Important Communications

Academic Year 23-24

All Faculty Meeting, Tuesday, April 2

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to the All Faculty Meeting on Tuesday, April 2nd from 12:10 - 1:05 p.m. in Emerson Suites. Please join us for brief updates from the Provost’s Office, followed by open Q&A.

Please contact provost@ithaca.eduif you need an additional accommodation or a livestream link. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

Looking forward to seeing you all.

Melanie I. Stein
Provost & Sr. Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dear Colleagues,

A few updates for you as spring break arrives:

Midterm Grades

A reminder that mid-term grades are due by 10:00pm on Wednesday, March 20.

Summer/Fall Course Registration and Advising

Summer course registration has begun, and Fall course registration begins on Tuesday, April 2. We encourage academic advisors to meet with advisees in advance of course registration.

Textbook Adoptions

Please complete your textbook adoptions for all Summer and Fall 2024 courses at Ithaca.textbookx.com (the site is also accessible via the apps.ithaca.edu webpage as “Akademos”). We ask that you submit this information for Summer courses as soon as you can, and for Fall courses by Monday April 1. This will help us comply with federal requirements to make course-specific costs available to students by the time they register for courses and enable students to take advantage of textbook-specific financial aid. If you have courses for which students will *not* need to purchase textbooks, please enter that information in the Akademos site so that students know this. Course readers or unpublished materials should be made available to students through the learning management system.

Before submitting orders, we encourage you to search the Ithaca College Library’s collections to learn whether IC owns digital copies of any text(s) you plan to require. Access to electronic course materials already owned by the Library may help achieve additional savings for our students.

If you need support with the course submission process, you can review this tutorial or contact the Adoptions support team at adoptions@vitalsource.com. If students need support help, you can direct them to lx-admin-support@vitalsource.com.

Thanks for submitting your orders and to everyone for helping students stay informed about their likely course expenses.

Updated Procedures for Formal Review, File Preparation and Presentation

The revisions to the Procedures document for formal reviews are complete; the new version is available here.

Workshops related to Formal Promotion

These question-and-answer workshops are offered for faculty to ask any questions about the formal promotion and/or tenure processes. The next workshop will be held on Thursday, March 28 from 3:00 – 4:30pm in the Ithaca Falls room; prospective candidates for promotion to associate or full professor, prospective candidates for tenure, and faculty who would be providing guidance to candidates are especially encouraged to attend (though all faculty are welcome). On Tuesday, April 23 from 3:00 – 4:30pm we will host a second workshop in the Taughannock Falls room, with faculty who will be serving on a review committee especially encouraged to attend (though again all faculty will be welcome). And on Wednesday, May 1 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm in the Taughannock Falls room, we will offer a demonstration of “OnBoard,” the platform for formal promotion files.

Student Statements in SmartEvals:

Block 1 student statement surveys are currently open in SmartEvals, and for undergraduate classes will close on Friday, March 8. Results will be automatically distributed to faculty by email on March 19. [Graduate OT course surveys will remain open until Monday, March 18 and results will be automatically distributed to faculty on March 25.]

Full semester and Block 2 student statement surveys will open on Monday, April 22 and close on Thursday, May 9; results will be automatically distributed to faculty on May 23.

Upcoming Events and Deadlines

  • Thursday, March 7 from 4:00 – 5:30pm in Clark Lounge. Provost’s Colloquium.
  • Monday,March 18. Deadline for submittingFaculty Excellence Award nominations.
  • Thursday, March 28 from 3:00 – 4:30pm in Ithaca Falls room. Formal promotion Q&A.
  • Monday, April 1. Deadline to submit textbook adoptions information in Akademos for Fall courses.
  • Tuesday, April 2 from 12:10 – 1:05pm in Emerson Suites. New date for the All-College Faculty meeting, rescheduled from March 7.
  • Thursday, April 11 in Emerson Suites. Whalen Symposium.
  • Tuesday, April 16 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm in Clark Lounge. Provost’s Colloquium.
  • Tuesday, April 23 from 3:00 – 4:30pm in Taughannock Falls room. Formal promotion Q&A.
  • Wednesday, May 1 from 3:00 – 4:30pm in Taughannock Falls room. OnBoard demonstration.

Commencement Weekend 2024

All events will be held in the Athletics & Events Center

  • Graduate Hooding will take place on Saturday May 18 at 1:00pm
  • Commencement Eve Concert will take place on Saturday May 18 at 8:30pm with fireworks to follow, weather permitting.
  • Commencement will take place on Sunday May 19 at 10:00am

If you need regalia, please contact Alicia Ross at aross7@ithaca.edu. Alicia does not yet have a deadline for ensuring delivery in time for Commencement, but we recommend contacting her in March.

We hope spring break offers you a chance to catch your breath; thank you for everything you do!

Melanie I. Stein, Provost and Senior Vice President Academic Affairs
Chris McNamara, Associate Provost, Graduate and Professional Studies Brendan Murday, Associate Provost, Faculty Affairs
Stacia Zabusky, Associate Provost, Academic Programs

Grant Advisor

Dear faculty member,

Welcome back for the spring 2024 semester. The Sponsored Research grants team hopes you had an enjoyable and restful winter break.  Please know we are here to help you turn your research, scholarly, or creative inquiry ideas into fundable projects.  We offer the following resources to help you do so:

  • Grant Advisor, a monthly source of information on grant, research, and fellowship opportunities categorized by discipline (e.g., humanities, sciences, education), including both Federal and private (foundation and organization) sources. Simply click on the discipline hyperlink, and then the funder acronym, which takes you to the funding opportunity announcement. To access, you must use the monthly username and password to gain access.

    The web page for Password Access is at Grant Advisor Plus

    When prompted for User Name and Password, enter the following:
    User Name: tga  (lower case)
    Password:  sheep (lower case) This password changes monthly – this will only work until February 29 (leap year!).
     
  • In addition to Grant Advisor, Sponsored Research offers SPIN, “the World’s #1 Funding Opportunities Database” with access to over 40,000 current grant solicitations.  You can sign up for SPIN on our website and receive daily or weekly “hits” of possible funding opportunities.
     
  • Sponsored Research can also conduct a search for you of possible private foundation support on the Foundation Center
     
  • Sponsored Research also provides two internal grant opportunities, REACHE and ACE, to help support your pilot research with the requirement that you submit a final report and apply for an external grant opportunity from a public or private funding agency following the completion of your pilot project.  Please see Need Help Finding Funding? on the Sponsored Research website for more details.
     
  • If you are interested in grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), please be aware of new requirements involving the responsible and ethical conduct of research, biosketch and current and pending support processes on SciENcv (Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae), and off campus or off-site research.  Please see more details on our Sponsored Research website regarding NSP Proposal Requirements.  Also, please refer to the 2024 NSF policies and procedures guide for more information: (2023 edition in effect until May).
     
  • Lastly, and most importantly, please remember to adhere to our required routing forms and timelines:  Intent to Submit (due 6 weeks before submission deadline) and Accelerated Routing Form (due 2 weeks before submission deadline with copies of project summary, budget, and budget justification).  Any proposals requesting release time, cost share, or other College obligation must first be approved by your department chair, dean, and administration before proceeding.  Please see: Required Forms for Grant Submission on our website. 

Please contact Martha van de Wall (mvandewall@ithaca.edu) if you would like to set up an appointment to discuss your grant interests.

Sincerely,

Warren Calderone, Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations and Sponsored Research

Brian Erickson, Associate Controller, Financial Services

Dear Colleagues, 

Welcome back from what we hope was a restful winter break, and we are excited to begin the spring 2024 semester alongside you shortly. We are sharing below highlights of upcoming events and reminders regarding coursework as you prepare for the semester ahead: 

Mark Your Calendars 

Please reserve time on your calendars to attend these important all-college events occurring in late winter/early spring: 

  • Tuesday, January 23 from 12:10 – 1:05 pm in Emerson Suites. All-College Gathering 
  • Friday, January 26 at 7:30 pm in Ford Hall. MLK Hr. Legacy Concert, https://events.ithaca.edu/event/mlk_concert_5556 
  • Monday, February 5 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm in Clark Lounge. Provost's colloquium 
  • Thursday, March 7 from 12:10 – 1:05 pm in Emerson Suites. All Faculty Meeting (Rescheduled for April 2nd)
  • Thursday, April 11 in Emerson Suites. Whalen Symposium 

Attend a Formal Promotion Workshop 

These question-and-and-answer workshops are offered for faculty to ask any questions about the formal promotion and/or tenure processes. The next workshop will be held on Thursday March 28 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm in the Ithaca Falls room in March; prospective candidates for Promotion to Associate or Full Professor, prospective candidates for tenure, and faculty who would be providing guidance to candidates are especially encouraged to attend (though all faculty are welcome). A second workshop will be offered in April (details TBD), with faculty who will be serving on a review committee especially encouraged to attend (though again all faculty will be welcome).  

Offer a Summer Sessions Course  

The Office of Extended Studies is soliciting courses for the summer sessions with proposals due in early February. Please speak with your department chair if you are interested in offering a course during summer session. We are especially interested in offering undergraduate courses that assist students with making progress on major or minor degree requirements, ICC coursework, or other elective courses that generate high demand.  

Check Your Syllabus 

Reminder about Excused Absences Required Under the Attendance Policy  

The Ithaca College attendance policy is available within the syllabus template. As a reminder, students must be excused from class or examinations: 

  1. on days that conflict with religious beliefs, in which case the faculty member is responsible for providing the student with an opportunity to make up the work missed, and the absence does not count towards any instructor-established maximum absence policy for the class. 
  2. for family or individual health emergencies, and to appear in a court of law. 

Please review the attendance policy in your syllabus to ensure it complies with these requirements and that you are properly supporting students with absences that must be excused. 

Confirm your Textbook Adoptions  

If you have any doubts about whether the textbook requirements for your courses that appear in Akademos are up to date, please log in there and confirm. Note that even if you are not requiring students to purchase textbooks for a course, that information needs to be entered into Akademos for transparency with students. 

Dana Professor Selection Committee 

For faculty at rank of full professor, there are openings on the Dana Professor Selection Committee starting Fall 2024 in the Schools of Business, Communications, and Music, Theatre, and Dance. If you would be willing to serve, please email provost@ithaca.edu by Friday, February 2. Members will be selected by the Provost and Faculty Council Executive Committee, with terms of varying lengths to establish staggered terms. 

Best wishes for the start of a new semester! 

Sincerely, 

Melanie I. Stein, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs 

Chris McNamara, Associate Provost, Graduate and Professional Studies 

Brendan Murday, Associate Provost, Faculty Affairs 

Stacia Zabusky, Associate Provost, Academic Programs 

Dear Faculty Colleagues, 

As we draw to the close of a busy fall semester, I want to thank each of you for the robust academic experience you have provided to our students throughout this semester.  

Please take a minute to read through some very important reminders regarding the end of the semester and steps to prepare for the upcoming spring and summer semesters:   
 

Final Examinations, Grade Submission, and Student Statements 

Final examinations are scheduled from Monday, December 11 through Friday, December 15 in their scheduled classrooms at the published examination times. If you have any concerns about your scheduled exam space, please reach out to registrar@ithaca.edu no later than 48 hours prior to your exam meeting to request possible reassignment to a different space. Final grades are due in HomerConnect no later than Thursday, December 21 by 5:00 p.m. Please refer to this Intercom post from the Registrar for important dates and information related to grade submission and completion of academic standing. The window for student statements will close on Monday, December 11, to ensure that students cannot continue to submit student statements after course grades start to become visible to students. 

Spring Semester Preparation  

Spring 2024 Textbook Orders and Akademos: If you have not finalized Spring 2024 information about course materials in the Akademos system, please take a moment to log in, review your spring courses (and winter courses if you are teaching during the winter session), and ensure that your information has been fully submitted. If no course materials are required for your course(s), please make sure that is indicated in Akademos as well.  

Spring Syllabus Guidelines: Syllabus guidelines are available at this link, where you will find the college policy about what elements must be included in a syllabus, the current Health and Safety statement, and a template document that contains all required elements as well as additional, optional inserts you may want to incorporate. There have been no changes to any of these elements since the start of the fall semester, but if you have not compared recently your syllabus against the language for the required elements, please do so to ensure your syllabus conforms to the current required language and disclosures. 

Summer Sessions Teaching  

Teaching Continuing Students During Summer Sessions I and II: It’s not too early to start thinking about offering an undergraduate course during the summer sessions! We are especially interested in offering undergraduate courses that assist students with making progress on major or minor degree requirements, ICC coursework, or other elective courses that generate high demand. We will be soliciting interest in summer coursework when we return from break and completing our roster in early February. Please take some time during winter break to consider the opportunity and be on the lookout for information posted to intercom in January.  

Teaching Incoming First Year Students During Summer Session II: We are planning to offer IC Advantage during the July summer session specifically for our incoming first-year students. This program operates during summer session two and includes two one-credit foundational courses and many deep-dive courses. If you have a passion for teaching, supporting, and making connections with our first-year students, as well as instilling a feeling of belonging in our first-year students, please reach out to oes@ithaca.edu so that we can connect with you as we finalize plans for those courses.  

Teaching High School Students in the Summer Pre-College Program: We are seeking faculty interested in teaching a three-week course (July 15 – August 02, 2024) for our Summer College for High School Students. Classes are typically 10-15 students and should be taught at the introductory level on a topic in the faculty's field/area of specialization. See the intercom announcement for more details or reach out to Joslyn Brenton, Faculty Director, at jbrenton@ithaca.eduto express interest. 

International Travel with Students  

The Office of International Programs invites faculty to submit proposals for faculty-led, college-sponsored international travel with students. If you would like to propose a program, more information is available at this link. Please be mindful of the long (roughly one year) lead time for approval so early preparation is essential.  

Deadlines are as follows:  

  • For Winter 2025 programs: proposal due by January 31, 2024  
  • For Spring Break 2025 programs: proposal due by February 15, 2024  
  • For Summer 2025 programs: proposal due by May 31, 2024  

We are particularly interested in short-term programs that take advantage of the Ithaca College London Center during the summer between late May and early July (please note that the Center is not available for programming mid-July through early August to prepare for the incoming Fall cohort of students.

Upcoming Events 

  • Q&A session about faculty promotion to Associate/Full and/or tenure, Friday December 1, 1:30 – 2:50, Taughannock Falls Room  
  • Provost’s Colloquium, Thursday Dec 7, 4:00 – 5:30, Clark Lounge 
  • December Commencement, Sunday Dec 10, 10:00, A&E 

Sincerely,  

Melanie I. Stein, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs 

Chris McNamara, Associate Provost  
Brendan Murday, Associate Provost  
Stacia Zabusky, Associate Provost  

Dear Colleagues, 

A few updates for you as fall break arrives: 

Mid-term Grades 

A reminder that mid-term grades are due by 10pm on Wednesday October 18. 

Winter/Spring Course Registration and Advising 

Winter course registration begins on Monday, October 30, and Spring course registration begins on Tuesday, October 31. We encourage academic advisors to meet with advisees in advance of course registration. 

Textbook Adoptions 

Please complete all Winter and Spring textbook adoptions in Akademos [Ithaca.textbookx.com] by Monday, October 30. Completing textbook adoptions by this date is critical to ensure that students with limited financial resources can take advantage of textbook-dedicated financial support, in addition to ensuring compliance with federal requirements that we are transparent with students about prospective educational costs. It can be challenging to think about next semester while we’re in the midst of the present one, but please carve out some time for this since it directly helps students with limited resources! As a reminder, if you have courses for which students are not required to purchase any materials, that too is information that needs to be entered in Akademos. 

Academic Misconduct Process Changes 

There are some updates to the Academic Misconduct process effective this year; please see https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/2023-08-24-academic-misconduct-process-guidelines-faculty for an overview. 

Deadlines 
 

Textbook orders for Winter and/or Spring: Oct 30
Winter course registration begins for students: Oct 30
Spring course registration begins for students: Oct 31
Dana Professor applications:Nov 1
Honorary Degree nominations: Nov 3
Sabbatical applications:Dec 1 to Deans, unless your Dean's office indicated otherwise

Upcoming Events 

State of the College: Oct 26 

Phi Kappa Phi Fall Awards and Induction: Nov 9 

Provost’s Colloquia: Nov 13, Dec 7 

Coffee with Provost/Deans: Nov. 10

Oracle Honor Society Induction: Nov. 14

December Commencement: Dec 10 
 

Thanks for everything you do! 

Melanie I. Stein, Provost 
Chris McNamara, Associate Provost 
Brendan Murday, Associate Provost 
Stacia Zabusky, Associate Provost 

The Office of the Provost & Sr. VPAA invites applications for the Dana Professorship. 

Thanks to the Charles A. Dana Foundation’s generosity, Dana Professorships are awarded to selected Ithaca College full professors who have demonstrated a continued record of excellence as well as a promise of outstanding future contributions in teaching, professional endeavor in their area of specialty, and service to college and community. Dana Professors serve as role models and mentors for faculty and students, freely sharing their leadership skills, expertise, advice, and experience with the College’s community and others who seek it. As a result, the Dana Professors’ activities reflect positively on and enhance the College’s national and international reputation as a center for academic and artistic inquiry. 

Dana Professorships are awarded for five-year terms, and faculty may reapply for the award at the end of their term. Candidates must be full professors at the time of application and at any stage of their career, although the program actively encourages newly appointed full professors to apply. To qualify, the candidates’ primary area of responsibility at the College must be teaching, with a minimum of six credits per semester.  

Candidates must complete all materials (i.e. application form, current CV, narrative and references) and send them to provost@ithaca.edu by Nov 1, 2023. A selection committee consisting of one representative from each School will review applications and make recommendations to the Provost. We hope to announce awards by March 1, 2024. Two professorships to begin in AY 2024-25 will be awarded. 

Members of the currently active selection committee and their relatives may not apply for the award while they serve on the committee. Relatives are persons related by blood, marriage, or legal procedure and include parents, children, husbands, wives, siblings, first cousins, and in-laws or "step" relatives, and any of the foregoing's uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, grandparents and grandchildren. 

Dear Faculty, 

We are soliciting nominations for a vacant faculty seat on the Teaching Resource Allocation Committee (TRAC).   

This standing committee, created in 2021, reviews all requests for full-time continuing faculty positions, and makes recommendations to the provost about which positions should be approved and searched. The committee consists of the deans of the five schools, three faculty members selected by the process described below who serve staggered 3-year terms, and an additional faculty member who serves on APC. The faculty representatives continuing on the Committee for 2023-24 are Julia Lapp (HSHP, Dept of Health Sciences and Public Health) and Alison Shields (Business, Dept of Marketing).  

Please submit nominations (including self-nominations) to provost@ithaca.edu by October 1, 2023. If you are nominating someone other than yourself, please confirm that your nominees are willing to serve before sending them forward. To be eligible, faculty members must have served at least five years on the full-time faculty at Ithaca College and hold the rank of associate professor or professor, although tenure is not required. Ideally, those serving on this committee will be able to think institutionally, rather than preferentially toward a department or school, and they will be comfortable working in a strictly confidential setting.   

All nominations will become part of a pool to be reviewed by the Executive Committee of Faculty Council (FCEC) and I. In considering the nominations, the FCEC and I will strive toward achieving a group which reflects the demographic diversity of the faculty, and a mix of academic and governance experience, time at the college, and disciplinary perspectives. After consulting with the FCEC, FCEC will recommend three of the nominated faculty, unranked, to me for consideration, and I will appoint one faculty member to serve a three-year term expiring 2026.   

TRAC may meet once in the Fall, but the most substantial work will occur between March 1 and April 15, 2023. There will likely be a handful of meetings, and in order to facilitate scheduling conflicts, meetings are likely to be scheduled in the evening or weekend. 

Thank you for considering this opportunity. 

Best,   

Melanie I. Stein 
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs 

Dear faculty member,

Welcome back for the fall 2023 semester. The Sponsored Research grants team hopes you had an enjoyable and restful summer.  With the start of the new academic year, we are here to help you turn your research, scholarly, or creative inquiry ideas into fundable projects and offer the following resources to help you do so:

  • Grant Advisor, a monthly source of information on grant, research, and fellowship opportunities categorized by discipline (e.g., humanities, sciences, education), including both Federal and private (foundation and organization) sources. Simply click on the discipline hyperlink, and then the funder acronym, which takes you to the funding opportunity announcement. To access, you must use the monthly username and password to gain access.

    The web page for Password Access is:  http://www.grantadvisor.com/tgapass/

    When prompted for User Name and Password, enter the following:
    User Name: tga (lower case)
    Password:  trade (lower case) This password changes monthly – this will only work until September 30.
     
  • In addition to Grant Advisor, Sponsored Research offers SPIN, “the World’s #1 Funding Opportunities Database” with access to over 40,000 current grant solicitations.  You can sign up for SPIN on our website:  https://www.ithaca.edu/sponsored-research/need-help-finding-funding and receive daily or weekly “hits” of possible funding opportunities.
  • Sponsored Research also provides two internal grant opportunities, REACHE and ACE, to help support your pilot research with the requirement that you submit a final report and apply for an external grant opportunity from a public or private funding agency following the completion of your pilot project.  Please see Need Help Finding Funding? | Ithaca College for more details.
  • If you are interested in grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), please be aware of new requirements involving the responsible and ethical conduct of research, biosketch and current and pending support forms, and off campus or off-site research.  Please see more details on our Sponsored Research website (https://www.ithaca.edu/sponsored-research/nsf-proposal-requirements-pis-co-pis-and-students).

Please contact Martha van de Wall (mvanderwall@ithaca.edu) if you would like to set up an appointment to discuss your grant interests.

Sincerely,

Warren Calderone, Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations and Sponsored Research

Brian Erickson, Associate Controller, Financial Services

The Office of the Integrative Core Curriculum is soliciting faculty volunteers for a new faculty advisory committee for the Integrative Core Curriculum: the ICC Curriculum and Assessment Committee (ICC - CAC). The charge of this committee includes facilitating review of proposals for ICC course designations, conducting regular academic learning assessment of the ICC, and proposing curriculum, policy, and assessment changes for the ICC. The committee is chaired by the ICC Director. Faculty committee members serve a two-year term and may renew once for an additional term. The committee will meet six times during the academic year.
 

All IC continuing faculty with experience teaching courses in the ICC are eligible to join the CAC. Ideally, the committee will have representation from multiple schools and disciplines. Members will be appointed to the committee by the ICC Director, in consultation with the provost's office. 
 

Faculty interested in joining the ICC-CAC should send an email to Chrystyna Dail, Director of the ICC, no later than September 8th. In your email, briefly describe your interest in the committee, and your experience teaching in the program. Please reach out with any questions.

Welcome back! I hope your summer has been restorative.

As you know, with Dean Linda Petrosino’s departure, we will be conducting a national search for a new dean for the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. The search committee will be chaired by Chris Hummel and Kari Brossard Stoos and will include three additional faculty members from HSHP as well as one faculty member from outside of HSHP, and I am writing today to solicit self-nominations.

The search will get started right away this fall, and in addition to the six faculty members mentioned above, the committee will include a staff member from HSHP, a representative from the division of Philanthropy and Engagement, a dean, and two students. The search will be supported by a team from Witt Kieffer. If you are interested in serving as a member of this search committee, please self-nominate by emailing provost@ithaca.edu by August 28, indicating your department, years of service, and faculty rank.

In the meantime, savor these last days of summer before classes begin, and I look forward to seeing you at Convocation on Tuesday.

Best,
Melanie I. Stein
Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Dear Colleagues, 

We are excited to be beginning another academic year together on campus! 

We have a few quick academic-related updates for you in advance of the all-college welcome on Tuesday, August 29th (during the noon hour in Emerson Suites):

  • Syllabus Guidelines: Updated syllabus guidelines, including links to the current health and safety statement, updated syllabus policies, and a refreshed template, are now available. The template includes the required components of an Ithaca College syllabus and links to important policy language to include in your syllabus. Please take a moment to review these materials and to make sure your current syllabi incorporate updated information; in this way, you can help ensure that our students receive consistent information across all coursework they complete at the college.  
  • Attendance Policy: The Ithaca College attendance policy is available within the syllabus template. We would like to highlight that students must be excused from class or examinations: 
  1. on days that conflict with religious beliefs, in which case the faculty member is responsible for providing the student with an opportunity to make up the work missed, and the absence does not count towards any instructor-established maximum absence policy for the class
  2. for family or individual health emergencies, and to appear in a court of law. 
  • Provost’s Colloquia: there will be Provost’s Colloquia on October 5th, November 13th, and December 7th, all at 4:00. Details about the presenters for each date will be forthcoming. 
  • Office Moves: Several offices have either moved this summer or are scheduled to move in the near future; new/future locations as noted:
    • The new Center for Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging — second floor of Job Hall; 
    • The Center for Student Success and Retention — first floor of Muller, across the stairway from the Center for Career Exploration and Development; 
      The Department of Sociology — second floor of Muller; 
    • The Title IX Office — west wing of the garden level of PRW; 
    • The Office of International Programs and International Student and Scholar Services — next to the Office of Access, Opportunity, and Achievement on the garden level of PRW; 
    • Office of the Registrar — second floor of PRW. 

We are looking forward to seeing you at the first all-college faculty meeting on Thursday, Sept 21st (again during the noon hour). 

Best wishes for the start of a new semester! 

Melanie I. Stein, Provost 
Chris McNamara, Associate Provost 
Brendan Murday, Associate Provost 
Stacia Zabusky, Associate Provost