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The next Chapel is Tuesday, Oct. 28, 11:10 a.m. in First Free Methodist Church with Stephen Newby, professor of music at Baylor University and former SPU music professor. The complete Chapel schdedule is available online. All faculty and staff are invited to join a community lunch each week after Chapel in the SUB Fireside Room. Bring your lunch and share fellowship with others across campus.

The Music Department celebrates visionary composers from 膶iurlionis to Messiaen with a concert featuring  on Friday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m in Nickerson Studios. The concert is free and wheelchair accessible. He will also give a masterclass with piano students on Thursday, Nov. 6, at 11 a.m. in Nickerson Studios.

Described by Daniel Barenboim as “a highly gifted pianist and musician,” Alekna has built a prolific performance and recording career bridging the cultures of his birth country of Lithuania and his present home of the United States. After earning over one dozen top prizes in international competition early in his career — including second prize at the Beethoven International Piano Competition in Vienna — he has established himself as a soloist of international renown.

A message from Educational Technology and Media: Annotation assignments help students show their thinking as they learn. The new Canvas Student Annotation Assignments allow students to highlight, comment, and question on the reading, giving a window into their thought process. In this session, we’ll explore how to design Student Annotation Assignments and share strategies for helping students engage with readings.

• 1–2 p.m. (On campus) at ETM (the lower level of the library)
• 3–4 p.m. (Online via Teams)
  
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(Can't make it? You can request the recordings through the registration link or by contacting ETM at etmhelp@spu.edu.)

Mark your calendar for this upcoming workshop.

• Thursday, November 13: Sharing Strategies: Online Group Presentations and Peer Feedback with Teams & Canvas, 1-2 p.m. on campus at ETM, lower level of the library or 3-4 p.m. online via Teams.

A message from Human Resources: This year’s Open Enrollment is Thursday, Oct. 30, through Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. This is the one time each year to make changes to your SPU benefits. Watch for more information in the coming days.

A message from Human Resources. To help with your Open Enrollment benefit decisions, Human Resources will host a Health & Benefits Fair over two days, Tuesday, Oct. 28, and Wednesday, Oct. 29, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. in Upper Gwinn. This will be an opportunity to talk with benefit providers from Aetna, HSA Bank, Delta Dental, VSP, Transamerica, and more. This year we’ve added fun activities that focus on your health along with raffle gifts at each table, including two opportunities each day to win Kraken tickets!

Health & Benefits Seminars & Activities

• Shake it Up! Super Food Smoothies: Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. (Wellness Concepts)
• Chair massage appointments: Tuesday and Wednesday, (JoyLife Therapeutics)
• Stretch & Strength Building from Your Desk:* Tuesday, Oct. 28, 11 a.m.; Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2 p.m. (Fitness Trainer Lo Shdo)
• Aetna Wellness Program Benefits:** Tuesday and Wednesday, 12 p.m. (Aetna Wellness)
• Retirement Plan Essentials:** Tuesday and Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.  (Transamerica)
• Take Advantage of Your Health Accounts:** Tuesday and Wednesday, 1 p.m. (HSA Bank)
• Medicare Individual Appointments: Tuesday and Wednesday, . (Medicare Health Plan Broker Dan McCarley)

*Earn a $50 Gift Card by participating in Stretch & Strength Building from Your Desk
**Enter another chance to win Kraken tickets by attending a Benefits seminar!

The Washington state general election is Tuesday, Nov. 4. There is a ballot box on campus at 3rd Avenue West and West Nickerson Street in front of the SPU campus store. Ballots can be depositied in any official drop box by 8 p.m. on Nov. 4.

The Office of Study Abroad will outline the program development process and answer questions about leading a faculty-led program on (new date). All faculty interested in proposing or leading a study abroad opportunity are encouraged to attend.

The Faculty/Staff Bulletin is published every Monday during the academic year. The next deadline is Thursday, Oct. 30, and the next issue will be published Monday, Nov. 3.

If you have information or event news, send it as soon as possible with an image or graphic to Bulletin editor Tracy Norlen at fsb-editor@spu.edu. Submissions may be edited for clarity and will be published for two consecutive issues; they can be resubmitted for an additional two weeks.

An article by Joshua Tom, associate professor of sociology, with colleagues Todd Ferguson (Rice University) and Brandon Martinez (Providence College), was published in Socius. “” explores how commonly-used LLMs create biased content based on religious and racial identity. The authors prompted several chatbots to create sermons, randomizing the race and religious tradition of the hypothetical person giving the sermon. They then analyzed the readability scores of these sermons to assess the degree to which the models behind the chatbots assign greater or lower complexity to individuals based on race or religion.

As part of a session on “Forming Students, Forming Faith” at the Western Regional Conference on Faith and History meeting in Surrey B.C. Oct 14-16, Professor Emeritus of History Bill Woodward’s presented his paper titled “A Parable of Providence, Promise and Patience.” Bill explains: "Jesus’s Matthew 13 parable, classically called the “Wheat and the Tares,” offers a picture for viewing unfolding human history through the lens of faith. Put differently, one can track one’s own story within both the Human Story and God’s Story, developing empathy for past and present victims of “wickedness, witlessness, and woe,” yet joining Israel’s prophets of old in both present lament and future expectation that at the harvest will come justice and joy. What was especially gratifying about the conference as a whole was the contribution not only of both secondary and post-secondary teachers but also of some remarkable student presenters, boding well for the future of Christian scholars engaging in sturdy historical research and analysis."

Professor Emeritus of European History Alberto Ferreiro was the keynote speaker at the the IX International Congress of Medieval Hispanic Latin in Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 15-18 at the University of Lisbon. His keynote address was titled, "Angulum mundi: Heretics Living in Corners and the ‘Conversion’ of the Sueves in Leander of Seville’s Homelia in laude Ecclesiae."

Alberto provides this abstract: The homily that Leander of Seville (c. 540– 600) preached in the aftermath of the historic Third Council of Toledo (589) under King Reccared (586-601) is a profound reflection of the event that resulted in the religious unity of the peoples of Hispania and where Arianism was officially extirpated. Leander made generous references throughout to biblical passages, allegory, and typology to contrast the situation that existed in Hispania under Arianism and how it was transformed by the passage to the Catholic faith. Among these is the image where heretics were described as living isolated in a corner of the world among a single people, (aliquem angulum mundi aut in unam gentem inveniuntur versari.} It was boasted, moreover, at the council that a re-conversion of the Sueves to the Catholic faith had occurred. This study proposes that the expression angulum mundi is symbolic and literal and that the unam gentem is to the Sueves. The image of angulum mundi is found in other writers as well; they are cited for the wider context of its use.

. While teaching English in China, he saw a need for scholarships so young women could continue their education. He currently funds a scholarship endowment providing tuition assistance for female undergraduates currently or recently from China or Southeast Asia. He especially enjoys meeting with recipients of his scholarship.