News (updated 25 April 2008)  

--Program for the AASU/SSU Student Conference on Global & Domestic Human Rights (pdf): April 25-26, 2008.

--Listen to Sam Weller. An invitation from Dr. Beth Howells:
Please join us at 2:30 on Tuesday, April 15, in Solms 110 for a lecture by Sam Weller, author of the acclaimed biography The Bradbury Chronicles and special guest of the Big Read.
He will discuss his life as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels; his work as a journalist; and his experience creating a writer's life as a writer and teacher in Chicago. All faculty and students are welcome.

--AASU& SSU Collaborative Teaching & Research Grants: Spring 2008. The deadline for submitting a grant application is December 10, 2007. Please visit the GRANTS page for more information about these grants and for a link to the RFP.

--FACULTY SERVICE AWARDS. The deadline for submitting nominations for faculty service awards is Friday, 8 February 2008. For application procedures, visit Awards.

--InsideHigherEd.com. News, views, and job postings from a free online alternative to The Chronicle of Higher Education. For links to other online journals that may be of interest, visit Off-campus Resources.

--INTERNAL GRANTS.   By September 14, 2007, all full-time AASU faculty should have received a grants packet, with RFPs for the 2008 Research & Scholarship Grants, Teaching & Learning Grants, and Gignilliat Summer Fellowship. If you did not receive a packet, please send a note to Dick Nordquist at nordqudi@mail.armstrong.edu.

--INTERNAL GRANTS WORKSHOP at 12:15 on Wednesday, September 19, in Solms 110. If you're thinking about applying for a 2008 Research & Scholarship Grant, Teaching & Learning Grant, or Gignilliat Summer Fellowship, please try to make it to this informal workshop to pick up tips on how to prepare a successful grant proposal.

--The GRANTS page has been updated, and PDFs of 2007-2008 internal grant RFPs have been posted.

--Teaching & Learning Center Resources: Updated lists of all books (organized by authors' names) and journals in the T&L Center (Solms 209) are now available in pdf format:
   books A-F
   books G-L
   books M-Z
   journals