Stephanie Bray, our associate director of social media, will be leaving us on Friday, November 4, to take a new position in digital marketing at Associated Bank. While she will no longer be working full-time at Lawrence, she will continue to work with us remotely as a social media consultant during our transition to a new social media manager.
Please join us in thanking Stephanie for helping us expand the university’s social media presence and wish her well in her new role.
You are invited to a Faculty Meet & Greet with LU’s London Centre Resident Director Christine Hoenigs.
Monday, October 22nd from 4 to 5:30pm in the International House
Are you interested in learning about LU’s London Centre and the recent changes in the program? Would you like to talk about how the program might better connect with your department or program? Have you considered the London Centre as a location for your students to conduct research by independent study or related to their senior experience? Would you like to learn about applying for the London Centre Visiting Faculty position? Would you like to meet Lawrence’s London Centre Director? This gathering will be an opportunity to discuss any of these topics.
We hope you can join us in welcoming Christine to campus next Monday.
This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.
This talk will imagine ways that delight, joy, and love are integral to the ways we care for the land, but also to the ways we care for ourselves and each other as the land.
Ross’s reading will be followed by a book signing.
Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Ross teaches at Indiana University. His new book, The Book of Delights — will be released in Spring 2019.
James Forman Jr., author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, will deliver a talk that explores the rise of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The talk will be followed by a signing of his book.
Lecture and Signing with Pulitzer-Winner James Forman, Jr.
Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Wriston Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.
Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, seeks to understand why many African-American leaders for decades supported a get-tough “war on crime” that so profoundly impacts communities of color. Forman’s work is “an examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.”
James Forman Jr., author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, will deliver a talk that explores the rise of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The talk will be followed by a signing of his book.
Lecture and Signing with Pulitzer-Winner James Forman, Jr.
Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Wriston Auditorium
The event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.
Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, seeks to understand why many African-American leaders for decades supported a get-tough “war on crime” that so profoundly impacts communities of color. Forman’s work is “an examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.”
This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.
This talk will imagine ways that delight, joy, and love are integral to the ways we care for the land, but also to the ways we care for ourselves and each other as the land.
Ross’s reading will be followed by a book signing.
Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Ross teaches at Indiana University. His new book, The Book of Delights — will be released in Spring 2019.
Lawrence Giving Day is a one-day-only fundraising event celebrating all things Lawrence. The 5th Annual event is on Wednesday, October 10. When you give a gift that is meaningful to you, Game Changers will match it with a gift to the Lawrence Fund.
Gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar thanks to our generous Game Changers, doubling the impact of your gift for current students. Any gifts from the Classes of 2002-2022 will be matched with $500. So $10, $25, $50 or $100 gifts quickly becomes $510, $525, $550 or $600. If there is a gift more than $500, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
** All matching gifts will be going to the Lawrence Fund**
Keep your LU spirit high by participation in different Giving Day Challenges throughout the day on the Lawrence Facebook page. There will be a mix of giving, sharing, trivia, and tagging challenges that will all unlock big amounts of Game Changer money!
New primetime experience from 6 pm until 9 pm- This 3-hour live online show will be jammed packed with all of the things you know and love about Giving Day. It will feature many activities, performances, and guest appearances. Throughout the day we will also be going live on Facebook to kick off the day, featuring different areas of campus, and play some trivia. Make sure to tune in!
Visit go.lawrence.edu/givingday for all Giving Day information.
On October 1-2, 2018, this coming Monday and Tuesday, Lawrence will host a team of reviewers from the Higher Learning Commission as part of our reaccreditation process. As part of the site visit, the HLC reviewers want to hear from the Lawrence community on a number of important topics. Faculty and staff participation in these open meetings and forums is a valuable piece of the reaccreditation process.
Click here for a list of meetings and to RSVP.
An RSVP is not required to attend, but it is helpful and allows you to receive updates and reminders as meeting locations can be subject to change.
For more information about accreditation, click here.
On October 1-2, 2018, this coming Monday and Tuesday, Lawrence will host a team of reviewers from the Higher Learning Commission as part of our reaccreditation process. A students-only open forum is an important part of that visit. It takes place on Monday, October 1 from 4:30-5:15 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center Cinema.
There will be a number of additional open forums and meetings that students are encouraged to attend, including a session on Diversity and Campus Climate on Monday, October 1, 2018 from 2-3 p.m. This session will now be held in the Wriston Auditorium.
Click here for a full list of meetings and to RSVP.
An RSVP is not required to attend, but it is helpful and allows you to receive updates and reminders as meeting locations can be subject to change.
For more information about accreditation, click here.
