My shock, sadness and sympathy goes out to all impacted by the Twin Towers
attack.
* The operating costs for the College's 800 number service have risen
sharply over the last several months. In an effort to curb these costs, we
are asking that all users confine their use of this service to University
business, and to not leave connections open and unattended. Those locations
that are making especially heavy use of the 800 number will be contacted to
see if we can't find better solutions. College administration will issue a
more thorough statement explaining this situation within the next few days.
If you have immediate questions, please contact Robert MacArthur in ECAT,
1-520-621-2489, or robmac@cals.arizona.edu.
* It's awards time in Extension...we need your nomination, ASAP! The
Extension Staff Person of the Year Award deadline is September 27, 2001,
and the Extension Faculty of the Year Award and the Extensionist of the
Year Award deadlines are September 25, 2001. Criteria and guidelines for
the Staff and Faculty Awards can be found at:
http://cals.arizona.edu/awards/awardsemp.html. Please take this seriously.
Each office should have at least one nomination.
* Deadline to order your CALS shirts: September 14, 2001. Please see the
great 2001 selection at http://cals.arizona.edu/employees/shirts/shirts.htm
or call Glenda Thompson for any questions you might have at 621-7205.
* A new team has been formed under the College Quality Guidance Council.
The Business Practices Team is charged with bringing about positive change
in the content and manner in which college business processes occur. The
immediate task is to develop strategies to implement four recommendations
identified by college business officers. Those recommendations are to: 1)
Implement orientation and mentoring programs for business officers, 2)
Assess CALS Administration and Departmental processes and recommend changes
to improve organizational efficiencies, 3) Decentralize document routing,
and 4) Improve working relationship with Unit Heads/Faculty. If you have
any questions or comments about the Business Practices Team, please
contact the Team Leader, Cynthia Flynn. The team is actively seeking
participation from interested individuals to assist in the process. If you
are interested in working on a subteam, or wish to participate in
feedbback forums, please email any of the team members: Orientation
Mentoring - Lee Peters petersl@u.arizona.edu, Dan Ruch,
druch@cals.arizona.edu; Internal Processes & Decentralization - Margo
Santucci, santucci@cals.arizona.edu, Alma Sperr sperr@cals.arizona.edu, Cecily
Westphal, cecily@cals.arizona.edu, Lois McRoberts mcroberl@u.arizona.edu,
Maggie Quail, mquail@cals.arizona.edu; Working Relations - Cynthia Flynn,
cflynn@cals.arizona.edu, Kevin Butler kevinb@u.arizona.edu, Lynn Joens,
joens@cals.arizona.edu.
* The Water Resources Research Center is having its Annual State wide Water
Conference in Phoenix on November 13. The conference will be held in the
Heard Museum from 9 am till 5 pm. The topic of this years water conference
is the outcome of the Governor's Water Management Commission. Please put
this date on your agenda.
* A guest speaker - Molly Holzschlag - will be giving two presentations to
the UA webmasters group in early October. Molly is an instructor, national
speaker, and author of various books, including "Special Edition: Using
HTML 4.0" and "Web by Design". Both of these presentations are aimed at
intermediate or experienced web masters who are familiar with creating web
pages. Some basic experience with HTML is useful. Her two presentations
are: Tuesday, October 9, 10-noon, CCIT Room 337, focusing on XHTML: Getting
Familiar with the New Standard and Thursday, October 11, 10-noon, CCIT Room
337, focusing on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Intensive. For details about
the talks, see http://cals.arizona.edu/ecat/classes/ which also has a link to
the registration form.
* A grant seeking workshop will be held in Tucson October 29-30 for
Extension faculty. The registration form and tentative agenda for this
workshop are online at
http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/employee/registration.htm. Registration
deadline is October 5th. Registration cost is $25 payable by IDB to
"Extension Programs". For out-of-town faculty, the State Extension office
will pay for travel and up to 2 nights stay in a hotel. Please direct
questions to Sheila Merrigan at merrigan@cals.arizona.edu or 520-626-6543.