With more than 200 years of service between them, the eight retiring members of the 窪做惇蹋厙 faculty have earned a round of applause.
Normally recognized at the April faculty awards dinner, because of the campus shutdown as a result of COVID-19 these longtime members of the University community were instead congratulated for their decades of service virtually in a video and an email sent by Doug Dunham, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.
The worlds experience fighting the COVID-19 pandemic offers a host of lessons.
But for Myles Gartland, Ph.D., dean of the College of Business, Influence and Information Analysis at 窪做惇蹋厙, the pandemic also illustrates the importance of data literacy, and why its so important to understand where data comes from, what it means, and how its shaping our understanding of the world around us.
I think for years, a lot of us have conflated data literacy and math, he said. Any time we say a number, we say thats math, and Im not good at math.
From the moment the academic year began, it was bound to be unique. The commencement ceremony in the year 2020 will be 窪做惇蹋厙s 100th, a milestone worth celebrating.
Each April, students at 窪做惇蹋厙 vote for the staff member and faculty member who have had an outsized impact that year on their campus and academic lives. As part of the Festival of Student Achievement, the Faculty of the Year and Staff Member of the Year are typically recognized before a full Arrupe Hall auditorium.
Because of COVID-19, this years winners wont get that live round of applause (a virtual Festival of Student Achievement is currently being planned). But they did get some in-person appreciation last Friday (at a safe distance, of course).
For most health care providers, staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic is simply not an option.
