| The Columns Weekly - Thursday, August 8, 2024 |
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Summer Knights
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| The A. Paul Knight Internship Program in Conservation, named in memory of a late Washington and Lee student, allows students to pursue their passion for environmental conservation. |
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Reconstructing the Past
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| Summer Research Scholars are spending their summer helping to bring one of the world's oldest cities to life through modern technology. |
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| Salad Bar Discount 2024-2025 |
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 The salad bar discount is a great reward for participating in Live Well W&L! Once you accumulate three Live Well W&L tokens (red and/or blue), you qualify for the salad bar sticker. Click here to submit for your sticker. This sticker allows you to enjoy lunch at The Marketplace Salad Bar for $6.50 (plus tax) once per day, every day until June 2025. This includes soup and a drink at no additional cost. The discount is exclusively available to benefit-eligible employees and is non-transferable. To receive the discount, please present your University ID with the salad bar sticker and barcode to the cashier. |
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Meet a Colleague: Paige Gance |
| Paige Gance serves as the assistant director of assessment strategy. Learn more about Paige in our "Meet a Colleague" feature series. |
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| New Rise Digital Display Guidelines |
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 W&L's Office of Communications & Public Affairs and Information Technology Services are pleased to announce an official policy framework for the university's Rise digital display system. The Rise digital display network includes over 40 screens across campus informing the W&L community about relevant news, activities and events. Content submissions for the Rise system will now be accepted through the Web Help Desk and the new submission guidelines can be viewed online. Only requests placed through the Web Help Desk that meet the new requirements will be approved for posting on Rise displays. Questions should be directed to Brian Laubscher, director of internal communications, at blaubsch@wlu.edu or x8676. |
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| Get to Know Your Newest Co-Workers |
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New Employee Q&A |
| Get to know the newest members of the Washington and Lee employee workforce through our new employee feature page! This week, we feature five new employees who have joined the W&L community in recent weeks. |
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| Fall Academy Registration is Open! |
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| Fall Academy consists of two weeks of workshops, discussion panels and information sessions designed to help faculty and staff prepare for the upcoming academic year. Enrollment began Aug. 1. Check out the full slate of events here, and plan to join us Aug. 19-30! |
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| Featured Social Media Site |
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Follow W&L Museums on Instagram!
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Webinar: How to be a parent and a professional
10-11 a.m. or 4-5 p.m.
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There is perhaps no more delicate balance than being both a parent and a working professional. So many of us struggle with how to divide our time, energy and attention. During this webinar, we’ll discuss the realities of the modern working landscape for parents, time and household management, and how to approach balance in a new, more successful way. And we’ll discuss how to find the most elusive thing of all: quality time just for yourself.
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Fall Academy Begins |
Fall Academy is two weeks of workshops, discussion panels and information sessions designed to help faculty and staff prepare for the upcoming academic year.
Fall Academy Enrollment
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Fall Academy Keynote Speaker: Andra Gillespie
Noon Evans Hall
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Emory University professor Andra Gillespie will deliver a lecture titled “Same Vocabulary, Different Meanings." She will assist the audience in understanding the dynamics that can exacerbate division and polarization, and she will offer mitigation strategies to bridge the gap of understanding. Her lecture will help employees prepare for the election season and seeks to build ways to support faculty to ensure every classroom and university hub encourages the expression of diverse views.
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Annual College Picnic
4-6 p.m. Liberty Hall Ruins
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You and your family are warmly invited to this year's Annual College Picnic. Please join us as we welcome our new faculty and staff to the W&L community. We'll serve a traditional picnic menu, have children's activities, music and plenty of lively conversations. While we believe pets are family, we hope to meet your furry friends some other time.
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Law Faculty Meeting
11 a.m.-12 p.m. Law Community Lounge
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The first meeting of the new year will be held in the Law Community Lounge. |
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