Continuing Education offerings

Connecting campus and community. Continuing Education serves a wide variety of nontraditional students. Following is a link to a news release about an upcoming Continuing Education program:

• Hospice Foundation program on end-of-life ethics to be offered in May.

Additional information can be found on the Continuing Education website or by calling 715-836-3636.

Opening Spring Meeting minutes to be approved Feb. 14

The minutes of the Jan. 24 Opening Spring Meeting will be approved at the Feb. 14 University Senate meeting, which begins at 3 p.m. in the Tamarack Room of Davies Center. The minutes can be found online.

Condolences

Condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Ronald Warloski. Warloski, a UW-Eau Claire professor emeritus of history who served on the university faculty from 1964 to 1998, passed away Feb. 5. A full obituary and visitation and funeral information will be available online.

Condolences

Condolences to D. Wallace Weil (emeritus), management and marketing, whose wife, Jane (Bittel) Weil, passed away Jan. 27 in Minnetonka, Minn. Full obituary.

Faculty, staff participate in University Personnel Structures project

Through its 2011-13 biennial budget, the state of Wisconsin authorized and directed the UW System to develop two distinct new personnel systems: one for all UW-Madison employees and one for all other UW System employees. These new systems are to be implemented on July 1, 2013.

The following members of UW-Eau Claire's faculty and staff are serving in the following capacities for the University Personnel Structures (UPS) project:

• Teresa O'Halloran, affirmative action: UPS Task Force
• Donna Weber, human resources: UPS Steering Group, Recruitment and Assessment work group
• Kris Bremness, human resources: Employee Movement work group
• Jack Connell, facilities management: Employment Environment work group
• Sasha Showsh, biology: Compensation work group
• Fred Kolb, economics: Benefits work group

See the UW System's University Personnel Systems Development website for more information.