This Week in LANG 10/28/25
In this Edition: **End of Open Enrollment, Flu Shots, Gingko Lecture**
Dear colleagues,
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Please note that on Friday this week the open enrollment period ends for employees.
Dates and Events this Week
Friday, October 31
- End of Open Enrollment
Looking Ahead Dates and Events Fall 2025
November 3
- RDL and JFDA applications due see CHESS Faculty Development Awards
- Microcredentials Forum, 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM, Cone 341 (Lucas Room) (Register)
November 5
November 7
- “Salute to Service” Military gala, 6:00-8:00 pm, Student Union, Room 340
November 11
- Tuesday, Nov. 11; 6 p.m., Independent Picture House, “A Mystery Memoir,” register
- Veteran’s Day, no classes
November 12
November 13
- Cookies with the Provost, 4:00-4:45pm, RSVP
November 17-21
- International Education Week
November 18
- 4:00-5:30, Witness in Residence, Oscar Chacon (of Alianza Americas) talks on Immigration, Fretwell 100
November 21
- 3:00-5:00, JBusiness Forum
November 26-29
- Thanksgiving Break
December 2
- Last Day of Classes
December 3
- Reading Day
December 4-10
- Exam Period
December 12
- Commencement, 3pm, CHESS
December 15
- Final Grades due
Congratulations
Congratulations to David Dalton for giving an invited lecture at the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila.
Information for Faculty and Staff
Save the Date Ginkgo Residential Lecture
“A Mystery Memoir”: Uncovering the Secrets of an Internment Camp in Postwar Czechoslovakia”
A typewritten booklet was discovered at an auction in Detroit many years ago. After translating and researching the recorded memoir, the research team of Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, Ph.D., Jules Geaney-Moore, M.A., and John Sullivan discovered that the booklet’s author was the head doctor of a camp for displaced ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia during the years after WWII. This presentation is about the joys of ongoing historical discovery while exploring the doctor’s distressing story, and what we can learn from it about our own historical moment. │chess.charlotte.edu
- Tuesday, Nov. 11; 6 p.m., Independent Picture House (4237 Raleigh Street, Charlotte)
- Learn more about the series and register.
Save the Date with Your Students: Witness in Residence on Immigration
The next Witness in Residence program is scheduled for Tuesday, November 18 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Fretwell 100. The speaker will be Oscar Chacón, Executive Director, Alianza Americas, who will be speaking about his experience advocating for immigrants. More details to come soon in the Events section, but please begin thinking about how this lecture might relate to your curriculum and asking students to mark the date on the calendars (particularly those in the themed courses).
Open Enrollment
Open enrollment starts Monday, Oct. 13, for benefits-eligible employees. Review the open enrollment website to prepare and make your elections before the deadline, Friday, Oct. 31.
Schedule a Flu Shot
No one has time for the flu. Schedule a flu vaccine at one of the convenient campus clinics happening throughout October.
Thank you for all you do.
All the best,
Anabel