Inside UMB-FSU

9/8/2021

Dear FSU Member,

The FSU Executive Committee will be meeting TOMORROW Thursday from 3:30-5 pm in ISC, 1400.

These meetings are open to all members.  Members can also attend by Zoom  (contact FSU or Steve Striffler for Zoom information).

9/7/2021

Dear FSU Members, 

Join us Friday (3:30-4:30pm) for a Week One Check-In:  (contact FSU or Steve Striffler for Zoom information).

Welcome to the first day of Fall semester 2021.  Along with you, we are excited and uneasy about the return, and also have real concerns about our ability to remain face-to-face in the coming weeks.

8/31/2021

Dear NTT faculty, 

Our Annual Faculty Review (AFR) is due on Monday, September 20^th.   For some completing the AFR is old hat, for others a new or relatively new experience.   

To assist and provide insight into the AFR process, the FSU is holding a workshop on Monday, September 13^th from 3:30PM to 4:30PM in ISC 1-1400. 

Agenda 

Why you should complete an AFR 

Overview of what happens once you submit your AFR 

Review of AFR sections 

    Teaching 

    Advising 

    Service 

8/26/2021

Dear FSU Members, 

Yesterday the FSU held a Forum on safety and the campus Fall opening that was attended by about 90 members.  The meeting was clarifying on a number of levels, but perhaps most simply in the consensus that the university is not doing enough to protect the campus (and wider) community as we return in the midst of the ongoing challenge posed by Delta.  

8/24/2021

Dear FSU Members,

A slight/recent change in format.   Rob Pomales, the Executive Director of University Health Services, will be joining the first half of our meeting tomorrow, from 9:00 to 9:45.  He will address concerns around campus density, tracing, and vaccines.  The second half from 9:45 to 10:30 will be an open meeting for FSU members to discuss safety issues and paths forward for faculty and librarians.

 (contact FSU or Steve Striffler for Zoom information).