Seeking Outstanding Graduate Students
Award nominations due Friday, Oct. 26
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is currently soliciting nominations for the Outstanding Graduate Students for the college. Departments may submit one individual to each of two categories: Master's (MA, MS, MHUM, MSS, MIS) and Ph.D. Nominating packets are due in the Dean’s office by 5:00 on Friday, October 26, 2007.
Packets must include the following items:
- A nominating letter from the department that clearly spells out why this student stands out above the norm (e.g., publications, grants, service to community or profession).
- A clear statement by the student detailing their accomplishments and plans for the future.
- A transcript
- Additional supporting letters from faculty may be included
- A current curriculum vitae
- Where applicable, include FCQs for teaching
Additional supporting letters and other materials may be included. Please be aware that this award is competitive across the college, so it would be useful if you can provide information that helps us compare students from one field with students in another. One example is to include the quality of journals if the student has publications, or the scope of a meeting (regional, national, international) if the student has meeting presentations.
Please contact Associate Dean Tammy Stone if you have questions.
Online training available through SkillSoft
Human Resources strives to provide you with the best development opportunities possible. They are pleased to announce a pilot of SkillSoft’s on-line courses and books between now and December 14.
(More information)
Early Alert System
The downtown Denver campus is ready to carry out a campus-wide pilot of the Early Alert System (EAS) to identify students needing assistance from advising and student support staff. Early Alert is a web-based program allowing faculty to identify students needing assistance in three general areas: academic performance, participation, and behavior. The dates for faculty input into the EAS are Wednesday, Sept. 12, through Monday, Sept. 24. The attached EAfaculty file is an outline of the Early Alert System, and the important role the faculty plays in this student retention process.
The Early Alert program is easily accessed from the downtown Denver home page. The attached EAlogin file contains login directions and a short overview of how instructors use EAS. While EAS is designed to be intuitive and simple to use, detailed instructions on how to use Early Alert are available within the EAS program and in the attached EASfacinstruc file.
We are aware that the downtown Denver campus has been experiencing some intermittent slow periods on the campus server. If this occurs during the Early Alert period, we ask your patience and understanding. Your participation to identify students needing assistance is crucial to the success of the Early Alert System program. Please go through the EAS for each of your Fall 2007 classes.
Contact John A. Lanning, Asst. Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Experiences, with questions: 303.556.6363.
36th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO)
September 21-23
UCDHSC will host the annual conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest on the Downtown Denver Campus from Friday, Sept. 21 to Sunday, Sept. 23. The conference, with a theme of “Linguistic Legacies,” will host scholars from around the world. The LASSO presidential address, "¡Ala! Linguistic Innovation and the Blending of Cultures on the South Texas Border," will be given by LASSO President Kati Pletsch de García (Texas A&M International University) on Friday, Sept. 21 at 4:00 p.m. in NC 1130. The plenary address, “Early Spanish-English bilingualism: Theoretical issues, empirical analyses”, will be given by Carmen Silva-Corvalán (University of Southern California) on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 3:30 p.m. in NC 1130. UCDHSC faculty and students are welcome to attend sessions in the North Classroom Building at no charge. (Full details)
University Scholarship Team Grants
Proposals due September 28
The Office of Research Services and the Center for Faculty Development at the Downtown Campus of the University of Colorado Denver announce a new grant program, The University Scholarship Team Grants, with total funding up to $18,000. The purpose of the UST Grant program is to provide resources for collaborative, scholarly and creative work. Funding will support teams composed of faculty and students who identify scholarly or creative problems of mutual interest and who jointly seek solutions to these problems in informal environments outside of the classroom. Teams may be disciplinary or interdisciplinary and are encouraged to involve members from both campuses.
Applications must be received by the Research Services Office, Lawrence Street Center 300 (Campus Box 120) by 5 pm, Friday, Sept. 28.
CCHE Faculty-to-Faculty conference
Friday, Oct. 12
Sheraton Denver Tech Center
This year the Faculty-to-Faculty conference will feature a P-20 theme, while accommodating the yearly content group faculty-to-faculty discussions during the afternoon schedule of the conference’s agenda. The conference will focus on how 1) to focus on the state’s education systems’ role in the P-20 education pipeline; and 2) to provide a context within which two-year and four-year faculty can discuss issues of transfer articulation, credit by examination, assessment and accountability and the re-calibration of the Pathways process within their respective disciplines.
UCDHSC has a record of consistent faculty participation in this CCHE conference, and I encourage all undergraduate colleges to participate. It would be very helpful if at least one UCDHSC faculty member from each of the afternoon breakout content areas below could attend.
Arts and Humanities
Natural and Physical Sciences
Mathematics
Communication (English composition)
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Please have interested faculty contact Vicki Leal at CCHE no later than Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007 with their RSVP. Please copy John Lanning on your e-mail reservation to CCHE.
Faculty on the Move
Professor Brad Stith of the biology department has been invited to be the plenary speaker for the Faculty Forum at Northern Michigan University on February 1, 2008. Due to his past involvement, the invited talk will discuss the value and the nature of undergraduate research in education.
Reminders & Events
Philosophy Department Lecture
Thursday, Sept. 20
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Michael Zimmerman, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts University of Colorado at Boulder
"Will technological advances lead to a transhuman era?
Plaza Bldg. M108A, Haber Library
Department of Economics Seminar: Melinda Pitts
Friday, Sept. 21
3:30 - 5:00pm
Lawrence Street Center, Conference Room, Suite 450
Affiliation: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Title of Paper: "Working with Children: The Probability of Mothers Exiting the Workforce at Time of Birth"
Literary Reading: Teague Bohlen, assistant professor of English
Monday, Sept. 24
With poet Bill Cooperman
4:00pm
Miss Prothero’s Books
The Art of Search Committees: Increasing the Quality and Diversity of UCDHSC Faculty
Friday, Sept. 28, 2007
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm
CU Building Room 490
Audience: Individuals who are chairing or serving on search committees
Presented By: Kevin Jacobs, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources
Please RSVP by sending an email to Julia Agazio with your name and department by September 25.
Copper Nickel 8 Release & Press Launch
Friday, Sept. 28
Matter Studio at 2132 Market Street, Denver
7:00 - 10:00 pm
Ethnic Studies Open House
Monday, Oct. 1
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Lawrence Street Center Terrace (2nd Floor)
For more information, call 303.556.2700.
Colorado Center for Public Humanities Lecture Series
Thursday, Oct. 4
12:00 noon
Stephen Prothero, Chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University
“Religious Literacy and Public Intellectuals"
Tivoli Turnhalle
6:30 pm
"Religious Literacy and the American Scholar"
The Laboratory of Art and Ideas, Belmar
404 S. Upham Street, Lakewood
Auraria Library Book Club
Thursday, Oct. 4
5:00 - 6:30pm
Auraria Library, Room 256
Teague Bohlen's book, "The Pull of the Earth," a finalist for the Colorado Book Award for fiction, will be discussed. Bohlen, an assistant professor of English will be present at the meeting. For more information, contact Catherine Ostrander at 303-556-6381.
Undergraduate Research, Internships and Experiential Learning
Friday, Oct. 5
8:30am - 3:30pm
St. Cajetan's
For more information, contact Liz Pruett.
Department of Economics Seminar: Stephan R. Sain
Friday, Oct. 5
3:30 - 5:00pm
Lawrence Street Center, Conference Room, Suite 450
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, UCDHSC
Title of Paper: "Analyzing Regional Climate Experiments via Multivariate Spatial Models"
Department of Economics Seminar: Kerwin Charles
Friday, Oct. 12
3:30 - 5:00pm
Lawrence Street Center, Conference Room, Suite 450
Affiliation: Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Title of Paper: "Race and Conspicuous Consumption"
IN THIS ISSUE:
Outstanding grad student nominations
SkillSoft Training
Early Alert System
LASSO Conference
USTG Grants
CCHE Conference
Faculty on the Move
Reminders & Events
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