Baldwin Free Enterprise Speaker Rebecca Kousky on Campus April 6

For the past three years, the College of Business and Technology has hosted the Baldwin Free Enterprise Lecture Series. The goal of the series is to invite outstanding scholars in the field of business, industry and finance to UNK for an exchange of ideas regarding entrepreneurship and the free enterprise system.

The spring Baldwin speaker will be Rebecca Kousky founder and Executive Director of NEST. She will speak at 7:00 p.m. on April 6, in Copeland Hall Room 142.

NEST is a non-profit organization based in St. Louis, Missouri. NEST’s mission specifically targets female artists and artisans around the world and seeks to assist them by offering loans with repayment via the goods they produce and by creating a unique line of NEST merchandise as a place for the women to sell their items. Kousky’s lecture will describe her experience as a young entrepreneur, as well as the unique loan configuration to which her organization is committed.

All students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to attend.
 

 - written in collaboration with Shawn Kaskie, Director of the Center for Rural Research and Development
(repeated from Issue Number 12)

Recognition

 Items to Note for Faculty and Faculty Committees

•   Academic Affairs Committee 
  The link to the CAP ("Course Approval Process") information is located on the Academic Affairs Committee page. CAP is an electronic approval system that has taken the place of the paper forms for course proposals. The new online system allows department chairs to initiate proposals, which then automatically route to the next levels in the approval process. The entire approval process can be monitored online. **NOTE** The paper process for making changes to programs will continue; the form and instructions for submitting program proposals are available on the Academic Affairs Committee page.
  
  Worksheets for both the creation of new courses and the alteration of existing courses have now been added to the CAP information page. Faculty members may use these worksheets to assist them in gathering the necessary information for department chairs, who are responsible for entering course requests in the system.
  
  The schedule of Academic Affairs deadlines for the 2009-2010 academic year is available on the Academic Affairs Committee page. The page also contains a committee roster and a link to the approved Academic Affairs minutes. Department or program chairs needing to make curricular changes should be aware of these deadlines and instructions.
  
   
•   Faculty Handbook 
  In a continuing effort to provide faculty with the most current policy information, the Faculty Handbook has been revised and reorganized. The purpose of the handbook is to gather the documents and policies that inform and guide critical decisions, including the Collective Bargaining Agreement (2009-2011).
  
  Please note that the Faculty Handbook is updated in an online version only; refer to the online handbook when looking for the most up-to-date versions of policies, including the new Guidelines for Evaluation, Promotion, and Tenure, which have recently been revised. 
    
   
•   Faculty Senate
  To keep faculty informed and in the spirit of shared goverenance, the 2009-2010 Faculty Senate Roster is posted on the Faculty Senate home page. The page also contains links to meeting agendas, meeting minutes of both the Faculty Senate and the Faculty Senate committees, and the Faculty Senate Constitution and Bylaws.
  
   
•   General Studies 
  Instructions have been posted on the General Studies website regarding the submission of courses  for the new General Studies Program. The course submission page includes information about the portal courses and the capstone courses.
  
   
•  Graduate Council 
  A webpage has been created for the Graduate Council. It contains information regarding changes to graduate courses or programs, as well as a list of the 2009 Graduate Program Committees and a link to important Graduate Faculty announcements.  
  
   
•   WI/CD Committee 
  The WI/CD Committee has posted a schedule of deadlines for the spring semester on the WI/CD Committee page. The page also contains instructions for applying for WI or CD designation, as well as a committee roster, agendas, and minutes. These resources are provided for those wishing to offer courses as WI or CD.

 Deadlines Approach for Various Opportunities

 Calendar of Events within the Academic and Student Affairs Division

 Edited by Kim Elliott, Coordinator of Academic Publications 

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