Celebrating Your Success

 

Larry Smiley is a former Associate Dean of the College of Extended Learning (now ProfEd), retired as professor emeritus – Director of MSA, and has continued to teach occasionally for ProfEd. Since his retirement he has been invited to chair or co-chair visiting teams for accreditation of English Language Schools through the Commission for International and Transnational Accreditation. Those visits have taken him twice to Cairo, Egypt and once to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He will be visiting a school in Macao, China in January, 2010.

 

Dr. Joseph Osei, Ph.D., CMU Distance Ed Adjunct Professor for ProfEd, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Philosophical Papers and Review effective March, 2009 along with an appointment on the Advisory Board, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, UNC@Charlotte, NC. In addition, Dr. Osei was promoted from Assistant Professor of Philosophy to Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fayetteville State University in August of 2009. Below is a list of recent publications:

• The Challenge of Sustaining Emergent Democracies: Insights for Religious Intellectuals and Leaders of Civil Society. Xlibris, Bloomington, Indiana, July, 2009.

• 'Reflections on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Fight Against Terrorism and Poverty: What Would King Do?' Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy/Revue Africaine de Philosophie, Vol. XXII, No. 1-2, 2008.

• Karl Popper's Solution to the Freewill and Determinism Paradox: Freewill or Compatibilist? Thinking About Religion, Vol. 8, 2008.

• What Happens When Inmates are Introduced to Critical Thinking? Ethics on Call, Newsletter, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, (CPAE), UNC@Charlotte, NC. Spring, 2009.

For future issues please share your accomplishments or success stories by e-mailing Sarah Young at young2sa@cmich.edu.

 

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Important Reminders for Faculty Contracts and Pay

1. Along with other paperwork, new faculty must submit a Form W-4 (Employee's Withholding) and Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) that is either completed in the presence of a CMU representative or notarized. Send these forms by mail to Kay Fox in CMU's Off-Campus Programs Financial Operations group.

2. New faculty who previously taught on campus must submit a NEW Form W-4 and a Form I-9 that is completed in the presence of a CMU representative or notarized. These documents are not automatically transferred to Off-Campus payroll.

3. You MUST use your CMU e-mail account. We send all correspondence to this account. If you prefer to use a different e-mail account, you can set up your CMU account to forward e-mails to another account.

4. Your electronically signed course contracts must be returned from your CMU e-mail.

Visit https://myaccount.cmich.edu to learn how to forward your e-mail. After logging in with your CMU Global ID and password, you see the screen in the following screen shot:

 

Click on e-mail forwarding and follow the simple instructions.

 

Contact Kay Fox at fox1kl@cmich.edu or 989-774-6944 with questions.

 

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Annual University Campaign

 

Off-Campus Programs faculty are invited to join the leadership and staff in participating in the 2009 Annual University Campaign, October 12th to December 4th, 2009. 100% of your gift will go to the scholarship or award you designate, and greatly assist your students. Over the past two years, nearly $44,000 in scholarships and awards have been earned by off-campus students. Some of these students may not have been able to remain enrolled had they not earned an award. Your gift matters! Please go online to www.cmich.edu and click on Annual University Campaign. Be sure to designate your gift to one or more of the Off-Campus Program Scholarships/Awards identified in the drop-down box. Any questions please contact Dave Nicholson, Manager, Alumni Relations at nicho2dl@cmich.edu or (248) 526-2630.

 

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CMU Debuts New Copyright Site

 

The CMU Copyright Committee recently redesigned and improved the university's copyright site. The new site includes more information helpful to the faculty who use copyrighted materials in the face-to-face and online classrooms and can be found at http://copyright.cmich.edu.

 

The new site includes a link entitled Course Reserves/Permissions. This is the link that off-campus faculty should use when requesting that items be placed on electronic reserve for a class. The link on the Off-Campus Library Services Web site once called Coursepack Support has been renamed and redirected to this new suite of pages. All online requests for electronic reserves will be handled through this new interface. If you wish to submit your request via e-mail, you can send it to coursereserves@cmich.edu. If you wish to speak to someone about electronic reserves, you can call (989) 774-3825.

 

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Excellence through Inclusion

 

Next month CMU will host a special event focused on engaging faculty in discussions of multicultural teaching and learning (see announcement in Workshops and Training below). For our instructors unable to travel to Mount Pleasant, we wanted to highlight a couple of valuable resources available online:

• The Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching (FaCIT) has numerous resources available for our off-campus faculty population. Visit their Diversity and Inclusion resources for access to a variety of studies focused on this vital topic.

• The Diversity Resources Project is a World Wide Web site developed by librarians at the Central Michigan University Libraries to support and enhance research and teaching related to multicultural and diversity-related issues and topics. The site contains information on library collections and services, as well as links to outside resources that contain information relevant to multicultural and diversity-related issues.

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Alumni Guest Speakers

 

Occasionally an Off-Campus Programs graduate offers to speak to a class of current students regarding their career field. If you are interested in hosting one of our alums as part of a learning module, please e-mail Dave Nicholson, Manager, Alumni Relations for Off-Campus Programs at nicho2dl@cmich.edu to discuss your interest.

 

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CONDOR

 

Without a doubt, the faculty at Central Michigan University have proven themselves to be a highly creative and innovative group. To boost their recognition, the Central Michigan University Online Digital Object Repository was created, more commonly known as CONDOR. The repository collects the academic and scholarly products of the University in a single, searchable and easily accessible location. CONDOR is fully indexed by Google and other search engines.

 

Complete contributor guidelines are available at http://condor.cmich.edu/cdm4/condor_faq.php, however the most important criteria for acceptance are: The work must be produced or sponsored by CMU faculty (on or off-campus), staff, students, or academic departments; it must be educational, artistic, or research-oriented and it must be a completed version, ready for distribution. Examples of works include: articles, preprints, working papers, technical reports, conference papers, Web-based exhibits/presentations, books, theses and dissertations, data sets, visualizations, simulations, and other models, multimedia, learning objects, PowerPoint presentations and posters.

 

All faculty are encouraged to participate in the building of this valuable resource to raise the profile of CMU as a teaching and research institution. For more information, refer to the FAQ link shown earlier or the CONDOR home at http://condor.cmich.edu.

 

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H1N1 Flu Recommended Precautions

 

Given the anticipated spread of the H1N1 influenza virus, CMU's Core Crisis Group is working closely with University Health Services and the Central Michigan District Health Department. We are following the guidelines provided by our local health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

As you may know, the flu can be spread easily from person to person. It is important to re-emphasize the precautions you should take to reduce the chances of becoming ill. Symptoms of H1N1 influenza include a fever of 100 degrees or more, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headaches, chills, fatigue, diarrhea and vomiting.

 

In an effort to reduce transmission and illness severity we suggest the following recommended precautions:

 

The following are steps you can take to reduce the spread of the flu:

• Practice good hand hygiene by washing your hands often with soap and water, especially after coughing or sneezing. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.

• Sanitize equipment. The flu virus is readily spread through office equipment, exercise equipment, doorknobs and any object handled by the public.

• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. If you don't have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your elbow or shoulder – not into your hands. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth to reduce the spread of germs.

• Stay home if you are sick for at least 24 hours after you no longer have a fever or signs of a fever (have chills, feel very warm, have a flushed appearance, or are sweating). This should be determined without the use of fever-reducing medications, containing ibuprofen or acetaminophen. Isolate yourself as much as possible to reduce exposure to other individuals.

• Talk to your health care provider to find out if you should be vaccinated for seasonal flu and/or the H1N1 flu. Seasonal flu vaccine is currently available through University Health Services. The availability of the H1N1 flu vaccine for CMU faculty, students and employees is not known at this time, but University Health Services will release information once details are available.

For the most up-to-date information on flu, visit http://flu.gov or call 1-800-CDC-INFO.

 

If you have any questions concerning the H1N1 Flu please contact Carmen Ceja-Blohm at cejab1c@cmich.edu.