All Faculty:  Please take a few minutes to login to Murphy Online and complete an IDEA FIF for those sections you will be administering IDEA Student Evaluations.  FIF's must be done by May 17.

In order to meet department annual report deadlines, all packets must be returned to AQU 319 no later than end of day Monday, May 20.

If you have any questions on data entry, please contact Julie Seykora or by phone x26638.

Please join us at the first session on retention as we focus on the topic of Rethinking At-Risk.  Dr. Michael Cogan, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, and Susan Anderson, Academic Counseling, will share UST data and programming highlights from a webinar of the same name from the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange. 

The session will be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2:00-3:30 PM, in ASC 238.  Future topics will be announced in this newsletter and in the Newsroom.   For more information, please contact Linda Dorn.

As an added bonus, $100 Amazon.com gift cards will be awarded to 10 randomly selected participants who complete the survey.

If you have not completed the Campus Climate Survey, please take a few minutes to do so now -- your input is essential in identifying perceived strengths and weaknesses of the university climate.

The 15-20 minute online survey contains questions that will pertain to your primary role (faculty, staff, or student) within the university.  All personally identifiable information will be held in strict confidence.

Although voluntary, your participation in this project would be greatly appreciated.  For further details about how the university has prepared for this important survey, visit the Office of Institutional Effectiveness website or contact Dr. Michael Cogan at (651) 962-6657.  

Please review each of the following for your course sections 

• Course Schedule Audits on SharePoint (formerly known as the Schedule Data Integrity Reports): Use this tool when reviewing section setup as it includes valuable information about the items listed below and more.  Please review the January Institutional Effectiveness Newsletter for additional information about the recently updated SharePoint site and report access. 
• Summer Part-of-Term [POT]:  Please do not use POT 1 in summer; the standard POT(s) in summer are 5,6,7 and 8. 
• Linking: Submit all linking requests by Wednesday, April 3, to Lori Seavers    
• Cross-lists:  Submit cross-lists via the online cross-list request form no later than Wednesday, April 3.
• Variable Credits: All variable credit sections must have billing and course credits specified
• Labs: Most labs should be setup as ungradable and zero credits

Do you use SGASTDN and SFAREGS to update programs, majors, minors or concentrations?  If yes, then please review this documentation for important reminders. 

Graduate Program Coordinators:  The first Spring 2013 GTS report will be run on March 9. You will find the GTS report on SharePoint (under the "Commencement" tab and under the first menu item "Potential Graduates"). 

Note:  After the first GTS run the report is refreshed every Monday and the previous report is not archived.  If you would like to retain a copy of the previous GTS report, you will need to print or save them prior to the next Monday's refresh.

For a reminder of the steps to be taken as you review your GTS report, please access the GTS Resource Diagram, or contact Terri Topness.