Weekly Mailing to Tenure line, Affiliate, Visitors, Administrative Professionals, and Professional Support Staff in CLAS
CLAS Weekly Mailing 10-26-22
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2. Energizing Our Weekend: Family Fun
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The CLAS Academic Advising Center will be discontinuing the GRE Workshop and the Test Prep Course for MCAT, DAT, OAT and PCAT. This decision comes after evaluating the use of the courses by our students, and the availability of our advising staff to coordinate the programs. We will continue to advise students who are preparing for these exams and encourage you to direct students to the following test prep resources, free and discounted practice exams, and scholarships.
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CLAS Academic Advising Center’s MCAT, DAT, OAT, PCAT Resources
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Includes resources for Prevet students preparing for the GRE
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Discounted AAMC MCAT products available through CLAS Advising
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Princeton Review free/online practice tests for MCAT, DAT, GRE. Must RSVP by December 1. Tests become available on December 3.
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Kaplan Scholarship Application - Due Sunday, November 13, 2022 by 11:59 p.m.
2. Energizing Our Weekend: Family Fun
Everyone is invited to a community outreach event on November 12, 2022 called Energizing Our Weekend: Family Fun! The event will take place in the Seymour & Esther Padnos Hall of Science from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Activities will be targeted at middle school aged students, but everyone is invited and encouraged to attend. The theme of the event is renewable energy and sustainability. More information is available at www.gvsu.edu/eow .
Calendars
3. Important deadlines
Oct. 28 Withdrawal with “W” grade deadline 5 p.m.
Nov. 15 – Staffing plans for winter 2024 due to Tracy McLenithan
Nov. 16 – Senior Affiliate recommendations due to Dean Anderson
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
Dec. 22 - Jan. 3 Break between terms
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. 26 Checked Out: Strategies to Handle Student Engagement, FTLC Faculty Happy Hour, University Club (DEV 107C) on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus from 4–5:30 p.m.
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 2 Majors Fair, 11 a.m. -2 p.m., Grand River Room, Kirkhof Center
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. 11 Applied Math Seminar: A Mathematician Wanders into a Sportsbook, 1-1:50 p.m. MAK A-2-167 or via zoom (request password from [email protected])
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 Applied Math Seminar: Computation of Minimum-volume Enclosing Ellipsoids, 1-1:50 p.m. MAK A-2-167 or via zoom (request password from [email protected])
Nov. 18 Faculty Research Colloquium, 308 PAD, 2:30 p.m.
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. Please support Replenish, the GVSU food pantry.
Nov. 30 Unit Head Meeting 3 – 5 p.m.
Nov. 30 Faculty Learning Communities, FTLC Faculty Happy Hour, University Club (DEV 107C) on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus from 4–5:30 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 Applied Math Seminar. 1-1:50 p.m. MAK A-2-167 or via zoom (request password from [email protected])
Dec. 2 Monica’s Trunk Show (quilts show-n-tell), MAK BLL-126, 3:30 p.m.
Dec. 3 Princeton Review free/full-length/online exams. MCAT Practice Test , DAT Practice Test, GRE Practice Test
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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