LLW First Department Meeting!
Let’s Make a Great Start Together
- A little coffee and a little music…
The Best Is Still Unwritten
Finding Our Common Ground
- A new way of being together
- A different kind of department “meeting” for our start
- A focus on our shared connections rather than policies and procedures (we’ll have plenty of time for those in the months and years ahead)
- Ideas drawn from The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
Book Quotes
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”–George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones: A Song of Fire and Ice
“Not all who wander are lost”–Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Small Groups
“The key isn’t winning or losing. It’s making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be, but how will I know unless I try?”–Logan in Wolverine by Chris Claremont (writer) and Frank Miller (artist)
- Talk about the quotes you picked and why you picked them
- Select one quote/text to share with the whole group
Full Department
“If you want to make a society work, then you don’t keep underscoring the places where you’re different–you underscore your shared humanity”–Sebastian Junger: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belong
- Each group will share one quote
Recommended Reading List for LLW Majors
- After the meeting, please send your quote, author, and source to Gian, Heide Witthöft, and Melanie Holm
- We will compile the quotes into a recommended reading list for incoming LLW majors
Meeting Minutes Takers
- May 1 Wednesday from 11:20 a.m.-12:10 p.m. in Jane Leonard Hall 113
- May 1, 2024 Minutes Taker: Gian
- A new minutes taking policy will need to be established for next year
- Joint Department lunch immediately following the meeting at Foster Dining Hall
2024: A Work-in-Progress Year
- Committee Tasks for 2024-2025
- Handle regular charges for the year
- Decide on membership, policies, and procedures for our Spring 2025 elections
- LLW Leadership Council will replace our current Merger Committee
- Assistant Chair
- English BA
- English Ed
- CAL Doctoral
- L&C Doctoral
- LSE Director
- Foreign Language Major
- Foreign Language Minors and Certificates
- Spanish Ed
- 1 appointed by Chair
- 1 elected
Big Thanks!
- To Heide, Tanya Heflin, Christina Huhn, Charles McCreary, Sean McDaniel, Ken Sherwood, Dan Weinstein, and Gian for their work on the Merger Committee
- To Tanya, Sean, Ken, and Marjorie Zambrano for assisting with the Elections work
Big Congratulations!
- To Gloria Park on winning the 2024 IUP Distinguished Award for Teaching!
Important Dates & Events
- LLW End or the Semester Celebration: May 8 Wednesday from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn
- IUP Official New Department Launch: July 1, 2024
- LLW Retreat : Sep. 20 Friday from 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at TBD
- Please build this into your fall syllabi
- Please provide students with an alternative activity so that you can attend the retreat
- We will work on mission, vision, and values statements, curriculum planning, and policies/procedures
- LLW Retreat Planning Committee volunteers wanted
Not Quite the End…
- The Teacher Appreciation Song
- By Ben Honeycutt
Time for Lunch
- Let’s go eat!