Provost Communication, Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Good morning everyone, and happy Wednesday. There are a number of different engagement opportunities to share so please take a look!

Reminder: URPC Budget Forum Today! Wednesday October 22, 2025

Join the University Resources and Planning Committee (URPC) today from 12:30 - 2:00 pm in the Goodwin Forum, Nelson Hall East, Room 102. The purpose of the forum is to shed light on budgeting concepts and the state of the budget at Cal Poly Humboldt. We’ll discuss developments at the State and CSU System levels that impact our budget outlook, and we’ll highlight the role of the campus URPC. Lunch will be served. If you can’t join us in person feel free to join us virtually, using this Zoom link: URPC Budget Forum.

In addition, URPC Divisional Budget Presentations kick off on Friday October 24, 2025 from 1 - 2:30 pm via zoom with updates from leadership from the seven university divisions about their current priorities, the impact of recent budget reductions, and the anticipated impacts from the 2025 Voluntary Separation Incentive Program (VSIP). These divisional reports promote  transparency and help inform the upcoming URPC budget recommendation. 

Please join us for any or all of the divisional updates via Zoom. If you miss them, you will be able to view them on the URPC webpage following the presentations. Presenters will be asked to spend half of their time providing information, with remaining time reserved for Q&A.

The schedule is as follows:

October 24, 2025: URPC Committee Meeting, 1:00 - 2:30 pm

Join us virtually using this Zoom link: URPC Committee Meeting

Divisional Reports Updates:

• Administration and Finance – 1:10-1:35 pm
• University Wide – 1:35-2 pm
• Advancement – 2:00-2:20 pm
• President’s Office – 2:20-2:30 pm

November 7, 2025: URPC Committee Meeting, 1:00 - 2:30 pm

Join us virtually using this Zoom link: URPC Committee Meeting

Divisional Reports Updates: 

• Enrollment Management and Student Success – 1:10-1:40 pm
• Athletics and Recreation – 1:40-2:00 pm
• Academic Affairs – 2:00-2:30 pm

Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series: Thursday, October 23, 2025

Join the Department of Native Studies and the Environment & Community Graduate Program for the Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series on Thursday, October 23rd, 2025 from 5 to 6:30 pm in the Native American Forum. The 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. Tomorrow’s speaker is Imani Black, an aquaculture professional and advocate, whose lecture is titled Advancing Equity & Sustainability: Data-Driven Workforce Development in U.S. Aquaculture. 

My Best Lecture: Adolfo Soberanis: Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Join the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from 5:15 to 6:30 pm at the Veterans Memorial Building, located at 1425 J Street, Arcata for the first event in their new My Best Lecture series, with speakers selected through nominations by the campus community. Native American Studies Lecturer Adolfo Soberanis will present (Re)imagining (Real)ity, a lecture exploring the complexities of our imaginations and their relationship to both the “natural” and “unnatural” worlds. To remedy our cultural state of cognitive dissonance, Soberanis argues, we can use the parenthetical prefix “re-”; however, not without consequences. Soberanis invites us to (re)imagine life outside the parentheses!

The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments and a cash bar will be available. For questions or accommodation requests email Joice Chang at jyc85@humboldt.edu.

Reminder: Fall 2025 Brown Bag Series - Developing Critical Writers in an AI World

There are a few seats still open in the Fall 2025 Brown Bag Series - Developing Critical Writers in an AI World with Department of English faculty Nicolette Amann and Lisa Tremain. Bring your lunch and your ideas for creating engaging, resilient writing pedagogy. All workshops will be held from 12:00 to 12:50 pm in the Library Fishbowl (LIB 209). Register by clicking this link: RSVP: Developing Critical Writers in an AI World - Fall 2025 Workshop Series 

Remaining Topics and Dates:

• Wednesday, October 29, 2025: Overview of the Transparency in Teaching & Learning (TILT) framework and its benefits for writing assignment design in the age of AI

• Thursday, November 20, 2025: Dispositional and pedagogical frameworks that resist or critique AI dependence

• Wednesday, December 12, 2025: Process vs. product—how to design engaging, process-based, multi-step writing assignments where humans do writing

Hope to see you at some of these events! Have a great rest of your week.

Sincerely,

Jenn Capps