SFA’s Faculty Senate will hold elections in March to fill any open tenured-/tenure track and non-tenure track seats for terms beginning in April. Nominations from and for full-time instructors must be emailed to Dr. Raj Mishra, senate elections chair, by Tuesday, Feb. 28, at mishrar@sfasu.edu. Self-nominations also will be accepted.

A solicitation note requesting nominations for the open seats has been emailed to administrative personnel in each affected college unit. The list below shows colleges with open seats along with the number and type of seat.

For more information on the nomination process or election, contact Mishra at the email address above or (936) 468-1580.

Rusche College of Business: No tenured/tenure track or non-tenure track seats

James I. Perkins College of Education: one tenured/tenure track seat

Micky Elliott College of Fine Arts: two tenured/tenure track seats and one non-tenure track seat

Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture: one tenured/tenure track seat

College of Liberal and Applied Arts: two tenured/tenure track seats and one non-tenure track seat

College of Sciences and Mathematics: two tenured/tenure track seats

Steen Library: one tenured/tenure track seat

The Center for Teaching and Learning will host its ninth annual Teaching Showcase Tuesday, Feb. 28, on the second floor of Steen Library and via Zoom.

This event highlights innovative, creative and effective teaching strategies across campus. Ten presenters will have five minutes to present a quick teaching idea or innovation in this fun, fast-paced event. For more information, visit the Teaching Showcase webpage.

SFA’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and the DeWitt School of Nursing have formed a partnership to train all nursing students and faculty members in critical issues relating to diversity and multicultural education.

The partnership will provide nursing students and faculty members with fresh and different perspectives on ways to best support one another and to practice in their fields.

SFA Gardens is looking for faculty and staff volunteers to accept payments during the first day of its annual Garden Gala Day Plant Sale, April 1. Volunteers will have early shopping privileges March 31.

Only SFA employees can accept funds at checkout stations, so volunteers must have receipts and deposits training as well as PCI training. Each station will accept one form of payment – cash, check or credit card. All instructions will be provided at each station.

Volunteers need to arrive at 8:30 a.m. April 1 at the Pineywoods Native Plant Center for the sale. They will be dismissed throughout the day.

For more information, contact Jordan Cunningham at sfagardens@sfasu.edu.

SFA’s JacksTeach program and Center for Applied Research and Rural Innovation are hosting a series of workshops this summer on inquiry science lab solutions for high school teachers.

These workshops are designed to help teachers facilitate and prepare true inquiry-based labs, use lab technology and equipment in an inquiry setting, and maintain a safe laboratory environment.

There will be three different topic-focused workshops: biology, June 5-9; physics, June 20-23; and chemistry, June 26-30. All sessions will run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

In honor of Black History Month, the School of Social Work is hosting a screening of the HBO documentary “The Apollo” Sunday, Feb. 26. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the screening begins at 7 p.m. The event at the Baker Pattillo Student Center Theater is free and open to the public. Student and athletic groups are welcome.

Attendees are encouraged to “dress to impress” and bring a nonperishable canned good for donation to the Helping Other People Eat nonprofit food pantry in Nacogdoches. Email James Morris at morrisjr1@sfasu.edu to make a reservation for your group.

With the 2023 spring severe weather season fast approaching, University Police Department’s Emergency Management division, in coordination with the National Weather Service, is participating in Spring Severe Weather Awareness Week. This is a safety campaign designed to help our campus and surrounding communities prepare for the upcoming spring severe weather season. Each day during the week, a different topic will be discussed and explored. Awareness information on the topics below will be shared daily on UPD’s social media accounts.

Daily topics:

• Today: Lightning

• Tomorrow: Watches and Warnings

• Saturday, Feb. 25: Mobile Home Safety

For more information on these daily awareness topics and other weather concerns, view the National Weather Service website.

Join us as we welcome prospective Lumberjacks and their guests to campus during Showcase Saturday Feb. 25. Shifts are available between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Volunteer opportunities include greeting guests, giving directions to session locations, setting up or tearing down session locations, and answering questions about our SFA and Nacogdoches communities.

Find more information and complete the sign-up form today. Volunteer sign-ups will close at 5 p.m. today. Email questions to Courtney Burns, assistant director of first year initiatives for the Office of Admissions, at brantoncr@sfasu.edu.

The Health and Wellness Hub is set for a grand opening at the end of the month that is the culmination of more than a year’s worth of collaboration among multiple departments and the university’s administration.

Scheduled for 2 p.m. tomorrow, the event will celebrate the consolidation of six departments and services that used to work separately: Health Services, Counseling Services, Student Outreach and Support, the Lumberjack Food Pantry, Student Wellness and an on-campus contact for the Family Crisis Center of East Texas.

The upcoming event will include a ribbon cutting, appetizers and cake, tours of the facility, and comments from President Dr. Steve Westbrook and Andrew J. Dies, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean of students.

Humane education advocate Zoe Weil’s presentation “The World Becomes What We Teach: A Solutionary Approach to Humane Education” will take place Thursday, March 2, on Zoom. Weil is co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education.

The presentation is made possible by SFA’s Montgomery Professorship for Humane Education. The professorship was awarded to Dr. Sarah Straub, associate professor in the Department of Education Studies, in October 2020. It was established by the late Charlotte Baker Montgomery in memory of her husband, Roger, to encourage and perpetuate the teaching of humane education in elementary and secondary schools, both public and private, through the support of teacher preparation in humane education.

Men’s Basketball

SFA - 91 vs. Abilene Christian University - 87

Softball

SFA - 2 vs. Lamar University - 3

SFA - 6 vs. Lamar University - 4

Baseball

SFA - 11 vs. Prairie View A&M University - 1

The Singin’ Axes and Kantorei choirs will welcome the Fort Worth ISD Lone Star Youth Chorus and its director, Jesse Cannon II, along with other guests to perform in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in Cole Concert Hall.

The program, “Holding the Light: A Black History Month Celebration,” will feature works by Robert Ray, B.E. Boykin and Marques L.A. Garrett, according to Dr. Tod Fish, associate director of choral activities and Singin’ Axes and Kantorei director.

Larry Greer, adjunct faculty instructor of guitar, will present a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2, in Cole Concert Hall.

The program will feature a mix of classical (Francisco Tárrega and J.S. Bach) and popular (Dan Fogelberg’s Etude #3 for flute and guitar) music, a set of jazz standards and two original compositions. Greer will be joined by his wife Karen Greer, vocalist; and faculty colleagues Dr. Christina Guenther, flute; Dr. Brad Meyer, percussion; Dr. J.D. Salas, bass; and Dr. Ben Morris, piano.

Dr. Deb Scott, professor of trombone and bass trombone, will perform works by living composers in a recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, in Cole Concert Hall.

Works of two prominent women composers, including Ida Gotkovsky and Elizabeth Raum, will be featured along with works by Ben Morris, SFA’s new composition faculty member, and by Canadian composer Michalis Andronikou.

The Swingin’ Axes and Swingin’ Aces jazz bands will perform works by Mike Tamaro, Sammy Nestico, Alan Baylock and other jazz legends when the ensembles take the stage at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Cole Concert Hall.

The Swingin’ Axes will perform “Rivers” by Mike Tamaro; “Us” by Thad Jones; “JEN-TEN” by Greg Yasinitsky; and “But Beautiful” by Lennie Niehaus.

The Swingin’ Aces, directed by Dr. Jake Walburn, will perform “Dindi” by Antonio Carlos Jobim; “Things Are Getting Better” by Julian Adderly; “Swampwater Blues” by Les Hooper; “Two Seconds to Midnight” by Alan Baylock; and “Tribute to the Count” by Sammy Nestico.

The Pineywoods Camerata at SFA will perform Baroque music from Germany and Italy when faculty members and students present a recital at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, in Cole Concert Hall.

The Pineywoods Camerata is a string faculty-led, conductorless ensemble dedicated to performing Baroque works with an informed stylistic approach, according to Dr. Jennifer Dalmas, professor of violin and Camerata member. The group usually performs once each academic year.

New faculty member Pablo Moreno Holguin, oboe, will be featured as a soloist on Alessandro Marcello’s Concerto in C minor, one of the best known works of the period for oboe. The concert also features Dr. Minhae Lee, harpsichord, and SFA string students.

A distinctive twist in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play “Everybody” is that, at any given performance, any one of five different actors could play the title role, based on a lottery which also determines what roles will be played by the other four actors in that group.

As a result, there’s a lot of sound recording technology involved, which presented some unique challenges for CC Conn, professor of theatre and sound designer for the School of Theatre and Dance’s presentation of “Everybody,” slated for today through Sunday, Feb. 26, in Kennedy Auditorium.

“Everybody” is an allegorical story in which a representative human faces the prospect of imminent death and tries to find a way to avoid or ameliorate the situation.

When we think about sculptures, marble and bronze are the types of material that come to mind. However, London-based artist Josh Gluckstein embraces a commonly found medium, creating realistic animal sculptures from upcycled cardboard. Check out Gluckstein’s incredible cardboard sculptures at My Modern Met.