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In this month's column, Faculty Senate Chair Shannon Davis is urging faculty to attend the General Faculty meeting at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17, via Zoom. This is the first General Faculty meeting since 2000 where business will be conducted, and a quorum is required.

�鶹��Ƶ Lighting the Way: Creston Lynch

The eastern region of Ukraine has been an intense battleground since 2014, when Russia controversially annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and invaded the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. Though a ceasefire was called, it has been violated daily. More than 10,000 people have died and roughly 1.6 million are registered as internally displaced people (IDP).

But a step toward hope and peace may be on the horizon, thanks to �鶹��Ƶ’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and their new project funded by a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

Faculty/staff weekly announcements

Andrew Peterson is honored by SCHEV with an Outstanding Faculty Award

Jen Barnard of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages is the March Employee of the Month.

When the pandemic is over, what will telework look like at �鶹��Ƶ?

Faculty/staff weekly announcements

More than 100 �鶹��Ƶ personnel whose work qualifies them for the state’s “1a” designation were the first people in the �鶹��Ƶ community to receive vaccinations starting on Jan. 15 under the auspices of Student Health Services. They returned this week for round two.