The 2022/2023 Spring/Summer, Fall and Winter schedules of classes are now available to view in Banner. Students will also receive an email from the Registrar with their assigned registration date. As students prepare for the opening of the registration process, we wanted to direct faculty attention to the CLAS Faculty Advising Repository. This is a handy “one stop” advising resource. Another helpful resource is the CLAS Academic Advising Center where you can access curriculum guides for all CLAS majors and minors for all active catalog years. Registration begins on Monday, March 2 1.

Students will be required to complete seven verification tasks in order to gain access to registration:

Update cell phone
Update personal email address
Update emergency contact
Update local address
Acknowledgement of financial responsibility
Acknowledgement of vaccine requirement
Acknowledgement of instructional method

Please encourage students to complete these tasks BEFORE their registration date so that they are ready to register when their time occurs! Students may access these tasks using the following steps:

Log in to Banner Self Service at https://www.gvsu.edu/banner/
Select the Student tab, Registration, and Student Registration Self Service
Click on Prepare for Registration to enter the Action Item Processing page
Complete your verification steps.

Waitlists

This year, for most course sections, students will have the ability to add their name to a waitlist if a section is full. If a seat opens up and they are next on the waitlist, they will receive an email to their GVSU email account notifying them that they are eligible to register. They will have 36 hours to log into Banner and register for the course. Watch the wait-listing video for more information or visit the Registrar’s Office site for answers to frequently asked questions about wait-listing.

2. Free College?

On Tuesday, March 22 at 4 p.m. in the Pere Marquette Room, Professor Michelle Miller-Adams will talk about whether college should be free. The talk, based on Professor Miller-Adams’ recently published book, The Path to Free College, will include a discussion of issues of college affordability and possible policy solutions for addressing these issues. It will be followed by an information session on the PLS major and related programs, including IR, Prelaw, Human Rights, and Internship opportunities.

Faculty   

3. Announcement of the Faculty Fellows 

We are excited to announce the faculty who will lead the implementation of the CLAS Vision, Commitment, and Action Plan.

Experiential Learning and High-Impact Practices: Dawn Clifford Hart (CMB), Kristin Hedges (ANT), and Len O’Kelly (COM)

Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Majd Al-Mallah (MLL), Bradford Dykes (STA), Melissa Morison (CLA)

Enhancing Student Success through Academic Support: Debbie Herrington (CHM), Janet Vigna (BIO)

A call for team members to work on these projects will go out soon. Please consider joining one of these implementation teams.

4. SSD Keynote promotes inclusion in STEM

April 13, 2022 - SSD Keynote:

Shaping Inclusive Communities Through Being Human in Stem (5 - 6:30 p.m., online)

Catalyzed by a 4-day student protest highlighting the impact of systemic racism on student experience, the “Being Human in STEM” (HSTEM) course started as a student-faculty collaboration to investigate the academic literature and lived experiences of marginalized students in STEM at Amherst College and beyond. Offered since Spring 2016, the course is an engine for student-led inquiry and action that has reshaped the STEM culture at Amherst and has been adopted by over a dozen institutions. Join protein folding researchers Prof. Sheila Jaswal & Sam Young (Amherst ‘23) as they share their experiences with the HSTEM course from the faculty and student perspective and discuss HSTEM’s impact on their individual STEM journeys and the broader Amherst STEM community.

5. Internal Libraries AD Search: Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Strategy, and Organizational Development

University Libraries are searching for a new Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Strategy, and Organizational Development. The search is internal to the Grand Valley faculty community. If you are interested, please consult the job posting.

Unit Heads

6. Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research (LASER) Institute

The Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research (LASER) Institute is a summer, NSF-funded institute for STEM education researchers looking for an opportunity to develop the capacity to use newer methods in their research. More information and the application for the institute (due March 31).

7. Highlighting important email

Unit Heads – please check your email for important messages from the Registrar and Dean regarding waitlists and capacity override requests.

Calendars                   

8.  Important‌ ‌deadlines      ‌        ‌ ‌ ‌                                     

                 
Anytime       Faculty can self-submit an item for the FORUM.   [email protected]           ‌ ‌     ‌ ‌                    
                 
Each Day     All members of the GVSU community must fill out the online self-assessment each day they are on campus. (VAT)                  
                     

Mar. 18  Oldenburg Writing Contest deadline for submission. For more information, [email protected]    

Mar. 21   Open Registration Begins        

Mar. 21     Advanced Registration for SS22, F22 and W23 begins  

Mar. 25 Deadline date for students to withdraw from a Winter 2022 course  

Mar. 30  Deadline for nominations to Full Professor     

Mar. 30  Facilities requests for Summer 22 small projects (minor furniture changes, whiteboards, small department-funded projects) should be sent to George McBane. Prior discussion to establish feasibility, cost, etc. recommended.       

Apr. 15 Requests for new dibs room assignments, accompanied by plans to fill them at or above the standards described at Department Dibs Room Use Policy, should be sent to Mona Silva.     

Apr. 25 – 29 Final Exams 

Apr. 30 Sabbatical Reports deadline for Fall 2021 sabbaticals      

May 2       Final grades due by midnight  

May 6    2022-2023 catalog changes due to [email protected]     

May 6    Facilities requests for work to be done Summer 2023 (more substantial projects needing university funding, renovations, whole-classroom furniture changes, etc.) Submit to Mona Silva on Facilities Request Form.    

May 20 Enter all 21/22 Student Learning Outcome Assessment Data into GV Advance

May 30 Memorial Day recess 

9. Upcoming‌ ‌events         ‌ ‌ ‌                                     

Mar. 17 CLAS Faculty Research Colloquium (register to receive the link if you have not already done so)

Mar. 18   A life on the move: Unraveling the mysterious evolution of fish migration, AWRI Seminar. 2 p.m. Lake Michigan Center, Muskegon   

Mar. 19   Region 12 Science Olympiad Tournament  

Mar. 19   2022 Michigan History Day Region 4       

Mar. 22 Free College talk. Pere Marquette Room, KC. 4 p.m.

Mar. 23   Unit Head Meeting via Zoom 

Mar. 29   2022 Mosaic Lecture.  Dr. Mariel Vazquez, professor of Mathematics at UC Davis will meet interested students and faculty at the Math Department Peer Collaborating Space 4 –5 p.m.        

Mar. 29     Grand Morsels: Why fish don’t freeze, how soap works, and more: The Amazing Chemistry of Water        

Mar. 30   Unit Head Meeting via Zoom       

Mar. 31   New Music Ensemble Composition Competition              

Apr. 5      GVSU Arts Celebration Lecture presents: An Evening with Hanif Abdurraqib.               

Apr. 9   Princeton Review free/online virtual exam, MCAT Practice Test (April 9)               

Apr. 9   Princeton Review free/online virtual exam, GRE Practice Test (April 9)               

Apr. 9   Princeton Review free/online virtual exam, DAT Practice Test (April 9)              

Apr. 13  26th Annual Student Scholar Day

Apr. 13 Rim of the Visible Ground, artist talk by Sean Patrick Carney, 1-2:40 p.m. Calder Art Center

Apr. 13   Unit Head Meeting via Zoom       

Apr. 14 The Arnold C. Ott Lectureship in Chemistry: Microplastics are Here, There, and Everywhere. 5 p.m. reception for 6 p.m. lecture. Grand River Room, KC.       

Apr. 26   Grand Morsels: The Science of Handwashing       

Apr. 29 7 p.m. Commencement (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences), Van Andel Arena    

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