The Faculty Senate unanimously passed the 2018-19 academic calendars. After a lengthy discussion and results from two surveys, the Educational Policy Committee (SCEP) recommended that the 2018-19 Rochester and Twin Cities calendar include 70 instruction days in each semester. The fall semester currently has 70 instruction days while spring has 74.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Keep your valuables safe and secure
Recently, a Macbook Air was stolen from the President’s Emerging Scholars program. It appears that two people were involved in the theft - one person distracted a staff person by asking the staff person to pick up a package in another room. When the staff person left, the second person entered the room and took the computer. A similar incident happened in Appleby Hall. Please remember that your valuables - purses, wallets, laptops, etc. - should be stored securely and do not leave items unattended.
Learn how to cook for your health
There’s no doubt that what we put into our bodies impacts how we feel. Healthy habits and balanced diets are important to ensure that our bodies can properly function.
Beginning in spring 2015, the University will be offering a new wellness course, “Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives - Cooking for Wellness.” Led by professional chefs, the seven-week course will help you improve your cooking skills, learn new techniques, hone your recipe adaptation and troubleshooting skills, and develop healthy cooking and eating habits.
University IT in-service event
The IT@UMN community is hosting a Get Upgrade Ready! event on Wednesday, January 7, at Coffman Memorial Union in the Great Hall. The event runs 8:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. and is intended to equip the IT@UMN community to help the University with The Upgrade.
Upgrade milestones
At the end of November, the Student workstream met its system testing milestone with excellent results: 97 percent of test executions were completed. In December, three new activities began: end-to-end testing, security validation, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
The directors would like to thank the IT teams for their hard work in system testing, the functional users and others for participating in UAT, and all of the teams supporting the work of the Upgrade.
The directors would like to thank the IT teams for their hard work in system testing, the functional users and others for participating in UAT, and all of the teams supporting the work of the Upgrade.
Upgrade overview course and other training materials
The Student Records Training & Support team released their first Upgrade training offerings this week, including the Student Systems Upgrade Overview course. If you have access to PeopleSoft’s student systems (Campus Solutions), you will need to complete the 30-minute Student Systems Upgrade Overview course before the Upgrade goes live in February 2015.
Those of you otherwise dedicated to Upgrade activities should continue to make those activities your priority.
Those of you otherwise dedicated to Upgrade activities should continue to make those activities your priority.
Change to 13-Credit Exemption Request deadline
Due to a planned system outage for the Peoplesoft Upgrade, the 13-Credit Exemption Request deadline for the Twin Cities campus has been moved to Thursday, February 12 (formerly Monday, February 16) for the spring 2015 semester. It is at the discretion of the department or college whether to grant exceptions after the new February 12th deadline.
Change in process ownership for graduate non-degree registration
As of December 5, the responsibility for processing the Registration Request for Graduate Credit form (OTR026) for the Twin Cities campus shifted from One Stop Student Services to the Office of the Registrar. The change was discussed at the December RAC meeting. Completed forms should be submitted to the Office of the Registrar.
Live Like a Student completes Higher One grant
Live Like a Student concluded programming sponsored by Academic Support Resources and a Higher One grant on December 15th. In addition to the yearly Welcome Week presentation to all incoming first year students, LLAS was afforded the opportunity to sponsor a budgeting competition and complete interviews with 23 students in financial literacy topics. Information collected in these interviews will be used in future promotional materials, as well as in designing new and improved outreach opportunities to connect with students.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
The impact of wellness
Mary Jo Kretizer, a professor from the School of Nursing and Director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing (CSH), recently presented on wellbeing and engagement at a Project Management & Change Collaborators event. Wellness and wellbeing has a direct impact on our professional lives, which is why many businesses are making wellness a priority. If you are interested in learning more about the impact of wellness, check out Dr. Kreitzer's presentation slides and CSH's Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing page.
What does your work team do to promote wellbeing? Share your tips with Stacey Tidball to have them featured in future News & Notes articles!
What does your work team do to promote wellbeing? Share your tips with Stacey Tidball to have them featured in future News & Notes articles!
ASR service projects
Each winter, ASR participates in a service project to support people in need. This year, ASR held its first annual penny war to support the Community Fund Drive and will participate in another service project this spring. If you have suggestions for a project or cause to support, please send your ideas to Tina Falkner.
User acceptance testing
This week, University staff were invited to participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the Upgrade. This part of the project will allow the University's PeopleSoft user community to log into the Portal and complete processes or functions in PeopleSoft version 9.0. The volunteers will test whether they have the appropriate system access and let us know if they are able to complete their processes as expected.
Volunteers should sign up to participate on this spreadsheet by the end of the day Friday, December 5. If you have questions about UAT for student records or student finances staff, please contact Ingrid Nuttall or Kris Wright.
Volunteers should sign up to participate on this spreadsheet by the end of the day Friday, December 5. If you have questions about UAT for student records or student finances staff, please contact Ingrid Nuttall or Kris Wright.
Save the date: Annual ASR staff appreciation event
All ASR staff, including student workers, are invited to the annual ASR staff appreciation event on Thursday, December 18, 2014, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m at The Library Bar,1301 4th St SE, Minneapolis. The event will include appetizers, soda, and coffee. Please RSVP to the event on your Google Calendar.
The impact of wellness
Mary Jo Kretizer, a professor from the School of Nursing and Director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing (CSH), recently presented on wellbeing and engagement at a Project Management & Change Collaborators event. Wellness and wellbeing has a direct impact on our professional lives, which is why many businesses are making wellness a priority. If you are interested in learning more about the impact of wellness, check out Dr. Kreitzer’s presentation slides and CSH’s Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing page.
What does your work team do to promote wellbeing? Share your tips with Stacey Tidball to have them featured in future News & Notes articles!
What does your work team do to promote wellbeing? Share your tips with Stacey Tidball to have them featured in future News & Notes articles!
ASR service projects
Each winter, ASR participates in a service project to support people in need. This year, ASR held its first annual penny war to support the Community Fund Drive and will participate in another service project this spring. If you have suggestions for a project or cause to support, please send your ideas to Tina Falkner.
Save the date: Annual ASR staff appreciation event
All ASR staff, including student workers, are invited to the annual ASR staff appreciation event on Thursday, December 18, 2014, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m at The Library Bar,1301 4th St SE, Minneapolis. The event will include appetizers, soda, and coffee. Please RSVP to the event on your Google Calendar.
User acceptance testing
This week, University staff were invited to participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the Upgrade. This part of the project will allow the University’s PeopleSoft user community to log into the Portal and complete processes or functions in PeopleSoft version 9.0. The volunteers will test whether they have the appropriate system access and let us know if they are able to complete their processes as expected.
Volunteers should sign up to participate on this spreadsheet by the end of the day Friday, December 5. If you have questions about UAT for student records or student finances staff, please contact Ingrid Nuttall or Kris Wright.
Volunteers should sign up to participate on this spreadsheet by the end of the day Friday, December 5. If you have questions about UAT for student records or student finances staff, please contact Ingrid Nuttall or Kris Wright.
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