Client Services Manager Joins Truman's ITS

 This Summer at Truman

 Input Sought for Upcoming SIS Purchase

 Thanks

 Notables
 

     Eleven Truman graduates received top honors at the May 13 graduation ceremony when they were named valedictorians. Students received the honor based upon their cumulative undergraduate GPAs. This year the valedictorians each had a perfect 4.0.
     The honorees included Susan Bertels-meyer, business administration major with marketing emphasis, from Eureka, Mo.; Shalyn Claggett, English major from Lake Winnebago, Mo.;
     Christine Gaydos, agriculture science major from St. Louis, Mo.; Marissa Holmes, biology major from St. Peters, Mo.;  Tricia Kammerer, psychology major from St. Louis, Mo.; Andrew Kropf, English/pre-law major from Moberly, Mo.;
      Michael Murawski, history/art history major from St. Louis, Mo.; Miriah Plawer, biology/pre-med major from Fithian, Ill.; Jason Reinberg, biology/pre-med major from Washington, Mo.;
     Janeen Traen, English major from Naperville, Ill.; and Laurie Wager, biology/pre-med major from Belleville, Ill.

     Gordon Gregory joined the COLLEGIS staff last week as the new Client Ser-vices Manager for Information Technology Services at Truman. 
     Gregory began his career in 1973 as a computer specialist in the civilian employ of the U.S. Army. He held a variety of other positions in technology and planning in the General Services Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency until 1998, when he formed Gregory Associates, his own business.
     He is a native Missourian, a graduate of Central Missouri State University and currently resides in Overland Park, Kan.
     “I am pleased to welcome Gordon to Truman where, I am sure, he will make an important contribution to Technology Services,” Director of Library/Chief Information Officer Richard Coughlin said.

May 28
Upward Bound Session I Began

May 30
Summer Classes Begin

June 3
Joseph Baldwin Academy Session I Begins

June 24
John R. Kirk Honors Institute Begins

June 30
Upward Bound Session I Ends
&
Taiwanese Students & Faculty Arrive 

Input Sought for Upcoming SIS Purchase

Faculty and staff who were unable to  meet with Truman’s Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable committee in early May will still be able to provide input to the TLTR discussion. 
     The purpose of the Roundtable is to solicit discussion about the purchase of a campus-wide Student Information System. Faculty and staff  may join the on-line discussion through a link on the Faculty Development web page any time through the month of August.
    Members of  the TLTR Planning Committee have been invited to serve on the University’s Technology Strategic Planning Committee and will take the recommendations of faculty and staff to the larger committee as they make final decisions regarding the SIS purchase.
     Director of Faculty Development Shirley Morahan may be contacted about questions concerning the Roundtable discussion and/or recommendations at smorahan@
truman.edu or at 785.4494.

Sue Limestall, director of the Student Recreation Center, and Liz Hopkins, fitness/wellness director, presented “Safety Procedures: What’s Your Plan?” at the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association’s 51st Annual Conference in Providence, R.I., in April.

Amy Kristin Sanders,  junior English/ communications major from Foristell, Mo., is participating in the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund’s 2000 Intern Program this summer at the Post-Bulletin newspaper in Rochester, Minn.

Jason Reinberg, Spring 2000 graduate with a major in biology/pre-med from Washington, Mo., has been awarded a $5000 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. A Truman basketball letterman and nationally-recognized scholar athlete, Reinberg will use his scholarship at the University of Missouri?Columbia where he will begin medical school in the fall.

Mainstreet Market will be open Monday through Friday during the summer session from 7:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Student Recreation Center hours from May 30 until August 4 will be 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, and closed on Sunday. Hours will vary for the Fourth of July holiday.

The Student Recreation Center is in need of a yoga instructor to teach during the summer and fall semesters. Interested applicants should contact Liz Hopkins, fitness/wellness director, at the campus recreation office, 785.7739.
Summer Student Union hours beginning May 30 will be 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Saturday, and noon until 7 p.m. on Sunday. Requests to extend hours for special events will be accommodated. Reservation forms for any events which will extend past 7 p.m., should be submitted to the Student Union Administrative Office as soon as possible (preferably at least two weeks in advance) so that staffing arrangements can be made.

The Truman Today will be published every other week during the months of June and July. Publication dates will be June 13, 27, July 11 and 25. Information should be submitted no later than the Thursday preceding the publication date.

The University will be conducting the first public auction of surplus property this year on Saturday, June 3, at Building No. 4 at the Dulaney Baldwin property located at Highway 63 and LaHarpe.