COLD 12/2/21 CSU Libraries One-Minute Updates
12/2 COLD One-minute updates
Chico - bringing in dean candidates; campus has found money for new carpeting, lights, radios, HVAC, shutting upper floor
CSUSM - staff member passed away during a Zoom meeting - brings up issue of emergencies
Adriana - got the remaining funds for completing architectural work
SFSU - 50% in person classes in the spring
CSUF: Fauclty noontime talks
CSUB: Associate Dean title change
CSUCI: Programs on black scholars and black lives - picking up steam this year
DH: gearing up to 80% on-site, full in-person enterprise, concluded DEI audit; working with consultant on a rubric on our policies -- in the library, our hours have been only til 7, open 12 -2
Fresno - Henry Madden name issue, working closely with Archives on this issue; classes are coming up in the spring and go through the collection
Humboldt: getting an enomatioege
CSULB: got the library included in an initiative that was initially just for “academic colleges”
CSULA - Center for Student Success, Center for Faculty Excellence, Student Technoloyg and Innovation Center
CSUEB - Moving into new building
CSUMB - working w UPD on late hours - applying to campus funds
CSUN - surviving the pandemic, land acknowledgment; creating large mural
SSU update: Library’s Systemic Racism Response Committee holding second summit, this time on preferred pronouns
CSUS: got four or five recruitments going, got a makerspace hire -- 5k sqf makerspace -- lost our provost -- went to SJSU - interim provost
CSUSB - going through largest number of new hires
New SJSU president coming in December, 5 TT faculty searches launching in early 2022, looking for suggestions/examples of how others have developed library chair positions.