Academic Affairs Division Newsletter, October 2014
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San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Academic Affairs Division Newsletter Administration and Leadership Fall 10-1-2014 Academic Affairs Division Newsletter, October 2014 San Jose State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/acadaffairsdiv_newsletter Recommended Citation San Jose State University, "Academic Affairs Division Newsletter, October 2014" (2014). Academic Affairs Division Newsletter. Paper 13. https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/acadaffairsdiv_newsletter/13 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Administration and Leadership at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Academic Affairs Division Newsletter by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Click here to view the Academic Affairs Division Newsletter Archive View this email in your browser Powering Academic Success Appointment Upcoming Events Center for Faculty Development Workshops Wednesday, November 5, 3:00-4:00pm, IRC 101 - Tea and Talk. Featured speaker is Dr. Jennifer Dinalo, Namrata Shukla Named Senior Assistant Librarian at Associate Dean of the CIES our own MLK Library. Namrata or “Nami” Shukla has been Wednesday, November 12, named Associate Dean for the College 12:00-1:00pm, IRC 101 - of International and Extended Studies Understanding Our Students (CIES). She started her new position brown-bag series. This October 27 after being Interim session's topic: Veterans and Associate Dean since January of this their families. year. Thursday, November 13, 12:00-1:00pm, IRC 101 - As the Associate Dean, Nami provides Educated Person Dialogue leadership in the development and brown-bag series. This delivery of extended education session's topic: Recognizing programs and services. She manages the value of constructive a robust portfolio of programs that criticism. meets the educational needs of the Wednesday, November 19, University and local community, as well 3:00-4:00pm, IRC 101 - as work force needs of the State. She Providing Feedback on Student will work closely with faculty and staff to Writing, facilitated by Sara grow SJSU’s special session programs Cook. and oversee the operations of Friday, November 21, 12:00- Intersession and Open University 1:15pm, Engineering 285 programs. - Financial Literacy for Faculty. With the generous support of Prior to being Interim Associate Dean, an American Council on Nami served as the College’s Director Education/Sloan Foundation of Operations and Finance, a position award, we have developed a she continues to fill in addition to her series of Financial Literacy new duties. She has been with SJSU modules to help acquaint you for over six years. with some of the key concepts Click here for the full story. and resources in this area. We invite you to join us for lunch, for a conversation with our Opportunities module authors (Dr. Marco Pagani and Dr. Stoyu Ivanov, of own College of Business). Please RSVP by November 14th. Open Administrative Positions We are seeking nominees for an outstanding and innovative academic leader for the following positions: Dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts Dean of the College of Social Sciences Associate Vice President for Graduate & Undergraduate Programs Deputy Provost (Posting Soon) SJSURF Executive Director (Posting Soon) Campus Reading Program On Monday, October 20, Associate SJSU ScholarWorks Justice of the Supreme Court, Sonia Invitation Sotomayor, visited SJSU. Click here The University Library for the Spartan Daily article. There developed SJSU ScholarWorks, San are still opportunities to discuss the José State’s institutional repository, book! to serve our research community. All discussions are scheduled in Like research universities around the Clark Hall 100H: world, SJSU is committed to increasing access to their faculty and Thursday, November 6, students’ scholarly work. Individual 12:00-1:00pm scholars are similarly interested in Wednesday, November 19, promoting their work as widely as 1:00-2:00pm possible while preserving copyright Tuesday, December 2, 2:00- and intellectual property ownership. 3:00pm In response, universities created institutional repositories, or IRs, to offer open access to research including published peer-reviewed articles, preprints, creative works, presentations, data and more. More than 350 faculty members are already in SJSU ScholarWorks. If your work is not yet in the institutional repository, please email your CV and a photograph to [email protected] to join the ranks of SJSU faculty whose work is accessible worldwide. An author profile will be created for you, which serves as an interactive CV, in SelectedWorks. ScholarWorks will check the copyright status of each of your scholarly publications and identify those which can be added to the repository. For more information about SJSU Choices Matter: A ScholarWorks, see the research Community Conversation guide. with John Amaechi Facing History and Ourselves, in partnership with San José State University, welcome John Amaechi OBE, human rights advocate, psychologist, New York Times best- selling author, and former NBA player for a conversation about how each of us faces daily choices that shape the future for our community and Call for Proposals: SJSU ourselves. Diversity Initiative Speaker Series – Fall 2014 As part of Facing History's national In support of SJSU’s commitment to series of Community Conversations meeting the needs of our diverse sponsored by The Allstate faculty, staff, and students, the Office Foundation, this event is FREE and of Faculty Affairs and the Center for open to the public. Seating is limited; Faculty Development seek proposals RSVP required. To register or for to bring to campus educators and more information, click here or call scholars who can share their (510) 786-2500 ext. 226. Thursday, knowledge, spark discussion, and November 6, 2014, from 7:00- inspire the SJSU community as we 9:00pm in Morris Dailey strive to nurture an inclusive, Auditorium. respectful, and caring learning community. For additional information and an application form, click here (PDF). Applications are due by 5pm, on Friday, November 21st, 2014. Contact Dr. Amy Strage for any additional information. SJSU to Re-dedicate Renovated Yoshihiro Uchida SJSU ERFA Inaugurates a Hall New Research and Creative Activity Award President Mo Qayoumi will host the It is with great pleasure that the re-dedication of Yoshihiro Uchida Hall Board of the SJSU Emeritus and on November 7, from 3:00-5:30pm Retired Faculty Association (SJSU in honor of the 94-year-old judo ERFA) announces the inaugural year coach Yosh Uchida. The building has of the SJSU ERFA Faculty Research recently undergone a yearlong and Creative Activity Award, AY renovation. The building is shared by 2014-2015. the College of Applied Arts and Sciences and the Division of The award was created by SJSU Intercollegiate Athletics. ERFA to support scholarly research For more information on the event or and creative activity that advance the Yoshihiro Uchida’s honors and careers of faculty applicants. It is awards, contact 924-1120. intended to support research, creative activity, travel to present at conferences, and/or acquisition of equipment related to scholarly and creative endeavors. Faculty eligible to apply SJSU Celebration of include lecturers with more than 6 Research years of continuous service to SJSU, tenure-track faculty and tenured Monday, November 17, 2014, 4:00- faculty. 6:00pm in the Student Union Ballroom. Free & open to the SJSU Administrative support will be Campus. Refreshments will be provided by the Center for Faculty Development for the application served. process; the Tower Foundation will Presenting Early Career Investigator administer the award. The deadline Awardees: for submission of all required materials is 5:00 pm, Friday, Scott Hamilton - Moss Landing December 5, 2014. Marine Labs, College of Science Application materials can also found Matthew Holian - Department be on the CFD website, under the of Economics, College of RSCA tab. Social Sciences Honoring Undergraduate Research Program: Student-Faculty Research Pair Awardees Featuring the Research Foundation Collaborative Research Annual Report Honorees: Grants With sponsoring from the National Thalia Anagnos Endowment for the Humanities, Jonathan Lovell Collaborative Research Grants are Essam Marouf now available. Seeking proposals to Gilles Muller support interpretive humanities Matthew Spangler research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; fieldwork; applications of information technology; and technical support University Scholar Series and services. View the flyer (PDF) Jo Farb Hernández speak about her or visit the website for more book, Singular Spaces: From the information. If you are interested in Eccentric to the Extraordinary in applying to this program, please Spanish Art Environments. contact your Sponsored Programs Wednesday, November 19, from Manager, Sydney Chui, at (408) 924- 12:00 - 1:00pm in MLK 255/257. 1427. For additional opportunities check the Foundation website. Important Announcements Accessible Education Center The Accessible Education Center AAD Staff Appreciation (AEC) is here to help our students. Breakfast Please take a few minutes to review Join us at the Division-wide