February Faculty Meeting and other items of interest
So we had to cut short our faculty meeting today, I'm sure you were crushed.
Actually, we were only about 10 minutes from being done anyhow. For those of you following along in your hymnals, we got through the Agenda (2_20_08.doc) items 1, 2, and 3. We discussed the impact of the new Banner registration system impact on our course pre-requisites and numbers. We will follow up on those in the graduate faculty and with Randy will help us manage the undergrad courses. I plan to have specific items for vote/discussion for us to address at the March faculty meeting. I asked for everyone to share with me any student awards, presentations, etc, that were made last year with me via email. Please consider both graduate and undergraduate students in this request so I can include them both in my department annual report.
So, I want to follow up on the remaining items. I will also be posting minutes from the meeting later this week.
- FOR YOUR PLANNING Campus Interview, Feb 27-29.
• Research Presentation, Thursday at 3:15.
• There are MANY opportunities to interact beyond the presentation, so please seek those out!
• Stephanie Norander Itinerary.docItinerary is attached and the candidate file should be in the office soon
Ms. Stephanie Norander, ABD, Ohio University
Research in two related areas: organizing for social change across cultural, national and gendered boundaries, and organizational identitites. Dissertation title: Organizing for peace: Women’s cooperative networks in post-conflict regions. Teaching interest org com, conflict, intercultural, qualitative methods, and gender and communication.
- Departmental Scholarships are now available for students to apply. Applications are due March 15. Info was sent to all majors/minors in blog. Please encourage your students to apply! This applies to graduate and undergraduate students.
- I strongly encourage you to attend the Friday Provost Open Forum at 3:00 in PSU 400. This is "an open forum, to discuss issues of concern and ideas (big and small) about how we can all best lead and nurture our campus community." You can ask questions about anything, including issues such as Banner or even concerns with Merit.
- Then next Tuesday is Dean Adams', Arts and Letters College-wide meeting. Tuesday, Feb 26 at 4:00 in Hill 002. This is yet an opportunity to ask questions of the dean, and the Provost is making an appearance there as well. They are very interested in getting feedback on the various initiatives college and university wide. I'll be here, and hope to see you as well.
OTHER ITEMS OF NOTE:
Advisor Forums
Thursday, February 21, “Advising for Student Success: Ideas and Strategies.” Pat Juncos, Rebecca Woodard and Kathy Davis. The session will be in PSU 315 from 12 to 1 p.m.
Friday, February 29, Mike Frizell, George Connor and Jim Moyer will address “I’m having trouble in your class…How instructors can assist students who struggle.” This panel will be in PSU 313, the Traywick Parliamentary room.
Please, encourage your freshmen and senior students to complete the NSSE survey, if selected. NSSE stands for National Survey of Student Engagement. This self report survey collects levels of reported engagement by students at both the first and last years and these data are important in development student success initiatives as well as feeding back data to departments on how they are doing in engaging students academically. So, we want as many COM students as we can who have been selected to actually fill out the survey. A random sample of these students has been selected (2500 of each class) with up to 5 emails sent inviting them to complete the survey.
Interested in Service-Learning scholarship? There is a luncheon and speaker event hosted by the CASL office, Thursday, Feb 28 at 12:30 in the PSU 308. Please RSVP at 836-5774. For more information, contact their office.
Kelly