Bulletin Boards Ideas

Issues and ideas for NMC board consideration

Hiring candidates for faculty, staff, and administrative positions needs to go beyond limited advertising and procedural interviewing according to NMC's established processes. Advertising for positions should be widespread to include electronic means such as open bulletin boards from professional societies. Involvement with stakeholders facilitated through Skype-based public forums should be the standard, not the exception. Also, at NMC Human Resources staff contacts references as opposed to faculty search committees who have better knowledge of the kinds of questions to ask the applicant's references. One solution is to have committee members call references under the auspices of Human Resources staff so that important questions could be asked without compromising the integrity of the process. Faculty should have the responsibility to evaluate candidates for faculty positions and should also be involved in choosing their immediate supervisors and their dean. Opposed to this, the current practice at NMC is to have Human Resources complete the evaluations. Although this can be legally expedient, it can be disastrous in selecting the best candidate. Human Resources should provide oversight to the process to ensure legal guidelines are met, but also allow the selection to be made by those with curricular expertise or administrative pertinences, and not a Human Resources clerk. The recent hiring of a faculty member in the School of Education serves as an important example of why the system is not working. The candidate applied for an Elementary (kindergarten through fifth grade) reading education position. His credentials and experience were in the area of secondary school English (ninth through twelfth grade) and English as a Second Language-areas very different from Elementary reading. Elementary reading focuses on things like recognizing sight words and deriving meaning through illustrations, repetitive syntax, and linguistic redundancy deconstructing what is written to make meaning. Secondary English focuses on using literature to promote writing and the proper use of language for personal and public reasons-constructing the written word to establish meaning. In the end, he was made an offer by the interim president despite low rankings by the selection committee and concerns shared by the SOE director. His inexperience means that there is not a program for him to teach in at the SE and the SOE will continue to need to adjunct its reading courses.

Hammers and High Heels: Distressed Bulletin Board Wall Decor

I have some vintage styled maps that I picked up at Posh in Chicago .  I thought I would combine them with some vintage fashion prints and old sewing patterns.  I want the space to have some more color than what I normally do in our house so it feels a little more inspiring and feminine.  I'm also getting a bit more freedom to design the space the way I want since Alex won't be using it as much as me (isn't he sweet?!?). I'm a designer, blogger, wife, and I'm in love with old homes and vintage style. My husband Alex and I are pretty wrapped up in our home renovation project. We bought our first home, a 1924 Dutch Colonial in 2009 and have been telling the stories through our blog along the way. We renovate, design and decorate on a budget, so we are true DIY-ers! I love to create and design for our home with a vintage casual feel. We try to lead a fun glamorous life outside of our endless project, but we never seem to have a lot of time now! That's our story!