Weekly Mailing to Tenure line, Affiliate, Visitors, Administrative Professionals, and Professional Support Staff in CLAS

CLAS Weekly Mailing 12-21-22

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1. For a Fresh Start in January

2. Who Ya Gonna Call?

Calendars                    

3. Important deadlines                    

4. Upcoming events                    

Campus Health Matters

COVID Policy

Reminders

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Faculty

1. For a Fresh Start in January

To help students navigate the new term, a couple minutes taken now to remove outdated event posters, signs about former office hours, and anything else that distracts from the correct Winter 2023 information around your office will be well spent. A quick online cleanup is often the occasion for realizing your latest publication hasn’t been posted, last term’s student workers are listed, your old rank is still on your profile, etc. Here’s hoping you’ll be looking good for the New Year!

2. Who Ya Gonna Call?

For the month of January, some CLAS communications mechanisms will be looked after by interim helpers until a new Director of Communications can be brought aboard.

The next issue of the CLAS Weekly Mailing will probably be on January 11 and will be produced by Mona Silva ([email protected]).

Email directed to [email protected] will be received by Betty Schaner.

Email directed to [email protected] will be received by Amorak Huey (WRT).

The interim CLAS and GV Arts webmaster will be Bridgett Vanderhoof (MTD).

News stories can be sent to Peg West (University Communications).

Questions, as always, can be appropriately directed by calling 1-2495.

Please join me in thanking these people who have been so gracious about helping us during the transition as I retire. ~Monica

Calendars                    

3. Important‌ ‌deadlines      ‌

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 Classes begin

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

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. 13 Last day to add, register or pay for winter semester/100% refund deadline

Jan. 13 Last day for students to request Cr/NC grade option for Winter 2023 courses

Jan. 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day recess

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. 3 75% tuition refund deadline

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

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

Feb. 17 AP Award nominations due by 5 p.m.

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. 20 – 24 Mid-term Evaluations

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

Feb. 27 Mid-term grades due to Deans Office by 11:59 p.m.

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

Mar. 5 – 12 Spring Break

Mar. 10 Withdrawal deadline for Winter 2023 classes – no refund

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

Mar. 31 Minor facilities requests for summer 2023 (minor furniture changes, whiteboards, small projects to be funded by the department) – March 31, request sent directly to G. McBane ([email protected]), prior consultation recommended

Apr. 1 Affiliate contract renewal recommendations due to the Dean’s Office, [email protected]

Apr. 22 Classes end

Apr. 24 – 29 Final Examinations/Culminating experience

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

May 1 Final grades due to Deans Office by 11:59 p.m.

May 5 Requests for more substantial Facilities changes to be done summer 2024 (changes requiring construction, full-classroom furniture changes, new electrical installations, etc.), using Facilities Request Form from https://www.gvsu.edu/clas/unit-heads-51.htm#F, sent to Mona Silva ([email protected]) in Dean’s office

4. Upcoming‌ ‌events         ‌ ‌ ‌                                                 

Dec. 22 – Jan. 3 Semester Break

Jan. 12 Science on Tap: Search for the last Eocene Thermal Event. SpeakEZ Lounge. 8 p.m.

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.

Jan. 18 Unit Head Meeting: Due to scheduled events commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, we plan to shorten that meeting to one hour. There will be a silent march on campus that begins at 4 pm, followed by a keynote presentation by GVSU alum and president of Danville Community College, Jerry Wallace.

Jan. 18 GVSU Study Abroad Fair. 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. Henry Hall Atrium

Jan 20 Dr. Laura Portwood-Stacer: How To Publish A Book From Your Dissertation (Virtual Event)

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

Feb. 23 GVSU Winter Career and Internship Fair

Feb. 24 Art & Science of Aging Conference, Devos Center

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.