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News Link –August 13, 2009
You’re Needed to Help Students During SunCat Days
Our students need your help. Become a member of the SunCat Patrol and help students settle in smoothly at the college during the hustle and bustle of the first week of fall term classes, Aug. 31-Sept. 4. SunCat Days – formerly known as the Parking Campaign – needs volunteers to help students find classes and parking and to answer general questions. Two-hour shifts are available 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m from Aug. 31-Sept. 4 on all campuses. All employees who do not have consistent contact with students during the first week of classes are encouraged to sign up for at least one shift. To volunteer, please fill out this survey by logging onto SharePoint using your network user ID and password. For more information, contact Jennifer McDonald at Ext. 4673.
Supervisors Have New Responsibility in First Phase of NEW Electronic Timesheet Process
The role of supervisors in the new electronic Banner Departmental Time Entry process for full-time, non-faculty professional employees that is now in effect is:
1) to obtain paper Leave Authorization Forms from professional staff on a timely basis
2) to review and sign the completed and approved Leave Authorization Forms
3) to forward the completed form to the Departmental Payroll Contact.
If an employee’s scheduled leave event changes after the leave has been submitted in Banner by the Departmental Payroll Contact, it is the supervisor’s responsibility to notify the Payroll Department via e-mail of the change. Furthermore, a copy of the e-mail to Payroll must be attached to the department’s originally approved Leave Authorization Form; this documentation must be retained for audit purposes. This is a new requirement of supervisors. Supervisors will not be entering leave or making changes to previously submitted leave using Banner. For questions, contact the Payroll department at Ext. 4460.
Full-time, non-faculty professional employees can request leave by filling out the new leave forms and then submitting them to their supervisors for approval. The payroll contact in your department should have the new forms. If full-time, non-faculty professional employees do not take leave, they do nothing for the pay period. No more paper timesheets. As part of the new process, the payroll contact in your department will be entering leave hours into the Banner system from completed Leave Authorization Forms that are initiated by employees and approved by supervisors. Please refer to The Source for updated procedures for annual leave and sick leave.
Convocation Getting a Makeover for 2009 – Event Set for Sept. 11
CNM’s annual Convocation event will get a makeover this year, including a new title – “CNM’s Day of Building Community.” It will take place on Sept. 11 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn some more about the event by clicking here. More details about the event will appear in upcoming News Links.
September CNM Governing Board Meeting on Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The September CNM Governing Board meeting will held on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 5 p.m. at the CNM South Valley Campus, Room SV-10. Please make sure and mark your schedule as the board meeting was previously scheduled for September 15th.
New Software to Expand Access to Enrollment Data
Faculty and staff will soon be able to dive deeper than ever before into the fluctuating tides of student enrollment trends at CNM. On Aug. 10, the Office of Planning, Budget and Institutional Research unveiled the new Student Enrollment Dashboard, which will provide up-to-the-minute enrollment counts by campus, school and discipline, all the way down to the course level, as well as graphical displays of multi-year enrollment trends. Its interactive reporting capabilities will allow users to drill for even finer levels of detail, create charts and export data into a spreadsheet. The new dashboard will also be the home for CNM’s new “Crystal Ball,” which predicts annual and end-of-term enrollment based on current registration data.
The new dashboard is powered by CNM’s Argos reporting software and will be accessible from myCNM via the “Employees” tab, located across the upper portion of the page after you sign in using your regular CNM username and password.
PBIR is also releasing a set of Schedule Support tools for administrators that will chart class-size trends and fill-rate trends, as well as provide interactive reporting capabilities. An overview of the Schedule Support tools will be presented at Organizational Learning for the primary target audience. For more information about the data, or assistance with using these tools, call PBIR at Ext. 3450. Technical difficulties should be reported to the Office of Information Technology Services at Ext. 4357 or at helpdesk@cnm.edu.
Transition to Integrated Blackboard Site to Begin Next Week
CNM has begun the transition from the current Distance Learning Blackboard site to the new integrated Blackboard site. During this transition, the http://elearning.cnm.edu site will be unavailable to faculty and students.
The new site will still have the same look and feel of the current site. However, there will be some changes in how the Blackboard service is accessed and how course enrollment is managed.
These are the most noticeable differences for users:
• To access the new Blackboard site you will now log on to myCNM by using your CNM network user name and password.
• Students will no longer have to self-enroll into classes; this will all be handled by the integration process. This integration process should eliminate the need for students to enroll themselves into course sections . The integration process will automatically add/remove students from class sections as they add and drop courses.
• Faculty will also be automatically added to the sections they are teaching.
• Students will no longer have to call Embanet or the Distance Learning department to reset their password; they can simply go to http://password.cnm.edu and reset it.
To help with this transition, if you have any personal files stored on the current Blackboard system that are not part of your course, please copy those files to your local hard drive or some type of external storage device like a flash drive. If you have questions or would like more information, please feel free to contact Brian Ditmer at Ext. 3318 or bditmer@cnm.edu, Rafael Martinez at Ext. 5519 or martiner@cnm.edu, or John Warren at Ext.3042 or jwarren@cnm.edu .
Parking Passes for Fall Term on Sale; All Gated Lots Open Until Start of Fall Term
Fall term parking permits are on sale and the cost remains $43 for the term. Please note that if you used payroll deduction to pay for your summer term permit, you still must fill out the paperwork to purchase a fall term permit through payroll deduction. For more information on purchasing permits, click here. All gated lots will be open from Friday through the start of the fall term.
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Say Farewell to CNM Director of Libraries
Barbara Lovato-Gassman, CNM director of Libraries, will be leaving the college as a full-time employee on Aug. 15 to take on a new career challenge. A farewell reception for Lovato-Gassman will be held on Aug. 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Main Campus in the M Building, Room M-103. Lovato-Gassman has been at CNM for 10 years and she will continue to be a part-time faculty member in CNM’s School of Adult & General Education.
“Listening Across the Curriculum” Conference Set at CNM
CNM is co-sponsoring this “special day of listening, learning and interactive activities providing world class listening training for educators to take back to their classrooms.” Space is limited for the one-day event at Main Campus in Smith Brasher Hall on Sept. 12. The $45 fee includes lunch. The America West Region of the International Listening Association is co-sponsoring with CNM. Click on the following link to register or download a brochure: http://www.ila.camp7.org/Albuquerque_2009
Construction Updates
Main Campus
Physical Plant Parking Lot – Most of the Physical Plant parking lot will be closed for the entire month of August to allow for the extension of water lines. A small section of the lot that’s closest to Buena Vista will remain open. The motor pool section of the lot will be closed and all CNM vehicles, except for security vehicles, will be moved to the Jeannette Stromberg Hall parking lot. All gated lots will be open beginning Friday (July 31) through the start of the fall term on Aug. 31.
Ted Chavez Hall Parking Lot – The Ted Chavez lot will be closed on Sundays until the fall term begins for repair work.
Montoya Campus
K Building – Installation of wireless access points and cabling will take place the week of August 10. The Wireless Network Expansion Project is scheduled for completion August 28. The project is funded by the New Mexico Educator’s Federal Credit Union and is intended to extend wireless network connectivity to all developed areas of CNM.
Parking Lot Work – A section of parking north of the H Building and the lot south of the H Building will be closed off for construction work. The project is expected to last about one more week. In addition, the parking lots between Tom Wiley Hall and Morris St. will be closed for restriping. In addition, during the break the parking lots at Montoya will be closed off by sections so that lots can be restriped.
Westside Campus
WS Phase I – Installation of wireless access points and cabling will take place the week of August 10. The Wireless Network Expansion Project is scheduled for completion August 28. The project is funded by the New Mexico Educator’s Federal Credit Union and is intended to extend wireless network connectivity to all developed areas of CNM.
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