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Tuesday, August 27, 1996
The last week of summer
I'm back at work, to find a full voicemailbox (is that a word?) and
an amazing pile of paper on my desk. It may take me a while to find
out exactly what's going on, but I see that we're getting
a new dean of environmental studies as of
next summer, and I notice that the reconstruction of parking lot H
has been started but by no means finished.
I had a good vacation -- thanks for asking -- including two weeks at
my beloved
Chautauqua. Lovely
day to be coming back to the office. . . .
As I face the keyboard once again, I have to start by thanking those
who kept the Daily Bulletin going in my absence: Martin Van Nierop and
John Morris here in the office of information and public affairs, and
(with their Web skills) Kyle McKenzie and Cathy Hale down the hall
in the office of research. They've done me, and you too I presume,
a great service over the past month.
That's what the sign says
In big letters, outside the continuing education office on the
corner of Phillip and Columbia Streets: "Invest in yourself with
prof. development courses." Now I suppose what they really mean
is the
professional
development courses being offered this fall by the continuing
ed people. But UW is not without "prof development courses" too,
and this is the season for them. The teaching resource office
holds its annual
"Faculty
Development Days" on Thursday and Friday of next week, September
5 and 6. Sign of the times: two of the working sessions are about
creating and using course home pages on the Web. Among other topics:
"Teaching with Data Sets", "Smart Strategies for a Safe and Open
Classroom", and the customary panel on "Balancing Teaching,
Research and Personal Lives".
Walking the Web at Waterloo (14)
Suppose you wanted to read the text of UW Policy 85, about "Firearms".
You probably don't, but say you did; you could start from the UWinfo
home page by choosing
Documents,
then choose "UW Policies", then choose a list of them in "alpha order", and
finally click on
"Firearms
- #85" and within seconds find yourself reading a short-and-sweet
text that says you can't have a gun around here.
Perhaps in more demand might be such policies as #53 about Tenure, or
#18 about Staff Employment.
There's much more in the "Documents" page, which starts with the University
of Waterloo Act and moves on to, for instance,
"Documents and
Directives about Computing", including a page about "Handling
Complaints of Misuse". (That page, in turn, has pointers to relevant
UW policies, such as #33 about Ethical Behaviour.)
Also in Documents, you'll find the text of
the
Memorandum of Agreement that governs relations between UW and
its faculty members;
the
procedure on closing the campus in case of severe winter storms;
UW's
Privacy
and Freedom of Information Guidelines; and pointers to documents
that have made news in the past, including presidential memos about
restructuring and budget-cutting, the famous 1995 report on crosswalks,
the Social Contract agreements of 1993, and even the documents in
the Valery Fabrikant murder case at Concordia University, with its
many ramifications.
Right at the bottom of the page, you can even click to see James Downey's
letter to the campus on the day he was appointed president of the
university, nearly four years ago.
Other notes I've found so far
My mail includes a tidy brochure from the human resources
department, explaining the "compensation program 1996" for
UW staff and answering some questions that I've often heard
asked. Also in the pile here:
- The faculty of health sciences is proudly announcing the
opening of the "UW-CMCC Chiropractic Clinic", jointly sponsored by
UW and the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. The clinic
is in Matthews Hall (reception area, room 1602) and can be reached
at ext. 5301. It's open Monday and Friday 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Says a flyer: "Please call for an appointment.
Patients will be encouraged to participate in the Clinic's research
programmes."
- The last gasp of the conference season is being taken up at
Ron Eydt Village, a.k.a. Village 2. In addition to the Warrior football
camp and residence dons' orientation, this week sees, the "Learning
for Life" conference, sponsored by the Waterloo County board of
education, with some 300 participants.
- Let's hope there isn't a sudden chill in the weather this week.
Steam and building heat -- and hot water -- will be turned off
Wednesday through Friday, the plant operations department says,
for "maintenance on steam mains and chimney repairs". The shutdown
affects all buildings inside the ring road.
And of course I'm looking at the schedule for the beginning of
the fall term. Monday, September 2, is Labour Day and a holiday,
but one of the busiest days of the year at UW as hundreds of
students move in. Registration begins Tuesday, September 3, just
a week from today. The English Language Proficiency Exam will be
offered Wednesday, September 4. And classes start on
September 9!
CAR