Please help us welcome Susan Weise to the Dean’s Office Team. Starting September 19, Susan will serve as our new Office Assistant, replacing Rafael Juarez-Yuen who moved to the Kirkhof School of Nursing.

Susan is new to Grand Valley and comes to us with many years of professional administrative experience. She most recently worked in an administrative role for Head Start for Kent County as the Health Services Program Coordinator. Her duties will include serving as the direct support person for Assistant Dean Michelle McCloud, coordination of Unit Head Meetings, and other administrative duties. Welcome Susan!

2. CLAS Voyage

The Voyage team is deep into review and drafting of the definitions and characteristics of curriculum-based high-impact practices. Faculty fellow teams, in collaboration with our campus partners, are drafting quality matrices to use as rubrics for a yet-this-semester landscape analysis of the college’s offerings. This work will also explore anticipated outcomes and opportunities for faculty and staff learning.  

Those quality matrix teams are: 

Course-Based Undergraduate Research, Community Based Research, Mentored Research and Creative Expression: 

Dawn Hart and Melissa Morrison

Study Abroad, Study Away, and Global Learning: 

Len O’Kelly and Majd Al-Mallah

Internships, Co-Ops and Practica: 

Kristin Hedges and Len O’Kelly

Linked Courses and Student Learning Communities: 

Majd Al-Mallah and Bradford Dykes

Community-Based and Service Learning: 

Bradford Dyles and Kristin Hedges

Capstones: 

Melissa Morrison and Dawn Hart

Once drafted, we will start a feedback cycle to determine if these are agreeable for the college and if there are other aspects that we are missing. A larger group, including the Student Success Team, is looking at the first-year seminar.  

Office Hours Reschedule 

Zoom’s servers crashed last week during our scheduled office hours. We are looking to reschedule for next week. Stay tuned! 

Project Manager 

The project manager position closes this Friday, September 23. If you know of anyone that would be a good fit, please send them to the GVSU Job Board posting for application.  

Affiliates, Visitors, AP, and PSS

3. New Professional Development Funding Opportunity

To help defray the costs of attending or participating in professional job-related conferences, seminars/webinars, meetings, or other development opportunities, CLAS is pleased to announce the new CLAS Professional Development Fund for all staff (AP and PSS), as well as affiliate and visiting faculty. The use of funds does not require the presentation of papers at a conference or conference committee participation. Staff requests will be prioritized since they do not have access to PD funding from the university at this time. Eligible faculty will need to show that they have applied for funding from CSCE and/or FTLC before being considered for CLAS PD Fund support.

Learn more on the new CLAS Professional Development Fund webpage where you will also find the online application.

Faculty

4. CLAS TT Faculty Fall Election 2022

TT Faculty Election: Voting begins today! The ballot will be open from 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 21 until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, September 28. Questions may be directed to Sally Ross ([email protected]).

Approval Voting: CLAS elections use approval voting. Approval voting is a method that lets voters choose (or "approve") any number of candidates on the ballot. For example, if there are 5 people running for 2 seats on a committee and all of them appear capable of embracing the work of the committee (based on the text they uploaded when they accepted the nomination), then you may vote for all 5. Once voting is open, click on the ballot link and vote for a nominee by clicking on the box beside the nominee’s name. Once you submit your ballot you will not have an opportunity to re-enter any information.

Information on committees and candidate statements may be viewed on the CLAS Faculty Governance and Elections page.

5. CUSE Mentoring Seminar

CUSE will be offering Entering Mentoring Training for faculty mentors. Developed by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Research (CIMER), this mentor training is an evidence-based, interactive approach designed to help mentors develop skills for engaging in productive, culturally responsive, research mentoring relationships—relationships that optimize the success of both mentors and mentees. Two sessions will be provided in both Fall and Winter semesters. The full curriculum will be available in May 2023.

Fall

Entering Mentoring: Articulating Mentoring Philosophy and Plan
Friday, October 28, 2022, 12-1:30 p.m. in 1104 KC

Entering Mentoring: Aligning Expectations

Friday, November 18, 2022, 12-1:30 p.m. in 1104 KC

6. Student Success Strategies

Advisee Lists

There are two ways for faculty to access accurate advisee lists:

Navigate Platform: This preferred system allows you to easily access your assigned students once you log in. You can email students directly from the platform, either individually or as a group. You can also issue Academic Alerts via your Navigate access and track the outreach progress. Navigate also allows you to track the academic standing for of your assigned advisees as well as enter notes after advising meetings.

Banner: To see an accurate list of students that have been assigned to you, the easy to follow instructions are located on the CLAS Faculty Advisor Website. Just click on Advisee List in Banner and follow the steps.

Calendars                               

7.  Important‌ ‌deadlines      ‌        ‌ ‌ ‌                                                                                                 
   

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

Sep. 30 Unit sabbatical recommendations due to University Sabbatical Review Committee

Sep. 30 Deadline to apply to be considered for promotion or early tenure

Oct. 10 – 14 Midterm evaluations

Oct. 10 Proposals for Teach-In are due. Teach-In dates are November 9 -10

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

8. Upcoming‌ ‌events         ‌ ‌ ‌                                                 

 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. 23 Applied Mathematics Seminar, MAK A-2-167, 1 p.m., Mathematical Modelling of Tree Litter Dispersal. Info

Sep. 23-24 Great Lakes History Conference, Devos Center

Sep. 26 Provost Open Forum 10 – 11 a.m. Health Campus; 1 – 2 p.m. Allendale Campus

Sep. 27 Eat and Learn: Study Abroad 101 for Academic Advisors. 11:30 a.m. - 1: p.m., Pere Marquette Room, Kirkhof Center

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

Sep. 28 Carey Lecture, opening the doors at 6 p.m. and introduction at 6:30 p.m., Loosemore Auditorium, sponsored by School of Communication

Sep. 29 Provost Open Forum 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Allendale Campus; 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus

Sep. 30 Provost Open Forum 10 – 11 a.m. Via Zoom

Oct. 1 MALHE “Unidos 2022” Conference.

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. 7 Rationality, Irrationality, Madness, Common Sense: The Role of Reason in Early Jewish Existentialism, Andrew Jampol-Petzinger (GVSU Philosophy). MAK BLL-110 3-4:30 p.m.

Oct. 7 Shakespeare Festival mainstage production begins, Merry Wives of Windsor, 7:30 p.m. LAT

Oct. 10, 4:45 p.m., FrenchFest (2022-2023), musical soirées with twelve distinguished French composers and eighteen performers, New City Kids (Abridged and Interactive Performance)

Oct. 11-13  GVSU Climate Change Education Solutions Summit.
Oct. 13 Science on Tap, SpeakEZ Lounge, 8 p.m., Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: An Introduction to Neglected Tropical Diseases

Oct. 14 Belief as a First-Person Plural Cognitive Attitude and Recognizing Common Ground
Ronald Loeffler (GVSU Philosophy). MAK BLL-110 3-4:30 p.m.

Oct. 14 Faculty Research Colloquium, 308 PAD, 2:30-5 p.m.

Oct. 14 AWRI Seminar – Dr. Susan Rosenberg, Ben F. Love Chair in Cancer Research, Baylor College of Medicine, “Stress-induced mutagenesis and evolution ", 4 p.m., LIB 030, Allendale Campus.

Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., FrenchFest (2022-2023), musical soirées with twelve distinguished French composers and eighteen performers, Haas Center for Performing Arts, GVSU

Oct. 18 Study Abroad Fair 10 a.m.–3 p.m., 2250 Kirkhof Center

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.

Oct. 24, 7 p.m. (6:15 p.m. Pre-Concert Q&A), FrenchFest (2022-2023), musical soirées with twelve distinguished French composers and eighteen performers, Mayflower Congregational Church

Oct. 28 GVSU Opera Theatre performances begin, A Minister's Wife.

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

Nov. 4 Repairing Moral Damage Through Self-Regarding Resistance, Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco (GVSU Philosophy). MAK BLL-110 3-4:30 p.m.

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

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. 18 Transparency and Authority Concerns for the Use of Algorithms in Ethical Decision-Making in Healthcare, Jeffrey Byrnes (GVSU Philosophy). MAK BLL-110 3-4:30 p.m.

Nov. 18 Theatre at Grand Valley performances of Gloria begin

Nov. 29 Giving Tuesday

Nov. 30 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m.

Dec. 1 University Awards/Holiday Party

Dec. 2 Monica’s Trunk Show (think quilts show-n-tell), MAK BLL-126, 3:30 p.m.

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.