As part of the support of the Voyage, the CCEL website has been created and will be updated continuously based on new resources, information, and opportunities. The website can be explored at the URL www.gvsu.edu/ccel.

The Curricular Frameworks for High-Impact Practices have been updated and will be widely disseminated this week. Feedback is welcome and links will be available on the CCEL website.

Next Steps:

A clarification from the last Weekly Mailing: The current framework for Study Abroad is focused on experiences that leave the country. The Voyage team is also interested in “Study Away” experiences, those courses that include or are exclusively an off-campus experience (such as a semester in DC). We are beginning to reach out individually based on existing knowledge, but if you lead or teach such an experience, please connect with us so that we can learn more!

We continue to welcome any meetings with faculty across the college for ongoing understanding of the Voyage and faculty roles. If you would like to connect, please reach out to Kris or Rachel to schedule. 

2. Student Success Strategies

A Students of Concern Flowchart has been crafted to assist faculty and staff in making appropriate student referrals. The flowchart has imbedded links to the referral forms or websites to make the process easier. Feedback should be sent to AD Schaner ([email protected]).

3. New mental health resource for Grand Valley students

The University Counseling Center is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Togetherall to provide a new mental health resource to Grand Valley students. Togetherall is an online community where students can anonymously share feelings and receive help from peers and licensed mental health professionals twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Togetherall will expand access to mental health support and complement existing clinical and community health services provided by the Center.

A brief video outlining all that Togetherall has to offer

Additional tools are available to faculty and staff as they support student wellness, including student mental health. We encourage you to download the GV Mental Health app, designed to assist those navigating a student mental health concern or crisis. We also encourage you to become a nationally recognized QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper and familiarize yourself with the wealth of self-help materials available to students on the University Counseling Center website.

Melissa Selby-Theut, DCC, LMSW-Clinical & Macro
Associate Director and Director of Prevention and Community Education

4. Active Learning Classrooms in MAK for 2023-24 (from the Registrar)

Two active learning classrooms are available in MAK.

The rooms are set up for dual delivery to remote and in-room students simultaneously, particularly for discussion-based pedagogy.  They include: 

multiple screens that can project both a gallery view of the remote students and instructional material,  
ceiling-mounted microphones so remote students or presenters can hear what in-class students say, 
cameras with pan/tilt/zoom control, full views of the whiteboard, and, in B-1-110, automatic tracking of instructor, 
dual monitor instructor stations, 
movable furniture.

MAK A-1-111 (capacity 38 students) is a CLAS dibs room and is already fairly heavily scheduled, but B-1-110 (cap 36) is a GV room and is currently lightly scheduled for Summer 23, Fall 23, and Winter 24.  Their current schedules are visible in the calendar files available at the Room Capacity page. Each unit interested in moving courses into one of these rooms should send a message specifying which specific sections they would like to move and which room to Mona Silva ([email protected]) by December 9.   After that deadline, the Colleges and Registrar will work to assign slots as well as possible.  Our goal is to do this quickly so that units can make use of spots in other rooms that are freed up by switching into one of these rooms.

5. Commencement, Saturday, Dec. 10, 3 p.m.

RSVP for commencement. Need to borrow regalia? CLAS has a few robes we can lend. Contact [email protected].

Unit Heads and PSS

5. Reminder - Giving Tuesday Donations

Donations received in your department for the Replenish Food Drive will be picked up by the CLAS Dean’s office student workers on Thursday, December 1 or Friday, December 2. If you would like to make a donation of nonperishable food or personal care items, see the List of Items to donate to Replenish. While the university Giving Team is focusing on Replenish, donors can give to whatever fund they wish, and these gifts will count toward the goal.

Calendars                               

6.  Important‌ ‌deadlines      ‌        ‌ ‌ ‌                                                                                                 
Nov. 30 12-1 p.m., HerStory with Dean Drake, KC 2270

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 Final Round Annual Schedule for 2023-2024 due to Dean’s Office

Jan. 9 All materials must be uploaded to the candidate’s personnel Blackboard site by 5pm

Jan. 9 Unit head copies contents of candidate’s Blackboard site to the unit personnel Blackboard site at 5pm (will receive an email from Heidi with instructions)

Jan. 16 Faculty use Digital Measures to create their Faculty Workload Reports (FWRs) and submit to their unit heads, along with an updated CV. Joint appointees submit to BOTH unit heads.

Jan. 16 Date by which unit head lets Associate Dean Anderson know of unit decision regarding waiving unit peer review process

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

Feb. 11 Units submit contract renewal materials to the Dean’s office

Feb. 17 Last date by which unit’s peer review should be complete, considering joint appointment feedback when relevant. (Units may opt for earlier deadlines)

Feb. 18 Units submit tenure and promotion materials to the Dean’s office

Feb. 25 Units submit promotion only materials to the Dean’s office (promotion to associate professor if not associated with a tenure decision)

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

Mar. 10 Unit heads submit faculty FWRs and CVs. The submission process is through the Faculty Workload Report website

Apr. 29 Sabbatical reports due for sabbaticals taken in Fall 2022               

7. Upcoming‌ ‌events         ‌ ‌ ‌                                                 

Nov. 30 Herstory, noon-1:30 p.m. KC 2270. Featuring Jennifer Drake.

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 Jeff Byrnes’ Colloquium Talk, “Transparency and Authority Concerns for the Use of Algorithms in Ethical Decision-Making in Healthcare”. 3 p.m., MAK BLL-110

Dec. 2 Monica’s Trunk Show (Quilts show-n-tell), MAK BLL-126, 3:30-4:30 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, 3 p.m.

Dec. 14 Dr. Janet Vail "Climate Change, Air Quality, and Health" Wednesday, December 14 at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. CCES Network Speaker Series.

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

Dec. 22 – Jan. 2 Semester Break

Jan. 18 April E. Lindala (Six Nations), Full Professor at the Center for Native American Studies, Northern Michigan University will give a presentation during the Martin Luther King Jr. week. CCES Network Speaker Series.

Feb. 20 GVSU Arts Celebration Presents “How to Commit Crimes Against Reality,” a lecture by Adam Khalil. 7 p.m. Wealthy Theatre.

Mar. 18 Region 12 Science Olympiad Tournament

Apr. 3 GVSU Arts Celebration Presents Poetry Night: A Reading and Conversation with Juan Felipe Herrera, 7 p.m. Eberhard Center.