[Prevscilist] Winter term: welcome back!

[Leslie Leve]

Dear CPHS faculty, graduate students, and staff,

With this “welcome to winter term” note, I want to express my gratitude for each you as colleagues and professionals. I hope that you were able to take some time for yourself over the break, and that you are returning to winter term feeling restored.

We have a lot of really important events in the month of January in our department. In fact, it may feel a little like someone turned up the speed on the treadmill without asking if you were ready. This includes the Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health Symposium on 1/12-13, Applied Prevention TTF search candidate visits on 1/17 and 1/19, a CPHS Career Instructor candidate visit on 1/18, Prevention Science doctoral admissions interviews on 1/19, a combined doc sem on Research Speed Dating on 1/20, and CPSY interview day on 1/27. We also have a very important holiday on 1/16, to honor and reflect on the principles of racial equality and nonviolent social change espoused by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Wow, that’s a lot for just week 1-3 of winter term.

In addition, several students in our department have dissertation proposal defenses in January and many CPSY students are busy rockin’ it in their internship interviews this month. We are very proud of all of you and sending positive thoughts your way for the proposal defenses and internship interviews!

Given all that that is going on this month, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. I want to encourage each of us to be kind and patient with each other, assume positive intentions in others, and retain balance in your academic–personal life as we resume the academic term today. For some of you, that may mean watching a recording of a job talk at a later time, or checking with a peer to tag-term on attendance and then info-sharing. Or for students, especially those who are dissertating, completing milestone projects, and/or on internship interviews, this may mean focusing on your academic milestones and foregoing departmental service and colloquium attendance. All of these are very sound decisions. We need to maintain the endurance to be actively engaged for the duration of the 10 weeks of Winter term (and beyond), and not feel exhausted just after the month of January. It is unlikely that any of us can do everything that we want to do this do this term, but with proactive planning and giving ourselves and those around us grace regarding our individual decisions, we can achieve many, many successes this term, together as a CPHS community.

Wishing everyone a productive, successful, and balanced winter term,
Leslie

Schedule for Winter term faculty-staff meetings: (Hedco 240 and https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/95634215095)

1/20: Executive session
2/3: Open session 8:45-9:30 followed by Executive session 9:30-10:00
2/10: Executive session
2/17: Open session 8:45-9:30 followed by Executive session 9:30-10:00
2/24: Executive session
3/3: Open session 8:45-9:30 followed by Executive session 9:30-10:00
3/17: Executive session



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Leslie Leve, Professor
Lorry Lokey Chair in Education
Department Head, Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, College of Education
Scientist, Prevention Science Institute
University of Oregon
Web: https://levelab.uoregon.edu/ and  https://education.uoregon.edu/people/prevsci/leve
Member, National Scientific Council on Adolescence, https://developingadolescent.org/

The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Today, descendants are citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon, and they continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, and across the land we now refer to as Oregon.


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