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FAS Updates and Important Deadlines
For All Staff and Faculty
| September 1, 2020
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Monday September 7, 2020
Labour Day
Tuesday September 8, 2020
Fall term classes begin
Tuesday September 8, 2020 from 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Graduate Council Meeting
Friday September 11, 2020 from 9:00am to 10:30am
Committee of Departments Meeting
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As we are preparing to welcome our students to the 2020-21 academic year next week, I would like to request that you remind your students to update their address for the fall term, as well as their cell phone number and emergency contact information. We will include a message about this in the student eNews this week and we would appreciate it if you could include it in departmental communications as well as in communications related to your classes.
Please advise your students to update their contact information by logging in to SOLUS and looking for the link in their "To Do" list at the top right of the page. They can also watch this video for instructions. If they have questions, they can email solus@queensu.ca, your department, or our office.
The health and safety of our entire community is my top priority and I require your help to ensure that I have emergency contact information for everyone in our Faculty. We are all in this together, so I truly appreciate your attention to this important matter.
I cannot wait to welcome everyone to the first day of classes next week! Please stay healthy and safe.
Sincerely,
Barbara
Barbara Crow, PhD
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science
Faculty of Arts and Science
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The Academic Consideration Team is pleased to introduce our new team; Lucy Mackrell (Manager), Sarah Bunting and Melissa Marcucci Grant (Coordinators). We would be happy to answer any questions or concerns you may have throughout the year.
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If you would like support with onQ basics, assessment ideas, feedback about your ideas, or not sure where to start, book a virtual consult with one of our remote support team members by sending an email to ascremote@queensu.ca.
Virtual Drop-in Sessions will be available the week of August 31- Sept 4
Monday- Thursday from 1-3pm
Friday, Sept 4 from 10-12am
Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
+1 343-302-7449 Canada, Kingston (Toll)
Conference ID: 283 986 927#
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Teaching Assistant Resource Guide
The purpose of the TA Resource Guide is to provide a resource for Teaching Assistants working in the remote teaching environment to maximize their ability to facilitate learning in this setting.
Feel free to share with your TAs.
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first Coffee and Conversation with the Dean event on August 24. We hope everyone enjoyed this informal way of staying in touch with the Dean and our FAS community. We would like to invite you to our next informal event, which will be a brown bag lunch with the Dean, faculty, staff, and students, at 12:00 noon on October 14, via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 811 9670 4946 Passcode: 391470 Find your local number here. Please join the conversion and feel free to bring a lunch with you!
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As part of the Division of Student Affairs' annual student wellness and engagement initiatives, we are distributing the following for faculty members and instructors for their considered use in the classroom before classes start and/or during any breaks:
- a Health and Wellness PowerPoint slide deck. This series of 8 health and wellness resource slides could be rotated regularly on the front-of-room screen before the start of class or during breaks. The slides aim to promote self-care and encourage helping behaviours. They highlight key support services on campus and there are speaking notes provided for instructors. We have provided this resource for a few years now, and we update the content each fall. The concept is based on materials developed by the Department of Geography in 2011. Included this year is a slide related to COVID "Keep your community safe from COVID" and a slide encouraging students to update their contact information in SOLUS.
- a Queen's Reads slide. This slide encourages students to download a free e-copy of Other Side of the Game, the 2020-21 Queen's Reads novel. Queen's Reads is the university's common reading program that aims to engage the community in meaningful discussion, encourage critical thinking, and promote a sense of community. A QR code for the free download is included in the slide.
- a slide promoting our Indigenous self-identification mechanism on SOLUS. This one slide promotes the university's Indigenous self-identification mechanism in the student records system, SOLUS. Self-identifying provides students with Indigenous ancestry with the opportunity to become part of the Indigenous community at Queen's, practice and/or learn more about their culture, and access resources like tutoring services, scholarships, cultural workshops, and on-campus Elders. This slide could be used during the first few weeks of class.
Of course, showing any of these slides is optional and at the instructors' discretion. Please contact supportservices@queensu.ca if you have any questions about any of these initiatives or the slides.
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The second application period for the KGU Visiting Professorship in Canadian Studies for the Fall semester 2021 is now open. Applications are due September 30, 2020.
Find further details and application instructions here.
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Contagion Cultures Lecture Series
This series is a Faculty of Arts and Science collaboration which helps to make sense of this pandemic through the expertise and insights of Arts and Science faculty members.
The series is live-streamed on Zoom every Tuesday at 4:00 PM EDT/EST.
Upcoming events:
September 8 - COVID-19--Redefining Fragility and Resilience of Nation-States: The cases of Italy, the United States, Ethiopia, Germany and Cuba - Abdelkerim Ousman, Department of Political Science, Royal Military College
September 15 - The Local Government Response to the Pandemic: The Kingston Case Study - Helen Cooper, School of Policy Studies
For more info on the series and to register please visit: https://www.queensu.ca/sps/events
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Student E-Newsletters
For the latest student eNewsletters, please see queensu.ca/artsci. You can find our emails to students in the bottom right corner of our homepage.
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Follow Us on Twitter!
Don't forget that we have a Twitter account for Arts and Science Faculty and Staff! Get news and updates from the Faculty and the rest of the University, as well as another place to access the Staff & Faculty E-newsletter. Follow us @QUASfacultynews.
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