SamR's Schedule, Spring 2022

This is an approximation of my schedule for Spring 2022. As with all of my schedules, it is subject to frequent change and may only vaguely approximate my actual schedule. Many activities---such as grading, writing, and more class preparation---take place during evening and weekend hours.

Online signup for office hours is available at http://bit.ly/book-samr. If office hours don't work, suggest a meeting time via Outlook or drop me an email and I can probably find time during paperwork or class prep times.

For those who have to schedule meetings (and I do not envy you): I try to keep my Outlook calendar up to date, although that may change because of IS policies. Beyond that, I prefer to be scheduled in the Open slots. If those do not work, try my paperwork times next, then class prep time, then scholarship time. Finally, if no other options are available, you can schedule during office hours.

Walking Office Hours are an idea borrowed from my colleague, Janet Davis. I try to reserve some wellness time a few days a week to walk, and invite students to join me on those walks. While we won't be able to do deep CS, we can certainly talk about other issues. I should have a sign-up sheet posted outside my door. (These office hours are currently on hiatus.)

Teaching

I am teaching four courses this semester:

• Three sections of CSC-151, Functional Problem Solving, our introductory course, with a digital humanities theme;
• CSC-282, A Philosophy of C and Unix, a one-credit course that deepens students' understanding of these modes of thinking.

Other Activities

• Class prep. Preparing for one of the classes that I teach. Experience shows that the typical one-hour class takes two to three hours of preparation, so not all class prep is shown on this schedule. (Feel free to come visit me for questions during these times, but realize that I may be too busy.)
• Community Time. A space in the schedule for community-wide events, such as town halls. There isn't always something in community time, but when there is, I try to attend. (When there isn't, I often schedule another meeting then.) (Community time was eliminated in the latest revision to the schedule of courses, but I keep an entry here in its memory.)
• Convocation. A campus-wide lecture, usually of general interest. Because of an unexpected vote of the faculty, we no longer have weekly convocation, but there are other talks scheduled at that time, so I try to be at those, too.
• CS Table. Weekly meetings of folks at Grinnell interested in computer science. We discuss articles of interest.
• Department Meeting. The Computer Science department meets every week on Mondays to discuss departmental issues.
• Division Meeting. The Science division meets on one Monday a month (usually the second).
• DSS. Grinnell's Data Science Seminar. A lunchtime meeting of faculty and staff interested in data science, often involving researcu presentations by those faculty and staff.
• Faculty Fridays. The Dean's Office sponsors weekly "faculty fridays" to discuss various issues related to teaching and scholarship.
• Faculty Meeting. The campus-wide faculty meeting, held the 1st and 3rd week of the month.
• Office Hours. Priority time for meeting with students. Because of the pandemic, I'm meeting with students online. (I also have an open office policy -- if I'm on my laptop and I'm not too busy, I'm happy to talk to my students online.) This semester, I am following the lead of my former colleague, Janet Davis, and incorporating "Walking Office Hours" when possble.
• Open. Sorting through mail, doing a little scholarship or programming, catching up on class preparation, running errands, fixing Web pages, etc. etc.
• Organization. Attempting to organize the chaos that is my office and lab.
• Paperwork. Dealing with email and the mass of paperwork I seem to attract.
• Research. Time I've tried to set aside for research. Unfortunately, this will more likely be taken up with email and such.
• Scheme Squad. The weekly meeting of the folks who work on CSC 151.
• Scholarship. When I hope to get some work done on one of many scholarship and writing projects. Unfortunately, usually time for me to catch up on my class prep and administrative responsibilities.
• Science Teaching.
• SIGCSE Evals. The bi-weekly meeting of the SIGCSE evaluation team. For some reason, I agreed to be evaluations co-chair.
• Special Faculty Discussions. In the past, we've had special faculty discussion on Mondays (sometimes at noon, sometimes at 4:00).
• STALG: The Science Teaching and Learning Group, a faculty/staff discussion group on science teaching.
• Tapia. Weekly meetings of the infrstructure/leadership team for the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.
• Thursday Extras (CS). Departmental talks, primarily aimed at undergraduates.

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