Inside Update
Oct. 27, 2011
Announcements and news for ISU faculty and staff
News
ISU Plan open change period is Nov. 1-18
Faculty, professional and scientific, and supervisory merit employees
enrolled in the ISU Plan may make changes
to their health benefits Nov. 1-18 during the annual open
change period.
Finalists named for associate VP for human resource
services
Four
finalists for the associate vice president for human resource
services position will interview on campus over the next couple of
weeks. Public forums are scheduled.
Organ, bone marrow donation policy helps employees give
back
ISU employees may receive paid time off to be organ or
bone marrow donors. Learn about the details of this policy and
how it could help you give the gift of life.
Internal search for CELT director is under way
A search
committee hopes to name a new director of the Center for
Excellence in Learning and Teaching and co-director of ISU's
learning communities program by mid-December. Tenured, full
professors currently at Iowa State are eligible for the
post. Nominations are requested by Nov. 4; applications are due
Nov. 11.
Fennelly is wired for sound
ISU women's basketball head coach Bill Fennelly is using a
wireless
sound system during practices while he undergoes radiation
treatments on his vocal chords. When the Cyclones open their season
Nov. 1 with an exhibition game against Coe College, his coaching
style, usually verbose, will be a game-time decision.
Margaret Sloss Women's Center celebrates 30th
anniversary
This year, the Margaret Sloss Women's Center celebrates
30 years of service and seeks to reexamine how it can best
support all women on campus.
Regents meet Thursday in Cedar Falls
Proposed tuition rates for 2012-13, strategic plan and economic
development progress reports, and several proposed building names
are among the ISU
items on the state Board of Regents Oct. 27 meeting agenda. A
live audio stream of the meeting is available from the board's
website.
More news:
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State
Announcements
The following announcements were added this week:
-- Consider other strategies for life insurance
-- Nominations for Business dean search committee due this
Friday
-- STEM forum, coffee events scheduled for early November
-- EH&S safety summit is Oct. 28
-- Vote for Iowa State team's project in video game competition
-- University Book Store will be closed for inventory Oct. 30
-- Flu shot clinic for employees continues through Friday
-- Comments sought on research misconduct draft policy
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Announcements
Teaching
ISU joins learning collaborative
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching has purchased a
one-year institutional membership to the Team
Based Learning Collaborative. As members, Iowa State faculty
may access the collaborative's database of cases, modules and
workshop materials. To take advantage of this resource, request a
login and password from celt@iastate.edu.
CELT programs
Register via AccessPlus (click on Employee > HRS Training > Courses).
Workshops are in 1230 Communications unless otherwise noted.
-- Student Evaluation of Teaching: Survey Reports and Text Templates with Class Climate, Nov. 1 (10 a.m.-noon)
-- Blackboard (Bb) Learn: Assessments, Nov. 1 (1:10-2:40 p.m.)
-- Communication Strategies for Conflict Management, Nov. 2 (12:10-1 p.m., 2030 Morrill)
-- Respondus: Creating Test Pools, Quizzes, Surveys for Blackboard Learn, Nov. 3 (11 a.m.-noon)
See:
Descriptions and times
Appointment
-- Andrew
Lenssen, research ecologist and lead scientist, USDA, Sidney,
Mont., to soybean systems agronomist, ISU Extension, effective
Oct. 1
Around campus
Cyclones post best graduation rate in Big 12
Iowa State student-athletes graduated
at the highest rate in the Big 12 according to figures
recently released by the NCAA.
Will exercise boost a flu shot's effectiveness?
ISU kinesiology researchers are studying the link between
flu
shots, exercise and the impact on immunity. Following earlier
work with college-age subjects, they are repeating their study with
older adults.
Lecture on living credit-smart is Nov. 1
Maxine Sweet, the leader of Experian North America's consumer
education, community involvement and corporate responsibility teams,
will give a campus
lecture, "Good Debt, Bad Debt: How to Live Credit Smart," on
Nov. 1 (8 p.m., MU Sun Room).
Land values are topic of Nov. 3 Science Café
Economics professor and CARD director Bruce Babcock will present an
informal talk, "Black Gold: Why Iowa Land Prices have Doubled in
Value," at the Sigma Xi honor society's Science
Café Nov. 3 (7 p.m., Lucullan's, 400 Main St.). All are
welcome.
Manufacturing improvements explored in ISU wind energy
lab
Iowa State's Wind
Energy Manufacturing Lab is helping engineers find ways to
make wind energy a more cost competitive energy option.
Animal science names teaching farm for its former
manager
ISU's swine teaching
farm south of town was named this week for Allen Christian,
who managed the farm for more than 50 years and retired from the
university last year.
Campus
forums
This week
-- LAS dean
candidate, Carolyn Cutrona, ISU psychology, Oct. 27 (3:30 p.m.,
1951 Food Sciences, reception follows)
Next week
-- LAS dean
candidate, Chaden Djalali, University of South Carolina, Nov. 1
(3:30 p.m., 1951 Food Sciences, reception follows)
-- Resource
Management Model, with members of the campus budget model review
committee, Nov. 2 (noon-1 p.m., MU Sun Room)
-- Associate VP for human resource
services candidate, David
Trainor, Connecticut State University System, Nov. 2 (1:30-2:15 p.m.,
MU Gallery)
-- Associate VP for human resource
services candidate,
Rod Kelly, University of Virginia, Nov. 3 (1:30-2:15 p.m., MU Oak
Room)
-- LAS dean
candidate, Beate Schmittmann, Virginia Tech University, Nov. 3
(3:30 p.m., 1951 Food Sciences, reception follows)
-- Resource
Management Model, with members of the campus budget model review
committee, Nov. 4 (noon-1 p.m., MU Cardinal Room)
-- Associate VP for human resource
services candidate,
Warren Hills, Ferris State University, Nov. 4 (1:30-2:15 p.m., MU Oak
Room)
Upcoming
-- LAS dean
candidate, Douglas Epperson, Washington State University, Nov. 7
(3:30 p.m., 2019 Morrill, reception follows)
-- Associate VP for human resource
services candidate, Pamela
Bowman, Western Illinois University, Nov. 9 (1:30-2:15 p.m., 204
Carver)
Open
houses/receptions
Next week
-- Open house: ISU Physical Therapy and
Sports Medicine's new location in the Thielen Student Health
Center, Nov. 3 (11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-6 p.m., second floor atrium and
2015 student health center)
Upcoming
-- Farewell reception: Mary Holz-Clause, ISU Extension and Outreach,
Nov. 16 (4:30-6 p.m., Reiman Gardens, program at 4:45 p.m.). Cards
and letters are being collected; send to Lynnette Hauser, 2150
Beardshear.
Details about these events are on the university calendar.
Arts and events
Halloween fun for the whole family
The city of Ames designated Oct. 31 as trick-or-treat night, but
campus groups have planned several family-friendly
events leading up to the spooky holiday.
Free stand-up comedy . . . no joke
The Student Union Board invites all to a free comedy show Nov. 3 (9
p.m., M-Shop), featuring comedian Hannibal
Buress. Buress is a writer for television shows 30 Rock
and Saturday Night Live, and he currently is writing a new
comedy pilot with actor/comedian Jonah Hill.
More campus events
Talks, performances, athletic contests and other campus events are
listed on the
university calendar. Also, see the
Arts and Entertainment page.
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