Assessment Awards Luncheon Recognizes Assessment Efforts on Campus

The annual assessment luncheon was held on campus this Tuesday, March 6. The Office of Assessment sponsors the luncheon every year in order to award departments and programs for the assessment activity they have engaged in over the past year, especially thanking those who have excelled in some way.

Congratulations to the following award recipients:

- written in collaboration with Jeanne Butler, Director of Assessment  

Students Serve Kearney Community during The Big Event

On Saturday, March 31, UNK students will participate in the 6th Annual “Big Event.” Students will gather at Memorial Field at 9:00 a.m. and move out into the community to complete a day of service projects, such as window washing, yard work, painting, and other small chores.

This event is affiliated with Student Government and is part of the largest student-run community service project in the country, which began at Texas A&M more than 27 years ago.

- information taken from http://www.unk.edu/thebigevent and UNK Events Calendar 

Fall World Affairs Conference Announced 

The 2012 James E. Smith Midwest Conference on World Affairs will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, September 25-26, 2012. The theme for this conference is Immigration and the Globalization of Labor. Keynote speaker for the conference will be Professor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco.

We are in the midst of the largest migratory wave in human history. What is the impact of globalization and immigration on businesses around the world? How do we educate newly arrived immigrant children? These are some of the major questions that Marcelo Suarez-Orozco addresses. A distinguished voice on immigration, globalization and education, he is the co-founder of the Harvard Immigration Projects, and has lectured around the world, including at the UN and the Vatican. He is currently the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education, at New York University.

Suarez-Orozco's latest book, a re-release of Latinos: Remaking America, is a comprehensive study of the fastest-growing ethnic group in America; by mid-century Latinos will comprise a quarter of the country's population. Suarez-Orozco's Learning in a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society -- based on a five-year study of the lives, dreams, frustrations and ironies of hundreds of newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, and Central America -- recently won the prestigious Stone Award for 2008, for Best Book on Education. In Learning in the Global Era, a new anthology, he offers constructive approaches to educate a global generation of youth in a rapidly changing world.

A member of the National Academy of Education, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco has been a tenured professor at Harvard and a fellow at Stanford. His books, many of them co-authored, all of them path-breaking, include The New Immigration; Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium; Latinos: Remaking America; Children of Immigration; and the award-winning Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents.

Make plans now to attend and encourage your students to attend the 2012 James E. Smith Midwest Conference on World Affairs, September 25-26, 2012. 
 

- Bonnie Payne, International Outreach Coordinator

National Mountain Plains Management Conference to be at UNK in October of 2012

The College of Business and Technology is making plans now to host the National Mountain Plains Management Conference at UNK October 10-13, 2012. Students are invited to submit papers, and all are invited to participate. Details are available at the conference website:  http://www.conferencehub.org.

- written in collaboration with Kay Hodge, Associate Professor of Management

Library Updates

Library hours during Spring Break  

The library’s hours during March 17-25, 2012, which includes UNK’s Spring Break, are as follows: 

Saturday, March 17 – CLOSED 

Sunday, March 18 – CLOSED 

Monday, March 19 -  OPEN  7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Friday, March 23 

Saturday, March 24 – CLOSED 

Sunday, March 25 -  OPEN 2:00 p.m. – midnight; regular Spring semester hours resume. 

Research assistance is always available through the library’s Ask Us 24/7 chat service using an Internet-connected computer or device. 

Women’s History Month 2012  

Written by Tone Mendoza, Diversity Specialist Librarian 
mendozaac@unk.edu 

Women’s History Month in the U.S. traces its beginnings to the first International Women’s Day, 1911, and has become an annually declared month worldwide that highlights contributions of women to history and contemporary societies.  At Calvin T. Ryan Library we have many resources available to you in print and online which you can use to research this topic.  Please stop by the Library in person or visit us online at:  http://library.unk.edu ….Please ask our library staff for any needed assistance.  

Presidential Proclamation — Women’s History Month, 2012 

Calvin T. Ryan Library Resources: 

KEYWORD SEARCH ON “WOMEN’S HISTORY”: 

• Writing Women’s History : A Tribute To Anne Firor Scott 
• National Women’s History Museum Act Of 2009 [Electronic Resource] : Report (To Accompany S. 2129) 
• Encyclopedia Of Women’s History In America / Kathryn Cullen-Dupont 
• Women’s History In Global Perspective 
• Women’s History As Scientists: A Guide To The Debates 
• Women’s History : Curriculum Guide / National Women’s History Project 

Web Resources: 

• Women’s History 2012 Project Gazette (National Women’s History Project) 
• Partners /Theme / Honorees 
• Okolo Rashid 
• Gracia Molina De Pick  Feminist Lecture Series 
• Brenda S. Flyswithhawks 
• Library Of Congress Website On “Women’s History Month” 
• Encycolpedia Britannica On Women’s Sufferage 
• Census Bureau Reports Women-Owned Firms Numbered 7.8 Million In 2007, Generated Receipts Of $1.2 Trillion 

Recognition

2011-2012 Department Chairs

- Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs

Items to Note for Faculty and Faculty Committees

• **NOTE FOR FALL 2012 ADVISING **
  Portal (188GS) and Capstone (388GS) course descriptions have been prepared for use in advising students for Fall 2012 registration. The descriptions are posted on the General Studies website at http://www.unk.edu/academicaffairs/generalstudies.aspx?id=53803.
  
   
• Academic Affairs Committee
  The link to the CAP ("Course Approval Process") information is located on the Academic Affairs Committee page. CAP is the electronic approval system that allows department chairs to initiate course proposals (create, alter, inactivate, or discontinue). Worksheets for both the creation of new courses and the alteration of existing courses are available on the CAP web site for faculty members to use as they gather the information department chairs will need to submit requests. Department chairs initiate program proposals (create, alter, or discontinue) using a paper form, which is available on the Academic Affairs Committee page, along with instructions.
  
  The schedule of Academic Affairs deadlines for the 2011-2012 academic year is available on the Academic Affairs Committee page. The page also contains a committee roster and a link to the approved Academic Affairs minutes. Department or program chairs needing to make curricular changes should be aware of these deadlines and instructions.
   
• Faculty Handbook
  The online Faculty Handbook contains the most current policy information. The purpose of the handbook is to gather the documents and policies that inform and guide critical decisions, including the Collective Bargaining Agreement (2011-2013).
   
• Faculty Senate
  To keep faculty informed and in the spirit of shared governance, the Faculty Senate website contains links to the senate roster, meeting agendas and packets, meeting minutes of both the Faculty Senate and the Faculty Senate committees, and the Faculty Senate Constitution and Bylaws.
   
• General Studies
  The General Studies web site contains a description of the new General Studies Program effective for students entering UNK in the Fall of 2010. The site contains a list of the approved General Studies courses effective for the 2011-2012 academic year, a list of all of the approved Portal and Capstone topics, as well as lists of the Portals and Capstones offerings for the current semester.
   
• Graduate Council
  The Graduate Council webpage contains information regarding changes to graduate courses or programs, as well as a list of the 2011 Graduate Program Committees.
   
• WI/CD Committee
  The WI/CD Committee has posted a schedule of deadlines for the fall semester on the WI/CD Committee page. The page also contains instructions for applying for WI or CD designation, as well as a committee roster, agendas, and minutes. These resources are provided for those wishing to offer courses as WI or CD.

Deadlines Approach for Various Opportunities

CBT Featured Monthly on KGFW's "Talk of the Town"

Colleagues from the College of Business and Technology will be talking with Steve Altmaier on KGFW's "Talk of the Town" program throughout the coming academic year. Listen to the interviews at 9:30 a.m.:

- written in collaboration with Marsha Yeagley, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Management Information Systems

Calendar of Events within the Academic and Student Affairs Division

Edited by Kim Elliott, Coordinator of Academic Publications  

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