Summer Time

Three weeks in between spring and summer semesters. It is almost over, going by fast. It has been a little quieter around here due to the construction. Half the building was without electricity until yesterday, limited or no air until just this morning, and all of the windows are being replaced as we speak. And that's just our building. So between the construction and being between semesters it's been quiet, at least in relative terms. A few less meetings, and a few less students popping in.

I've got all the faculty annual reports turned in, a compilation department scholarship, and have drafted the department annual report. We've worked on internal program reviews, summer schedules, achievement (scholarship) awards, I've prepared my summer classes, and have started work on editing my fall classes, recorded new introductions for my classes, and starting looking ahead to what our new course management system will look like this fall. I've reviewed course evaluations, got my laptop updated from Windows XP to 7 including getting tons of software reinstalled, and dealt with the day-to-day needs of the department and the building. I'm taking the Quality Matters review course to update my online teaching skills, and to top it off have put together a draft of my promotion dossier and appendix for when I go up for full professor next year. Yes, a year out, but why wait to the last minute?

And that's just off the top of my head. There's been much more.