Letter from the Editor, Summer 2004

by Mike Fleming

Hello faithful Directions readers and welcome to summer! It’s that time of the year when the clouds start to fade away and the sun makes its three-month appearance. A time when the campus goes from student-clogged to ghost town. A time when seats at Agua-Verde are wide open and the University becomes disturbingly quiet. So grab a fan, relax, and enjoy the newest sun-drenched issue of Directions.

This issue contains the following articles:

Grant and Contract Accounting Reorganization
New Recognition Quality Team
Risk Management’s Spring Ritual—Reinsurance Renewals!
FM Culture Fair is a Summer Event
Criminally Improved--TQM on the Wrong Side of the Law
Traveling Treats Passes Go—Or, Get Out of Jail Free
Paying and Overpaying—New Processes in Payroll
How Faculty Effort eFECS You
FINMAN 101: The Travel Office—Leading the Way
No Gripe with GRIP
The Two Sides of the Mentoring Program
SFS Professionalism Team Launches New Initiative
Toastmasters–Wow, We’re a Year Old!
Kudos
Recognition Roundup

Thanks to all who participated in last issue's Name That Tune contest. Winners: Miriam Garvey, Peggy Fitzwater, Erick Winger and Elvin Smith. All winners are entitled to a very special prize: the firm knowledge that in this obscure and highly specialized area of trivia you are the unrivaled masters.

We are not repeating this feature but are soliciting ideas for other contests. So, if you have any good ideas, navigate over to the Feedback page and drop us a note.

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