A Year Like No Other: President’s report reflects on impacts of COVID-19 10 May, 2021
In February 2020, Colorado State University had just celebrated the 150
th year since its founding. The collective celebration was to continue under the greening leaves of the historic Oval and among beds of tulips poking through the soil.
Days before spring break, however, everything had changed. The COVID-19 pandemic was accelerating and President Joyce McConnell shared the news with the CSU community that learning was shifting to online only.
Students headed home. Frontline workers donned masks and learned new ways of doing their critical work. Faculty and staff reconvened in front of screens at dining tables and in home offices. CSU’s 150
May 6, 2021
Professor M. Diane Burton will lead the ILR School center that researches, teaches and communicates about monetary and non-monetary rewards from work, and how rewards influence outcomes for individuals, companies, industries and economies.
She begins July 1 as director of the Institute for Compensation Studies, Alex Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, announced May 5. Colvin is ILR’s Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman ’75, MS ’76, Professor of Conflict Resolution.
Burton succeeds founding director Kevin F. Hallock, ILR’s Joseph R. Rich ’80 Professor of Economics and Human Resource Studies, who departs Cornell in August to begin as president of the University of Richmond. Hallock is a former dean of the SC Johnson School of Business, where he is a professor.
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Senate passes budget
On Friday, the Senate gave final approval to the $7.17 billion FY 2022 budget, H.439. Senate Appropriations Chair Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, called it “as complicated a budget as I’ve ever had to put together in my time in the Senate” due to the flood of federal aid to Vermont for coronavirus relief and an unexpected $211 million revenue surplus.
The bill spends $478.5 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds, while incorporating only a portion of Gov. Scott’s ARPA spending proposal. Kitchel said the governor’s plan did not focus enough on the legislature’s funding priorities, including service delivery structure, court re-opening and higher education needs. Scott had asked the legislature to place all of the ARPA expenditures in a separate bill. Kitchel rejected that request, instead placing all ARPA spending in one designated section of the budget bill.
April 30, 2021
Alyssa McElwain
Lessons to help youths ages 14-18 build and maintain healthy romantic relationships are among a virtual curriculum for Wyoming teachers developed through the University of Wyoming’s Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program.
Alyssa McElwain, an assistant professor in the UW Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, created the 10 lessons about healthy relationships, says Jean Garrison, co-director of the Wallop Civic Engagement Program K-12 Curriculum Project. McElwain is a faculty member in the UW College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The lessons are part of the virtual health content library launched April 26 by the project.
“As the recipient of the 2020-21 Wallop Faculty Engagement Fellowship, Alyssa put together this important set of lessons about healthy relationships that is available for school counselors and after-school programs, as well as accessible to students directly, across the whole state,” Garrison says.
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