view a sample e-news, see: <www.unl.edu/e-news/sample.ht
ml>.
Campus Rec
Annual Maintenance Shutdown
The Campus Rec Center will be
closed from May 11-18 for annual
maintenance. The East Campus
Activities Building and the basketball
courts and swimming pool in
Mabel Lee Hall will be open for recreation
this week. The East
Campus Activities Building will be closed
for annual maintenance
May 19-26.
For a listing of hours for May and over the
summer, visit
either facility, call 472-3467 or visit <www.unl.edu/crec>.
Annual steam outage set for May
The annual steam outage will occur on City Campus only May
11-17
if weekly high temperatures average 60 degrees or above.
During
this week, the centralized steam distribution system will
be shut
down. This outage allows for required maintenance of
equipment,
including replacing and upgrading key components of
the
university's utility system.
During this outage, heating or
process steam will not be available
in those building systems
served by campus steam.
For information or to inform staff
about implications of this
outage, call Clark deVries, utility
services director, at 472-9444
or e-mail <cdevries1@unl.edu>.
Next Year End Deadline for Fiscal Year
2002/2003
May 26 is the last day for requisitions to be
received in
purchasing for items requiring a sealed bid (purchases
over $40,000).
The deadline for purchases requiring vendor
quotations ($5,000-$39,999)
is June 9. A listing of the fiscal year
end deadlines can be
found at <http://busfin.un
l.edu/purchase/announcements.html>.
For information, call
purchasing at 472-2126.
May,
June schedule for TIAA-CREF counseling sessions
A
TIAA-CREF consultant will be in the Nebraska Union on May
8, 22,
June 3 and 5, and at the Nebraska East Union on May 21,
23 and June
4 to provide free one-on-one counseling sessions
regarding
investment-planning issues.
Sign up by calling (800)
842-2009 or at <www.tiaa-cref.org>.
June schedule for Fidelity Counseling
Sessions
A Fidelity consultant will be in the Nebraska
Union on June
3 and the Nebraska East Union on June 4 to provide
free one-on-one
counseling sessions regarding investment-planning
issues.
Sign up by calling (800) 642-7131.
Seminars to focus on public-policy
issues
The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center,
with the
UNL College of Arts and Sciences, the College of
Journalism and
Mass Communications and the University of Nebraska
Rural Initiative
will sponsor the 2002-2003 Thomas C. Sorensen
Policy Seminar
Series.
It will examine some of
Nebraska's most important policy issues
and is an opportunity for
public or non-profit-sector professionals,
lobbyists, citizen
advocates, elected officials or members of
interest groups to
become more polished and effective policymakers,
policy process
participants or policy consumers.
The seminars planned for
this year's series include:
- Policymakers and
the Fourth Estate: Working with the Media:
June 4, UNL.
- Thomas C. Sorensen Forum for Political Leadership: June 19,
Mahoney State Park.
- Policy Models and Innovations for Small
Town Success: June
28, University of Nebraska at Kearney.
The cost for each seminar is $40 per person; $15 fee for
students
and university staff. The cost covers materials, lunch and
refreshments.
For registration or more information,
visit <www.ppc.neb
raska.edu/seminarseries/pss02-03.htm>
or contact Tarik
Abdel-Monem, seminar coordinator, at 472-3147
or <tabdelmonem@nebraska.edu>.
Special accommodations can be made available for participants
upon
request.
The Policy Seminar Series is supported by the
Thomas C. Sorensen
Endowment.
Massage Therapy open during
summer
Massage Therapy at the Campus Rec Center will be
open for
appointments during the summer with office hours from 9
a.m.
to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. All services, including
Swedish
and therapeutic massage, will be available. To schedule an
appointment
or for details, call Brad at 472-0738.
Retirement Reception for Ken Holm is
June 18
Ken Holm, director of printing and copy services,
will be
honored at a reception from 2-4 p.m. June 18 at Printing
and
Copy Services' new location, 1700 Y St.
Retirement Incentive Program
On
April 26, the Board of Regents approved an amendment to
the
Retirement Incentive Program for Tenured Faculty. The amendment
extends the time for eligible faculty members to elect to participate
in the program to June 30. A description of the Retirement Incentive
Program benefits and contracts to be used to sign up for the
program can be found at <www.unl.edu/svcaa/hr/r
etire2003.html>.
Summer hours schedule at UNL:
During the summer, UNL offices
will maintain normal office hours,
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Because
flexible work schedules have been
widely accepted by staff members
in the past during the summers,
departments are encouraged to
permit staffing flex time where
possible while still being sure
that offices are open and staffed
sufficiently from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. daily.
The
campus's flex time policy can be found at <http://busfin.unl.edu/bfsi
te/hr/102.cfm>.
For information, call 472-4455.
Free Car-Buying Lunch and Learn May
22
Get your car-buying questions answered and learn how to
save
money on your next vehicle purchase by attending a Free Car
Buying
Lunch and Learn at 11:30 a.m. May 22 at the Nebraska
Union.
This seminar is offered by the University of
Nebraska Federal
Credit Union, and lunch will be provided.
Reservations are required. Call the credit union at 472-2087.
Media,
technology courses offered over summer
Information
Services will offer introductory classes in multimedia
software
this summer. Workshops generally run for two hours and
cost $20.
One-hour sessions are $10, and Blackboard introductory
courses are
free. Payment is due upon registration and may be
made using a cost
object or by check. Refunds are allowed up
to 48 hours in advance
only. Substitutions are allowed. To register,
call 472-9050 or
register in the 501 Building, Room 118. Space
is limited, and
reservations are required.
Workshops will be in the New
Media Center in Architecture
Hall room 107 except the Photoshop
labs, which will be in Teachers
College Hall room 142. For
information, visit <http://itg.unl.edu/training>
or email <training@unl.edu>.
- Apple iLife Suite: 1-3 p.m. June 24 and 25.
- Keynote: 9-10
a.m. June 24.
- Introduction to Blackboard: 10 a.m. to noon
May 14; 2-4 p.m.
June 13; 10 a.m. to noon July 22; or 2-4 p.m.
Aug. 13.
- What's new in Blackboard 6?: 10-11 a.m. July 28.
Using Blackboard Series: These workshops will explore
Blackboard's
functions more in-depth. Introduction to Blackboard
recommended.
- Loading content into Blackboard:
10 a.m. to noon July 29.
- Blackboard communication tools: 10
a.m. to noon July 30.
- Blackboard assessment tools: 10 a.m. to
noon July 31.
Using Adobe Photoshop Series:
Familiarity with Photoshop required.
- Photoshop Elements Basics: 11 a.m. to noon July 14.
- Photoshop Basics: 11 a.m. to noon July 15.
- Photoshop
Selections, Layers and Adjustment layers: 11 a.m.
to noon July
16.
- Photoshop Photo Retouching: 11 a.m. to noon July 17.
- Photoshop Color Correction and Vectors: 11 a.m. to noon July
18.
- Photoshop for Photographers: 10 a.m. to noon July 21.
- Adobe Photoshop Labs: 2-4 p.m. June 9; 10 a.m. to noon Aug.
5.
- Microsoft PowerPoint: 10 a.m. to noon June 18, or 2-4 p.m.
Aug. 11.
Reserves
policies announced
Faculty and graduate assistants are
able to put library books,
journal articles and personal copies of
books on reserve at the
UNL Libraries for students.
- To have items reserved before the start of the
pre-session
and eight-week session, reserve lists are due May 12.
- To have items reserved before the first day of the first
five-week session, reserve lists are due June 2.
- To have
items reserved before the start of the second five-week
session,
reserve lists are due July 7.
Request books from
the UNL libraries to be placed on reserve
by using the new
electronic reserve form at <http://libr.unl.
edu:2000/cgi-bin/reserves_request>.
Materials can
also be made available to students via electronic
reserve at <www.unl.edu/libr/ereser
vs/home.html>.
For more information about electronic
reserves, visit <www.unl.edu/libr/circ/re
serve.html>.
To ensure requests are processed
quickly:
- Supply complete citations of
materials.
- When you request your personal copy of a book or
other personal
material be placed on reserve, include it with the
request.
For more in-depth information, refer to
the memo e-mailed
to all instructors this week or the Services for
Faculty section
at <http://iris.unl.edu>.
For information, contact Chanty Stovall, Love Library, 472-2556,
<cstovall@unl.edu>;
Gayleen Hill, C.Y. Thompson Library, 472-4401, <ghill@unl.edu>;
Steve Sall,
biology/physics libraries, 472-7699, <ssall@unl.edu>.
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