Provost Communication, Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday. I hope you are having a great week!

RAMP Application Info Session TODAY!

RAMP is hosting the first of two information sessions for their 2024-2025 RAMP Application Cycle. The first one takes place today, Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 from 3-4:00 pm in Goodwin Forum. Please continue to share with your students and refer to the attached flyer for additional information. 

Roll Forward Guidelines Reminder

Spring semester is often the time of year when the university’s budget position gains more clarity, the URPC begins its work to provide a recommendation to the president via the shared governance process  and departments and MBU’s look at their fund balances. I wanted to remind you of the university’s current roll forward guidelines that were last approved by the Senate via the work of the University Resources and Planning Committee (URPC) on January 21, 2022. Please find a copy of the complete roll forward guidelines here.

I wanted to take an opportunity to highlight the unrestricted fund balance rules as those are the ones that tend to impact most areas and raise a few questions. They read:

Unrestricted roll forward balances represent discretionary unspent budget balances that will be reallocated as follows:

Salaries: All salary budget balances will be returned at the division level.
Benefits: All benefits budget balances will be swept centrally, excluding balances in restricted programs and projects. Divisions do not retain control of benefit savings and are not allowed to utilize benefits savings for alternate purposes.
Operating expenses(OE) (Non-personnel): All operating expense budget balances will be returned at the division level.
 

Additionally I wanted to highlight the language that reflects that unspent balances are returned to the Division (Academic Affairs) and centrally (University). Plans for unspent balances that are returned to the Division will be determined by Academic Affairs leadership in partnership with academic departments and MBU’s and communicated broadly to academic affairs. If you have questions about the roll forward guidelines, please feel free to contact the budget analyst associated with your area or if you are uncertain who to contact, you can send your question to OAAVP@humboldt.edu.

Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series

The Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series is intended to highlight and unpack intersections of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and systems of power/privilege/oppression within the discourse and rhetoric of contemporary sustainability, environmental, and climate change movements. This semester, please join us in the Native American Forum on the last Thursday of every month this semester from 5:00 to 6:30 pm. Be sure to arrive early and enjoy snacks and beverages in the lobby.

Dr. Aaron Gregory, Cal Poly Humboldt, Assistant Professor, Native American Studies 

Future-Primitive: The High Stakes of Lithium Power 

Thursday, February 29, 2024

5:00 - 6:30 p.m 

Native American Forum (BSS 162) 

Dr. Andrew Curley, Navajo Nation, University of Arizona

Carbon Sovereignty: Exploring the Energy Transition in Native North America 

Thursday, March 28, 2024

5:00 - 6:30 p.m 

Native American Forum (BSS 162) 

Dr. Wendy Makoons Geniusz, Cree and Métis, York University 

Decolonization is about healing, and we all have a role to play 

Thursday, April 25, 2024

5:00 - 6:30 p.m 

Native American Forum (BSS 162) 

Thanks for all that you do! I hope you have a terrific rest of your week.

Jenn

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Jenn Capps, PhD 

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs 

Cal Poly Humboldt