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Monday, July 22, 1996

To faculty association post

Not so well known, but very important behind the scenes at UW, is the chair of the faculty association academic freedom and tenure committee. That post has been held by Roman Dubinski of UW's English department, who's just taken early retirement, and a memo late last week from the president of the faculty association announces his successor:

Following consultation with a majority of the Board and with AF&T members including the past chair, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Ray McLenaghan as Chair of the FAUW AF&T Committee, effective July 19, 1996. Ray also becomes an ex-officio member of the Board. I am confident that you will all give him your cooperation in carrying out this important and difficult task. I am grateful that he is willing to serve the Association and his fellow academics in this demanding position.

McLenaghan is a faculty member in applied mathematics, and works in what's felicitously called the Gravity Group.

Director for audio-visual

Here's a memo issued Friday by Gary Waller, associate provost (academic and student affairs):

I am pleased to announce the appointment of J. Scott Charles to the position of Director, Audio-Visual Centre, effective July 21, 1996. He replaces Ron Russell who recently retired.
Scott has been for some years the Supervising Producer in the Production Services area of the Audio-Visual Centre at Waterloo. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcasting and Film from the School of Public Communications at Boston University and did additional work in electronics at Conestoga College. He has many years experience in media production, including work with the Olympic Radio and Television Organization at the Montreal Olympic Games. He is widely known around campus for his work with faculty and staff and has been a leader in introducing new production technology in the Audio-Visual Centre.
Technology to support teaching and learning is changing rapidly. Scott, with his background and skills, and with his knowledge of Waterloo, will be an invaluable contributor as we work toward new ways to support learning, both on campus and at a distance. I welcome him to this new post, and am sure that the entire university community will give him all support and encouragement.

Revisions to staff policy

Looks as though this morning's Bulletin consists mostly of memos strung together -- well, here's another one, from Christine Ledbury of the university secretariat:

Dr. Downey has approved the revision of section VIII of Policy 18.
The changes take into account feedback submitted by staff. The Staff Relations Committee believes that the revisions more adequately reflect the intention to permit a reasonable degree of latitude when determining the point at which a position may be filled. The major change in this section is the removal of the right to consideration for a position without the requirement to compete with other qualified candidates. This change now brings section VIII of Policy 18 in line with section VII (which was revised December 15, 1994).
The Policy is available on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/. If you do not have access to the World Wide Web and would like a printed copy, please call me at extension 6064 or e-mail me at cledbury@provost-admin.

The revised section of the policy has to do with staff members coming back to work after sick leave and long-term disability.

Walking the Web at Waterloo (10)

From the UWinfo home page, you could choose the "Alphabetical list of departments and groups", then choose "Chemistry" and then pick the first line on the chemistry department's home page, which is labelled "Chemistry Course Resources". Clicking that link will take you to a short list of chemistry courses that have material on the Web, including Bill Power's Chemistry 129, Introductory Spectroscopy. It's an unusually full web site for a course, with assignment information, solutions to problems, lecture summaries and course notes.

And at the bottom of the Chemistry 129 page, a link to "Related Sites" gives you a list of, well, related sites, which include a "Spectroscopy Primer" from Virginia Tech, several science magazines, and a list of "Web Elements" from the University of California at Berkeley. Choose that one and your Web browser takes you to a clickable periodic table from which can find out all the skinny on Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium and all their little friends. It's a useful site if you want to know, say, the boiling point of gold.

If you didn't happen to know about the Berkeley site, however, it could take you a while to find such information. Better you should choose -- back at the UWinfo home page -- UW's electronic library, which has links to a multiplicity of information sources. If you can't quickly identify the right one, you can choose AskLib and be greeted by a form that lets you send electronic mail to a reference librarian.

Footnote to these occasional Web Walks: the text of all previous walks can be found on a single Web page at http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~credmond/walkweb.html.

A settlement at Laurier

Looks as though professors at Wilfrid Laurier University won't be going on strike, something they could have done as of this weekend. A news release from WLU on Friday says the university and the WLU faculty association "reached a tentative agreement . . . at 7 a.m. in a marathon non-stop negotiation session that began at 10 a.m. July 18." Contents of the agreement, which still has to be ratified, weren't made public.

CAR

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