The next step in the Academic Strategic Plan process is to share a draft for discussion and feedback. A draft will be distributed soon, and faculty and staff will have an opportunity in both structured (scheduled meetings) and unstructured (individual feedback) channels to shape the final product.
In partnership with Campus Safety, we will provide supports to help faculty with recommendations for what to do in class during a lockdown. This will cover the logistical safety protocols as well as some best practices/options for managing the time throughout the duration of a lockdown in a trauma-informed/responsive way.
Congratulations to Amy Hezel, Dayton Memorial Library, who presented the paper “’Obscene and Pornographic…Likely Illegal’: The Unprecedented Rise of Book Banning in the US” at the Ninth Biennial Reception Study Society Conference: Diverse Audiences, Diverse Receptions on September 29.
Congratulations and thank to Luka Powanga, Anderson College of Business and Computing, for his engagement with the US-Africa Business Week at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
There is still time to submit your nomination for the Honorary Doctorate recipient for the 2024 Commencement ceremony. Please utilize this link, Honorary Doctorate Nomination, if you would like to submit a nomination(s).
A Town Hall with Senior Leadership will be held October 18 at 2 p.m.
Please consider sharing your ideas for our HLC Quality Initiative, a required effort in advance of our reaccreditation in 2028. To help inform the conversation, we are looking for input from the community via HLC Quality Initiative.
Thanks to Alan Stark, should you want to utilize Qualtrics, there is a Qualtrics sign-in guide available on the CSRE web site in the “Resources” section. Related, a reminder that there is HIPAA training (among others) available through CITI.
The seventh annual Regis Innovation Challenge kicks off at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 26 in the Gronowski Innovation Incubator, 358 Clarke Hall. The Innovation Challenge is a student-run, open-to-the-public business competition. Come to the kick-off to understand all of the details, important dates, and expectations of the challenge and hear from previous winners about the support and opportunity to create and grow a business with support from mentors, networking, and door-opening to the Denver entrepreneur ecosystem.
I know that everyone has taken great care to adapt their course flows (e.g. assignment structure and due dates) in light of the recent tragedies, but I might offer encouragement to reflect and consider how that might inform your broader teaching. Just as the adaptations during COVID hopefully informed your in-class teaching, I hope this notion of adapting to help students manage their grief has shown that you can create different pathways to meeting standards without lowering the standards. While I hope we never face these specific kinds of tragedies again, our students carry with them so many obligations and stressors, and servingness calls on us to do more than set a standard – but to walk with students towards it.
I won’t risk redundancy of The Regist, but please see all of the wonderful opportunities this month across our intellectual community. Ocean Vuong, Enrique Martínez Celaya, and a variety of other exhibits, speakers, and performances by excellent external guests and our own excellent faculty, staff, and students will be pushing thought, conversation, reflection, and enjoyment this month.
