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UNITE Program Personnel

UNITE Director (phone: 612-625-9802)
Doug Ernie - ernie@umn.edu

• Management of UNITE program
• Acts as liaison between UNITE training directors and University of Minnesota faculty
• Arranges counseling at the companies
• Responds to inquiries from companies interested in joining UNITE

UNITE Student and Faculty Engagement (phone: 612-624-2332)
Ann Rausch - arausch@umn.edu
Melissa Haroza - mharoza@umn.edu
Ron Fitch - ronfitch@umn.edu

• Handles the day-to-day operation of the system
• Main contact for registration
• Liaison between the instructors and the students in distribution of homework, examinations, and any problems concerning the courses officered over the system
• Manage the UNITE web site
• Problems with access to streaming video courses
• Scheduling of classes
• General problem solving
• Faculty and program consultation for integration of teaching with technology for online, hybird and face-to-face courses

UNITE Master Control (phone: 612-624-6008)
Mike Thompson - mthompso@cs.umn.edu
Jim Sustacek - susta004@umn.edu
Serge Jacinto - sjancito@umn.edu
Michael Belsito - belsito005@umn.edu
Alison Lucero-Simmons - lucer030@umn.edu

• Handles the technical end of the system
• Transmission/reception difficulties: audio, video, streaming video and podcasts
• Videoconferencing: scheduling, room set-up, and support

E-mail address for the UNITE office: unite@umn.edu
E-mail for Technical Operations: untechop@umn.edu
Submit a Trouble Report to UNITE

Web address: http://www.unite.umn.edu

Mailing address for all UNITE personnel:

UNITE Distributed Learning
College of Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
514 Vincent Hall
207 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0134

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