Chair: Kent Baxter
Notes compiled by: Kate Haake
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Announcements
The staff of The Northridge Review is thrilled to announced the release of the Fall 2018 issue of the magazine and the first ever to be produced here in our new Book Arts Lab. Please come out and help celebrate at next week’s launch reading party. The event will take place on Wednesday, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., in CSUN’s Bianchi Planetarium and be preceded by an open mic reading, starting at 6:30 p.m. Also featured, delicious food. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. Come see what the B.A.L. is all about!
This Friday, October 12th, at 7:00 PM in Jerome Richfield Hall, Room 319, “The Reimagining Narrative Film Series” returns with Ryan Trecartin’s Center Jenny (2013). First shown as part of an installation at the Arsenale during the 55th Venice Biennale, it was described as a “futuristic fever dream….[that] parodies the excesses of digital identity while at the same time, from camp and queer perspectives, [asking] us to take these identifications seriously—straight, gay, transsexual, bisexual, inter-sexual, racial, post-racial, mainstream, alternative, capitalist or anarchist.” Writing for The New Yorker, critic Peter Schjeldahl described Trecartin as “the most consequential artist to have emerged since the nineteen-eighties.” Curated collaboratively by Dr. Christopher Higgs & Katharine Mason, M.A., each film in series will be introduced & contextualized prior to screening, with an open discussion to follow. Refreshments provided.
Nominations for the 2018 Don Dorsey Excellence in Mentoring Awards are currently open. These awards are in recognition of Professor Don Dorsey’s invaluable contributions to mentoring and mentor training over two decades. Dr. Dorsey, Professor of Educational Psychology and Counseling, helped develop CSUN’s first mentor training program, and devoted himself as a mentor to innumerable students. These awards are presented to faculty, staff, and administrators who have been exceptional mentors at CSUN. A reception honoring the recipients will be held Nov. 28, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The deadline is November 2. For more information, please see https://www.csun.edu/csun-eop/don-dorsey-excellence-mentoring-awardees.
The 10th Annual CSUN Research Fellows Colloquium will be held in Thursday, October 11th, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., in the Oviatt Library’s Ferman Presentation Room. This annual symposium, co-sponsored by the Provost’s Office, the Colleges, and the Library, will feature short presentations from the faculty who were given release time over the past year to conduct their research. For details, please see https://library.csun.edu/events/research-fellows-2019.
Are you happy with the way you get to campus? If the answer is no (and even if it’s yes), the Office of Government & Community Relations, in partnership with CSUN’s Department of Parking & Transportation invites you to attend an interactive session regarding transportation initiatives in the North San Fernando Valley. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority will be our guest and will be doing a presentation that highlights the proposed Measure M funded east-west Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in the North San Fernando Valley. This is a great opportunity for Metro to hear from CSUN students, staff and faculty. LA Metro representatives want our feedback and look forward to this CSUN-focused effort. Please consider attending this important information session to learn more about Metro transit options and increasing connectivity in the region. This Open House event will take place on Friday, October 19, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the University Student Union, Thousand Oaks Room. To RSVP, or for questions regarding this event, please e-mail GovernmentRelations@csun.edu. Refreshments provided.
Reminders
Don’t forget to do your part to support the exciting activities taking place in the upcoming, first-ever Frankenweek. Join the read-aloud, suture your own texts. There will be fun and horror for all.
Opportunities
The Office of Faculty Development is excited to announce a new grant, The Faculty Success Grant! Faculty who would like to engage in a professional development/travel activity this academic year and make a compelling case that this grant would directly benefit all three areas of faculty engagement (teaching, scholarship, and service) are encouraged to submit a proposal. The grant awards up to $500 and can be used towards activities such as: travel and/or registration fees for a teaching focused conference, a discipline-specific scholarly conference, or a leadership focused engagement to benefit faculty service roles; and memberships to faculty success oriented organizations (e.g., National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity; etc.). The deadline is Monday, October 15, 2018, at 4:00 p.m. Applications can be downloaded here https://www.csun.edu/sites/default/files/18-19AY%20Faculty%20Success%20Grant%20RFP_2_0.pdf.
NEH collaborative Research grants support groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities. The program seeks to encourage interdisciplinary work, both within the humanities and beyond. Projects that include partnerships with researchers from the natural and social sciences are encouraged, but they must remain firmly rooted in the humanities and must employ humanistic methods. For more information, check with the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects. Deadline, December 5.