Playing Catch Up
Hey everyone,
These last couple of weeks have been busy with candidate interviews and deadlines for just about everything. This week's HeadsUp includes a number of catch up items, news you can use, and "to do" items for this week.
1. I'm going to be out of town this week. John Bourhis will be covering for me while I'm gone, but don't ask him for money--although he'll want to give it to you. 
Janis King will be reviewing all degree applications but not signing then. So, please instruct your students that any degree applications, waivers, substitutions, etc. will not be processed until next week. I would recommend students get their minor approved this week while waiting for my signature next week. Thanks to John and Janis for helping me out.
2. Reminder, you will need to set up an appointment with me starting the middle of next week for our annual meetings. Please complete the form I provided last week with the memo. I'll be sending you individual forms with your information via email today. You can complete it and send it to me electronically before our meeting or you can provide me with your form handwritten when we meet. Whatever method, please have that workload request form completed when we meet.
3. You should have received an email about the IDEA administrator's assessment survey last week (with reminders this week via email too). It's an electronic version administered through K-State's IDEA program. PLEASE complete the online survey by 2/15/2008. You should have received two, one for evaluating the department head and one for the dean. Please complete both!
4. I've updated the Craig Lobby Dept Bulletin Board with a tip of the month regarding career preparation opportunities. I would like you to nominate a student to highlight for this month. Please send me those nominations quickly so I can get a picture and put some information there. If you'd like to nominate a faculty member or staff, please do that as well.
5. I'm attaching the minutes from last week's faculty meeting Minutes for January 23.doc. Thanks to Deborah Craig for succinctly capturing the events and decisions of the meeting. 
6. At the faculty meeting, I put out a request for any additional conferences you'd like to attend this semester. Those requests were due Jan. 31. I will entertain any additional items until Feb 8. Use the travel request form from Karen.
7. We've made an offer to Heather Carmack, and she's unofficially accepted it (the contract is in process right now)! She's excited about joining us and even turned down other interviews in order to accept our offer! You might send her a quick email congratulating her. Her email is hc200403@ohio.edu
Information about the second faculty position to come later. The search committee is reviewing feedback. Please submit any feedback you can from Andrew's interview last week.
That's it for now. See you next week.