Dr. Adria Hoffman has just been appointed to serve on the Music Educators Journal Editorial Committee. The Music Educators Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes scholarly and practical articles on music teaching approaches and philosophies, instructional techniques, current trends and issues in music education and reviews of the latest products and services. The journal aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum for debate and discussion within the field. Her term began on July 1, 2012 and will end on June 30, 2016.
Adria Hoffman Appointed to Music Educators Journal Editorial Committee
Business Services – July eUpdate
July 2012 Updates and Announcements
- Parking Management News
- Welcome Will!
- New Parking Management Team
- Lot Closures
- Purchasing News
- SPCC Credit Back-up
- eVA changes
- New Exclusive Beverage Campus Contract
- On-site Campus Work Requires Certificate of Insurance
- EagleOne Downtime
Welcome Will!
UMW welcomes the newest member of our Parking Management family, Will Barnett. Will joins the Parking team as a Community Service Officer, focusing on safe access to campus and parking enforcement. We wish him well in his new role at UMW.
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The New Parking Management Team
The Parking Management office has filled positions that were previously vacant which will allow the University to maintain consistent enforcement of parking regulations throughout the year. If any UMW employee is uncertain as to the rules and where they are allowed to park, please visit the parking management website or contact Robin.
Robin Jones 540-654-1129 or visit the website at: http://adminfinance.umw.edu/parking/
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Lot Closures
Several parking lots will be closed over the next few weeks due to lot paving and repair.
UMW Apartments- week of Aug. 3
Russell and Marshall lots- Aug 8 – 15
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SPCC REMINDER! …
Credits to SPCC transactions must also include supporting documentation within the cardholder file.
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SPCC NEWS
Beat the Sweep…SPCC Cardholders and Reviewers are now receiving a monthly “Beat the Sweep” email from Melissa Myers, UMW SPCC Program Administrator. The message advises cardholders and reviewers to code and sign-off of all transactions in advance of the 22nd of each month in order to comply with program timelines.
Important things to remember:
– If you will be out of the office and unable to meet the monthly sign-off deadline, notify the Purchasing Office in advance of your departure.
– Cardholders must code transactions timely; transactions will route to reviewers only after they are coded and signed-off by cardholder. Reviewers will not see transactions that are unsigned by cardholders.
If you have any questions, please contact the SPCC Program Administrator, Melissa Myers: mmyers@umw.edu or call x1057.
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eVA CHANGES
The recent upgrade to the eVA system will mask the TIN# on orders formats, whether they are printed, faxed or emailed. The eVA changes may cause some UMW employees to experience issues with change orders. If a problem occurs, please contact a member of the Purchasing office for assistance.
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CONTRACT NEWS
Recently Awarded:
- Exclusive Beverage – Pepsi
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ON-SITE CAMPUS WORK – CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE
Any on-site campus service work by a vendor requires that UMW obtain a certificate of insurance. Please contact a member of the Purchasing Office for assistance.
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EAGLEONE DOWNTIME
EagleOne card purchase locations will experience several days of downtime in early August due to system upgrades.
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Please contact Business Services for information and assistance at x1576.
Erma A. Baker CPPO, VCO
Assistant Vice President for Business Services and CPO
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Avenue
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401
540-654-2043
Seacobeck Closed for Summer Break
Seacobeck Dining Hall is closed for a summer break as of Thursday, July 27. Service will resume later in August. Check out the Eagle Dining website or Facebook page in the coming weeks for information on fall dining options and service times.
Giving to UMW at an All-Time High
Thanks to the dedication and loyalty of Mary Washington alumni, parents, friends, businesses, faculty, and staff, the University of Mary Washington reports a record-breaking $9.4 million total for gifts received and pledges made during the 2012 fiscal year.
The generous gifts from 7,787 UMW donors provided support for the Fund for Mary Washington, new and enhanced scholarships, and additional programs within the three colleges, athletics, and UMW’s cultural organizations and museums. In addition to gifts, the University received more than $4 million in new estate plan commitments from 18 Heritage Society members and $1.3 million in multi-year pledges.
Overall, the 2012 fiscal year was an exciting period of discovery as many alumni and friends renewed their connections with the University and now are making plans for additional ways to offer their support to UMW students and programs.
This message is from the Division of University Advancement and University Relations
VBIA Announces Brian Baker as Vice President
Brian Baker, executive director for entrepreneurship at the University of Mary Washington Center for Economic Development, was elected vice president of the Virginia Business Incubation Association (VBIA) at the July 10 Board of Director’s meeting. In that role Baker will head the communications committee and support the role of the president.
VBIA is beginning its 12th year of existence as Virginia’s leading organization dedicated to advancing incubator-based best practices in entrepreneurship and small business development. On July 1, the VBIA headquarters moved from Virginia Tech KnowledgeWorks to the UMW Center for Economic Development. The program will be managed by Baker and Heather Wheeler.
VBIA hosts an annual conference, regional roundtable workshops, a monthly newsletter, and a wealth of web-based publications in the members-only library. Membership is made up of individuals, educators and students, city and county executives, local and regional economic developers, chamber of commerce officials, public and private business assistance providers.
Liss and Schiffrin’s Study Appears on Time Magazine Website
Miriam Liss
Holly Schiffrin
A recent study by Associate Professors of Psychology Miriam Liss and Holly Schiffrin and 2012 graduate Kathryn Rizzo appears in the article “Smother Mother: Why Intensive Child Rearing Hurts Parents and Kids,” published on Time.com on Friday, July 13.
The study, “Insight into the Parenthood Paradox: Mental Health Outcomes of Intensive Mothering,” also is mentioned in a recent op-ed in the New York Post.
Stephen Farnsworth Talks Politics on Radio Programs
On Thursday, July 19, Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies,will be a featured guest on Richmond’s Morning News with Jimmy Barrett on 1140 WRVA. The interview is scheduled to air at 7:05 a.m.
Farnsworth was a featured guest on WMAL on Friday, July 13 and Tuesday, July 17 and on Voice of Russia on Saturday, July 14.
He also was quoted in the Associated Press article “Romney: No Role in Bain Management After 1999” on Friday, July 13.
UMW Students Help with Research Project Abroad
A group of University of Mary Washington students camped out in a Madrid library, scrolling through decades-old microfilm to learn more about Spanish women’s social and civic activities during the early 20th-century.
(From left to right): Sarah Abbott, Lara Pugh, Madeline Albrittain and Katie Lebling visit the Roman Bridge in Salamanca, Spain
“We got a better sense of the breadth and depth of what charity meant at that time,” said Betsy Lewis, professor of Modern Foreign Languages, who led the nine-day trip to Spain this summer.
Sophomores Sarah Abbott, Madeline Albrittain, Katie Lebling and Lara Pugh, read and cataloged women’s publications from the period of Spain’s civil war through the early Franco dictatorship. The magazines, a window into trends and culture of the time, are not digitized or readily available outside of Spain, making the journey from UMW a necessary one.
The trip was the capstone of the research team’s semester-long project, “Women and Charity in Spain,” one of 15 undergraduate research projects for spring 2012 and one of dozens of projects to receive an undergraduate research grant for the spring or summer.
Part of a larger project on the evolution of women’s charity from the late 18th- through the early 20th-centuries, this year’s research team examined several Spanish women’s magazines published by the Sección Femenina de la Falange, the fascist women’s organization supported by dictator Francisco Franco. The group from Mary Washington explored how women’s civic activity and charitable work through the Sección Femenina was presented in the weekly and bi-monthly magazines, which also included features typical of women’s publications such as fashion, home decorating, recipes, love advice, child-rearing tips and crossword puzzles. Placing the work of the conservative Sección Femenina in the context of women’s civic work and social action, searching for the points of contact and divergence with their more progressive predecessors sets this research apart from other current work, Lewis said.
University of Mary Washington students in front of the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, Spain
In the semester prior to the trip to Madrid, Lewis and the students did preliminary research, worked on data collection techniques and explored background reading on the time period.
“This was an amazing experience for me because it gave me so much experience with Spanish and gave me time to work one-on-one with a professor,” said Albrittain, a Spanish major.
This is the second year Lewis has taken a group of students to Spain as a part of her larger research project, though each trip has taken a different focus.
During this year’s trip, the students spent four to five hours each morning at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the National Library of Spain, poring over documents, then used the afternoon to visit museums, exhibits and historic sites.
“The students had all these opportunities, mostly unplanned, to see history still alive,” Lewis said, noting an exhibit on women’s history that the students stumbled upon during the trip.
For Lebling, the semester of research and the trip to Spain provided a new perspective on her academic work.
“It was a great experience to be able to take all my knowledge I have been learning in Spanish classes and be able to apply it in real life,” she said.
Because of UMW’s undergraduate research grant, the students were able to take the trip without cost as a factor, Lebling explained.
“The whole experience has made me feel I definitely belong at Mary Washington,” she said.
Lewis and the four students will continue the project this fall to expand their work with the information and data they collected over the summer.
“The most rewarding thing is being able to include students in my research,” Lewis said. “I can cover a lot more ground in a short period of time with their help.”
Mark Scharf’s Play Produced in Baltimore
Adjunct instructor Mark Scharf’s play “Hired Gun,” is running through Sunday, July 29 at the Theatrical Mining Company in Baltimore, Md., with performances on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. The play is a semi-finalist for the 2012 Eugene O’Neill National Theater Conference.