Now taking orders for Fall 2008

(To get papers starting September 1, please submit by August 12. After August 12, contact me directly).

Western Kentucky University Form for Requesting the New York Times for the Courses You are Teaching

For more information about the program visit: http://www.wku.edu/teaching/media/

Please complete the contact information fully. It is important so that we can reach you for finalizing details or clarifying misunderstandings. It is stored on a secure server. You do have to complete the form each semester you use them as details change.

If you are unsure whether you have made your request for this year, remember that you would have received a confirmation email. If you can't find that or need to make a change in your order, contact Sally Kuhlenschmidt at FaCET, 745-6508.

The goal of the program is to put newspapers in the hands of students to increase their engagement with the world around them. Thus the program does not provide a single subscription to an instructor. Rather at least some of the students in the class must get the chance to read their own subscription.

We ask that you respect the subscription process as it is very, very important to the Times as they are audited on the accuracy of their subscriptions and we are charged as well. Their ability to offer this program depends on the accuracy of our subscriptions records. They are audited externally for the accuracy of the reports.

If someone begs for one from you, suggest that there will probably be one left by a student after class that they could have or FaCET will have one they can come and read. Please do NOT add in a subscription for your department. If I learn about it I will have to stop it with bad feelings all around.

Read this if you are teaching off campus or interactive television classes:

You have to figure in at least a full day's delay for the paper to get to the off-campus location, depending on when the courier runs. For example, if you take the Monday Times, it won't arrive off campus until Tuesday afternoon, perhaps. So work backwards from when your class meets to calculate the days you need.

For your off campus students, the papers are delivered to Garrett where they are sent off campus using the University courier system. When the term begins we will call each off campus location so they know why they are getting them and for which class to save them.

For your Bowling Green students, you'll have to use the instructor-pickup option (as Monday papers disappear on Tuesday), collect the papers on the day you indicate below and then hold your Bowling Green papers until the extended campus students get them so all students get the same papers.

Once you've settled on your order, for us to keep our records correct, you need to fill out this form once for your BG class with delivery location here and then once for each of your off campus locations. For delivery location put in Garrett-xxx where xxx is the name of the off campus place.

 

Contact Information

The data you enter is pulled directly into reports. Please type your name as you would like it to appear in reports to the Provost, (e.g., proper capitalization. Please don't capitalize all letters-- I just have to fix them by hand.).

First Name:             Last Name:        

Department: Please write out your official name of your department. It is used for sorting.

 College:                              If other, please specify:

 Office Address:             Phone:               

 E-Mail:    Please enter your email carefully. It is taken directly from this form for generating messages about your subscription.


  Faculty Rank:            If other, please specify:

Class Information

Brief (1-2 sentences) description of how you might use the newspaper to advance student learning.

Courses In Which You Plan To Use The NY Times:

This information is used for checking your order and used just as you type it for reports justifying the program in terms of breadth of impact.

Please use the formal course abbreviations and titles, approriately capitalized as you see them in the catalog.


Prefix:         Number:      Title:      Enrollment:   
  
Start time (e.g., 8:00am TR):  

Class Building, if different from Office building. Otherwise you may leave it blank.

Prefix:         Number:      Title:      Enrollment:   
  
Start time:   Class Building:

Prefix:         Number:      Title:      Enrollment:   
  
Start time:   Class Building:

Prefix:         Number:      Title:      Enrollment:   

Start time:   Class Building:

Prefix:         Number:      Title:      Enrollment:   

Start time:   ClassBuilding:

Delivery Information

Number of total copies you need for all your classes each day of the week (INCLUDE YOURSELF). You may have any day (M-F) you desire, regardless of when your class meets. If you enter '5' on 'M' I will order 5 Monday NY Times for you. When you use them is up to you as long as you pick them up on the day you order them. (They will be recycled the next morning).
  M:    T:    W:    TH:    F: 

Academic Term that you want these papers (e.g. Fall, 2008) Used for sorting deliveries. Check correctness or you will be overlooked!

Select ONE:
I prefer to pick up the newspapers for my class myself.
I prefer that my students pick up their own papers.

If you are picking up the papers yourself, what is the building where you would like the newspapers delivered. We do not guarantee they will come to your building but we will try for a close by building at least. :

If other, please specify:

Are you teaching off campus or via Interactive Television? yes/no

Are any of your classes bi-term classes? Yes/No

If yes, 1. which half?

2. which days does it meet (M, T, W, R, F)

3. how many papers will need to be stopped or started on those days?

In accepting these copies, you will be asked to do the following:
Check all three
Use the newspaper as an instructional resource in the class(es) and list it in your syllabus;
Be willing to provide information on how you used the resource, including a paragraph for a FaCET booklet for general distribution to faculty; and
Contribute to efforts to assess the value of this resource for your student's learning.

Thank you for participating.

Dr.Sally Kuhlenschmidt, Director
Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching
Professor, Psychology
Sally.kuhlenschmidt@wku.edu
270-745-6508

If you submit and get an error message send the same information in an email to Sally Kuhlenschmidt.