Daily Bulletin

VP (research) will step down

Carolyn Hansson has informed me that she will not seek a second term as Vice-President, University Research. I enjoy working with Carolyn and am sorry she has decided to leave the position at the end of her current term in December. The Nominating Committee will be seeking candidates for the position effective January 1, 2001, and a call for nominations and applications will be issued shortly.

Hansson has been VP (research) since January 1996, and is the first person to hold that title. (Previous top administrators in charge of research held the title of "dean" or, until 1984, "director".) She came to Waterloo from Queen's University, where she was chair of the department of metallurgical engineering. Her specialty is durability and erosion of concrete, and she has continued her research in that field at UW, as a tenured professor in the department of mechanical engineering,

Friday's storm passed over

In the end, it turned out to be unnecessary, and just about the time the provost's memo was issued, Environment Canada removed its "winter storm warning" for Waterloo Region. By day's end there was only a thin coating of the white stuff, though roads were slick for a time.

Whenever there's an emergency announcement, or urgent news that has to be spread across campus, the standard way of making it known is through a Flash headline that appears in bold letters at the top of the UWinfo home page. It's usually me who posts Flash announcements, as a supplement to the Daily Bulletin service. Friday's Flash was also posted to the newsgroup uw.general and announced on the home page of the Electronic Library.

Committee won't meet The senate finance committee, which had been scheduled to meet tomorrow morning to start work on UW's 2000-01 budget, will not meet. The meeting "has been cancelled because no information has yet been received from the Ministry" about the coming year's grants and tuition fee levels, the university secretariat says. The senate graduate council will meet today at 1:30 p.m. in Needles Hall room 3001.

Policy limits use of letterhead

Here's the paragraph: "In keeping with the spirit and purpose of the University, it is appropriate for members to hold positions on any issue, however controversial, but members must not imply (e.g. through the use of UW letterhead) that the University endorses or supports their private opinions and activities, and should avoid confusion as to whether they are acting as individuals or as University representatives."

It's not new as a UW rule -- it was first articulated in a memo from the provost in 1990 -- but it's now in a formal Policy for the first time.

It appears as part of Policy 66, "University Resources and Affiliation", which went into effect March 10, 1999, but wasn't widely distributed until it went out with a number of other policy changes just before the Christmas holiday.

The rest of Policy 66 is about another aspect of keeping personal activity separate from university activity: it provides guidelines about what kind of work secretarial staff should and shouldn't be asked to do. That section replaces the former Policy 10, "Duties and Responsibilities of Secretarial and Clerical Staff of Academic Departments", which has been cancelled.

Dianne Scheifele of the university secretariat explains why the change took place. "Some time ago," she says, "the Staff Relations Committee undertook to revise Policy 10 to update language, delete the reference to staffing requirements (which became out of place in the policy, given how things have evolved), and provide some protection for staff -- hence, the inclusion of "work of a personal or private nature".

As the committee discussed that policy, she said, it decided to include the statement about connecting UW's name with individual opinions. The new paragraph, she said, is based on a memo issued January 25, 1990, by Alan George, then UW's provost, under the title "Use of the University Name and Supplies/Services".

Staff will elect a board member

And so, a notice has gone out from the university secretariat: "Nominations are requested from full-time staff of the University to fill one seat on the Board of Governors. Full-time staff members who are Canadian citizens are eligible for nomination. Each nomination must be signed by five full-time staff members. The term is for three years from May 1, 2000 to April 30, 2003.

"Nominations should be sent to the Chief Returning Officer, Secretariat, Needles Hall, Room 3060, no later than 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 8, 2000. An election will follow if necessary. Nomination forms and further information are available from the Secretariat (ext. 6125)."

Results of elections to UW senate -- from the university secretariat

Faculty-at-Large Representatives (May 1, 2000 to April 30, 2003). Acclamations: Harriet Lyons, Anthropology; Keith Hipel, Systems Design Engineering; Bill Cunningham, Combinatorics & Optimization; George Labahn, Computer Science; Ross Willard, Pure Mathematics; Fred McCourt, Chemistry; Terrance McMahon; Chemistry.

Faculty-at-Large Representatives (to April 30, 2002). No nominations were received. The three unfilled seats will remain vacant until the next annual election, unless a petition requesting a by-election is received by the Chief Returning Officer.

Faculty Representatives (May 1, 2000 to April 30, 2003). Acclamations: Heather Carnahan, Kinesiology; Mark Zanna, Psychology; John Chatzis, Chemical Engineering; Thomas Seebohm, Architecture; Mary Thompson, Statistics & Actuarial Science; Ralph Smith, Biology.

Faculty Representatives from the Federated and Affiliated Colleges (May 1, 2000 to April 30, 2003). Acclamations: Kieran Bonner, St. Jerome's University/Religious Studies; Peter Frick, St. Paul's College/Religious Studies.

Graduate Student Representative (May 1, 2000 to April 30, 2002). Acclamations: Wafeeq Ajoor, Systems Design Engineering; Simon Guthrie, Physics.

The basketball Warriors, women's version, lost to the Guelph Gryphons 69-57 on Saturday in the PAC. The men's teams played later in the day, and again Guelph was victorious, this time 67-61. Photo by Barbara Elve.

CAR

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