Announcements May 5, 1995 PRESIDENT'S BREAKFAST MAY 23 The next Breakfast with the President will be held Tuesday, May 23. The breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m. in the Memorial Union Gold Room. Breakfast may be purchased in the Commons. Coffee is provided. For reservations, call 4-2042. Wallace Road closing A section of Wallace Road on the east edge of campus will be closed for the Iowa Special Olympics from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday, May 25, and from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, May 26. The road will be closed just south of the Lied Recreation/Athletic Center and in front of Maple Residence Hall. There will be no employee parking around the Richardson Court horseshoe (lot 54). Employees who use Wallace Road are asked to take an alternate route on those days. Cy-Ride's orange shuttle route is not affected. PAY PLAN OPTION Tenured, tenure-track and adjunct faculty on 9-month, B-base appointments who want to enroll in the 12-month pay plan for next fiscal year, or who want to change back to the original B-base pay plan, must do so by July 7. The 12-month pay plan also is available to 9- and 10-month P&S employees. Application forms are available in the Payroll Office, 307 Beardshear. University benefits and employment tax deductions will be made equally from the 12 monthly payments. Additional salary for summer teaching or research will be added to the monthly pay during the months of the summer appointment. The option is not available to new faculty members until the July following the academic year in which their ISU employment began. Questions should be directed to the Payroll Office, 4-6556. VISION 2020 CONFERENCE VISION 2020 will host a 50/50 Conference May 15-16 in 220 Scheman. The conference begins at 5 p.m. May 15 and concludes by 3:30 p.m. May 16. The conference is for faculty, staff and students who want to create a vision for food systems and food systems professionals education for the year 2020. Conference participants will start identifying strategies and creating plans to reach the visions created. Peter Bishop, Institute of Alternative Futures, will facilitate. The conference is called 50/50 because organizers hope 50 percent of the participants will come from ISU faculty and staff and 50 percent from outside the university, including community colleges, business and industry. There is no registration fee, but preregistration is requested by May 8. Contact Karen Lind, 4-2092. MERIT TUITION GRANTS Merit tuition grant applications for summer semester 1995 are due by 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 24, in the Personnel Office, 16 Beardshear. Applications and information for E- and H-base employees are available in the Personnel Office, or by calling Missy Murphy, 4-9350. To be reimbursed for spring semester classes, submit two photocopies of grade slips (and proof of payment for off- campus classes) to the Personnel Office by 5 p.m. Thursday, June 15. P&S TUITION GRANTS P&S tuition grant applications for summer semester 1995 are due by 5 p.m. Monday, May 22, in the Provost's Office, 107 Beardshear. Applications and infor-mation for P-base employees are available in the Provost's Office, or by calling Peggy Biskner, 4-5882. To be reimbursed for spring semester classes, submit two photocopies of grade slips (and proof of payment for off- campus classes) to the Provost's Office by 5 p.m. Friday, June 9. FACULTY SENATE ELECTIONS The following faculty were elected or re-elected to the Faculty Senate for three years: College of Agriculture: Julia A. Gamon, agricultural education and studies; John Imsande, agronomy; Donald Lewis, entomology; and Jeff Iles, horticulture. College of Business: Richard Carter, finance; and Richard Poist, transportation and logistics. College of Design: Norman Dietrich, landscape architecture. College of Education: Mary Strong, curriculum and instruction; and Barbara Licklider, professional studies. College of Engineering: Ken Kruempel, electrical engineering and computer engineering; Gene Kellenberger, engineering fundamentals and multidisciplinary design; and Ron Nelson, mechanical engineering. College of Family and Consumer Sciences: Suzanne Hendrich, food science and human nutrition; Janice Dana, hotel, restaurant and institutional management; LuAnn Gaskill, textiles and clothing; and Mary Jane Brotherson, human development and family studies (at-large). College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Nancy Coinman, anthropology; David Metzler, biochemistry and biophysics; Bob Angelici, chemistry; Fred Deluca, geological and atmospheric science; Carol David, English; Carl Bleyle, music; Tony Smith, philosophy; William Woodman, sociology; and Daniel Reschly, psychology (at-large). College of Veterinary Medicine: Dean Reidesel, veterinary clinical sciences; David Hopper, veterinary pathology; and Yosiya Niyo, veterinary diagnostic lab (at-large). _____ contact: Internal Communications, (515) 294-3129 updated: 5-4-95