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Mackenzie Huber

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Join the fall 21-Week Equity Challenge

The 21-Week Equity Challenge is a powerful opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of how inequity and racism affect our lives and our community.

How it works:

  • Individuals are encouraged to take on the challenge themselves, or form groups for discussion and reflection.
  • Those who sign up will receive an email at the beginning of each week for 21 weeks, starting Monday, August 30, 2021 to Monday, January 17, 2022.
  • Weekly topics take participants through a journey that starts with understanding internalized racism and explores how racism permeates person-to-person interactions, institutions, and social structures.
  • The experience is intended to deepen understanding, suggest ways to act, and helps launch what we hope will be a lifelong commitment to improving equity and inclusion in our communities. 

This Challenge is being hosted by United Way of Wisconsin. To learn more about it, visit the Equity Challenge page on their website.

Lawrence University’s Celestial Histories

Associate Professor and Chair of Physics, Megan Pickett, and her student Avery Greene ’24 celebrate Lawrence’s connection to the Night Sky.  Pickett and Greene are compiling a written and oral history of Lawrentians “Celestial Histories” as part of their summer research.  They are looking for stories, traditions, and important moments from all Lawrentians related to personal encounters with the night sky.  Their work will lead to an archive and website that paints another portrait of who we are as a community.  To volunteer, use:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1AOl3lwOFWaB2HW8O1ZbYiu6yuZy_1MRSKJTN7GOLqkICMg/viewform?fbclid=IwAR3FZqex0p7TN201D08ToYjJNQzZt8yfMsDGuDMrYN-XriJ9rbHu08LrZkY

You can choose between a written survey or an interview.  Look for future LU community events in which we can all share the night sky through the coming term!

Music for Food

On July 11 at 6:30 pm CT, the piano studio of Catherine Kautsky, in conjunction with Music for Food, will premiere an online recital of piano music by Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Ravel, Prokofiev, and others. All proceeds will go directly to benefit Appleton’s own Pillars: https://pillarsinc.org/service/pillars-at-a-glance/

Appleton is proud to have a chapter in Music for Food, a national organization of musicians devoted to addressing hunger in communities across the country.

You can read about Music for Food HERE

Please see the link for additional information on the recital HERE.

And here’s the direct link to the premiere on July 11, 7:30 ET: https://youtu.be/oDxKIR6PCl8

Special Edition of The Ariel

Hello Lawrentians,
I hope your summer is going well.  I am beyond excited to share The 2013- 2021 Ariel with you. This special edition of The Ariel was brought to you by the staff of The Lawrentian and members of the Lawrence University Community Council.

The Ariel is intended to celebrate the student body and President Mark Burstein, as he embarks upon his next adventure. Thank you for your leadership and your light.  

To view The Ariel, click here.

Kelsi Bryant ’22
LUCC President

SLUG Produce Sale Wednesdays

SLUG will be selling fresh produce every Wednesday morning from 9-12 AM or as long as supplies last. The sale will be held in front of the SLUG house (the blue house located on Boldt Way, across from International House).

There will be changing offerings every week depending on what is ready to harvest in the garden. Email madison.layton@lawrence.edu with any questions you may have.

PCDA Professional Development Survey

Reminder: The PCDA Professional Development Subcommittee wants to know about the development work you and your colleagues are doing related to diversity and inclusion—and what opportunities you’d like to see.

This information will help the subcommittee identify current areas of interest and need related to diversity and inclusion programming, as well as identify barriers related to participation and access for upcoming offerings.

Take the survey here: https://forms.office.com/r/6S0xdSKhag

All responses are anonymous. The survey is open until July 31, 2021.

D&I Professional Development Survey

The Professional Development Subcommittee wants to know about the development work you and your colleagues are doing related to diversity and inclusion—and what opportunities you’d like to see.

This information will help the subcommittee identify current areas of interest and need related to diversity and inclusion programming, as well as identify barriers related to participation and access for upcoming offerings.

Take the survey here: https://forms.office.com/r/6S0xdSKhag

All responses are anonymous.

Emergency Grant Funding is Available for All Lawrentians

On Friday, May 28 students received the following email:

We know many students continue to incur extraordinary or unplanned expenses due to the ongoing global pandemic. We write today to let you know emergency grant funding is available to assist with some of these expenses.

Thanks to Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEERF) funds the university received via grants from the Department of Education, emergency grant funding is available for all Lawrentians—regardless of citizenship status.

HEERF grants are prioritized for students with exceptional need. Emergency grant funding is intended to help with any component of your cost of attendance (such as tuition, housing, food, transportation, technology, health care, personal expenses or dependent care), as well as emergency costs that arose due to the pandemic. Although funding is not available for future expenses over the summer, a significant amount of HEERF grants will be available to students at the beginning of the 2021-22 academic year.

HEERF grants for this round of applications will be disbursed on June 16. Grant payment can be applied towards your student account or paid directly to you (by check or deposited in your bank account on file with Lawrence). To apply for funding, click here or visit go.lawrence.edu/covidgrants. 

The priority consideration date to complete the application is 4:59pm CT on Sunday, June 13, 2021. 

Stay well.

Curt Lauderdale 
Dean of Students

Ryan Gebler 
Director of Financial Aid