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Past Issues
Plan to address the financial challenges facing TC intercollegiate athletics may be announced by VP Moten Brown April 10. For the latest information, see the U News Service Web site at www.umn.edu
/urelate/news.shtml.
Regents will meet April 11-12 in Rochester. Agenda includes annual promotion and tenure recommendations, faculty and staff compensation, and capital budget update. For full agenda, see www.umn.edu/regents. On April 11, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., regents will meet with UMR Advisory Committee, Greater Rochester Area U Center Advisory Committee, U Center Rochester Advisory Committee, and U Center Rochester leaders in Radisson Plaza Hotel.
VP Maziar is overseeing an external review of U of M Press following significant media attention and public response to one of its recently published books--Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, by New York journalist Judith Levine. Contrary to some claims, said U of M Press director Doug Armato, the book does not advocate pedophilia, but rather attempts to make a case for open and honest discussion about children's sexuality.
"As a public university, we are accountable and responsive to the public," Maziar said. "When citizens are confused and concerned about what we publish, we have an obligation to assure them that our academic review process meets the highest standards." A panel of experts from other academic and university presses will look at the U of M Press academic review and book selection process. U Press is an independent, nonprofit auxiliary; less than 6% of its funding comes from the U.
Policy on midterm alerts was passed March 28 by U Senate and has been forwarded to President Yudof for approval before it is implemented. Policy stipulates that instructors in all 1-XXX courses should notify students who, in the 6th week of the semester, "appear to be in danger of receiving a grade of D, F, or N." Notification will not be part of their transcript, and system for collecting midterm grade alerts should be similar to that used to collect final grades.
According to Bert Ahern, Senate Committee on Educational Policy chair, midterm is broadly defined in the policy and the proposed alert should be generated in the 6th week and not the 8th because students can withdraw from classes up to the 8th week.
Congressman Martin Sabo will kick off the U's Martin Olav Sabo Lecture Series April 15. Forum will address the challenges of public service for the nation. Sabo will speak 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. at Humphrey Center Cowles Auditorium. RSVPs are requested but not required; call Janice Young at 612-626-0347 or
e-mail jyoung@hhh.umn.edu.
Forum featuring gubernatorial candidates Tim Pawlenty, Brian Sullivan, Judi Dutcher, Roger Moe, and Becky Lourey will be April 17, 7:30 p.m., Ted Mann Concert Hall. Student Legislative Coalition, event sponsor, has also invited Gov. Jesse Ventura. For more information, call 612-624-5598.
Nomination deadline for honorary degrees, Outstanding Achievement Awards, or naming of buildings for this academic year is April 19. For nominating process and procedures, call 612-625-4805 or send nominations to All-University Honors Committee,
c/o Vickie Courtney, U Senate, 427 Morrill Hall.
Council of Academic Professionals and Administrators (CAPA) celebration will be April 17, 3-5 p.m., Weisman Art Museum. Event is an opportunity to learn about current P&A issues and meet unit representatives. President Yudof and CAPA president Randy Croce will speak at 4 p.m.
"Carnival of Connections," U Communicators Forum annual conference, will be May 1, 8 a.m.-4:45 p.m., McNamara Alumni Center. Session topics include connecting with the community and the media, design in higher education, selling education, and effective writing for print and the Web. Space is limited. Register at www.umn.edu/umcf by April 25.
CROOKSTON--"Sharing Our World," annual international dinner, will be April 13, 6 p.m., (program starts at 7 p.m.), Brown Dining Room, Sahlstrom Conference Center. Tickets are $10 from UMC Business Office or Tours and Travel of Crookston.
Annual Student Achievement Awards reception will be April 16, 6 p.m. (program at 6:30 p.m.), Bede Ballroom. Student Athletic Awards social will be April 18, 6 p.m., Brown Dining Room, Sahlstrom Center.
Assistant professor of natural resources John Loegering was recently featured on KVLY-TV, Fargo, for his research to determine the bird feeder design preferred by the native finch species.
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DULUTH--Spectrum Lecture Series will present Joanna Fowler, Brookhaven National Laboratory chemistry department, who will speak on "Imaging Drug Addiction in the Human Brain" April 13, 4 p.m., 185 Life Science Building. Lecture will highlight advances in PET imaging. Free and open to the public. Call Bilin Tsai at 218-726-7220.
Student art exhibition will run April 13-May 5 in Tweed Museum of Art. Opening reception and awards ceremony will be April 13, 6 p.m. Carla Stetson, Duluth artist, and Victor Margolin, U of Illinois-Chicago art and design history professor, will be show jurors.
Glensheen historic estate dinner theater will be April 18 and 25. Evening includes tour at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m., and Change of Pace Productions performance at 8 p.m. Cost is $60 adults, $13.50 children (5 and under free). For reservations, call 888-454-GLEN or e-mail info@glensheen.org.
MORRIS--Judy Kuechle, associate professor of education since 1996, is new Division of Education chair. She replaces Craig Kissock who decided not to serve another term as chair "after a dauntingly long and impressively productive period of service in
that important campus position," said Chancellor Schuman. Kuechle was student affairs assistant dean in 2000-01.
"How Japanese Media Make People Hate Politics" by Fulbright scholar and Japanese journalist Yohtaro Hamada will be April 18, 7 p.m., 1020 Science. Hamada poses the questions: "Why have we become so incapable of solving problems of our time?" and "What has been a role of news media in creating this situation?"
UMM will host 29th annual Henjum Institute for Creative Study June 10-21 for west central Minnesota students (grades 6-12). Nearly 4,000 students have participated in classes such as theatre, raku, jazz band, and vocal music. For enrollment information, see www.mrs.umn.edu/cerp/youth.
ROCHESTER--On April 10 academic program staff will promote UMR programs to the public 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Centerplace Galleria, downtown Rochester. Effort is to encourage more nontraditional students to consider education at UMR. Recent student survey revealed that more than 75% of students studying at UMR worked 40 hours or more per week.
TWIN CITIES--Men's ice hockey team won the 2002 NCAA Championship for the first time in 23 years by defeating U of Maine 4-3 in overtime April 6. Win resulted in disorderly conduct in Dinkytown and vandalism on campus--damaged parking facilities, broken light fixtures, overturned trash containers, and broken windows. More than 20 people were arrested; at Brief press time, the number of U students involved had not been determined. For statement by Campus Life VP Robert Jones on weekend disturbances, see www.umn.edu/urelate/newsservice
/jonesstatement.html.
Gopher wrestling team won the 2002 NCAA Championship for 2nd successive year March 23.
Department of Chemistry ranked No. 10 worldwide in recent 10-year citation count by Science Watch. Among American universities, U ranked No. 5 ahead of Harvard, Caltech, Stanford, and Cornell. U also has 14.9 citations per paper, above the average of 11.1 for schools in top 10.
"Help Us Assess the Library…" is heading of an e-mail sent to 4,000 randomly selected faculty and students. Recipients are encouraged to evaluate U Libraries using a Web-based survey. For more information, call Frank Elliott at 612-625-3814 or e-mail ellio022@umn.edu.
Events: Author Margaret Atwood will present the 2001-02 Guy Stanton Ford Memorial Lecture April 12, 10:15 a.m., Ted Mann Concert Hall.
• "A Working Respect," April 15, 1 p.m., St. Paul Student Center, will explore issues of power, gender, diversity, and equality through a special theater performance and discussion. See www.coffman.umn.edu/aworkingrespect or call 612-625-2272.
• Mortuary Science Career Day recruitment fair will be April 15, noon-6 p.m., McNamara Alumni Center. For more information, call 624-6464.
Lectures: "Web-based Materials for Two Design Courses," April 17, noon-1:30 p.m., 155 Peters Hall. See dmc.umn.edu/services/seminar-series.shtml or call 612-625-5055.
• "Why Does the University Exist?" by U of Iceland rector Pall Skulason will be April 18, 3 p.m., 215 Humphrey Center. Lecture celebrates 20 years of academic exchange between the U and U of Iceland.
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