Committee on Administrators and the Department of Human Resources Co-Present:
Lifelong Learning: It’s Never Too Late
Are you a potential adult learner but concerned about returning to school? Demystify the prevailing myths inhibiting adults seeking higher learning. Celebrate the advantages that you bring to the classroom. Be a positive role model for your family, co-workers and friends.
Or perhaps you are looking for a less formal option to continue your education? You may want to enroll in credit or non-credit classes for career advancement, community involvement or personal enrichment.
Workshop topics for discussion and interaction include:
- Define adult learning: characteristics, motivations, and goals.
- Understand the many Marquette opportunities and beyond for lifelong learning.
- Overcome hurdles and anxieties (e.g., time, finances).
- Discover the important personal and societal benefits of a lifelong education.
- Learn more about Marquette’s tuition remission policy.
- Get answers to frequently asked questions.
- Find out how to get started!
No matter what form lifelong learning takes, the premise is the same: expand your intellectual, social, spiritual, and physical horizons. Whoever said retirement was only about golf, rocking chairs, and bingo? The world is at your doorstep. You can do this!
Presented by Lisa Youretz and Lori Kazaks, College of Professional Studies.
Thursday, Nov. 6
9 – 11 a.m.
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Conference Center
Beaumier Suite A (lower Level)
Limit: 30
Committee on Administrators and the Department of Human Resources Co-Present:
Leadership Type and Temperament
The question of how to enhance effectiveness as a leader has long been raised. Many approaches have been used to address this question. One of these approaches concerns the leader’s type and temperament. More than 50 years of research has found that there is no best type or temperament. However, each type and temperament can have an impact on the leader’s communication, decision-making, employee development and time management skills. In any given situation, intrapersonal understanding of one’s type and temperament and interpersonal understanding of the leader’s interactions with others can enhance leadership effectiveness.
In the session, we will explore type, temperament and leadership. The focus will be on understanding one’s own type. In doing so, we will explore the strengths and potential blind spots of one’s type. We will also highlight the interpersonal interactions of diverse types and illustrate the value of this diversity. Specific strategies to promote leadership effectiveness will be discussed throughout the session.
Presented by: Carolyn Kelly Ottman, Ph.D. Kelly has been an educator of adult learners in higher education for the last 15 years. She was on the design team for the Organization and Leadership Degree in the College of Professional Studies and was a full-time faculty member in the College of Business Administration. Kelly also taught team development courses in the Executive MBA program. Currently, she is an associate professor for the Rader School of Business at Milwaukee School of Engineering. She is also an independent executive leadership and team consultant. As a consultant Kelly works with local, national and international leadership teams.
Monday, Nov. 17
12:30. – 4 p.m.
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Conference Center
Beaumier Suite C (lower Level)
Limit: 30
MU TOPICS:
This course will be a refresher for those who use the General Ledger Inquiry responsibility on the Marquette Financial System. Revisit how to check available funds and also how to view transactions on your accounts, including drilling down to the actual Direct Invoice Voucher or Purchase Invoice. Take a look at the monthly account statements and how to interpret them.
Presented by: Mary Jo Kuzma, Office of the Comptroller
Tuesday, Oct.14
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Raynor Memorial Libraries, 320H
Limit: 18
A Few of Our Favorite Things: Selections from Marquette’s Rare Book Collection
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives preserves an impressive collection of 7,000 rare books, including many works brought from Europe by the Jesuits who established Marquette. Among the collection’s strengths are Jesuit history, the exploration of North America, and early 20th century American and British literature. The earliest printed work is a 1473 edition of St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei (The City of God). View these and other exceptional items during this lunch hour session.
Presented by: Matt Blessing, Head of Special Collections and University Archives
Thursday, Nov. 13
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives (located on the third floor)
Limit: 15
Conflict Resolution
Conflict is a natural process that can have constructive or destructive outcomes and happens in all important relationships. Conflict is positive when it increases communication and trust; there is a belief that the problem can be solved; or it improves work and performance. Negative results include preventing people from addressing real issues, motivating people to become uncooperative and preventing group and/or personal development. Come to this session to learn the common causes of conflict, conflict resolution skills, rules for fair fighting and general strategies.
This workshop is for any Marquette employee.
Presented by: Kerry Egdorf, Ph.D., ombuds
Monday, Dec. 8
9 - 11 a.m.
SEE LOCATION INFO IN BROCHURE
Limit: 30
COMPUTER SESSIONS:
Contribute is Web editing software. This class is designed for Marquette employees who are responsible for editing university web pages.
- Edit an existing Web page or copy an existing page and edit. Edit text, images, tables, and links on the page.
- Copy a page to create a new Web page.
Format text – fonts, bullets, numbering, headings.
Create a link to a Web page, insert a PDF, add and format an image, insert and edit a table. - Publish the Web page.
Presented by: IT Staff
Thursday, Oct. 2
10 – 11 a.m.
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
Outlook Tips and Tricks and Voice Mail
- Explore and customize the Outlook 2007 User Interface.
- Use the calendar to schedule appointments and meetings, create contacts, notate tasks and add signatures.
- Organize e-mails in folders and search messages.
- Create rules using the Out of Office Assistant, handle spam and manage folder size.
- Explore voice mail options in Outlook.
- Learn about your colleagues’ availability if you have Office Communicator installed.
Presented by: IT Staff
Wednesday, Oct. 15
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
Introduction to Microsoft Access 2007
Microsoft Access 2007 is a powerful relational database program. This workshop will teach you the skills necessary for creating databases with Access 2007. Review relational vs. flat databases and when to use Access vs. Excel. Discuss how to plan your database correctly. You will learn how to find, filter and sort data. Topics include: getting started; understanding the Access 2007 Ribbon, Navigation Pane, Quick Access Toolbar, and Views; creating, editing and working with tables; creating simple queries and modifying query results; creating forms to facilitate data entry; and printing reports.
Presented by: Susan Biro. Biro has more than 20 years work experience in the information technology field. She has a master of science degree in education from UWM and a Webmaster certificate from Marquette.
Tuesday, Oct. 21
9 a.m. - noon
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
Microsoft SharePoint is a file management, file sharing and file collaboration tool. Learn to access the information you need, to view files for your department, and to collaborate on documents and projects.
- Learn to navigate in SharePoint and locate department files and documents.
- Check out and edit documents.
- Use the calendar.
- Participate in discussions.
Presented by: IT Staff
Tuesday, Oct. 28
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
This class is for SharePoint site administrators.
- Organize a document library with folders and required checkout.
- Manage permissions for the site.
- Add, remove and edit Web Parts.
- Make your site easy to navigate .
- Create new sites or sub sites including meeting sites.
Presented by: IT Staff
Wednesday, Nov. 5
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
Entourage Tips and Tricks and Voice Mail
- Explore and customize the Entourage User Interface.
- Use the calendar to schedule appointments and meetings.
- Organize e-mails in folders, create signatures and search messages.
- Create rules and learn to use the Out of Office Assistant.
- Listen to your voice mail.
Presented by: IT Staff
Friday, Nov. 7
9:30 a.m. - noon
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Room 320H
Limit: 18
Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2007
This session is designed for employees who could improve their methods of recording and storing data and creating worksheets. Learn to use Microsoft Excel 2007. Find out how to format, edit and print worksheets during this workshop. Gain hands-on experience creating a budget and contact database. Topics include: understanding the Excel worksheet environment, working with the new 2007 Ribbon and menus, creating a worksheet, entering formulas, using functions, formatting a worksheet, and setting up a database.
Presented by: Susan Biro. See full bio in the Access 2007 description.
Tuesday, Nov. 11
9 a.m. - noon
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
View a demonstration of the differences between Windows XP and Vista and explore some of the following features of Vista, inlcuding the Start menu and the Control Panel.
- Improve performance and update your system.
- Personalize your desktop, sidebar and taskbar
- Work with files and folders, find files, and burn them to disc
- Shortcuts
Presented by: IT Services
Wednesday, Nov. 12
10 - 11 a.m.
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
In this age of always-on, fast Internet connections, viruses and spyware can cover the globe in a few hours. Learn do's and don'ts for safer computing.
- Review the steps you should take to protect your computer from unwanted intrusion.
- Update your system with operating system updates
- Install a firewall, antivirus and spyware detection software
- Protect your personal information, your identity and your data
- Avoid phishing scams
Presented by: IT Services
Wednesday, Nov. 19
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
Outlook 2007: E-mail Merge for Group Announcements
Merge a Word document to automatically send a personalized message to a large group of e-mail recipients.
- Create an Excel document with contacts and merged fields that will personalize messages.
- Create a mail merge in a Word document and use the Mail Merge Wizard to insert the fields.
Presented by: IT Services
Wednesday, Dec. 3
10– 11 a.m.
Cudahy Hall, Room 208
Limit: 18
FOCUS ON FACULTY:
The workshops are open to regular and adjunct faculty as well as graduate students in the Preparing Future Faculty Program. Participants should have taken the basic D2L workshop or have learned to use D2L in some other fashion. There is no need to register.
In order to earn the E-Teaching certificate participants must attend all seven sessions, not necessarily in the same semester, and prepare and present a project that uses some aspect of the technology covered in the workshops.
The schedule for the E-teaching workshops for October, November and December is as follows.
(All sessions are on Friday afternoons, 1 - 4 p.m., in Raynor Memorial Libraries, Room 320H)
Friday, Oct. 10 Digital Imaging and Scanning in D2L
Friday, Oct. 24 Video and Audio Production in D2L
Friday, Nov. 7 Presentation Technology, Podcasting and Visual Literacy in D2L
Friday, Nov. 21 Special Topics: Promising New products
Friday, Dec. 5 Project Presentation of D2L Enhanced Courses
Sponsors: Center for Teaching and Learning, Instructional Media Center, IT Services
Questions should be directed to david.buckholdt@marquette.edu or jon.pray@marquette.edu
PASSPORT TOURS:
Learning about Our Near West Side and Menomonee Valley Neighborhoods
Have you seen the changes in Marquette’s near-campus neighborhoods? Do you want to learn more about where many of our students live and our faculty and staff work every day? Would you like to learn more about the challenges and possibilities in the urban environment the university calls home?
The Office of Public Affairs and the Department of Public Safety will offer a 50-minute driving tour of the Near West Side – Marquette’s neighborhood – and the Menomonee Valley immediately south of campus. Steve Schultz, manager of governmental and community affairs in Public Affairs, and Lt. Paul Mascari of Public Safety will highlight residential, commercial and other development, the many nonprofits and significant employers based in the West Side of Milwaukee, and ongoing safety- and development-related efforts that the two offices work in addressing. The tour will provide an overview of how the Near West Side and the Menomonee Valley have an impact on Marquette as well as Milwaukee.
Presented by: The Office of Public Affairs and Department of Public Safety
Thursday, Oct. 30
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Please meet at the AMU, East Towne Square (east side of the AMU)
Limit: 12
Faculty Practice, School of Dentistry
Take a tour of the Faculty Practice, a dental clinic located in the School of Dentistry. The Faculty Practice is a full-service dental facility offering the highest quality care available and is ready to serve the Marquette community. The multi-specialty practice, with treatment provided by faculty of the dental school, is state-of-the-art.
Come with your questions about dental issues or the practice and learn how your Delta Dental insurance can be used to your best advantage in the Faculty Practice (The Faculty Practice providers are premier providers with Marquette’s Delta Dental Plan.).
Presented by: Mary Semanko, manager of faculty practice, School of Dentistry
Thursday, Dec. 11
Noon – 1 p.m.
School of Dentistry, meet outside room 004 (lower level)
Limit: 20
FAMILY MATTERS:
How to Get the Most Out of Your Health Care Visit
Discuss how to be more effective with your health care and the health care of those you love.
Tips on:
- Partnering with your health care providers
- Managing medications
- Avoiding medication interactions
- Communication techniques
- When to call your health care provider
- Evaluating health care treatment
- Planning for the future
- Using the Wisconsin Immunization Registry: finding your immunization records online
Presented by: Marquette Neighborhood Health Center Nurse Practitioners
Tuesday, Nov. 4
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Conference Center
Beaumier Suite A (lower level)
Limit: 30
Come to this informative “brown bag lunch” session and learn tips from an expert from the County Department on Aging. The presenter will cover: care giving in general; how and where to get the help you may need; deciding how to pay for the assistance; and, most importantly, “taking care of the caregiver.”
Bring your questions, so we can make the hour what you want it to be!
Presented by: Alice Kowalski, Milwaukee County Department on Aging. Ms. Kowalski is also a caregiver with both an 81-year-old father and 53-year-old disabled sister. She has been involved in senior programming since 1978 and has worked for private social service agencies, the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center and the Department on Aging. Her current position is as information and outreach coordinator.
Thursday, Nov. 6
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Conference Center
Beaumier Suite A (lower level)
Limit: 30
The definition of “retirement living” continues to evolve based on more active and flexible lifestyles. It is more important than ever for people to take the time to consider their goals for retirement and identify a plan that will help them reach those goals.
This seminar explains how to calculate the cost of retirement and emphasizes the importance of personal savings and sound investment strategies. In addition, it discusses income strategies, including Social Security and employer-sponsored plans, plus solutions to possible pitfalls, such as federal and state tax implications and early withdrawal penalties.
Presented by: Mike Russo, a financial planner for MetLife. He started his career with Met in 1988 in Green Bay and has been working in the Milwaukee market for the last 18 years.
Tuesday, December 2
11 a.m. – noon
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Conference Center
Beaumier Suite A (lower level)
Limit: 30
SPOTLIGHT ON THE HAGGERTY
Lunchtime Learning
A series of gallery talks presented in conjunction with the exhibition
Turn the Pages Slowly:
Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Haggerty Collection
Bring your lunch or just come and listen.
Medieval Women and Manuscript Production
Presented by: Dr. Lezlie Knox, assistant professor of history
Wednesday, Oct. 1
Noon - 1 p.m.
Haggerty Museum of Art, Lobby
Integral Value of Aesthetics in the Use of the Qur’an
Presented by: Dr. Irfan Omar, assistant professor of theology
Thursday, Oct. 9
Noon – 1 p.m.
Haggerty Museum of Art, Lobby
Introduction to the Colonel Howard Greene Antiphonal Collection followed by a performance of Gregorian Chants
Introduction by: Matt Blessing, Head of Special Collections and University Archives
Performance by: Members of the Marquette University Liturgical Choir
Wednesday, Oct. 15
Noon – 1 p.m.
Haggerty Museum of Art, Lobby
Gallery Talk with Video Artist Mads Lynnerup
Currently living in New York City, Mads Lynnerup is an artist working in various forms of media from "Shish Kebab" meat and cardboard to installations using video and performance. Taking his inspiration from everyday life, his work comments on and draws attention to situations that might otherwise get overlooked in the day to day.
Tuesday, Nov. 11
Noon - 1 p.m.
Haggerty Museum of Art, Lobby
