Wednesday, June 5, 2019 / Categories: News The Juice (Faculty/Staff) - June 5 View in browser June 5, 2019 Homecoming scheduling Is your department or group hosting a reunion, reception, or open house during Homecoming & Family Weekend 2019? The Office of Alumni and Parent Relations is already working on the schedule and needs to hear from you about those plans to ensure they are included on the schedule. Please email alumni@wartburg.edu by June 20, with details. NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS Offices closed for retreat The following offices will be closed Thursday, June 20, for the Advancement division staff retreat: • Alumni & Parent Relations • Annual Fund • Development • Marketing & Communication • Print Center STAS group for teaching and advising Are you interested in talking with your peers about teaching and advising? STAS (Sharing Teaching and Advising Strategies) will continue to meet over the summer for conversation, strategizing and resource sharing. Summer meetings will be the following Tuesdays at 1 p.m. in the Faculty Resource Room (lower level of the library): June 11, 25; July 9, 23; Aug. 6, 20. Come any of the dates you are available. Contact Michaeleen Golay or Kristin Wendland with questions. Share your Chapel memories The Wartburg Chapel is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year! We'll mark the milestone with special events during Homecoming & Family Weekend (the weekend of Oct. 10-13), but we also want to hear how the Chapel has impacted you! Click here to share your stories and thoughts as this iconic building turns 25 years old. We'll collect the submissions and share them as we get closer to the celebration. Juice publishing schedule for summer The Juice will publish intermittently through the summer as needed, about every other week for the Faculty/Staff edition. • Weekly Juice emails will begin again Monday, Aug. 26, just before the start of Fall Term. If you have items that need to be sent through the Juice, send an email to Juice@wartburg.edu. For items that need to be sent immediately, contact stephanie.boeding@wartburg.edu (the Juice email inbox is not monitored throughout the day). PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS Performance appraisals due soon Please remember that performance appraisal forms are due no later than June 30. Performance appraisals are available on the InfoCenter under Employment > Forms and Procedures > Performance Appraisal Forms. Appraisals generally cover the working period of June 1, 2018, through May 31, 2019. Please note that all late and/or incomplete performance appraisals will result in a counseling session with the supervisor responsible and Human Resources. Documentation of the counseling session will be placed in personnel file and communicated with the appropriate cabinet member and/or supervisor. The following are the requirements of a complete performance appraisal: • Performance appraisal must be complete and submitted on the most updated performance appraisal form. (Outdated performance appraisal forms will NOT be accepted). • Signatures AND dates of both the supervisor and employee must be present. • Appraisals (and self-appraisal, if completed) must be submitted on or before June 30, 2019. We appreciate your cooperation. Please direct any questions to Human Resources. Print Center updates on pricing, envelopes The Wartburg Print Center has been notified by our online stationery provider that a $10 fee will be added to orders placed through Printorders.com when ordering envelopes through that system. Please only order business cards and letterhead through Printorders.com. Due to the college’s purchase of an envelope printer, all envelopes need be ordered through wartburg.webdeskprint.com. Also, Printorders.com has increased pricing for stationery items 6% across the board beginning June 1, except for photo business cards. Please contact Lori Poehler with questions. Upcoming events SOAR Days June 7, 10, 17 STAS meetings June 11, 25 July 9, 23 Aug. 6, 20 Performance appraisals due June 30 Worth It Week visit days Aug. 5-9 Faculty workshop Aug. 27-29 New student orientation Aug. 31-Sept. 3 Fall Term begins Sept. 4 Homecoming & Family Weekend Oct. 10-13 Click here for the campus events calendar PROFESSIONAL NEWS Several Wartburg staff members recently attended Jenzabar's Annual Meeting (JAM) in San Diego, California: Henrique Donati, application systems analyst; Joel Holthaus, records coordinator, Registrar's office; Sheree Covert, registrar; Danise Flood, Development data specialist; Rich Everhardt, web application developer; Dan Kittle, dean of students; Adrija Ashrita, associate director of recruitment services; Brenda Cummer, office coordinator, Global Admissions; David Olson, accounting & financial manager; Pat Melver, Admissions assistant for prospect management; and Paula Hoodjer, Admissions assistant for application management. Tara Winter, director of student recruitment, was selected by a vote of her professional peers to serve as president-elect of Iowa ACAC for 2019-20 and then as president of the organization in 2020-21. Winter has more than 17 years of experience in college admissions and has served Wartburg since 2003 and in her current role since 2009. Natalie Smith, associate director of admissions, and Bailey Camenisch, admissions counselor, were awarded the Michael Barron Impact Award, given to admissions professionals for making a difference in the lives of students. Mallory Luensmann, assistant director of admissions, chaired the Iowa conference, and Camenisch and Katie Wyman, admissions counselor, served on the conference planning committee. Todd Coleman, assistant vice president for admissions, was the featured speaker May 22 at the Kossuth/Palo Alto Intern Breakfast in Algona. Coleman spoke on the topic of “Filling Your Water Tank Before You Are Thirsty” and the power of networking. WARTBURG IN THE NEWS Jacob Oswald ’10 put his name on a bone marrow registry during a Dance Marathon event at Wartburg in 2015. One year ago he donated to an infant in Nebraska, and he will soon meet the child, according to KCRG. Dan ’95 and Jennifer Digmann fell in love in 2002 and have spent the subsequent years sharing their stories of hope to others living with multiple sclerosis, as reported by People Magazine. Dr. Elisabeth Erickson ’97 has helped grow McKendree University's sport management program after becoming its first full-time faculty member in 2014. Max Chinnah ’15, CEO and founder of Terraoak, and Godwin Attigah ’18 are preparing to launch their smokeless cookstove in the U.S. camping market in hopes of proving its viability and to start driving revenue, which will allow them to sell the product in third-world countries, as reported by Clay and Milk. Brian ’93 and Renee Benzel ’93 Bernhard run Foster Source, a nonprofit that provides support to foster parents, as reported by CBS Denver. CONTACT THE JUICE JUICE GUIDELINES ABOUT THIS EMAIL The Juice is a weekly e-newsletter sent Mondays and occasionally during the week as needed to communicate campus news and events. Most items will run twice, then continue to be available in the Information Center. TO SUBMIT AN ITEM The deadline for submissions each week is 4 p.m. Thursday. Send items to juice@wartburg.edu. Please keep your submitted item short—no longer than one paragraph—and let us know if your item is for students, faculty/staff, or both audiences. Direct questions to Stephanie Boeding, editor and email marketing manager for Marketing & Communication, at ext. 8760 or via email. If you have a breaking news item that needs to run immediately, please contact the editor via phone or email. 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