Chancellor Has Brush with 'Honest' Work Chancellor James Moeser joined dozens of volunteers this week helping clear debris from the Oct. 26 storm. After getting his assignment at the Salvation Army Center near 26th and Potter, Moeser spent two hours Tuesday removing brush from a yard at 25th and Y streets. Later he jokingly told the Academic Senate that the experience was the "first honest work" he'd done in many days. Moeser encouraged university employees to volunteer within the community to pick up storm debris. He noted that many students, including a number of greek organizations and student-athletes, have joined the effort as well. (Photo by Richard Wright) |
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The University of Nebraska Foundation has accepted the largest gift yet from an organization in support the University of Nebraska's International Quilt Study Center. It is also the first international gift this newly developed center based on the Robert and Ardis Jameses' gift of an internationally known collection of 950 quilts.
Tadanobu Seto, chairman of the board of the Japan Handicraft Instructor's Association, will present the $25,000 gift on behalf of the association, whose membership of 12,000 is composed exclusively of instructors. The association strives to expand awareness, understanding and popularity of handicrafts, and to train qualified instructors.
"It is an honor and a pleasure to accept this wonderful gift, especially from our first international donor," said Patricia Cox Crews, director of the center and professor of textiles, clothing and design in the College of Human Resources and Family Sciences. "Such a gift reflects the quality of the James Collection and the growing enthusiasm and excitement surrounding American patchwork quilting in Japan."
Although Japan has a long tradition of quality fabrics, due in part to its kimono culture, patchwork quilts were first introduced in 1975 by Jonathan Holstein, of Cazenovia, N.Y. The number of quilters has grown so rapidly in the past 10 years that quilting is now the most popular handicraft in Japan.
Seto is also chairman of Nihon Vogue Co., one of the largest publishing companies in Japan and the nation's largest publisher of handicraft books. He and Takuya Wada are also instrumental in developing "World Quilt '98 in Japan," an international quilt exhibition scheduled for next June in Tokyo, which will feature 88 quilts from the James Collection.
The University of Nebraska Office Personnel Association's Annual Bosses' Luncheon will be at 11:45 a.m. Nov. 11 in the Great Plains Room of the East Union. Mary Bruning, Dean of the College of Continuing Studies at UNO will be the speaker.
To make reservations, contact Carol Bom, 472-2679.
The Human Resources Employment Office announces an early cutoff date for requisitions for Human Resources for the week of Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving holiday week). Requisitions must be received in Human Resources, 407 Canfield Administration Building, by 5 p.m. on Nov. 24, for advertising and posting vacancies to the Job List for Dec. 1.
Conrad J. "Bud" Weiser will present "Scholarship Reconsidered: The Oregon State Story" from 3 to 5 p.m. Nov. 19, at the Hardin Nebraska Center for Continuing Education.
In 1995, the Oregon State Faculty Senate unanimously approved revised tenure and promotion guidelines. Weiser was dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State and a key architect of the tenure and promotion revision. The author of "The Value System of a University - Rethinking Scholarship" and currently dean emeritus of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State, Weiser will present a lecture on the change process at OSU and answer questions about how the tenure and promotion revisions have affected OSU.
This lecture is sponsored by the Scholarship, Evaluation and Reward Action Team of Nebraska Network 21.
The Paul A. Olson Seminars in Great Plains Studies will present "Plains Pocket Gophers," with Ronald M. Case at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in the Great Plains Art Collection, 215 Love Library. Case is a professor of Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife in the School of Natural Resources. A reception will begin at 3 p.m.
The plains pocket gopher co-evolved with bison herds, playing a major role in restoring grasslands following heavy grazing by bison. However, like the prairie dog, the pocket gopher has become intolerable to many modern ranchers and hay producers. During this program Case will present data regarding pocket gopher damage to hay fields and meadows, rangeland and both dryland and irrigated alfalfa; compare various standard control techniques; and discuss alternatives to the most popular form of pocket gopher control - lethal control. Also at issue will be the philosophies backing the conflict between conservation biology and animal damage management.
For more information call 472-3082
Join Sam Snork, planetary investigator, and his protegé Elmo, as they search for the source of some unusual transmissions in a new family planetarium show, "The Planet Patrol: Solar System Stakeout." "The Planet Patrol" will be shown on Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. throughout the month of November (no shows on NU home football Saturday afternoons).
During this adventure, the members of the Planet Patrol will discover new information about the planets in our solar system. This program was produced at the Suedkum Planetarium in Nashville, Tenn., and lasts approximately 40 minutes.
Admission to "Planet Patrol" is $4 for adults and $3 for all children and students (including college students with i.d.) and senior citizens.
There will be no planetarium astronomy shows in December due to Christmas laser shows. "Planet Patrol" will return as a public show next summer.
The Writing Assistance Center and the Teaching and Learning Center will co-sponsor Write Angles: Creating and Using Writing Assignments from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Nov. 11 in the Selleck Hall private dining room, with a repeat session from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 17 in the East Union. Liz Ahl, director of the Writing Assistance Center, will be the featured speaker.
In this workshop, open to all who wish to add or refine writing components in their undergraduate courses, strategies for designing good assignments, setting standards and establishing expectations for students writers, and providing support for students during the writing and revising process will be practiced and discussed.
The assignment for workshop participants is to bring four copies of a writing assignment that they have used or one they would like to use. If you don't have an assignment already developed, bring your rough ideas for one. During the workshop you will work with colleagues to develop a writing assignment that you can incorporate into your course plan for next semester.
Participants are encouraged to bring a colleague or teaching partner from their department so they can have someone with whom to continue conversations about writing in undergraduate courses when the workshop is over.
To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, teaching@unlinfo.unl.edu, or call 472-3929.
The Teaching and Learning Center will host Teaching Honors Courses in the Sciences from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12 in the Selleck Hall private dining room. Patrice Berger and Dianne Hartley, University Honors Program, will be the group's facilitators.
Participants will meet for a continental breakfast and visit with a panel of faculty who will discuss their experiences with teaching science honors classes. If you have specific questions that you would like addressed at this session, contact Berger, pberger@unlinfo.unl.edu, or call 472-5425 prior to Nov. 12.
To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, teaching@unlinfo.unl.edu, or call 472-3929.
The Teaching and Learning Center will host Giving Exams to Mobs of Students from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Nov. 18 in the Selleck Hall private dining room. Bev Benes, Nutritional Science and Dietetics, will be the facilitator.
Can we assess students in large lecture classes the same way we assess students in small upper level or honors classes? Jim Carr and Paul Kelter, professors in the chemistry department, will present their individual views on this "testy" topic.
To register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center, teaching@unlinfo.unl.edu, or call 472-3929.
The lecture, "Books as Booty," will be presented by Jeffrey Garrett and Sem Sutter, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Great Plains Art Collection, 215 Love Library.
Jeffrey Garrett, humanities bibliographer at Northwestern University, and Sem Sutter, bibliographer for modern literatures at the University of Chicago, will consider the treatment of books and libraries during two periods of turmoil in Europe: during the age of Napoleon in Austria and Bavaria, when hundreds of monastic libraries were confiscated and often destroyed by "secularizing" governments, the fate of libraries, great and small in Eastern Europe during and after World War II. The juxtaposition of these two very different experiences offers some insight into the confiscatory mentality of the conquerors, but also of the lengths to which the conservators of these books have gone to protect their treasures.
The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served following the program.
The lecture is sponsored by the Friends of the UNL Libraries, the European Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Department of Political Science.
For more information, call Eva Sartori at 472-6987.
"Helping Your Child to Success in Math and Science" will be presented at noon Nov. 12 in the Nebraska Union and noon Nov. 17 in the East Union. Sponsored by the Department of Human Resources, the session will be presented by Nina Beck, reading specialist for St. Mary's Catholic School in Lincoln.
Beck will discuss at-home activities you can use to support what your children are learning at school. In addition, she will give tips for encouraging wonder and delightful discovery of things that surround us.
Pre-registration is not required.
James Johnson, head of the U.S. delegation to the G7 Electronic Commerce Policy Group, will speak at the university at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in 217 Ferguson Hall.
Johnson's lecture, "The Politics of Electronic Commerce," is the fall colloquium lecture for the Center for Communication and Information Sciences in cooperation with the Applied Information Management Institute.
Electronic commerce is creating new issues for the business marketplace and for governments. Johnson will speak about how new concepts of governance in the information age will affect all facets of commerce.
Johnson is deputy director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission, a non-governmental, multinational group of CEOs of high tech companies who work to address policy issues in the information society. A visiting professor at the University of Maryland's Institute of Global E-Commerce, he has been an adviser to the Clinton administration, to the Apple Computer Co., and to Xerox. He holds a juris doctorate from Georgetown University.
The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception beginning at 3 p.m. in 114 Ferguson Hall precedes the lecture.
For more information, contact Sharad Seth, director of the Center for Communication and Information Sciences, at 472-5003 or 472-3185.
The Teaching and Learning Center has scheduled two videoconferences in the coming week. "Putting Your Course Online: A How-To for Faculty" will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Nov. 13 in both the East Union and 203-4 Benton Hall. "Evaluating Teaching Performance," will be from noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 14 in the same locations.
"Putting Your Course Online" will discuss making the leap from a traditional classroom to online instruction. Prior to the videoconference there will be a Web-based forum to facilitate communication among participants. On the day of the videoconference, there will be an additional half hour of telephone Q&A with the panelists after the telecast ends at 3 p.m.
"Evaluating Teaching Performance" will discuss student ratings, peer review, self-assessment, teaching portfolios, mid-course feedback and the relationship between faculty evaluation and student learning.
This workshop will be highly interactive with a variety of short presentations, demonstrations, visuals, role playing and dialog with on-site and on-campus participants.
To register for either videoconferences, contact the Teaching and Learning Center at 472-3079 or e-mail teaching@unlinfo.unl.edu.
The Teaching and Learning Center offers a discussion and demonstration of ideas for both computer and television delivery aimed at engaging students in a "distant" setting. The seminar meets from 8:30-10 a.m. in 203 Burnett Hall.
Presenters are Shirley Baugher, family and consumer sciences; Sean Courtney, vocational and adult education; and Joyce Povlacs Lunde, AgLEC. Sheldon Stick and Don Uerling, both from educational administration, will facilitate.
To pre-register, contact the Teaching and Learning Center at 472-3079 or teaching@unlinfo.unl.edu.
NN21 has scheduled a number of teleconferences in upcoming months. Locations for each date will be announced. Mark your calendar now to join in this stimulating discussion about the future for higher education and land grant institutions in America.
Dec. 11: "The College of Agriculture at a Turning Point in its History;" James H. Meyer, chancellor emeritus, University of California, and author of a series of books and articles on transforming the College of Agriculture in the United States. Responding will be Walter A. Hill, dean of the School of Agriculture and Home Economics and director of the G.W. Carver Agricultural Experiment Station, Tuskegee University
Jan. 8 : "The Ongoing Evolution of Land Grant Universities," James T. Bonnen, professor emeritus of agricultural economics, Michigan State University, and author of "The Land Grant Idea and the Evolving
Outreach University." Responding is Leroy Davis, president of South Carolina State University
Feb. 26: Panel Discussion, NASULGC Kellogg Commission on Higher Education, Land grant university presidents lead a dialogue on taking action on higher education issues.
For more information check this web site, http://www.adec.edu/clemson/ main.html.
- Ellen Russell, NN21 director
The ancient trade routes that once carried silk and spice across Asia to the far corners of the world carry a new kind of traffic in the late 20th century - terrorism, weapons and drugs.
The next E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues will address that growing problem at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 12 when Thomas E. Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, delivers "Drugs, Thugs and U.S. Interests on the Historic Silk and Spice Roads."
Gouttierre's lecture will be at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The lecture is free and open to the public and is also available via satellite at sites throughout Nebraska, including College Park in Grand Island, state colleges, community colleges and high schools.
The new countries that were the central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union are struggling to build nations, while conflicts in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan threaten the region. Gouttierre will explore these issues and their impact on Nebraska and the United States.
Gouttierre is the third of five lecturers in the 1997-98 Thompson Forum series. The next lecture is March 4 with Richard Burkholder Jr., vice president and director of international operations and survey research for the Gallup Organization. The series is a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation and the university.
- Tom Simons
The Office of Human Resources has issued the following memo regarding pay and leave issues for personnel during the recent snow days.
Because of weather conditions on Oct. 26, and Oct. 27, the University of Nebraska Lincoln campus was closed. This memo is being issued to assist departments on how to treat office/service and managerial/professional employees for pay and leave purposes. While not every work situation is identical, we hope that these policies will ensure that UNL employees will receive equitable treatment for pay and leave purposes. For Oct. 26 and 27, the following conditions will apply:
Non-exempt employees
Non-exempt employees (hourly paid) (office/service or managerial/professional, regular, full-time or part-time) will receive administrative leave for their normal work hours during the closedown.
Please use earnings type "ADM" to designate those hours of leave on the employee's time sheet and the departmental time report.
Regular, non-exempt (hourly paid) personnel who worked during the closedown will be paid for the actual number of hours worked and will receive time off (administrative leave) at a later date (hour for hour) for the actual number of hours worked. In addition, these employees will receive pay (administrative leave) for the difference between their regularly scheduled hours and the actual number of hours worked. At the department head's discretion, because of staffing needs, non-exempt, regular employees may be paid for both time worked and administrative leave.
On the current time sheet/time report:
At a later date:
Example: An employee (full-time, regular non-exempt, hourly paid) worked five hours of the normally scheduled 8 hours during the closedown. The employee records three hours of administrative leave (ADM) and five regular hours (REG). The department should manually record the additional five hours of administrative leave to be taken at a later date. This record should be kept with-vacation and sick leave records. When the employee uses the remaining five hours of administrative leave, the time sheet and time report will show five hours of "ADM."
Exempt Employees
Exempt personnel (monthly paid, managerial/professional) will receive administrative leave for regularly scheduled hours during the closedown. Exempt personnel (monthly paid, managerial/professional) who were required to work during the closedown will receive time off (hour for hour) at a later date for the period of time they worked.
Employees on Leave Status
Any regular employee (non-exempt or exempt) (hourly or monthly paid) who was scheduled for any leave (vacation, sick, funeral) during the closedown, will receive administrative leave for their regularly scheduled hours during the closedown period, without vacation, sick or funeral leave being deducted. This does not apply to exempt employees who are using part of their six months of sick leave.
Temporary/On-Call Employees
Students, temporary and on-call employees do not receive administrative leave, however, any of those employees who worked during the closedown must be paid for the hours worked.
Time Off After the Closedown
Employees who needed time off after the official closedown should be permitted to use vacation leave.
Leave Slips
Employees do not need to complete a "Request for Leave" form for any administrative leave.
If you have any questions, call Human Resources at 472-3101.
English professors Susan Rosowski and Charles Mignon are the guests on this week's episode of the Roger Welsch &, when the interview series airs at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 14 on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network.
"Sue Rosowski and Chuck Mignon are two of my oldest friends," Welsch said. "I've known them since my days as a professor at the University of Nebraska and I've wanted to have them on my show for a very long time. That time is now. They'll join me this week to talk about their work with the University of Nebraska Press' scholarly editions of the works of Willa Cather."
The weekly television series features humorist and author Welsch in discussion with a variety of Nebraskans - from authors and educators to historians and prominent citizens - whose contributions to the good life in Nebraska make for interesting conversation.
This American Life, a weekly hour-long series of miniature innovative documentaries, overheard conversations and radio monologues can be heard each Sunday at 4 p.m. on the Nebraska Public Radio Network .
Each week veteran NPR reporter and producer Ira Glass tackles a different topic. Immigrant parents, animals, obsessions, changing names, people who read other people's mail . . . and so it goes.
Glass then uses an innovative technique of layering monologue, tape and music to pull the listener into the lives and stories of everyday people whom you may not have given much thought to. In any given hour you could be meeting one of the Christmas elves at Macy's or riding around in a sanitation truck picking up dead cats. Glass is constantly experimenting with new ways to tell a radio story.
One episode unfolds entirely through the tapes found in a Salvation Army Thrift Store. Another scenario led to the hiring of two temporary workers and following them throughout a typical work experience.
TAL invites an eclectic group of writers and artists alike to share stories. And, unlike many shows that interview artists, TAL allows playwrights and artists to do their art. Writers read Performers perform. There are no experts except the people telling their own stories.
The Nebraska Public Radio Network is a service of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.
Telemedicine, the healthcare technology of the future, is available today at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, according to the "Perspectives" segment of Statewide, the Nebraska ETV Network's weekly magazine series, airing at 8 p.m. Nov. 14.
The program, which repeats at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 16, also provides up-to-the-minute news reports from across the state and other features of interest.
Statewide correspondent Brad Penner reports on the telemedicine system that links Good Samaritan with six rural hospitals. Specialists in Kearney can use the system's two-way video and audio to examine patients in special telemedicine suites at the rural hospitals. Patients can receive a wide range of specialized healthcare services (such as speech therapy or mental health counseling) without leaving their home community. Cancer specialists at Good Samaritan can even use the system to supervise chemotherapy treatments.
Statewide, which is underwritten by Aliant Cellular, is a production of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Television Public Affairs Unit for broadcast on the Nebraska ETV Network. The series is closed captioned for. hearing-impaired viewers by the Nebraska Captioning Center.
The Nebraska ETV Network and EduCable are services of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.
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