Did you get your invitation to the Welcome Reception? It's all set for 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 24 in the Physician’s Atrium of the Science Center? We’ve got lots and lots of new folks … faculty and staff. You won’t want to miss this opportunity for a group MC welcome. The invites went to campus mailboxes of faculty who live in North Manchester; others received them at home. Staff received them on campus. the program starts at 5 p.m.

 

Out of this world … That’s the way cool almost full-page coverage the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette gave to (Manchester College) and Christer Watson’s opportunity to use the Spitzer Space Telescope to study the Milky Way. Check out the “hard copy” of the story on the PR bulletin board in the garden level of the Ad Building. Here’s the JG’s web link to its story.

 

It only takes a moment … now that we have that song in the beans of the longtimers, please take that moment and visit the online Campus Directory to ensure everything about you is exactly correct … phone, job, campus address, etc. See … the link is right here; click on the phone. Do we need to change something? Absolute deadline is Aug. 31, to Crysta Borden in Human Resources, x5288.

 

We’re not in the dark; we’re enlightened. Keep switching off those lights – it’s good for us, and, it’s good for others. This summer, we have helped Duke Energy by designating unused electrical energy to its power grid to help prevent brownouts or blackouts at other industries. We’ll get a credit for energy we do not use. So keep on switching off those lights not needed??? Contact Chris Garber, x5027.

 

Ice Cream! How's that for a cool SOC* party for staffers who took the heat all summer, working on campus! Chartwells will dish it out in the lobby of Wine Recital Hall today, Wednesday, from 2 to 3 p.m.

*Staff Organizational Committee

 

We’re so glad you’re here! Robert Wikel, Football Intern; Loni Clark, Volleyball Intern; Ryan McKee, Football Intern; Ryan Phillips, Residence Hall Director; Bill J. Potter, Residence Hall Director; Judith Fox, Custodian; Janeen W. Kooi, Director of The Manchester Fund; Matthew W. Unger, Director of Performing Arts Technologies; Amanda Myers-Walls, Admissions Counselor; Kelsey D. Swanson, Admissions Counselor; Wally Baker, Custodian; Jeffrey Beer, Athletic Trainer/Adjunct Faculty; Vicki Eastman, Instructor of Education

 

Need toner, ink cartridges, CDs, labels? ITS will no longer supply tech supplies when our current stock is depleted. ITS will tell us where to go (snort), so continue to contact them for assistance in securing supplies.

 

Alicia Osterlund '02 Redinger is off next week to energize the development efforts of Marian Catholic High School in Mishawaka. She has managed our student phonathon and coordinated young alumni and student giving programs, and focused on The Manchester Fund. “She has served Manchester College with distinction!” praises Michael Eastman, vice president for advancement. “We will miss her,” sobs the MEMO Lady and Alicia’s basement partner in hyperactivity.

 

About the Public Program Series. For many years, the College hosted public programs featuring some amazing speakers and performers.  Over the past 15 years, however, the costs for these kinds of programs have skyrocketed. Speakers and artists now are scheduled through agencies, and well-known speakers charge more than $100,000 for a program! Consequently, we have folded our modest Public Program Series budget into other budgets that support speakers and performers.

 

Human Resources tells us Carrie Makin is hanging up her Publications and Design cap and donning her HR cap full-time beginning Aug. 21, as Recruiting Specialist. Is she still queen of student employment? “You bet!” More continuity in hiring is the goal, as well as efficiency, of course. Her new position combines two – HR assistant and HR clerk. Clerk Dottie Young will continue to pursue a full-time job with benefits, staying through September or leaving sooner if she finds a position sooner. Know of an opportunity for her office skills, magnificent attitude and work ethic? Give Dottie a buzz!

 

This is Ayla Reinoehl Cashdollar, born July 14 at Kosciusko Community Hospital in Warsaw, a petite 6 pounds, 11½ ounces and 19 inches tall. She’s home with big sis Kambree and Mom and Dad, Brian Cashdollar (track/cross country) and Kimberly Reinoehl (admissions).

 

What an internship! That was our Jami Schrader eying the wee baby sharks at the Fort Wayne Zoo on Page One of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette last weekend. Jami, a junior environmental studies major, is interning at the zoo through the Lilly Endowment capital grant program.

 

No more white attendance cards! No more guessing, hopefully. Exempt employees will begin recording their paid time off (vacation, sick leave, wellness days, etc.) in ezLabor starting Sept. 1. Training to come. Supervisors, make sure your ezLabor lists your exempt employees, too. If not, contact Allison (ITS), x5432.

 

 

Tut! Yup! Here’s your chance to join (and invite friends) for an alumni tour of the King Tut exhibit on Monday, Oct. 16 at the Field Museum in Chicago.  The bus leaves the College at 8 a.m. and then will make a stop in Warsaw to pick up folks there, too. Cost is $60 (bus/Tut tour), with meals on our own. Depart the museum at 6 p.m. Indiana time, with a Warsaw stop. Here’s more about the exhibit.

 

 

Chris Yeadon is our new Campus Food Service Director for Chartwells Dining Services. Chris comes from Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, where he was assistant food service director. He has more than 10 years of college and university dining experience and is especially excited about the new food service renovations to the College Union. Contact Chris at x5251 or ceyeadon@manchester.edu with questions or catering requests. 

 

 

Extreme Makeover. For better navigation and to better serve its customers, the Office of Career Services has newly designed web pages. Take a look!  www.manchester.edu/osd/career

 

Tim McElwee (peace studies) joined an 11-member delegation sponsored by Christian Peacemaker Teams to Bogota, Colombia last month to meet with church leaders, representatives of human rights organizations, and people displaced by Colombia's decades-long insurgency/counterinsurgency war in the capital. They also traveled to communities threatened by the presence of several armed groups.

 

Call her Editor. Julie Garber (Plowshares, associate dean) has accepted the position as editor of Brethren Life and Thought, an academic journal published by the Brethren Journal Association and Bethany Theological Seminary. Julie is a seasoned Brethren Press editor and has produced several key curriculum series. Yes, she is still here, and teaching an FYC this fall ...

 

To The Manchester College Family: What joy to know you had a part in filling someone else’s heart with the things that are a reflection of God’s goodness and His steadfast love. What you have done will be remembered in my heart. The prayers, cards, flowers and expressions of sympathy, in the loss of my mother. It is wonderful to have a caring College family. Thank you.  – Dave and the Martha Friermood Family

 

Congratulations to Wendi Hutchinson (church relations), elected to a three-year term on the Church of the Brethren Credit Union Board.

 

 

 

Our women’s soccer players felt right at home in Australia last month. Signs greeted them everywhere! Oh, you mean those aren’t for us?? Five MC players joined the USA Athletes International team Down Under, coached by our own Scott Stan. They visited a wildlife preserve, surfed, kayaked with dolphins, snorkled the Great Barrier Reef, and, oh yah, played five games.

 

 

Human Resources

 

Faculty and Staff Openings: Custodian, Campus Security Officer (part-time), Track and Field Coach  Intern, Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach, Assistant Wrestling Coach, Koinonia Education Specialist (part-time), Publications Assistant

Go to job descriptions

 

Student employee supervisors: Because the pay period ends in the middle of the week, the last day of “summer employment” is Friday, August 25.  Students who continue to work until classes begin need to notify Carrie Makin (x5559) in HR and will be paid at the school year rate of $5.25 beginning Saturday, August 26. Supervisors with questions about summer housing credit for their student workers should contact Carrie. The credit will be applied by the end of September; the $200 bonus (or whatever amount due) will be paid Sept. 30.

 

It’s time to post student job openings! Fill in the Student Employment Request Form and e-mail it to Carrie Makin, who will post the openings on our website. Students now can apply online, so we’ll get their applications via email unless we pick up the hard copies at Human Resources. We also can just update past postings. Contact Carrie.

 

Remember: Students working into the school year must pick up new cards from HR. The 20-hour work week begins Sept. 2 for students. That’s the max – students may not work more than 20 hours a week during the academic year. (There’s a waiver for that first week of school for summer students who carry over into the academic year; talk to Shelly Liefer, x5282)

Wow!     Yea!   Kudos   You’re Awesome!  Thanks!

 

Thanks to ITS for a major, major upgrade to Colleague – our administrative software package for the Registrar, Business Office, Admissions and the Financial Aid. In addition, MCConnect got a substantial facelift. AND … we quintupled our file server capacity, from 400Gb to more than 2Tb!

 

Enormous kudos to Allison Keating, DeWayne Martin, Max Ihnen and Tonya Brown – especially DeWayne, for a well-planned and tested implementation of our administrative software package upgrade. While the process took almost five days and long, long hours … in the end, the implementation went exceedingly well because of their hard work.

 

And … Huge kudos to Larry Gyrion for rescuing the College from phone purgatory on July 18. He worked past midnight to ensure that phone service was restored as much as possible. In fact, he got the system completely restored, something his supervisor didn’t think was possible so quickly on this aging, cantankerous phone equipment. Great work, Larry!

 

Oldies but still goodies from recent MEMOs …

40 cents … that’s our new mileage rate for all personal vehicles (regardless of type), effective July 1. It’s 42 cents for College-owned minivans and 52 cents for College-owned passenger vans. 

FREE $$$ Remember, once employed by the College for two years, we are eligible to receive a contribution from the College toward the retirement plan TIAA-CREF. The College’s contribution is equal to 7 percent of our gross earnings. However, these contributions will not begin until we enroll. The cost to us is NOTHING, NADA, ZIPPO, ZILTCH. Contact Crysta Borden (x5288) for a TIAA-CREF enrollment packet.  Every day we wait past our two-year anniversary means money LOST to us.

**Employees who want to contribute to their retirement plan may sign up at any time. There is NO waiting period to begin contributing on your own through payroll deduction. Contact Crysta for a Supplemental TIAA-CREF Retirement packet.

New Insurance Identification Cards, new ID numbers. Everyone should have received their new ID card from Group Administrators by now. Please note that our individual ID number HAS BEEN CHANGED to further protect our privacy. Group Administrators no longer will use our Social Security number as our ID number. Don’t forget to provide your new ID number to your providers. Any claims made since June 1 must include your new identification number. Contact any providers you have used since June 1 and provide them with your new number.

To access the Group Administrators website (www.groupadministrators.com), enter your new ID number as your user ID and the last four digits of your Social Security number the first time you log on. You’ll then be prompted to change your password. (Those who already have changed their password will retain that password; only the user ID will change.)

Attendance Reports. The attendance reports issued to non-exempt employees does NOT contain wellness holiday information. If you have earned your wellness holiday and have not used it, do so prior to Sept. 1. This benefit day does not rollover. Turn in your wellness card to your supervisor, who will turn in your card to the business office when you elect to use your holiday.

FORMS! FORMS! FORMS! We said we want more, and here it is! Human Resources has added forms to the HR web page, for our convenience. And, forms are available in the holder hanging outside the Office of Human Resources on the second floor of Calvin Ulrey. What’s there? Well, for a start, health insurance information, change of address forms and tuition remission forms … there’s all kinds of forms! (well, for a lot of us) Here’s the direct link, but we also can get there through the HR home page: http://www.manchester.edu/OHR/forms.htm

Want a particular form put on our website? Contact Human Resources, x5288

 

Mark your calendars! for the all-staff meetings, intended to update us on College issues and to strengthen our sense of unity and commitment to the Mission. At these meetings, we’ll also recognize service, do a Q&A with President Switzer and chuckle a bit, although not necessarily in that order. All of the 45-minute meetings will 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, October 19

 

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