Academics

Rethinking Mentoring

Thursday, Jan. 19
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Lunch will be provided
Esch Hurvis Room, Warch Campus Center
Presenter: Mindi Thompson, associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

This session is designed to start a new type of discussion about mentoring by describing the common problems that pre-tenure and post-tenure faculty members experience and why traditional mentoring programs fail to meet those needs. We propose an alternative framework for mentoring that focuses on needs assessment and shifts the idea of mentoring from a relationship between two faculty members toward building a broad network of support, community and accountability. The workshop concludes with a presentation of best practices in mentoring pre-tenure, underrepresented and mid-career faculty.

Please RSVP to michelle.l.lasecki-jahnke@lawrence.edu before Thursday, Jan. 12.

The Lawrence faculty and staff community is saddened by the tragic deaths of former colleagues Shannon O’Leary and Adam Clausen. They were killed Dec. 26 in a car accident in Oregon.

Clausen was a visiting assistant professor of physics at Lawrence from 2007 to 2011, while Shannon held a fellowship at Lawrence from 2008 to 2011. Their 4-year-old son Felix survived the accident, and a GoFundMe campaign has been created to support him.

Lawrentians interested in making donations to benefit the education of the two children of the late Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald and his wife, Miriam, may do so through Community First Credit Union. All donations to this fund will go toward Aidan and Finn’s educational enrichment.

To contribute to the Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald Memorial Fund, you may make deposits at any branch of the credit union or send them via postal mail to: Community First Credit Union, PO Box 1487, Appleton, WI 54912-9841. Please include the account number, 1183274, in the memo part of the check.

Miriam wants to keep track of who donates, but there’s not an easy system for this to happen. There’s a written note on the account to send Miriam a receipt, but not all tellers will see this note. Please ask the teller to send Miriam a receipt with your name. She appreciates this.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Read & Reflect Committee invites you to join this year’s Read & Reflect event—a discussion of the book Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill on Monday, Jan. 16 from 10 a.m. to noon.

According to The New York Times, “[Nobody] examines the interlocking mechanisms that systematically disadvantage ‘those marked as poor, black, brown, immigrant, queer, or trans’—those, in Hill’s words, who are Nobodies. … A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature.”

In the wake of our presidential election, we hope this book will provide some insight into the experience of marginalized populations. This will be an action-based discussion and will not only focus on the book but also personal experiences feeling like a “nobody” and action steps we can take individually and as a campus to dismantle systematic structures that don’t support the most vulnerable.

Learn more and register online. Registration deadline is Friday, Nov. 18 or when space runs out.