COLLEGE FACULTY AWARD WINNERS NAMED

Each year, the college honors faculty who show commitment, skill, effectiveness, impact and leadership in teaching and scholarship. This year, the award winners will be honored on April 20, at our annual Kaleidoscope Celebration.

Longmire Prize for Teaching Award

Susan Kates

Department of English

This prize is supported through an estate gift from William and Jane Longmire and is given to a faculty member who holds the rank of assistant professor or higher and exhibits a scholarly and thoughtful approach to innovative thinking. Susan Kates has been a faculty member in the Department of English since 1995. Teaching and scholarship are intimately related in her scholarly career. Her research focuses on the history of rhetoric, material rhetorics, women’s rhetorics, and creative writing, particularly creative nonfiction and Oklahoma cultural studies. Her first book, Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education: 1885-1937, is a powerful and ground-breaking study of how teaching changes people’s lives and how higher education is positioned to create and promote well-being for all our citizens. Her second book, Red Dirt Women: At Home on the Oklahoma Plains demonstrates how to learn to be at home in the world. Kates is a native of Ohio, but when she came to Oklahoma, she discovered ways of making our state her new home. Red Dirt Women is a book that traces the remarkable lives of Oklahoma women. Its introduction, “Prairie Women, Prairie Places,” suggests the ways that women’s lives and cultural lives in Oklahoma are interwoven. Her courses, Autobiographical Writing, Reading and Writing Spiritual Autobiographies, Writing about Place, and Reading and Writing Oklahoma: Region and Representation, provide students with opportunities to explore their own lives in relation to the subject matter through autobiographical narratives of themselves and their fellow citizens. Her teaching is remarkable in this way: in her class, she encourages students to share their lives with fellow students through writing and dialogue, to instill pride to develop strategies that stimulate not only shared knowledge, but shared experiences.

Irene Rothbaum Outstanding Assistant Professor Award 

Joan Hamory

Department of Economics 

The Irene Rothbaum Outstanding Assistant Professor Award was established by Julian Rothbaum in honor of his wife Irene. This award recognizes an outstanding teacher and researcher in the college at the assistant professor level. Joan Hamory joined OU in 2018, as an assistant professor of economics. Her research primarily focuses on transitions to adulthood among youth in low-income countries. She is currently working with a group of researchers in the United States, U.K. and Ethiopia on a longitudinal study evaluating what works to improve outcomes for Ethiopian adolescent girls. She has published 20 papers in professional journals, four pieces in edited volumes and numerous technical reports and policy notes. Additionally, she has written three pieces for popular media outlets. Her research has been published in many top outlets including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Journal of Political Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and World Development. She has received over 1,300 citations to her publications, an unprecedented high level for the department’s junior faculty. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the International Labour Organization, among others. Beyond her remarkable research portfolio, she has a gift for developing students’ critical thinking to make a difference in the world. During the summer of 2021, she co-led a study abroad program to London and she is a role model to female students in the discipline of economics. 

Kinney-Sugg Outstanding Professor Award 

Firat Demir

Department of Economics 

The Kinney-Sugg Outstanding Professor Award was established by Sandy Kinney and Mike Sugg. This award is given to an outstanding faculty member who is a model teacher and an outstanding scholar. Firat Demir joined the OU faculty in 2006. In 2021, was named an L.J. Semrod Presidential Professor in the Department of Economics. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the Department of International and Area Studies and the Center for Social Justice. He is the co-director of the OU Center for Peace and Development and a founding member of the Security in Context. He is the associate editor of the Review of Social Economy and the Journal of Economic Surveys. Demir specializes in the applied analysis of macro and micro development issues in the Global South. His main fields of research are development economics and international economics, focusing on the issues of structural change, long run development and growth, finance globalization, political economy and development and comparative economic development in the Middle East. Demir has conducted fieldwork in Lithuania, Montenegro, Croatia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Turkey and Uganda. He was also named a Fulbright Fellow in Montenegro in 2015-16 and in Lithuania in 2022. He has published one co-authored book, which is considered one of the leading monographs exploring the impacts of trade on developing economies (South-South Trade and Finance in the 21^st Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence). Additionally, he has accumulated 49 publications since 2004 in journals, edited books and policy journals. He has had 11 publications in the Journal of Development Economics and World Development, the top two journals in his field. He has taught over 20 distinct courses to more than 1,800 students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has chaired eight Ph.D. dissertations and served as a supporting member of another nine.

John H. and Jane M. Patten Teaching Award

Laura Harjo

Department of Native American Studies

The John H. and Jane M. Patten Teaching Award was established by John and Jane Patten. This award is given to a faculty member in the humanities or social sciences who has made an outstanding contribution as a classroom instructor. Laura Harjo joined the Department of Native American Studies as an associate professor in the fall of 2020, and has been interim chair for the department since 2022. Harjo’s research and teaching centers on three areas: imbuing complexity to Indigenous space and place; missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives and anti-violence; and community-based knowledge production. She is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (University of Arizona Press, 2019), which employs Mvskoke epistemologies and Indigenous feminisms to grapple with a community praxis of futurity. Her book won the 2020 Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Published Monograph and the 2021 On the Brinck Book Award + Lecture. Since joining OU, Harjo has distinguished herself as a dedicated, innovative and much sought-after student mentor. In the spring of 2022, Harjo’s Indigenous Community Planning class had the opportunity to work on a plan and digital spatial story imagining what a future Muscogee tribal town might look like in the Atlanta area. Her courses include Indigenous Community Planning, Indigenous Research Methods, Spatial Storytelling, Gender & Sexuality in Native America and Critical Indigenous Theory, which are all well-received by her students.

James and JoAnn Holden Faculty Award  

Deborah Moore-Russo (co-winner)

David and Judi Proctor Department of Mathematics

The James and JoAnn Holden Faculty Award was established through a generous donation by James and JoAnn Holden and is given to a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in teaching courses at the freshman or sophomore level as well as leadership in research. Deborah Moore-Russo joined the David and Judi Proctor Department of Mathematics in 2017, as both a professor and OU's inaugural first-year mathematics director. In this role, she oversees all 12 first-year mathematics classes with more than 6,000 students enrolled annually as well as the Mathematics Tutoring Center which services 17 mathematics courses with around 20,000 visits per year. In the classroom, the courses she teaches include Calculus and Analytic Geometry, Differential and Integral Calculus, Data Analysis and Geometric Systems and Mathematics for Critical Thinking. Her primary research interests include the multiple ways that key mathematical topics, those which arise in numerous contexts, are conceptualized, represented, visualized and communicated. Moore-Russo is also interested in how new college students are supported in their transitions from secondary to post-secondary mathematics. For this, she considers elements that impact a student's first-year mathematics learning experiences, such as tutoring centers, course coordination and TA training. Most recently, Moore-Russo was voted in as the President Elect of the Mathematical Association of America's Special Interest Group on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.

James and JoAnn Holden Faculty Award 

Erin Freeman (co-winner)

Department of Psychology

The James and JoAnn Holden Faculty Award was established through a generous donation by James and JoAnn Holden and is given to a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in teaching courses at the freshman or sophomore level as well as leadership in research. Erin Freeman joined the Department of Psychology in 2017, as the master teacher in statistics and as an associate professor. She was immediately tasked with redesigning the traditional and online undergraduate statistics curriculum. Through her redesign, Freeman used statistics as an investigative process of problem-solving and decision-making. The department now focuses on “statistical thinking” and gives students the opportunity to explore the complexities of a variety of contemporary challenges – a transformational, pedagogical shift that benefits our students. Her primary role within the department is to teach undergraduate statistics to both majors and non-majors and oversee and coordinate the teaching of all other sections of undergraduate psychology statistics. Her current research interests focus on statistical literacy, with an emphasis on pedagogy and how statistical literacy informs public opinion and media consumption. Freeman recently served as chair of a subcommittee within the Society for Teaching Psychology’s Presidential Task Force on Statistical Literacy, Reasoning and Thinking. The task force surveyed psychology instructors across the country to better understand how statistical literacy is taught and reinforced within the undergraduate psychology curriculum. Informed by the results of this study, the task force made recommendations to further statistical literacy development across the psychology curriculum. Freeman is currently serving as a Faculty Fellow with OU’s Center for Faculty Excellence, where she is implementing a Teaching Squares program to further OU faculty’s professional development.

CELEBRATING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Women’s History Month is celebrated each March, highlighting the contributions of women to events throughout history and corresponding with International Women's Day on March 8. The Journal of Women’s History, which showcases this history in its quarterly, peer-reviewed scholarly publication, is co-edited by Jennifer Davis, Ph.D. and Sandie Holguín, Ph.D., both faculty in the OU Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences. Davis and Holguin recently discussed the importance and relevance of women's history.

#OUGIVINGDAY SET FOR APRIL 13

Save the date for April 13 and join the OU community for a 24-hour celebration of Sooner Spirit. This fundraising event honors the generosity of the OU community and raises awareness of the impact of giving and giving back. It brings together the entire OU family – faculty, staff, students, retirees, alumni, corporations, foundations and friends – to ensure our university lives on for generations to come. Learn more at givesooner.org.

JOIN US AT KALEIDOSCOPE 2023

In appreciation of your service, the college invites you to the 2023 Kaleidoscope Celebration from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., April 20 at the Sam Noble Museum. This year, we will honor our Distinguished Alumni and Distinguished Service Award winners, and recognize our outstanding staff, faculty, student and advisor award winners. The event will be a reception rather than a dinner to allow for more interaction. Benvenuti’s will serve appetizers and the first-floor galleries of the museum will be open for you to enjoy. There will be no tickets or charge for the event, however, please RSVP here for you and a guest if you can join us. There will also be a silent auction at the event featuring many unique items, including a signed football from OU head coach Brent Venables, and all proceeds will directly benefit student scholarships. Additionally, representatives from the OU Food Pantry will be at the reception to accept monetary donations. 

SAVE THE DATE TO CELEBRATE AT CONVOCATION

This year, the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences will celebrate the achievements of our graduating students on Saturday, May 13, at the Lloyd Noble Center. We will have two ceremonies, beginning with the Humanities and Natural Sciences Convocation at 4 p.m. The Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences Convocation for Professional Programs and Social Sciences will begin at 7:30 p.m. For more information, and a list of majors that fall within each group, click here.

FACULTY AND DEPARTMENT NEWS

The college congratulates Amanda Cobb-Greetham on being one of five Chickasaw citizens who will be inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame this year. These deserving individuals will be honored for outstanding contributions to society and service to the Chickasaw people and their communities through academic contributions, artistic works, philanthropy, and military and public service. The 2023 Chickasaw Hall of Fame ceremony will take place at 6 p.m., April 20. The ceremony will be livestreamed on HOF.Chickasaw.net and The Chickasaw Nation Facebook. READ MORE

Gordon Uno, David Ross Boyd Professor of Botany, has recently been appointed as an “Extraordinary Professor” at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. The institution normally appoints persons of scholarly prestige to these three-year honorary positions, allowing faculties and departments to grant these distinguished scholars recognition and involvement in academic programs. Extraordinary Professors are appointed based on specialized expertise and specific professional or expert status in accordance with a predetermined specific brief, to take part in the academic program of a department, on condition the relevant expertise is not available in the university. Uno completed a Fulbright Specialist award to UP in August. He worked with faculty in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and the Faculty (College) of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. Based on the activities of his visit, he was nominated to continue his work by university faculty and was approved by the University Council. He will be working on several projects including research on questions that emerged during his visit and that have resulted from equity and inclusion and college-preparation problems due to the recent huge influx of college students. Uno will be working with faculty to develop biology curriculum materials that are tailored for African students, including an introductory-level botany text. Currently, many classes use American texts with North American organisms, which are not relevant to African students. In addition, he will be providing professional development workshops and follow-up for faculty in the college who are trying to revise their undergraduate science courses, as well as presenting workshops and developing curriculum materials for regional high school science teachers near the Cradle of Humankind site.

Georgia Kosmopoulou, associate dean for research in the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, was recently asked to represent the Directorate of Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences at NSF on the Digital Assets Research and Development Fast-Track Action Committee, which was created by the Networking Technology Research and Development program of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, with membership across the federal government, to develop the National Digital Assets Research and Development Agenda. The committee's work includes promoting research that can aid in the experimentation and development of Central Bank Digital Currency at the Federal Reserve. It also covers foundational and translational research and development relevant to digital asset technology including cryptography, cybersecurity, privacy protection and accessibility while addressing social, behavioral and economic aspects of development. A more comprehensive research and development approach would provide concrete areas of focus toward achieving a holistic vision of a digital assets ecosystem that embodies democratic values and other key priorities. This approach would help ensure that sometimes-overlooked topics like environmentally friendly consensus mechanisms and fraud-resistant transaction programmability receive appropriate levels of research and development support.

University of Oklahoma Associate Professor Kalenda Eaton (Clara Luper Department of African and African-American Studies) developed a series focused on Black Western History for the Washington Post's Made By History division. Eaton invited contributors from around the country to highlight up-and-coming scholars. OU assistant professor Jermaine Thibodeaux was one of the contributors with his piece on how prison activism has spawned improvements in Oklahoma.

This April, the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences WGS Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma will host a public lecture featuring Irina Flige, a Russian human rights activist, who is the recipient of the 2022 Clyde Snow Social Justice Award. Flige is one of the founders and the long-time director of the Research and Information Center “Memorial,” the primary branch of the Russian human rights network “Memorial” in St. Petersburg. The public is invited to a lecture she will present at 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 12, at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History Robert S. Kerr Auditorium. Flige and Russia’s Memorial network shared the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize with a human rights advocate from Belarus and a Ukrainian human rights organization. Additionally, Flige is the world’s leading expert on what she terms the Gulag “necropolis”: the network of mass and individual graves that resulted from the waves of repression that convulsed Soviet society during the Stalin period. While Flige has been involved in human rights work since the waning days of the Soviet Union, in many respects, the current legal situation in Russia means a return to working semi-underground. As stated in the nomination letter, Flige is “a unique and courageous woman who believes that in order to move forward, Russia must reveal what is hidden, talk openly about the past, and allow itself to mourn for the victims of terror.” Dr. Clyde Snow was an internationally known anthropologist and OU forensic scientist who committed his knowledge and skills to the pursuit of social justice through the recovery and identification of victims of human rights abuses around the world. To honor the legacy of his transformative work, the Center for Social Justice established the Clyde Snow Social Justice Award in 2012. The first award was given to Dr. Snow himself, with subsequent awards being given every two years. Click here for more information on the award and this year’s recipient. 

STAFF MEMBER SUSAN BAYLISS SET TO RETIRE

  The Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences sincerely thanks Susan Bayliss who will retire this May. Bayliss, who is originally from Garden Grove, California, came to work for the university in 1977, in the Office of Financial Aid. She has also worked in the biology department, the biological station (Norman office) and she began working in the dean’s office in 2005.

“On behalf of the college, we are incredibly grateful to Susan for her dedicated service to our university,” said David Wrobel, dean of the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences. “Her work ethic, consistency, diligence and professionalism have greatly served our more than 10,000 students and 600 faculty members. They could not pursue or accomplish their goals without the exceptional support Susan has provided to the college over the years. I am truly grateful to all the faculty and staff members who will be retiring this year and appreciate their commitment to our mission to expand the professional and intellectual horizon of our students.”

In her current role, she is the executive assistant to Kelvin White, associate dean for Faculty Development and Community. Her duties are mostly faculty related, including organizing college faculty awards, sabbatical applications, tenure and promotion, faculty evaluations, chair and director evaluations and college committees.

Bayliss has many great memories from her career at OU. She is especially proud of being a part of assisting the scholarship office in moving the college scholarships to a centralized system. She also remembers unique days like when she worked in the biology department in the early 80s. She recounts that one day a Norman resident brought in a snake from her yard in a paper sack for identification. When one of the herpetology graduate students came to the office to identify it, he very quickly closed the bag, and with a very surprised look on his face, exclaimed that it was a copperhead snake! There were also challenges in her career, and transitioning to remote work wasn’t easy at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Bayliss says she learned “you can find a way to do what is necessary when circumstances arise.”

 “I’ve really enjoyed working in academia,” Bayliss said. “It’s so much more than just working somewhere to pay the bills. Working at OU is being a part of a community. My fondest memory of working in the dean’s office is when I assisted on stage at graduation and got to see the happy, smiling faces of the graduating students as they processed to receive their diplomas.”

The OU community Bayliss has enjoyed is also a family community as her daughter, Katie, joined the OU staff after graduation and is an administrative and financial coordinator for the Department of Native American Studies.

“One of my favorite things about being a part of the OU community with my mom has been hearing from faculty, staff and students about how loved she is,” Katie Bayliss said. “Beginning my first week as an OU student in 1999 and continuing to this day, virtually every time I’ve introduced myself to someone on campus, the response has been, ‘are you related to Susan Bayliss? I just love your mom! She helped me so much.’ Living up to her legacy here hasn’t been easy, I’m still working on it.”

Katie recalls fond childhood memories of her mother working at OU and including her and her sister (Robin) in her work life and showing them from a young age how to live and work in a community.

“When mom worked for the biological station, the family was invited to tour the campus at Lake Texoma for the weekend. I have fond childhood memories of staying in the student dorms which seemed super cool to me at the time and served as a source of daydreams about the students and faculty conducting research there and about my own future as a student at the university.”  

Katie shared her mother is a “life-long learner and supporter of education.” When Katie and Robin played on the Little Axe softball team in high school, Susan was part of the effort to improve the facilities. Along with other parents and with additional help from the school and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe, the school was able to build a lighted softball field for the middle and high school girls to play on.

She also served as their Girl Scout leader for many years, teaching them valuable lessons in teamwork, diversity, camping and more. She helped Katie travel the world with the Girl Scouts in high school as a part of the international Wider Opportunities for Women program. “In the Girl Scouts there is a saying a Girl Scout always leaves a place better than she found it,” Katie said. “The University of Oklahoma is no doubt a better place because of her time here.”

Away from work, Susan enjoys spending time with her family and taking her eight-year-old granddaughter to local events and theatrical productions. She is interested in genealogy and has traveled across the country to explore her family roots. She knows she’ll miss the university, but she is looking forward to spending more time with her grandkids and doing more genealogy-related travel to Virginia and Pennsylvania.

“I will miss not only the people in the dean’s office, but the great chairs, directors and administrative assistants I’ve had the pleasure to work with throughout the years,” Bayliss said. “Everyone in the dean’s office is great, but I would like to especially thank Associate Dean Kelvin White for being a kind and supportive supervisor.”

DECADES-OLD CRUSTACEANS COAXED FROM LAKE MUD GIVE UP GENETIC SECRETS REVEALING EVOLUTION IN ACTION

Human actions are changing the environment at an unprecedented rate. Plant and animal populations must try to keep up with these human-accelerated changes, often by trying to rapidly evolve tolerance to changing conditions.

University of Oklahoma researchers Lawrence Weider, professor of biology, and Matthew Wersebe, a biology doctoral candidate, demonstrated rapid evolution in action by sequencing the genomes of a population of Daphnia pulicaria, an aquatic crustacean, from a polluted lake. The research, which was conducted as part of Wersebe’s doctoral dissertation, was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Wersebe and Weider revived decades-old Daphnia resting eggs from lake sediments, a method known as resurrection ecology, which has been refined in Weider’s lab over the past several decades. They then sequenced the entire genomes of 54 different Daphnia individuals from different points in time, allowing them to study the genetics and evolution of the population. READ MORE

BRUCE HOAGLAND – OKLAHOMA BIOLOGICAL SURVEY

$30,000 - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING AND REMOTE SENSING DETECTION OF SAGITTARIA LANCIFOLIA FOR GAP ANALYSIS OF ELEUTHERODACTYLUS JUANARIVEROII CONSERVATION EFFORTS IN THE U.S. CARIBBEAN

The purpose of this award is to explore the use of satellite data to facilitate the conservation of the Llanero Coqui (Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi), a species of frog first described in 2005, and known only from Puerto Rico. It is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Llanero Coqui inhabits freshwater marshes and lays clutches of eggs exclusively on bulltongue arrowhead (Sagittaria lancifolia). It is known only from only two locations in Puerto Rico, and conservation of this species requires either locating marshes that may harbor undetected populations or marshes that could serve as sites for the establishment of new populations. Researchers will use satellite remote-sensing methods to generate high-resolution maps for freshwater marshes with populations of bulltongue arrowhead, in combination with species distribution models, to identify freshwater wetlands suitable for the Llanero Coqui.

The college congratulates Emily Bonner on winning first place in the OU three-minute thesis competition. Bonner, who is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, won with her presentation "The Price is Not Right: Grocery Taxation and Food Insecurity in the Pandemic.” Ten graduate student finalists were given three minutes and one slide to present their research and explain its significance. Bonner won $2,000 and will represent OU in Chicago in March where she will compete against others from over 100 universities in the U.S.

INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF USER EXPECTATIONS IN WEB SEARCH: A PAPER FROM THE OUHCIR LAB AND THEIR FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

A recently accepted paper by Ph.D. student Ben Wang and his advisor Jiqun Liu from the Human-Computer Interaction and Recommendation Lab investigates the impact of user expectations on web search. The paper, which was published by Information Science Journal, examines how users' anticipations of information gain and search effort influence their search behaviors and satisfaction under different tasks and contexts. Through investigating and characterizing users' cognitive biases and perceptions in online information-seeking and retrieval, the study aims to design better user-centric models, evaluation metrics and intelligent search systems. The OUHCIR Lab's broader research vision is to model and support people's problem-solving and decision-making activities with intelligent information search and recommender systems and to understand the societal and ethical impacts of advanced search and recommendation technologies. The future work of OUHCIR Lab relates to developing new user models and metrics, applying human-computer interaction principles in information retrieval systems, and improving the effectiveness, fairness and algorithmic transparency of interactive search systems to promote informed decision-making. This research project was funded by a National Science Foundation grant. This project aims to improve IR systems by studying users’ systematic biases and incorporating the knowledge into the design of bias-aware search and recommendation algorithms. The potential practical and social implications of this project are far-reaching and significant. By incorporating users’ cognitive biases and expectations into web search systems, the project could help design more user-centric and expectation-aware systems that can adapt to users’ evolving needs and provide personalized feedback or guidance. Additionally, the project’s findings could improve the accuracy of evaluating web search systems by taking into account user expectations as a factor in measuring user satisfaction and performance. Moreover, the project has the potential to educate users about their own cognitive biases and expectations when searching online, encouraging them to be more critical and reflective of their search outcomes. Finally, the project could help promote fair AI practices by reducing the potential negative effects of biased or misleading information on users’ opinions and decisions. Overall, this project has significant implications for improving the effectiveness and fairness of web search systems and promoting informed decision-making.

Oscar Hokeah, an OU English graduate and novelist, was named the winner of the Hemingway Award for Debut Novel for his book, Calling for a Blanket Dance. Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards Program has honored outstanding voices in fiction, poetry, science writing, essays, biography, children’s literature, translation, drama and more. In addition, the book was named a finalist for the prestigious Los Angles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

The college congratulates Eyang Garrison, who began working as the deputy staff director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, under the leadership of Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, the number three democrat in the Senate. Garrison’s work will focus on food and agriculture policy development and supporting Chairwoman Stabenow in her efforts to reauthorize the Farm Bill, which is set to expire on September 30. On April 20, Garrison will be honored by the college as one of three recipients of the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Awards. The college recently interviewed Garrison about her career achievements and the award. READ MORE ABOUT EYANG GARRISON.

March 31

Deadline for academic units to submit to the Dean’s office recommendations for reappointment or non-reappointment to a fourth or subsequent year for tenure-track and ranked-renewable term faculty.

March 31

Deadline for academic units to submit to the Dean’s office recommendations for contract renewal or non-contract renewal for renewable term faculty.

March 31

Deadline for academic unit Committees A to submit chair/director reappointment or CY’21 chair/director evaluations to the Dean’s office. 

March 31

Deadline for chairs/directors to submit reappointment or CY’21 evaluation self-assessments to the Dean’s office.

April 1 

Deadline for academic units to submit annual faculty evaluations via FAS to the Dean's Office

April 25

Chairs and Directors meeting 10 a.m.

April 26

CASFAM Staff meeting, 9 a.m.

April 28

Deadline for academic units to submit post-tenure review dossiers via FAS to the Dean’s office.

April 28

Deadline for academic units to submit copies of progress-toward-tenure letters to the Dean’s office.

April 28

Comprehensive evaluations for contract renewal are due to the Dean’s office

TBD 

Deadline for academic units to submit Regular Faculty Recruiting Applications (RFRAs) to the Dean’s office.

May 1

Deadline for academic units to request reimbursements from the college to departments.

May 12

Deadline for units to submit to the Dean’s office the names of any faculty members who will undergo promotion-only review in the following academic year. 

May 12

Deadline for units to submit to the Dean’s office their lists of external evaluators for faculty members who will undergo tenure and promotion or promotion-only review in the following academic year