| All day-Nov 8th | Priority Registration for Spring Semester 2012 Various sites, UNL Campus |
| All day-Nov 8th | Spring Priority Registration Begins Priority Registration for Spring 2012: Oct.24-Nov.8 |
| 9:00 am-Oct 25th 4:00 pm | ServSafe Douglas/Sarpy County Extension OfficeA national certification class for food service managers dealing with food safety throughout the flow of food. |
| 11:00 am-1:00 pm | Healthy Tuesdays NEBRASKA UNIONThe University Health Center sponsors Healthy Tuesdays at the Health Education and Outreach booth in the Nebraska Union on Tuesdays.
Learn how you can make healthy lifestyle choices and take part in making campus a better place. |
| 11:00 am-1:00 pm | Faculty help sessions for Blackboard migration City Campus UnionHelp sessions for faculty needing to migrate old course content to the current MyUNL Blackboard environment will be held throughout October on both City and East campuses. After Nov. 1, courses prior to, and including, Spring 2011 will no longer be available online. Faculty must migrate content if they wish to keep it. Until Nov. 1, past course content can be accessed in the former Blackboard 9 environment http://bb9.unl.edu .
MyUNL (http://my.unl.edu) is the university’s Learning Management System. A new software version, Blackboard 9.1, was installed for courses beginning in Summer 2011, providing greater functionality and security.
For a complete schedule of help sessions and more information on Blackboard migration go to: http://is.unl.edu/myunlupdate |
| 12:00 pm-1:00 pm | Free lunch time Chinese workshop for UNL students, faculty and staff NEBRASKA UNIONDo you know that at UNL there are more than a thousand students/scholars coming from China? Have you ever felt challenged with pronouncing their names or trying to interact with them due to language and cultural barriers? Would it be helpful if you can learn some most practical Chinese phrases/sentences in just two days to make your communications with Chinese a little easier?
This two day, one-hour workshop is just there for you. It is designed to show you the etiquette interacting with Chinese people, and 20 common Chinese phrases/sentences used in greeting, introducing yourself, expressing thanks and apologies, and saying goodbye to your Chinese colleagues or students.
This workshop will be taught by Associate Professor Pingan Huang, the Associate Director of the Confucius Institute at UNL. The workshop is scheduled on Oct. 24 and 26, both between noon and 1 p.m. in Colonial Room at the City Campus Nebraska Union. Space is limited to 50 seats and is on a first come, first serve basis. |
| 1:00 pm-3:00 pm | UNLcms Introduction ARCHITECTURE HALLNew Web content editors and creators are invited to bring sign-on credentials (username and password) and their converted site URL (http://unlcms.unl.edu/~/ and spend a couple of hours with Mark Hiatt, going over the basics of creating, editing and deleting pages and components of your Web site in the new UNLcms. Learn to edit pages, footers, navigation and headings and learn to assign roles and permissions to users. A short break is provided, along with plenty of time for questions and answers. |
| 1:00 pm-3:00 pm | UNLcms Introduction ARCHITECTURE HALLNew Web content editors and creators are invited to bring sign-on credentials (username and password) and their converted site URL (http://unlcms.unl.edu/~/ and spend a couple of hours with Mark Hiatt, going over the basics of creating, editing and deleting pages and components of your Web site in the new UNLcms. Learn to edit pages, footers, navigation and headings and learn to assign roles and permissions to users. A short break is provided, along with plenty of time for questions and answers. http://training.unl.edu |
| 3:00 pm-4:00 pm | Grassland Studies Fall 2011 Seminar Series East Campus UnionJack Morgan, Research Scientist-Plant Physiology, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Fort Collins, Colo., and member of a team that received 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, presents “Effect of Global Climate Change on Grasslands of the Great Plains.” |
| 7:30 pm-9:00 pm | Faculty artists: University of Nebraska Faculty Brass KIMBALL RECITAL HALLThe University of Nebraska Faculty Brass ensemble will perform in concert on Monday, Oct 24 at 7:30 pm in Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: General admission $5, student/senior $3, available at the door approx. one hour before the performance. |
