New! Computer Replacement Budget
Effective this fiscal year, the responsibility for overseeing computer workstation replacement has been transferred from ITS to the university's schools & colleges. The CLAS technology committee created a policy to guide the equitable distribution of those resources to the various CLAS departments. That policy can be found on the CLAS policies web page.
A key element of the policy is that resources are to be distributed annually in shares based on relative percentages of eligible employees (faculty and staff). It is acknowledged that for small units, it may be necessary to accumulate funds over multiple years in order to replace workstations. It is expected that departments will develop their own internal criteria for distribution among faculty and staff.
Please contact Associate Dean Mary Coussons-Read if you have questions.
New! New Digs for the CLAS Advising Office
The CLAS Advising Office has expanded their operation to one of the Modular Buildings near the Tivoli Student Union. CLAS Advisors will be assisting students in two locations through the reminder of the fall 2007 semester. Student appointments will be held in the MC3 modular building, while stop-in times will take place in the main CLAS Advising Office in North Classroom 2024. Graduation certifications by CLAS departments will take place in the main office in NC 2024.
Hours of operation in both locations are 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. The CLAS Advising Office invites you to stop by to see their expanded location.
New! CLAS Scholarship: Please Share with your Students
Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation: Five $1,000 Awards
- Three scholarships in the amount of $1000 will be awarded to students who demonstrate financial need.
- Two scholarships in the amount of $1000 will be awarded to students demonstrating Academic Excellence.
- Applicants must have graduated from a high school in the Denver-Metropolitan area (Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Jefferson county schools)
- Must be current CLAS majors with a minimum of 30 completed hours at UCDHSC.
For more information, contact the Advising Office at 303-556-2555 (Informational brochure)
New! Welcome Stephanie Hamington!
New CLAS/Education Advisor
Stephanie Hamington is our new Education Advisor who was hired collaboratively with the School of Education and Human Development. Stephanie will work primarily with undergraduate students who are pursing a career in teacher education. She comes to us with 15 years of academic advising experience from the University of Southern Indiana, Oregon State University and Mount St. Mary’s College.
Stephanie’s strong leadership experience with developing and sustaining retention and persistence programs will be a critical factor in growing the undergraduate teacher education program. She has demonstrated significant expertise in the academic advising field through her numerous presentations at national and regional conferences for the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). She has also received certificates of merit as an Outstanding Advising Administrator, and for an Outstanding Advising Program.
We are thrilled to have her on the CLAS Advising team, and we look forward to her contributions to the college. Stephanie can be reached at 303-556-6136, via e-mail and in the MC3 modular building.
New! CLAS Graduate Student Scholarship
Awarded by the UCDHSC Alumni Association
The UCDHSC downtown campus offers two scholarship opportunities to our students through the Alumni Association: the undergraduate Alumni General Scholarship and the Alumni Association Graduate Scholarship. Both programs award $2000 per academic year to each scholarship winner ($1000 each semester upon verification of their continuing eligibility).
Only one graduate scholarship per college is awarded at this time, and requires faculty to nominate deserving students to Dean Hageman, who will make the final choice. (Undergraduate students apply directly to the Alumni Office and compete for multiple awards.)
Please send your nominations of students for the graduate scholarship to the attention of Jill Hutchison in the Dean's Office by April 1 for the
2008-9 award.
New! One Book, One Denver on Campus
UCDHSC, in conjunction with the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, will present One Book, One Denver author Nick Arvin, reading from his book "Articles of War" and answering questions from the community this Thursday, Oct. 25, beginning at 3:30pm in the Concert Hall of the King Center for the Performing Arts. This event is free and open to the public.
This appearance is sponsored by the UCDHSC Office of Student Life, CU-Denver Live!, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Education, the Auraria Library, the Colorado Center for Public Humanities, the UCDHSC Writing Center, and the UCDHSC Office of Marketing and Communications.
For more information, contact Jake Adam York at UCDHSC (303-556-8828) or Gina Rubano at the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (720.865.4325).
Reminders
CLAS Outstanding Grad Student: Nomination packets for CLAS Outstanding Graduate Students for the fall are due to Tammy Stone by Friday, Oct. 26.
People on the Move
Mathematical Sciences Professor Stanley E. Payne collaborated with Ilaria Cardinali to write "q-Clan Geometries in Characteristic 2," a Frontiers in Mathematics resource book focusing on finite geometry research. It was just published by Birkhauser Verlag. Payne met Cardinali while he was on sabbatical in 2002 at the University of Naples in Italy, and it was there they conceived of the idea to write this book.
Members of the CLAS Advising Team have recently presented at the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) regional and national conferences.
- Sheryl Coffey and Carol Morken presented at the NACADA Region 10 conference in Mesa, Ariz. on May 15, 2007. Their presentation focused on the UCDHSC & CLAS process for the design and implementation of the Early Alert System.
- A similar presentation regarding the Early Alert System was just presented last weekend at the NACADA National Conference in Baltimore, Md. Carol Morken, Trishia Vasquez, John Lanning and Peggy Lore facilitated the discussion. They were invited to submit an article about the Early Alert System for NACADA’s Academic Advising Today (AAT), the association's electronic quarterly newsletter.
- In addition to the Early Alert presentation in Maryland, Carol Morken and Joanie Kuczwara presented a concurrent session highlighting the group advising process they implemented for first-year freshmen.
Simon Magkakyan, an undergraduate student majoring in political science wrote an article on the Djulfa destruction, which was published in History Today's November issue, called "Sacred Stones Silenced in Azerbaijan."
Events
Nick Arvin: One Book, One Denver Author
Thursday, Oct. 25 (hosted by the Copper Nickel)
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
Sociology Presents: Domestic Violence - Listen to Our Voices
Video
Presentation & Panel Discussion
Tuesday, Oct. 30
3:00-5:00 pm
Tivoli Student Union, Room 320A
Sponsored by the UCDHSC Students of Sociology Club (brochure)
Staff Council Appreciation Breakfast
Wednesday,
Oct. 31
7:30-9:30 a.m.
Tivoli Turnhalle
All classified and professional exempt employees are invited
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)
Clinical Health Psychology Colloquium Series: Evelinn Borrayo
Wednesday, Nov. 7
3:30 pm
NC 5018
Affiliation: Associate Professor of Psychology, Colorado State University
Title: "
Breast Cancer Detection among Latinas: Is it Worth the Risk?”
Philosophy Lecture Series: Marion Hourdequin, PhD
Thursday, Nov. 8
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Plaza M-108
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College
Title of Talk: "Engagement, Withdrawal, and Social Reform in the Analects and
Habits of the Heart"
This talk is co-sponsored with the Colorado Center for Public Humanities.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Computer Replacements
CLAS Advising Office
Scholarship Opportunity
New CLAS/Educ. Advisor
Grad Student Scholarship
One Book, One Denver
Reminders
Faculty on the Move
Events
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