Fleet Services to hold auction
The annual Fleet Services vehicle auction will be
held at 10 a.m., July 10, south of the Fleet Services
building on Madison Street, and will last approximately
one hour.
The gate will open at 8:30 a.m. to allow potential
bidders to inspect the vehicles. Additionally, as
the vehicles are being prepared for sale, they will
be available for viewing in lot 64, behind the Cambus
garage on the corner of Prentiss and Madison streets.
For more information or to see photos of the vehicles,
go to www.uiowa.edu/~uifleet.
Vote for your favorite Herky
Still pondering your pick for best statue from Herky
on Parade?
Don’t forget to tell fyi which one is your
favorite, and why, so that your name will be entered
into a drawing for free tickets to the throwback
football game on Sept. 4, when Iowa plays Kent State.
Need a refresher? Photos of and maps to the 75 Herkys—displayed
throughout the Iowa City/Coralville area in celebration
of Kinnick Stadium’s 75th anniversary—are
available online at www.herkyonparade.com.
We’re also asking for some creative discussion
about what themed Herky you would have liked to have
seen as part of the parade, if you had been designing
one yourself.
Send your votes and your Herky-wanna-be notes by
July 16 to fyi associate editor Amy Schoon at amy-schoon@uiowa.edu or
300 PCO–Suite 370. Include your full name,
department, and campus phone number. We’ll
reveal the results in the August issue.
HR training sessions set
In response to requests from departments for additional
training, the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity
and the Department of Human Resources are offering
two more training sessions on the preparation of
the Faculty/P&S Requisition/Recruitment Plan
in the HR Transaction System.
The sessions will be:
- 9-10:30 a.m., July 12, 1505 SC; and
- 1:30-3 p.m., July 16, E140 GH.
To register, e-mail dorian-walker@uiowa.edu and
list your first-choice session, name, department
name, job title, e-mail address, and campus phone
number. No confirmation letters will be sent out.
Attendees should plan on attending their first-choice
session unless otherwise notified.
These training sessions eventually will be offered
on a quarterly basis through UI Learning & Development.
For more information, e-mail jennifer-modestou@uiowa.edu.
Changes in cleaning practices
UI offices will be cleaned less often as a result
of budget reductions in fiscal year 2005. As of July
1, custodians will empty trash cans and clean offices
once every other week.
The service reductions, saving about $250,000, are
in response to recommendations by the University’s
General Education Fund (GEF) Task Force. Facilities
Services Group will reduce its staffing requirement
levels through attrition and redistribution of custodial
assignments.
There will be no changes in the cleaning practices
or schedules for labs and public spaces, including
entrances, hallways, restrooms, and classrooms. Employees
assigned work areas in GEF space, however, can expect
the following additional changes:
• Office trash pickup will coincide with office
cleaning, once every other week. Staff, student workers,
and faculty members who prefer to have their trash
removed between scheduled days may remove the plastic
trash can liner and set the bag in the main hall
outside their offices for removal. Extra liners are
in the trash can.
• Each building has a recycle bin for individuals
to deposit their recyclables. Custodians will continue
to empty the building recycle bin.
• External window washing has been eliminated.
If you have service-related questions or concerns,
contact the Work Control Center at (33)5-5071 or
fsg-wcc@uiowa.edu.
SROP conference to offer events open to faculty
and staff
The Graduate College will host the Summer Research
Opportunities Program Conference, July 9-11, in collaboration
with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation,
an academic consortium of Big Ten universities and
the University of Chicago.
Several conference events are free and open to the
UI community:
• Talk of Iowa Live from the Java House, 10
a.m., Java House, and Live from Prairie Lights, 8
p.m., Prairie Lights Books, July 9: Both events feature
Joy Harjo, a poet-musician and UI graduate, and will
be broadcast live on WSUI AM-910.
• “The Power of Mentoring in Graduate
Student Success,” Part I, 2:30 p.m., and Part
II, 3:30 p.m., July 9, Richey Ballroom, IMU: A discussion
for faculty and staff who work with students.
• Cultural exhibit, 1-7 p.m., July 10, 181
IMU: Displays include “History of Latinas and
African American Women in Iowa,” “Memory
and Oblivion: Legacies of Enslavement in the Americans,” and
more.
The annual conference, which the University last
hosted in 1990, brings hundreds of undergraduate
students and faculty sponsors to campus to exchange
ideas, begin professional networking, and explore
the possibilities of graduate education. Many UI
faculty members and graduate students participate
as mentors and volunteers.
Car pool web site now online
The Parking and Transportation Department has developed
an interactive web site for its car pool matching
service. The site allows UI employees to find others
who are interested in carpooling by using the Human
Resources self-service web site. The service is available
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For more information, call (35)3-5770 or visit www.uiowa.edu/~parking/carpool_home.html.
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