Provost Communication, Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Hello Academic Affairs and happy Wednesday. I hope your week is going well and that you were able to get outside a bit during the early part of the week as the rain comes!

Well Done!

Mike Le, Director of Institutional Research and Reporting (IRAR) has been appointed to the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges Transfer Among Rural Learners Advisory Committee. The 30-month study will involve conducting interviews and focus groups with individuals at rural colleges to investigate the factors influencing students’ transfer decisions. Specifically, they will explore:

• Barriers posed by distance and other obstacles

• Strategies that facilitate transfer

• Resources that colleges & communities can offer to students to help transfer

• How intersecting identities (e.g., race/ethnicity, income, and first-generation status) impact these factors

Ultimately, the aim is to develop effective strategies to improve student transfer rates and educational equity in California's university deserts. Go, Mike Le, go.

REMINDER: Humboldt-ERFSA Small Grant Program for Tenure-track Faculty, Lecturers, and Staff due Thursday, March 27, 2025

Sponsored by the Humboldt-Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association, grant awards

are intended to help tenured-track faculty, lecturers, and staff with less than five years employment at Cal Poly Humboldt seeking to expand professional qualifications. Proposals must relate to teaching effectiveness, scholarly or creative activity, and/or service to the University, profession, or the community.

The grant awards are intended to supplement other assistance, including in-kind (self-funded)

Support. Awards up to $1000 will be made upon evaluations of the applicant’s prior work and on the relationship of the proposal to further professional development. Funding can be requested for services, fees, materials, or travel. Humboldt-ERFSA will not award grants to pay for wages,

work-for-hire, stipends, or tuition.

Applications may be up to three pages long and should include all the items indicated in the

instructions on the application: contact information, name of project, project proposal, itemized

budget, project benefits, and resume.

Please submit your application in a single pdf electronically to Kumi Watanabe-Schock at

kw1@humboldt.edu.

Call for Nominations: 2025 Sustainability Champion Awards: Deadline: April 1, 2025

Please consider nominating someone to be one of this year’s Sustainability Champions! Cal Poly Humboldt is accepting nominations for its eighth annual Sustainability Champion Awards program, to recognize faculty, professional staff and students whose practices have deepened a culture of sustainability, have furthered the integration of sustainability into academics, student life or campus culture, and/or reduced Humboldt’s environmental footprint. Complete this form by April 1, 2025 to nominate a faculty, professional staff, or student staff member for an award. 

Self-nominations are accepted. Winners and their nominators will be notified by Friday, April 14th, 2025.  Those with sustainability in their job title or with sustainability as an obligatory aspect of their job (e.g., Office of Sustainability staff and the Sustainability Librarian) are not eligible for the award.

An award selection committee will choose up to three candidates who embody the spirit of innovation, collaboration, and leadership as they work to establish solutions to pressing challenges facing the campus and society. Each Sustainability Champion will receive a trophy and a feature profile in campus publications. 

The awards ceremony will be held in April during Earth Week, a series of events in celebration of Earth Day. More information about the Sustainability Champion Awards can be found here. 

Cyber Crimes & Cookies: Friday, March 14, 2025, 10 am - 11 am, Library Fishbowl, 2nd Fl.

Recognize and avoid cyber-crimes from an expert, and enjoy cookies at the Library. Lisa Feldman, Assistant United States Attorney, Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section, U.S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney's Office, will be speaking about the latest sophisticated cyber-crimes and how to avoid them. She will also discuss cases involving intellectual property crime.

I will take a break from Provost Communications next week during Spring Break. While I know many of us will still be in the office and hard at work (come by and say hello) I want to acknowledge the great work of our faculty and students and hope they find time to take a break. I will resume Provost Communications on Monday, March 24, 2025. 

Please take good care of yourselves and each other. 

Jenn Capps