College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Unit Head and Faculty Weekly Mailing 1-10-12
Faculty
- Niemeyer Awards Nomination deadline is Feb. 3
- Seeking a planning team for Liberal Arts Alumni Panel
- AP Awards Nominations- due March 2, 2012
- Celebrating Women Awards 2012
- Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition – volunteers still needed
- Angela Davis Writing Project
For Unit Heads
The Niemeyer awards nominations are due to our office (laugc@gvsu.edu) by Feb. 3rd. You can find the nomination on the provost website http://www.gvsu.edu/provost/glenn-a-niemeyer-awards-5.htm.
Dear CLAS Faculty:
I am seeking to put together a planning team for the second Liberal Arts Alumni Panel which will be held on March 21 from 5:30-7:30pm in the Kirkhof Center. This panel will include 4-5 GVSU CLAS alumni who will share their career stories with current students You can view last year’s event here.
Participation in the planning team will require the following:
Attending a meeting on January 27 from 11am-12pm in the Student Services Building Room 203 to discuss the event and brainstorm ways to build on the successes of the initial event.
Recommending alumni to invite to participate in the panel (recommendations can be brought to the meeting on the 27th or provided afterwards).
Assisting in the promotion of the event to students.
Attending (not required) the event on March 21 from 5:30-7:30pm in Room 2215-16 Kirkhof.
If you are interested in participating, please contact Megan Riksen in Career Services at riksenm@gvsu.edu or 331-3311.
Thank you,
Megan Riksen
Assistant Director, Career Services
To nominate, please visit us at http://www.gvsu.edu/ap/awards
Nomination process open through March 2, 2012.
All faculty should have received a flyer from the Women’s Commission about awards with a due date of February 15. Please give serious consideration to nominating your worthy colleagues. Information on the awards can be accessed here: http://www.gvsu.edu/w_commission/awards-and-nominations-22.htm
Three volunteers are still needed to interview at the January 14 Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition. Please contact Keesha Hardiman (hardimak@gvsu.edu)
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Angela Davis Writing Project
This is an invitation to join the Angela Davis Writing Project at Grand Valley State University.
This past semester, a group of seven or eight of us from different parts of the university met five times and read seven writing projects. We enjoyed intense and productive conversations with each author about their work. Members of the group consistently welcomed high levels of constructive commentary on their writing projects, which included book chapters, scholarly articles, and creative works. We are open to many other kinds of projects as well.
A main practical objective of this project is to read and discuss current projects under way by project members that in some aspect fulfill the imperatives described below. The project members should meet regularly to discuss current work, to provide one another with insights, and challenge one another to complete, present, and publish scholarly projects.
The project is named for well-known activist and scholar, Angela Davis, whose work, life, and commitments represent the intersections of radical, working-class, black, feminist, internationalist, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and questioning (lgbtqiq) politics, identities and communities, and agendas for individual and collective liberation and equality.
The aim of the ADWP is to provide a productive space for scholars who share this global and local vision to engage in the praxis of writing, teaching, and activism.
An ultimate aim will be to build, to connect, and to form alliances, in order to challenge political, ideological, and disciplinarian boundaries (including our own) in the process of being and becoming educators, learners, and human beings.
We share Angela Davis’ own stated outlook: the dialectical unity and contradictions of utopia, reality as it is (or was) and the work of making change, with a special focus on words, cultures, ideas, ideologies, and the industry of scholarship.
Please contact us to express your interest.
Initiators:
Tracy Flemming Joel Wendland
African/African American Studies Liberal Studies Department
Brooks College Brooks College
flemmint@gvsu.edu wendlajo@gvsu.edu
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Important Dates |
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Jan. 11 |
Unit Head Meeting - CANCELLED |
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Jan. 14 |
Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition |
CLAS contact Keesha (hardimak@gvsu.edu)
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Jan. 16 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Events |
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Jan. 17 |
Digital Measures Training |
HRY 111, 3:00-4:00 |
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Jan. 18 |
CLAS Unit Head Mediation Training* |
2266 KC, 3:00-5:00 |
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Jan. 19 |
CLAS Faculty Research Colloquium |
308 PAD, 2:30-5:00 |
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Jan. 21 |
Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition |
CLAS contact Keesha (hardimak@gvsu.edu)
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Jan. 25 |
Unit Head Meeting |
2266 KC, 3:00-5:00 |
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Jan. 27 |
Student Summer Scholars Applications due |
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Jan. 30 |
Student Scholars Day Application Opens |
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Feb. 2 |
Faculty Awards Convocation |
Loosemore Auditorium, 4:00 p.m. |
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Feb. 3 |
Niemeyer Award nominations due |
Electronically to laugc@gvsu.edu
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Feb. 4 |
Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition |
CLAS contact Keesha (hardimak@gvsu.edu)
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Feb. 8 |
Unit Head Meeting |
2263 KC, 3:00-5:00 p.m. |
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Feb. 11 |
Awards of Distinction Scholarship Competition |
CLAS contact Keesha (hardimak@gvsu.edu)
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Feb. 15 |
Facilities Request Due |
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Feb. 15 |
Celebrating Women Awards 2012 |
http://www.gvsu.edu/w_commission/awards-and-nominations-22.htm |
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Feb. 16 |
308 PAD, 2:30-5:00 p.m. |
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Feb. 16 |
Materials for W12 Contract Renewal due to CPC |
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Feb. 17 |
Student Scholars Day Registration Closes |
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Feb. 20 |
Banner Opens for Mid-term Grading |
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Feb. 22 |
Unit Head Meeting |
2263 KC, 3:00-5:00 p.m. |
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Feb. 23 |
Materials for W12 tenure/promotion due to CPC |
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Feb. 28 |
Banner closes at noon for mid-term grades |
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Mar. 2 |
AP Award Nomination packets are due http://www.gvsu.edu/ap/awards |
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*Reminder for those unit heads signed up for this training.
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