Monday, November 16, 2009
Thank You
To Scott Alberts who facilitated the Weekly Lunch session on new developments with the LAS Portfolio Project. Direct your attention to the changes that have been made for those students beginning at Truman fall semester of 2009 or after. A useful Tips for Faculty page has been created that takes you to updates on your students’ or advisees’ progress completing their portfolios.
To the wonderful panel of our own international students who shared so much at the Global Issues Colloquium session about the contrasts in education between their home countries and Truman. Countries represented were: Botswana, Russia, Japan, Bulgaria, Nepal, India, and Vietnam. Thanks also to International Students’ Office staff Randi Rae Phelps and Melanee Crist for their assistance.
This Week
Weekly Lunch this Wednesday, November 18, Baillie Cloyd, VISTA Member for Service Learning will be sharing about Service-Learning and Civic Engagement on our campus. Come meet Baillie and find out how she can support your efforts to accomplish HLC accreditation criterion V. Engagement and Service (pg. 7 of this document). Sign the sheet at checkout to receive up to $3.50 towards your Sodexo meal and join us in the Spanish Room between 12:30 and 1:30 pm as your schedule allows.
If you are going up for promotion and tenure this cycle note these session times for the annual Promotion and Tenure Portfolio Blitz. The overview of materials will be offered twice:
- Thursdays, November 12, 19, and December 3, at 4:00 pm in PML 205 - please RSVP.
- OR Tuesday, January 5, of the 2-day version of the workshop. 9:00 am to 12:00 noon in PML 205. The part of the Blitz cited in past evaluations as the most valuable is the portion when peers review drafts. That portion will be offered Wednesday, January 6, 2010 in PML 205 beginning at 9:00 am. See below for more information on the 2-day version.
Coming Soon
Blackboard upgrade workshops begin November 16. Truman will be upgrading to version 9, a version that solves many of the issues faculty have had with previous versions, over winter break. To help users make the transition ITS is offering 26 sessions through December 4. Check the schedule and sign up for the one most convenient for you.
Remaining Weekly Lunches for fall semester are:
- December 2 – Evaluation of the Weekly Lunch Program
Diversity: A Community Conversation will be held December 2nd at 4PM at the Telecommunication Community Resource Center (315 South Franklin Street) two blocks from campus. Share your views on how immigration and demographic change have impacted Truman and northeast Missouri. This forum, open to the Kirksville public, will be moderated by Truman faculty, civic leaders, and representatives from student cultural organizations. Featuring Dr. Bonnie Mitchell from the department of Society and Environment and Mr. Axel Fuentes from the Midwest Immigrant Health Project and Center for New Community.
New Faculty Night at the Lyceum will be December 1, Yuletide Pranks with the Blanks. A reception will precede the Lyceum which starts at 7:30 pm. Please RSVP to the Provost's Office. Complimentary childcare will be available with your RSVP.
The traditional 2-day Tenure and Promotion Portfolio Blitz will be Tuesday and Wednesday January 5 and 6, 2010. We begin at 9:00 am both mornings in PML 205. Please RSVP. If you attended the series on November 12, 29, and December 3, register for the January 6th peer review session only.
Also of Interest
Kirksville High School presents
The Wizard of Oz at 7:00 pm November 19-21 and at 2:00 pm November 22 in the Middle School Auditorium.
Tickets are available at the KHS Office, Beard’s, and Edna Campbell’s.
Hope to see you at some of these events,
Julie