Provost Communication, Monday, April 7, 2025

Good morning and happy Monday. I hope you had a terrific weekend! There is about a month left in the Spring semester and so much going on. 

Thank you to our Ombudspeople and the CSU Ombuds Spring Newsletter

A quick shout out to our wonderful ombudspeople Suzanne Pasztor, History faculty, and John Meyer, Politics faculty. They perform an incredibly valuable service on our campus and do so with grace. Please see the attached CSU Ombuds group newsletter and see some of their work reflected there.

Save the date for our last Distinguished Faculty Lecture!

Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Sara Sterner- Excellence in Teaching, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm

Goodwin Forum, NHE102

Title: Humanizing Pedagogies: Centering Joy in Learning and Teaching

Summary: What does joy look like in your teaching and learning experiences? Where does joy bubble up in your work with students and colleagues? In this interactive session, we will explore these questions as we consider how humanizing pedagogies can not only center joy in our educational communities but also cultivate it. Please bring a story of humanized teaching or a joy-filled experience as a scholar-educator to contribute to our communal meaning-making conversations.

Join the Food Sovereignty Lab for Stewardship this Saturday!

The Rou Dalagurr: Food Sovereignty Lab is hosting a Stewardship Saturday event on Saturday, April 12, 2025, from 9 am to 12 pm.

Join us for a day of work in Wiyot Plaza, the lab's dedicated educational outdoor space, to restore our salmon cooking pit landscape and nearby areas. We will be removing salal and other vegetation that has been infected with powdery mildew and sanitizing the space. 

Promote Zero Waste on Campus!

As the year winds down and campus begins planning events and celebrations for end-of-year and commencement, you are encouraged to join your staff & faculty peers in pursuing zero waste! Check out our campus zero waste event checklist, which users are prompted to complete as an action item when reserving rooms in 25Live. 

Users must minimally acknowledge they understand that, per state law, any single-use food packaging must be locally compostable or recyclable, and if their event will be attended by 2,000 or more people with food served, state law requires that any leftover edible food be donated to a food recovery organization. All campus partners are encouraged to take a fully zero waste approach to their event planning efforts.

Zero waste encourages source reduction, materials reuse, composting, and recycling. For more information about this program, email zerowaste@humboldt.edu or check out the Sustainability Website. 

Thank you and have a wonderful Monday.

Jenn Capps