Daily Bulletin

66 candidates for UW president

"The Presidential Nominating Committee is pleased to make the following report to the UW community. The Committee had established in late winter a tentative timetable for its work. The following summarizes the Committee's activities to date, measured by the bench marks established by the Committee: the Committee has concluded its broad-based pre-search consultations, developed a position profile which spoke to the internal/external challenges and candidate qualifications, and received and reviewed all of the 66 nominations/ applications/ expressions of interest (which closed on June 30, 1998). The Committee is working diligently and actively to meet its tentative timetable, and plans to begin the interview process within the next month."

Want to be an ambassador?

"If you are enthusiastic and energetic, think Waterloo is an amazing school, have excellent speaking abilities, relate well to students, then we are looking for you!" it bubbles. What do Ambassadors do? Lead tours for campus visitors -- mostly high school students and their parents -- and work in the Visitors Centre; in short, "represent the University of Waterloo . . . promote our University community . . . provide detailed information and helpful assistance."

It pays $9 an hour ("and you'll receive a complimentary UW jacket, yours to keep and wear on tours"). Some 40 Ambassadors are to be hired this fall.

Applications are due by 3 p.m. this Friday -- you can get the application form at the Visitors Centre in South Campus Hall -- and interviews will be held early next week.

Pension expert will tour Canada

Says the CPBI announcement:

Although widely quoted in the national media for his outspoken views on specific issues like the Seniors Benefit and recent changes to the Canada Pension Plan, Rob's expertise lies in the broader area of economic security programs and their evolution (or revolution) within our current society. In fact, the topic he has chosen is The Impact on Economic Security Programs of Rapidly Shifting Demographics, including the expected impact of population aging on all of government sponsored, employer sponsored, and individual economic security programs (including healthcare!).

He'll speak in Edmonton tomorrow, and later this fall in Vancouver, Regina, Montréal, Winnipeg, Toronto and Halifax.

A new approach to computer chat

Extend the times and places for your discussions by holding your discussion on-line. IST has a licence for WebBoard (from O'Reilly) and now hosts a discussion site. Using a standard Web browser your participants can read, post, and respond to discussion topics.

Newsgroups and listservers also allow people to deliberate online. However, newsgroups make it somewhat difficult to restrict access (e.g., to just members of a course). Listservers can restrict to a particular mailing list, but can lead to an ever growing mailbox. WebBoard provides an alternative if your participants have Web access.