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Administration and governance archives

Improve accessibility of PDFs on CLAS marketing websites

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Brynne Schweigel-Skeers, associate director of web strategy
DEOs, faculty, and staff

Local vehicle rental for university business will transition to Hertz starting Mar. 16

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Dean's office administration
DEOs, ALT, faculty, and staff

Preparing for Promotion workshops now available as online courses

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Dean's office administration
DEOs, ALT, and faculty

PTEAP (post-tenure allocation effort) reporting due Apr. 15

Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Tiffany Schier, faculty affairs director
DEOs, ALT, and faculty

Marketing and communications update for Jan. 2026

Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Ben Hill, senior director marketing and communications
DEOs, ALT, faculty, and staff

Reminder: departmental graduation events

Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Dean's office administration
DEOs, ALT, DGSs, and DUSs

ChatGPT Edu available

Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Jonna Higgins-Freese, senior director of IT
Faculty, staff, and postdocs

Faculty Assembly meeting agenda - Jan. 28

Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Aixin Tan, Facutly Assembly secretary
Faculty

Marketing and communications midyear update

Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Ben Hill, senior director marketing and communications
DEOs and ALT

Reminder to submit TA overload requests

Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Erika Christiansen, CLAS graduate affairs manager
ALT, DGSs, and GESS

Legislative media tips

Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Ben Hill, senior director for marketing and communications
DEOs, ALT, faculty, and staff

Marketing and Communications update for December 2025

Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Ben Hill, senior director for marketing and communications
DEOs, ALT, faculty, and staff

Handling negative comments on social media

Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Ben Hill, senior director for marketing and communications
DEOs and ALT

Update on Alumni Day 2026

Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Ben Hill, senior director for marketing and communications
DEOs and ALT

January 2026 - SPEC testing for 1st time test takers

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Erika Christiansen, CLAS graduate affairs manager
GESS

Marketing and Communications update for November 2025

Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Ben Hill, senior director for marketing and communications
DEOs, ALT, faculty, and staff

CLAS MarCom welcomes new Communications Specialist

Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Claire McGranahan, director of collegiate communications
DEOs, ALT, DGSs, DUSs, faculty, staff, GESS, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate students

Faculty Assembly meeting agenda - Nov. 5

Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Aixin Tan, Facutly Assembly secretary
Faculty

CLAS staff listening sessions

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Jamie Klein-Packard, research associate
Staff

Faculty deployment charts - now due Dec. 5

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Tiffany Schier, faculty affairs director
DEOs and ALT