Today, Wednesday, March 19 -- 4-5:30, Kellogg Reading Room --- reception for adjunct/part time/lecturer faculty (invitation only) ---- Please RSVP if you haven't yet. Hope to see you there. My thanks to the Provost for arranging this event to thank our great part time faculty for their contributions to CSUSM.

Thursday, March 20 -- 12-1 -- Open forum with the President. Markstein 101. Q & A. Some of you have made really good points in the comments to a previous post about how frustrating attendinng these things are because administrators are now as practiced as politicians as spinning, avoiding answering, and (shall we say in generous way) mistating the reality. I can't disagree with that -- in fact those comments mirror my reaction to many of the meetings I go to. So yes, at some point this is all bad political theatre, but I continue to believe that one of the only weapons that faculty continue to have as we fight to maintain quality and integrity at CSUSM is to show that they/we are paying attention to what's going on and to keep asking questions and making it clear what they/we think about things. So I hope you will come, despite how frustrating it is. You're all very creative people and I trust you all to find ways of asking (and keep asking again and again and again) questions that can't be side-stepped or dodged or avoided.

Spring Faculty Colloquium Dinner -- 5ish (I don't have the invite to hand), Clarke Field House. This semester's presenter Professor William Burns, COBA. For details contact the Faculty Center.