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Facilities Project Updates

Current and future projects happening around Campus:

  • Mudd Library: Work will be ongoing
  • Harper Hall: Upgrades began December 2
  • Plantz Hall: Hot water repair and disruption on Tuesday, December 17 for 6-8 hours starting at 7 a.m.
  • Chapman: Hurvis Center floor painted Sunday, December 22
  • Campus: Various patching & painting during winter break
  • Campus: Annual maintenance power outage on Monday, July 14
  • Chapel Façade: Renovation to begin summer 2025 TBD
  • Ormsby Hall: Window replacement summer 2025 TBD
  • Alex Gym, Wilson House, Big Exec: Fire system upgrades summer 2025 TBD

Watch for updates weekly; TBD dates will be filled in as learned. Please note that dates are subject to change due to weather or supply chain issues. Please be safe when in these areas!

34th annual Fox Cities Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

Monday, January 20 | 6-7:30 p.m.
Lawrence Memorial Chapel

Lawrence University is excited to host the 34th Fox Cities Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.

Hear from:

  • Keynote Speaker Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly

With musical performances from:

  • NOIR | Lawrence University student group
  • Preston Parker ft. The Omoladé Academy
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Choir
    • Community members are invited to join this choir! The choir will meet through Zoom once in December and will begin in-person rehearsals in January.
sign up for the community choir

Also featuring the presentation of Jane LaChapelle McCarty Unity in Diversity MLK Community Leader and MLK Educator awards:

  • The MLK Committee is accepting nominations for these awards. More information can be found on this form.
  • The deadline to submit nominations is Sunday, Dec. 20.

Thank you to our sponsors!

  • People of Progression
  • Appleton Area School District
  • United Way Fox Cities
  • Boys & Girls Club of the Fox Valley
  • City of Appleton
  • The Boldt Company
  • ThedaCare

About Dr. Burden-Stelly

Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly is a critical Black Studies scholar of political theory, political economy, intellectual history, and political and historical sociology. Her research pursues three complementary lines of inquiry:

  1. The transnational entanglements of U.S. capitalist racism, anticommunism, and antiblack racial oppression.
  2. Twentieth-century Black anticapitalist intellectual thought, theory, and praxis.
  3. Theories and discourses of economic development in the African diaspora.

Dr. Burden-Stelly is the author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States and the co-author, with Dr. Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. She is also the co-editor, with Dr. Jodi Dean, of Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writings and of Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean and the Postcolonial State with Dr. Aaron Kamugisha and Dr. Percy Hintzen. Additionally, she guest edited the “Claudia Jones: Foremother of World Revolution” special issue of The Journal of Intersectionality.

Her published work appears in journals including Small Axe, Monthly Review, Souls, Du Bois Review, Socialism & Democracy, International Journal of Africana Studies, CLR James Journal, and American Communist History. Dr. Burden-Stelly’s words are featured in popular venues including Monthly Review, Boston Review, Essence magazine, Teen Vogue, Jacobin, The Nation, and Black Agenda Report. She has been interviewed on podcasts, radio shows, and news shows including The Real News Network, Breakthrough News, Black Myths, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, The Red Nation, AJ+, Bad Faith, The Katie Halper Show, Revolutionary Left Radio, Guerilla History, Upstream and the New Books Network.

Dr. Burden-Stelly is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace and Community Movement Builders.

United Way Pledge Deadline

Join our 2024 United Way Fox Cities Campaign and help impact 1 in 3 lives in our community. Don’t forget to make your pledge by the campaign deadline this Friday, December 13!

Log in to the e-Pledge site today and choose your donation method. Every gift matters. Let’s build a stronger Fox Cities together!

United Way e-Pledge site: Your long LU email will be your username, and your temporary password will be LUGIVES2024.

Facilities Project Updates

Current and future projects happening around campus:

  • Mudd Library: Work is ongoing
  • Harper Hall: upgrades starting December 2
  • Mursell House: roof replacement starting December 3
  • Plantz Hall: Hot water repair and disruption on December 17 for 6-8 hours starting at 7 a.m.
  • Campus: annual maintenance power outage, July 14
  • Chapel Façade: renovation to begin summer 2025 TBD
  • Ormsby Hall: window replacement summer 2025 TBD

Watch for updates weekly; TBD dates will be filled in as learned. Please note that dates are subject to change due to weather or supply chain issues. Please be safe when in these areas!

Free December YMCA Membership for Employees

December is a great time to try the YMCA; Lawrence employees can enjoy a free membership Dec. 1-31.

Bring your LU ID to the Downtown YMCA and sign up. You can add dependents or spouses for just $12 each. Your membership is good at the Fox Valley area YMCAs.

Check out hours and classes here.

If you have any questions contact Erin Buenzli at buenzlie@lawrence.edu.

International {OPEN} House

All campus faculty and staff are invited to drop by International House Thursday, December 5 between 3-6 p.m. for a casual open house. We’re celebrating our newly remodeled kitchen and are looking forward to sharing with you everything the historic International House has to offer!

Come by, enjoy some time with friends and colleagues, learn more about the teams who work at I-House, and find out how you can reserve and use the space with your classes and teams to cook together, meet, or just hang out in our Tea Corner.

Light hors d’oeuvres and adult beverages will be served. We look forward to seeing you!

Mailroom Holiday/Winter Break Hours

  • November 27-December 1 | CLOSED
  • December 19-20 | Open 9-5 with student staff
  • December 21-22 | CLOSED
  • December 23 | Open 10-2 with professional staff, window open
  • December 24-25 | CLOSED
  • December 26-27 | Open 10-2 with student workers, window closed
  • December 28-29 | CLOSED
  • December 30 | Open 10-2 with professional staff, window open
  • December 31-January 1 | CLOSED
  • January 2-3 | Open 10-2 with student workers, window closed

On days when the mailroom is open and the window is closed, please contact the mailroom at Mailroom_Staff@lawrence.edu to schedule pickup of packages. We will not be completing mail run on any of these dates.

Facilities Project Updates

Current projects

  • Mudd Library: Work is ongoing
  • Sampson House: Front porch replacement is ongoing
  • Music-Drama: Exterior retaining wall began Nov. 20

Future projects

  • Harper Hall: Upgrades begin Dec. 2
  • Music-Drama & Alex Gym: Breaker upgrades morning of Nov. 27. There will be a power disruption to each building for about an hour.
  • Mursell House: Roof replacement late November TBD
  • Chapel Façade: Renovation to begin summer 2025 TBD
  • Ormsby Hall: Window replacement summer 2025 TBD

Watch for updates weekly; TBD dates will be filled in as learned. Please note that dates are subject to change due to weather or supply chain issues. Please be safe when in these areas!

Echoes of Tomorrow: Indigenous Futures Reimagined

Wednesday, Nov. 20 | 5:30-6:15 p.m.
Warch 320 – Gallery

Echoes of Tomorrow: Indigenous Futures Reimagined, is an Ethnic Studies independent study which explores the topic of Indigenous Futurism as a concept of hope for reparations and decolonization. Showcasing works of Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee), Matika Wilbur (Swinomish/Tulalip), Skawennati (Kahnawakeronon/First Nations Canada), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke), Dr. Grace Dillon (Anishinaabe), and various other Native activists/artists.

Using media and talks from various contemporary artists, we ask questions such as: What is Indigenous futurism?  Is this purely just science fiction? What might this idea look like? Is Indigenous Futurism an “achievable” concept?  

This student-led talk will explore the combination of embracing cultural heritage, challenging systemic oppression, and promoting healing embodied through an interdisciplinary collection of multimedia art, poetry, articles, movies, videos, and more.

This exhibit is free and open to the public. All are welcome—please join us!