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Recommendation from CELT regarding Extra Thursday
Faculty Senate document from April 2019
Charge to CELT: The Faculty Senate requested that CELT evaluate how to use the extra Thursday in the spring semester of the revised academic calendar.
Recommendation: CELT recommends that the extra Thursday during the spring semester is an Academic Showcase for students and faculty, celebrating their work and accomplishments for that year.
Possibilities Considered:
- Just a regular Thursday: this would be the default, if no other option were chosen
- Teach-In Day: faculty were concerned about the additional work this would entail
- Just another day without classes: anticipated little support from campus leadership
- Academic Showcase (with no classes meeting): research presentations and performances
Proposed Schedule for Academic Showcase: This is one possibility for a proposed Academic Showcase schedule that includes many events that currently occur near the end of the spring semester. Some events could be omitted or additional events added depending on the interest of the sponsoring organization. This proposed schedule does not indicate any commitment from these organizations.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 - 10:30 | UGR/GRAD Poster Presentations |
| 10:00 - 1:00 | COE Design Expo: Senior Design |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Gallery Talk with Student Artists |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Student Art Purchase Award |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Luncheon with Keynote Speaker |
| 1:30 - 3:30 | UGR Oral Presentations |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | Grad School Oral Presentations |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship & Creative Work with Reception |
| 3:00 - 8:00 | COE Design Expo: Civil Engineering |
| 5:00 - 7:00 | Student Solo & Chamber Recitals |
| 8:00 | Student Showcase Production |
| 8:00 - 3:30 | Doc of Nursing Presentations |
| 10:00 - 5:00 | Juried Student Art Exhibit |
Note that many events that include food (e.g., Awards lunches or dinners) cannot all happen on this day.
Advantages
- Multiple celebratory events already occur on campus near the end of the spring semester; this would gather many of them on a single day.
- Reading Day will no longer be a business day, so some events that occur on that day (such as the reception for the Teaching Award winners) will need to be moved to another day.
- By not having classes, students and faculty would be available to attend activities (e.g., present and/or attend presentations).
Disadvantage or cautionary words: the day could become saturated with too many events.