2015

Maharishi International University

FACULTY DOCKET

May 4, 2015

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Calendar

Thursday, May 7

Teacher/Student Appreciation 1 pm – 3:15 pm in Dalby Hall

All teaching faculty should bring their classes to this event and take attendance.

Thursday, May 14

Faculty Personnel Committee, 3:15 pm, Dreier Boardroom

​Tuesday, May 19

Annual Faculty/Trustee Dinner

All faculty and spouses are invited to dinner with the Trustees in the north dining hall followed by a presentation of achievements in Festival Hall. You should get your meal in the main serving line.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Knowledge Fair, 1 pm – 3:15 pm in Dalby Hall.

Please complete your course activities by noon on Thursday, May 21, and bring your students to the Knowledge Fair in Dalby Hall at 1 PM that afternoon. Students representing the undergraduate majors will be presenting their Senior Projects. This will be a wonderful opportunity for all our undergraduates to celebrate their achievements together.

All faculty who are teaching undergraduate classes (including classes that combine undergraduate and graduate students) should bring their classes to this even and take attendance.

If you have questions about the Knowledge Fair, please contact Jane Schmidt-Wilk.

Friday, May 22

Assessment Day, all day, meet by departments to write yearly assessment reports. If you have questions about Assessment Day, contact Chris Jones.

Friday, May 22

Garden Party and Awards Ceremony. For more details Click Here.

Saturday, May 23

Commencement, For more details Click Here.

Tuesday, June 30 to Friday July 17

Advanced Consciousness Based Education Workshop for faculty. ​Click here to apply for the workshop

Monday, August 10 to Thursday August 13

Faculty Development Seminar All faculty are required to attend; details to be announced

Special Announcements

Dean of Faculty Assistant

Congratulations to Madusha Perera who will be leaving for TM Teacher Training Course in Thailand on May 19. Susan Runkle will be helping out in the Dean of Faculty Office until Madusha’s replacement has arrived.

New Online Request Forms

The Dean of Faculty Office has set up new request forms to make requesting new faculty hires, graduate instructorships, Teaching Assistantships and temporary meal passes for visitors more efficient. Please use the following links:

• Request New Faculty Hire form (Full Time, Part Time, Visiting Faculty, Visiting Scholar, Research Scholar) 
• Guest Speaker and Internship Supervisor Approval Request form
• Graduate Instructor/ Senior Graduate Instructor Request form
• Teaching Assistant Request form
• Temporary Meal Pass Request Form

New Policy for Adjunct Faculty Payment

Department Administrator should submit invoices for all adjunct faculty payments. Please ask Madusha for details.

Integrative Wellness Center now open

​The Integrative Wellness Center is up and running at the Ladies Peace Palace. Dr. Jim Davis, Vaidya Dinesh Gyawali, and the nursing staff of Deidre Lentz RN and Liza McClure LPN warmly invite MUM full time faculty and staff to utilize this new service. Primarily we would like to serve as a provider of Wellness and Preventative Health Care for the MUM community. All full time MUM faculty and staff are eligible for a Maharishi Ayurveda Consultation and one follow-up meeting free of charge per year.

During the time that Dr. Davis is present in the clinic, you can receive care for acute, non-emergency medical conditions such a sore throat, cough, sprains, minor infections and stable chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, elevated cholesterol. Over time, this will contribute to the overall wellness of the MUM community.

We cannot be your primary care physician since we do not admit patients to the hospital or provide night or weekend coverage. For this, you should sign up with one of the admitting doctors at one of the other medical clinics in town.

To make an appointment, call 472-3411. We are looking forward to seeing you at the Integrative Wellness Center.

Fine for Late Grades

Academic Council approved a $25 fine per course for late grades. If your grades are not received ten days after a course ends, you will have $25 deducted from your next paycheck. If one month later, the grades have still not been submitted, another $25 will be deducted, and so on. You can see if grades have been submitted going to the Faculty Classes page on your MyMUM page (accessed from the MUM homepage https://www.miu.edu in the Portals menu). This policy will go into effect beginning January 12, 2015 and will be applied to late grades from all previous blocks.

How to incorporate Maharishi’s press conferences into your classroom presentations

These guidelines can also be found at SCI MVS Resources.

1. Go to Oneperiodaday.miu.edu. Use the list of subjects to browse tapes in your field, or use the Search tab, and the search techniques described under the search tab or click on a keyword in the list, to find clips that are relevant to your topic.
2. Read the transcript and listen to the video online to be sure that it is completely appropriate for your audience. Clicking on the name of the clip will take you to the screen with the player, main points and transcript for that tape. Click on the transcript tab to see the transcript; press the play button in the middle of the player to begin watching the video.
3. Next, when you’ve chosen a title, find your selection in the list of titles under the “Download” tab. Right click (on PC) to bring up the context menu, and choose “Save link as,” to download it to your hard drive. What you get is an “mpg” MPEG file, which is the highest resolution version of this clip that we have, suitable for classroom use.
4. (MPEGs won’t play on a Mac without special software:) Play the MPEG file directly from your laptop to the projector using VLC media player, (a free download www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html) which plays all kinds of media for all platforms, Mac, PC and Linux.
5. Or, in Microsoft Power Point or in Impress (a free open source rival of PowerPoint, part of Open Office and Libre Office www.libreoffice.org), you can place the mpeg file on a slide by choosing “Insert: Movie and Sound.”
6. Be sure to stretch the movie to fill the screen, and (in Impress)  also choose “scaled” in the tiny drop-down menu that appears on the Movie toolbar.
7. Test the movie before class starts to make sure you have video and sound that everyone can hear.
8. Now you can play the video at will in the middle of your presentation with no delays and no waste of time.

Course Textbooks

This is a reminder that the Wiki Textbook is no longer the active online place for students to view their textbooks for courses. The Textbook information is now updated on the miu.edu webpage.  The textbook information is updated by each department administrator from information that the faculty give them. Please contact your administrator if you have any questions.

Academic Honesty Policy

All faculty should review the Academic Honesty Policy

and the procedure for handling violations in the MUM catalog, page 373.

Maharishi Global Family Chat

To learn about the most inspiring recent news about the Maharishi’s Movement, Dr. Bevan Morris recommended that all faculty receive the Global Family Chat summaries. You can sign up here to get the summaries and to view previous summaries:http://www.maharishichannel.in/econtact/signup_form2.php​

Surveys

All surveys given out to students, faculty, or staff must be approved by Michael Farrer, Director of Evaluations. This will ensure that we will not have conflicting surveys sent out and that your survey will get the information that you want.

Maharishi’s Books as Class Readings

We should include reading by Maharishi in our academic courses whenever possible. Most books are available at the MUM Store, many at greatly reduced prices for students. Please have your students purchase these books, which they should have in their personal libraries anyway, rather than have them photocopied.

Course Changes No department may add a course without approval from Chris Jones, Dean of Academic Programs. This is a new policy that has been adopted to give students a more reliable schedule to use when planning their year. Chris will be in touch with departments who have courses with low enrollment; such courses may have to be cancelled.

Wi-Fi in Classrooms We now have the ability to put Wife in classrooms, but Wi-Fi in one classroom can overlap into other classrooms. It can also be turned on and off. Please let Tom Hirsch know if you want Wifi in your classroom.

Dockets are archived on the website

Special announcements, policies, and other information are also archived in a document titled Policies and Information stored on the docket webpage.

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