Upcoming Events:
- 2011 Sustainability Summit
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As you perhaps read in previous Calvin News, Calvin is again organizing a Sustainability Summit. Many faculty and staff have already responded by signing up.The leadership team warmly invites all Calvin staff and faculty to attend. Come by yourself or as part of a team from your unit. The Summit will take place on Thursday May 26, 2011 from 9:00am-2:00pm in the Commons Lecture Hall (lunch will be provided). It will provide opportunities for teams of people from various departments and units to discuss sustainability issues facing our campus and to develop action plans for the coming year. These action plans will help Calvin build on and deepen components of the Calvin Strategic Plan (2008-2013) and enact the goals of Calvin’s Statement on Sustainability. The Cabinet have given their full support to this initiative. We hope you will join us on May 26. Please RSVP to Clarence Joldersma at cjolders@calvin.edu by May 20.
- Summit Leadership Team: Gail Heffner, Matthew Heun, Clarence Joldersma
Recent Events:
Faculty Workshop: “Sustainability Across the Curriculum”
June 8-10, 2010
This workshop is Calvin’s first faculty development initiative to consider how to weave issues of sustainability across the Calvin curriculum in multiple disciplines. It expands the work begun through the Calvin Environmental Assessment Program (CEAP). Participants will be expected to either develop or re-design course content in a specific course to include sustainability. We will also explore issues of environmental justice in collaboration with faculty participants in the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation workshop.
Documentary Film Premiere: "Eating in Place"
Can we eat our way to a healthier economy? That’s the question asked byEating in Place, an hour-long documentary produced by the Grand Rapids Area Council for the Humanities and Calvin College.
Eating In Place will premiere at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 23, 2010 at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College. The premiere screening will be followed by an opportunity for the audience to discuss the issues and ideas presented with local and regional experts. Click here for more information on the film.
Critical Issue Forum Water: Scarcity or Abundance? (February 3-4, 2010)
Calvin College (with leadership from the Provost’s Office) is focusing attention on the many aspects of water during 2009–2010. Water is essential to life, and clean water is a critical issue in all parts of the world: Sub-Sahara Africa faces water shortages while other regions boast of abundance, and there’s growing awareness of the importance of fresh water as a resource for the social and economic vitality of our own Great Lakes region.
Particular focus will be drawn to the critical issue of water during a two-day forum at the beginning of spring semester on February 3-4, 2010. Plans are underway for on-campus speakers, films, residence hall activities, and community events in Grand Rapids. Additional events and activities are being planned throughout the academic year, and your suggestions and ideas are welcome.
A Field Guide to Sprawl (November 14 - December 20, 2008)
The Center Art Gallery at Calvin College presented A Field Guide to Sprawl - text by Dolores Hayden, Photographs by Jim Wark. Based on Hayden’s book (published in 2004), the exhibition chroniclee built forms that are a part of the American landscape, and forces viewers to understand and confront sprawl. For more detailed information, please see Sprawl.
Focus the Nation (January 2008)
Calvin was one of over 1,450 universities and colleges which participated in a national initiative called Focus the Nation. Its purpose was to provide a day of focused discussion on global climate change and solutions for the future.
At Calvin, a series of events were hosted during the first week of Calvin's spring semester culminating on January 31, 2008 with a teach-in, discussion with elected leaders, and a celebratory concert. The main goal of this initiative was “to move America beyond fatalism to a determination to face up to this civilizational challenge, the challenge of our generation.”
Embrace our Place (April 2007)
In April 2007, we celebrated Calvin's connections and partnerships in our local community April 16-23, 2007. Over 20 special events were planned.
The Embrace Our Place festival helped the Calvin campus and our surrounding community discover the many ways students, faculty, and staff embrace our community and demonstrate their commitment to teaching, learning, research, and scholarship.
