29 September 2025                                           News Editor Jane Weiss

Updated Fall 2025 Calendar Note

Classes will not meet on Wednesday 1 October 2025 or Thursday 2 October 2025. The College is closed on Monday 13 October 2025. Classes will not meet on Monday 20 October 2025. Tuesday 21 October 2025 is a Monday schedule.                  

CRC Meeting Tuesday 30 September 2025 3:00-4:30 PM in E112

The CRC will meet on Tuesday 30 September 2025 from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM in E112.  The agenda includes review and discussion of the various collaborative assessment models. Faculty who are not on the CRC are welcome to attend.

Fall 2025 Syllabi

If you have not already done so, please email a copy of your syllabus to Madeline Trice for record keeping. These records are kept digitally, so please email a file rather than handing her a hard copy that she will have to scan. Thanks. Please also ensure that your syllabi meet the guidelines of our new department syllabus policy, attached here for reference.

Creative Writing Committee Meeting Monday 29 September 2025 3:00-4:00 PM

A message from Eben Wood:

Please consider joining the creative writing committee at our first fall meeting, where the committee will be setting the agenda for their work this academic year. To all faculty, please join if you are interested, and to our returning faculty members, Eben looks forward to seeing you. As a newly minted Liberal Arts Concentration, this will be an exciting year of growth and change.

When: Monday 9/29 3-4pm; Where: C317 or via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89434120631?pwd=5phn1MNymXY3m5Y8AnSeSkHRIDG1HL.1

English Department Sunshine Fund

The English Department invites faculty to contribute to the Sunshine Fund, which pays for gifts for our office staff, acknowledgement of milestone events both sad and happy in faculty and staff members’ lives, and helps supply the department’s parties. The Sunshine Fun contribution this fall is $30 from full time faculty and $15 from part time faculty – cash only, please. You can give the contributions to Enid or Elroy.

A Note about the Newsletter

A message from Jane Weiss, News editor: 

The next newsletter will come out on Monday 6 October 2025. Send items to be included by Friday 23 October 2025 to Jane Weiss at [email protected]. Please keep items brief (preferably 100 or fewer words). Longer items will be abridged. Many faculty members would like to learn more about colleagues’ areas of scholarship, so if you would like to share what you’re working on, the Newsletter will welcome descriptions of your research and recent or upcoming presentations, publications, performances, and creative achievements of all kinds.