Want to know what's going on that day? Here's the schedule:

9-10:30 a.m.
Awards Ceremony – St. Pat’s Ballroom, Havener Center

9 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Car Show - outside Havener Center

10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Music - outside Havener Center

10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Staff Day Games - outside Havener Center
Popcorn & Shaved Ice - outside Havener Center

11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Chair massages -- Havener atrium

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Lunch – served in cafeteria at Havener Center,
Menu : Cheese Fondue with vegetables and breads, meat loaf, fried chicken, vegetarian pot pie, mashed potatoes and gravy, buttered corn, apple crisp, dinner rolls, coffee, tea and soda.
Lunch is free for Missouri S&T staff members; $6 per person if not.

1:15 p.m.
Costume & Dept. Frisbee Decorating Contest – food court in Havener Center

1:30-2:30 p.m.
Food Auction – food court in Havener Center

Prize & Raffle Drawings – during food auction
Raffle items: 26” LCD HDTV/DVD Combo Home Theater System TV, Craftsman 6 Drawer Tool Center, Patio Set, Kenmore Gas Grill, Nintendo Wii, Sony 7.2 MP Digital Camera, Craftsman Propelled Lawn Mower, 4 Cardinal Tickets

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The weather forecast calls for sunny skies and soaking bosses on Tuesday, June 3, at the Puck. Join us from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. as some of the best sports on campus step up to go down -- all for you, the staff of Missouri S&T. Here's who you can dunk (revised May 30):

11:30-11:40 a.m. Chris Dew
11:40-11:50 a.m. Randy Davis
11:50 a.m.-Noon Margaret Cline
Noon-12:10 p.m. Mark Potrafka
12:10-12:20 p.m. Ross Haselhorst
12:20-12:30 p.m. Paula DeLong
12:30-12:40 p.m. Lynn Stichnote
12:40-12:50 p.m. Sue Turner
12:50-1 p.m. Judy Cavender
1-1:10 p.m. Andrew Careaga
1:10-1:20 p.m. Dan Uetrecht
1:20-1:30 p.m. Richard Altheide

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We are seeking donations for this years Staff Day Food Auction. It will be held Wednesday, June 4th from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. in the Havener Food Court. This year we are looking for dinner items as well as baked goods. We already have donations for smoked ribs and twiced baked pototoes, gooey butter cookies, strawberry cheesecake. Please contact Mendy Kell at mkell@mst.edu or extension 7140 to let her know if you would be willing to donate something. Donations will need to be dropped off the morning of Staff Day between 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. at the loading dock at the Havener Center.

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In case you missed today's Staff Council open forum, take a look at the presentation. Download file

Update: Video of the open forum, provided by the VCC, is available for viewing here.

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Yes, you read that right. We're seeking nominations on who you'd like to put into a dunking booth on Tuesday, June 3, as part of Staff Week 2008. We're starting the line up with some very good sports, including Andy Careaga, Judy Cavendar, Chris Dew, Mark Potrafka and Lynn Stichnote. Tell us who else you want to see dunked.

Update: Here's the current list. We're missing just one more boss!

Tank 1
Mark Potrafka
Ross Haselhorst
Richard Altheide
Andy Careaga
Sue Turner
Judy Cavendar

Tank 2
Chris Dew
Randy Davis
Margaret Cline
Lynn Stichnote
Paula DeLong

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Members Present: Joyce Abbott, Robert Berkelman, Dean Brumett, Christopher Dew, Nina Eickhorst, Cecilia Elmore, Wade Jadwin, Mendy Kell, Mindy Limback, Brenda McKinnon, Debbie Middendorf, Peggy Wilson, Letha Young

Members Absent: Melissa Folsom, Amy Gillman, Roy Snelson

Opening
The meeting was called to order at 10:00 by Chair Christopher Dew. The meeting was held in St. Pat’s Ballroom of the Havener Center.

Minutes from the March meeting were read and approved.

Treasurer’s Report:
General Operating Funds - $9912.36
Special Events (Staff Day) - $2289.52
Activity: $3.10 for folding letters for staff recognition awards for non-computer user staff.

Old Business
2nd annual Staff Open Forum – May 19, 2008 – Carver/Turner – 11 a.m.
Wellness day – Retirees will offer assistance to Student Health. Volunteers are still needed. Contact Amy Cravens, Wellness Director, if you can help.
June 24, 11:00 to 4:00 is the Blood Drive. Volunteers are still needed. Cecilia will be the coordinator.

New Business
Chris shared some e-mails that were sent to him from employees addressing staff importance and the early out retirement. He also shared a suggestion that was made after the contaminated water incident, that in the future a template for alert signs be used as “attention getters”. The ICE (emergency) web site contacts need to be updated. Chris will share the complete e-mails with anyone wishing to see them.

Chris, Cecilia, Joyce and Robert met with President Forsee when he was on campus. He shared his vision for the campus. He is very much focused on Pre-College Programs, for Pre K- 12 students. His message is we are here to support the students. He wants to make a difference. SC shared their 5 action items with him: salary & wage, 85 and out retirement, career path – training opportunities, shared sick leave and morale. SC asked how they could help him and he replied communication. He seems interested in the issues and the meeting was encouraging.

The question was raised, “If the President takes an item for approval to the Board of Curators, does it usually get approved?” Historically the board goes with the recommendation of the President.

A draft of the Open Forum Agenda was reviewed and approved. Wade shared a copy of the cards that will be used to submit questions.

238 have responded to the staff survey. Results will be shared with SC members this afternoon.

Chris will meet with Shenethia Manuel, new HR Director on the format for the open forum which she will participate and also discuss appointing an HR person as an Ex-Officio member of SC.

There was discussion on having “Staff Week” vs. “Staff Day”. Staff Week could consist of having one activity each day such as a mini seminars or a fun activity. Some suggested seminar topics that could be presented: financial planning, preparing for retirement, emergency preparedness. A perks fair where vendors that offer discounts to Missouri S&T employees could come in and display their services was also discussed. “Dunk Your Boss Day” was suggested as an option for a fun day serving popcorn and soda. It was decided that there would be a Perks Fair on Monday at the Havener Center and a “Dunk Your Boss Day” at the Hockey Puck on Tuesday before Staff Day. Mindy will get stickers that say “I dunked my Boss”. Dean will reserve space for Perks Day and Brenda will speak to Jim Duncan about using the area around the puck for the dunking booth. Robert will reserve the dunking booths. The dunking booths will need to have about 12 administrator volunteers for dunking. Send any suggestions to the STAFCO mailing list.

Charlotte Lewis mad a suggestion for SC to support a program to buy shoes for children of the countries where Engineers Without Borders are doing work. It is difficult to get supplies into some of these countries. A solution may be to find an organization that is established in these countries and send the money for them to purchase the shoes. Melissa, Chair of the Charitable Awareness Committee will meet with Charlotte Lewis and will make a presentation to SC on supporting this project.

A request for SC to fund a time management seminar was discussed. Amy is still working on professional development issues. HR will need to manage these programs.

The Professional Development survey will be distributed after the Open Forum on May 19.

SC members will receive staff day shirts free of charge with “Staff Council” on the sleeve. Please send Melissa your size so she can order.

Reports of Liaisons to Campus Committees
Chancellor’s Council - none
Crisis – No official report, except to extend thanks to SC members and building coordinators who helped post signs and distributed water last week during the water crisis. The committee will meet April 22.
Faculty Senate - None
ICSC – Chris read a response from Interim VP of Human Resources, Blake Danuser, on current issues that was presented at last meeting.
Information Technology Computing Committee- none
Name Change – Still working on logos with department names and addresses. Any suggestions or questions let Mindy Limback know. There are rules about using the Missouri S & T logo on the Communications Department Web page.
Parking – None
Personnel – The items discussed are the responsibilities, evaluation and participation of NTT (non tenure track) vs. tenure track faculty. There has been some concern expressed that NTT faculty have been allowed participation in events that were exclusive to TT faculty and the Personnel Committee is trying to determine where the line should be drawn. We have been communicating with the VPAA on this matter and it is still unsolved at this point. Another meeting is scheduled on Friday.

Reports of Standing Committees
Home Page - none
Welcome – None
Staff Development - none
Staff Excellence Awards - The Staff Excellence Awards selection process was discussed and ways to make it easier to nominate. Next years form will be designed to submit a nomination on-line.
Special Interest Committees
Campus Appearance – Mowing and tree planting.
Campus Day Care – none

Announcements
1. Meeting with HR Director – April 17
2. Staff Day planning meeting – April 17, 1 p.m., Havener Coffee Shop
3. Meeting with the Chancellor – April 22
4. 2nd Annual Staff Council Open Forum – May 19
5. Staff Week – June 2-6

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 a.m.

Minutes submitted by Staff Council Secretary Joyce Abbott

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• Venturer 26 in. LCD HDTV/DVD Combo with 2.1-Channel Home Theater System $650 value
• Craftsman 6-Drawer Homeowner Tool Center, 26-1/2 in. Wide with Door $160 value
• Kenmore 713 sq. in. Total Cook Area Gas Grill $250 Value
• Sony Cybershot 7.2MP Digital Camera $150 value
• Patio Set $275 value
• Nintendo wii value $250
• Craftsman 6.25 Torque 22 in. Deck Mulch-Bag-Discharge Rear Bag Front Propelled Lawn Mower value $310
• 4 Cardinal Tickets

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Missouri S&T Staff Council
May 14, 2008
Agenda

Meeting called to order – Dew
Review/approval of minutes & Treasurer’s report – Berkelman
Old Business

1. Blood drive – June 24 (11 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
2. Staff comments - Dew
• Retirement, early out and overall staff importance
• Concerns regarding contaminated water and crisis communications
3. Report on Staff Council’s meeting with President Forsee - Elmore
4. Approval of Staff Open Forum Agenda – May 19, Carver/Turner, 11 a.m. – Limback
• See Appendix A
5. Staff week possible seminars/activities – Open discussion
• Retirement/Investment/Financial Planning – Mr. Smith
• FERPA – Laura Stoll
• Staff Day – Jamie Archer will have retiree volunteers contact Dean. Shirt order forms have been sent out, Mel procured a Wii for the raffle, still waiting on the bags for the goodie bags, Peg will be putting together a basket for the costume contest.
• Emergency Preparedness – University Police
• Perks Fair – various vendors
6. Possible online nomination form for staff excellence awards – Dew

New business

1. Relay for Life - Patti Fleck
2. Open Forum Follow-up – What still needs to be done?
3. Staff Week
• Perks Fair & “De-stress” – noon – 2 p.m. – Havener Atrium
• Coordinator?
• Dunk your boss – noon – 1 p.m. – The Mall
• Coordinator?
• Staff Day
• Agenda
• Convocation and Awards Ceremony – Coordinator?
o Setup meeting – Who needs to attend?
• ______________________________ - ______________
• ______________________________ - ______________
• ______________________________ - ______________
• ______________________________ - ______________
• ______________________________ - ______________
• ______________________________ - ______________
4. Self Study Reaccreditation Report - Include information about the Staff Survey results. What does the survey tell us? What have we done in response to the survey?
5. Staff Professional Development Survey- (Status of)

1. Faculty Senate – Middendorf
• Information Technology & Computing Committee – Limback
• Personnel Committee – Wilson
2. Campus Appearance Committee – McKinnon
3. Campus Daycare Committee – Berkelman & Young
4. Campus Name Change – Limback & Dew
5. Chancellor’s Council – Gillman
6. Charitable Awareness – Folsom
• Engineers Without Borders – Shoes for children
7. Crisis Communications Committee – Limback
8. Parking Committee – Middendorf – No Report
9. Professional Development Committee – Gillman
10. Intercampus Staff Advisory Council – Elmore
11. Web – Folsom & Limback
12. Welcome Committee – Folsom

1. Meeting with HR Director – April 17 - Update
2. Meeting with the Chancellor – April 22 - Update
3. 2nd Annual Staff Council Open Forum – May 19
4. Staff Week – June 2-6
• Monday, June 2
• Perks Fair – noon – 2 p.m. – Havener Atrium
o Chair Massage, etc.
• “Lead from the middle” – Manager’s training – St. Pat’s A
• Tuesday, June 3
• Dunk your boss – noon – 1 p.m. – The Mall
• Wednesday, June 4
• Staff Day

11:30 a.m.

• Meeting adjourned

1. Introductions & Welcome (Chris Dew) a. Introduce Chancellor Carney b. Introduce HR representatives c. Introduce Andy Careaga (2 minutes to pitch emergency alert enrollment) 2. Intercampus Staff Council priorities (Chris Dew) 3. Staff Council survey summary (Mindy Limback) a. Performance b. Benefits c. Advancement 4. Collect Q&A cards (Volunteers Needed) 5. Award door prizes (Chancellor to draw names) 6. Staff Day skit (Peg Wilson and Dean Brumett) 7. Address Q&A’s 8. Chancellor's remarks

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Members Present: Joyce Abbott, Robert Berkelman, Dean Brumett, Christopher Dew, Nina Eickhorst, Cecilia Elmore, Folsom, Melissa, Amy Gillman, Wade Jadwin, Debbie Middendorf, Peggy Wilson, Letha Young

Members Absent: Mendy Kell, Mindy Limback, Brenda McKinnon, Roy Snelson

Opening
The meeting was called to order at 11:00 by Chair, Chris Dew. The meeting was held in St. Pats, Ballroom of the Havener.

Minutes from the February meeting were read and approved.

Treasurer’s Report:
GO: $ 9,912.36
Special Events: $2,289.52

Old Business
Chris discussed the Advancing Excellence Campaign that was presented to SC by Greg Harris last month. Greg requested some time at the Staff Day awards ceremony to recognize participants and also wanted to have a breakfast as part of Staff Day activities. It was decided that Greg will be given time at the program to recognize participants, but the breakfast will be scheduled for another time.

There have been 156 staff council surveys completed. The survey is open to participants till the 21st. SC members were asked to send reminders to employees in their department reminding them to complete the survey.

A Professional Development survey will go out after the Open Forum in follow-up to questions concerning staff development on the staff survey. The majority of staff is interested in staff development according to the results we have received thus far. Amy is on the reaccredidation committee, and would like to include a chapter on Professional Development in the reaccredidation information.

There will be several unable to attend next month’s meeting on April 9th, so the date will be changed to April 16th.

Cecilia will coordinate the blood drive.

Retirees will help with staff day.

Chris will also talk to Jamie Archer from the retiree’s association about helping with Wellness Day.

The incident with the nurse practitioner not being covered by Coventry has been resolved.

New Business
Joyce will schedule a planning meeting for the open forum. The open forum will be May 19 in the Carver/Turner Room. Staff Day will be promote at the forum. The Chancellor and the new HR Director will attend.

Staff Day: Dean has found photos from the achieves from the 60s to use for Staff Day. Melissa will have shirt samples in a couple of weeks. Shirts will be on display at the open forum and a couple will be given away as door prizes. The Open Forum will also serve as a time to encourage staff to volunteer for Staff Day. The entertainment committee is busy working on the video. The video will contain “Kids Say the Darndest Things” with Dr. Schonberg portraying Art Linkletter. Austin Powers will make an appearance. A volunteer is needed for someone to be Austin Powers. The costume will be a raffle prize. Anyone having pictures of employees in the 60s submit to Amy. An i-Pod and free parking will be part of the raffle. If anyone can find a Nintendo Wii for a door prize, purchase it and you will be reimbursed. There was discussion about closing offices for the day. The Chancellor sends out a memo encouraging everyone’s attendance at some time during the day. Offices will still need to remain open. There will be events scheduled throughout the week. Chris will check into mini seminars lasting an hour or so. The question was asked if the ALDP professional development training could be done during staff week. Someone will be hired to do the training and this will be targeted towards middle management, so it would not be available for all staff. Some other ideas: HR retirement sessions, ALICE training from University Police, FERPA from Admissions. Another idea was to have merchant booths.

The Jan Buhlinger award was voted on. Joyce will order the plaque.

Reports of Liaisons to Campus Committees
Chancellor’s Council - None
Crisis – Numbers are increasing on registration for the mass notification system.
Faculty Senate - None

ICSC – Blake Danuser, new interim VP for Human Resources, was in attendance. He is in favor of “85 and out” retirement plan. He will be talking to the new president about it. Other issues discussed: shared vacation/leave, comp & salary-fair market, morale.

Information Technology Computing Committee - none

Parking – lots of denials on appeals

Personnel – none

Reports of Standing Committees
Home Page – additional perks for Missouri S&T staff will soon be on web page

Welcome – none

Staff Excellence Awards – Still in need of nominations. Encourage your departments to make nominations. Leatha volunteered to help with interviews. Staff Council members can nominated for award, but committee can not.

Special Interest Committees
Campus Appearance – None
Charitable Awareness – will have a dress down day for “Miners for a Cure” in April.
Campus Day Care – None

Major IT changes over spring break. There will be an announcement going out.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 10:50 a.m.

Minutes submitted by Staff Council Secretary Joyce Abbott

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Members Present: Joyce Abbott, Christopher Dew, Nina Eickhorst, Cecilia Elmore, Melissa Folsom, Mendy Kell, Brenda McKinnon, Debbie Middendorf, Roy Snelson, Peggy Wilson
Members Absent: Robert Berkelman, Dean Brumett, Amy Gillman, Wade Jadwin, Mindy Limback, Letha Young

Opening
The meeting was called to order at 10:05 a.m. by Chair, Chris Dew. The meeting was held in St. Pat’s Ballroom in the Havener Center.

Minutes from the January meeting were read and approved.

Treasurer’s Report:
GO: $ $9,915.46
Special Events: $2,289.52
GO – Additional $500 received from Dr. Schwartz for staff award

Old Business
Second annual staff forum to be held at 11:00 on Monday, May 19, 2008 in Carver/Turner Room at the Havener. Results of the staff survey will be discussed and Staff Day will be promoted. Chancellor and HR Director will attend. HR Assistant Director will be invited.

ALDP Professional Develop Project will conduct a one day conference for mid-level managers. The group has met with the Chancellor and Steve Malott. Chancellor supports this project, has provided funding, and has committed to making it a standing program through HR and expanding it to all levels of employees.

New Business
Greg Harris, Sr. Development Officer gave a presentation on giving to Missouri S&T. Development will be rolling out a campus community campaign in March and would like to use staff day to announce the results. He would need approximately 5 minutes at the awards presentation ceremony to talk about the employees that are contributing to Missouri S&T and encourage others to give. He is also considering having a donor breakfast in Havener Cafeteria in conjunction with Staff Day. Greg will be announcing the campaign at departmental meetings. If anyone has any suggestions or questions let Greg know.

There are still some issues with the staff survey and the professional development questions that will be part of the survey. It will be going out soon.

Blood Drive- Cecilia and Chris will coordinate. It will be held in the summer. Jamie Archer from the Retirees Association offered their help. She also indicated that they would be willing to help with Staff Day. If you have needs where they can assist let Chris know.

Wellness Day (held in April) – Ashley Mattli, Wellness Coordinator wants to turn Wellness Day over to Staff Council to coordinated. SC felt they did not have the time or man power to do this. Chris will check to see if the Retiree’s Association would want to get involved with this project also.

Mendy Kell brought up a concern with Coventry, the new medical insurance administer. Nurse Practitioner at St. John’s are not covered by the plan. Chris will talk to Connie in HR and will bring up at ISCS.

Reports of Liaisons to Campus Committees

Chancellor’s Council – None
Crisis – The incident at the college in Illinois underscores the need to sign up for mass notification. The test on January 31st was a success. There was a note from the New President (Gary Forsee) encouraging everyone to sign up.

Faculty Senate - SB389 Bill passed which allows information to be posted on-line concerning faculty's credentials, student comments, rating of courses, teaching assignments, teacher evaluations, etc. Implementation will be made after reviewing how other campuses proceed. New Computer Science department Chair is Dr. Ali Hurson. Spring 2008, there will be two separate commencement programs due to the large number of graduates. Friday, May 16th, Graduate program, 6:00 pm in the Multi-Purpose Bldg.; Saturday, May 17th, Undergraduate program, 11:00 am, in the Multi-Purpose Bldg. Dept Name change; Business and Management Systems joined with Information Science and Technology to be named: Department of Business and Information Technology. Second graduate level minor approved in Technical Communication discipline.

ICSC – meets March 18

Information Technology Computing Committee - none

Parking – Greg Harris from Development Office wanted a donated spot. This was rejected

Personnel – Meets next week

Reports of Standing Committees

Home Page – Staff Excellence Award nomination form has been posted to webpage.

Welcome – None

Staff Day Activities – Marilyn Licklider has volunteered to help with door prizes. Deb will ask a couple of employees in Registrar’s office if they could also assist with solicitation. Other volunteers are needed. Amy and Charlotte Lewis have begun meeting on the morning entertainment for the awards ceremony. Shirt design was voted on and approved. Printing on white shirts keeps the price lower. Possible menu, using a TV dinner theme, meatloaf, fried chicken, pot pie, a veggie choice, mashed potatoes, veggies, fruit cobbler and cheese fondue. Nintendo Wii is an idea for a raffle prize. Nominations were taken for the Buhlinger award. A vote will be taken next month. Discussion on the breakfast for the Campus Campaign (as presented by Greg Harris) – this may be too much activity for Havener for the morning. All staff may think they are invited to breakfast. Can Chartwells handle all activities on one day? It was decided to have refreshments at the morning program, bagels, coffee, etc. We did not have this last year. Robert will be contacting the departments for cash donations. IT will donate some electronic gadget.

Staff Development – ALDP Program to be announced soon.

Staff Excellence Awards – SC members are needed for the committee. Melissa volunteered to help. Mail any additional nominations for Jan Buhlinger award to Joyce and a vote will be taken next month.

Special Interest Committees
Campus Appearance – Cleaning up after ice and snow storms and getting prepared for the next ones. Planting trees.
Campus Day Care – none

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m.

Minutes submitted by Staff Council Secretary Joyce Abbott

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Join us at Staff Day on June 4 as we announce the winners of Staff Council's 2008 Excellence Awards.

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