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2024 Open Enrollment Deadline

The deadline to submit any open enrollment changes, additions, or drops to Human Resources is Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 4 p.m. 

If you do not want to make changes to your current benefit elections, you do not need to submit open enrollment forms, with the exception of flexible spending. The flexible spending enrollment form must be completed if you want to participate in health care and/or dependent care flexible spending in the 2024 plan year/calendar year. 

All Open Enrollment materials can be found on the Human Resources website. If you have any questions, please contact your Human Resources representative.

New Employees/Rehires/Promotions

If you see them on campus, please welcome them to Lawrence!

New Employees

Destane Harris – Bon Appetit Catering Manager

Michelle Detwiler – Associate Director of Athletics for Internal Operations

Alimasi Furahaa – Custodian

Tom Wilson – Volunteer Softball Coach

Peter Betchner – Bon Appetit

Emily Moeller – Bon Appetit

Scott Sturgeon – Volunteer Men’s Hockey Coach

Rose Petersen – Campus Safety Officer

Rehires

Adam Korber – Group Ukulele Teacher

Fred Sturm Jazz Celebration Weekend 2023

Join professional jazz artists and clinicians for a non-competitive educational jazz festival during the Fred Sturm Jazz Celebration Weekend!

The goal of the Fred Sturm Jazz Celebration Weekend is to create a low-pressure clinic environment and provide an inspirational boost at the start of the school year through extended ensemble workshops with renowned clinicians, a special focus on improvisation, an absence of ratings and trophies, and a world-class list of professional jazz artists.

For the 2023 festival, we are honored to feature visiting artists Alicia Olatuja Quintet and Magos Herrera Quartet at our Friday and Saturday evening concerts! We are excited to welcome the wider Appleton community to the festival and have an exciting schedule of events planned.

For full event details, visit lawrence.edu.

Schedule

Friday, Nov. 3

  • 7:30 p.m. | Alicia Olatuja Quintet | Memorial Chapel
    Tickets Required
    Listening to acclaimed vocalist, composer, and arranger Alicia Olatuja, is truly an unforgettable experience. Olatuja gained global recognition for her stunning vocal performance during President Obama’s second inauguration, and has been praised in the New York Times as “a singer with a strong and luscious tone.” Olatuja combines the earthy with the sublime, bringing a grounded relatability to genres as lofty as classical, as venerated as jazz, and as gritty as R&B. Her debut album, Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women, celebrates female composers.

Saturday, Nov. 4

  • 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | High school & middle school clinics
  • 10-11:30 a.m. | LU Mary Lou, Melba, and Elvin combos | Cloak Theater
    FREE
  • 1:30 p.m. | Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Band concert | Memorial Chapel
    FREE
    Webcast
  • 3-4 p.m. | LU Thelonious and Miles combos | Cloak Theater
    FREE
  • 7:30 p.m. | Magos Herrera Quartet | Memorial Chapel
    Tickets Required
    A dazzling jazz singer-songwriter, producer, and educator known for her sultry voice and unique presence in the Latin American jazz scene, Magos Herrera’s style effortlessly blends contemporary jazz with Ibero-American melodies and rhythms, transcending language barriers. With nine albums and collaborations with renowned producer Javier Limón, she has received accolades and performed at prestigious venues and festivals worldwide. Recognized by Forbes as one of the most creative Mexicans in the world, Herrera has received a Grammy shortlist nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album (Distancia, 2009) and a Berklee College of Music’s Master of Latin Music Award.

Tickets

Purchase tickets from the Box Office (920-832-6749) or online. The Box Office is open Monday-Saturday from 1-6 p.m. and an hour prior to events.

  • Adults: $30/$25
  • Seniors: $25/$20
  • LU faculty/staff: $10/$9
  • Students (LU and non-LU): FREE
    (Valid Lawrence ID must be presented for LU prices)

Talk with Dr. L.J. Randolph Jr.

“Enacting a Justice-centered Language Curriculum”

Friday, Nov. 3 | 4:30-6 p.m.
Main Hall 201

Dr. Randolph is an assistant professor of World Language Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president-elect of ACFLT. His research and teaching focus on various critical issues in language education, including teaching Spanish to heritage and native speakers, incorporating justice-oriented/anti-racist/anti-colonial pedagogies, and centering Blackness and Indigenousness.

New Music Series

LUNME presents the music of Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe

Wednesday, Nov. 1 | 8-9:30 p.m.
Harper Hall

The Lawrence University New Music Ensemble (LUNME) presents an evening of exhilarating music by renowned Bang on a Can composers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.

Between them, these composers have received two Pulitzer Prizes, a MacArthur “genius” grant, and commissions from nearly every major ensemble in the United States.

LUNME brings together students and faculty to work side-by-side on music that stretches ears and sparks creativity. In 2022, LUNME received the American Prize in Virtual Performance for their recording of Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together.

This concert is free and open to the public!

2024 Annual Open Enrollment

The 2024 plan year Open Enrollment period is November 1-14, 2023. Our annual Open Enrollment period provides all benefit-eligible employees an opportunity to make changes to their current coverage or enroll in coverage that was previously waived. Changes can be made in the following benefit plans: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Account (Medical and Dependent Care), Supplemental Life, Short Term Disability, and Long-Term Care.

If you would like to maintain your current coverages at their current levels, with the exception of the flexible spending, no action is needed. Flexible Spending benefits must be renewed annually, and prior plan year elections do not carry over year-to-year.

Open Enrollment Materials & Benefit Fair

We are excited to share that we will be holding an Open Enrollment Benefits Fair in the Warch Campus Center – Somerset Room on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, from 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. This event will provide opportunities to meet with the University’s benefit providers, obtain benefit enrollment forms and the 2024 benefit guide, and connect with members of the Human Resources team about enrollment for the upcoming year.

Outside of the Open Enrollment Benefits Fair, the 2024 Benefit Guide and all enrollment/change forms can be found online and paper copies are also available. If you would like a paper copy of the guide and/or forms, please contact Human Resources and materials will be sent to you via campus mail. 

Deadline for Enrollment/Changes

The deadline to submit any open enrollment changes, additions, or cancellations to Human Resources is Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, at 4 p.m.

As noted above, if you do not wish to make changes to your current benefit elections, you do not need to submit open enrollment forms, with the exception of flexible spending. The flexible spending enrollment form must be completed if you want to participate in health and/or dependent care flexible spending in the 2024 plan year/calendar year.

Your Human Resources representative is available to assist you with any questions!

Latin American & Spanish Film Festival

Oct. 26-29 | Warch Campus Center Cinema
FREE Admission
Films will be screened in original languages with English subtitles

Thursday, Oct. 26

  • 4:30 p.m. | “Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Chile, 50 Years After the Coup”
    by Professor Patricia Vilches

    Followed by Chile ’76 (2022) | Chile, 2022 | Dir. Manuela Martelli
    Drama
    Three years after Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile through a coup, establishing a military dictatorship, housewife Carmen finds herself drawn out from her comfortable lifestyle into playing a more active role in the resistance.
  • 8 p.m. | Argentina, 1985 | Argentina, 2022 | Dir. Santiago Mitre.
    Biography/Crime/Drama
    The true story of how a public prosecutor, a young lawyer, and their inexperienced legal team dares to prosecute the heads of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship.

Friday, Oct. 27

  • 5 p.m. | La Pecera (The Fishbowl) | Puerto Rico, 2023 | Dir. Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
    Drama
    As cancer spreads, Noelia’s ultimately decides to return to her native Puerto Rico to claim her freedom and decide her own fate. She reunites with her friends and family, who are still dealing with contamination of the U.S. Navy after 60 years of military practices.
  • 7 p.m. | Noche Latina at LU | Somerset Room – Warch Campus Center
    Talk by Ariela Rosa | Dance + Live music

Saturday, Oct. 28

  • 5 p.m. | Un Lugar Llamado Música (A Place Called Music) | Mexico, 2022
    Followed by Q&A with Dir. Enrique M. Rizo.
    Documentary
    This documentary depicts the a musical journey between Mexican Wixárika musician Daniel Medina and American composer Philip Glass. Through a friendship that lacks words but abounds in must, they demonstrate that music is also a place in which lies an understanding of the most abstract forms of human emotions.
  • 8 p.m. | Perdidos en la Noche (Lost in the Night) | Mexico, 2023 | Dir. Amat Escalante
    Drama/Thriller
    In a small mining town in Mexico, Emiliano searches for those responsible for the disappearance of his activist mother. Receiving no help from the police, he finds a clue that leads him to the wealthy Aldama family. It’s not long before he has a job at their home and becomes determined to uncover the secrets beneath the surface.

Sunday, Oct. 29

  • 2 p.m. | As Bestas (The Beasts) | Spain, 2022 | Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
    Drama/Thriller
    A French couple move to a Galician town in search of a closer relationship with nature. However, a conflict with their neighbors, the Anta brothers, cause tensions to grow until the situation reaches a point of no return.

Sponsored by

  • Siekman Foundation
  • Helen Barr Rudin Fund and Foreign Language Coalition
  • Lawrence Department of Spanish
  • Friends of the Festival

Questions?

Wisconsin PRIDE Documentary Screening

Lawrence’s Pride Network partnered with Diverse + Resilient and PBS Wisconsin to host a screening of the recently released PBS documentary Wisconsin Pride.

Wisconsin Pride: Part 1
Sunday, Oct. 29 | 6-7:45 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

This screening includes the first half of the documentary and a Q&A with a panel of Wisconsin LGBTQ leaders. Audience members are invited to engage with the speakers for a discussion about how our past shapes our history.

Wisconsin Pride: Part 2
Monday, Oct. 30 | 6-7:45 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

This screening includes the second half of the documentary and a conversation with Brice Smith, the scholar who wrote the biography of Milwaukee’s own Lou Sullivan entitled Lou Sullivan: Daring To Be A Man Among Men. Sullivan is a trans man who shaped the trans masculine movement and created FTM International.

Both screenings are free and open to the public. Register today!