Wednesday
June 9, 2004
Vol 1, No 47
Inside Today's Issue |
1. Trustees set agenda for June meeting
2. Parking garage construction begins
3. IT launches summer initiatives
4. New Microsoft and Dell discounts available at bookstore
5. Honors conference needs faculty participants
1. Trustees set agenda for June meeting
Agenda items up for discussion and possible action at today's Board of Trustees meeting include the fiscal year 2004-05 budget, election of board officers and a report on student health insurance by George Middlemist, controller, and Steven Monaco, director of the Student Health Center. The meeting will be held from 8 a.m. to noon in AD 570.To view the entire agenda go to:
http://www.mscd.edu/welcomectr/trustees/docs03_04/agenda060904.pdf
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2. Parking garage construction begins
Temporary walkways and a construction fence are set to be in place by June 11, as AHEC begins construction on the new 850-space parking garage at the southeast corner of 9th St. and Auraria Pkwy., where the tennis courts now are. The timetable for the garage's construction calls for a March 2005 completion date.Demolition on the tennis courts will follow within approximately two weeks, according to Dean Wolfe, AHEC executive vice president of administration. New courts will be built in the athletic field across from Lot R by early fall, Wolfe added.
To read more and view an artist's rendering go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol1/parking_twv1032404.htm
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3. IT launches summer initiatives
With fewer students and faculty on campus and a corresponding reduction in technology support needs, Information Technology plans to complete a number of initiatives this summer. Among them are projects designed to improve e-mail performance and MetroConnect capabilities; reduce the amount of paper and postage used on campus by increasing the use of e-mail for certain mass communications; improve access to and technology available in campus computing labs; and protect the college's information systems in the event of disaster.
To read more go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol1/itplans_twv1060904.htm
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4. New Microsoft and Dell discounts available at bookstore
The Auraria Campus Bookstore has announced two new discount programs: one for faculty, staff and students on Dell computer systems and the other for students on Microsoft Office software.
To read more go to
http://www.mscd.edu/%7Ecollcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol1/MSDell_twv1060904.htm
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5. Honors conference needs faculty participants
Metro State's Honors Program is planning its seventh annual Honors Conference for October 12-13, 2004, and is seeking faculty to organize or sit on panels.
The conference's topic will be "The Presidential Campaign of 2004: Did it Clarify or Obfuscate?" The following topics will be addressed:
- energy policy
- environmental policy
- the war in Iraq
- health policy
- social security
- "No child left behind"
- immigration
- budget and fiscal policy
- trade and outsourcing
According to Honors Program Director Dolph Grundman, the conference's goal is to either publish the papers from the conference or put them on the program's Website.
Faculty interested in participating should contact Grundman, 556-4865, or grundmaa@mscd.edu.
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Faculty
Senate, Classified Council elect officers Hal Nees, assistant professor of criminal justice, is the Faculty Senate president. He replaces Biology Department Chair Joan Foster, who served as president for three years. David Skougstad, assistant professor of accounting, has been elected vice president. Lynn Kaersvang, assistant professor of social work, will serve as secretary and English Professor Eugene Saxe has been re-elected to serve as faculty trustee. Nees, who served on the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and chaired the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee last year, said he will focus on representing faculty interests in the college budget, the review of the general studies curriculum, personnel policies and forging a stronger relationship with the Board of Trustees. "I look forward to the challenges of representing the faculty during the next year and am honored and pleased to have the opportunity," said Nees, who has been a full-time Metro faculty member since 1998. He graduated from Metro State in 1976 and has worked as a police officer and police chief and has managed a county-operated community corrections organization. The Classified
Council has re-elected Vonda Knox, administrative assistant to the
Faculty Senate, to a second term as president. Michael Zastrow,
program assistant in College Commu- Knox said the council hopes to focus on hands-on activities that create a sense of community for classified staff on campus and some fundraising events. The Council of Administrators will elect new officers later this summer.
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