Thursday's Notes

1. Announcements:

• The annual Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Awards provide faculty the opportunity to receive up to $5,000 to pursue their scholarly and creative interests.  Faculty may apply for three units of released time and/or funds for project expenses. The deadline for submission of applications is 5 p.m. on Monday, February 26, 2007. Applications should be submitted to the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects in University Hall 265. Faculty may also obtain application materials from our web page at: http://www.csun.edu/research/.

2. Reminders:

• Rick Mitchell’s new play, “Through the Roof: A Natural History,” will receive a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Whitsett Room, Sierra Hall. The play involves two people stuck together on a roof during the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. An audience talk-back will follow. The play is part of “Natural Disaster,” an event series sponsored by the Humanities Interdisciplinary Program, English Department, English Honors Option, and Department of Theatre.
• Proposals for the Learning-Centered University Mini-Grants for 2007 are due Feb. 2. The grants, up to $15,000, are designed to promote initiatives that extend the traditional understanding of teaching and learning; that encourage cross-divisional collaborations; and that promote investigation of the uncoupling of credits, seat time, and learning objectives. For more information, visit http://www.csun.edu/~celtact/grants.html.
• Thursday’s Notes is also published weekly on our department webpage. Please submit items for upcoming Thursday’s Notes to Scott Andrews, the Associate Chair, or to the Thursday’s Notes folder in Martha Alzamora’s office.

3. Faculty/Student/Staff Achievements:

• Dorothy Barresi has had three poems accepted for publication in 88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry: "Motion Picture and Television Arts Home for the Aging," "The Mistresses' Song," and "Declarative."
• Dorothy Clark was part of a panel at the recent NCTE Conference in Nashville, Tenn. The panel, entitled "Where English Student Teachers Succeed and High School Students Learn: Strengthening Teaching and Learning in the Urban School Partnership," was composed of faculty from the English Department, School of Education, and our CSUN onsite high school, Northridge Academy High School. Her contribution reviewed the new Early Field Experience program as well as a current partnership between her English 406 class and a 10th grade NAHS English class.
• Irene Clark has agreed to be the chairman of the National Advanced Placement Language committee. She has been invited to present a paper at the 4th International Conference on Genre to be held in Brazil this summer.

4. New Items in the Thursday’s Notes file (ST708) or on Bulletin Board (Outside 710)

Lectures and Other Events 

• The Center on Disabilities is offering its Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program at the Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference in Los Angeles, March 19-24. The Center's program has more than 2,200 graduates, making it the largest such certificate program in the nation. For more information, visit http://www.csun.edu/codtraining.

Compiled by Scott Andrews, Associate Chair

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