Tomorrow is both the January Workshop AND Live Update Meeting. Both will be in-person only at the LNDL library. Lunch begins at 12pm and the day wraps by 4pm. Please read below for the full schedule or see your email from Barbara.
Updates & Reminders
1. Tomorrow's workshop schedule:
Schedule for the day
12:00pm -12:45pm -- Lunch - LNDL Atrium
12:45pm-1:15pm -- Advising/ Career presentation (Christina Spearman) - Auditorium
1:15pm-1:45pm -- 30 min Live Update - Auditorium
1:45pm-2:00pm -- 15-min break
2:00pm – 2:30pm -- Common Text (April, Barbara) - Auditorium
2:30pm – 3:15pm -- Untold Truths module overview/ pilot updates (David Carey and Sarah Lewis)
For lunch, we will be having cream of crab soup, sandwiches, chicken parmesan, and portabella mushroom pasta. We will also have coffee, tea, soda, water, etc.
Individual Meeting Time (optional)
At 3:15PM, the Messina staff will be transitioning to the atrium and will be available to have 1:1 conversations with folks. Please sit down and talk to us about any questions, ideas, or concerns you have about the following topics:
Patrick – Enrichment hour/trip Ideas
Sarah – Untold Truths/DEIJ facilitation
Barbara - Living Learning Plans, Theme integration, Managing crisis
April – “I’m new, what do I do?!”, Common Text
Presentation Materials and Resources
The workshop and live update meeting will be in-person only – we will not be recording or live-streaming it. However, we will have the PowerPoint and other materials posted on Teams. Here is the direct link to the folder: January Workshop
In this folder, you will also be able to find Spring planning documents, including:
Messina Sample Syllabus with Enrichment Plan
Spring 2025 Enrichment Schedule Template (which includes our calendar of events)
Enrichment Planning Guide – will be posted soon!
2. The working group feedback and evergreen evaluation form is due on Friday, January 10th. If you haven't completed that form yet, please follow this link.
Important Dates
(See our Ongoing Support for Working Groups tab of the Messina website for more details about Messina submissions.) More to share next week, just sharing January's and February's for now
1/9 – Messina January Workshop
1/13 – Spring Semester Begins
1/13 - Mentor Intent to Return due
1/20 – MLK Day – University closed
1/20 - Add/Drop Ends
2/15 – Mentor Stipend III
2/15 - Accepted Student Open House
2/27 – Messina New Participant Welcome
2/28 – Midterm grades to Registrar’s by 3PM
Quick Links
Need to arrange transportation or submit a reimbursement, cash advance, or Pcard budget number change?
Use the Working Group Logistical Request Form
