Weekly Mailing to Tenure line, Affiliate, Visitors, Administrative Professionals, and Professional Support Staff in CLAS
CLAS Weekly Mailing 11-16-22
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Highlights:
The Voyage team is embedding student learning outcomes as part of our design process for the Curriculum Frameworks for High Impact Practices, in support of faculty and student meaning making of the Voyage. These resources will be foundational to the development of a series of handbooks for faculty, staff, students, and partners on how and why the Voyage is implemented.
Kris Pachla, Donovan Anderson, and Kristin Hedges will be presenting the work of the Voyage at the 2023 AAC&U Annual Meeting’s Forum on Open Learning and ePortfolios in January of next year.
Status Updates:
Based on developments related to student learning outcomes, the release of the next draft of the Curriculum Frameworks for High Impact Practices has been delayed to the week of November 28. The Voyage team will seek feedback in person from unit heads at the November 30 meeting, and will release widely to the college that week the Frameworks with feedback mechanisms.
After meetings with the Office of Alumni Relations and the Career Center, the Voyage team is considering collaborating on a series of employer and alumni summits in 2023. These would be designed to simultaneously explore the Voyage and its importance and to collect feedback from our key partners. Look for more information, including opportunities to attend and provide input, in the coming weeks.
Next Steps and Action Items:
The Voyage team is considering how Study Away experiences can be high impact. If you lead or engage in a Study Away experience that you think might align with our High Impact Practices frameworks, please reach out to Kris Pachla or Rachel Paris to discuss.
Consider being a faculty fellow for the 2023-2024 Academic Year. Applications will be available in early January, with a due date of late February.
We continue to welcome any meetings with faculty across the college for ongoing understanding of the Voyage and faculty roles. If you’d like to connect, please reach out to Kris or Rachel to schedule.
As a reminder, students who are new to GVSU for the 2022 Fall and 2023 Winter semesters will have a hold placed on their record which will require that they see a professional advisor prior to registering for 2023-24. This includes first-year, transfer, and international students. At this time, only professional advisors can lift the hold, however students are always encouraged to meet with their faculty advisors. If you meet with a new student, please take a few moments to add advising notes in Navigate. When the student comes to see us to have the hold released, we will review your notes and assist them with registration. The Academic Advising Center has a strategic communication plan to reach these students early and often so as not to delay registration for the next academic year.
Calendars
3. Important deadlines
Nov. 16 Senior Affiliate recommendations due to Dean Anderson
Nov. 18 CLAS Personnel Committee submits recommendations to the
Nov. 22 Provide comment on the Guiding Principles & Strategic Pillars – Draft for Discussion
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
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. 17 Reclaiming Places. A lecture at the Holland Museum (7-8:30 p.m.) by Scholar in Residence Henry Luttikhuizen will address 17th-century Dutch landscape paintings and focus on the desire to make imaginative pilgrimages.
Nov. 17 Philosophy Club: What is the source of meaning in our lives? Why should we live in one way or another? To address these questions, we will be introducing Existentialism through a discussion of an excerpt from Sartre’s classic essay “Existentialism Is a Humanism”. 6 p.m., MAK B-1-138.
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. 20 Guest Artist Recital: Chia-Ying Chan and David Brickle, piano duo, 3:00 p.m. Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall. Free
Nov. 20 Early Music Ensemble feat. Phoebe Gelzer-Govatos7:30 p.m. Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall. GVSU's Early Music Ensemble performs with guest artist Phoebe Gelzer-Govatos on violin. Free
Nov. 29 Symphony Orchestra Concert. 7:30 p.m. Louis Armstrong Theatre. Free
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 Concert Band Concert. 7:30 p.m. Louis Armstrong Theatre. Free
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. 1 Understanding the State Supreme Court: A Conversation with Michigan Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Welch. INT 100/201. 5:30-7 p.m. AH 120 Perry Dining Room, Alumni House.
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. 22 – Jan. 2 Semester Break
Feb. 20 GVSU Arts Celebration Presents “How to Commit Crimes Against Reality”, a lecture by Adam Khalil. 7 p.m. Wealthy Theatre.
Apr. 3 GVSU Arts Celebration Presents Poetry Night: A Reading and Conversation with Juan Felipe Herrera, 7 p.m. Eberhard Center.
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