Weekly Mailing to Tenure line, Affiliate, Visitors, Administrative Professionals, and Professional Support Staff in CLAS
CLAS Weekly Mailing 10-12-22
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1. Less than a Week Until Repair Clinic
2. Energizing Our Weekend—Family Fun Event
Faculty
4. CLAS Voyage – Call for Student Learning Community Pilots
Calendars
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1. Less than a Week Until Repair Clinic
On Tuesday, October 18, 6-8 p.m. in Holton Hooker Multipurpose Room, 16 faculty and staff volunteers will gather to fix a wide array of things for students. Backpack straps, missing buttons, hemming, rips, and sometimes even zipper replacements as well as items such as glasses that need to be glued or tightened. On-the-fly advising, a little swag, or even learn to knit and keep the supplies. All Free for GVSU students. You can help by mentioning and explaining this in your class or office. Graphic appears at the bottom of this newsletter. The first rule of Repair Clinic is that we talk about Repair Clinic.
2. Energizing Our Weekend—Family Fun Event
The Regional Math & Science Center (RMSC) is pleased to announce the first Energizing Our Weekend – Family Fun Event on November 12, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This will be an exciting adventure into the world of energy and sustainability. The event will take place on GVSU’s Allendale campus and is geared toward middle school students and their families. Participants will engage in hands-on activities, take a tour of the Sustainable Agriculture Project Farm at GVSU, and much more!
GVSU faculty and staff are invited to participate in this energizing event by providing hands-on activities designed for middle school students, their siblings, and their families. There are two opportunities to participate, either in a 45-minute structured session or an open-house format session.
Interested in participating? Please use this form to commit to a session by October 20. Questions please email Chelsea Ridge ([email protected])
CLAS has a freestanding popcorn machine on wheels that CLAS Units may borrow. Whatever consumables we don’t have on hand, you provide. An employee must take responsibility for the clean return of the machine to our office. To book it for your event, email [email protected].
Faculty
4. CLAS Voyage – Call for Student Learning Community Pilots
For those of you considering scheduling a pilot Student Learning Community in 2023 as part of the Voyage's call, a clarification that we are looking both for new courses that might be scheduled in one of the modalities (team taught, linked, higher capacity, or single instructor) and existing SLC-like courses or other courses on the books that could be revised to align with the SLC model.
The pilot funding will pay for summer 2023 work to revise and align the course with the to-be-released Curricular Frameworks for High-Impact Practices. It's not necessary to currently be aligned as these frameworks are in draft form now and undergoing feedback cycles with unit heads.
If you're interested in running a new course, or revising an existing course to align, please let Kris Pachla know, [email protected], being sure to include your unit head in the conversation.
Calendars
5. Important deadlines
Oct. 14 Units submit promotion materials (promotion to professor) to the dean’s office
Oct. 14 First Round Annual Schedule for 2023-2024 due to Dean’s Office. The policy for minimum use of department dibs rooms is at https://www.gvsu.edu/clas/unit-heads-51.htm#S. Next year’s use of each room, updated daily, is listed on the ‘ALL room usage’ tab of the Open Slot Lists and Weekly Room Usage file at the Room capacity and use page.
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. 17 Sabbatical reports due for sabbaticals taken in Winter 2022
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
Apr. 29 Sabbatical reports due for sabbaticals taken in Fall 2022
Oct. 11-13 GVSU Climate Change Education Solutions Summit.
Oct. 12 Cinespace 6:30 p.m., 174 Lake Superior Hall. Free and open to all GVSU students. Before Sunrise.
Oct. 13 7:30 p.m. Jazz Ensembles in Louis Armstrong Theatre
Oct. 13 Science on Tap, SpeakEZ Lounge, 8 p.m., Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: An Introduction to Neglected Tropical Diseases
Oct. 14 1-2 p.m. at the L. William Seidman Center, the Koeze Business Ethics Initiative will be hosting a panel entitled, “Does Free Speech Need Limits? A Debate on How Free Speech Should Be Understood in Our Times.” featuring GVSU Faculty and Alumni (Nathan Goetting, JD, Abigail DeHart, JD, and John Uglietta, PhD, JD). For full details and to RSVP.
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. or RSVP for the Zoom link
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. FREE! (More info on the Repair Clinic)
Oct 18. Informative conversation about autism spectrum disorder. Your Health Lecture Series
Oct. 18 7:30 p.m. Symphony Orchestra in Louis Armstrong Theatre
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. 19 Cinespace 6:30 p.m., 174 Lake Superior Hall. Free and open to all GVSU students. Don’t Look Now.
Oct. 19 7:30 p.m. Concert Band in Louis Armstrong Theatre
Oct. 22 Homecoming
Oct. 20 6 p.m. University Arts Chorale/Anima Vocal Ensemble, Cook-Dewitt Center
Oct. 20 7:30 p.m. Wind Symphony in Louis Armstrong Theatre
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. 26 Cinespace 6:30 p.m., 174 Lake Superior Hall. Free and open to all GVSU students. Blair Witch Project.
Oct. 27 7:30 p.m. Free Play 48: Nick Photinos, cello
Oct. 28 GVSU Opera Theatre performances begin, A Minister's Wife.
Oct. 29 2 p.m. Louis Armstrong Theatre. Bard to Go: Bardic Inspiration
Nov. 2 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m. Kirkhof Room 2215/2216
Nov. 2 Cinespace 6:30 p.m., 174 Lake Superior Hall. Free and open to all GVSU students. What Happened Was...
Nov. 2 Community Archaeology as Sustainable Archaeology, 6 p.m. 164 Lake Ontario Hall
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. 12 Energizing our Weekend, Saturday STEM Activities (Allendale Campus)
Nov. 16 Unit Head Meeting 3– 5 p.m. Kirkhof Room 2215/2216
Nov. 16 Cinespace 6:30 p.m., Wealthy Theatre. Free and open to all GVSU students. Open Projector.
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.
Nov. 30 Cinespace 6:30 p.m., 174 Lake Superior Hall. Free and open to all GVSU students. Before Sunset.
Dec. 1 University Awards/Holiday Party
Dec. 2 Monica’s Trunk Show (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. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Dec. 10 Commencement
Dec. 21 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m. Kirkhof Room 2215/2216
Dec. 23 – Jan. 2 Semester Break
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Newsletters/information you might have missed
A couple of weeks ago, CLAS was pleased to announce the CLAS Professional Development Fund for all staff (AP and PSS), as well as affiliate and visiting faculty. Learn more on the new CLAS Professional Development Fund webpage where you will also find the online application.
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