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Marcella Raffaelli, associate professor of psychology and
ethnic
studies, speaks about "30 Years of Ethnic Studies
at UNL"
on Jan. 13 in the Nebraska Union. The presentation
was part of a
series of brown-bag lunches held this week to celebrate
Martin
Luther King Jr. Day. Photo by Richard
Wright.
Events honoring King continue
Events honoring Martin
Luther King continue on campus through
Jan. 25. All events are open
to the public and are free unless
otherwise noted.
The rest of the schedule of events:
Jan. 16:
- Noon, The Crib in the Nebraska Union: brown-bag lunch
featuring
Jesse Foster II, assistant professor, Center for
Curriculum and
Instruction, "Martin Luther King Jr."
- 7 p.m., Nebraska Union auditorium: Innocents Society student
panel, "Civil Rights in the Face of Terrorism;" a panel
of faculty and students will talk about civil rights with an
eye
toward how we balance civil rights with homeland security
issues.
Jan. 17:
- 7:30 a.m.
Embassy Suites: 9th Annual Freedom Breakfast. Tickets
should be
purchased in advance. Call 472-1663.
- Noon, The Crib in the
Nebraska Union: brown-bag lunch featuring
an international
student panel coordinated by Peter Levitov,
associate dean for
International Affairs, "Human Rights
in Other
Countries."
Jan. 18:
- 12:30 p.m., State Capitol to Federal Building, peace rally.
Jan. 20:
- 9 a.m.,
Culture Center to Capitol: Youth Rally, NAACP and
Youth in
Action.
- 2 p.m., Nebraska Union Auditorium: Chancellor's
Martin Luther
King Jr. Day Observance, "Martin Luther King
Jr.: An Icon
of Love or a Jokester of our Justice?"
Featuring keynote
speaker Harry Eure; also Chantal Afuh, NAACP
youth award recipient;
Shelley Ann Brown, student singer; and the
Chancellor's Fulfilling
the Dream awards.
- 3 p.m.,
Nebraska Union Regency Suite: reception featuring
entertainment
by Darryl White of the UNL School of Music and
Elizabeth Grimpo.
Jan. 25:
- 6:30 p.m.,
Nebraska Union Ballroom: APU Banquet, with keynote
speaker Dick
Gregory at 8 p.m. Advance tickets are $10 for students,
$15 for
others; $15 for students at the door, $25 for others.
Call
436-8908.
Undergrad
dean candidate on campus
The first of three candidates for
the dean of undergraduate
studies position at UNL will give an
on-campus presentation later
this month.
Mary Ellen
Poole, director of the School of Music and associate
professor of
music at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., will
speak at 3:30
p.m. Jan. 21 at the Nebraska Union. Her topic is
"How to
Create a Student-Centered Undergraduate Program
at a Research
University." A time for questions will be
offered at the
lecture, and a reception will follow at 4:30 p.m.
in a room to be
posted in the union.
The public is invited to attend.
Poole is one of three finalists announced for this position.
The
other two candidates are Laurie Schultz Hayes, vice provost
for
undergraduate studies and professor of speech communication
at
Colorado State University, and Rita C. Kean, interim associate
vice
chancellor for academic affairs and professor and chair
of
textiles, clothing and design at UNL. Hayes will be on campus
to
interview Jan. 27-28; Kean will interview Jan. 30-31.
The
dean of undergraduate studies is a new position created
solely by
funds reallocated from downsizing in the Office of
Academic
Affairs. The dean will be charged with developing a
program to
support and enhance the undergraduate student experience
at
UNL.
NU reviews proposals
for radio broadcast rights
The NU Athletics Department has
begun reviewing the three
proposals it received in early January
for the exclusive rights
for the radio broadcasts of Husker
athletic events.
The contracts are substantially similar in
terms of total
overall revenues offered to the university but vary
in terms
of program and promotional aspects. The contract will
establish
a long-term relationship with the Athletics Department.
In order
to accommodate a thorough review of each of the three
proposals,
a recommendation on the license agreement will not be
made at
this month's NU Board of Regents meeting.
The
proposals:
- Pinnacle Sports Productions LLC of
Gretna, which holds the
contract through July 31, 2006, bid
$11,875,000 (including $500,000
to be paid up front);
- Waitt Media of Omaha bid $12.5 million (including $1 million
up front);
- Learfield Communications Inc. of Jefferson City,
Mo., bid
$12,625,000 (no money up front).
Each proposal covered the five-year period from Aug. 1, 2006,
through July 31, 2011.
While the Waitt Media proposal
placed a value of $4.8 million
on the marketing support it would
provide in on-air promotions,
the other bidders, although they
provide similar support, did
not claim a dollar value. In
evaluating the real value of each
of the contracts, university
officials said they needed to make
sure they were comparing like
services and fees offered among
all three of the bidders in order
to be fair to all parties involved.
Steve Pederson,
director of athletics at Nebraska, said he
was pleased with the
initial bids. He said the Athletics Department
would study the
proposals and enter into private negotiations
with each bidding
company.
"The complete perusal of all three contracts
will take
some time," said Pederson, who took over as
athletics director
on Jan. 1. "I have asked Chancellor
(Harvey) Perlman for
permission to delay the process until such
time that I can thoroughly
investigate all three proposals. I do
not wish to rush into any
decision, particularly one as important
as this. The radio contract
is a significant portion of our
athletic income, and this contract
will carry us through
2011."
The Board of Regents delayed a proposed renewal
of the existing
Pinnacle contract at its Dec. 14 meeting. At the
time, Perlman
indicated he intended to submit the successful
bidder's proposal
at the board's Jan. 18 meeting, but Perlman said
he has granted
Pederson's request for more time to look at the
proposals.
The contract covers radio rights for Husker
football, men's
and women's basketball, volleyball, softball and
baseball.
"While the cash in hand is important,"
Pederson
said, "so too is the quality of the broadcast and the
guarantee
of coverage. We need to make sure that our sports
coverage reaches
our fans and provides entertainment and
information for years
to come, as well as a stable financial
base."
Get involved
with 'Big Red Road Show' in Omaha
This
e-mail was sent to all on Jan. 7 from
Alan Cerveny, dean of
admissions:
The Omaha market is very important
to us. In recent years
some people in the Omaha community have
publicly expressed concern
that UNL isn't interested in Omaha and
hasn't done a very good
job of recruiting Omaha students. My own
feeling is that the
Admissions Office has really intensified its
efforts in this
key market over the past couple of years. However,
in the world
of recruiting, it often takes years for perceptions to
catch
up with the new reality.
In an effort to
enhance student recruiting AND make a very
public statement that
our university cares about Omaha, we are
planning a special
University Open House. But rather than ask
Omahans to come to
Lincoln, we will bring the university to Omaha
for a day.
The idea is to create a special "festival-style"
event
in Omaha to be called the "Big Red Road Show"
with the
types of displays, presentations, exhibits, performances,
research
demonstrations, autograph sessions, raffles, food, fun,
etc., that
will create widespread community interest, generate
positive
publicity for UNL, and help recruit students. The event
is being
designed to cater to people of all ages. The event will
be at the
Omaha Civic Auditorium on Sunday, Feb. 23. We believe
it is
possible to develop this program into a major annual event
for the
Omaha community.
The planning for this event is a true
campuswide effort. Over
60 faculty and staff representing all areas
of the university
are currently involved. Our four planning
committees include
Local Arrangements, Programming, Event
Sponsorship, and Outreach
& Publicity. If you would like to
become involved in this
event in some way, please contact me.
Please feel free to share this information with others who
might
be interested in becoming involved in this exciting, new
event.
Thank you, Alan.
Alumni
leaders call for state support of NU
University of
Nebraska alumni leaders released a resolution
Jan. 10 calling on
127,000 NU alumni households in the state
to support the university
by taking an active role in assuring
state support. The resolution
also called upon the state legislature
and Gov. Mike Johanns to
help Nebraska remain a competitive and
prosperous state by making
adequate funding for the University
of Nebraska a top priority.
The action was taken at the first joint alumni summit on state
issues, hosted by the UNL Alumni Association. Alumni association
presidents and several dozen volunteers from all four campuses
of
the University of Nebraska system met at the Wick Alumni Center
to
discuss future implications of the state's fiscal condition
on the
university as a whole.
The resolution in full:
Alumni summit resolution
Whereas the University of
Nebraska, the state's university,
is committed to providing
teaching, research and service to the
state and its citizens,
and
Whereas keeping and attracting young people to the
state is
a critical issue for the state's future, and
Whereas the affordable education opportunities provided to
the
people of Nebraska by the University of Nebraska are a strong
determinant in retaining them as future residents and taxpayers
of
the state, and
Whereas research universities are and will
continue to be
essential ingredients to growth in the new economy
and the research
conducted by the University of Nebraska leads to
innovations
that fuel the state's economic development, and
Whereas the services provided by the University of Nebraska
are
critical to economic development as well as the quality of
life in
communities across Nebraska, and
Whereas the University of
Nebraska must compete on a global
basis for students, faculty,
staff and grant monies, and must
be strongly supported so that
Nebraska can prosper in the years
ahead, and
Whereas
investment in the University of Nebraska is essential
to the
state's economic well-being, especially in difficult economic
times, and
Whereas, although the University of Nebraska
will be required
to take reductions as a result of this economic
crisis, the University
of Nebraska, because of the items set forth
above, should be
a top priority in allocating funds,
Now, therefore be it resolved that the leadership of the Alumni
Associations of the University of Nebraska do hereby call upon
the
associations' 127,000 NU alumni households in the state to
support
its university by taking an active role in assuring state
support,
and further call upon the state Legislature and Governor
to
position Nebraska to remain a competitive and prosperous state
by
making the highest possible investment in the University of
Nebraska.
Signed this 10th day of January 2003.
Fidelity consultant on campus in
January
A Fidelity consultant will be in the Nebraska
Union on Jan.
22 and the Nebraska East Union on Jan. 23 to provide
free one-on-one
counseling sessions regarding investment-planning
issues. Sign
up by calling Reservation Systems in Boston at (800)
642-7131.
Filling the
shelves for back-to-school time
Seasonal worker Rachel DeLine
collects books for a student
out of the reserved textbooks area
Jan. 10 in the Nebraska Union.
More than 5,000 students reserved
about 52,000 textbooks before
the spring semester, which started
Jan. 13. Photo
by Richard Wright.
Degree Application Deadline Jan.
31
Jan. 31 is the deadline to apply for a degree to be
received
on May 10. A $25 non-refundable degree application fee
must accompany
the Application For Degree form. The fee applies
only to the
term indicated on the application and is not
transferable to
another term. Applications are to be filed at the
Graduation
Services Office, 109 Canfield Administration
Building.
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
rather than opinion content. Submit items to: <http://www.unl.edu/e-news>.
To view a sample e-news, see: <http://www.unl.edu/e-news/sa
mple.html>.
Nominations Due Feb. 7 for Chancellor's GLBT Award
Help identify individuals and/or groups affiliated with the
university who stand out for their supportive contributions to
gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender concerns. The chancellor
and the
Committee on GLBT Concerns wish to formally recognize
outstanding
efforts to create an inclusive, respectful and safe
climate for
members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
community at
UNL.
These efforts may be by an individual, an organization
or
department within the institution. The award recipient must
demonstrate
a sustained and tangible impact on the campus
community. The
deadline for nominations for this award is Feb. 7.
Copies of
the nomination form may be found at the chancellor's
office,
201 Canfield; the Women's Center, 340 Nebraska Union; the
GLBT
resource center, 200 Nebraska Union; or at <http://www.unl.edu/lambda>.
For more information contact the award committee co-chairs,
Robert Brown at 486-1579 or <rb61201@alltel.net>,
or Joy
Ritchie, 472-1848, <jritchie1@unl.edu>.
4-H camps accepting job
applications
The three 4-H camps in Alma, Gretna and
Halsey will hire 24
summer program leaders.
Those
hired will lead outdoor programs at the camps and will
participate
in many outdoor activities such as canoeing, swimming,
climbing,
ropes course, arts, biking, environment education and
more. Those
hired will spend mid-May to mid-August teaching children
ages 8-18
at camps. The job includes salary, room, board and
laundry
facilities. Internships may be arranged for those hired
to gain
college credit for the experience.
Applications were due
Jan. 15; any received after that date
will be accepted until all
positions are filled. Applicants
must be 18, and college
experience is preferred.
More information and
applications are available on the Nebraska
4-H Web Site at <http://4h.unl.edu>.
Information is
also available at county extension office or by
contacting Bernie
Lorkovic, 4-H natural resources education coordinator,
at 472-6717
or <blorkovic1@unl.edu>.
Garden Friends
meeting Jan. 19
The annual meeting of Friends of the UNL
Gardens begins at
2:30 p.m. Jan. 19 in the Nebraska Union. The
meeting, which is
free and open to the public, will feature a
presentation and
slide show by Mary Ellen Connelly, avid gardener
and owner of
Perennial Passions in Sioux Falls, S.D. Her topic is
hardy shrub
roses, but she will also speak about other plants that
thrive
in the upper Great Plains. New officers and board members
for
the group will be introduced, and information about the 2003
Spring Affair plant sale, scheduled for April 26 at State Fair
Park's Lancaster Building, will be available. Friends of the
UNL
Gardens is a nonprofit group that advocates for and raises
funds in
support of the UNL Botanical Gardens and Arboretum.
Layman Awards Request for Proposals
announced
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
announces the
Request for Proposals for Layman Awards. Layman
Awards are aimed
at providing seed money for projects that will
enhance faculty
members' ability to obtain external funding or
produce prominent
scholarly work. Layman Trust Funds of $320,000
will be available
for awards for the summer of 2003 and the
2003-2004 academic
year. The maximum award per faculty member is
$10,000. Deadline
is Jan. 22.
For more information
visit: <http://www.unl.edu/re
search/Layman02_03.html>.
January Schedule for TIAA-CREF Sessions
A TIAA-CREF
consultant will be in the Nebraska Union on Jan.
17, 30 and 31 and
at the Nebraska East Union on Jan. 16 and 29
to provide free
one-on-one counseling sessions regarding investment-planning
issues.
To sign up, call (800) 842-2009 or visit <http://www.tiaa-cref.org>
and choose "Meetings/Counseling."
Forest Products Workshop Feb. 22
The School of Natural Resource Sciences and the Nebraska Forest
Service are sponsoring a workshop on Feb. 22. The workshop,
"Specialty
Forest Products: Increasing Profits and Wildlife on
the Small
Farm and Acreage," will be in the Nebraska East
Union. Registration
is from 9-9:30 a.m. and the program will end at
3:30 p.m.
Call 472-9869 for more information.
Noted Israeli Philosopher and Political
Commentator to Deliver
First Kripke Lectures
Avishi
Margalit, the Shulman Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew
University
in Jerusalem, will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Feb.
2 at the
Christlieb Gallery of the Great Plains Center, 1155
Q St. in
Lincoln, and at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Jewish Community
Center of
Omaha, 333 S. 132nd St., Omaha.
Margalit is the author of
several books and is a frequent
contributor to the New York Review
of Books, writing on philosophical
subjects and Israeli politics.
His lectures are sponsored by
the Norman and Bernice Harris Center
for Judaic Studies at UNL
and are funded by a gift from Rabbi Myer
Kripke of Omaha.
In Margalit's first lecture,
"Occidentalism: The Mind
of the West," he will explore
the idea that in the eyes
of the "Occidentalists," those
in the East that hate
the West, the "mind of the West" is
a machine-like
mind devoid of soul and spirituality. In the second
lecture,
"Religious Occidentalism," Margalit will explore
radical
Islam as an "Occidentalist" ideology, which sees
the
West as promoting a form of idolatry.
Also part
of Margalit's visit to Nebraska, an award-winning
Israeli film,
Time of Favor, will be shown at 7 p.m. Feb. 4 at
the new Mary
Riepma Ross Media Arts Center at 313 N. 13th St.
The film was
Israel's entry for best foreign language Oscar and
the winner of
six Israeli Academy Awards, including best picture,
best
screenplay, best actor and best actress. After the screening,
Margalit will answer questions from the audience.
'National Monument to
Homesteading' is Jan. 22 Olson Seminar
Topic
The
Homestead Act of 1862, which had an immediate and enduring
effect
upon the United States still felt today, will be the topic
of a
Jan. 22 Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies.
Mark
Engler, superintendent of the Homestead National Monument
of
America near Beatrice, will present "A National Monument
to
Homesteading" from 3:30-5 p.m. at the Great Plains Art
Collection in the Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place.
The
seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the gallery are free and
open to
the public.
Under the Homestead Act, more than 270 million
acres were
turned over to individual settlers for the purposes of
settlement
and cultivation. In 1936, Congress authorized the
creation of
a national monument to commemorate the hardships and
successes
of all homesteaders and the changes the Homestead Act
initiated
in the American West. Homestead National Monument of
America,
a unit of the National Park Service, is located on an
original
homestead claim. The monument recently completed
development
of a new general management plan, which will guide
improvements
and changes at the monument for 15-20 years.
The schedule for other Olson Seminars during the spring semester
(all 3:30-5 p.m., after a 3 p.m. reception):
- Feb. 19: "Prairie Plains Resource Institute: Land Trust
on the Great Plains," William Whitney, Prairie Plains Resource
Institute, Aurora.
- March 12: "Nebraska's Newspapers:
Pages of History,"
Katherine Walter, Special Collections and
Preservation Department,
UNL Libraries.
- April 16:
"Amish Quilts and Amish Culture," Ricky
Clark,
affiliate scholar, Oberlin (Ohio) College.
UNL Emeriti Association Meets Jan. 16
The UNL Emeriti Association will meet at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 16
in
the Nebraska East Union. Ron Withem, former legislator and
now
director of governmental affairs for the University of Nebraska
system, will discuss "UNL Legislative Matters."
No Scarlet next week
Scarlet will not publish on Jan. 23 because of the Martin
Luther
King Jr. Day holiday. Weekly publication will resume Jan.
30.
Saturday Science day features animals
of all sizes
More than 40 scientists and educators will be
on hand Jan.
25 to guide visitors through the University of
Nebraska State
Museum's exploration of animals and wildlife as part
of the museum's
ongoing Saturday Science adventure days.
The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Morrill Hall.
This family event invites kids and adults to meet animals
face-to-face, discuss animal research with scientists, and play
animal games.
Museum and Department of Entomology
scientists will present
Nebraska insects, including endangered
species. Team Scarab,
a group of scientists with special expertise
in insects in the
scarab family, will demonstrate large and
colorful insects from
the tropics. Zoologists will share examples
of owls from the
collection and the how-tos of preparing specimens
for museum
collections. Scientists who study parasites will give
visitors
a view of tiny animals that act as parasites, including
ancient
parasites. Exhibits staff will demonstrate how to make
casts
of birds and other small animals.
One of the
highlights of the day will be a talk and book-signing
by UNL
Foundation Professor Paul Johnsgard at 1 p.m. His new
book, The
Nature of Nebraska, focuses on the natural treasures
of the
state.
Other scheduled speakers include Jeff Rawlinson of
the Nebraska
Game and Parks Commission, who will give a talk on
chronic wasting
disease and the survival of deer in Nebraska at 11
a.m. Richard
Bischof, also from the Nebraska Game and Parks
Commission, will
talk about the status of mountain lions in
Nebraska at 2:30 p.m.
Many other presenters will be on hand
from the Henry Doorly
Zoo, the Folsom Children's Zoo, Audubon
Nebraska, and the University
of Nebraska campuses at Lincoln, Omaha
and Kearney. Specialists
from the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health
Department and the Nebraska
Department of Public Health will answer
questions about animal-borne
diseases such as West Nile virus,
chronic wasting disease and
Lyme disease.
Morrill
Hall is just south of 14th and Vine streets. Participation
in the
event is free with admission to Morrill Hall ($4 per adult,
$2 per
child 5-18 years old, or $8 per family of two adults and
two
children). Museum visitor parking is available in front of
Morrill
Hall and in the parking garage west of Memorial Stadium.
The museum
is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through
Saturday and
1:30-4:30 Sundays. For more information call 472-6302.
Scientist: Less nitrogen use is Ag success
story
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Decreasing
use of nitrogen fertilizer on crops has been one
of the major
success stories in Nebraska agriculture in recent
decades, a
University of Nebraska soils scientist said at NU's
Agronomy and
Horticulture Highlights.
Richard Ferguson, soils specialist
at NU's South Central Research
and Extension Center at Clay Center,
spoke last month at the
annual meeting hosted by UNL's Department
of Agronomy and Horticulture
to profile its Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources
research, teaching and extension
programs.
In 1965, Ferguson said, Nebraska producers used
an average
of more than 1.5 pounds of nitrogen, sometimes as high
as 2 pounds,
to produce each bushel of corn. By 2000, that had
dropped to
1 pound per bushel, close to the generally recommended
rate of
about nine-tenths of a pound, he said.
Contributing to this trend is better accounting for nitrogen
available in the soil and irrigation water; improved application
timing; advances in hybrids and cropping systems; and improved
irrigation efficiency. Farmers also are motivated by greater
awareness about groundwater contamination concerns.
More
work is needed to improve nitrogen-application efficiency,
said Ken
Cassman, head of the agronomy and horticulture department.
Only
about 40 percent of the nitrogen applied to corn actually
reaches
the plant.
"We've got to get 80 percent of that
nitrogen we're applying
into the plant," Cassman said.
Nominations for
management Award sought
The University Association for
Administrative Development
is seeking nominations for its 2003 Carl
A. Donaldson Award for
Excellence in Management. This award is
given to employees who
exemplify superior organizational skills,
promote teamwork, communicate
effectively, pursue professional
growth and support subordinates'
growth in professional
development. Nominations are due Jan.
17. Awards will be given Feb.
19.
The recipient of this award receives praise from peers,
a
plaque and a $1,000 stipend.
Any non-faculty
permanent employee who has been at UNL for
five years or more with
50 percent or greater FTE and holds management
responsibilities is
eligible for nomination. Members of the UAAD
awards committee, the
chancellor's cabinet and past recipients
are ineligible.
For more information, visit <http://uaad.unl.edu/comm
ittees/awards.htm>.To
access the application directly, visit
<http://uaad.unl.e
du/committees/donaldsonform.pdf>.
Contact Russell
Bartholow with any questions at 472-7806 or
<rbartholow2@unl.edu>.
UAAD Seeking Nominations for Oldt
Award
University Association for Administrative
Development is seeking
nominations of UNL employees for the 2003
Floyd S. Oldt Award.
The award honors employees in
managerial/professional positions
who display exceptional service
and dedication to UNL and are
creative, innovative and active in
the university community.
Nominations are due Jan. 17. Awards will
be given Feb. 19.
The recipient of this award receives
praise from peers, a
plaque and a $1,000 stipend.
Any non-faculty permanent employee who has been at UNL for
five
years or more with 50 percent or greater FTE and holds management
responsibilities is eligible for nomination. Members of the UAAD
awards committee, the chancellor's cabinet and past recipients
are
ineligible.
For more information, visit <http://uaad.unl.edu/comm
ittees/awards.htm>.
To access the application directly,
visit <http://uaad.unl.edu/co
mmittees/oldtform.pdf>.
Contact Russell Bartholow with any
questions at 472-7806 or <rbartholow2@unl.edu>.
Nominations needed for two awards
Nominations are now being accepted for two awards that honor
UNL
employees and faculty.
The Chancellor's Award for Exemplary
Service to Students acknowledges
extraordinary and sustained
performance by individuals serving
UNL's students. All UNL
employees are eligible.
The Student Foundation/Builders
Award for Outstanding Academic
Advising acknowledges faculty
advisers or advising center staff
members who have demonstrated
outstanding advising ability and
who have made a considerable
contribution to the educational
enrichment of UNL students. This
award is funded by the UNL Student
Foundation and the All
University Fund.
Any UNL student, faculty member, staff
member or administrator
may nominate eligible individuals for these
awards.
The deadline for nominations for both awards is
Jan. 24. Nomination
forms may be picked up at the Office of the
Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs, 106 Canfield Administration
Building; the ASUN
office, 136 Nebraska Union; or either of the
Student Involvement
Offices, 200 Nebraska Union or 300 Nebraska
East Union.
Maximize Use of
University Purchasing Cards
All university departments are
urged to use their UNL Purchasing
Card for all qualifying and
authorized transactions under $1,499.
UNL Purchasing and the SAP
system have an alphabetical listing
of about 20,000 vendors and
suppliers who are known to take the
university's MasterCard.
In addition, P-card training sessions are available for those
who wish to learn more about how to use the card. They will be
offered on Feb. 19, March 19, April 16, May 21 and June 18. Additional
P-card training sessions can be scheduled. Call Darla Huff, 472-5050,
to reserve a space at one of the above sessions or to arrange
an
on-site P-card training.
Online Travel Training
A demonstration of the travel
Web site, including online reservations,
travel coordinator setup,
profile manager update and the online
tutorial, will be from
9-10:30 a.m. Feb. 11 at the Nebraska Union.
Information will be
presented in PC and Mac formats.
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