New! Revised EPCC Policies and Procedures
The CLAS Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee (EPCC) has recently updated, revised, and clarified its policies and procedures for new course approval, course revision, and curriculum development and revision. The approved policies and procedures are now available on the CLAS website. These are the procedures and policies that the EPCC will be following in its work on behalf of the college, so please adhere to these when undertaking course or curriculum-related activities. Please contact Associate Dean Mary Coussons-Read, Dean’s office liaison to the EPCC, with any questions or concerns you might have regarding this document or EPCC.
New! Required Information Privacy and Security Training
Based on a mandate from President Brown, all current employees (including student hourly employees, graduate assistants, teaching assistants, research assistants and lecturers) are required to complete Information Privacy and Security Training. The deadline for completion is 12/31/07.
The Dean's Office will be following up with departments mid-November to let them know of individuals that still have not completed the training. Given the size of our college and the deadline falling after the end of the semester, please help us in this effort by working immediately with individuals in your department to ensure that the training is completed sooner rather than later.
Information:
The basic course should take about 20 minutes to complete. You can access it through Blackboard Web-Based courses. Log-in by using your six-digit employee ID# for your user name and password. If you don’t know your employee ID#, it is available in your CU Payroll Advice, your CU Portal page, or from your department’s Payroll and Personnel Liaison.
If you are having trouble accessing Blackboard, call the CU Online Help Desk at (303) 556-6505 (Hours: 8:00-5:00 PM, M-F) or email them.
New! Copper Nickel Denver Mint Poetry Festival
A survey of contemporary American Poetry in 30 hours
Thursday, Oct. 18
5-9pm: Twelve poets interviewing one another, followed by readings by Joshua Kryah, Wayne Miller, Kate Greenstreet, Janet Holmes, John Gallaher, and Kevin Prufer. In the UCD Studio Theater in the King Center for the Performing Arts on the Auraria Higher Education Campus in downtown Denver. Parking for free in the lot behind the Tivoli, accessed by 9th Street off of Auraria Parkway.
Friday, Oct. 19
12-5pm: Readings by Alex Lemon and Adam Clay, Hadara Bar-Nadav and Eliot Khalil Wilson, Zachary Schomburg and Mathias Svalina, including a group discussion about publishing and editing. In the UCD Studio Theater in the King Center for the Performing Arts on the Auraria Higher Education Campus in downtown Denver. Parking for free in the lot behind the Tivoli, accessed by 9th Street off of Auraria Parkway.
7-10pm: Exhibition opening for “Manual Labors,” where contemporary poets respond to pre-Columbian artifacts, featuring manuscripts by Kate Greenstreet, Noah Eli Gordon, Bin Ramke, Chris Ransick, Karen Volkman and 30 other poets. Exhibition opens at 7pm at The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar (404 S. Upham Street in Lakewood, just southeast of the intersection of Alameda and Wadsworth). Reception continues through 10pm. Free parking in the adjacent lot. Exhibit on display through December 30th.
All events are free and open to the public.
Reminders
CLAS Outstanding Grad Student: Nomination packets for CLAS Outstanding Graduate Students for the fall are due to Tammy Stone on Friday, Oct. 26.
Faculty on the Move
Herman Sievering, professor of geography and environmental sciences, is a .1% owner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In his research role for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past four years, he contributed to substantial input for the conclusions in aerosol radiative forcing in the Science Basis Report published in March. Additionally, he served on the Expert Review Panel providing oversight, synthesis, writing and input during the last two years of the 4th Climate Change Assessment process. He contributed to IPCC's approach by analyzing and stating for policy makers' consumption the uncertainty in their calculations for the physical science results and, partly, the social science results with regard to impact and mitigation. Although he won't be attending the ceremony in Oslo in December, he will participate electronically.
Events
Denver Mint Poetry Festival, hosted by the Copper Nickel
Thursday, Oct. 18
5:00-9:00 pm
King Center Black Box Theater
Friday, Oct. 19
12:00-5:00 pm
King Center Black Box Theater
Reception & Exhibition Opening
Friday, Oct. 19
7:00-10:00 pm
The Lab at Belmar
404 S. Upham Street, Lakewood
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Brown Bag
Friday, Oct. 19
Noon-1:00 pm
1020 9th Street Park
The discussion will address the place of feminist pedagogy in today's university classroom. we especially invite students and instructors to attend this discussion facilitated by Michelle Comstock.
Copper Nickel hosts Nick Arvin
Thursday, Oct. 25
3:30 pm
King Center Concert Hall
Department of Economics Seminar: Stephan Weiler
Friday, Oct. 26
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Lawrence Street Center, Conference Room, Suite 450
Affiliation: Department of Economics, Colorado State University
Title of Paper: "The Impact of National Park Designation"
UCDHSC Fall Open House
Sunday, Oct. 28
11:30-2:30 pm
PE/Event Center
New Visions of the American Scholar Lecture: Patricia Limerick
Hosted by The Colorado Center for Public Humanities
Thursday, Nov. 1
6:30 pm
The Lab at Belmar
4004 S. Upham Street, Lakewood
Patricia Limerick is the Faculty Director and Chair of the Board of the Center of the American West and Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Presentation: "Dale Carnegie for the Academic: How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Wider World, while Still Retaining a Degree of Scholarly Good Standing" (more information)
IN THIS ISSUE:
EPCC Revisions
Mandatory Security Training
Denver Mint Poetry Festival
Reminders
Faculty on the Move
Events
ARCHIVES:
Past issues since Jan 21, 2007.
USEFUL LINKS:
Campus News (PostExpress archives)
The CLAS Deans' Notes is a weekly newsletter
for college faculty and staff.
EDITOR:
Katy Brown
303.556.6663
Katy.Brown @cudenver.edu