November 2012
Maharishi International University
FACULTY DOCKET
November 3, 2012
Calendar
Thursday, November 8
Committee Meetings: Curriculum Committee, Teaching and Learning Committee, Expansion Committee, Faculty Personnel Committee
Friday, November 9
Faculty and Staff Meeting with Dr. Bevan Morris, Dalby Hall, 3:20 to 4:15
Thursday, November 15
Academic Council, Dreier Room 114; 3:15 to 4:15
Saturday, November 17
Faculty Senate Meeting, Dalby Hall, 1:30 to 3:30
Saturday, December 8
Faculty Senate Meeting, Dalby Hall, 1:30 to 3:30
Unified Field Charts, with Dr. Bevan Morris
Sunday, December 9
Faculty Holiday Party, Festival Hall, 12:30 to 2:30. Please RSVP here.
Friday, December 14
Joint Faculty/Staff Meeting, Dalby Hall, 3:15 to 4:15 pm
Report on the December Trustees Meeting
Friday, February 22, 2013
Faculty Development Workshop, 10:00 to 3:30 pm, Writing workshop with guest Dr. Kathleen Yancey, writing-across-the-curriculum expert
Saturday March 2, 2013
Faculty Development Workshop, 1:30 to 3:30 pm
Thursday, April 18, 2013
All-Student Development of Consciousness Meeting, afternoon, details to be announced
Friday, April 26, 2013
Faculty Senate Meeting, preparation for the Higher Learning Commission visit in May
Friday, May 17, 2013
Joint Faculty/Staff Meeting, Dalby Hall, 3:20 to 4:15, Report on Higher Learning Commission Visit
Friday, May 24, 2013
Assessment Day, all day, meet by departments to write yearly assessment reports
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Commencement, Details to be announced
Friday June 28, 2013
Faculty Senate Meeting, 10:00 to 12:00, topic to be announced
Friday, July 19 to Sunday July 21, 2013
Governors Workshop, tentative, all certified Governors are encouraged to attend
Academic Decisions
Academic Council, September 20,2012
Special Announcements
Culture of Research
You probably noticed something different at the beginning of the Faculty Senate on Friday!
Robert Schneider summarized his new study in 4 minutes and then opened the floor for questions for 10 minutes.
This is part of an initiative to create a Culture of Research at MUM. Every Faculty Senate will begin with one or two people presenting their latest research. Please come on time out of respect to your fellow faculty, and to enter into the discussion.
Another part of this initiative to create a Culture of Research is to ask each faculty member to have submitted a paper based on their dissertation. During the spring Forest Academy in January, all faculty who need to create a published paper from their dissertation will be meeting together to begin this process.
Other initiatives are being considered as well.
Thank you for all that you do. Publishing makes you a better teacher?you are more on top of issues in your field; you have more to say; you inspire your students to conduct research.
Diversity Committee: If you would like to serve on the Diversity Committee, contact Dr. Raul Calderon, rcalderon@miu.edu.
Hood, cap, and gown found: A gown and hood trimmed in red, light blue, and white were found after Convocation in September. If they belong to you, please come by the Dean of Faculty Office in Dreier to pick them up.
Consciousness-Based Education Handouts There are a few extra handouts from the Faculty Development Workshop with Dr. Susie Dillbeck. If you would like one, please come by the Dean of Faculty Office in Dreier to pick one up. An updated version will be posted on the faculty website.
Committees: Please review the membership lists of the committees of Faculty Senate given below and send corrections to Cathy Gorini, cgorini@miu.edu.
Academic Planning Council
Craig Pearson, chair
Bill Goldstein
Cathy Gorini
Greg Guthrie
Chris Jones
Jane Schmidt-Wilk
Curriculum Committee
Chris Jones, chair
Anne Dow
Paul Corazza
Sama (Bill Sands)
Stacy Maurer
Tom Rowe
Teaching and Learning Committee
Jane Schmidt-Wilk, chair
Paula Armstrong
Matthew Beaufort
Raul Calderon, ex officio
Anil Maheshwari
Isabelle Matzkin
Michael Ziljstra
Global Development Committee
Bill Goldstein, chair
Scott Herriott
Yunxiang Zhu
Greg Guthrie
Perry Bedinger
Dennis Heaton
Lonnie Gamble
Faculty Personnel Committee
Cathy Gorini, chair
Vicki Herriott
Terry Fairchild
Dale Divoky
John Collins
Amellia Hesse, non-voting
Academic Standards Committee
Tom Rowe, chair
Vicki Herriott
Gyan Shrosbree
Jim Fairchild
Jan Sickler
Sheila Swanson
Publications Committee
Craig Pearson, chair
Harry Bright, ex officio
Dara Llewellyn
Jane Aikens
Dr. Sama (Bill Sands)
Scientific Research Committee
Fred Travis, chair
David Goodman
Debra Levitsky
Rachel Goodman
Sabita Sawhney
Committee for Protection of Human Subjects and Animal Rights
Fred Travis, chair
Raul Calderon
Academic Computing Committee
Tom Hirsch, chair
Bruce McCollum
Cathy Gorini
Library Committee
Suzanne Vesely, chair
Ken Cavanaugh
Ken Daley
Dara Llewellyn
Craig Shaw
Martin Schmidt
Teacher Education Advisory Board
Chris Jones, chair
Dockets will now be archived on https://sites.google.com/site/mumfacultydockets/. Special announcements, policies, and other information will also now be archived in a document titled Policies and Information stored on the docket webpage.
UPDATE: Dockets will soon be viewable and archived on our new Website.
New Textbook Information Forms
IMPORTANT: Faculty no longer need to edit the WikiTextbook site, adding your own textbook information. Instead, please fill out your Departmental Textbook Online Form with your textbook information. Your Department Administrator will then edit the Wiki with your textbook information for you.
If you prefer to edit the Wiki yourself, then this is fine. However, please let your Dept. Admin know this.
Please choose the correct Department Textbook Online Form for each of your courses below (links):
- Art
- Business Administration / Management
- Computer Science – Listing textbooks on their own site as they were before.
- Education
- Literature & Writing
- Mathematics / Physics
- Maharishi Vedic Science
- Media and Communications
- Physiology and Health
- Sustainable Living – email lhays@miu.edu
A reminder will continue to be sent to you 4 weeks before your course.
If you have any questions, please contact your Dept. Admin.
Course Administrative Deadlines
Faculty can now see course administrative deadlines (grades, printing, etc.) per block on the Faculty Events Calendar. You can click on an event and add it to your own Google Calendar as a reminder for the block(s) you teach.
http://www.miu.edu/events/faculty.html
Mum.edu transition to Google Apps
All miu.edu email accounts are now being transitioned into Google Apps account. This means no more complicated forwarding of miu.edu to another email account to use it. Also, you can check your miu.edu email at gmail.com on any computer.
To begin the transition, please make sure you have an miu.edu email account. Contact helpdesk@miu.edu to obtain one. The next steps for the transition to Google Apps will be sent out soon.
If you have a department miu.edu email which is delegated to more than one faculty, then please contact IT regarding how to delegate it in the future using Google Apps.
Please be aware that soon you will only be able to use DOF forms by being signed into your miu.edu App account.
Published Books Form
We plan to create a webpage advertising all books published by our faculty. It will include the books’ information and link to where they can be purchased. Please fill out this form for each book you have published separately. Here is the link: Published Books Form
Guest Speaker Form
Guest Speaker Approvals are necessary every 6 months. Please allow 2 weeks for processing each request. The form is available on the private access area of the resources page. Here is the link: Guest Speaker Form.