WELCOME TO UNIT ONE/ALLEN HALL 

Unit One is an academic program housed in Allen Hall, a residence hall in the University Residence Hall system. Unit One is one of several Residential Learning Communities on the UIUC campus.  The others are:

Global Crossroads,  http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/gc/, is a community intended to challenge and motivate students whose interests, experiences, and aspirations have a strong international component. Although Global Crossroads is open to any U of I student, many students in Global Crossroads are pursuing international majors/minors or are interested in international internships, study abroad, or international work and service. Global Crossroads opened in Fall 2000 and accommodates about 110 students on two floors in Saunders Hall, Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls. The community includes students from countries all around the world, and includes degree-seeking, transfer and exchange students. Global Crossroads is an excellent environment for international students to experience the United States college culture.

The program staff includes a faculty director, program coordinator, hall director, and resident advisors who assist with the development of on-site courses and specially designed programs and activities emphasizing cross-cultural interaction with both intellectual and social dimensions.

The community provides access to international cable channels and international publications. The hall remains open during University breaks (Thanksgiving, winter and spring).

Intersections,  http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/intersections/, a new Living-Learning Community located in Babcock Hall in the Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls (PAR). Opened in Fall 2004, Intersections seeks to create a welcoming environment where students can live, learn, and work together to construct open dialogues about a variety of social and cultural issues. Students looking to interact with individuals from diverse backgrounds may find Intersections a particularly supportive and stimulating environment in which to begin their Illinois experience.

Approximately 120 students are members of the Intersections community. The community’s staff includes a program coordinator, hall director and resident advisors, who collaborate on-site to provide classes, individual support, and small group activities to members of the Intersections community. The support offered by the staff is designed to help students learn how to expand their perspectives and construct skills for engaging across differences.

LEADS (Leadership Experience through Academic Development and Service),
http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/leads/, is designed to provide students with a residential experience based on the Illinois philosophy of leadership that focuses on self-development, communication skills, project and program effectiveness, and group dynamics. The program helps students identify, develop and practice their leadership skills.

The community opened in Fall 2000 and is located on the 2nd floor of Garner Hall in the Gregory Drive Area. The approximately 140 students share opportunities to enroll in courses and participate in programs planned by students, faculty and staff, and outside professionals. Program staff include a program coordinator, hall director and resident advisors.

Students interested in LEADS do not need to have held a formal leadership role in any organization. Participation is encouraged from any student who wishes to be part of an energetic community committed to making a difference.

Weston Exploration,  http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/westonex/, is the Exploration Living/Learning Community. Weston Exploration opened in Fall 1997 with the mission to bring together classroom and living experiences to provide opportunities for students to discover areas of interest and abilities and how they relate to academic majors and careers. Students entering Liberal Arts and Sciences General Curriculum may find Weston Exploration a particularly supportive and stimulating environment in which to begin their Illinois experience. Weston students from all majors can utilize the resources to identify and prepare for careers.

Approximately 475 students are members of the Exploration community. Program staff include a program coordinator, hall director, resident advisors, academic advisors, counselors, and career counselors who all work on-site to provide classes, individual and small group activities designed to help students learn about themselves and campus resources.

An additional fee is added to the room and board rate to support the special programs and activities.

The WIMSE community, http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/wimse/,  was established in Fall 1996 to provide a supportive environment for undergraduate female students in a mathematics, science or engineering curriculum. The community has expanded since 1996 and is now home to approximately 135 students in Trelease Hall, Florida Avenue Residence Halls. WIMSE provides an active academic and social network designed to ease student transition to the university and facilitate student academic success.

Program staff include a program coordinator, hall director, resident advisors, and tutors. WIMSE students have a computer lab on each floor, a resource center, on-site courses, and seats held in high-demand courses in their curricula. Students interact with faculty and professionals as part of the WIMSE dinner series, and participate in a variety of activities to increase awareness of campus resources, including research and internship.

Unit One
As a brief description, Unit One aims to create an academic community for undergraduates that stresses educational innovation and interaction between all members of the community, both inside and outside the classroom. All Unit One teaching assistants are designated as Unit One Teaching Fellows. These Fellows are expected to extend their teaching roles beyond the confines of their regular classroom settings in concert with the objectives of the Unit One program. 

Unit One Teaching Fellows who "extend" themselves beyond their normal teaching expectations receive a $75 "thank you" honorarium for each semester during which they teach at Unit One. Honoraria are given as Gift Certificates to the Illini Union Book Store.  Attending Unit One's introductory workshop is part of this expectation, and $25 of the honorarium is for attendance at the workshop. The remaining $50 is for doing "extra stuff" with your students.  Teaching Fellows may also negotiate with the Unit One director to teach a Unit One Extra Option seminar for which Teaching Fellows receive an additional stipend (about $1,500) as part of their U of I salary and percent appointment. Appendix E at the end of this handbook gives suggestions of the types of activities instructors can do with their students to qualify for the extra $50 honorarium. Funding for these activities is also available.  All instructors have an automatic $100 "expense account" that they can spend without clearing the expenditure.  Spending more is by discussion/approval.  At the end of the term, instructors will be asked whether, in fact, they qualify for this honorarium. 

The Unit One website, and paper brochure (also on website) present good descriptions of the program. In brief, Allen Hall is a coed residence hall housing about 650 students. Unit One students are primarily freshmen and sophomores (approx. 80%). They mirror the University's undergraduate enrollment patterns in terms of colleges and majors. Consequently, some class enrollments at Unit One are more likely to have a greater concentration of freshmen/sophomores than other sections of these courses. 

We offer about 45 classes each semester at Unit One with a combined enrollment of about 1,000 students per semester.  About half of these classes are taught both semesters, and the other half, only spring or fall. Some courses are discussion sections of large lectures, but many courses are "stand alone" sections. About half of our "regular" courses fulfill general education requirements, and the other half are "pure" electives. Unit One Extra Option seminars are constructed by instructors under the supervision of the Unit One director and with the approval of the instructors' departments. 

CREDIT COURSES AT UNIT ONE 

For most classes taught in Unit One, we give first enrollment priority to Unit One students. For most classes, we then allow students from campus to enroll. (Some classes, however, are restricted to Unit One students only, regardless of class enrollment size.) Instructors should pay close attention to this aspect of differing proportions of Unit One vs. non-Unit One students in their class enrollment for the following reasons: 

• Students who do not live in Allen Hall tend to take courses here for a variety of reasons. If they have actively chosen an Allen Hall section, they usually know the implications of their choice. Non-resident students who enroll for pure scheduling reasons (e.g., it was the only section available) tend to complain about the distance and inconvenience of the classroom location.
   
• You are encouraged to hold office hours, review sessions, etc. in Allen Hall.  BUT, you need not hold your regular office hours in Allen Hall if you think that students will not make good use of this.  Most Allen Hall instructors hold office hours in Allen Hall by appointment so that they don’t wind up merely sitting around to fulfill an obligation of saying that they are available.
   
• You are encouraged to incorporate out-of-class interaction for your students. Residents have an easy time getting together. 
   
• You are encouraged to interact with other Unit One instructors and with other classes when appropriate. (E.g., inviting several classes to hear a guest speaker; collaborating on a project.)
   
• You can depend on having a budget of at least $100/semester to fund class activities (pizza, food, etc.), and you can surely negotiate more if the project you want to do will cost more.  Elaborate events, including field trips are always fair game to discuss.  See Howard Schein or Laura Haber if you have questions about this.  You can submit receipts for reimbursement for your expenses, but we encourage you to talk, first, with Theresa Miller (70 Allen Hall) to see if you can use vouchers to make your purchases.

NOTE: Please pay attention to letting your class out on time since students may have a long way to travel to get to their next classes. 

UNIT ONE DOCUMENTS 

Unit One Catalog: (What used to be presented in a paper-copy catalog is now represented at our website.)

Unit One Brochure: General description of the program 

In-Residence Poster: Brief description of this year's guests and their schedules. 

Early Semester Feedback for Course Instructors: A form that you will be given early in the semester. To be filled out by your class and returned to you. The information is for you to use in self-evaluating your teaching effectiveness. Your obligation is to respond to your students, telling them what they said and how you intend to respond to them. You are encouraged, but not required, to consult with the Unit One director before responding to the students. Please make sure to do these feedbacks.  We find that many problems are easily addressed early in the semester that would otherwise fester all term.  (See Appendix A.) 

Please have your students fill out this feedback form after you have gone through some sort of "cycle" in your class that includes your evaluation of their progress (e.g., a paper, quiz, exam). As well, have students complete these forms in class.  If you hand them out for "overnight" return, your return rate will be dismal. 

Unit One Students' Evaluation:  We may ask you to have your students complete this form at the end of the semester. It is mainly an evaluation/feedback of Unit One. (See Appendix B.) You are expected to follow your departmental guidelines regarding the ICES evaluations. 

Evaluation of Unit One Extra Option: This is the end of semester form that we may ask you to have your students complete.  (See Appendix C.) 

Unit One Instructors' Survey: We solicit your honest assessments in order to see how we might better support instructors and increase the effectiveness of the unique characteristics of Unit One classes. This will probably be in the form of an email request for a paragraph or so.

ACADEMIC ASSISTANCE IN ALLEN HALL 

We have tutors for the following: 

• MATH
  
• CHEMISTRY/PHYSICS

Tutors see students on a "walk-in" basis. Tutors' hours will be posted via email, on the Housing website at: http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/library/tutoring.htm, and in the hall via paper postings as soon as they are available. Please encourage your students to use these tutors when appropriate. Although we advertise these services, many students are unaware of this opportunity. 

STAFF COMMUNICATION 

We regularly email to our instructor group list to disseminate information that we feel is important or of interest to all Unit One instructors. Please check your email regularly. 

Allenotes, a Unit One/Allen Hall weekly publication is usually sent via email and is usually available on the Unit One web page. If any Unit One events fit with your interests and/or teaching, please integrate them. 

The Unit One Home Page is http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/unit1/ 

THE UNIT ONE EXTRA OPTION 

The Unit One Extra Option is a group of seminars, taught under departmental 199 course numbers, usually 1 credit hour and usually graded S/U (satisfactory/unsatisfactory). These courses are meant to serve some or all of the following functions: 

1. Take an existing course/section or combination of courses "beyond the syllabus" by addressing issues that cannot be addressed during the regular course;
   
2. Address a subject that is not ordinarily accessible to freshmen/sophomores;
   
3. Be taught in a rather informal way that mandates/encourages student participation and which is fun and, maybe, not as rigorous as a formal, traditionally graded course;
   
4. Emphasizes student input to the process and content of the seminar, either in the seminar's design and/or process.

Some Extra Options are attached to "parent courses."  In some cases, students must be enrolled in the parent course in order to take the Extra Option, but in most cases the Extra Options are designed such that students need not be enrolled in the parent course. 

When a parent course exists, James Scholars may take the Extra Option partially or fully to complete an Honors Learning Agreement. In this case, these students get honors credit for the Parent Course and no credit for the Extra Option. Please have them contact Howard Schein for information on converting a parent course into an honors course. 

For instance, in Fall 2006: 
PHIL 199 Mortal Questions  is attached to PHIL 101 but open to all students. 
SHS 199 Sign Language I is a "stand alone" Extra Option open to all students. 

Some recent Extra Options were: 
· International Human Rights
· Student Protest Movements
· Sign Language I and II
· Homer at the Movies:  The Legacy of the Illiad and the Odyssey in Popular Cinema
· Scientific Monkey Business:  Science, Religion & Education
· Born to Shop:  The Consuming Culture
· The Ethics of  Authenticity & Self Fulfillment
· Music in the Moment: Improvisation
· Issues in Medicine
· Volunteer Projects: Leal Primary School
· How to Win an Argument with an Economist
· Experimental Laboratory in Theater and Movement

In Fall 2006 we offer three Discovery Courses that are restricted to freshmen and are taught by regular faculty: 

• EOL 199: The College Experience
• CINE 193:  Vietnam at the Movies:  Images of the Vietnam War in Film
• LAW 199: Actual Innocence: Issues in American Criminal Justice

In Spring 2007, the Discovery Courses will be:

• EOL 199: The College Experience
• HIST 199:  Viewing History Through Film
• LAW 199: Actual Innocence: Defects in the Criminal Justice System

Instructors are paid about $1,500 per credit hour taught in the Extra Option Program. Actual salaries are prorated based on the instructors' departmental salary scale.  For instructors who are graduate teaching assistants, this payment is part of instructors' salaries and is factored into the instructors' percent time appointments.  In some cases, this extra salary would result in instructors' appointments going beyond the 67%-time appointment range for granting tuition/fee waivers. In this case, taking this extra salary would be detrimental to instructors' financial well being and is a major consideration in whether or not a graduate assistant can teach an extra option class. The University mandates that instructors cannot teach credit courses for no salary, and instructors cannot be paid any other way than described, here. 

Most international students are limited to holding a 50%-time appointment. In the above scenario, their teaching Extra Option courses is bounded by their total appointment not going beyond this 50% appointment. 

UNIT ONE STAFF

Unit One has a group of people who compose our core staff. This staff has offices in Unit One and each member has specific academic/programming functions. 

Brad Decker
74 Allen Hall
Music Programs
3-8351
bdecker@uiuc.edu

Hassan Enayati
70 Allen Hall
Program Advisor
2-3273
enayati@uiuc.edu

Jonathan Farr
Main Office Allen Hall
Resident Director
Assistant Director, Unit One
3-1100
jfarr@uiuc.edu

Laura Haber
68 Allen Hall
Program Coordinator
4-2317
lhaber@uiuc.edu

Kae Helms
Main Office Allen Hall
Allen Hall Chief Clerk
3-1100
kkhelms@uiuc.edu

Brad Hudson
82 Allen Hall
Lecturer, Art & Design
Photo/Video
4-2318
bhudson@uiuc.edu

Laura Kimmel
76 Allen Hall
Music Lessons Coordinator
4-2319
kimmelll@uiuc.edu

Theresa Miller
70 Allen Hall
Unit One Office Manager
3-8351
tamiller@uiuc.edu

Kannan Puthuval
70 Allen Hall (mailbox)
Program Advisor
2-3274
kputhuva@uiuc.edu

Howard Schein
66 Allen Hall
Director, Unit One
Adjunct Assistant Professor -
Dept. of Educational Organization & Leadership
3-7881
hschein@uiuc.edu

Sara Smith
70 Allen Hall
Program Advisor
2-3272
ssmith6@uiuc.edu

Carol Spindel
76 Allen Hall
RHET Instructor
4-2319
cspindel@uiuc.edu

Catherine Wiesener
89 Allen Hall
Lecturer, Art & Design
Ceramics/Drawing
4-2321
wiesener@uiuc.edu

Jen Yearsley
Main Office Allen Hall
Area Coordinator
Associate Director, Unit One
3-1100
syearsle@uiuc.edu

Other Closely Related Staff:

Erica Alcantara
Urbana North GA
Main Office Allen Hall
ealcant2@uiuc.edu

Juliane Gorretta
Unit One GA
70 Allen Hall (mailbox)
gorretta@uiuc.edu

NOTE: UNIT ONE STAFF AND INSTRUCTORS HAVE 
MAILBOXES IN 70 ALLEN HALL

OTHER ALLEN HALL STAFF

In addition to the Unit One staff, Allen Hall has: 

• Twelve undergraduate Resident Advisors who live in Allen Hall and who "manage" the daily goings-on within the confines of the hall. Jonathan Farr supervises them.
  
• A staff of Desk Clerks, supervised by Kae Helms, who take care of the Allen Hall Main Office and maintain the Allen Hall Main Office on a 24 hour basis;
  
• A custodial staff that keeps the place clean;
  
• A maintenance staff that keeps the place repaired;
  
• A dining services staff that takes care of the eating facilities.

Unit One also has an "extended staff" that include:

• Tutors
  
• Student Office workers who 


   do publicity, 
   maintain the darkroom, 
   maintain the ceramics lab.

• Music Lesson Instructors

Lauara Kimmel and about twelve 25%-time grads who work with her do the majority of teaching in our Music Lessons program.  The Music Lesson Program is a 0-credit hour, Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory graded course.  This course enrolls about 180 students/semester from Unit One and another 60 students from other living/learning programs at UIUC.  All students who enroll in the Music Instruction course must be residents of the participating LLC programs.

• Allen Hall Main Office is supervised by Kae Helms, the hall secretary.               

                          This office is always open 24/7.
                          Student desk clerks work here.
                          Keys are available.
                          "Back-up" TV/VCR is here.

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FACILITIES 

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Office Space:  All Unit One instructors have access to office space in Allen Hall.  For most instructors, we make desk space in Room 78 available.  You will be given a key to this room and are asked to "take up residence" at one of the three desks in that room.. You can reserve a drawer in your desk for your own.

Keys:  A key to Rm 78 can be checked out from the Unit One secretary, Theresa Miller in Room 70.  The building is locked  from around 7 PM to 7 AM.  If you need entry during these hours, please talk with Theresa to arrange for ID Card Entry into the building.

THIS KEY MUST BE RETURNED BEFORE THE END OF FINALS WEEK OF THE LAST SEMESTER OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR IN WHICH YOU ARE TEACHING AT UNIT ONE.  YOU WILL BE BILLED $100 TO YOUR STUDENT OR STAFF ACCOUNT IF YOU DO NOT RETURN THIS KEY.  IF YOU TEACH ONLY FALL SEMESTER, KEY RETURN IS PRIOR TO WINTER BREAK.  IF YOU TEACH BOTH SEMESTER OR ONLY SPRING SEMESTER, RETURN IS PRIOR TO GRADUATION DAY.

Your Rm 78 Key will get you into:

·      The closet in Room 78 where three overhead projectors are stored.

·      The closet in Room 78 where one TV/VCR/DVD on a cart is stored.

·      The padlock on the second TV/VCR/DVD cart in Room 78.

·      The podiums in Rooms 63 and 40.

·      The sound system cart in the Main Lounge. 

·      The closets in Room 75 where the laptop/LCD projector/VHS tape deck on carts are stored.

·      The padlock to the Smart Cart in Room 75.

·      This key also opens Room 73 for access to the copy machine.

·      This key also opens the padlocks on the cabinets in Rm. 73. 

o        One cabinet holds “goodies” such as soda and cookies.

o        One cabinet holds office supplies, markers, erasers, paper, blank exam books.

Supplies: All of our rooms have "white-boards." You should get your own supply of dry erase markers/erasers for the classrooms' white boards from Theresa or the room 73 cabinet.  A stash of markers is also kept in room 78. We use cheesecloth for erasers.

Mailboxes: You have an assigned mailslot (labeled by class) in the Unit One office (Rm 70).  Please be clear with your students which of your campus mailboxes you are referring to when you direct them to leave stuff for you. As well, you are welcome to leave stuff in the office for your students to pick up. (Please note that Rm 70 is only open during regular office hours.)  Please check your email as well.

Computer Site: The Computer Facility is located in the Dining Hall Common area on the ground floor.  It has PCs that are networked through the Housing system into the University mainframes. A scanner, dot matrix printers, and a pay-per-page laser printer are also available in the site. The facility is open 24 hours a day. If you would like to reserve the site for an occasional class meeting, contact the Unit One Director.

Instructor access to the computer site:  You can use the site for your own computing, as well.  These computers are restricted to University Residence Hall students, but Unit One instructors can gain access.  If you want to be authorized to use this site, you need to apply for login at:
https://www-s.housing.uiuc.edu/bluestem/doc.pl/public/storms/sign-up.html

You may need the email address of your "sponsor" (Howard Schein), hschein@uiuc.edu, and under reason, indicate "need access to the site as part of my role of Unit One Instructor in Allen Hall."  If you have problems with this process, contact Howard Schein.

Classrooms & Meeting Space:

Your classroom is reserved for your class meeting time. If you want to reserve it, or other Unit One rooms for other meetings, you must actively make this reservation. You can check room availability on the "events calendar" on the Unit One website http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/unit1/ and then submit a room request electronically on the "room request form" or you can make your requests through Theresa Miller, Room 70. 

• The Walless Lounge is an open area for "in the round" seating. This area is outside the Unit One office.
  
• Room 63 is a seminar room: 25 people, pull-down projection screen, computer-wired.
  
• Room 64 is a seminar room: 15 people, pull-down projection screen, computer-wired.
  
• Room 65 is a seminar room: 20 people, pull-down projection screen, computer-wired.
  
• The South Rec Room (Room 40) is a large lounge: Around 35 tablet arm chairs and up to 100 (with floor seating
  included).  Motorized, pull-down projection screen -- switch on back wall), computer-wired.
  
• The Main Lounge (Room 155) is on the first floor of Allen Hall, computer-wired.  It is a large activities room with a motorized, pull-down projection screen (controlled by a switch in the center of the east wall), a large sound system, and a large screen TV with DVD/VCR. It is usually used for very large meetings and physical activities.  Computer wired.


This room has the highest possibility for disruption. If you are disrupted (1) please intervene and stop the disruption (if you are comfortable doing so), (2) see the Unit One director; (3) report the disruption to the Allen Hall Main Desk. (Things do not always run smoothly around here, but we do try to deal with these situations.)

• Room 157 is a small seminar classroom on the first floor: 12 people, and has a pull-down screen. Computer wired.
  
• Room 159 is a small seminar room on the first floor. It seats about 12 people and has a pull-down screen. (Tutors use it in the evenings.)  Computer wired.
  
• The Conference Room* (Room 151) on the first floor seats about 32 people at several tables: two white boards, a pull-down screen, computer wired.
  
• The TV Room* (Room 152) is a seminar room that seats about 20 people.  Computer wired.

*NOTE: The Conference Room and the TV Room border on the Main Lounge. Noisy activities, such as Aerobics and Jazz Dance classes in the late afternoons, and activities in the evening, may disrupt goings-on in these rooms. We try not to schedule classes in these rooms when noise is likely to hinder classes. 

EQUIPMENT

Unit One equipment is reserved on sheets posted on the doors where the equipment is stored.
 

LCD computer projectors and laptop (2 units): Room 75 closets. These setups have laptops, LCD projectors, and VHS/DVD decks. Please make an appointment with Howard Schein or Theresa Miller to get oriented to this equipment.

Smart Cart: Room 75. This is a rather large, sophisticated cart with a PC, LCD projector, VHS/DVD
deck, and a good sound system. It is rather cumbersome to move and will need two people to negotiate it through the hallways.

Video: We have two VHS/DVD format decks, each on a cart with 19"-27" monitors stored in Room 78; one is in the east closet, and one is attached to the outside wall of the west closet. Your key to Room 78 will open both closets and the padlock that secures the cart to the wall. A VCR unit is also available to be checked out at the Allen Hall Main Desk. This is a "backup" unit when all other reservations, key access, etc. fall through. It is mainly used by Resident Advisors for hall programming. It is our low-end unit and should be used in emergencies. You can also access other VCR/TV units through the Unit One office.

To reserve the Room 78 units, use the reservation sign-up calendars in that room. If you need to reserve the extra Unit One VCR unit, ask Theresa. The Allen Hall Main Office unit has no sign-up, but you may have to leave your I.D. at the Main Desk while you are using it. If the Room 78 units are already reserved, Theresa Miller, Howie Schein, or Laura Haber will arrange a VCR unit for you.

Video Projector: We have a machine that projects videos onto a screen. It is stored in the west closet in Room 76 and can be checked out at the Unit One Office. It works best at night when rooms can be thoroughly darkened.

Camcorders: We have several VHS format video camcorders, an external microphone, and a tripod that
can be checked out through Howard Schein. (Please make a reservation in advance of the time you will need it.)

Overhead Projector: Three overheads are stored in Room 78. You may make overheads using the photocopy machine (see Theresa Miller) or you may use magic markers/grease markers on blank overhead sheets. One overhead projector on a cart is stored in the west closet of Room 78. A portable overhead projector and a second "regular" overhead projector are also available in Room 78 west closet.

Boom Box: We have a stereo CD/tape cassette player stored in Room 70 (check out through Theresa Miller).

16mm Film Projector: We have two 16mm projectors. You may ask, “What are these?”

Slide Projector: A 35mm slide projector is stored in the west closet, Rm 76.

Sound System: A sound system is available for use in the Main Lounge. This system has very large
speakers, CD players, tape decks, and microphones. This system can be wired through the video projector. You should be “checked out” to learn to use this system.

Portable Projection Screens: Available in the west closet in Rm. 75 and in Room 70.

FAX Machine/Scanner: Available through Theresa Miller, 70 Allen.

Digital and Polaroid Cameras: Available through Howard Schein, 68 Allen. (You must make a reservation ahead of time.)

FOOD IN ALLEN HALL

 You have several options for using the Dining Hall.

• If you wish to eat with your students and arrange this prior to the meal, you can get a free meal pass from the Unit One director or the Unit One Office (70 Allen).
  
• Getting to know your students informally is probably one of the biggest advantages of teaching at Unit One.  Meals are usually a good time to do this.
  
• Students from any University Residence Hall can eat meals in all URH dining halls.  Students who do not live in URH can purchase meal tickets at the Allen Hall Main Desk.
  
• You should be aware that the Housing Division has many "specialty" restaurants. These are daily, weekly or bi-weekly offerings that include Pizza, Italian, African-American, Vegan, Crepes, and "high-cholesterol." LAR's Field of Greens offers vegetarian lunchtime dining from Monday to Friday. The specialty restaurants are highlighted at http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/dining/menus/index.asp#smenu
  
• Please make a point to meet with your students in small groups (about 5-6) at a meal early in the semester. Actively arrange to accomplish this with a sign-up sheet. In most cases, students will not invite you to a meal--too many social taboos--but they will enjoy getting to know you and will respond if you invite them.
 

UNIT ONE HOME PAGE ON THE WWW 

To access the Unit One page on WWW:   http://www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/unit1/ 

We are remodeling our web site, but the following sections (or content) are currently on the Homepage with more to follow. Instructors are welcome to add sections. 

GENERAL INFORMATION
• Information for New Students
• Unit One Description and Brochure
• Tour of Allen Hall and Unit One
• The History of Unit One
• Allenotes [Hall events]
• Events Calendars and Room Reservation Form

ACADEMICS
• Unit One Courses Timetable Fall 2006
• Unit One Courses Timetable Spring 2005
• Course Descriptions Fall 2006
• Course Descriptions Spring 2005
• University Residence Hall courses Fall 2006
• Academic Advising Referral Handbook

GUEST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
• Guest-in-Residence Description and Application Brochure
• Guest-in-Residence for 2006-2007

STUDENT LIFE
• The Best of Rhet 199: Creative Non-fiction
• What students have to say about Allen Hall/Unit One
• Photo Galleries
• Student Groups
• Student Art

MISCELLANEOUS
• Directions to Unit One / Allen Hall
• Directions to Allerton Park & Conference Center
• Other Living Learning Centers

We welcome class writings, etc., and we solicit your suggestions, as well.

To post information on the Unit One page:

Give the information to be posted to Theresa Miller, 70 Allen or via email, tamiller@uiuc.edu.

To post to Allenotes:  email, unit1@uiuc.edu