Monday Memo 2014-09-02

 

Dean’s Message

Thank you to the faculty, staff, and students who have welcomed me to your departments and programs. It is tremendous fun learning about your research, creative activities, curriculum, and community engagement. I am amazed at the strengths I’m discovering, and also recognize that some of the challenges will require some creative problem-solving to overcome. Fortunately, that’s our strength so I’m confident we can make progress on both as we work together. I’m excited to be here and look forward to meeting more of you in coming weeks.

One goal I have is to improve communication across the College. This requires everyone’s help. For a start, from my office and the support team from Gardiner Hall, we’re working to compile into a single email all of our messages that you should read. Please do read it, and send us potential items for future weeks. This format should inform you about achievements in other departments, new opportunities, and also cut down on the barrage of email messages that too often don’t get read or acted upon.

Sincerely,

Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
Dean

Business & Administration

A&S Staff Meeting

Please mark your calendar for an A&S College-wide staff meeting on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. in the Chao Auditorium. Dean Leonard will attend.  If you have any specific questions you would like to ask the Dean, please submit them directly to Yolanda Demaree at y.demaree@louisville.edu no later than August 29, 2014. A continental breakfast will be served beginning at 8:30 a.m. and will be available after the meeting as well.

A&S Inclusion and Equity Internship Program – What can it do for you?

We want to encourage UofL faculty and staff to utilize the Inclusion and Equity Internship Program in order to foster healthy conversation around the issues of the inclusion and equity in the classroom and/or office. This resource is free to members of the UofL community. Note to faculty: Program sessions can be used as a supplement to your curriculum or simply serve as a good alternative to canceling classes when you are called out of town for a conference, etc. See IEI brochure.

Notice from the Provost RE: Ebola outbreak

The Provost asks that everyone, particularly department chairs, please read the Guidelines for Students, Staff and Faculty Returning from West Africa at the University’s emergency web page. Thank you for your help in keeping our campus safe.

For the Chairs

Curriculum Deadlines

The deadline for submission of materials that will have to be passed along to the University’s General Education Curriculum Committee for its review (new GE courses, CUE course proposals) is OCTOBER 3.  All other materials that departments want action on in the fall should be submitted to us no later than NOVEMBER 14. Email materials and questions to Dwain Pruitt, Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Governance.

Student Tuition and Fees

This year's Task Force on Tuition and Fees will review all requests for differential and/ or cohort-based tuition as well as to take into consideration the entire package of fees and expenses borne by students. Any proposed new fees or increases or decreases to existing fees need to be reviewed by this committee. Please send all fee requests to Bob Goldstein,Vice Provost for Institutional Research, Effectiveness and Analytics by September 26 so that the task force will have adequate time to review your recommendations and make a final recommendation to the Office of the President. Download PDF of letter from the Provost, a copy of the Procedures for Establishing and Reviewing Course and Non-Course Related Student Fees, as well as the fee request forms.

A&S News

Events

Thursday, 9/4/14 Meet the Professor - "Exploring and Ancient Mayan Atlantis" featuring John Hale, Liberal Studies and Robert Forbes, GIS
9/5/14– 9/14/14
Open Studio Week-end activities presented by Hite Art Institute and Louisville Visual Arts Association. Full schedule of events
Saturday, 9/6/14 
A&S All Star Professor Fulton presents “Thinking Power: An Artistic Masterpiece at UofL”
Tuesday, 9/9/14  
Dean Leonard presents at the Yearlings Club
Monday, 9/15/14 “Simmons College, Its History and Vision for the Future” presented by Dr. Kevin Cosby  in the Chao Auditorium at 11 a.m. as part of the State of the University week
Wednesday, 9/17/14
State of the University Address 2:30 p.m. – Comstock Concert Hall
Friday, 9/19/2014 
State of the College Address
2 p.m. in Floyd Theater in the SAC
Reception following at the University Club
Wednesday, 10/1/14 
Opening reception for public history exhibit “Black Freedom,  White Allies, and Red Scare: Louisville, 1954” about the Braden sedition trial and surrounding events of 1954. Main Louisville Free Public Library
Friday, 10/24/14
Fourth Annual Dialogue on Diversity Conference hosted by UofL’s College of Arts and Sciences, Bellarmine University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, and Spalding University’s Diversity Consciousness Action Group

For more A&S events, go to uofl.me/as-events.

Other

Bethany Heckel asked that we share the following information with Brian's UofL friends and family:

Join Us for a Celebration of the Life and Memory of Brian Heckel
Saturday, September 20
The Mag Bar
5 p.m. until ???

This will be an informal celebration of Brian's life with lots of memories and laughs and likely a few tears. See Facebook event link for more info. Also, if you haven’t had a chance to come by the Dean’s Office to write in the journal for Brian’s family, it will be there if you still wish to do so.