While You
Were Away . . .
Janet
Snover
Special Assistant to the Executive
Vice President Janet Snover highlights some administrative news from
over the summer.
The
MIT-developed Website, the Virtual Environmental Campus
http://www.c2e2.org/evc,
is one of the sites that the Environmental Protection Agency has
launched to help colleges and universities improve their
environmental compliance and performance. The EPA's New England
office announced that MIT's site "uses an engaging, intuitive format
to highlight potential environmental issues in nine campus areas."
These locations include arts/theater areas, cafeterias, dormitories,
drains/sewers, grounds/vehicles, labs, medical areas, power plant,
and waste storage. The site is hosted by the Campus Consortium for
Environmental Excellence, C2E2, a consortium of colleges and
universities dedicated to improving their campuses' environmental
performance through professional networking. MIT agreed to develop
the site as part of a settlement of an enforcement case with the EPA
that was concluded in 2001.
- The Sloan School of Management is
merging its Sloan Fellows and Management of Technology programs
into one executive education degree program. Beginning next June,
the new name will be the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation
and Global Leadership. The program includes a flexible scheduling
option that will allow executives to earn their Sloan degree
without taking a year off from their jobs.
- Kenneth D. Campbell, the director
of MIT's News Office for the last 17 years, retired on June 30,
2003. Following a nationwide search, Arthur Jones of Washington.
DC was selected as the next director. Mr. Jones has more than two
decades of experience, including work as a reporter, television
news manager, as well as local government service in
communications for both the City of Boston and the Governor's
Office. He also served as deputy press secretary to President Bill
Clinton.
- Over this Labor Day weekend, the
Human Resources-Payroll Project team implemented the HR module of
our SAP software. What this means is that the HR department will
stop using its old information system and will use SAP instead for
all HR transactions. An extensive data verification and cleanup
effort by administrators in the departments, labs, and centers
(DLCs) preceded the switch from the old to the new HR system.
Although administrators in the DLCs are not yet utilizing SAP
directly for their HR work, they are using new and revised forms
for communicating with the HR department.
- For this academic year, the fee
for a regular commuter parking pass increased to $518 from $466
last year. Information about parking, MIT's 50 percent MBTA
subsidy program, shuttles, and alternative transportation choices
is available online at http://web.mit.edu/parking.