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Beginning this semester, CAFE is collaborating with Student Affairs to encourage students to connect what they are learning in the classroom to their co-curricular experiences.  Some faculty already require as an assignment or offer as extra credit student participation in campus programs/events. Aligning co-curricular learning with classroom learning can be challenging when you are unsure about the intended event learning outcomes and how these might align with course SLOs. We hope to enhance and support these learning experiences by providing faculty with reflection assignments (including event learning outcomes) that you can tailor to your course. As you are designing your spring courses, please consider including these (one or two or all) programs in your course. Using the TILT (Transparency in Learning and Teaching) method, each reflection assignment will include a purpose and task. Faculty will add the evaluation criteria. 

Reflection assignments are available @ https://blogs.longwood.edu/longwoodcafe/reflection-assignments-cafe-and-student-affairs-collaboration/. We are piloting this program with the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Campus Recreation specifically including the following programs.

Office of Multicultural Affairs

MLK Keynote Speaker-Ebone Bell

February 20, 2024 @ 6:30pm in Blackwell Ballroom

Ebone Bell will combine her two talks, How To Be A Good Ally and Level Up Leadership, to encompass what captures the theme of this year’s MLK Week; Leadership, Activism, & Building the Beloved Community.

Campus Recreation

The Welcome Back Well-Being Fair

Tuesday, January 23^rd from 3-5pm in Pierson Hall

The Fair is an opportunity for students to better understand the factors that contribute to one’s overall well-being including physical, mental, emotional, financial, social, and community well-being. Representatives from a variety of campus support services including the University Health Center, Campus Recreation, and Counseling and Psychological Service will interact with students and discuss resources available.

Things are pretty quiet on campus right now, but I’m guessing your household has livened up if your student has arrived home for winter break.

The end of the fall semester is always a time that’s both festive and stressful.  We do our best to help alleviate the stress of exams with events like the LipSync performance, a fun competition that Greek organizations take pretty seriously; Study Paws, where faculty and staff bring their dogs to campus to play and cuddle with students; activities and snacks at the library; and Late-Night Breakfast, where faculty and staff serve up pancakes, bacon, eggs and more.

And the holidays are always given their due with the Grand Illumination of the multistory tree in the Rotunda; the lighting of the downtown Farmville Christmas tree, which always draws an enthusiastic crowd; caroling in the Rotunda;  and the community holiday dinner where students provide the entertainment.

I’m sharing some of these photos with you today, and I hope your family’s holidays also are full of many equally fun and memorable photo ops.

With warmest wishes for the season,
Sabrina Brown

Student musicians provide the entertainment for Longwood’s annual holiday dinners.

Chamber Orchestra

Jazz Band

The Grand Illumination of the towering tree in the Rotunda provides opportunities for seasonal selfies—and sugar cookies.

Downtown Farmville puts on a show every December with the lighting of the tree, music and holiday treats.

Late-night Breakfast Photos

Study Paws Photos

LipSync Photos

If you’re thinking about what to give your Lancer this holiday season, you might want to consider a Longwood class ring.

In addition to being a lasting memento of one of the most pivotal times of their lives, a class ring gives your junior or senior Lancer—as well as their invited guests—the opportunity to participate in Longwood’s Ring Ceremony. It’s a cherished tradition where representatives of the university and the Alumni Board present students with their rings, which have spent the previous night in a special locked chest in the Rotunda.

Family members and friends are part of the celebration at Longwood’s annual Ring Ceremony, where students receive their class rings.

The next Ring Ceremony is set for noon Sunday, March 24, 2024. The final date to purchase a ring in time for it to be presented at the 2024 Ring Ceremony is Feb. 8, 2024. Everyone who purchases a ring by Feb. 8 will receive an invitation to the ceremony.

Balfour is the only company to offer the official Longwood ring. Visit the Balfour website to see options and costs.

More information is available online about purchasing a ring and the Ring Ceremony. Or contact Alumni and Career Services at alumni@longwood.edu.