Development officers assigned to CLAS
Mimi Fourroux and Jeff Janosko
We are proud to announce that the CU Foundation has dedicated the support of two development officers to our college. Jeff Janosko, associate director of development, and Mimi Fourroux, development associate, are now full-time fundraisers for CLAS. Last year alone they raised over $1M for the college, and that was while they were working hard to do the same for other schools and colleges. Now with their dedicated attention, the college is poised to do even better this year.
For questions related to fundraising, you can contact Jeff Janosko and Mimi Fourroux via email.
Early Alert System
Rollout begins Wednesday, Sept. 12
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.
CLAS magazine seeks story ideas
Submit your good news!
One of the college’s priorities this year is to increase communication and connection with alumni. One way to achieve this is through a magazine for CLAS. Our delivery date is set for the first week of April.
You can help us create our story board by submitting your department’s significant and exciting stories to highlight in our magazine. I’d also like to hear about successful alumni for feature articles. Please e-mail Katy Brown a short description of your departmental story ideas and alumni news by Thursday, Sept. 13 at 5:00pm. The magazine committee will decide on the final story board at that point.
Thanks in advance for contributing!
36th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO)
September 21-23
UCDHSC will host the 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)
Smart-Girl seeks interns
Exciting new mentorship program
This year we are starting a new partnership with Smart-Girl, Inc., a non-profit Colorado organization that provides peer-mentoring and leadership training for middle school girls in the public schools. We are seeking 15 students (female) to participate in the program this year, and plan on expanding the program to include all students (not just girls) in the future. Enrolled students will participate in a mandatory 2-credit hour training course (offered over a weekend) and will then work as part of a leadership team with girls at Kempner Middle School for approximately 3 hours per week through the remainder of the academic year, for which they will earn 3 hours of academic internship credit by the end of Spring 08. Please post the attached flyer in your department and/or announce the program in your classes if you are comfortable doing that, and pass the word on to students whom you think might be interested in this exciting program. The attached flier includes meeting times and registration information, and you can learn more about Smart-Girl at their website and ours. Please contact Mary Coussons-Read if you have further questions.
University Scholarship Team Grants
Call for 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, at the 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
Business
Engineering
Teacher Education (Secondary)
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.
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
Please encourage your students to participate in the 2008-2009 student grants program. UROP enhances undergraduate education on the Downtown Denver Campus by providing funding for students engaged in research, creative, and entrepreneurial activities in collaboration with UCDHSC faculty members. Projects may be designed around the scholarly activities of a faculty member, or designed independently by a student and endorsed by a faculty sponsor. All undergraduate students enrolled in a degree program on the Downtown Denver Campus of UCDHSC and who are in good academic standing are eligible for participation in the program. Furthermore, any regular UCDHSC faculty member is eligible to sponsor one or more UROP students.
For more information please visit the UROP website.
3rd Annual First-Year Experience Symposium
Undergraduate research, internships and experiential learning
This year the symposium will be held on Friday, Oct. 5 in St. Cajetan's from 8:30am until 3:30pm. There will be three guest speakers this year, Eugene Alpert, Washington (DC) Center for Interns and Academic Services, Mary Crowe, Undergraduate Research at University of North Carolina - Greensboro, and Lynne Montrose, Experiential Education, Regis University. They will jointly be presenting strategies for implementing undergraduate research, internships, and experiential learning. For more information, contact Liz Pruett.
Faculty on the Move
Assistant Professor Teague Bohlen from the English department is a fiction category finalist for the Colorado Book Award for his recent book, “The Pull of the Earth.” On October 17, the winner will be announced at an awards ceremony. Additionally, he will be the featured author for the Auraria Book Club on October 4. On October 18 and 27, he will be reading for both of his alma maters, Illinois and Arizona State University, at their homecoming ceremonies.
From the anthropology and health and behavioral science departments, Research Assistant Professor Jean Scandlyn and Research Assistant Professor/Senior Instructor Sharry Erzinger will speak at a sustainability conference hosted by Colorado State University on September 28. The panel for which they will present is titled, “International Service-Learning and Sustainable Enterprise: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches.” (conference information) Scandlyn and Erzinger will lead another group of students for a field experience on sustainable development and health in Ecuador during the winter break this year.
Additionally, on Friday, Nov. 30, Assistant Professor John Brett and Research Assistant Professor Jean Scandlyn will accompany eight students from last year’s Ecuador field school to the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Washington, DC to present at a poster session on their fieldwork experience last year.
Reminders & Events
Philosophy Department Lecture
Thursday, Sept. 20
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Guest lecturer: 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
With poet Bill Cooperman
Monday, Sept. 24
4:00pm
Teague Bohlen, assistant professor of English with poet Bill Cooperman
Miss Prothero’s Books
“The Art of Search Committees: Increasing the Quality and Diversity of UCDHSC Faculty”
Friday, Sept. 28, 2007
CU Building Room 490
2:00 pm– 4:00 pm
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, the 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
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:
Development officers assigned to CLAS
Early Alert System
CLAS magazine seeks story ideas
36th Annual Conference
Smart-Girl
University Scholarship Team Grants
CCHE Conference
UROP
3rd Annual First Year Experience Symposium
Faculty on the Move
Reminders & Events
ARCHIVES:
Past issues since Jan 21, 2007.
USEFUL LINKS:
Campus News (PostExpress archives)
The CLAS Deans' Notes is a weekly newsletter
for department chairs and staff.
EDITORS:
Rick Wilson
303.556.2557
Rick.Wilson @cudenver.edu
Katy Brown
303.556.6663
Katy.Brown @cudenver.edu