January 2012 Staff Forum

Attendance: Amy Lister, Connie Zang, Ray Mondhill, Norman Holmes, Tauni Graham, Susan Scott, Howard Imhof, Amy Gogolin, Laura Walsh, Heather Powell, Vorley Taylor, Sherry Abbott, Jackie Stewart, Kyle Morgan, Jonathan Harper, Charlene Santee, Marilyn Lees, Dave Wirt, Sherry Abbott, Patsy Henderson, Liz Edwards, Sarah Howard, Candy Sheridan, Jessica Mautz, Sue Bidwell, Katie Blocksidge, Jesse Higel

Monthly Hosts: Development Office and Library

Agenda Items:

Vorley Taylor (OMCA): MLK Day coming up on Monday! January 18th --- 3rd annual commemorative MLK event @ Reese center 5:30-7 PM. Keynote speaker is Donald Ross --- speaking about MLK from the perspective of a fraternity brother. Friday is Diversity Training Session II: Presentation on Multiracial Identity. Campus donating 100 hours of community service between 1/13-1/21. Send info about your community service hours to Vorley. There will be a “thermometer” outside her office to show how we are doing in accumulating service hours. February 23rd is the annual Black Heritage Dinner. RSVP early! Speaker is Claude Johnson speaking on Harlem Rens and Black Fives. No reservations for the program afterward (7:30-9:30 PM). Big Band Jazz Ensemble from OSU Columbus will perform as well as skits and performances from current students.

USAC is looking for new members for a three year term! If you are an OSU employee 51% FTE or higher you are eligible to apply. We really need regional campus voices! Ann Donahue --- served on USAC in early days of program. It is one of the best professional development opportunities at the university. Get your supervisor’s permission (it will take a chunk of your time) but it is worth it to see how this big university works!

Derek Thatcher --- through the Licking County Coalition of Housing they are sponsoring free tax preparation on campus. Several dates available. Contact Derek for more information.

Susan Scott --- if you produce a flier, please give a copy to the library for the archives. We want to preserve our history! Hard copies preferred but electronic submissions ok as well.





Area updates:

Heather Powell (Development): Next Generation Challenge in its final six months. We have hit the 11 million dollar mark! Heather has been recruited for a position at the Wellington School and will be leaving us at the end of the month. :(

Denny Hollern (Public Safety): Please do your best to park in the lines (don’t double park/block people in)! Not much has changed as far as campus closures go. Be sure to check your voice mail/the website/emails before you leave home to make sure campus is open! Howard Imhof reminded that the regroup system will send a text message to your cell phone and/or email to your home account --- sign up for winter weather alerts! There will be a test of these systems most likely toward the end of this month. OSU folks should be registered in the Columbus system, so you may get two alerts. Stay tuned!

Jackie Stewart (Gateway): Open House February 8th from 5-10 PM. Encourage prospective students to attend! Students can do application/register for classes up until summer. Expo for DMD at Knox 1/24; Coschocton 2/1; Pataskala 2/8. (All expos are on the COTC website.) New employee Jamie Kohl (?) new Gateway student services specialist working in records office. Enrollment update 4214 headcount.

Vorley Taylor --- 10th anniversary of Birmingham pledge (help stop racism, prejudice, and intolerance). Call Vorley for more details. Pledge will most likely be posted around the Warner dining area.

Sue Bidwell (Services Center): postage going up 1/22. (Buy more Forever stamps!) All offices are encouraged to use Pittney-Bowes discount available through Services Center. Last year it saved over $6,000! Contact Sue if you have questions.

Marilyn Lees (Student Life/Staff Development): On Valentine’s Day we are having a casserole cookoff. Registration coming soon! Fellow employees who love to eat will be the judges. We are always looking for people interested in serving on the staff development committee! :)

Sherry Abbott (Human Resources): Upcoming Professional Development --- “Strengthen Your Heart” (date TBA); several more professional development opportunities coming throughout the winter and spring --- please stay tuned for more details; if you want to add an announcement to the HR board please email Patsy; personnel updates (see below); April---biometric health screenings (date TBA); if you have any slips, trips, or falls in this winter weather please report to HR; please don’t rely on the media outlets for closing information (check campus resources)

Howard Imhof (ITS): Major network outage Monday January 16th; will take approximately 10-12 hours; you CAN access your email (links were sent on how to access email since website will be down); students should be able to access Learning Management Systems during this time; OSU’s Find People application coming soon to Newark for both OSU/COTC probably by the end of the month; new intranet/portal for your desktop for COTC “My COTC” for OSU “My Newark” --- rollout for faculty/staff March 12th, COTC students shortly after, at this time not able to do for OSU students (but they are evaluating it for next summer)

Connie Zang (ODS): on behalf of RJ Dannemiller --- Save the Date --- ODS hosting open house 2/14 from 12-2 PM for Adaptive Technology Lab (Warner 233) --- will demonstrate process of reformatting books

Alice Hutzel-Bateson (MPR): 1st departmental strategic plan (for MPR office) emailed as PDF to all supervisors; not printed in large quantity but if you want a hard copy talk to Alice or Suzanne Clark; available electronically on MPR website; if your office has an upcoming event (especially if open to the public) anytime before the end of June please let MPR know as soon as possible

Ann Donahue (OSU Admissions): --- With thanks to staff in Admissions, Advising, Fees & Deposits and Financial Aid, we are working with 220 unpaid students who are registered for Winter 2012. If the right number of them pay we will make our projected enrollment of 2550. It is not easy for many of our students in this economy but we remain optimistic.

With regards to Autumn SEMESTER 2012 we are ahead in applications. As of January 9 we had applications from 1062 prospective new freshmen. That compares to 878 at the same time last year.