HeadsUp Week of September 10, 2007
I hope your semester has been progressing nicely. 
This week’s HeadsUp is dedicated to preparing you for a series of events for this month of September. Please get your planners/calendars out to put these items on your schedule! It's going to be busy--hold onto your hats girls and boys, this is going to be fun.
Faculty Meeting, Wednesday, September 12, 3:00 in Craig 337.
Topics on the agenda include:
- Curricular items for consideration (items will be forwarded to you)
- Discussion:
- Merit Plan revisions
- Site Visit by Jim Applegate
- A proposed Speech Lab
- Searches
- Area Reports
- Advising Corner
- Visit from Dean Carey Adams
COM Week, September 17-21, various locations
Register for your spot at the student-alumni networking luncheon, Friday, September 21 from 11-1 in the PSU ballroom (see Karen). The cost is $10 and it includes a COM Week shirt. We’ve got twelve alum who have RSVP’d to be there and interact with students. In addition to doing our regular introductions, we’re going to have students do a networking activity after lunch to interact more closely with the alums.
Look for flyers this week on bulletin boards and in your mailboxes about the week’s schedule of events. Don’t forgot to announce these events in every class you teach this semester. Students pay attention to department events to the extent that YOU TELL them about it in class. Master classes will again be offered Monday-Thursday from 3:30-4:45 each day
New Student Welcome, Friday, September 21, Craig Patio at 3:00.
Please invite all of your student to attend this welcome event, with free ice cream snacks. This event is for YOU too. This is an opportunity for faculty to welcome all students, as well as our newest students.
Jim Applegate site visit, September 25-27.
This will be a discussion topic at the faculty meeting, but I wanted to remind you to make time in your schedule those days to meet with Jim. We’re going to have a few open times for faculty to meet with Jim. You’ll get a sign up sheet Wednesday at the faculty meeting. I want you sign up for a specific time so you can plan on it, rather than doing it as a walk-in.
This visit is very important for everyone to participate in, so be planning your time that week to visit with Jim, attend a social event with him, and the like. I want everyone to have some face time with Jim while he’s here. I am also inviting undergraduate and graduate students to meet with him.
September is amazingly full of events and activities! Hopefully we’ll get a respite in October? See you Wednesday at 3:00 for the faculty meeting.
Kelly