Announcements for the week of March 9

Spotlight

• Digital Learning Emergency Plan Workshops - Twelve 45-minute workshops are being offered this week. Topics include Zoom, Discussion Boards, Creating/Uploading content, Assessment, Communication and Grade Management. Click here for the dates/times of classes.  Please RSVP to Mirwais Azizi at mazizi@callutheran.edu with your name, email, department and session you will attend. Click here to view the Digital Learning Emergency Plan. Click here to view the Pandemic Preparedness Academic Policies. Click here to view the Social Distancing Plan.

Events

• Conversations on race – Faculty and staff members are invited to engage with others on campus in a reading circle each week beginning on Mon., Mar. 9, 11:30 am–1 pm or Thurs., Mar. 12, 12:15-1:45pm. Check the website for meeting locations. The book will be White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson. The office of Congregational Relations is providing books at no cost to the first 20 who sign up. The conversations will be hosted by Destiny Lewis (Admission), Desta Goehner (Congregational Relations), Sam Thomas (Religion), Nicole Gonzales (Student Life) and Dan Tillapaugh (Education). RSVP here. For information, visit the website or write to desta@callutheran.edu.
• Faculty Senate Meeting, Mon., Mar. 9, 3:30-5pm, Swenson 101. All voting faculty are welcome to come and observe. The agenda is posted on the Faculty Senate blackboard page (login required): https://bblearn.callutheran.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/listContentEditable.jsp?content_id=_1206891_1&course_id=_45922_1. Minutes will be posted after the meeting. The next meeting will be held on Mon., Apr. 20.
   
• Artists and Speakers presents: Facing Down Climate Despair - Anxiety, Grief and Action in the Age of Crisis with Dr. Jennifer Atkinson, Mon., Mar. 9, 7pm, Samuelson Chapel. Admission is free and open to the public.
   
• History Lecture Series: Accommodation and Resistance, presents President Chris Kimball speaking on "Protesting the Vietnam War," Tues., Mar. 10, 7pm, Lundring Events Center. Admission is free.
   
• Luther Lecture: Luther and Islam, with Rev. Dr. Charles Amjad-Ali, Wed., Mar. 11, 9am, PLTS. Click here to register by Mar. 9.
   
• Staff and Faculty Lunch, Wed., Mar. 11, 11am - 1pm, reserved area in the UPSTAIRS Ullman Dining Commons. The discounted price of $8 + tax includes all menu options offered in the Dining Commons.
   
• Interfaith Lunch for Faculty and Staff, Wed., Mar. 11, 12-1pm, Kingsmen Room (SU114).  Come together over lunch to learn about each other and mutually create a community of inclusion and welcome. This year, the topics of the lunches will center around chapters selected from Barbara Brown Taylor’s Holy Envy. You will find information on ways to acquire the text when you click on the registration link below. Seating is limited to the first 25 registrants. Click this link to register: Interfaith Lunch for Faculty and Staff Registration
   
• Thousand Oaks Reads: One City, One Book - Cal Lutheran Faculty Panel Discussion of The Honey Bus, Wed., Mar. 11, 7pm, Lundring Events Center. Admission is free.
   
• University Chapel, Thurs., Mar. 12, 11:25am Samuelson Chapel. Leanne Neilson (Provost) will be speaking.
   
• Acts of Resistance: Lecture by Artist Meleko Mokgosi, Thurs., Mar. 12, 4pm, Lundring Events Center.
   
• Love your Neighbor - Interfaith Gathering: Courage for the Common Good, Thurs., Mar. 12, 7pm, Samuelson Chapel. Admission is free.
   
• Faculty Recital: Adan Fernandez, Organ, Fri., Mar. 13, 7:30pm, Samuelson Chapel. Donations accepted.
   
• Faculty Recital: Uziel Colon, Piano, The Many Faces of Latin Jazz, Sat., Mar. 14, 7:30pm, Samuelson Chapel. Donations accepted.
   
• Documenting History through Art: The Work of David Labkovski, Kwan Fong Gallery, through Apr. 11.
   
• Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance, William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art through Apr. 9.
   
• Save the Date - Honors Convocation, Tues., Apr. 28, 11:15am, Samuelson Chapel.  We will be on Convocation Schedule with classes ending at 11:00am and resuming at 12:40pm. Outstanding Alumni Award Recipient, Jane Lee Winter '78, will give the keynote address, faculty receiving promotion and/or tenure in Fall 2020 will be recognized, and the President's Award for Teaching Excellence recipient will be announced. Please note: In order to highlight the importance of our faculty at this prestigious academic event, regalia will be worn and faculty will meet at Gumby to process. Regalia ordered from the bookstore by March 20, can be used for both Honors Convocation and Commencement.
   
• Welcome our incoming international students – The School of Management is pleased to have 14 new international students who arrived for the February term. Please join Center for Global Engagement in appropriately welcoming new community members and fostering an inclusive environment on campus with positive role-modeling for students. Most of our international students have been in the United States for months, and none of these students, including those from China, have come directly from communities impacted by COVID-19. To the knowledge of center staff members, there have been no xenophobic incidents on campus toward people from Asia, and we want to remain incident-free. For questions, please email international@callutheran.edu.
   
• Graduate Student Commencement Speakers - Please encourage your students to apply to be a 2020 Graduate Student Commencement Speaker. Speeches (no longer than 5 minutes in length) can focus on lessons learned as a CLU graduate student and inspiring graduates to continue living lives of purpose. Deadline is Wed., Mar. 11. Click here for more information and to complete the submission form.
   
• Traditional Undergraduate Student Commencement Speaker - Please encourage your graduating students to apply to be the 2020 TUG Commencement Speaker.  Applications are due by Fri., Mar. 13. Click here for more information.
   
• Application for the College Administrative Fellows Program - The College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office is pleased to announce the call for applications for the summer 2020 Administrative Fellows Program, a signature professional development program that focuses intentionally on developing academic administrative leadership skills. To apply, complete the online application with a description of your proposed summer project, a one-page Statement of Interest, current CV, and a brief letter of support from your department chair or program coordinator. Application deadline extended to Mar. 15, 5pm. Contact Gregory Freeland at freeland@callutheran.edu.
• Have you published a book or illustrated a work during the past year that will be published by Apr. 28, 2020? Please let us know by Tues., Mar. 24, so that we can recognize you at the Provost’s Reception for faculty authors and grant recipients during Festival of Scholars.  ALSO, save the date for the Provost’s Reception, which will be held Tues., Apr. 28, at 5 pm in the William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art. Please email Roni Hooper at rhooper@callutheran.edu with a brief synopsis of your published book or illustrated work and the date of publication. 
• CoAS Dean's Awards for faculty and staff - Nominations are being accepted through Apr. 1.  Click here to view the awards and submit nominations.
   
• Festival of Scholars: Apr. 27 – May 1, 2020.  Student abstract submission window: Mar. 1 –  Mar. 29 at 5pm.  Click here for instructions and student submissions.
   
• Traditional Undergraduate Faculty Advisors - Fall 2020 Student Registration Dates to Note:
• Mar. 16 to Mar. 20 – Advance Registration period for continuing Traditional Undergraduate Students for Fall 2020 (students will have appointment times for registration during this time)
   
• Leadership Awards: Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to recognize members of the Cal Lutheran community for their outstanding accomplishments and contributions by nominating them for a Cal Lutheran Leadership Award.  Click here to nominate a student, faculty or staff member by Mar. 20. Final candidate nominees and their nominators will be invited to attend the Leadership Awards banquet on Apr. 22. For information, contact Ashley DesLauriers at adeslauriers@callutheran.edu.

Upcoming

• Captivate, Activate, and Invigorate the Student Brain in Science and Math, Mon., Mar. 16, 5pm, Lundring Events Center. Admission is free. Click here to register.
   
• Poet and Spoken Word Performance by Amal Kassir, Tues., Mar. 17, 7pm, Samuelson Chapel. Admission is free.
   
• CTL Presents: Your Students Need More than University SLOs! Wed., Mar. 18, 11am, Online.  Click here to register.
   
• CTL Lunch Series Presents: Developing Culturally Responsive Curriculum and Classrooms Part 1, presented by Adrienne Arguijo-Morgan (CHESS Grant Director), Thurs., Mar. 19, 12:15pm, SBET 140. Lunch is provided.
   
• Why the Chaplain Cursed: Encountering the Holocaust with Ernst F. Tonsing, CLU Professor Emeritus, Thurs., Mar. 19, 6pm, Overton Hall.
   
• International Film Series presents Look Who's Back (Germany, 2015), Thurs., Mar. 19, 8pm, Richter Hall. German with English subtitles. Admission is free.
   
• Reel Justice Film Series presents The Biggest Little Farm, Fri., Mar. 20, 7pm, Preus-Brandt Forum. Q&A session with the Emmy award-winning writer/director, John Chester, follows the screening.  Admission is free.
   
• Faculty Recital: Micah Wright, clarinet, Fri., Mar. 20, 7:30pm, Samuelson Chapel. Donations accepted.
   
• Commencement information:
• Graduate Commencement - Fri., May 15, 10am, William Rolland Stadium.
• Baccalaureate - Fri., May 15, 5pm, Samuelson Chapel.
• Honors Banquet - Fri., May 15, 6:30pm, Hyatt Westlake.
• Undergraduate Commencement - Sat., May 16, 10am, William Rolland Stadium.
• Faculty lineup (in regalia) will be 30 minutes before each Commencement ceremony in the Soiland Recreation Center in the Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center. Coffee, bagels, muffins and fruit will be served.
   
• Save the Date - Campus Community Day - Wed., May 20.