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Open Enrollment Benefits Fair – Save the Date!

Save the date for the upcoming insurance Open Enrollment Benefits Fair in the Warch Campus Center – Somerset Room on Thursday, November 1st, 2018 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.

New this year!  Due to limited changes to the benefit plans for the 2019 plan year, the Open Enrollment Benefits Fair will take the place of open enrollment meetings.  This event will provide an opportunity to meet with the University’s benefit providers, obtain benefit enrollment forms and the updated benefit guide, and talk with members of the Human Resources team about enrollment for the upcoming year.

Benefit providers who will be available to meet with you include:

Additionally, the following University offices will be available to meet with you:

The deadline to submit any open enrollment changes, additions, or drops to Human Resources is Monday, November 19th, 2018 at 4:00 pm.

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 2019 plan year/calendar year.

Unable to attend, but still have questions or need the benefit guide and forms?  Contact Human Resources with your request.

We look forward to seeing you at the Open Enrollment Benefits Fair!

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Explore Causes of Mass Incarceration at Lawrence Talk

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.”

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

  • October 11, 2018 @ 6:00 pm (please note that this time has changed from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.!)
  • Warch Campus Center, Lawrence University
  • Hurvis Room
  • Free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.

Description of event

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 Biography

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.

 

Wellness Fair 2018 – Gratitude

We invite the Lawrence Community to Wellness Fair 2018 – Gratitude.  Centering around the theme of gratitude, our wellness fair offers an opportunity to engage with campus and community partners invested in various aspects of wellness.

Join us on Tuesday, October 9th in Warch (Somerset) from 11am-1pm and 6pm-8pm.  In addition to stopping in to visit our wellness partners, the Wellness Fair will be the site of the first campus flu shot clinic of the season (free for staff and a $20 charge for students) and will also provide the opportunity to win a variety of prizes (1-hr massage, 1-hr guided kayak tour, fit bit, prize baskets, and more).  We hope to see you there!

5th Annual Lawrence Giving Day – Wednesday, October 10

What is Giving Day?

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.

Giving Challenges

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**

New Challenges happening this year!

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!

Live shows

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.

Choose your practice

Worship and spiritual practice comes in many varieties.  In our daily choices, in exercises and movements, in readings we select, and in the topics on our lips and in our ears.  It can be found in support, in activity, in thought and in deed.

Choose your practice, on campus or off.

  • Curious about Lawrence University Unitarian Universalists?  You can bring your questions on Wednesdays at 8pm at Sabin House.

  • Meditation continues Wednesdays at 4:30

  • Student run yoga at Sabin on Saturdays

  • Local worship services

  • Personal reflection

Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, and Resistance

Dr. Adonia Lugo, bicycle advocate, activist, and anthropologist, will be on campus Thursday, October 11 for a speaking event that is free and open to the public.

Dr. Adonia Lugo collaborates with individuals and communities to develop sustainable transportation that addresses the needs and experiences of marginalized people. She is the author of the just-published book Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, and Rsistance as well as numerous other publications.

When: Thursday, October 11 at 7:30pm
Where: Steitz Hall Room 102