Thursday, January 8, 2004
BOR MEETING: The Board
of Regents, State of Iowa, will meet via telephone conference call
at 3 p.m, Wednesday, Jan. 14. The public can audit the meeting in
the Presidential Room, on the lower level of Maucker Union. The docket
is available on the Web at http://www2.state.ia.us/regents/Meetings/Agendas/agenda.html
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PROCUREMENT CARD REPORTS: Any
department wishing a copy of their annual procurement card expenditures
should contact Purchasing at 3-3524. These reports are available as
a summary by department and/or itemization by individual card holder.
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STAFF TRAINING GRANT CHANGES: Following
are the new reimbursement procedures for 2004: UNI staff enrolled
at UNI will receive a credit applied directly to their U-Bill at the
beginning of the semester. Reimbursement for staff enrolled at other
institutions will continue to be paid at the end of the semester.
Applications for spring '04 are due Feb. 1, and can be found at http://access.uni.edu/forms/index.shtml
For more information, contact Kim Schares at 3-6060.
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JANUARY SCHEDULE OF FREE COMPUTER WORKSHOPS:
Check out January's schedule at http://www.uni.edu/its/et/tnt
for information about Calendar (now an Oracle product) and Messenger
(e-mail) workshops, as well as many others on Microsoft Office and
Creating Web Pages.
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EAPWORKS NEWSLETTER: The
latest issue of the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Newsletter is
available online. To view, go to aflink.af.uni.edu/hrs/eap/news.htm
and click on "current issue." Topics include workplace change, children's
mental health, gambling, and breaking the marriage rut. Questions
about the EAP? Contact Deedra Billings, 3-7162.
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FREE COPIER DISPERSANT TONER: Six
bottles of black liquid copier dispersant (installs cap side down),
toner and one large bottle of clear liquid copier dispersant, toner
(installs cap side up). For more information or to pick-up, please
call Marcy at 3-7486.
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MANAGEMENT TRAINING CONSORTIUM: The
UNI Management and Professional Development Center is seeking additional
members for the 2004 Management Training Consortium, an association
of businesses and organizations which provides a cost-effective way
to fill common training gaps of supervisors, managers and professionals.
For workshop schedules and fees, go to http://www.bcs.uni.edu/mpdc
UNI departments receive a 15% discount on the fees. To join, contact
Debb Vandehaar-Arens at 3-5851 or mpdc@uni.edu.
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MAUCKER UNION INTERIM HOURS:
http://www.uni.edu/maucker/hours/
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(by category) ATHLETICS
Jan. 8 -- Women's Basketball vs. Southwest Missouri
State, West Gym, 7:05 p.m. Jan. 10 -- Women's Basketball vs. Wichita
State, West Gym, 3:05 p.m.
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EXHIBITS/FILMS/LECTURES
ART EXHIBIT: From Jan.
12 through Feb. 8 the UNI Gallery of Art will present "Convention
and Invention: An Exhibition of Publication Design" featuring the
traveling exhibition "50 Books/50 Covers," which is organized by the
American Institute for Graphic Arts. In addition, three artists are
highlighted: Douglas Holleley, international book artist; Nikki McClure,
papercutter and book artist; and Walter Hamady, printmaker, papermaker
and poet.
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PERFORMING ARTS
SOUND OF MUSIC: Sunday,
Jan. 11, 2 & 7:30 p.m. The ultimate musical for the whole family.
The Sound of Music, set in 1938 and based on a true story, was the
final collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein. Call 273-SHOW
for tickets or visit
http://gbpac.com
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SPECIAL EVENTS
A-Z INSTITUTE M DAY: University
Museum, Jan. 19, 9-noon. Learn about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the
Civil Rights Movement. Appropriate for elementary-age children. Registration
deadline is Jan. 12. $15 for members of the Friends of the Museums;
$20 for nonmembers.
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