Campus Currents

December 2, 2021, 4:30 p.m., Virtual Event - Register Here

Want to learn more about the labor movement and how to find your place in it? Want to learn more about how to address the multiple crises happening now in higher ed? Right now the crisis is not just underfunding but also aggressive undermining of stable employment and politicized acts aimed at undercutting academic freedoms. Join us for a panel discussion during this event, which is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Criminology.

SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE:

Jen Sherer, senior state policy coordinator for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) Worker Power  Project at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington DC.

Joanna Gonsalves, Professor of Psychology, Salem State University, and Interim President of SSU’s MSCA chapter.

Michelle Corbin, Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliate faculty of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Worcester State University.

MODERATOR: Mirari Elcoro, Associate Professor of Psychology, Framingham State University, and an FSU MSCA chapter e-board member.

This event is sponsored by FSU’s Arts & Ideas series Good Trouble and the Department of Sociology & Criminology

Framingham State and partners are hosting events to recognize Native American Heritage Month featuring author, Joy Harjo. Free copies of her book, An American Sunrise, are available.

December 6 at 1:30 p.m., Book discussion on An American Sunrise

Whittemore Library, virtual event

December 8, 2021, 4:30 p.m. Keynote author event “A Talk with Joy Harjo”

Whittemore Library, virtual event Joy Harjo, of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, will talk about her book of poetry An American Sunrise.

February 2, 2022 Presentation

Larry “Spotted” Crow will give a presentation at MassBay Community College Library.

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ug0VK4uuR9iMhftzzy7wsg

You are invited to a webinar on "Unpacking Reparative Justice: A North Star Collective Webinar" on Wednesday, December 1st from 12:00 - 1:30 pm. Dr. Biko Agozino (Virginia Tech University) and Dr. Julia Jordan-Zachery (Wake Forest University) will speak on reparative justice in the academy. There are also plans to announce the inaugural cohort of the North Star Collective Faculty Fellows. This webinar represents the official launch of NEBHE’s North Star Collective. FSU is one of 13 founding institutions for this initiative.

The webinar is open to any administrators, faculty, and staff at our institution.

Any students interested in careers in education should consider attending one of the following two info sessions scheduled for this week:

Ever considered teaching Middle or High School? Learn about FSU’s Secondary Education
undergraduate and graduate programs!

Tuesday, Nov. 30, 3:30 p.m.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89736160376

Learn about FSU’s 4 + 1 M.Ed. in Special Education

Earn a Bachelors, M.Ed., plus your Initial Teaching License in Special Education in just five years.

Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1:30 p.m.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86841602899

By Donald Halsing - Publications Intern

English department chair Lisa Eck said she was struck by the word “tradition” in Meskwaki Native American Ray Young Bear’s bilingual poetry.

“Places that have maintained traditions and have a long historical memory ... have this literacy, this fluency with the past,” Eck said during a virtual discussion hosted by the Henry Whittemore Library Nov. 8.

Eck asked how to teach students about the “reverence” within tradition, “especially if it's not your own tradition.”

English professor Bartholomew Brinkman said online resources provide useful context for readers of poetry and other literature who don’t have “historical experience” as Native American people.

Bear’s poem “Wichihaka/The One I Live With” can be found on the Library of Congress’ “Living Nations, Living Worlds” digital interactive map.

Brinkman said users can click on pins on the map across North America to see poet biographies and access their poems.

“It's not a map that is defined by national political boundaries,” Brinkman said. “It's one that's defined by geographical regions. And I think that encourages us to think differently beyond sort of traditional nation spaces.”

From the map, Brinkman navigated to audio recordings of poets reading their submissions to the project.

He commented on the meaning of words that “jump out” from listening while reading narrative poetry, such as “an archive of the forest” in Jennifer Elise Foerster’s “Notes from Coosa.”

He asked,“What does that mean to have nature somehow translated onto the page?”

The Poetry Foundation website includes links to poets and their poems, as well as articles and podcasts to “enrich classroom experience” for contemporary Native American poetry scholars.

Brinkman is one of the directors of the Modern American Poetry website, which includes poems, critical essays, interviews with poets, and links to contextual information covering topics each poet included in their poems.

Another website Brinkman discussed was the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Online, users can view the American Indian Digital History Project’s collection of “primary sources” - preserved photographs, newspapers, and other archival materials.

Brinkman told the audience contemporary Native American poetry addresses hybridity, such as in Bear’s bilingual poetry. “Recovering these other languages is one way of being able to recuperate some of this [lost] space.”

Brinkman’s discussion was part of the National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” series, which will culminate with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discussing her book of poetry “An American Sunrise” Dec. 8.

Events take place on Friday via Zoom and start at 4 p.m.

December 10
Mini Gingerbread Whoopie Pies with Cream Cheese Filling

You can register for an event by clicking on the embedded links above. Zoom links and ingredient lists will be sent out the week of each event. For questions contact cwickham@framingham.edu.

See you all in the kitchen soon!

Take advantage of these great family events offered virtually by the Christa McAuliffe Center for Integrated Science Learning.

Family Event: Destination Moon
Virtual Event
Date: Monday, December 27, 2021
Time: 10:00AM - 11:00AM

Family Event: Mars Sample Return
Virtual Event
Date: Monday, December 27, 2021
Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Family Event: Destination Moon
Virtual Event
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM

Family Event: Mars Sample Return
Virtual Event
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Family Event: Exoplanets
Virtual Event
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Time: 7:00PM - 8:00PM

The 10th Annual Campus Professional Development Days:

“Take 10 To Connect”

The Campus Professional Development Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the 10th Annual Campus Professional Development Days will be held on Thursday, January 6th and Friday, January 7th 2022. More details will be available in the coming weeks!

The University will hold its Accepted Student Receptions on Saturday, April 2nd and Saturday, April 9th, 2022.

Wednesday Employer Showcases

Employers showcase their organizations, in person, most Wednesdays in the McCarthy Center lobby. Their goal is to network with and recruit students for full-time jobs or internships. Students can stop by their table to learn more.

There are two time slots: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and 12 Noon to 1:30 p.m., featuring up to four different employers:

12/1 10am-11:30am: HMEA
12pm-1:30pm: The National Guard

12/8 10am-11:30am: Danforth Art Museum
12pm-1:30pm: AMC Theaters

-Dr. Thomas Koshy, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, had the following article published recently:
"Gibonacci Polynomial Products with Implications," INTEGERS: Electronic Journal of Number Theory, 21 (2021), A112.