January 20, 2006 In this Issue: - UNL Spring Calendar - Honors Program Calendar - New Announcements - Honors Overnight - Textbook Scholarship Note - Summer Pre-Law Institute - UCARE Applications - New Neihardt Classrooms - Reminders - Letters of Recommendations - Summer Archaeology Program in Belgium - Computer Lab - Contracted Classes & Blackboard - GPA & Honors Program Status -- -- UNL Spring Calendar: Mon. Jan. 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Tues. Jan. 17: Last day for late registration Last day for drop/add, including thesis hours, Last day to drop a class and receive 100% refund Fri. Jan. 20: Last day to drop a class and receive 75% refund Fri. Jan. 27: Last day to drop a class and receive 50% refund Last day to apply for residence for second semester Last day to apply for a degree for May graduation ($ 25 fee) Fri. Feb. 3: Last day to drop a class and receive 25% refund Wed. Feb. 8: Tuition and fee payment deadline Fri. Feb. 10: UCARE application deadline Wed. Mar. 1: Arts and Sciences Scholarship Application deadline Fri. Mar. 3: Last day to change a class to P/N Mon. Mar. 6: Early registration for summer sessions begins Mar. 12-19: Spring break Mar. 27-Apr. 11: Priority registration for Fall 2006 Fri. Apr. 7: Last day to withdraw from a class Sun. Apr. 23: UNL Honors Convocation Apr. 24-29: Last week of classes May 1-5: Final exams Sat. May 6: Commencement -- Honors Program 2005-2006 Calendar/Deadlines: Fri. Jan. 27: Last day to apply for degree for May graduation ($25 fee) Fri. Mar. 3: Last day to file an Honors Contract for Spring Semester Fri. Mar. 31: Thesis completion forms for May graduation due Fri. Apr. 14: Statement of Academic Interest due (4th semester participants) Memorandum of Study due (6th semester participants) Fri. Apr. 21: Theses for May graduation due Sat. May 6: Commencement -- -- New Announcements: Honors Overnight Hosts for Honors Overnight are needed! Thurs. evening Feb. 9-Fri. Morning. Feb. 10. Responsibilities include picking up your guest that evening, participating in the evening’s activities and taking your guest to class with you on Friday morning. Contact Annie Magnusson (amagnusson2@unl.edu) with your name, address, email, phone number and major. Once you have contacted her, plan to be a host unless you hear otherwise. You do not have to live in Neihardt to be a host. There is such a thing as a free lunch! Check with Dr. Carole Levin or see Dr. Lyons’ bulletin board concerning the Undergraduate Contest for the Queens and Power Conference. The deadline has been extended to Feb. 15, 2006. Winners will receive prizes, and the first 20 students to submit entries will receive a free lunch. -- Textbook Scholarship: Reminder: You MUST purchase all textbooks with your N Card in the University Bookstore. If the instructor has ordered a packet or a text through a bookstore other than the UNL Bookstore, you must contact Dan Smith in the UNL Bookstore and ask him to order the material. Contact Dan Smith also concerning availability of texts which don’t appear on the shelves. Any texts to be ordered for contracts must be approved through Dr. Berger before you can ask the Bookstore to order them. -- Summer Pre-Law Institute Applications for the UNL Law College’s Summer Pre-Law Institute are now available. Contact Denise Archer at 472-2161 or darcher4@unl.edu for more information. -- UCARE Applications: February 10 is the deadline for UCARE applications for the 2006-07 academic year. If you are a first year UCARE student you MUST reapply for a second year of funding. These applications are also due FEB. 10. Fillable PDF applications can be accessed from the UCARE website: http://www.unl.edu/ucare/application/application.shtml or students can submit their applications online: http://ucommxsrv1.unl.edu/ugradforms/ucare/ The Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) Program, supported by the Office of Undergraduate Studies creates intellectual partnerships between UNL faculty and undergraduates by providing funds for research. A complete program description can be found on the UCARE website: www.unl.edu/ucare Questions? Contact Laura Damuth, Director of Undergraduate Research (Ldamuth1@unl.edu) -- New classrooms: Classes scheduled in NRC 118H or NRC 118I are located behind the main Honors Office. Please do not use the office itself as a corridor--use the west corridor to access them. Classes scheduled in NRC 1105 are across from the Honors computer lab. This classroom will remain locked until the faculty member has the key, as it is a “smart” classroom. When carrying on conversations in that hallway before class, please remember those who are working in the computer lab. -- -- Reminders: Letters of Recommendation: Please approach faculty members for letters of recommendation at least 2 weeks in advance--3 is better. Remember to include any forms, signed if necessary, a current resume and any personal statements or letters you must write. -- Summer Archaeology Program in Belgium (July 2006) Eastern Illinois University School of Continuing Education, in partnership with the University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, invites applications for the seventh season of its Summer Archaeology Program. The dates are July 1-29, 2006, and the program centers on the excavation of medieval Walhain Castle. Honors students may receive Honors credit, awarded in either History or Earth Sciences. The course is open to all students in good standing; there are no prerequisites, and no previous background in archaeology is required. The cost of the program, which includes tuition and fees, board and lodging --but not overseas airfare-- is estimated at around $4000. For more information please contact Professor Bailey Young at cfbky@eiu.edu. or write c/o History Department, 2744 Coleman Hall, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Ave, Charleston, IL 61920. -- Computer lab: PLEASE: Avoid removing paper jams in the computer lab. A part of the printer has been damaged twice. If a paper jam occurs, please use the other printer and contact the main Honors office. If no one is there, please use extreme care in removing the paper. Problems in the computer lab? The more you have stored in your account, the longer the login time. Try transferring some of your documents to a flash or jump drive. Be sure to empty your trash can as well. -- Contracted classes and Blackboard: If you have contracted a class, you may be removed from the Blackboard listing for that class. Contact the main Honors office for information about being returned to that list. -- Clarification: If your GPA has dropped below a 3.5 as of May, you are not automatically removed from the UHP, though you lose your scholarship. We encourage you to continue to take Honors classes, to complete all requirements including submitting forms, and to work on bringing that GPA up so you can graduate from the Honors Program.