Provost Communication, Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday. It’s already mid-week. I don’t know about you but after a three day weekend my days of the week are instantly thrown off! There is A LOT going on and I am grateful to each of you for your contributions in supporting the success of our students.

WSCUC Reaccreditation Process

Cal Poly Humboldt will be preparing for the reaffirmation of its accreditation by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) throughout the 2024-2025 academic year.  The university WSCUC Steering Committee invites you to participate in this important process by providing feedback and engaging in discussions that will inform the institutional report that we will submit next June 2025. The committee will be hosting a series of virtual town halls this fall where committee members will provide an overview of the accreditation process and descriptions of the four essays that will constitute most of our report’s content. Please consider attending all that pique your interest.

Town Hall Meetings:

Zoom Link HERE

Meeting ID: 814 1121 1603

Passcode: 574062

Defining Institutional Mission and Acting with Integrity

Wednesday, September 11, 3:00-3:50 pm

Achieving Educational Objectives and Student Success

Wednesday, September 18, 3:00-3:50 pm

Assuring Resources and Organizational Structures

Wednesday, September 25, 3:00-3:50 pm

Creating an Institution Committed to Quality Assurance and Improvement

Wednesday, October 2, 3:00-3:50 pm

The Google forms linked on the accreditation website are live and ready to record comments and suggestions for each of the accreditation standards. You are free to complete them whether or not you attend a town hall. Contact accreditation@humboldt.edu with questions.

University Senate & Promoted Faculty Reception: You’re Invited: Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at 5:00 pm

This year, the Office of Academic Affairs and the college and library deans will be honoring faculty promoted to Associate Professor, Full Professor, or Range Elevation effective in 2024-2025 at a combined reception with the University Senate's postponed end-of-year reception. Please join us on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at 5:00 pm in the Great Hall for the joint celebration, with beverages and light refreshments to enjoy. Promoted Faculty recognitions will begin at 6:15 pm. Please RSVP by Tuesday, September 10th for yourself and any guests you plan on bringing. You can RSVP here.

5:00 pm   Arrive at the Great Hall (College Creek)

5:15 pm   Senate recognitions begin (Recognizing Distinguished Faculty recipients and ERFSA Grant recipients, honoring outgoing & incoming Senators, etc)

6:00 pm   Mingle and intermission 

6:15 pm   Promoted Faculty recognitions 

7:00 pm   End of event

I am excited to announce the Distinguished Faculty Award Winners who will be honored at this event. They are:

• Sara Sterner: Excellence in Teaching - Tenure Line 

• Andrea Juarez: Excellence in Teaching - Lecturer 

• Loren Cannon: Outstanding Service Award 

• Humnath Panta: Scholar of the Year Award

I am also excited to acknowledge the faculty who have earned tenure, promotion, and range elevation. They are:

Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor

• Tamara Barriquand

• Hunter Harrill

• Jose Marin Jarrin

• Jennifer Marlow

• Jorge Monteiro

• Ho Yi Wan

• Tesfayohanes Yacob

• Jessie Cretser-Hartenstein

• Nancy Perez

• Berit Potter

• Kaitlin Reed

• Gordon Ulmer

• David Adams

• Li Qu

• Sara Sterner

Tenure and Promotion to Associate Librarian

• Garrett Purchio

Promotion to Full Professor

• Dan Barton

• Kevin Fingerman

• Amy Sprowles

• Pam Bowers

• Meenal Rana

• Josh Zender

Range Elevation

• Jared Larson

• Rain Marshall

• Heal McKnight

• Jennifer Trowbridge

• Sarah Haag

• Helen McRostie

• Julie Slater North

• Gary Rynearson

We look forward to celebrating with you, your colleagues, and those who have supported you!

2024 Humboldt-ERFSA Grant Recipients

A belated congratulations to the 2024 ERFSA Grant recipients. They are:

•  Justin Luong: Assistant Professor, Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management Department. Project: Assessing solar panel grid impacts on coastal prairies to guide regenerative agrivoltaics

•  Christa L Meingast: Assistant Professor, Engineering Department. Project: Biochar Soil Remediation Study in Distributed Environment

• Silvia E Pavan: Assistant professor, Biological Sciences Department. Project: Presenting research with students at the 2024 Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists

•  Rachael M. Wade: Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department. Project: Ecologically-driven morphological plasticity in coralline algae
   

So many wonderful people to celebrate! Have a great rest of your week.

jenn

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Jenn Capps, PhD 

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs 

Cal Poly Humboldt