Spring Break
Briefly Mentioned
Jonathan Pearson
Issue date: 3/12/07 Section: News
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Spring break later than usual
UMKC's spring break will come three weeks later than in previous years.
Spring break begins at the end of the day on March 25, and classes resume April 2.
At last week's faculty senate meeting, Professor Cory Beard, computing and engineering, asked Provost Bruce Bubacz why the week of spring break changed. Beard said many faculty and staff try to coordinate spring break with their kids' breaks.
Bubacz explained there had been an attempt for several years to coordinate spring breaks at the four University of Missouri (UM) System campuses.
"The Columbia campus, due to the large number of students, needed the break between fall and spring to process student records. Rolla has their spring recess. The spring break was set to be the same for all four campuses and we worked around the UMR spring recess," Bubacz said in a March 9 e-mail.
"We (UMKC) wanted to have the spring break earlier in the semester, but that did not work for anyone else in the System," Bubacz said. "One of the main issues was to have the same calendar across the system, especially for students who are in cooperative programs."
The UM System's Collected Rules and Regulations mandates the timetable for the academic calendar and can be accessed on the UM System Web site. -Emily Iorg
Podcasts inform students
Students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration are taking advantage of podcast technology to provide students with important news they can access anytime through what they have named "BlochCast."
BlochCast, available in MP3-format audio files, are published weekly. It was developed by undergraduate business students David Derendinger and Daniel Allegri.
"We started the BlochCast as part of a class project in Dr. Sidne Ward's Introduction to Management Information Systems class," Allegri said. "It's a great way to make information accessible to people at their convenience. It's like having a radio or news station at your command."
Spring break later than usual
UMKC's spring break will come three weeks later than in previous years.
Spring break begins at the end of the day on March 25, and classes resume April 2.
At last week's faculty senate meeting, Professor Cory Beard, computing and engineering, asked Provost Bruce Bubacz why the week of spring break changed. Beard said many faculty and staff try to coordinate spring break with their kids' breaks.
Bubacz explained there had been an attempt for several years to coordinate spring breaks at the four University of Missouri (UM) System campuses.
"The Columbia campus, due to the large number of students, needed the break between fall and spring to process student records. Rolla has their spring recess. The spring break was set to be the same for all four campuses and we worked around the UMR spring recess," Bubacz said in a March 9 e-mail.
"We (UMKC) wanted to have the spring break earlier in the semester, but that did not work for anyone else in the System," Bubacz said. "One of the main issues was to have the same calendar across the system, especially for students who are in cooperative programs."
The UM System's Collected Rules and Regulations mandates the timetable for the academic calendar and can be accessed on the UM System Web site. -Emily Iorg
Podcasts inform students
Students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City's Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration are taking advantage of podcast technology to provide students with important news they can access anytime through what they have named "BlochCast."
BlochCast, available in MP3-format audio files, are published weekly. It was developed by undergraduate business students David Derendinger and Daniel Allegri.
"We started the BlochCast as part of a class project in Dr. Sidne Ward's Introduction to Management Information Systems class," Allegri said. "It's a great way to make information accessible to people at their convenience. It's like having a radio or news station at your command."
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