Last week at the CLAS start-up meeting, Faculty Fellows Kristen Hedges and Len O’Kelly, alumnus Dane McAllister, and Dean Drake unveiled the outcomes of the summer visioning work including the CLAS Voyage. Combining the two signature initiatives into a promise to our students, faculty and staff, the Voyage focuses on the value of a liberal education that we provide our students by ensuring that every CLAS student experiences at least two high-impact practices during their program and is well equipped with and able to articulate their skills and experiences to tackle the challenges of the future through a first-year experience, capstone, and ePortfolio. Over the next three years, we will lay the groundwork to launch the Voyage, targeting the incoming class of 2025. This work is supported in the short- and long-term by CLAS faculty fellows and the emerging CLAS Center for Experiential Education and Community Engagement, directed by Kris Pachla.

Open Office Hours are scheduled for:

Monday, September 12, 2-3 p.m., MAK B-4- 243
Thursday, September 15, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., virtual

If you missed the start-up meeting, or want to reference the slides, please look at the CLAS Voyage webpage. There, you can submit questions or feedback on the Voyage, RSVP for the open office hours, and ask questions ahead of time. Feel free to reach out to Kris directly with any questions: [email protected]

2. Are you or any of your GVSU friends participating?

University Communications always highlights ArtPrize participation by GVSU employees and students, but it can be hard to find out every last GV person involved. If you or a colleague or a student (anywhere in GV, not just CLAS) will have art on display, please let us know. [email protected]

3. TRIO requests our help

The flyer at the bottom of this newsletter describes the three things on which TRIO could use our help. Do you teach ESL? Can you donate a tie? Are you first-gen?

Faculty
4. Student Success Strategies

Making Faculty Office Hours more accessible

Students have mentioned that they really appreciate having multiple places to find information about faculty office hours. To help your students know and use your office hours, in person or virtual, a wide net may need to be cast. While most faculty list office hours on syllabi and Blackboard, an even more thorough campaign may be in order. Listing these hours on your website profile page, automatic email signature, autoreply to emails, etc. will help ensure that no student finds you unresponsive to a request for an individual advising appointment or question about course materials.

Accessing Advisee Lists Via Navigate

Faculty can access a current list of assigned advisees through the Navigate platform. The instructions provide a step-by-step introduction to the report functions in Navigate and allows you to save this list for easy access in the future. This is also a great time to reach out to your students, especially the newest students, to share your contact information and office hours. The report provides the ability to either email the group or provide individual outreach.

5. 2022-2023 Call for Student Advisory Committee Members

The CLAS Student Advisory Committee for Dean Drake is looking for recommendations for student members majoring and/or minoring in disciplines within CLAS for the 2022-2023 school year. Our goal is to have a committee representative of our students. Student Advisory Committee members will be expected to be culturally mindful. They will also be expected to help Dean Drake think about how to promote an inclusive environment in CLAS for students. There are no GPA or class year requirements.

We prefer that you suggest student names and contact information to Mona Silva ([email protected]) by September 9, 2022.

6. Know a student who’d be interested?

Elena Lioubimtseva (GPY) is looking for two outstanding students (any major) to work with her this year on the role of philanthropy in equitable climate adaptation planning. This work is funded through her project with the Johnson Center. Each student will receive a $1000 stipend and travel funds as needed to present at the AAG or another conference.

Unit heads

7. Award table

Awards table containing info on processes and deadlines can also be found on the Unit Heads page of the CLAS website.

Calendars                               

8.  Important‌ ‌deadlines      ‌        ‌ ‌ ‌                                                                                                 
   

Sep. 1 Sabbatical proposals deadline 11:59 p.m.

Sep. 2 Credit/No Request deadline 5 p.m.

Sep. 2 Last day to register/100% refund deadline 5 p.m.

Sep. 4-5 Labor Day Recess

Sep. 9 Suggest students for CLAS Student Advisory Committee to [email protected]

Sep. 15 Unit Stability Update response should be entered in GVAdvance

Sep. 19 Tentative: First Round Annual Schedule opens for 2023-2024 to Departments. Departments with dibs rooms are held to the minimum-usage requirement described under “Department dibs room use policy” at the Unit Heads Scheduling page.

Sep. 23 75% refund deadline 5 p.m.

Sep. 30 Unit sabbatical recommendations

Oct. 10 – 14 Midterm evaluations

Oct. 14 Units submit promotion materials (promotion to professor) to the dean’s office

Oct. 14 Tentative: First Round Annual Schedule for 2023-2024 due to Dean’s Office

Oct. 17 Midterm grades due by 11:59 p.m. midnight

Oct. 23 – 25 Fall Break (for students)

Oct. 28 Withdrawal with “W” grade deadline 5 p.m.

Nov. 18 CLAS Personnel Committee submits recommendations to the dean   

Nov. 23 – 27 Thanksgiving Recess

Nov. 28 Tentative: Final Round Annual Schedule for 2023-2024 opens to Departments

Dec. 12 – 17 Final Examinations

Dec. 16 Dean notifies candidate and unit head of recommendation

Dec. 19 Final Grades due by 11:59 p.m. midnight

Dec. 22 Final Grades available to students

Jan. 6 Tentative: Final Round Annual Schedule for 2023-2024 due to Dean’s Office

Feb. 1 Spring/Summer 2023 Schedule goes Live in Banner

Mar. 1 Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 Schedule goes Live in Banner

9. Upcoming‌ ‌events         ‌ ‌ ‌                                                 

Sep. 7 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m. KC 2204 Pere Marquette

Sep. 8 Science on Tap: "Teaching" An Old Yeast New Tricks: Improving Beer Flavor And Quality Through Genetically Engineered Brewer's Yeast (Saccharomyces spp.), Eric Janson, Head Brewer, Odd Side Ales. 8 p.m. Speak EZ Lounge.

Sep. 8 Summer Scholars Showcase

Sep. 9 AWRI Seminar – Joel Betts, Kent County MAEAP, “Illegal deforestation, fish poisoning, and complex land politics: Research on Impacts to Nicaraguan rain forest streams and fishing communities", 2:00 pm, 110 LMC, Muskegon.

Sep. 16 Faculty Research Colloquium, 308 PAD    

Sep. 21 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m. KC 2204 Pere Marquette   

Sep. 21 Alliance for Professional Support Staff (APSS) Union Open House Mixer, STU South Lawn, 12-2 p.m.; PSS should RSVP by September 6.

Sep. 22   GVSU Arts Celebration 2022-2023 kickoff event: As Is: Beauty and the Body in Contemporary Art. Reception for opening of the GVSU Arts Celebration, 5-8 p.m.    

Sep. 28-29  Homerathon , Multipurpose Room in the Mary Idema Pew Library, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.    

Sep. 28 Carey Lecture, 7 p.m., Loosemore Auditorium   

Oct. 1 MALHE “Unidos 2022” Conference. Registration

Oct. 5 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m. Kirkhof Room 2215/2216  

Oct. 6 6-7 p.m. Loosemore Auditorium. Ott Lecture to the General Public: Biomimetic Cuisine: The Chemistry, Craft and Culture of Our Future Foods

Oct. 7    Ott Lecture to Chemistry audience, 1-2 p.m., KC Pere Marquette. Biomimetic Chemistry: Recapitulating Biomolecular Structures and Functions

Oct. 11-13  GVSU Climate Change Education Solutions Summit.

Oct. 14 Faculty Research Colloquium, 308 PAD     

Oct. 18 Repair Clinic, 6-8 p.m. Holton Hooker Multipurpose Room. (More info on the Repair Clinic) 

Oct. 19 Unit Head Meeting 3– 5 p.m. Kirkhof Room 2215/2216  

Oct. 19 VMA Guest Speaker Nayda Collazo-Llorens. Public Event: 12-3 p.m.

Nov. 2 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m. Kirkhof Room 2215/2216  

Nov. 7  GVSU Arts Celebration "South Chicago Dance Theatre: Energy | Power | Grace", 7 p.m. Louis Armstrong Theatre, Haas Performing Arts Center, Allendale campus. 

Nov. 9 Tenth Annual Teach-In, Pew Campus (Seidman, DeVos, CHS)

Nov. 10 Tenth Annual Teach-In, Allendale Campus (Kirkhof)

Nov.16 Unit Head Meeting 3– 5 p.m. Kirkhof Room 2215/2216  

Nov. 18 Faculty Research Colloquium, 308 PAD      

Nov. 29 Giving Tuesday

Nov. 30 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m. TBD  

Dec. 5 GVSU Arts Celebration Holiday Concert, “And on Earth, Peace.”  Fountain Street Church   

Dec. 10 Commencement 

Dec. 21 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m. Kirkhof Room 2215/2216  

Dec. 23 – Jan. 2 Semester Break

Jan. 26 Native American Student Initiative. Speaker Seth Sutton, author of The Deconstruction of Chief Blackhawk. Time tba.

COVID Policy Links

Note: Daily COVID self-assessment is not required at this time.

Lakers Together

Face Coverings Compliance Protocol (including employee FAQs)

Campus Health Matters

Reminders

Newsletters/information you may have missed        

Link to CLAS Voyage (Slides, comment form, FAQ)

The CLAS Academic Advising Center will be holding both virtual and in-person drop-in advising sessions every day during the first week of classes. For in-person, students can stop in at the Center in C-1-120/140 MAK; for virtual, refer the students to the virtual front desk for check-in.

September 1 parking: On Thursday, September 1, the Grand Valley Football team will be playing its home opener vs. the Colorado School of Mines at 7 p.m. in Lubbers Stadium. There will be some parking challenges. To devise a workable plan, the Athletics Department has met with key individuals throughout the campus community.

Individuals needing to come to Allendale for evening activities may park at the downtown campus, the Standale Meijer, or the Walker Fire Station, and utilize the Laker Line.

Lot C and F will be closed at noon. No additional cars will be able to enter after that time.
Lot C2 will be closed all day.
Lot D1-D3 will be available throughout the day.
Lot G will be available until 4 p.m. At 4 p.m. Lot G will be converted to a $15.00 paid parking area without a pre-purchased pass.
Lot H and Lot K will remain open for faculty, staff, and commuter students throughout the day.

If all the lots are full, please park in Lot J or at the Meadows Golf Practice Academy. The GVSU Rapid off-campus apartment shuttle stops near Lot J, the Practice Academy, and at Kirkhof Center.
The Marketplace lot will remain open and “pay-to-park” all day.

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