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Reminder – Human Resource Services ‘Training Conference’

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Human Resource Services is sponsoring its 5th Annual Training Conference, October 6-8, 2009, for Columbia campus staff employees. There are fifty training sessions covering diverse topics including topics such as leadership, supervision, personal financial planning, retirement planning, and time management.

All sessions are free and this is a great opportunity to set aside a couple of days for professional development. All sessions will be held at Memorial Union and the speakers are mostly MU staff and faculty who are all experts in their fields. Sessions run concurrently but several topics are repeated over the two days.

For course information, and to register online, go to https://iatsbase.missouri.edu/hrtraining/loginForm.aspx. Release time is available with supervisor approval. As an FYI, employees in academic titles have been able to attend on a space-available basis.

Nebraska Game Day

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The Mizzou Tigers are scheduled to play Nebraska on Thursday evening, October 8, 2009. This game is the first midweek game hosted by Mizzou in 17 years. It’s our time to shine on a national stage, as the game will be televised live on ESPN (kickoff at 8:00 pm).

The large influx of visitors and fans will require many changes in parking logistics to accommodate the crowds on the MU campus. More than 7,000 students and 800 employees who park in lots around Memorial Stadium will be required to relocate to other parking lots and garages closer to the heart of campus no later than 4:00 PM on October 8. Traffic will be excessively congested from approximately 4:00 pm until the start of the game.

The University is NOT closing, and will NOT be towing vehicles of employees.

For more information regarding game day logistics, please go to MizzouGameDay.com.

Library Issues Forum: Celebrating Intellectual Freedom

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The Diversity Action Committee invites library employees to attend the next Library Issues Forum, scheduled for Tuesday, October 27, from 8:30 – 10:00 a.m., Jesse Wrench Auditorium (S107 Memorial Union). The session wraps up the observance of Banned Books Week/Month and features several speakers with topics related to the theme of “Celebrating Intellectual Freedom: Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Creating.” Release time is available with supervisor approval.

Randy Diamond will open the forum with a discussion of copyright and its impact on First Amendment rights. Dr. Heather Carver of the Theatre Department will talk about how performance continues to engage in issues of intellectual freedom and expression in Missouri, across the country, and internationally. Additional panelists are being identified at this time.

The Library Issues Forum was developed to fill a need for library employees to come together and talk about varied and broad library issues. If you have ideas for future forums, please contact Leo Agnew at AgnewL@missouri.edu.

SPSS Workshop

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SPSS Workshop
October 29, 2009
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Place: Cornell Hall, room 003
Presenter: Ray Bacon, Social Science Statistics Center

You are invited to participate in an introductory session on the use of SPSS for data analysis. SPSS, aka PASW, is a statistical software package that is useful for analyzing numbers beyond percentages. SPSS is a point-and-click software package; as such, no knowledge of coding or higher math is required to use SPSS.
The target audience is anyone interested in learning the ‘first steps’ in using SPSS. Participants will learn how to set up a basic research question for gathering useful data, how to enter the data into SPSS, and how to run a couple of basic statistical analyses on the data, e.g., correlation. Ray Bacon will lead the session. Ray is a MU employee whose primary job is to help faculty, staff, and students conduct statistical analysis. Ray and his colleagues at the Statistics Center do this for free.

Release time is available with supervisor approval. Please RSVP to Leo for headcount purposes (AgnewL@missouri.edu).