Happy Friday! Here’s to hoping that hurricane season is functionally behind us now, and that we’ve escaped the worst of its wrath for one more year. Hopefully. And haven’t the storms left in their wake some absolutely gorgeous autumn weather for us to enjoy? I’m sure that’s in no way meteorologically accurate, but I’m going to run with it for now.
Anyway, on to UR. It’s been quite an eventful week! Abstract submissions are now open, and publicity is making its way to people’s inboxes, feeds, cell phones, and just about any other way you can think of, thanks to the hard work PR and Workshops subcommittee. If there was an option to put it on the side of a blimp, I’m sure they’d get it done. Thanks to all of you for your hard work! And let’s all be thinking of other ways to promote our programming between now and Tuesday’s meeting of the full Council.
Speaking of which, please everyone remember that on Tuesday we will have the third of four UR Council meetings scheduled for the fall semester. Per my accustomed routine, I’ve posted a draft agenda on Teams. Please add to it as you see fit. You’ll also notice that I’ve placed subcommittee reports near the top this time. That’s probably the most important thing we do at these meetings, and we nearly ran out of time for them at the last meeting. Here’s a link to the draft agenda:
agenda ur council meeting 10-15-24.docx
There’ll be much more to come at Tuesday’s meeting. Subcommittees have been working very hard these past few weeks. The UR journal is making swift progress, symposium workshops have been scheduled, and the Research Mentoring subcommittee has exciting (and very specific) plans for faculty professional development in 2025, and we’ll hear all about it on Tuesday. I’ll also have some exciting (fairly exciting; I shouldn’t oversell) updates to share about our budget when we meet again.
Until then, I wish you all a glorious weekend filled with crisp fall weather, and maybe a pumpkin or two. Feels good enough for a hay ride. I sure hope it keeps up for a while. Seems unlikely. So I hope everyone takes a break this weekend and enjoys it while it lasts. I know I will.
Dan
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