There will be a Faculty Senate meeting on Wednesday, September 1 at 3:30 p.m. at the McLamore Executive Dining Room, Jenkins Building, School of Business Administration. Faculty members are always welcome to attend all Senate meetings, and this one offers a special opportunity to address your questions and concerns directly to the President. Visit the Senate web page www.miami.edu/FacultySenate for more information.

One of the best strategies for retaining talent is ensuring that the right candidate is placed in the best position. Several studies (The Saratoga Institute, the Society for Human Resource Management, and Hewitt Associates) estimate the cost of replacing talent at approximately 1.5 times the annual salary of the job opening. Hiring and Onboarding Talent addresses a methodology for hiring and retaining talent at UM. It gives an overview of the hiring process that includes everything from behavioral interviewing to onboarding, enabling leaders to hire employees who will contribute to a stable and high-performing team. Participants will focus on identifying talent needs, developing techniques to predict success based on past performance, creating an interview plan and peer interviewing process, developing a plan for onboarding, and retaining new talent.

Part I
Date: Wednesday, September 1
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Miller School of Medicine campus, Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155

Part II
Date: Thursday, September 9
Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Miller School of Medicine campus, Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155

You must complete the corresponding online CBL prior to enrolling in the course. To register for the CBL and the live session, visit ulearn.miami.edu and follow the instructions to log on. For more information, call 305-243-3090 or 305-284-5110.

The Department of Medicine will host grand rounds on Wednesday, September 1 at 12 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, third-floor Auditorium. Cynthia Levy, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Hepatology at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Primary Biliary Cirrhosis.” For more information, please contact Cristina Orbeta at [email protected] or 305-243-6484.

The British Consul General in Miami, Kevin McGurgan, will visit the University of Miami to talk to students, faculty, and staff about the Marshall Scholarship program on Wednesday, September 1 at 10 a.m. Faculty members, directors of undergraduate studies, and advisors are encouraged to attend to learn how to better mentor and connect students to the educational opportunities available through this prestigious scholarship program. The meeting will take place in Allen Hall, Room 101. To attend, please RSVP by e-mail to [email protected].

The Marshall Scholarships commemorate the humane ideals of the Marshall Plan and express the continuing gratitude of the British people to their American counterparts. Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. As future leaders with a lasting understanding of British society, Marshall Scholars strengthen the enduring relationship between the British and American peoples, their governments, and their institutions. For more information, visit www.marshallscholarship.org or e-mail Kefryn Reese at [email protected].

The School of Law’s 2010-2011 Faculty Lecture Series begins on Wednesday, September 1 with UM Law Professor Stephen Urice, who will present “Unveiling the Executive Branch’s Extralegal Cultural Property Policy.” The lecture, which will take place in the law school’s fourth-floor faculty meeting room, will begin at 12:35 p.m., following a lunch at noon in the same room. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture.

An expert on art law, museum law, and cultural heritage law, Urice lectures nationally and internationally and has served on the faculty and planning committee of the ALI-ABA course of study Legal Issues in Museum Administration for many years. He has published numerous scholarly articles and co-authored the fifth edition of the standard art law casebook, Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts (Kluwer, 2007).

Prior to coming to Miami Law in 2006, Urice taught for three years at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in a grant-funded position. Previously, in addition to practicing law, Urice served as a foundation officer at the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, and as director of Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum and Library. He earned a Ph.D. in archeology and his J.D. at Harvard University.

Seating for the event is limited. To attend, RSVP to Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected]. Priority will be given to those first to reply.