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Technology Assistants Program Requests Faculty Project Proposals for Fall 2005 High Temperature Hot Water Outage Patriot Circle Detour Completion Date Extended Programs and Services for Non-Native Speakers of English Expand to All Three VA Campuses Theater of the First Amendment Opens with Jon Robin Baitz's Three Hotels
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Mason E-FilesPosted August 15, 2005 | |
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| From Thursday, August 25 through Sunday, August 28, approximately 4,000 resident Mason students will move in. Thursday, August 25 and Friday, August 26. New resident students will arrive to campus via Roanoke River Road to Patriot’s Circle and park in the Sandy Creek Parking Deck. The traffic will enter the deck via York River Road. Check-in takes place in Dewberry Hall from 9:00 am - 3:00 pm. Presidents Park traffic is then routed from the Sandy Creek Parking Deck via Sandy Creek Way to Patriot’s Circle and then up Shenandoah River Lane into Presidents Park at the metered lot entrance. Check-in at Dewberry Hall closes at 3:00 pm and reopens in Eisenhower Hall in Presidents Park from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. There will also be some traffic from Lot F to Chesapeake River Way between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm on Thursday and Friday from freshmen assigned to DUCC. Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28. Upper class resident students arrive at their assigned housing areas to check-in between 10:00 am - 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Heavy traffic flow areas on both days will include: Parking Lots F, Chesapeake River Way, Rivanna River Lane, George Mason Blvd, Anna River Court (near Patriot’s Village), Liberty Square, Potomac Heights and Patriot Circle near these locations. For more information, contact the Office of Housing and Residence Life or e-mail Chris Neumann at cneumann@gmu.edu. | ||
| Check out the training opportunities under Training for BYTE Week. | ||
| Technology Assistants Program Requests Faculty Project Proposals for Fall 2005 The Technology Assistants Program (TAP) offers faculty the opportunity to work on a technology project with assistance from a trained undergraduate student. We are looking to add to our pool of project proposals to meet potential last-minute registration requests. Selected faculty will work with the student during the Fall 2005 semester; projects should be a semester long, and will be completed at the end of the Fall 2005 semester. Projects should fall into the categories of web design, spreadsheet/database design, or assisting other students with technology projects. Note that proposals to support instruction will receive priority, as will projects in which both the student and faculty member have a learning experience. Faculty who already have a student interested in working with them should submit the proposal form and student application together. Visit http://tap.gmu.edu for application materials and program information. Contact tap@gmu.edu for more information. | ||
| High Temperature Hot Water Outage The campus wide high temperature hot water (HTHW) outage required to complete installation of the new boiler is scheduled for Thursday, August 18 through Sunday, August 21. Most of the buildings on the Fairfax campus will be without hot water during the outage. If you have any questions or need additional information, contact the Physical Plant Customer Service Center at 993-2525. | ||
| The Office of the Provost has received guidelines for the 2006 NEH Summer Stipend Awards. All faculty teaching full-time must be nominated by their institutions. Each college and university in the United States and its jurisdictions may nominate two faculty members. Of the two, at least one must be a junior scholar with the rank of instructor, assistant professor, or an independent scholar at a comparable stage. Senior scholars hold the rank of associate professor or professor. Program description: Summer Stipends support individuals pursuing advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or to the public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on broad topics, archaeological site reports, translations, editions or other scholarly tools. Award Information: Summer Stipends provide $5000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. Recipients must work full-time on their projects for these two months, and may hold other research grants supporting the same project during that time. Summer Stipends normally support work carried out during the summer months, but arrangements can be made for other times of the year. Faculty who are interested should: 1. Check the guidelines at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html. 2. Submit the following documents to Marcy Glover (mglover2@gmu.edu), Office of the Provost by September 16: NEH cover letter, Vita, and Project Narrative. 3. All applicants will be informed within 1 week whether or not they have been selected so that the 2 nominees may finish completion of their application, which is due to the NEH by October 3, 2005, 5:00 pm. NOTE: The on-line application can be completed in stages and edited until October 3 or until the submit button has been clicked. For more information, contact Marcy Glover, Global and Educational Programs Coordinator, Office of the Provost, 993-8722. | ||
| Patriot Circle Detour Completion Date Extended The detour on Patriot Circle (near the Aquatic Center) for the installation of the HTHW tunnel was originally scheduled to be completed by Monday, August 15. The completion date has been moved to Friday, August 19. If you have any questions, contact the Physical Plant Customer Service Center at 993-2525. | ||
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Year-end? The semester hasn't even begun yet. How can we possibly be thinking about December 31 when it's 90+ degrees outside? It's never too early to think about what's coming down the road. So with that in mind, we've changed the notes on Employee Self Service (ESS) in Banner to remind faculty and staff to keep all of their addresses at Mason in sync. Changing your permanent address in Banner changes is for HR/Payroll only. If you do business with other areas of the University (e.g. Accounts Payable or Student Accounts), you'll have to change your address with them as well. Additionally, we've also added a reminder about not inactivating your last permanent address when you leave the university. Payroll needs an active permanent address at all times to process and mail year-end statements (i.e. W-2s). It's also a good idea to take a look at your tax withholding and make any adjustments necessary to ease your burden come April 15. Non-Exempt Employees Can Choose Leave or Pay for Their Overtime Hours. It's time for non-exempt employees (i.e. overtime eligible for all hours over 40 worked in a week) to initiate or change their election regarding how their overtime is to be handled by the Payroll Department. All non-exempt employees have the option of being paid for their overtime (which is the default) or to accumulate their overtime as leave. If you would like to change your election from receiving pay to receiving leave, complete the form located at http://hr.gmu.edu/forms/OvertimeLeaveEmployeeAgreement.doc and submit the completed form to the Payroll Department by Friday, September 9. Unfortunately, this deadline is firm and we cannot accept forms after September 9. If you have made an election in the past and do not want to change your election, you do not have to do anything. If you want to receive pay for any overtime you earn, you also do not have to complete a form. Remember that your election commits you to your choice for one year until the next open enrollment period. This means that if you elect leave accumulation, you will receive leave and not pay for any overtime worked during the next academic year. Contact Boo Dutta, Leave Coordinator, at 993-2628 if you have any questions. Direct Deposit Details. One last reminder as the new school year draws closer. When completing direct deposit forms (on line or on paper), use one of your checks for the account data you submit and not a deposit slip. Deposit slips are internal bank documents and in many cases they do not have the correct bank routing number on them. Checks, however, are external documents and they will carry the correct bank routing number. September Commonwealth Commuter Choice Benefits. Just a reminder that requests for September SmarTrip Card funds are due today. For more information, visit http://hr.gmu.edu/benefits/misc.html. | ||
| I. C. E. stands for In Case of an Emergency. In the event you are disabled due to an injury, (example: unconscious) how would medical staff know if you were on any medications, had any medical conditions or who to contact In Case of an Emergency. Listed below are some suggestions from the Safety Office: 1. You can type “I C E” in your mobile phone address book, and after it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted In Case of an Emergency. If you have more than one person, enter: ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc. 2. You can also type up your information, shrink it down to a credit card size then laminate it and put it in your wallet. Suggested information to include: medications, dosage and how often you take it, doctor’s name and phone number; any allergies any known medical conditions (heart, asthma etc); your emergency contact person’s name and phone numbers. | ||
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| Programs and Services for Non-Native Speakers of English Expand to All Three VA Campuses This Fall, English language improvement programs for non-native speakers of English will be offered on the Fairfax, Arlington, and Prince William campuses. These programs, presented by the English Language Institute, include courses, workshops, and tutoring. On the Fairfax and Arlington campuses, Writing for International Graduate Students, a non-credit course to help students develop fluency, clarity and correctness in their writing, will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:15 pm, September 7 to November 30. Tuition is $300 for fully-admitted graduate students and Mason visiting scholars and $540 for extended studies students and all others. On the Prince William campus, English Communication Skills for Academic Success, a non-credit course to improve students' speaking and writing, will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:15 pm, September 7 to November 30. Tuition is $300. This course is open to international and immigrant members of Mason's Prince William community, including students, staff and faculty. To register for one of these courses or for information about the free workshops and other services planned for all three campuses, contact Melissa Allen at malle2@gmu.edu or 993-3642. | ||
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Theater of the First Amendment Opens with Jon Robin Baitz's Three Hotels Three Hotels runs in Harris Theater from Thursday, September 15 through Sunday, October 2. Performances are Thursdays and Fridays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 4:00 pm. Tickets are $30 and are available through www.tickets.com or by phone at 888-945-2468. | ||
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| Reminder: free training for faculty and staff on New Teaching and Productivity Tools from August 22 to August 26 during BYTE (Build Your Technology and Teaching Expertise) Week. To setup an IT training account or to register for workshops please visit http://ittraining.gmu.edu. New workshops: Kick Start with WebCT 4.1 (new version) and WebCT Grade book; Creating and Managing LISTSERV lists; Basic eVA training; Working with MS Access databases and Cool Features of MS Word; Intro to Streaming, Web Conferencing and Video Conferencing; Personal Productivity and Collaboration Tools; and Fair Use and Media in Higher Education. A Mac Showcase will be held in the Johnson Center, Room 311 on Wednesday, August 24, which will include demonstrations on the new tiger Operating System, Introduction to Keynote and Podcasting. For an updated workshop schedule please visit http://www.irc.gmu.edu/highlights/index.html#byte. The Information Technology Unit Training Council is offering the following four workshop tracks for which faculty and staff can earn certificates of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs): Planning and Creating a Web Site, Teaching with Online Tools, Microsoft Office Fundamentals and Graphic Creation, Manipulation and Animation. For more information, visit: http://ittraining.gmu.edu/certificate.cfm, or contact DoIT’s Instructional Resource Center at 993-3141 | ||
| New Supervisor Start-up Guide. This session is appropriate for anyone who is new to supervising, returning to it, or thinking about becoming a supervisor. August 15, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm, SUB II, Rooms 1 & 2. Register online on the HR website or call 993-2621. Food and Beverages Expenditures. August 16, 9:00 am to 12:00 noon, in Innovation Hall, Room 215G. Register online on the HR website or call 993-2621. Everything You Need to Know to Plan a Successful Event. August 17, 10:00 am to 12:00 noon, Innovation Hall, Room 206. Register online on the HR website or call 993-2621. Navigating the College Selection, Admission and Financial Support Process. Presented by Andrew Flagel, Dean of Admissions. September 2, 12 to 1:30 pm, Johnson Center, Room C. Register online on the HR website or call 993-2621. Fiscal Basics. An overview presented by Fiscal Services. September 21, 9:00 to 11:00 am, Innovation Hall, room 215G. Register online on the HR website or call 993-2621. Pre-Retirement Seminar for Participants in the Optional Retirement Program. September 28, 9:00 am to 12:00 noon, Johnson Center, Cinema. Register online on the HR website or call 993-2621. Administrative Faculty Performance Evaluations. Administrative faculty evaluations are due at the beginning of October. A session focused on administrative faculty evaluations will be conducted at Innovation Hall, Room 334 and teleconferenced to Prince William, Occoquan Building, Room 221 and Arlington, Original Building, Room 335, on September 19, from 10 to 12. Classified Performance Evaluations. Classified evaluations are due by mid-October. A session focused on classified evaluations will be conducted on the Fairfax campus in the Johnson Center, Gold Room (lower level) on October 4 from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Additional sessions will also be scheduled. | ||
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