The Office of Commuter Student Services is seeking nominations for our April “Feature a Commuter” program. Faculty/staff wishing to nominate an off-campus student (whether they commute by foot, bike, bus, or car) for demonstrating UMW’s values of integrity, dignity and respect, diversity, intellectual inquiry, and responsibility and leadership should send their nominations and reasons for nomination to Meg Pultz at mgruen@umw.edu by March 28. Winners will be featured in the April Commuter Newsletter and will receive a $20 gas gift card. Thank you for recognizing our wonderful commuters!
Business Services eUpdate–March 2016
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Licensing
The University now has a retail licensing program! Vendors can now sell branded UMW merchandise. Visit the website, or contact Lauren McDonald for more information.
Below: The ZipTip, a customized zipper pull, is currently available in the UMW Bookstore. Created by Taylynn MFG, LLC.
Textbook Adoption Dates
Textbook adoption due dates are as follows:
- Summer first and second sessions: March 18, 2016
- Fall 2016: April 10, 2016
Course Material information and requisition can be found here. Hitting “submit” at the bottom of the Faculty Textbook Adoption System page will send adoptions to textbooks@umw.edu.
Course Pack requisitions are located here. Please email course pack adoption forms to textbooks@umw.edu.
For course material questions, contact DJ Garcia, x1649, or Frances SanPietro, x1653.
National Student Watch Survey
In the fall of 2015, UMW participated in the National Association of College Stores (NACS) National Student Watch Survey, designed to monitor student preferences surrounding course materials to assist stores in best supporting their students. If all else were equal, 67 percent of students prefer to shop through the UMW Bookstore, 56.66 percent in store and 10.2 percent online, while 59.61 percent used the website to research different format options. Many UMW students were unaware of a price comparison tool on the UMW Bookstore website.
Sale
Enjoy the Luck of the Stylish: shop in the UMW Bookstore on March 17 and save 17 percent on UMW Apparel!
UMW Book Club
The next book club meeting will be in the Bookstore on March 16 at noon. We will be reading Kristen Green’s Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County. Contact Margaret Mock, x1017, if you have any questions.
Grad Fair
Top 10 Department SWaM–YTD
| Department | % SWaM Spend | ||
| Finance | 100% | ||
| Bachelor of Liberal Studies | 100% | ||
| Modern Foreign Language | 97% | ||
| Central Stores | 91% | ||
| University Advancement | 89% | ||
| Design Center | 88% | ||
| Multicultural Center | 84% | ||
| Belmont | 82% | ||
| Enroll Mgt-Student Services | 78% | ||
| Registrar | 76% |
March is Procurement Month
Governor McAuliffe recently announced that Virginia ranks second in the U.S. for procurement practices according to a national survey, stating, “This recognition shows that Virginia is one of the best in the nation when it comes to providing fiscally responsible purchases of the goods and services needed to keep government running.” During FY15, UMW’s Procurement Services contributed to the ranking by conducting more than 70 solicitations and influencing savings to the University in excess of $290,000.
New Supervisor
Welcome Katie Gogal as our interim Copy Center Supervisor! Katie is here and ready to help! Give her a call at x1935, or stop by the new location in Lee Hall 211 to meet her.
10 Years of Payroll Deduction
Pepsi March Madness
Winning stickers have been randomly placed on drink bottles in vending machines around campus. Be sure to check your vend drink for a sticker. Bring the empty bottle with sticker attached to the EagleOne Card Center, Lee Hall room 110, MF 8AM-5PM. Sticker amount will be deposited to your EagleOne card.
Sponsored by Pepsi.
Rate Changes
USPS is scheduled to reduce mail rates an average of 4.5 percent on April 10. To see all the details, go to www.usps.com.
- Additional ounce rate for Single-Piece (letters/flats) will decrease from $0.22 to $0.21
- The 2nd Ounce Free program continues
- Single piece stamped mail will decrease from $0.49 to $0.47
- Postcards will decrease from $0.35 to $0.34
- One ounce flats will decrease from $0.98 to $0.94
- International letters will decrease from $1.20 to $1.15
Tornado Drill at UMW March 22
It’s time for the annual Tornado Drill at UMW, which will take place on Tuesday, March 22. Tornado preparedness information is below and is also available in the links provided.
Preparing for Tornadoes:
Before
- Get a NOAA Weather Radio with warning alarm tone and battery backup to get information directly from the National Weather Service. This is the quickest way to learn that a tornado is heading your way. Many models are available.
- Know what tornado watch and tornado warning mean.
- Determine in advance where you will take cover in case of a tornado warning. Keep this safe location uncluttered.
- Storm cellars or basements provide the best protection.
- If underground shelter is not available, go into a windowless interior room, closet or hallway on the lowest floor possible.
- Stay away from windows, doors and outside walls. Go to the center of the room. Stay away from corners because they attract debris.
- If you are in a high-rise building, you may not have enough time to go to the lowest floor. Pick a place in a hallway in the center of the building.
- A vehicle, trailer or mobile home does not provide good protection. Plan to go quickly to a building with a strong foundation, if possible.
- Get a kit of emergency supplies. Store it in your shelter location.
- Practice tornado drills at least once a year
During
- When a tornado watch is issued, stay tuned to local radio, TV and NOAA weather radio for further information and possible warnings. Be prepared to take cover.
- When a tornado warning is issued, take cover in your safe location immediately or on the lowest level of the nearest substantial building. Protect your body from flying debris with a heavy blanket, pillows, sofa cushions or mattress.
- If you can’t get to your safe location or the lowest level of a substantial building:
- Open buildings (shopping mall, gym or civic center): Try to get into a restroom or interior hallway. If there is no time, get up against something that will support or deflect falling debris. Protect your head by covering it with your arms.
- Cars and trucks: Get out of your vehicle and try to find shelter inside a sturdy building. A culvert or ditch can provide shelter if a substantial building is not nearby. Lie down flat and cover your head with your hands. Do not get under an overpass or bridge. You are safer in a low, flat location.
- Outdoors. Try to find shelter immediately in the nearest substantial building. If no buildings are close, lie down flat in a ditch or depression and cover your head with your hands.
- Mobile homes:Do not stay in mobile homes. Leave immediately and seek shelter inside a nearby sturdy building, or lie down in a ditch away from your home, covering your head with your hands. Mobile homes are extremely unsafe during tornadoes.
- Stay in your safe location until the danger has passed.
After
- Stay out of damaged buildings and stay clear of downed power lines
- Help injured or trapped people. Check on those who might need special assistance, such the elderly, children and people with disabilities.
http://www.vaemergency.gov/readyvirginia/stay-informed/tornadoes/preparingfortornadoes
http://www.vaemergency.gov/readyvirginia/stayinformed/tornadoes
Call for Great Minds Stories
Our University of Mary Washington community has a story to tell, a story about students who study abroad in Spain; about alumni who join the Peace Corps and launch businesses; about faculty who bring Think Labs – and the imagination that comes with them – to middle schools.
You may have seen these stories shared on the Great Minds website and the university’s homepage, featuring UMW students, faculty, staff and alumni.
If you have an idea for a Great Minds story, please share it! Submit the following form with your story idea and University Relations will follow up with you: http://www.umw.edu/greatminds/share/.
Registration Open for Guinness World Records Attempt
Registration is now open for the Guinness World Records attempt at the University of Mary Washington to honor the retirement of its ninth president, Richard V. Hurley. Read the release.
UMW will fill the Anderson Center’s Ron Rosner Arena with 2,500 participants on Wednesday, April 13. That means you – it takes a village to break a world record. Registration is free and required. Visit http://www.umw.edu/highfivehurley to sign up and learn more.
Learn How to Give an Official High-Five
On Wednesday, April 13, UMW will attempt to break the Guinness World Records title for the most people performing a jumping high-five simultaneously in honor of our “high-fiving” president, Rick Hurley.
Guinness World Records has some rules about how to do an official simultaneous jumping high-five. Watch the video so you can score a perfect 10 and make UMW and President Hurley #OfficiallyAmazing. Visit http://www.umw.edu/highfivehurley to learn more.
UMW to Ring in Founders Day March 14
The University of Mary Washington will mark its 108th founding anniversary by ringing its campanile bells on Monday, March 14.
The bells will toll 108 times at 1:08 p.m. on Founders Day. On March 14, 1908, the Virginia General Assembly established the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg, now UMW.
The ringing will emanate from the Carmen Culpeper Chappell Centennial Campanile, which was dedicated in 2007 in memory of the late Carmen Culpeper Chappell, a 1959 alumna. Her husband, John Chappell, honored her with the iconic 88-foot tower.
One hundred eight years ago, Sen. C. O’Conor Goolrick played a key role in the fight to have a school for teachers located in Fredericksburg. At that time, Virginia’s only institution devoted exclusively to the training of teachers for public schools was the Normal School for Women at Farmville (now Longwood University).
During the 1908 legislative session, two new locations were under consideration: Fredericksburg and Harrisonburg. A battle ensued, with the Senate choosing Harrisonburg and the House of Delegates selecting Fredericksburg.
A compromise was reached, and both schools were approved on March 14, 1908: the new school at Harrisonburg (now James Madison University) and the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg (now University of Mary Washington).
UMW also is celebrating this year’s founding anniversary with the second annual Founders Day Challenge. President Richard V. Hurley has issued a challenge to all alumni, parents, faculty and staff, students, and friends of the University to raise $108,000 in two weeks for the Fund for Mary Washington. All gifts to the Fund between March 1 and March 14 count toward the Challenge total.
The Fund for Mary Washington, the University’s single largest source of private support, is one of seven areas of priority within UMW’s $50 million Mary Washington First Campaign. The campaign, which will close June 30, 2016, has garnered generous support from more than 16,000 donors since it was launched in 2011.
For more information about the founding of UMW, past Founders Day celebrations, the Challenge, or to make a donation, please visit giving.umw.edu/challenge. To share your Mary Washington story in honor of Founders Day, please complete this short form.
Ultimate Subaru Spotlight: Get to know Softball’s Faculty Liaison David Rettinger
Each month, a UMW Athletics Faculty Liaison will be featured in the Ultimate Subaru Spotlight. The Faculty Liaison program partners a UMW faculty member with every UMW intercollegiate athletic team to strengthen support networks and increase resources for student-athlete success. Ultimate Subaru is committed to the growth and education of UMW Eagles, their hometown team, and strives to foster the same values of community as the UMW Faculty Liaison program. Faculty Liaisons will serve as mentors and role models to student-athletes while being involved in team activities. For more information about the program, contact Faculty Athletic Representative, Dr. Lynne Richardson.
Faculty Liaison’s Name: David Rettinger
Sport: Softball
Years at UMW: 9
Position/Title: Assoc. Prof. of Psychological Science; CHLS Executive Director
What was your favorite sport growing up? Briefly describe your favorite memory playing or watching it. To play it was Judo. Watching was baseball. I remember being 7 or 8 and being allowed to stay up late to watch the Yankees win a World Series game. I was hooked for life.
Where is your favorite place around town to get a bite to eat? We mostly eat lunches out, and the whole family loves Basilico. It’s a really good Italian deli with excellent desserts, something for our whole family.
If you could pick one superpower to have, what would it be and why? I’m a psychologist, so I’ll say ESP. It would be so much easier to understand behavior that way.
Other than the sport you partnered with, what is your next favorite sport and why? Baseball. I enjoy the pace and anticipation of it.
If you were a Head Coach and could pick three words to motivate your team and hang in their locker room, which words would you choose? Teamwork, preparation, intensity.
What does a great leader look like to you? Great leaders come in many shapes and sizes, many styles. What they all have in common is intense desire to achieve their goals and respect for their team. No leader ever succeeded unless a united, well-prepared team succeeded as well.
What is a must read for UMW Student-Athletes? I’m a big fan of Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely. For fiction, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick.
What is the best advice you have ever heard given to a college graduate? “Look out for that car.” Sometimes topical and direct is best.
Finally, if you were hanging out on Ball Circle picking the brains of four professional/famous athletes (living or deceased), who would they be?
Bo Schembechler – a legend to all of us Wolverines out there
Babe Ruth – I’d like to know if all of those stories are true
Jesse Owens – To hear the story of the ’36 Olympics
Venus Williams – To ask advice about sustaining excellence
Ultimate Subaru, celebrating 10 years of service to the Fredericksburg community, is proud to be a supporter of UMW athletics. Call Ultimate Subaru today at (540) 898-6200 or come on in and visit us at 5160 Jefferson Davis Highway, near Four Mile Fork. Find us online at www.driveultimatesubaru.com.
Anna Corley and Dallas Tarkenton Named Wagner Wealth Management February Athletes of the Month
Junior swimmers Dallas Tarkenton and Anna Corley, who both qualified individually for the NCAA Championships, have been named as the UMW Wagner Wealth Management Athletes of the Month for February.
Tarkenton led the UMW men’s team to its 16th consecutive Capital Athletic Conference championship, and 22nd overall, and will advance to the NCAA Championships in several weeks, competing in the 100 yard butterfly (in which he is seeded eighth), as well as the 200 IM and 200 butterfly.
Corley was named CAC Swimmer of the Year after leading the Eagle women to their 26th straight CAC Championship. She qualified individually in the 200 IM, in which she is seeded 10th, and will also swim the 100 yard breaststroke and the 200 yard backstroke. She will also swim on all relays, as the Eagles saw relays advance to NCAAs as well.
UMW Wagner Wealth Management Athletes of the Month
September – Emma Olson (volleyball)
October – Jenna Steele (field hockey)
November/December – T.J. Jones (men’s basketball)
January – Brianne Comden (women’s basketball)
February – Dallas Tarkenton (men’s swimming) and Anna Corley (women’s swimming)
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S.A.C. Hosts Chili Cook-off, Announces Winners
The Staff Advisory Council hosted its Second Annual Willy Nilly Chili Cook-off on Wednesday, March 2, in the University Center’s Chandler Ballroom. Faculty and staff were treated to 14 different chilis, toppings, cornbread and chips, then voted for their favorite chili.
SAC would like to thank our awesome faculty and staff who joined us for the 2nd Annual Willy Nilly Chili Cookoff and FUN-raiser!
Congratulations to our chili cookoff winners!
1st place James DeLoatch’s “Churkey Love Chili”
2nd place Rita Dunston’s “Plain O’ Chili”
3rd place Pam Verbeck’s “Not Yo Mama’s Chili”
President’s Choice Winner – Pam Verbeck’s “Not Yo Mama’s Chili”
Special thanks to all of our chili chefs!
Dalina Beckham – “Texas Momma’s Chili”
Angie Brau – “Yummy in my Tummy Chili”
Vickie Chapman – “Hilly Billy Chili”
James DeLoatch – “Churkey Love Chili”
Rita Dunston – “Plain O’ Chili”
Jill Ellington – “Chocolate Homebrew Chili”
Paul Messplay – “E-BOWL-A Chili”
Alica Osborne – “Rainy Day Chili”
Rick Pearce – Norvill’s Razorback Chili”
April Peterson – “Some Like it Hot! Chili”
Julie Smith – “Chunky Chili”
Jay Snipes – “What’s The Plural of Chili? — Chili”
Pam Verbeck – “Not Yo Mama’s Chili”
John Wiltenmuth – “I’m Making This Up As I Go Chili”
Thanks also to our resource fair vendors. Thank you for your participation in this event!
City of Fredericksburg
Human Resources
Fitness Center
Recyclemania
Procurement Services
Bookstore
EagleONE
Parking Management
Mailroom
Copy Center
A huge thank you to our sponsor Pepsi and to Alec Mallmann, the UC setup crew, and the UC sound crew.
We hope you had FUN, and we look forward to bringing you this event next year!
