More bus service to campus There's another bus running through campus, as Grand River Transit expanded its service at the beginning of September. The new route 13 bus runs along Columbia Street between campus and the Erbsville Road area, between 6 and 9 in the morning and from 3:30 to 6:00 in the afternoon on weekdays. Other changes to the transit system this fall affect the various route 7 buses, several of which pass through campus. Says JoAnn Woodhall of GRT: "When going shopping at Conestoga Mall, the 7Cs travel more often on King Street. To get to campus, the 7D via Columbia is now called 7E -- routing hasn't changed. To blow off some steam when deadlines get a little crazy, there are more buses travelling to Fairview Park Mall, where you can catch a route 52 which goes to Sportsworld, six days a week." And there's now Sunday service from the route 12 bus, which passes the University Avenue entrance to campus on its trips down the west side of Waterloo and Kitchener. "And there's even more!" says Woodhall. "Many routes have had extra trips added, and times changed to improve connections. The bottom line is, pick up new timetables at the Student Life Centre, on the web, or call GRT Info Line 585-7555."

Career fair is set for tomorrow -- a news release from Conestoga College

On Wednesday, September 26, these four institutions will present Canada's largest Postsecondary Career Fair, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex. Close to 200 employers will be on hand to discuss opportunities with students, answering questions about their companies and careers -- everything from finance and banking to wireless technology, from advertising and design to law enforcement, from precision manufacturing to community service and health care.

"Both employers and students realize what a great mutual opportunity this event presents," says Mary Wright, Manager of Student Employment at Conestoga College. "In the short term and the long term, people with the right skills and the determination to succeed will continue to be in demand. As the universities and college continue to grow, increase the diversity and sophistication of their programs, and graduate an ever-larger number of high quality individuals, employers see the great advantage of having a major presence at this event."

Among the participating employers are Manulife Financial, Bell Canada, ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc., Linamar Corporation, Telesat Canada, COM DEV, Ipsos-Reid, IBM Canada, Deloitte and Touche, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Waterloo Region Community Health Department, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, and the Public Service Commission of Canada.

The event is free to students and alumni of the four host institutions. A shuttle bus will run from UW's Student Life Centre to the Auditorium and back again.

Also happening today and tomorrow

A workshop about the enterprise co-op program is scheduled for 4:30 today, as the co-op department offers one more event to prepare students for job interview season. The career resource centre on the first floor of Needles Hall has more information.

The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group will hold an "action group organizing meeting" at 5:30 this afternoon in the multi-purpose room of the Student Life Centre, as "volunteers gather to talk about what issues they're passionate about, what's been done, what's on, and what there is to do."

An information session about this year's Putnam mathematics competition is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in Math and Computer room 5136. The pizza is free. Chris Small in the statistics department, who organizes UW's involvement in the Putnam, says there will be Putnam training sessions once a week from now until the exam itself on December 1.

Jay Thomson of the kinesiology department teaches over the web, both on campus and in the distance education program, and will give a talk tomorrow about one tool he's found useful, a sound recording package called SoundForge. His presentation (11 a.m., Dana Porter Library room 329) is sponsored by the iWeb developers group.

Tomorrow's noon-hour concert by "Tasa" at Conrad Grebel University College has been cancelled, and instead the New Berlin Chamber Ensemble will present "Dance Mix 2001", at 12:30 in the Grebel chapel. Admission is free.

The first of a series of seminars on information technology and the health industry will be given by John Oliver of Halton Healthcare Services Corporation, at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Davis Centre room 1302. I'll have more about this seminar series in tomorrow's Bulletin.

The student awards office will be closed Wednesday, reopening Thursday.

Some figures about co-op students

In 2000-01, there were 10,379 students in co-op programs and 6,487 in regular programs, the report says. Engineering has the largest number of co-op students, 3,735, but mathematics is just a hair behind, at 3,351. Arts is third, with 1,277.

Total co-op enrolment has doubled in 26 years -- in 1974-75, there were 5,099 co-op students (from five of the six faculties) and 6,959 undergraduates in regular programs. The next year, arts introduced co-op for the first time, and co-op became a majority among undergraduates by 1979-80.

Last year's statistics said women made up 36.6 per cent of co-op students. That number fell a little in 2001-02, to 36.3 per cent, the report says. Women are a majority among co-op students in AHS, arts, science and environmental studies, but only 25.3 per cent of co-op math students and 22.0 per cent of engineering students.

The current dean of environmental studies, Geoff McBoyle, has been on the job since July 1997.

The search for a dean of ES

"As you know," says a memo from provost Amit Chakma, "the President decided in June that it would be preferable not to convene the first meeting of the Committee before I took up my appointment. Now that I have, this memo is to advise that the Nominating Committee is in place and has held its first meeting."

Under UW's policy about appointing deans, the nominating committees are chaired by the provost.

Chakma quotes from Policy 45 about Job One: "The first charge to the nominating committee will be to solicit, with the prior knowledge of the incumbent, the opinion of faculty members and other persons affected with respect to the reappointment of the incumbent. This soliciting of opinion shall include a secret mail ballot of the regular faculty members of the Faculty. If the incumbent is found to be generally acceptable, the committee shall then determine the incumbent's willingness to accept reappointment. If the incumbent indicates willingness to accept, the committee shall recommend reappointment to the President without considering other candidates. Upon receiving the report of the nominating committee and the recommendation of the Senate, the President shall recommend an appointment to the Board of Governors."

And so: "You are invited to provide your written comments / views concerning the reappointment of the Dean, or the Deanship in general, to any member of the Nominating Committee [identified below]; if you prefer, your submission may be directed to the Committee Secretary [c/o University Secretariat in Needles Hall]. Your comments will be held in confidence within the Committee and should be received not later than October 9.

"The ballot required will be distributed when the Committee completes the consultation described above."

Here's a list of members of the nominating committee:

Amit Chakma, Chair [ext. 4766; achakma@uwaterloo.ca]
John Bullen, Secretary [ext. 2623; jbullen@uwaterloo.ca]
Cynthia Baycetich, ERS undergrad student [725-7060; cbayceti@uwaterloo.ca]
Joni Bugden, Geography graduate student [ext. 2689; jlbugden@uwaterloo.ca]
Mieke Delfgaauw, member at-large [ext. 3740; mdelfgaa@uwaterloo.ca]
Stephen Markan, IST staff member [ext. 6695; smarkan@uwaterloo.ca]
Lori McConnell, Architecture staff member [ext. 2710; lmcconne@uwaterloo.ca]
Paul Parker, member at-large [ext. 3610; pparker@uwaterloo.ca]
Jonathan Price, Geography [ext. 5711; jsprice@uwaterloo.ca]
Stephen Smith, Recreation & Leisure Studies [ext. 4045; slsmith@uwaterloo.ca]
Mike Stone, Planning [ext. 3067; mstone@uwaterloo.ca]
Robert-Jan van Pelt, Architecture [ext. 3025; rjvanpel@uwaterloo.ca]
Susan Wismer, Environment & Resource Studies [ext. 5795; skwismer@uwaterloo.ca]

Senate seats open for nominations -- from the university secretariat

• Science faculty: One faculty member elected by/from the Science faculty of the University, term to April 30, 2002.
• Faculty at large: Two faculty members elected by/from the faculty of the University, terms to April 30, 2003.
• Graduate student: One graduate student elected by/from the full- and part-time graduate students of the University, term to April 30, 2002.
• ES undergraduate student: One undergraduate student elected by/from the full-time Environmental Studies and Independent Studies undergraduate students of the University, term to April 30, 2002.

Information about the senate and its committees and councils can be found in the University of Waterloo Act and on the secretariat's web site about committees.

CAR