Monday Memo, September 20, 2021

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

Digital Humanities working group restarts

Join the Digital Humanities working group sponsored by the Commonwealth Center for Humanities & Society. The first meeting will be Friday, September 24 at 2 p.m. in Stevenson 417. 

Like other CCHS sponsored working groups, this group will be designed to support faculty research through a series of actions. Below are just a few ideas that will be discussed at the 9/24 meeting:

  • Share research in progress to learn what others are doing on campus
  • Build toward an end-of-year activity (e.g., in the past, we gathered campus, city, and community groups to host on a Hack-a-thon designed to create a digital one-stop-shop where immigrants to Louisville can find resources).
  • Draft a white paper that can help support DH work (e.g., in the past, we discussed the importance of developing an infrastructure for DH faculty doing community engaged work)
  • Develop ongoing partnerships across campus (e.g., currently, faculty from the Speed School are looking to develop a sub-group of the DH who might work on a larger, long-term grant).
  • Coordinate with the Digital Media Suite to propose workshops most helpful to faculty scholarship.

Please email Janna Tajibaeva with questions. 

 

ANTI-RACISM AGENDA

 

Book Study: From Equity Talk to Equity Walk

The Office of Diversity, Engagement, Culture and Climate (DECC) would like to invite faculty and staff to a series of conversations from the book From Equity Talk to Equity Walk by Tia Brown McNair. With the use of true-to-life examples, McNair and her co-authors illustrate and examine central concepts on building an equity-minded campus culture. Those who are interested in joining the conversation will be provided with a copy of From Equity Talk to Equity Walk. Participants will read a selection from the text then participate in a conversation related to the selected text. Meetings will be hybrid on Tuesdays from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. 

Facilitator(s): Cherie Dawson-Edwards and LyShanna Cunningham

  • September 21
    Introductions and Chapter 1: From Equity Talk to Equity Walk
  • October 12
    Chapter 2: Building an Equity Minded Campus Culture
  • November 2 
    Chapter 3: Using and Communicating Data as a Tool to Advance Equity & Aligning Strategic Priorities
    Chapter 4: Building Instructional Capacity
  • November 30
    Chapter 5: Building Capacity for Equity Mindedness among First-Generation Equity Practitioners 
 

Health Care Ethics F21 Virtual Speaker Series:
Race and Medicine"

Sponsored by UofL's Department of Philosophy; the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law; and the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research.

Questions or accommodations required? Contact bioethic@louisville.edu.

 

Getting critical race theory right

Prof. Cynthia Ganote (Sociology) speaks  the about the debate about teaching critical race theory in schools and what people are getting wrong about it, the person who manipulated the media around this topic on Fox News, and the recent "teach the truth" teacher's pledge in many cities around the country. KPFA Berkeley, Pacific Radio at about 16:30 into the show.

 

COMMUNITY OF CARE

 

Candy Kudos are back!

Nominate a colleague now: Candy Kudos Form

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CardGrams

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Has someone from another unit helped you out on a big project that you would like to thank? Did a co-worker in your office just have a big success in their career? Say “Thank You,” “Congratulations,” “You Rock,” or “RaiseyourL” to a colleague!

 

Join the Club!

Launched over the Summer, at the suggestion of Janna Tajibaeva during an A&S Staff Association meeting, the A&S Book Club meets monthly to discuss an amazing selection of books. Each month, a member recommends a book, and consensus rules. Lively discussion follows from a small but enthusiastic group of readers.

The next meeting is Thursday, October 21, and the selection is The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. If you’re interested in joining, please email Janna Tajibaeva.

 

OPERATIONS

 

University Update for Federal Work Study Students

In consultation with financial aid the university has decided to increase the Federal Work Study (FWS) minimum wage to $10 per hour. This will help the university be competitive with many outside companies, not to mention - it’s also the right time! Many of our students are under financial stress and increasing the wage for students making less than $10 per hour will reduce their financial stress and possibly allow more students to consider on campus employment which we know can be a factor in student success.  

For students who qualify under the FWS program there is funding available to support the increases. The effective date to increase the wage minimum to $10 per hour for federally funded positions is October 8th. This requires no action from you for the FWS positions.      

 

2021 annual leave adjustment reminder

This is a reminder that the Dec. 31, 2021 deadline for the annual leave adjustment is quickly approaching. This annual leave adjustment ensures that staff do not carry forward more than two times the amount of leave they are currently eligible to accrue. We recommend that you review your accrued leave amount and determine if you are nearing or have exceeded the maximum hours allowed for carryover. Your balance will need to be below the maximum accrual amount by Dec. 31, 2021.

 

2022 Open Enrollment benefit information sessions

Now is the time to review your current benefit plans and 2022 plan options to determine if changes need to be made for 2022. Need some guidance? The Benefits team will host Open Enrollment Information sessions via MS Teams each Tuesday and Thursday, Oct. 5-14, 2021. To register for an information session, visit the Benefits webpage.

 

KUDOS

 

Award-winning paper re environmental justice

Congratulations to Prof. Megan Poole (English), who was the lead researcher on a paper that just received the Judy Segal Top Paper Award from the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium. The review committee touted the paper "'Getting the Listening' in Louisville: Public Health Literacy and Environmental Justice In and Around Rubbertown." The review committee praised the paper for “reinventing methodologies for enacting public health research, reinventing ways of working with and learning from/for various publics, and reinventing what the purpose and value of public health research even is.” An excellent model for community partnership and interdisciplinary work, this paper is one outcome of an ongoing project Megan is undertaking in conjunction with two community partners (Louisville Councilperson Keisha Dorsey and Eboni Cochran of REACT), and UofL faculty Prof. Abigail Koenig (College of Business) and Prof. Shavonnie Carthens (Brandeis School of Law).

 

PhD alum publishes in top journal

Dr. Bamba Ndiaye (Ph.D. Humanities, 2020) published an article in this fall's issue Africa Today, a top journal in African Studies. Much of the article, entitled "Social Movements and the Challenges of Resource Mobilization in the Digital Era: A Case from Francophone West Africa," stems from Dr. Ndiaye's doctoral dissertation, which was supervised by Profs. Dismas Masolo (Philosophy), Tyler Fleming (Pan-African Studies), and Mawuena Logan (Pan-African Studies). Dr. Ndiaye won the 2018 Barbara Harlow Prize for Excellence in Graduate Research while a doctoral candidate at UofL.

 

Masters alum and staff person's paper published in field's most prestigious journal 

Laura Krauser, GIS Research Coordinator in the Center for GIS in the Department of Geographic & Environmental Sciences, has published a research paper in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, the most prestigious journal in geography and environmental sciences. Laura earned her M.S. in Applied Geography in 2020. Her paper, "Shedding Light on Agricultural Transitions, Dragon Fruit Cultivation, and Electrification in Southern Vietnam Using Mixed Methods," is based on her Master's thesis. Laura's thesis mentors were Profs. Andrea Gaughan and Forrest Stevens. 

 

 

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IN THE NEWS

 

UofL students collaborate to help local children in need UofL News - Mentions A&S students Karthik Kalvakuri (Biology), Shria Narapaneni (Biology), Donna James (Neuroscience), Amini Patel (Neuroscience), Gopika Gopan (Biology and Neuroscience), Dakshin Devanand (Neuroscience), and Chandani Patel (Neuroscience).

The ideology that killed four little girls in Birmingham is still with us today Courier Journal (By Ricky Jones)

U of L honors Americans killed on 9/11 WDRB - Video references the art of alum Sara Noori (Fine Arts),which was created to honor the first responders and others who protected others during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. 

Meet the 2021 WLKY Bell Award recipients WLKY - Features alum Elmer Lucille Allen (Chemistry & Fine Arts)

Decoding disparity: Alumna aims to increase equity in education through literacy UofL News - Features alum LaToya Whitlock (Sociology)

A JCPS Black Studies Course Is The Subject Of An Office Of Education Accountability Complaint LEO - References Prof. Ricky Jones (Pan-African Studies)

20+ Art Exhibits You Can See In Louisville This September LEO - References Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Hite Art Institute)

Articles referencing research led by Profs. Joy Hart and Kandi Walker (Communication)

How COVID-19 Exacerbated Inequalities in Health Care for the BIPOC Community Next Avenue - Article written by alum Kyeland Jackson (Communication)

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