It’s your turn, alumni!
You’ve seen the College’s new “Find Your Place” marketing campaign.
We began the process by asking current students (and parents) to
complete the sentence: At
Manchester College, I found …. Check
out
ifound.manchester.edu to read what students said and to
complete your own “I found.”
Manchester students have a lot on their minds,
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels discovered during a quickly-assembled Q &
A session on the last day of January Session. We jam-crammed Flory
Auditorium and so pleased Gov. Daniels, he already is talking about
when he can return to talk more with the bright future of Indiana.
Maybe next fall, eh? President Switzer also had his ear for 15
minutes.
Here’s the story, or visit our Home Page.
MC has a magnificent presence at the Fort
Wayne Teaching Conference
Dean Sharfman is delivering the welcome, nine of our
faculty members are presenting and one is moderating a session. And,
we’re a sponsoring institution! The all-day conference is Friday,
Feb. 16 at IPFW. Registration deadline is Feb. 3;
here’s the
website for on-line registering. The conference is free
and includes breakfast and lunch; Academic Affairs will pay
mileage.Here are our presenters:
The
Scholarship of Teaching
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Robert Pettit,
Popularization or
Bastardization? Making Classic Texts Accessible to Students
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Neil Wollman (psychology, peace studies) and Brad Yoder
(sociology, social work),
Teachers Learning Together: The National Index of Violence and
Harm
Technology in Teaching
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Leonard Williams (political science), moderator
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Kathryn
Carlson Heler (business),
Are We Forgetting How to Teach?
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Heather Schilling (education),
Engaging 21st
Century Learners
Portfolio
Assessment
Assessment
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Mark Huntington (exercise, sport sciences),
Introducing Research and
Discipline-based Writing in an Undergraduate Exercise Physiology
Course
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Marcia Benjamin (communication studies) and Mary
Lahman (communication studies),
Enjoyable Assessment: An
Oxymoron?
Sad because you missed the Goodbye party for
Diane Baker?
Hurry on up to her
old office, where you’ll find her sharing her 7½ years of MC wisdom
with our accounts payable newbie, Susie Snep. Diane even has a
memory book we can sign. But hurry … Thursday is Diane’s last day.
Where did this year go?
Already, Alumni folks are
talking about 101 Days to Commencement, that annual dinner party for
our May grads, served by faculty and cabinet members.
Contact
Lisa Gregory
in the Alumni Office to volunteer to don a white jacket and be a
server.
The Candidate.
Check out this way cool website created by Liz Bushnell for
inspiring our students in their search for careers:
http://candidate.manchester.edu
Follow the job-finding
attempts of five students, with blogs, advice, a message board,
resumes, photos. Reality web, right here at Manchester College … now
THAT’s using the web.
Get the jump on tickets for the hugely popular madrigal dinner next Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9-10.
Noah and Joan of Ark is full of puns, music, appropriate food, and
flying furry animals. This is a fund-raiser for those A Cappella
Choir students who are struggling to finance their residency and
performance in Carnegie Hall this May.
Here’s the story.
Welcome to the MC community!
Rebecca Boone, Financial Aid
Counselor (x5231); Susie Snep, Accounts Payable Specialist (x5216);
Heather Carter,
Custodian; Christine Curless,
Campus Store Assistant Manager
65 Alive! You Bet!
Students in our Exercise and Sport Sciences programs learn lots
about life-long wellness, often in ways that include members of our
community. Lana Groombridge’s ESS 343 Aging: Health and Wellness
students recently tested 15 area adults who have waved goodbye to
65. The students learned fitness testing methods and the over-65s
gathered valuable personal wellness information and routines.
Read more about this well-established 65-Alive! community
project at MC.
How are those evaluations coming?
Our HR guru Dale Carpenter sends us these reminders:
The forms are on our HR website; just
click here
and scroll to Supervisor Resources.
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Don’t send the employee
self-evaluations to HR;
keep those in your files with a copy of the supervisor evaluation
that you will send to HR.
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Don’t forget to update job
descriptions
ü
All first drafts should
have been completed and reviewed by now.
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All evaluations and job
descriptions are due to HR no later than Feb. 16.
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Questions? Call
x5393.
Change of Course Days
extend into the first three days of classes, through Feb. 2, at the
Registrar’s Office. The Class Schedule for spring 2007 is
online,
of course.
We’re out of balance for swapping colleges
with the
Tuition Exchange
Program
(TEP), so it will be a year or so before MC employees and their
dependents can use that program.
Sandy Bendsen
is collecting a waiting list for future semesters,
first-come-first-served. The
CIC Tuition
Exchange of the Council of Independent Colleges
is unlimited, as accepted by those colleges. Sandy or Dave McFadden
are the sources for details.
Shopping at Scott’s? Don’t forget to save your receipts for the Student
Education Association! This year Manchester Community Schools will
benefit from the ABC program. Just stuff your receipts into the box
in the Education Department office. (Don’t forget to check the
expiration dates on the receipts.)
Our facilities calendar has a new look.
The
virtual event
management system (EMS) now has a filter button to click,
to, uh, filter the results down to the building, room, date. Just
click on Browse/Browse Events in the upper left corner. Then click
on the tab for a daily/ weekly/monthly calendar or click on the
Filter tab on the right side of the page.
Funds for AACTION.
The community
AACTION
(Against Alcohol,
Controlled substances, and Tobacco In Our Neighborhoods)
has awarded the College $3,950 for prevention/education and
$2,000 for Substance Abuse Treatment. This is the third year we’ve
received grants for our students (Regret
video, comedian Wendi Fox), services, training and supplies.
We’ve added one more Scholarship
Day to bring our top Dean’s Scholarship
recipients to campus for interviews, academic sessions with faculty
and students, and to learn more about what they will find here as
students. Dean’s Day is Saturday, March 10. Thanks to those
who already are signed up to meet with Presidential Scholars on Feb.
10. Please consider joining this additional opportunity to connect
with talented prospective students. To sign up, contact
Alexis Young.
Tuition remission for BCA programs ends with the fall 2008 semester.
The Board of Directors of Brethren College Abroad recently voted,
for financial reasons, to suspend the practice of granting tuition
remission for its programs to dependants of faculty and staff of
Brethren colleges, including Manchester College.
The Road to Taskstream … that’s the title of the faculty development
meeting at 10 a.m. this Friday in Flory Auditorium.
Taskstream is web-based technology
for education accreditation reporting,
standards-based assessment and portfolio management.
It’s
just phooey.
An e-mail stating “your
cell phone number is about to be assaulted by telemarketing calls as
a result of a new cell phone database” is a bunch of hooey. ITS has
confirmed with the Federal Trade Commission that no such list
exists. And, there is no deadline to get our home or cell phone
numbers on the FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry. Just give the
FTC a call (888-382-1222) or go to their
website.
It usually takes at least a month for the stop to “take.”
Manchester College Community Club will hear about “Prospects for Peace in
Palestine and Israel?” from an MC faculty study group that includes
Brad Yoder, Julie Garber and others at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 7
in the Oakwood Hall great room. Reservations
($9 meal) due by Feb. 2 to
Warren/Helen
Garner, 982-1807, or
Esther/Annabel Rupel, 982-1410.
Many, many thanks
to those who have expressed their sympathies regarding my mother's
recent passing. Vicky and I are grateful for your thoughts and
support. Memorial services for the family were held in
Lansing, Mich., on Jan. 28, and will be held in Fort Wayne on Feb.
10. Because of her longstanding love for animals, preferred memorial
gifts may be sent to the ASPCA in the name of Ruth E. Pawlicki. --
Leonard Williams
Human
Resources
Faculty and Staff openings: Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of
Communication Studies, Assistant Professor of Exercise and Sport
Sciences/Athletic Trainer, Plumbing and Electrical Generalist,
Campus Security Officer
Go to job descriptions
Struggling? Got problems at home, on the job, in the family? Don’t forget our Employee Assistance Program is just a phone call away …
and comes to us right on campus four times a year. It’s private,
it’s personal, it’s professional counseling, and it’s free. We also
get five free, pre-paid hours of counseling at Bowen Center. Nobody
will know but you and the counselor. Our EAP rep is Jenny Lovette at
800-342-5653, x2956.
On campus, the visit schedule is lunchtime on Feb. 21,
April 18, Aug. 15 and Nov.
21.
Looking to hire students?
Give them a boost on their future by asking them to submit a resume.
It’s just one more way out students can practice for the real world.
Hopefully, your request will send them to Career Services, where
they can learn not only about resume preparation, but other services
the College offers. Of course, the process also puts us, as the
employer, more in the know about our students!
Wow! Yea! Kudos
You’re Awesome! Thanks!
Reports. Reports. Reports.
The Indiana Department of Education requires lots of reports.
Time-consuming, sometimes confounding reports. Just before
Christmas, the DOE opened a web site to allow the filing of another
report. The very next day, our Education Department administrative
staff (e.g. Barbara Burkholder) filed the report. Three weeks later,
the DOE asked us when we filed. We responded. Unconvinced, the DOE
asked again. We responded again. 30 minutes later, the DOE director
of teacher education e-mailed, thanking us for filing early and
correctly.
Manchester
College was
the only one of the 43 teacher education institutions to file a
report at all!
Take me to Spartan Weekly!
MC's weekly update by Doug Shoemaker, sports information director
Oldies but still goodies from recent MEMOs
Know a senior who
knocks your socks off?
One who gets good grades, is a leader and an all-around nice person?
Maybe you know two or three … this is Manchester, after all! Staff
and faculty are invited to nominate students for the Capstone
Outstanding Senior Leadership Award, which recognizes a student who
has contributed significantly to the quality of campus life
throughout his or her years at Manchester College. Send
your nomination letter that describes why the student exemplifies
the qualities of an outstanding leader to the Award Selection
Committee, c/o Dottie Young at
dsyoung@manchester.edu. The deadline is Monday, Feb. 19.
What’s for lunch?
Or dinner?
Just tap that “This
Week’s Menus” button on the Current Students page and zap –
Chartwells menus that will change every Monday.
Faculty
Professional Development
meetings (below) begin at 10 a.m. on select Fridays, in Flory
Auditorium of the Science Center :
Feb. 2 –
Taskstream web-based technology
March 2 – The New FYC
Faculty Business
Meetings
begin at 10 a.m. on the second and fourth Friday, in Flory
Auditorium. If insufficient agenda items, the meeting will be
canceled:
Feb. 9
April 13
Feb. 23
April 27
March 9
May 11
Mark your calendars!
for the all-staff meetings, when we’ll recognize service, learn
what's going on, do a Q&A with President Switzer and chuckle a
bit, although not necessarily in that order. All of the
45-minute meetings start promptly at 8 a.m., with coffee and
sweets the half-hour beforehand to give us a chance to chat up
folks from other parts of campus we rarely see.
Thursday, March 22 (spring break)
Thursday, June 28
Thursday, Oct. 18 (fall break)
Still can't
find what you were looking for?
Try the
MEMO Archives.
