April 30, 2025
Open Space Technology for our Faculty Assembly: Charting a New Course
With gratitude for Executive Council (EC) members who raised the idea of adopting Open Space Technology for our Spring all-faculty gathering, we can gladly report a successful, substantive, generative gathering. Six groups self-organized. Gathering at tables, Using flip charts, Talking together, Scribing ideas and questions, Posting handwritten notes, and reporting back to the assembled faculty….
April 1, 2025
Naming the Crisis, Fostering a Community of Care, and Shaping Our Future
Welcome to Spring Quarter. This is a challenging time for many faculty, and certainly for our students and staff colleagues as well. Cuts to federal programs and spending affect nearly every aspect of our daily work. Regardless of where folks find themselves on the political spectrum, when jobs, loans, tuition funds, research positions, and the…