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A bigger welcome for new employees
A NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION PROGRAM WILL DEBUT AT UMTC JAN. 16. The current single-event program, which draws 100 new employees each month, will become a yearlong orientation with three main events--in the first, seventh, and twelfth months of employment--and smaller, specific training and information sessions, many based on employee responsibilities. The program will be required for all new UMTC employees.

Emotional competence and breakthrough leadership

Improving student persistence

UMD graduates its first Transformational Leadership Program class

Quality Fair generates big energy for U transformation
Hundreds of U faculty and staff filled the atrium of the McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis for the U's first Quality Fair Jan. 25.

Transformational Leadership Program heads north
This month, 23 UMD employees began a training program to improve processes from admissions to facilities management. The program helps participants to see their work from the perspective of those served.

Leading the transformation
U staff members become process improvement leaders

Teaching Ph.D.'s how to teach
PACE--the Program for the Advancement of Classroom Excellence--is a Carlson School of Management initiative showing outstanding results.

Emerging leaders take on classroom space challenge

A new central bulk e-mail system will be available to all U offices soon

Three colleges are reducing paperwork for faculty

OSCI “how-to” columns provide practical advice

Quest for quality puts UMD at the forefront of operations excellence

From weeks to minutes: A big college puts orientation registration online

Innovative asset management brings $6 million a year to the U