January 13, 2023
Greetings, Everyone!
In the midst of Resolutions, End-of-Year retrospectives, “Best of” lists and In Memoriam features, it’s nice to have a pause in our academic year to reflect on the big picture as we get geared up to start our Spring Semester, and all of the requisite energy that drives us toward May. Some exciting and bittersweet transitions at the start of 2023--We’ll greet with great anticipation our Artist in Residence for 2022/23, Kaoru Watanabe, and new coordinator of Jazz Studies, Christopher Madsen. We’ll bid adieu to Jennifer Martin, Director of Public Programming, as she assumes a new role as Director of Operations for the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. We welcome guest director Emily Ritger to direct The Old Man and The Old Moon in April, and we’ll search for no fewer than four new full-time faculty this semester to start next fall.
My closest mentor and role model passed away over the holidays, and foremost among a mixed bagful of feelings that accompanied the sadness and loss was a sense of appreciation that I/we get to work in the same world of art and academics that my mentor did—a place where human to human connection is essential, where we learn by guidance and example. It’s a place where we seek to improve the world through art, and to do so with compassion, kindness and empathy. I’ll always be profoundly grateful for those lessons that didn’t just teach me how to do something, but included lessons in how to be human—how to see, what to value, how to be generous with my strengths and skills.
I wish you a fine January.
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Faculty Profile Updates
If you do not currently have a faculty profile on the DFPA website or would like to update your profile, please complete and submit the Biography and Headshot Form . Faculty pages are among the most frequently visited pages on our website. Students often look up faculty when they’re shopping for classes so it is important to keep your profile current.
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Office or Course Supply Request Form
As a faculty, staff, or student working for the department, use the Office or Course Supply Requisition form for to request office supplies from Warehouse Direct or as a faculty member who is not a departmental Procard holder to request faculty or student supplies for a course. If you have questions about the form, you can reach out to DFPA@luc.edu. The main office handles the placing of orders and the follow up with requestors.
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Faculty Development
As you make plans for academic conferences and other professional development activities in the upcoming year, please use this portal to access funding requests, both to CAS and to the DFPA.
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| Updated Contact Information
It is important for a variety of reasons that we have your updated home phone and address while we are working remotely, please complete this form to update our records. Thank you!
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Enterprise Learning Hub
We'd like to encourage all Faculty and Staff, as part of your pre-semester preparation, to check in at the Enterprise Learning Hub, where lives access to any of the required online training sessions about which we often receive reminders or announcements. We ask you to keep up with those required sessions, and complete them in timely fashion so we don’t have to track you down (knowing that the ultimate penalty for non-compliance is removal from email and university systems). I hope we will be able to continue to benefit from the information we get from these relatively painless obligations.
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Reminder
There is a DFPA Faculty and Staff meeting scheduled on Friday, January 27 from 1pm-3pm in the 4th Floor of the IC. Some of the primary focus of that meeting will be to begin the process of our strategic planning.
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Syllabi & Office Hours
Our department is required to have a copy of each of the syllabi of courses being taught at the beginning of the semester. We have prepared some guidance on assembling your syllabi here.
Plan to meet in your class during your scheduled final exam time. If it is not permissible to give final exams during the last week of classes. Be sure to include your final exam time on your syllabus. For classes that do not begin on the typical class grid, follow the final exam time over which your class falls. Please do not use the “other” category. If you are still confused as to when your final is to be scheduled, reach out to Mark Lococo ( mlococo@luc.edu).
Additionally, all faculty are expected to post and hold office hours weekly. If you are teaching less than 3 credits, it should be one hour a week, more than three credits at least two hours a week. Please submit both your syllabi and office hours by January 21st, using this form.
If you have key concerns: part time faculty please contact Patricia Moore (pmoore2@luc.edu), full time faculty member please contact Jeff Hart (jhart5@luc.edu).
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Jennie Martin, Director of Public Programming will be leaving the DFPA to become the new Director of Operations for The Harris Theater for Music and Dance. While we will miss her dearly, we could not be happier for her in supporting this next step. We would like to wish a deep congratulations and thank her for her countless hours of service to the department for these last 15 years.
Jennie's last day at Loyola will be Friday, January 27, 2023. On that day, we plan to host a community gathering to celebrate and say farewell to Jennie. Appropriately, it will be in the house of the Newhart Family Theatre 3:30-5:30PM (1/27/23) on that day.
All Students, Faculty, and Staff are welcome. Please consider joining us to celebrate this exemplary team member as we wish her well on the next leg of her adventure.
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Student Juried Exhibition
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Image: Callie Bergeron, The Box
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Exhibition: February 3 - March 3, 2023
Reception: February 10, 5PM-7PM
Ralph Arnold Gallery
For over 25 years the Annual Student Art Competition has showcased the best student work being created at Loyola. Students from all majors have been invited to submit artwork created in the last year for consideration by this year’s juror, artist, writer, and curator Matt Morris. From a strong pool of submissions, Morris has selected the most outstanding works based on their level of originality, thoughtfulness, and skill. The best of these submissions are represented in this exhibition, where the most exceptional artworks will be honored during the reception on February 10th with first, second and third prizes. Our students bring a variety of talents and ideas to this exhibition: visitors can expect to see painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture, graphic design, and interesting combinations thereof. The Student Art Competition gives Loyolans the opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional gallery as part of an exhibition that celebrates the creativity and talent on our campus.
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Regular Building Access
Here is the building access information that we have confirmed with Campus Safety. For more information on building access policy, please visit the Our Spaces page on the DFPA website.
Mundelein Center Regular Building Hours
- 7:00am-10:00pm: Monday-Friday
- 7:00am-7:00pm (Campus Safety unlocks/locks the doors)
- 7:00pm-10:00pm (Loyola ID card access)
- 7:00am – 10:00pm: Saturday (Loyola ID card access)
- 9:00am-10:00pm: Sunday (Loyola ID card access)
Ralph Arnold Annex Regular Building Hours
- 7:00am-10:00pm: Monday-Saturday (Loyola ID card access)
- 9:00am-10:00pm: Sunday (Loyola ID card access)
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CAS Dean’s office has Moved
Reminder that the CAS Office moved from Sullivan Center to the 4th Floor of Cuneo Hall over the winter break.
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Room Usage Guidelines
With the large number of shared academic spaces in the DFPA it is especially important that we all contribute to their upkeep. To that end, please comply with the following Room Usage Guidelines. These guidelines and standard layouts are posted on the wall in most of our shared academic spaces.
- Use only dry erase markers on the whiteboards.
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Clean up the room, including the whiteboards. Place all trash in receptacles, food and drink containers should be put in the main hallway receptacles.
- Do not add/remove furniture or equipment to/from the room without permission. A room inventory is posted in most shared academic spaces.
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Rearranging furniture and equipment within the room is permissible, but the room should be returned to its standard layout at the end of use. A standard layout is posted in most of our shared academic spaces.
- Room schedules are posted outside most of our shared academic spaces. Please vacate the space in a timely fashion in order for subsequent events to begin on time.
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If a piano is present, do not set anything on the piano; keep liquids away from the piano; and do not unplug the piano from the wall socket.
- Food is not permitted in Music Studios or Practice Rooms.
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Service Requests
It takes a village to keep our facilities in good working order. If you notice something in need of attention by the Facilities Department, please file a Service Request. Anyone with a UVID and password can submit a Service Request. You can file a Service Request via this link, or by visiting the Facilities Department website and clicking on “Service Request” on the left-hand side of the screen. There is also a handy how-to video on this page. If you are in a hurry, you can also visit the Mundelein Center Info Desk and ask the attendant to submit a Service Request.
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Mark E. Lococo, PhD
Professor, Chair
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Loyola University Chicago
mlococo@luc.edu
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For academic inquiries, contact the DFPA office: 773.508.7510 or DFPA@LUC.edu
Box Office: 773.508.8400 or BoxOffice@LUC.edu
Loyola University Chicago / Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Mundelein Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, Suite 1200
1020 West Sheridan Road, Chicago IL 60660
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