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Monday, October 16, 1995

Senate will meet tonight

The university senate, UW's academic governing body, holds its monthly meeting at 7:30 tonight in Needles Hall room 3001. Let's see what's on the agenda:

A UW response to the "resource allocation memorandum" issued by the Ontario Council on University Affairs, which is a set of proposals on how the Ontario government ought to divide up whatever money it's still willing to spend on universities. UW (according to the response, prepared by top officials) doesn't much like the OCUA proposals to have the grants "cost-based", meaning "extensive and unproductive administrative effort" to do complex calculations. Predictions are that the OCUA proposals are going nowhere anyway.
Abolition of the senate library committee.
A long report from the University Committee on Student Appeals, about all the grievances and disciplinary cases it handled in 1994-95. Read all about it in the Gazette next week.
A "State of St. Jerome's College" report from Doug Letson, president of the largest of the church colleges.
Reports from the president and the provost, no doubt largely about government relations and the prospect for big changes in university funding in Ontario.

Introducing the Xerox internships

A "three-way pioneering partnership program" is to be launched with an event this afternoon at Cawthra Park Secondary School in Mississauga. The partners are UW, a group of Ontario school boards, and Xerox Canada, who together are sponsoring the Xerox Co-op Teaching Internships Program. The idea: "The program will place UW co-operative education (work-term) students in teaching internships aimed at promoting information technology literacy. As part of the Xerox Information Technology Literacy program, this initiative will encourage the transfer of up-to-date knowledge and skills for the benefit of students, teachers and society."

Math faculty keeps planning

The planning committee in the faculty of mathematics has issued its final report, which is available on UWinfo, or directly, through the newsgroup uw.math.faculty.planning.

The planning starts with this "Vision":

The Faculty of Mathematics has as its vision to be, and to be widely recognized as, the leading university institution in Canada devoted to the advancement, communication and application of the mathematical and computer sciences.
To realize its vision, the Faculty will pursue the following long range objectives:
1. to promote, expect and value effective teaching and learning.
2. to develop undergraduate and graduate programs supported by rationales of academic merit and societal need.
3. to develop broadly based support and funding for both basic and applied research.
4. to be an advocate for the mathematical and computer sciences in the spheres of education, government and industry.
5. to provide a leading computing and networking infrastructure.
6. to enhance the quality of life for work and study, for all in the Faculty.

If you park in H lot

Some time this week, cars in parking lot H will find notices under their windshield, says Elaine Koolstra, the manager of parking services. The notice draws attention to the parking operation's new computerized record system and the need for new information about the people who have parking stickers. And it tells people what they need to do now:

Complete the application (on the back of this notice) and together with your access card come into . . . Parking Services, Commissary . . . October 30th -- Novembaer 10th, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. -- 10 p.m. Access cards currently issued will be turned off after November 10th preventing entry.

Hey, that's me. See you at the parking counter.

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

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