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April 30 - May 4

Exam Week

Monday, April 30th

  • Final exams start

Tuesday, May 1st

  • JMU Lifelong Learning Institute Brown-Bag Lunch Series, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Gilkerson Activity Center, Westover Park, 305 S. Dogwood Drive, Harrisonburg: Sandy Greene, membership chairperson for the Headwaters Chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalist Program, presents an overview of the program, upcoming training opportunity and a field guide to local natural resource agencies; the institute offers diverse and interesting noncredit classes, trips, social events and brown-bag learning lunches for adults; there are no exams or grades in the courses, just a sharing with others in the interest of learning; for more information, visit http://www.jmu.edu/socwork/lli or call (540) 568-2923; free.

Wednesday, May 2nd

  •  No events announced.

Thursday, May 3rd

  • End of Year Celebration – Forum area, 3:00-4:30 pm
  • Advisory Council (tentative-watch for email confirmation)– 8:30-10:00 am in the Faculty Commons 

Friday, May 4th

  • Deadline for completion of course work for May graduates.
  • Graduate Commencement Ceremony  Graduate Commencement, 7 p.m., JMU Convocation Center.  In the traditional ceremony, students graduate as a group and are recognized and hooded individually; for more information, visit www.jmu.edu/commencement/

 

Mark  Your  Calendars 

  • The 2nd Annual Noftsinger Celebration of Madison Scholarship is being hosted as part of the May Symposium during a reception at the Forbes Center on Thursday, May 10th from 5:00 – 7:00 PM.  You may remember that last year, we gathered examples of scholarly activity from our faculty and had a very impressive display in the lobby of the Forbes Center.  We are soliciting examples for this year's event.  Please drop your work off in the Associate/Assistant  Deans' Office by Tuesday, May 8th at 5:00 PM.  We will be transporting them to the Forbes Center on Thursday morning, May 10th and setting up our display.  The artifacts will be brought back to our office after the reception and you will be able to retrieve them on Friday, May 11th.
  • The impressive poster session we  presented for NCATE certainly is evidence that we will once again have a rich display for the celebration. Thank you for helping us showcase the hard work of each of you by contributing to this event!    Please contact Peggy Shaeffer if you have any questions

May 5th

  • The College of Education and University Studies Commencement is scheduled for 11:00 am on Saturday, May 5th in Godwin Hall.  Please note that under the inclement weather policy,  our ceremony will occur at 9:00 am, on Saturday and at the same location.   Faculty and students will process this year.  Faculty need to arrive at Godwin Hall by 10:20 a.m. or immediately following the closure of the University Ceremony in the Stadium. Light refreshments will be available in Godwin 220, which is the faculty and stage party holding room.   Due to the extremely heavy Commencement traffic on Saturday, please consider walking to campus or riding the Harrisonburg bus transit system.  If you chose to drive to Godwin, please park in the designated lots for our ceremony which are Parking Lots G, C4, R1, C3, C5 and the Champions Drive Parking Deck.   Additional information about shuttles can be found at:   http://www.jmu.edu/commencement/Maps_Etc.shtml
  • Details about the College of Education and University Studies Commencement may be found at: http://www.jmu.edu/coe

May 7th-May 11th

  • CFI May Symposium – The annual symposium encompasses a variety of experiences ranging from weeklong institutes to workshops on various topics such as learner-centered teaching and team-based learning. From the ever-popular annual grant writing institute to SoTL and research-based intensives, there will be an array of tantalizing opportunities.  More information can be found at http://www.jmu.edu/cfi/maysymposium/2012/index.html

June 18th -22nd

  • CFI  - jmUDESIGN Institute – five days designing or redesigning the course of your choice to promote long-term learning.  For more information, go to www.jmu.edu/cfi

August 6-10th

  • The Furious Flower Poetry Center’s 8th Annual Children’s Poetry Camp will be held on August 6-10, 2012 in Memorial Hall from 9:00a.m.to 2:00p.m.  The theme this year is “Words Light the Way.”  The goal of the Poetry Camp is to inspire children to explore all the ways they can be creative with words.  They can, of course, write the words, but they are also taught that they can use dance, art, acting, and music to express their poetic ideas.  There are seven teachers and fourteen counselors that will share their talent, enthusiasm, and creativity with the campers in seven different workshops (the campers get to choose four to participate in).  Each teacher comes at poetry in his/her own unique way.  Some of our workshop titles will give you an idea of the diversity of experiences—
  • Dragons, Dragons and Other Creatures That Never Were
  • Wild, Wonderful Writing!
  • Light Up the Stage
  • I Like to Move It, MOVE IT!
  • Rhythm Playground

  • We provide the campers with lunch and a snack each day.  The cost of the Poetry Camp is $50 for the week, but scholarships are available.  If you know of any children that would enjoy attending the camp, please visit our website at http://www.jmu.edu/furiousflower.  There, you will find a link to the Poetry Camp’s webpage with registration and workshop information.  If you have any questions, please contact Jill Wade at staleycj@jmu.edu or 568-8883

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