The Center for the Education of Women

is accepting applications for its Winter 2005 Advanced Leadership Seminar featuring the study and practice of change-oriented leadership. We ask that you consider this opportunity for yourself or forward to a staff colleague who might be interested in this program. Offered at no cost to your unit, the series features five intensive group learning sessions, independent reading, small group study, and a 10-week project with individual and small group coaching available. A book fee of less than $50 will apply. Sessions begin February 10 and the project phase ends June 21.

The series offers a uniquely sustained opportunity for a small cohort of UM staff women to seriously explore the theory of change oriented leadership and engage in self study as it relates to personal capacity and competence to lead change.

This program is designed to enhance the leadership skills and potential for advancement of staff who exercise influence and make significant decisions within and even beyond their units. Potential candidates may access program details and the application by clicking below:

http://www.cew.umich.edu/For%20Faculty%20and%20Staff/als.htm

The deadline to apply is February 2, 2005.

Please contact Sarah Ely, Director of Programs & Senior Counselor at the Center for the Education of Women (734-998-7080) should you have any additional questions regarding this program.

New Voices of the Staff program planned Sponsored by President Mary Sue Coleman and Chief Human Resource Officer Laurita Thomas, Voices of the Staff is a new volunteer program to discuss the most widely shared staff concerns, and create an ongoing dialogue between staff members and top University leaders. A Feb. 9 launch event will bring together a volunteer group of staff members for facilitated discussions to help determine the topics of greatest importance. The goal is to create a microcosm of the staff community. Volunteers for this topic-planning session need only commit to the Feb. 9 event. The topics that emerge will determine the focus areas of the VOICES network for the coming year, and a separate member application process will be announced. To learn more or to nominate yourself as a volunteer for the launch event (nomination deadline Jan. 21), visit the Web site at http://www.voices.umich.edu. Watch the Record for more details on this new program.

How the Do Not Spam List Works

ITCS has purchased the use of MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention Systems) spam-blocking lists for its Do Not Spam List service. You can use it for your

Personal mail. Turn it on for your personal mail to have all mail addressed to youruniqname@umich.edu (where youruniqname has been replaced with your own uniqname) checked against the list.

Group mail. Turn it on for groups in the U-M Online Directory that you own to have all incoming mail addressed to those groups (in the form of groupname@umich.edu, where groupname has been replaced with the actual name of the group) checked against the list.
If a message is from an IP (Internet Protocol) address included in the Do Not Spam List, that message is rejected (not accepted for delivery). This not only eliminates much of your spam mail, it reduces the load on campus e-mail systems.

IMPORTANT! Using the list will not eliminate all your spam. The MAPS organization is very conservative in the addresses it includes on its lists. This is done to reduce the likelihood of rejecting a legitimate piece of mail. MAPS's "false-positive rate," the measure of how many legitimate messages are rejected, is extremely low.

How to Sign Up for the Do Not Spam List
Use your web browser to go to this web address:
http://spambusters.mail.umich.edu/

Click the Sign Up/Manage Do Not Spam List link.

Login in with your uniqname and UMICH password.

To turn use of the Do Not Spam List on for your @umich.edu address:

Under the Personal Do Not Spam List heading, click the Turn Personal Spam List On button.

To turn use of the Do Not Spam List for all the directory groups you own:

Under the Group Do Not Spam List heading, click the Turn Group Do Not Spam List On button.

NOTE: If you want to use the Do Not Spam List for individual groups that you own in the U-M Online Directory, you can do this by modifying each group in the directory. Look for the Spam Block heading in your group's directory entry and set it to True to turn use of the list on for the group or False to turn it off. See Working With E-Mail Groups Using the U-M Online Directory On the Web (S4277) for instructions for making changes to directory groups.

IMPORTANT! If you co-own a group with other people, you may find that use of the list has been turned on for that group by one of the other co-owners. You may want to check with your fellow group owners to decide whether to use the Do Not Spam List or not.