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Classes will begin on Monday, September 12, at 8:30 a.m. with a special schedule of slightly shortened classes for the day to accommodate Opening Convocation at 3 p.m., in Skinner Memorial Chapel. See the special class schedule below.

Opening Convocation will be preceded by our traditional Academic Procession, in which all faculty are encouraged to participate. The Academic Procession will assemble at 2:45 p.m. in front of Laird Hall. (Note to new faculty members: academic dress is customarily worn for the Academic Procession.) We will line up in two columns according to the academic rank as listed below; the members within each group may line up in any order they wish. Administrative staff are welcome to join the procession. We will march from Laird to the Chapel for seating in the choir loft and the side transept.

ORDER OF ACADEMIC PROCESSION

Professor Robert Tisdale, College Marshal
President Robert A. Oden, Jr.
Mr. Raymond McGuire
Dean Scott Bierman
Dean Hudlin Wagner
Chaplain Carolyn Fure-Slocum

Emeriti Faculty
Professors
Associate Professors
Assistant Professors
Instructors
Administrative Staff

In the event of rain, the Academic Procession will form in the basement of the Chapel. Group I will meet and form in the corridor on the East Side of the Chapel basement and Group II will meet and form in the corridor on the West Side of the basement. As each group enters the Chapel narthex, please form two columns before entering the Chapel auditorium.

Group I - East Side
Platform Party
Emeriti Faculty
Professors

Group II - West Side
Associate Professors
Assistant Professors
Instructors
Administrative Staff

WEEK ONE SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

For Monday, September 12
Period 1a 8:30 to 9:20 a.m.
Period 2a 9:30 to 10:20 a.m.
Period 3a 10:30 to 11:20 a.m.
Period 4a 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Period 5a 12:30 to 1:20 p.m.
Period 6a 1:30 to 2:20 p.m.
Opening Convocation - 3 p.m.

For Friday, September 16
(First Friday Convocation will be held, September 23)
Period 1a 8:30 to 9:40 a.m.
Period 2a 9:50 to 11 a.m.
Period 3a 11:10 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Period 4a 12:30 to 1:40 p.m.
Period 5a 1:50 to 3 p.m.
Period 6a 3:10 to 4:20 p.m.

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It is with great pleasure that I announce that Joseph Paul Baggot joined the Student Life division on September 6, as an Associate Dean of Students and Class Dean of the Class of 2009.

Joe comes to Carleton from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh where he served as the Associate Dean of Students and Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities. In addition to the many outstanding skills that Joe brings to Carleton, his extensive experience in the administration of academic support services, student academic success initiatives, student judicial codes, and sexual harassment/assault investigation will be greatly appreciated and highly utilized.

Joe earned his Master of Arts degree in Special/Correctional Education. Currently, Joe is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership and Policy Analyses at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and on September 13 will defend his dissertation entitled, "The Effects of Remedial Course Work and Reduced Credit Load on Persistence in College for Students with Learning Disabilities." Please join us as we welcome Joe Baggot to the Student Life division.

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The weekly convocation series is a shared experience that contributes to our collective education. Once each week students, faculty, and staff from across campus gather for an hour for a lecture or performance from specialists in a variety of disciplines. The goal of the convocation series is to provoke thinking and promote discussion outside the classroom on a broad range of subjects.

The weekly convocations begin Friday, September 23, and are described online. There is also a link to access the audio recordings of past convocations.

A luncheon is usually held following weekly convocations for the speaker and selected students, faculty, and staff. If you would like to have your name on the list of possible invitees for a particular luncheon, you may use the form on the Fall Term Convocations brochure that is being distributed through campus mail. Since space is limited for the luncheons, we may not be able to include everyone who would want to attend. Luncheon invitations will be sent a week in advance of each convocation.

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Each year the Convocations Committee solicits, evaluates, and endorses nominations for convocation presenters. The committee seeks to present a balanced and diverse slate of presenters that would have broad campus interest. This is complex work under a limited budget, and difficult choices must be made because there are so many good suggestions for a limited number of dates. For most speakers, planning must take place several months in advance.

The Convocations Committee will soon be considering convocation possibilities for the 2006-07 academic year. A Convocation Suggestion Form is being distributed through campus mail to all students, faculty, and staff. You are encouraged to submit names of potential speakers, including Carleton alumni and parents. The committee appreciates all ideas and will consider each one, taking into consideration availability and budget limitations.

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Alumni Booksigning
We have a great "Meet the Author" series lined up this fall. The next event will be a reading by Mark Anderson, Carleton Class of ’89. He will be reading from and discussing his new book “'Shakespeare' by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare" on Wednesday, September 14, at 7 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Having spent more than a decade researching the life of de Vere, Anderson has created an unforgettable portrait in this groundbreaking biography. He presents a wealth of mirrors between de Vere’s life and the works of the Bard. Please join us for a fascinating evening.

Category of the Month
Each month we highlight a category in the General Book Department of the Bookstore. During the month of September all books in our history section are 20% off.

Poster Sale
The Bookstore will be sponsoring the annual poster sale in Great Space on Thursday, September 15, and Friday, September 16. This is a great time to pick up some new images.

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Watch for the LTC fall poster in your campus mail. Extra copies are available at the LTC, Willis 207, or by contacting Jennifer Cox Johnson.

Fall 2005 events from the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching (LTC) focus on a number of hot topics: curricular issues such as reflective writing, classroom publishing, and quantitative literacy; assessment and human subjects protection; and the challenge of making classrooms simultaneously psychologically "safe" and intellectually dangerous—a topic that continues last year’s discussions of classroom experiences with stereotypes and racially charged language. Al Montero, recently back from leading the Maastricht Program, fills us in on developments in the European Union. Sam Patterson and Bill Titus report on what happened last year when they taught the whole of each other’s courses. Book discussions continue on the common reading The Working Poor and on Gender in Academia, and two pedagogical workshops will explore issues of problem-solving and academic honesty.

Monday, September 19, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Headley House, 815 East Second Street
The Working Poor, Invisible in America faculty and staff discussion of the common reading. Copies of the book are available in the Carleton bookstore.

Looking ahead:
Thursday, September 22: Human Subjects Protection: What Faculty (and Students) Need to Know Before the Research Starts
George (Curt) Pospisil, formerly of the Education Division of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Increasingly, Carleton students and faculty are using classrooms as research sites for scholarship of teaching and learning with the students and others as research subjects. With the help of our own Institutional Research Board, Pospisil will help us negotiate the ethical and procedural terrain of these activities. Pospisil is now privately consulting in the area of human subjects research. He helped create the Web-based "Human Subjects Protection Education Program" for the use of federal grantees working with human subjects.

Co-sponsored by the Institutional Research Board (IRB), the Program in Ethical Reflection at Carleton (PERC), and the Dean of the College Office
Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch provided for 50

Continuing book group: Join the book group on Gender in Academia
Monday, October 3, and Monday, October 31, from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Headley House, 815 East Second Street

The two books we will read for fall are Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to do About It (2001), and Lynn H. Collins, Joan C. Chrisler, and Kathryn Quina, eds., Career Strategies for Women in Academia: Arming Athena (1998).

Co-sponsored by the Mellon Faculty Lifecycles Grant.

Books are now available to those who sign up. Complimentary copies are available to faculty who sign up through the LTC (contact Jennifer Cox Johnson, jcoxjohn@carleton.edu or x4192) and are provided with funds from the Mellon Faculty Lifecycles Grant. Extra discount available to staff members who join the group.

Book groups are open to interested faculty and staff but please sign up with Jennifer Cox Johnson in the LTC, x4192 or jcoxjohn@carleton.edu.