Hello new colleagues, it’s a pleasure to
welcome you to Humboldt State University. I’m
entering my 11th year here and I couldn’t be more pleased with what this campus does for
its students. And you are the future and it’s
always wonderful to have new colleagues here.I hope you will take advantage of the
opportunities you have on this campus to
learn about how to teach as best you possibly can and how to help students learn, if
there is anything my office can do to assist you
please come and see me and let me know. We welcome your suggestions for change and
improvements on this campus. Thank you very
much for being willing to come and join us, I’ll look forward very much to working with you. Welcome to Humboldt State University. I’m
John Lee, Dean of the College of Professional
Studies, and academic programs in the college include: Business, Child Development,
Economics, Education, Liberal Studies
Elementary Education, Kinesiology and Rec Admin, Psychology, and Social Work. In
addition to these academic programs, we have
support programs such as: Indian Teacher and Educational Personnel
Program, Indian Economic Community
Development, the Northern California Small Business Development Center, and the
Office of Economic Community Business
Development. Together, the dedicated and talented faculty
and staff of our academic and support
programs provide our students with rigorous professional preparation, experiential learning,
and the support services required for them to
succeed at HSU and in life. The College of Professional Studies has a
monthly faculty staff mixer on the first Thursday
of the month, 5-7 pm at the Plaza Grill. So if you’re in the area, please stop by. Glad
you've joined us, and I wish you a successful
and productive year. Hi, my name’s Colleen Mullery, I’m the
Associate Vice-President for Faculty Affairs. I
met many of you when you came to campus for your interview.I’m really looking forward to
seeing you again at new faculty orientation. I
want to make sure you know where my office is, Siemens Hall 207. It’s the Office of
Academic Personnel Services. I and the rest of the staff in the office are here
to help you in any way we can to get you settled
at Humboldt State University, and to help you throughout your career while you’re at
Humboldt. Looking forward to seeing you. Hi welcome to Humboldt State University.
My name’s Dave Nakumura, I’m Executive
Director for the University Center. The University Center operates a variety of
programs and facilities here on campus,
including seven different dining locations, the HSU bookstore, the Student Union
Organization that you see behind me, and
through our Center Activities program, we run a variety of outdoor activities and the Student
Recreation Center, and our Center Arts
Program brings world-class performances here to campus. Hello, my name is Ken Ayoob, and I am the
Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and
Social Sciences here at Humboldt. I want to take this opportunity to welcome all
the new faculty here. In my particular college,
we have 16 departments, lots of opportunities for research and to do really good teaching
with very engaged students who are here to
get a good education. I myself have been here 19 years; I started as
a lecturer and moved through the professorial
ranks, now I’m Dean of the College, very proud to be so. My office is over in Gist Hall and my
door’s always open. I hope I will get a chance
to chat with you and see you and I really want to again welcome you to Humboldt State
University, we are very happy you are here. Hi I’m Peg Blake I’m Vice President for
Enrollment Management and Student Affairs.
Welcome to Humboldt State University. You’ve joined a remarkable institution. I joined
a year and a half ago and I’ve been so glad to
have made the choice to come here. In Student Affairs and Enrollment Management,
what we’re all about is partnering with the
faculty in supporting students in attaining their educational goals. So we will help you support
student success in whatever way we can.
I hope that you will learn to use all the resources that are available to you. You can
find them all on “My Humboldt,” the HSU portal
located in an easy place and it’s a quick reference for you and also a good place to
send your students. We want to help you
however we can, please contact us if you have any issues, or concerns, or questions. That’s
what we’re here for. Thanks, and welcome. Hi, my name is Steve Smith; I’m the Dean for
the College of Natural Resources and
Sciences here at Humboldt State. The College of Natural Resources and Sciences is
composed of about 12 academic departments,
these are apportioned largely between the applied and the basic sciences. The applied
sciences would include our wildlife and
fisheries, and forestry program and our program in environmental resources
engineering, and our basic sciences are the
typical biology and chemistry physics, and so on, and we have, of course, many others. I
think you'll find that Humboldt State is a great
place to work, faculty and staff are extremely . collegial and I think you’ll have a good time
here If there is anything my office can do to
help, please let me know. Hi my name is Radha Webley. I direct HSU’s
Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Our office
works across a number of different areas on campus, all focused in helping the campus to
institutionalize considerations of equity,
diversity, and inclusion in everything that we do here on campus. So we work a lot with faculty,
staff, administrators, and students. So I very much look forward to welcoming you
in the fall, and look forward to working with you
in years to come Here in the Moodle Support Office, we offer
faculty, students, and staff full support on our
learning management system which in fact is Moodle. We have drop in office hours
available, no appointment required. Before
school begins we offer “Moodle and a Muffin” - you come in before the students get them all,
pick up a muffin, get your gradebooks setup
and we’ll help you get started in Moodle. You can also make an appointment to ensure
that you don’t have to wait, depending on how
your schedule is operating. You can also get Elluminate sessions online, and we have
what’s called Team Viewer so with your
permission we can actually come to your computer desktop and help you set up any
particular course or feature that you want. So stop by the Moodle office, we’re here to
help, were in Library 315 and you can give us a
call at extension 3633. Hello and welcome. I’m Teresa, Teresa
Grenot, University Library Dean, and I welcome
you to HSU and your HSU Library. I look forward to working with you and
introducing you to your library liaisons. We are
strong and rich in collections that support the curriculum, you, and the students. We have
over 140 databases, print book collections, e-
book collections, and don’t forget our special collections and archives – the Humboldt
Room. We look forward to working with you,
please join us, come visit us, and we can share more Hi, welcome to HSU. If you’re gonna stop by
the bookstore, we’re located here in the
University Center on the 3rd floor, building right behind ushere. My name is Cory,
I’m the store manager. I’m Tura, textbook
office. And you can stop by and talk to either one of us
about the many cost-saving options to your
students. We have a great rental program available, save
students about 50% of the new retail price, and
also some digital options available, so we’d be happy to talk to you about some of
those cost-saving options.