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Inform the new website by taking this survey

The Lawrence community is currently working on a shiny new website and looking to make it more user-friendly for students, faculty, and staff. Help us understand how you use the current website and what resources you use most by taking this quick survey.

Take the survey

Want to be even more involved in the process?

Volunteer for new website usability testing

As we build the new site, we’ll be testing new ideas along the way with short, 1-on-1, task-based testing sessions one morning each month.

We’re looking for users of all ages, interests, abilities, and levels of experience with technology.

If you’d be willing to spend 20-30 minutes trying our new concepts and giving us your thoughts, please email communications@lawrence.edu with the subject line “Usability Testing Volunteer” and we will work to schedule a time.

Thanks for your help as we build a new site!

Worship-Yom Kippur and Taizé

Taizé

On Sunday, October 6, the Lawrence community is welcome to gather at All Saints Episcopal for an interfaith contemplative worship experience. Join with community, candles, silence, chant and prayer from the Christian tradition.
Light dinner to follow services.

Yom Kippur

On Tuesday and Wednesday, October 8-9, services for Yom Kippur will be held at Moses Montefiore and B’nai Israel. Lawrentians are welcome to meet at the Wriston turnaround for walking groups and shuttles.

Meet Tuesday, 10/8
at 5:15 to walk to Moses Montefiore
at 6:30pm for the shuttle to B’nai Israel

Meet Wednesday, 10/9
at 8:45am to walk to Moses Monetefiore
at 9am for the MORNING shuttle to B’Nai Israel.
at 1:30pm for the AFTERNOON shuttle to B’Nai Israel.

Contact the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life with additional questions.

On Afrotropic Art Histories: A Conversation

The Department of Art & Art History is pleased to present a conversation with Dr. Huey Copeland & Dr. Krista Thompson of Northwestern University. 

Thursday, September 19

5 PM – 6:30 p.m.

Wriston Art Center Auditorium

Link to Facebook event here 

Huey Copeland is Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, Associate Professor of Art History, and affiliated faculty in the Critical Theory Cluster, the Department of African American Studies, the Department of Art Theory & Practice, the Department of Performance Studies, and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

Krista Thompson is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History, and affiliated faculty in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Performance Studies. She researches and teaches modern and contemporary art and visual culture of the Africa diaspora and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on photography. 

Sponsored by the Jordan Fund for the Arts.

“They Call Us Illegals”: A documentary film and virtual reality simulation

The Office of Diversity & Inclusion is pleased to be partnering with Lawrence’s Film Studies Program, the Diversity and Intercultural Center, ESTHER, and the Appleton Dignity & Respect Campaign to bring you two films in one event: Los Sueños de Anita and The Unafraid.

Los Sueños de Anita is a virtual reality experience that immerses viewers into the life of two undocumented parents as they raise their young daughter Anita and face struggles much too familiar to the community. It runs about 9 minutes and will be available for viewing between 3pm-4:15pm and 7pm-8pm.

The Unafraid follows the personal lives of three DACA students in Georgia as they take on activism in a state that has banned them from attending their top state universities and disqualifies them from receiving in-state tuition at any other public college. The screening (which will take place in the Warch cinema) starts at 4:30pm on September 26 with a Community Conversation and short survey afterward, and viewing the virtual reality piece will be available again until 8pm.

This event is free and open to the public.

New LU Insider Coming

Starting this Fall Term, the LU Insider newsletter will be getting a new look! In an effort to make it a more convenient and enjoyable communication, your friends in Communications will be working to provide more information about upcoming events, University news, accomplishments worth celebrating, and other fun and useful tidbits along with the usual announcements.

New Submission Guidelines

  • Deadline: All submissions for the Thursday morning LU Insider are due Wednesday at noon.
  • Submissions: Designated staff members from across campus can submit posts by logging in here. If you would like to submit a post but do not have access, contact Mackenzie.m.huber@lawrence.edu
  • Frequency: No announcement will be allowed to appear in consecutive LU Insider newsletters. Submit announcements strategically.
  • Events: To have an event listed in the “Events Next Week” section of the LU Insider newsletter, it must be on the Events Calendar. The Office of Communications reserves the right to curate the list for length. Recurring events will not appear in the section. Posts that are strictly public event announcements will no longer be included as LU Insider posts.
  • Headlines: Write headlines with a purpose so that people get the main idea of the announcement from the headline.
  • First Sentence(s): The first sentence or two of a post should mention all essential information and details.
  • Photos and Graphics: For the sake of accessibility, no graphics or photos with text will be allowed in LU Insider posts unless all the information is also written as text in the post. Photos are welcome at the end of posts as long as alt text is included.
  • Category and Audience: Always select the proper category for the post before submitting for approval. The LU Insider will no longer be separated into student and faculty/staff emails, so make sure content is appropriate for all audiences. Before submitting for approval, continue to select intended audience(s), as faculty/staff announcements will be denoted.
  • Contact: Mackenzie.m.huber@lawrence.edu

The Office of Communications reserves the right to curate the LU Insider posts that appear in the email summary.

Energy Audit of University Buildings

Lawrence has hired Johnson Controls to do an energy audit on campus.  The audit began on Tuesday, May 21, and will continue over the next few weeks. The following buildings are currently being audited:       

Academy of Music
Alex Gym
Briggs Hall
Brokaw Hall
Buchanan-Kiewit Wellness Center
Chapman Hall
Conservatory West 
Facility Services
Main Hall
Memorial Chapel
Memorial Hall
Music Drama
Seeley G. Mudd Library
Shattuck Hall 
Steitz Hall
Warch Campus Center
Wriston Art Center
Youngchild Hall

If you work in one of these 18 buildings, please note that you may see employees of Johnson Controls walking through hallways, rooms, and offices. The University has given them permission to check every room in buildings if needed, and they can be identified by their Johnson Controls lanyard.  While they do need to access every room, they understand and respect that class is still in session and the business of learning is our first priority; they will work around classes, labs, meetings, etc. and will make every effort to avoid disrupting our activities. 

Lighting data loggers (see image below) are also being installed in these buildings for 2-3 weeks. These loggers will be gathering baseline numbers on how and when our buildings are in use, for annual energy savings calculations. Please do not tamper with the loggers.

Data loggers being installed in 18 campus buildings. Please do not tamper with these loggers.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Facility Services.

LU: Get on the Move

I see many of you moving this week, but you haven’t logged in to record your movement since last month. If we all keep moving and log our points I know we can move into 10th place overall. This week’s winners are Liz Boutelle, Ty Collins, Jillian Johnson and Crystal Bailey.

Need more incentive? Pete Gilbert is in the lead. Can anyone catch him?

Join the celebration of our Diversity and Inclusion Champions

Please join us for good food, great music, and marvelous conversation during the third annual Diversity and Inclusion Champions Award Ceremony on Thursday, May 30, from 4 until 6 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center’s Somerset Room (324).  

Help us honor the impressive ways in which nominees and award recipients utilized their personal power and talents to assist the university’s efforts to achieve inclusive excellence.

You will also hear about the ways that, as a community, we have moved closer to becoming the inclusive campus we strive to be. Be prepared to leave inspired, encouraged, and motivated to build on this important work. 

We hope you will make time to celebrate with us! 

Save the Date – Learning @ Lawrence Collaborative

Please join us for our second Learning at Lawrence Collaborative on June 19th, 2019 from 8am – 12:15pm at the Warch Campus Center. Sessions will be presented by colleagues of Lawrence discussing various topics on Community interactions, functions, and ways to being more cohesive . Additional information regarding this event will be shared in the weeks to come.