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Snapshot: December 2007 >> NEW THIS MONTH Credit and debit cards The UW Tacoma Cashier’s Office is now accepting debit and credit cards for certain transactions. The office is authorized to accept payments from cards containing a Visa or MasterCard logo only and can process payments for Flexpasses, parking permits, parking fines, application fees, key deposits and locker rentals. University policy does not permit acceptance of in-person debit or credit card payments for tuition or related charges. Students may still pay these fees with a credit or debit card online. [Mia Limbrick] >> NEW THIS MONTH Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards Nominations are now being accepted for UWT's Distinguished Teaching and Research Awards. Submitting your nomination for each award is now even easier: Click here to submit your nomination online. Nominations are due no later than Jan. 25. For more information, contact Tracey Norris at tvnorris@u.washington.edu. [Beth Rushing] >> UPDATED FROM LAST MONTH Strategic Planning Committee submits final draft The Strategic Planning Committee has submitted a final draft of the UW Tacoma Strategic plan. It incorporates suggestions and input from various sources since the previous draft, including an appendix describing the planning process to date and a list of references for the external environmental scan in the document. The Steering Committee is asking all campus constituencies—the Faculty Assembly, the Staff Association, ASUWT, UW Tacoma administration and the UW Tacoma Advisory Board—to affirm or reject the following statement by methods of their choice early in the Winter 2008 Quarter:
Staff members have already voted to affirm the statement. [Jim Coolsen]. >> STILL CURRENT FROM LAST MONTH Endowment fund continues to grow UW Tacoma’s endowment grew to just over $24 million this year, increasing nearly $6 million since this time last year and greatly enhancing the University’s ability to support its programs and students. The fund consists of 24 individual endowments, which are permanent funds established to support a specific purpose, such as an academic chair, deanship or scholarship. The principal of an endowed fund is invested to grow over time, while income it produces is used to support the endowment’s purpose. Endowments also grow when new gifts are received. Endowments at UW Tacoma include the First Step Scholarship Endowment for freshmen, the Port of Tacoma Chair and individual scholarship endowments being created through the Faculty, Staff, Retiree Campaign for Students. [Carol Van Natta] >> STILL CURRENT FROM LAST MONTH Global Honors offers 200-level class The Global Honors Program, which has served highly motivated students in most programs on campus for the last two years, is taking its first step toward becoming a four-year program by offering a 200-level course this spring. Global Honors 203, called "Themes in Global Honors," will explore an interdisciplinary idea each time it's taught (e.g., notions of the family, the idea of Hell, madness, water—all through lenses of science, humanities, and social science). The course aims to entice talented UW Tacoma-educated freshmen and sophomores into the joys of sophisticated global approaches to learning. Associate Professor George Mobus will teach this new course on its maiden voyage, exploring the idea of maps—concepts of mapping spaces and the human mind, mapping and power relations and maps in literature and the arts. The course will include an experiential learning process called "The City as Text," sending students out into neighborhoods around UWT and mapping them according to their people, buildings, thoroughfares, economic and social exchanges, and histories. [Claudia Gorbman] |
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