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News Link –Sept. 3, 2009
Attention Faculty: New Payroll Processes in Effect
Beginning with the current pay period, payroll and leave reporting processes for full-time and part-time faculty will be changing. An electronic leave reporting process has been implemented within the academic schools. Attached to this e-mail are instructions on how to submit leave requests through the new Leave Reporting Form. Faculty members will complete and submit their electronic Leave Reporting Form to their supervisor. The supervisor will review and approve or return the leave request to the faculty member for additional information via electronic processes. The current paper Leave Request form will no longer be used by full-time and part-time faculty.
Also effective with the pay period beginning Aug. 31, full-time and part-time faculty members will no longer fill out paper timesheets for their regular pay. If a faculty member does not take any leave in a specific pay period, there will be nothing to fill out. If leave is taken, the aforementioned Leave Reporting Form must be submitted. However, paper timesheets will continue to be required for faculty extra compensation and substitute pay. For more information, call the Payroll department at Ext. 4460.
Show Your Sign of Support for CNM’s Day of Building Community
Follow this video link to learn how you can show your sign of support for building community at CNM. CNM’s Day of Building Community, formerly known as Convocation, will kick off at 8 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 11, in the Smith Brasher Hall parking lot, where employees will have the opportunity to add momentum to the sustainability movement by donating clothes and books to the Storehouse and by dropping off unneeded documents and papers that can be shredded and recycled. The “Shred-it” company’s recycle truck can accept paper with staples, paperclips and even three-ring binders and spiral notebooks. At 9 a.m., employees can choose to participate in one of two options. You can attend facilitated discussions on student success or you can volunteer to participate in service projects around Main Campus. More info on these options will be available soon. At 11 a.m., employees will gather for a picnic at Roosevelt Park, where President Kathie Winograd will open up the picnic with a few words. All offices will be closed and inaccessible the morning of Sept. 11.
Monthly CNM Governing Board Meeting Set for September 8
The September CNM Governing Board meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 8, at 5 p.m. at the CNM South Valley Campus, Room SV-10. Please make sure to mark your schedule as the Board meeting was previously scheduled for September 15.
Art of Students, Alumni, Faculty Showcased at Harwood Art Center
The artwork of 14 CNM students and alumni and 17 art studio faculty members will be on display at the Harwood Art Center in an exhibition called “Visual Individuals” from Sept. 4-23. The opening reception will take place on Sept. 4 from 6-8 p.m. For more info, go to www.harwoodartcenter.org or call 228-6562. The Harwood Art Center is located at 1114 7th St. NW.
Read All About It: CNM Chronicle Available Online
CNM’s student newspaper – the CNM Chronicle – is now available to everybody online at http://chronicle.cnm.edu/.
CNM Minute Highlights Student Success on the Construction Site of SRC
Click here to check out the latest CNM Minute, which takes you to the construction site of the Student Resource Center. That’s where a former CNM student and a current CNM student are applying their education to the development of this major project.
Montoya Campus Speaker Series Returns with `Find Your Fauna’ on Sept. 22
Rich Calabro, dean of the School of Math, Science & Engineering, and Justin Fuller, an instructor in the School of Communication, Humanities & Social Sciences, will provide information on the fauna of central New Mexico and provide a brief review on the various types of vertebrate animals that can be spotted in our local environments. The event takes place on Sept. 22 from 6:30-8 p.m. in J-122 on the Montoya Campus.
Transition to Integrated Blackboard Site Complete
CNM has completed the transition from the current Distance Learning Blackboard site to the new integrated Blackboard site.
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:
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: Delete the highlighted and keep bullets below.
n To access the new Blackboard site you will now log on to myCNM by using your CNM network user name and password.
n 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.
n Faculty will also be automatically added to the sections they are teaching.
n 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.
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 .
Inform Students of Textbook Tax Credit Worth Up to $2,500
The federal economic stimulus package includes a new Textbook Tax Credit that many students are eligible to claim. For each eligible student, the tax credit is worth up to $2,500. For example, if a student has out-of-pocket expenses for course materials or tuition and fees during the 2009-2010 academic year that no other scholarship, grant or financial aid covers, the student may be able to claim those expenses as a tax credit with documentation. For more information, check out www.textbookaid.org.
CNM Employees and Students Get Discount for Lobo Football Season Tickets
UNM is offering CNM employees and students season tickets for Lobo football for $62, which is a 15 percent savings from the regular price. The Lobos play six home games this season beginning with the home opener against Tulsa on Sept. 12. To view their entire schedule, click here. To take advantage of the discount, take your CNM ID to the Lobo Ticket Office. For more info, call 925-5621.
New Library Locations in Operation at South Valley, Westside Campuses
The South Valley and Westside campuses now have fully supported libraries. The South Valley library is located in SV-106 and is open Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Westside library is open Tuesday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Services available at both branches include: reference help, library instruction and book pick-up services. Services coming soon include: reference and circulation books, videos and DVDs, and course reserves.
Take Advantage of New LIBROS Service through CNM Libraries
In the summer, the CNM Libraries joined the LIBROS consortium, allowing people to easily search for books owned both by CNM and many other academic libraries across the state. Once students, faculty, and staff activate their library accounts at any one of CNM’s four library locations, they can use CNM’s many library resources, manage their library accounts online and check out books from the University of New Mexico libraries. To activate their accounts, students, faculty and staff need to bring their CNM ID and sign an authorization form, allowing their name, CNM ID number, and CNM e-mail account to be stored in the system. Faculty and staff only need to sign this form once, but students will need to fill out a new form each term and show their current class schedule.
CNM Grant Writer Position Relocated to CNM Foundation
CNM grant writer Susan Meyerer-Ortiz will relocate to the CNM Foundation on Monday (Aug. 31) in an effort to maximize opportunities to support CNM during this difficult economic climate. The CNM Foundation will assume grant writing capacity for the college to leverage even greater resource development opportunities on behalf of the Foundation Board of Directors. Grant writing activities will continue to support faculty, staff and administration on federal, state and private funding endeavors.
Much More Enrollment Data at Your Fingertips
Faculty and staff can now dive deeper than ever before into the fluctuating tides of student enrollment trends at CNM. The Office of Information Technology Services and the Office of Planning, Budget and Institutional Research have unveiled the new Student Enrollment Dashboard, which provides 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 allow users to drill for even finer levels of detail, create charts and export data into a spreadsheet. The new dashboard is also 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 is 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.
Calendar
“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
M Building – The M Building on Main Campus, the oldest building at CNM, is getting a facelift. The masonry on the building, originally an APS elementary school, will be refurbished during a span of four to five weeks. Scaffolding has been raised on the north and west sides of the building.
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