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Tuesday, October 10, 1995

Calendar is now on-line

Many people have been asking when the undergraduate calendar was going to be available in electronic form. The answer is now: on Friday, the text of the calendar -- believed to be complete, but still officially "under construction" -- was linked to UWinfo. You can find it from the home page by choosing "Calendars, courses, exams".

A disclaimer on the calendar warns:

This document was derived from the print version of the 1995-96 Undergraduate Calendar. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, but information contained herein may have changed since this document was created. Errrors may have also been introduced in the conversion to a WWW document. Thus, for items of importance, it might be wise to seek confirmation in the paper version or from a live human being.

The Senate and Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo reserve the right to invoke changes in this document without prior notice.

Coming soon to UWinfo and the World Wide Web, says the registrar's office, is an electronic version of UW's admissions brochure, to provide information for all those high schoolers across the Internet who might like to consider Waterloo.

Know any good teachers?

If you'd like to nominate an instructor for the Distinguished Teacher Award this year, information about the procedure is available from the teaching resources office (Math and Computer room 4055, phone ext. 3132). The nomination deadline is February 2.

The senate guidelines say that Distinguished Teacher Awards are open to all those who teach students at the University of Waterloo and its federated and affiliated colleges. This includes, for example, lab instructors, clinical associates, graduate teaching assistants and correspondence tutor-markers, as well as professors. In addition, one of the four annual awards is set aside for "non-regular" instructors, such as part-time faculty, full-time and part-time support staff who teach courses, adjunct instructors, etc. The nominee must have a record of excellent teaching at UW over an extended period, usually five years or more for the regular instructor category. Nominees in the non-regular category are considered with shorter periods of service.

An individual may only receive one Distinguished Teacher Award from UW, but there are other teaching awards available, including the CASE Canadian Professor of the Year, The 3M Teaching Fellowships, the OCUFA Teaching Awards, and the Robert Foster Cherry Awards for Great Teachers. The TRACE office has information about each of these award programs.

Minister is expected today

The federal industry minister, John Manley, will visit UW today to see a demonstration of new World Wide Web software. The software prototypes were created by the Canadian Strategic Software Consortium, formed by leading software companies in Canada and UW.

The demonstration, led by computer scientist Ian Davis, begins at 1 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1304. About 2 p.m., Manley will address members of the consortium and is expected to stress the importance the federal government places on industry and university partnerships in the information technology area.

The consortium, established in 1993, is involved in a $12 million research and development project supported partly by the federal government. It is seen as a model of how competing Canadian information technology companies can collaborate to enter the highly competitive global markets. Members include Fulcrum Technologies Inc., Grafnetix Systems Inc., InContext Corp., Megalith Technologies Inc., Open Text Corp., Public Sector Systems Ltd., SoftQuad Inc. and UW.

About that funding cut

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. After reports on Friday that the Ontario government was cutting university funding by another 1 per cent in the current year, other reports said it wasn't true -- the $16 million reduction reported by the Toronto Star was really a re-announcement of the $16 million cut announced back in the summer. Bob Truman, director of institutional analysis and planning for UW, is still trying to get clarification.

Key control under construction

Don't go over to the key control office this morning. It's closed until 1 p.m. for construction work. For the rest of the week, access to key control may be erratic as the work continues; people are advised to call ext. 2669 just to make sure, before taking the trek across campus.

Givings to the United Way

As of October 6, which was Friday, givings to the United Way campaign on campus had reached $52,625, says Terry Stewart, who does the calculations as pledges and cheques come in. That includes $9,620 from the "pace-setter" major givers who were asked for their pledges even before the campaign started publicly on campus. The campaign is looking for a total of $160,000, up slightly from the 1994 final givings of $149,188.

The United Way office downtown, which helps distribute the funds to some 50 local agencies, reports on some of the good things done with givings from UW faculty, staff and graduate students last year: 1,500 young people were helped with accommodation and job training; 900 seniors or disabled adults received visitation and home help; 16 counselling sessions were provided for 120 sexually abused children; 1,830 needy children were sent to summer camp for a week; 960 days of "safe haven" were provided for abused mothers and children.

Monday falls on Tuesday this week

So don't forget to write "Tuesday" today, as you eat your leftover turkey. Also today: employer interviews begin for a lot of nervous and talented co-op students looking for winter term jobs.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

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