College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Unit Head Mailing 1-20-09
1. The CLAS Academic Advising Website is LIVE!
2. Request for Data from University’s Affirmative Action Office (deadline January 28)
3. Faculty Activity Report for activity for 2008
4. Faculty consultation on vision for new life science building grant proposal
Thanks for your patience while we built the site. We hope that students, faculty and staff will find it useful. We would like to get folks used to using it, and we welcome the feedback.
~Betty
A request has been made by Ken James, Assistant Vice President for Affirmative Action, for a short written summary of activities and programs that promoted awareness, increased diversity and helped foster inclusion occurring in CLAS during calendar 2008. Examples could be retention initiatives, advertising in diverse publications, conferences and workshops staged or attended on topics like sexual harassment, recruitment and retention, working in diverse environments, etc. So that Monica Johnstone can collate the responses from all the units in CLAS, we ask that you email your brief bulleted items to johnstmo@gvsu.edu by January 28th. *
The FAR is now posted on the CLAS website. Remember this document is due February 2, 2009 to your unit head.
Last summer a proposal was submitted the National Institute of Standards and Technology for an unusual grant to fund the building of life science research facilities. The GVSU proposal was ranked reasonably well among the 93 submissions. A debrief has identified the strengths and weaknesses of the proposal, and there are indicators that more building funding may soon become available in the federal stimulus package. The grant team is keen to seek this funding and must be ready with the revised proposal quite soon. To improve the clarity of the vision for the science outcomes a new life science research building in Allendale would bring to GVSU, we need faculty input. Three one-hour consultations are being held for your convenience:
Friday, January 23 in the Lake Michigan Center, Muskegon (AWRI) at 3:00-4:00pm
Monday, January 26 in 540 CHS 10:00-11:00am
Wednesday, January 28 in 308 PAD 9:00-10:00am
Contact Monica Johnstone for more information 1-8125 or johnstmo@gvsu.edu
Thank you for making relevant faculty aware of this consultation process.
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Important Dates |
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Jan. 21 |
Unit Head Meeting |
2215/2216 KC, 3:00-5:00 |
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Jan. 22 |
308 PAD, 2:30-5:00 |
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Jan. 23 |
Student Summer Scholars applications due |
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Jan. 24 |
Awards of Distinction Student Scholarship Competition |
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Jan. 26 |
Student Scholarship Day application opens |
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Jan. 28 |
Data on Dept. Diversity Initiatives* |
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Feb. 2 |
Faculty Activity Reports due |
To Unit Heads |
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Feb. 5 |
Faculty Awards Convocation |
4:00 Loosemore Auditorium/DEV |
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Feb. 6 |
Submissions for Niemeyer Awards due |
Electronic only to Laugc@gvsu.edu |
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Feb. 9 |
W09 materials for contract renewal due |
To CLAS Personnel Committee |
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Feb. 11 |
Unit Head Meeting |
2263 KC (note location change) |
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Feb. 13 |
Student Scholarship Day registration closes |
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Feb. 14 |
Awards of Distinction Student Scholarship Competition |
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Feb. 15 |
Facilities Requests Due |
wicklunp@gvsu.edu (taken through 2-16-09) |
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Feb. 17 |
Sabbatical Decisions by Provost |
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Feb. 19 |
CLAS Research Colloquium |
308 PAD, 2:30-5:00 |
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Feb. 20 |
Banner Opens for Mid-Term Grading |
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Feb. 21 |
Awards of Distinction Student Scholarship Competition |
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Feb. 23 |
W09 Materials for Tenure or Promotion Due |
To CLAS Personnel Committee |
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Feb. 24 |
Banner Closes for Mid-Term Grading |
Page last modified January 21, 2009
