MyLU Insider

Staff Connections

Category: Staff Connections

Staff Connections Chili Cook-Off

Wednesday, March 20th at 11:30 a.m.-1 pm in Warch Campus Center, Esch-Hurvis Studio

Staff and faculty are invited to come taste test and vote for the best chili at LU! All are welcome to eat, but also encouraged to whip up their most delicious chili creation to win a glorious trophy (and perhaps win a prize!).

To sign up to cook a chili and represent your department/office, sign up here!

Welcome Wednesday: A New Staff Lunch

Staff Connections invites all new staff members to join us for lunch On February 13th from 12-1pm in Runkel Room (4th floor Warch). Bring your lunch and join Staff Connections and your fellow new colleagues for an informal monthly lunch.

We look forward to providing a gathering space for folks to put names to faces, find a new Lawrence buddy, or ask those campus questions that have been on your mind but you haven’t had answered yet in your time here.

All Staff Meeting Information

Updates from December 7th, 2018 All Staff Meeting: If you missed the last meeting or are looking for a refresher on what was covered, video from the December 7th All-Staff Meeting is posted on the Staff Connections website https://www.lawrence.edu/info/staff/past-meetings

Next All-Staff Meeting: mark your calendars for Tuesday, February 19th (**note – change from previously posted date)

Drop-in Lunch w/ Anne Jones

Join us on November 13th from 12:00-1:00pm in Chapman Hall, room 202 – bring your own lunch and come chat with Anne Jones, Interim Director of the Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement (CLC). This is an informal event, come and go as you please.

Anne will talk about the work that has been done to transition from Career Services to the CLC, and take questions from those in attendance! This is an informal event to get to know one of our campus leaders. You can also use this time to stop across the hall from our meeting room and check out the changes to the CLC space in person.

Drop-in Lunch w/ Anne Jones

Join us on November 13th from 12:00-1:00pm in Chapman Hall, room 202 – bring your own lunch and come chat with Anne Jones, Interim Director of the Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement (CLC). This is an informal event, come and go as you please.

Anne will talk about the work that has been done to transition from Career Services to the CLC, and take questions from those in attendance! This is an informal event to get to know one of our campus leaders. You can also use this time to stop across the hall from our meeting room and check out the changes to the CLC space in person.

Not too late to sign up for the fall Community Read!

All students, faculty and staff are welcome to participate in the fall Community Read. This term, we will be reading Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.  Ross Gay, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award, will be speaking on campus in October about his book that “studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.” Discussion may touch on topics including nature and culture; environmental justice and sustainability; pain, joy, and hope, and more.

You can sign up for one of four sessions that will meet four times during the fall term to discuss the book. Students can enroll in ENST 320, faculty and staff can contact Kelsey McCormick (kelsey.m.mccormick@lawrence.edu) or the faculty member leading each session to sign up. This course has no papers and no grading.

Sessions:
Wednesday 11:10-12:20 – Celia Barnes
Wednesday 3:10-4:20 – Graham Sazama
Thursday 12:30-2:20 – Mark Jenike
Friday 12:30-1:40 – Claire Kervin