The Arizona State Legislature has allocated to the University of Arizona a
2% pool of money for faculty and staff, based on our annual state funded
personal services base, excluding student wages, for merit pay adjustments
to be effective April 1, 2000. The purpose of this merit program is to
recognize meritorious performance. Meritorious performance is that which
is identified as outstanding or exceeding expectations. There is a
legislated maximum increase of 4% for those employees who have been
recommended for a merit pay increase. The total amount of increases
granted must not exceed the college's/division's allocated merit pool.
Colleges/units may not supplement the merit pool with other funds. We will
provide additional information as it becomes available. I anticipate that
the process will be similar to that used last year.
* Congratulations to Beth Tucker (CED, Coconino County) who was elected by
her fellow CEDs as Chair for the new Millennium "2000."
* Dr. Dawn Gouge accepted our offer to join the Department of Entomology as
an Assistant Specialist in Urban Entomology. She will be located at the
Maricopa Agricultural Center, and will begin in March or April. Welcome
Aboard!
* Special thoughts go out to Charlotte Keams, Navajo County Extension
Office, and her family, for the loss of her father on December 18, 1999.
Funeral services took place on Thursday, December 23. He was one of the
few remaining Navajo Code Talkers from World War II and his loss is both
personal and historical in nature.
* Epsilon Sigma Phi, the national Extension honorary is sponsoring a 2
hour video conference called "Building a Learning Organization for the 21st
Century" on Friday, January 14 at 10 AM til 12:20 PM in Forbes 307 on
campus, and Monday, January 24 at 1 PM til 3:20 PM at the Maricopa County
Cooperative Extension office. It features Charlotte Roberts who is
co-author of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook with Peter Senge. Ms. Roberts
was a featured speaker at the ESP and National Extension Association of
Family and Consumer Sciences national meetings. Please email Steve Crofts
at scrofts@cals.arizona.edu if you plan to attend Jan. 14, or Sharon
Hoelscher Day at shday@cals.arizona.edu if you plan to attend Jan. 24.
* OCLC Worldcat is the largest database in the world for finding books and
manuscripts that date from approximately 1200 BC to the most currently
published. It also includes videos, music scores, and other materials
found in libraries and presently has more than 40 million records. You can
search by author, title, subject and other ways. It is similar to Books in
Print only much more comprehensive. This database can be accessed through
the UA Main Library or by using this address:
http://www.library.arizona.edu/,
search for Databases and click on the "W"
in the alphabetical listing and then hit Worldcat to link to their site.
Thanks to Lucy Bradley for sharing this information.