• "Align quality and clients." (not customers). Each department will be asked to identify its primary clients and orient decisions toward serving them in the context of providing a high-quality academic experience.
• "Provide a seamless spectrum of academic offerings." Academic units should decide how to best deliver their course offerings using day/night classes, Internet/conventional instruction, summer term, etc. in a seamless manner. Other institutions, both locally and nationally, are moving rapidly in this direction.
• "Provide a supportive environment for faculty in teaching, research, and scholarship." The administration will work to foster these activities of the faculty.
• "Create a user-friendly delivery system for our students." Create incentives to enhance student satisfaction, and recognize and address issues such as parking, limited majors, support services, etc.

The line is necessary to serve present and future phases of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, which is under construction above University Hospital. Previous utility work brought the line from the institute site as far as the northwest corner of the Annex. The privately funded HCI was formed for the purpose of using genetics research to find cures and preventions for various forms of cancer. Phase I of the building is scheduled for completion next summer.

The commission draws members from all parts of the University, including Institutional Research, Counseling Center, Registrar Ralph Boren, and Stayner Landward, Dean of Students.

Emergency personnel, including employees of University Hospitals and Clinics, must come to work during a closure. For reference, see Policy 1-14 at www.admin.utah.edu/ppmanual.

In endorsing the semester conversion, the 1998 Utah Legislature passed "legislative intent" language saying that schools would not be penalized for the drop in enrollment. Of more immediate concern to administrators at the U is that students are not taking the third-again more courses per term that they must to stay on track for a degree at the same pace as before. Another concern is that FTE enrollment dropped 26.71 percent at Salt Lake Community College, the major transfer feeder school for the U. The Semester Transition Council has reconvened to see if any additional measures are needed, or determine that the problems will solve themselves as students and faculty gain experience with the new calendar.

Flexible Spending allows you to avoid income taxes on certain predictable expenses, including child care, prescription drugs, out of-pocket medical and dental expenses, and vision/hearing care. To use it, you place pre-tax income into an account, and then receive reimbursements from that account. Effective for 1999, the Flexible Spending allowance for medical and dental expenses will increase to $3,600 per year. For information, contact the Human Resources Benefits Office at ext. 1-7447.

Each check gives you two weeks pay for two weeks work at the rate of your annual salary, so the only people to feel any unusual effect of the 27th check will be those who participate in the Flexible Spending program. No Flexible Spending deduction will be taken from the Dec.30 paycheck.

The publication also tells what to do if you are a crime victim, provides a directory of emergency services, gives safety tips, explains alcohol/drug policies, and summarizes the ongoing efforts to make the campus safe and crime-free. Crime prevention materials and non-judgmental substance abuse referrals are available at ext. 5-2677 (5-COPS).

Just Completed

• Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building-Dedicated Sept. 28, this new building provides modern labs and offices devoted to biology research, with two large classrooms. Private funding.
• Rice-Eccles Stadium-Now in use for football games, some finish work remains to be done. Funding from private, Olympics, and Athletics sources.
• Bike paths and pedestrian signals-Signals aid crossing at Foothill and Wasatch Drive, and a bicycle path on Wasatch Drive provides links to the Salt Lake City system and Bonneville Shoreline Trail. Federal funding under Intermodal Surface Transportation Enhancement Act.

• Temporary Health Sciences parking lot-Space created by razing old military barracks near the Biomedical Polymers Research Building will provide employee/visitor parking until new building construction can begin, as noted below.
• Stoplight on South Campus Drive-Located near the Jon M. Huntsman Center, this Utah Department of Transportation project will improve pedestrian safety and allow counterclockwise shuttles to use the business loop.
• University Student Housing at Fort Douglas-Groupings of two, three, and four-story buildings will be used in combination with existing Fort Douglas residences to create a neighborhood atmosphere for student housing, served by a central facility with dining and other amenities. The area will double as the Winter Olympics Athletes Village. To be done in phases, with completion scheduled for fall semester, 2000; funding from Olympics and future residence hall revenues.
• Huntsman Cancer Institute-Located east of Moran Eye Center, this facility will provide a home for the organization dedicated to the pursuit of using genetics research to find ways to cure and prevent cancer. Complete next summer; private funding.
• Gymnastics Practice Facility-Located north of HPER-East, this building will replace a dark gymnasium with facilities designed for gymnastics, worthy of a national-championship caliber program, and aid in recruiting gymnasts. Complete this December; private funding.
• Gardner Hall renovation and concert hall addition-Crews are rebuilding what was once the old Union Building into a facility designed for the Music Department, with an acoustically outstanding concert hall. Complete June 1999; private and state funding.
• Marcia and John Price Museum Building-This facility will provide a new home for the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the south end of the engineering-to-fine arts campus mall. Complete fall 1999; private funding.
• C. Roland Christensen Center-Named for a patriarch of the Case/Discussion Method of instruction at Harvard, the building's U-shaped classrooms, small team discussion rooms, and even food service facilities are designed around interactive instruction for the David Eccles School of Business. Complete early 2000; private funding.

• Pioneer Memorial Theatre addition-New space will provide a new scene shop, a second rehearsal hall, and storage space to support Pioneer Theatre Company. Renovated space will serve the Department of Theatre. The building will be renamed the Roy W. And Elizabeth E. Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre. Private funding.
• Expansion of Eccles Broadcast Center-This will create added space for rapidly expanding technology/distance learning activities in support of public and higher education, statewide. Non-state funds will come from department revenues.
• Baseball field on Guardsman Way-This field will replace the diamond near Medical Towers, which became part of the Fort Douglas housing project. Complete for 1999 baseball season.
• Northeast parking terrace-A 618-stall terrace will be built at the north end of the Health Sciences area and funded by the Huntsman Cancer Institute, Moran Eye Center, and Primary Childrens Medical Center for their use, thus taking some of the pressure off of other parking in the Health Sciences area.

• West-east TRAX light rail system-Depending on availability of federal funding, the University has worked out with Salt Lake City and Utah Transit Authority a route for the Trax system to serve campus. If the system is built, trains would stop at the Rice-Eccles Stadium parking lot, near the Huntsman Center South Campus Drive, and terminate on Wasatch Drive near University Hospital, south of Primary Childrens Medical Center.
• Cowles Building renovation-After the Music Department moves back to David Gardner Hall, the Cowles Building on Presidents Circle will be renovated for use by the Mathematics Department. The Legislature provided planning funds, and will be asked for construction funding in the 1999 session.
• Health Sciences professional training and support building-To be located west of the Biomedical Polymers Research Building, this facility will serve the Physicians Assistant Program, Dental Training, and other Health Sciences programs. Complete in 2000; private funding.
• Health Sciences "mixed-use" facility-A private vendor will be sought to build and operate a lodging facility for outpatients and their families, south of PCMC and west of University Hospital. The financial arrangement will be similar to that of Research Park facilities, wherein ownership reverts to the University after a specified time period.
• Health Sciences laboratory building-To be located east of the south parking terrace, this building will allow consolidation of existing School of Medicine labs, and bring back departments now using leased space. Schedule will depend upon obtaining private funding.
• Bridge over Wasatch Drive-A mixed-use bridge will connect the new residence halls at Fort Douglas with the east-west HPER mall to central campus. The bridge will accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, and a people-mover system. Federal funding through the TEA-21 Bill.
• East campus central plant-This would replace individual building cooling systems with a more efficient and effective central system for the older buildings surrounding the School of Medicine. Schedule depends on obtaining state funding.
• West campus parking terrace-To be located somewhere in the southwest sector, a terrace will be necessary to make up for spaces lost to various projects, and to serve Kingsbury Hall and the new concert hall. Parking revenues funding.
• State Department of Health building-Not a University project, this will replace the current building west of the College of Nursing with a facility to serve children with special needs.