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Building faculty community is an ongoing topic on this campus.听Building such a community requires multiple approaches and dedication at many levels of the university, including time and effort by the faculty.听

Faculty offices, labs, conference rooms听and lounges are spaces that generally reinforce silos rather than transcending them, as these are associated with individual faculty, units, or schools rather than the faculty as such.听The result of this separation is that there exist听few opportunities for interaction among faculty across the 麻豆影院 campus.听The continuing expansion of the university to East Campus and potentially to South Campus adds further complications in terms of bringing faculty together.

As part of the effort to bridge these gaps and build greater faculty community, the Faculty Leadership Institute is launching a monthly lunch series open to all faculty on campus.听The basis of the effort is the idea that a monthly lunch series around a combination of socializing and discussing topics of importance to faculty will begin to bring faculty together on a regular basis and begin to build the community that many feel is lacking on the campus.

Each lunch will have a format that includes socializing for the first half hour, topic discussion at individual tables for an hour on issues related to faculty concerns (optional鈥攑eople are free to continue socializing) and a final half hour of free discussion and socializing.听In this manner, the lunch series will serve both as an opportunity to interact with faculty from across campus as well as an opportunity to exchange views on topics of interest.听The format is intentionally flexible to allow for the building of community as the first objective.

The inaugural听lunch will be held from noon to 2 p.m. (come for all or part)听on Jan. 26听in the Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library, 5th听floor. We hope you will join your LI colleagues for this inaugural Faculty SPACE (Shared Perspectives and Community Engagement) lunch. Lunch will feature tapas and sandwiches from A Spice of Life, along with lively conversations about issues of importance to faculty.

Lunch is limited to 150, so please RSVP and reserve your space.

The Faculty SPACE steering committee,听which thanks Faculty SPACE participants for听supporting the community building effort, includes Irene Blair, Paul Chinowsky, Ginger Ferguson, Mark Hoefer, Heather Lewandowski, Shelly Miller, Steve Vanderheiden, Gabby Wiersma, Phoebe Young.