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Professional development June 27

Please mark your calendar for a day full of learning opportunities and professional development! We will continue our conversations about embracing and becoming a more diverse and inclusive campus and also offer breakout sessions for other professional development, facilitated by internal and external presenters. The topics will focus on soft skill building and learning about Lawrence. Offices will be closed to allow time for everyone to participate.

Who: All staff and faculty

When: June 27, 8 a.m.–2 p.m.

Where: Warch Campus Center

*Lunch will be provided

More details, including a formal RSVP with breakout choices will be sent in the coming weeks. We look forward to seeing you there!

Buddhist practice series

Be a part of the next three sessions of Buddhist meditation and practice with Matty Wegehaupt at the Center for Spiritual and Religious Life April 25, May 2 and May 9 from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. in Sabin House. Times have been adjusted so check your calendars. Please plan to attend the entire series. Open to all members of the LU community. Send RSVP to Matty Wegehaupt at matthew.wegehaupt@lawrence.edu. For more information, email spiritual.religious.life@lawrence.edu.

 

Insurance open enrollment meetings

Insurance open enrollment meetings
Save the Date

Please mark your calendar for the upcoming insurance open enrollment meetings in the WCC Cinema.

  • May 4
    • 10–11 a.m.
    • 2:30–3:30 p.m.
  • May 8
    • 10–11 a.m.
    • 2:30–3:30 p.m.
  • May 10
    • 8:30–9:30 a.m.
    • 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Open enrollment meeting
Our agenda during the open enrollment meetings will include discussion regarding:

  • Short plan year (July 1, 2017–Dec. 31, 2017)
  • New benefit offering, vision insurance coverage
  • New pharmacy vendor, MedTrax
  • How to be a better health care consumer & an introduction to HSA
  • Premium updates
  • Deadlines & forms to complete

Additionally, we are happy to welcome our vendor partners to the open enrollment meetings. These vendors will be available to meet with you before and after the meetings to answer any questions you may have.  They include:

  • UMR, health plan provider
  • MedTrak, pharmacy provider
  • Superior Vision, vision care provider
  • Hay’s Benefit Group, health plan broker
  • Lawrence University’s WELLU, Lawrence’s wellness team

 

Call for proposals extended deadline

ATTENTION: Deadline for proposals has been extended to May 12!

Please mark your calendar for Lawrence University’s inaugural diversity conference which will focus on inclusive pedagogy.

Teaching All Students Well: Preparing an educated citizenry for wise participation in a diverse democracy

2017 Diversity Conference
Aug. 17–18
Lawrence University

Featuring keynote speaker Derald Wing Sue, professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University and author of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues in Race.

If you are interested in helping to shape the future of education, submit a proposal to present at the conference by May 12.  For additional program details, download the digital brochure.

Questions?
Call 920-832-6744 or email michelle.l.lasecki-jahnke@lawrence.edu.

Cultural Competency Lecture Series: Religion & spirituality

Linda Morgan-Clement, Julie Esch Hurvis Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life, and Martyn Smith, associate professor of religious studies, will present Imagine More on April 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center’s Esch Hurvis Room.

John Lennon may have imagined that a world without nations, heaven, hell, possessions and religion would be a world of peace. While many of us resonate with his longing for world peace, the majority of the global population cannot imagine peace without religion and spiritual practice. Lawrence University has made a commitment to recognize, support and nurture individual and collective spiritual practice and religious life as a part of our holistic education.  This lecture/dialogue invites participants to discuss ways to utilize our diverse commitments and spiritual practices to imagine more than a world without this essential component of many cultures and communities.

The Cultural Competency Lecture Series at Lawrence features our faculty, students and staff sharing their expertise related to the knowledge and skills necessary to take a culturally competent, equity-minded approach to the work and learning in which they are engaged at Lawrence. Bring your lunch and learn!

Please join us by sending a RSVP to michelle.l.lasecki-jahnke@lawrence.edu by April 24.

Community blood drive April 20

We need you to help save lives this Thursday (April 20) at Lawrence University!

The Community Blood Center will be in the Esch Hurvis Room at Warch Campus Center from 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

All donors are eligible to win a “Swing into Spring” drawing.

To schedule an appointment, please click the link below.

Thank you for saving lives! See you soon!

Make an appointment