WORKPLACE

Faculty Governance Session and Lunch

All faculty are invited to attend a session on faculty governance at SSU, on Fri., Oct. 17 from noon to 2 p.m. in Stevenson 3062. This will be a fun, interactive session showing how faculty governance  "connects" with the rest of the University, how the University "fits" together by viewing it through the lens of faculty governance, and how to prepare for governance service, says Brett Christie, director of the Center for Teaching and Professional Development.

Sign up at the following link, http://tinyurl.com/2w67uk, to help ensure accurate numbers for the provided lunch.

For more information, contact Brett Christie, at ctpd@sonoma.edu or 4-2873.

Randall Kennedy to Lead Faculty/Staff Workshop

Randall Kennedy, scholar from Harvard Law, who wrote the book “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” will lead a workshop for faculty and teaching staff on Tues., Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. in the Student Union multi-purpose room. The workshop will include increasing diversity in the curriculum, encouraging faculty mentoring of students of color, confronting racism in the classroom as well as in the larger society and other subjects as time allows.

Kennedy will also speak in the Cooperage later that day, about the current elections and issues of race. (Unfortunately, this event has already sold-out.)

For those interested in attending the 3 p.m. workshop, contact Bruce Berkowitz as soon as possible at bruce.berkowitz@sonoma.edu or 4-2782.