President Laurie Carter is hosting a Welcome Back Reception for faculty and staff from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23 at Hamar House, 229 N Park. There will be BBQ, adult beverages, and lawn games. Come socialize with your colleagues as the calendar turns to fall.
Author: Ed Berthiaume
Sign up to help on Giving Day; get a free shirt
Lawrence’s annual Giving Day is set for Wednesday, Oct. 26, and organizers are looking for Lawrence faculty and staff to help out. You know Lawrence University like no one else. We believe your voice in support of Giving Day will carry a lot of weight. That is why we are asking our faculty and staff to become Giving Day Ambassadors.
Ways that you can be a Giving Day Ambassador: Spread the word by posting on social media, texting, emailing, or calling your LU connections asking them to support Giving Day; participate in the Giving Day Challenges on the Lawrence Facebook and Instagram pages; wear your Giving Day T-shirt (more information on that below) to campus events; talk about Giving Day in your classes.
As a thank you, we will gift you with a LU Giving Day shirt to show off your school pride on Giving Day and beyond. If you’re ready to help, just fill out this simple form, and we will get in touch with you on how you can help. Please note we will need to receive the completed form by Sept. 25 to get the T-shirt to you in time for Giving Day.
A guide to recent and upcoming office moves
As we move into Fall Term, we want to remind everyone that a number of offices on campus have moved.
As mentioned in an earlier letter to the community, the goal of these relocations was to ensure that all student-facing campus services are centralized in one area of campus and easily accessible for all students.
Below is a quick guide to the office moves. A campus map can be found here.
The offices formerly known as Brokaw Central: Previously located on the first floor of Brokaw Hall, this grouping of offices—the Registrar, Financial Aid, Student Accounts, and Student Account Cashiering—has joined Admissions and Career Center in Chapman Hall. Brokaw Central will be renamed. Watch for details coming soon.
Office of the President: To free up space for the Office of the Provost and academic affairs in Sampson House, the president and her staff will be relocating to Wilson House in mid-October. University counsel will move to Wilson House as well.
Office of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: The DEI office, now in Sampson House, will move along with the Office of the President to Wilson House in mid-October.
Center for Community Engagement and Social Change: This office has moved into its new home in Warch Campus Center.
Residential Education: This office has joined Student Life in Raymond House.
Development and Alumni & Constituency Engagement (ACE): These offices are now sharing spaces on the first two floors of Brokaw Hall along with the Office of Communications. (Note that colleagues in Corporate, Foundation, and Sponsored Research within Development remain in Wilson House.)
Office of the Provost: This office will remain in Sampson House and will be included in spaces for academic affairs.
Octoberfest returns to downtown Appleton this weekend
Appleton’s Octoberfest celebration returns to the downtown this weekend after a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic.
Details can be found at the Octoberfest website.
The festivities begin on Friday with License to Cruise, featuring classic cars up and down College Avenue. The big gathering comes on Saturday. Music begins at 9 a.m. and will go throughout the day on multiple stages. Local nonprofits will be selling an assortment of foods, and arts and crafts booths and family fun areas will be in play.
Traffic will be blocked on College Avenue on Friday evening and all day on Saturday.
The weather forecast looks promising and huge crowds are expected. Plan accordingly.
Register to vote: Here’s how to do it on campus
The Center for Community Engagement & Social Change and the City Clerk of Appleton have partnered to provide three on-campus voter registration opportunities in advance of the Nov. 8 election.
Location: Mead Witter Room, Warch Campus Center
Tuesday, September 27 – 9am-1pm
Wednesday, September 28 – 1pm-5pm
Monday, October 3 – 10am-1pm
Election Transportation:
Get a ride to the polls! On Election Day (Tuesday, November 8) there will be shuttles going to our polling location from 7am to 8pm! Shuttles will be leaving from Wriston Turnaround all day long!
If you are interested in being a paid shuttle driver, please email the CCE (community.engagement@lawrence.edu).
Planning to get there on your own? Our polling location is St. Joseph’s Parish (404 W. Lawrence St., Appleton, WI 54911).
Financial Aid, Registrar, and Student Accounts Office Grand Re-Opening
The Financial Aid, Registrar, and Student Accounts offices have moved to the 2nd floor of Chapman Hall. Students are invited to drop in to the Grand Re-Opening between 1 and 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 21. Learn what the offices can do for you, provide suggestions for a new office name, enter to win prizes, and enjoy some snacks. Prizes include school supply goodie bags, inkbox tattoos, and bookstore vouchers.
The offices were previously located in Brokaw Hall.
Matriculation Convocation set for Friday
The annual Matriculation Convocation will be held at 12:30 p.m. Friday in Memorial Chapel. It also will be available via YouTube. President Laurie Carter will deliver the address, Time to Shine.
All students, faculty, and staff are invited. See the program and find a link to the YouTube stream here.
Matriculation Convocation is a long tradition at Lawrence at the beginning of each new academic year. It celebrates the Lawrence community coming back together and sets the tone for the work ahead. It is one of three convocations to be held during 2022-23.
Julie McQuinn, associate professor of music and faculty marshal, will lead a faculty procession.
As is part of the tradition, the Welcome Week Choir will perform, directed by Stephen Sieck, associate professor of music and co-director of Choral Studies, and Phillip Swan, associate professor of music and co-director of Choral Studies.
Madera Allan, associate professor of Spanish and chair of the Public Events Committee, will provide a welcome and an introduction to the convocation series.
Student Engagement Fair set for Friday in Warch
Student Engagement Fair is set for Friday, Sept. 16 in Warch Campus Center.
The Student Engagement Fair encompasses both the Community Engagement Fair and the Student Organization Fair. The event is open to all student organizations and offers students the time to explore all the community engagement opportunities and student organizations that Lawrence has to offer.
The Community Engagement Fair runs from 5 to 7 p.m. on the 2nd floor of the Warch Campus Center (WCC) in the Esch Hurvis room. The Student Org Fair runs from 6 to 8 p.m. on the 3rd floor of the WCC in the Somerset room.
Virtual Tour photographer on campus Sept. 27-29
The Admissions and Communications offices are working with EAB and You Visit to create a new virtual tour on campus to launch later this term. A photographer will be on campus Sept. 27-29 taking photos of several campus locations. Jen England, director of visit experience/senior associate director of admissions, is the project manager and will reach out to folks directly responsible for areas where photos will be taken. If you have questions, please contact Jen directly at Jennifer.england@lawrence.edu.
All-Staff Meeting set for Sept. 22 in Warch Cinema
A reminder that the first of the 2022-23 All-Staff Meetings is set for next Thursday. Please save this one and the others on your calendars:
- Thursday, September 22, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
- Thursday, November 3, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
- Thursday, February 16, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
- Thursday, June 1, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Also note a change in location from a previous announcement. The Sept. 22 meeting will be held in Warch Cinema. The location for the rest of the schedule will be announced at a later date.
The All-Staff Meetings are organized and moderated by Lawrence University’s Staff Council (formerly Staff Governance). All Staff meetings will also be accessible via Zoom. Reminders and Zoom details will be distributed via email prior to meetings.
If you have recommendations for agenda items/topics, please send them to staff_governance@lawrence.edu or directly to Garrett Singer (garrett.j.singer@lawrence.edu).