Inside Gustavus January 8, 2015 | Volume 47, Number 15

President's Cabinet Summary

The President's Cabinet met on Tuesday, Dec. 16 and discussed the following items:

• President Bergman reported that the faculty endorsed the Shared Governance Principles document at the December 12 faculty meeting.  Cabinet members endorsed the document as well (on behalf of the administration).  The Governance Group will be meeting in the next week to review/recommend the document for Board endorsement at the January Board meeting.
• Director of the Center for Servant Leadership Barb Larson Taylor was present to give an update on the work of the Center and review the goals and statement of belief for leadership. 
• The following dates were approved for Homecoming and Family Weekend: Homecoming: October 1, 2016 and October 7, 2017 with September 23, 2017 as an alternative. Family Weekend: October 8, 2016 and October 14, 2017.
• The following 2015 holiday schedule was approved: April 3 (Good Friday), May 25 (Memorial Day), July 3 (4th of July), November 26 (Thanksgiving Day), November 27 (Day after Thanksgiving), December 24 (Floating Holiday), December 25 (Christmas), December 28-31 (Floating Holidays), January 1 (New Year's Day).
• Members agreed that the process for reporting bias incidents/hate crimes by employees needs to be clarified.  Further discussion will be held at a future meeting.

News & Announcements

Carnegie Foundation Distinction...The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Gustavus to receive its 2015 Community Engagement Classification. Gustavus is now one of 361 campuses out of 4,634 eligible institutions of higher education in the country that have the designation. More information about this honor is available online.

Campus Happenings

MLK Lecture...The Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington, president and founder of both the Washington Consulting Group in Baltimore and the Social Justice Training Institute, will give the 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 19 in Christ Chapel. Dr. Washington’s lecture is titled “50 Years Later, The Work Continues: Living the Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King In Our Own Time.”

Gustie Breakfast...The January Gustie Breakfast will take place Jan. 14 in the Campus Center banquet rooms and will feature Don Myers '83, Director of the Hillstrom Museum of Art. Check in and breakfast begin at 7:30 a.m. with the speaker beginning at 8 a.m. Cost is $8 per person or $15 per couple. You can register online or by calling 507-933-6043.

Daily Sabbath Schedule... All are invited to the worship services at 10 a.m. weekdays and 10:30 a.m. Sundays. Services occur in Christ Chapel unless otherwise noted. The upcoming schedule is as follows.

• Friday, Jan. 9: Taize Contemplative Worship
• Sunday, Jan. 11: Chaplain Grady St. Dennis
• Monday, Jan. 12: Service of Light
• Tuesday, Jan. 13: Rev. Alan Bray, First Lutheran Church of St. Peter
• Wednesday, Jan. 14: Morning Praise
• Thursday, Jan. 15: Nate McNab '15, Music by Re:vive
• Friday, Jan. 16: Taize Contemplative Worship

Facility Hours

Library Hours for January Term are as follows:

• Monday through Thursday: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
• Friday: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Sunday: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Weekend Home Athletic Events

Support the Golden Gusties at one or more of these home athletic events this weekend:

• The women's hockey team will host Adrian College at 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9.
• The men's hockey team will host Finlandia University at 8:05 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 9.
• The women's hockey team will host Lake Forest College at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10.
• The men's hockey team will host the College of St. Scholastica at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10.
  

Obituaries

• Roy Andrew Miller '46, passed away on August 22, 2014. A linguist and literary scholar, Miller had unusual facility with Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, Korean, Southeast and South Asian languages. He studied Latin and Greek at Gustavus and then served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946. He was Professor of Linguistics at the International Christian University in Tokyo from 1955 to 163 and then taught at Yale University from 1964 to 1970. From 1970 until 1989 he taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, serving as chairman of the Department of Asian Languages from 1972 to 1975. In 1971, Gustavus awarded Miller an honorary degree. He published many important works on the Japanese language during his career including A Japanese Reader: Graded Lessons for Mastering the Written Language.

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Plugs

Website Designer Needed...Local daycare looking to create a new and updated website. Some web design experience required, expertise in taking information from an old site to a new site, commitment includes initial design and training/trouble shooting, reference letter available upon completion. For more information, contact Hannah Godbout at hgodbout@gustavus.edu.

For Sale...2004 Buick LeSabre, $5,900. One owner, 104,000 miles, 3.8 liter V-6, electric seats, aluminum wheels, heated seats! Contact Diane at 507-340-0626.

"Plugs" is maintained as a forum by which members of the Gustavus community may offer goods and/or services to others in the community, or seek the same from them. It is not meant to accommodate ads or announcements from area businesses such as real estate agents or retailers, although from time to time such announcements may be published when deemed to be of particular interest to the community.



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