Good morning Colleagues (before we know it, it is again Friday):
Budget update
– Just a reminder that there will be a third Campus Budget Meeting and discussion today from 10-11 a.m. in the Student Union Wisconsin Room. The meeting will again be live streamed at https://uwm.edu/streamingvideo/universityrelations/. Here are links to important websites that I encourage you to visit: https://uwm.edu/ucnews/ and https://uwm.edu/budget.
Honoring of UWM Staff and Faculty
– The Libraries and the Graduate School are co-sponsoring a celebration honoring UWM faculty and staff whose published monographs and recordings have been added to the UWM Authors Collection during the two years since the previous ceremony in 2013. Faculty and staff who have written, edited, translated, or illustrated a book; composed music for a published score or recording; or had a primary role in creating a commercially distributed film or video since the last event should contact Special Collections by phone at (414) 229-4345 or via e-mail at libspecial@uwm.edu to be included in the March 11 ceremony.
Kudos
– Derek B. Counts, Art History, is co-organizer of an NEH-sponsored workshop looking at mobile computing in archaeology, the emergence of born-digital data, and the future of paperless field projects: Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology (https://uwm.edu/mobilizing-the-past/). The two-day workshop at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston (Feb 27-28) will be live streamed (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wentworth-institute-of-technology) and archived on WIT’s YouTube channel. You can also follow and contribute to the dialogue using #MobileArc (Facebook: Mobilizing the Past; Twitter: @MobileArc15). Congrats Derek!
– Kudos to the three UWM semi-finalists of the UW System Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition: senior Biological Sciences and Conservation Sciences major Katherine Halmo, senior Anthropology and Linguistics major Jasmine McClure, and junior Theater major Heather Pulkowski. Their essays on intersections between their science and humanities courses have been forwarded to the UW System to compete for one of three $2000 scholarships.
A synopsis of the week
Monday
We have the third all-campus budget meeting from 10-11 a.m. in the Union Wisconsin Room. I also have a regular monthly meeting with Vice Chancellor Pat Borger. The Chancellor’s Cabinet meets, followed in the afternoon by a CEMAT meeting. The CEMAT agenda includes a report from the Scholarship Task Force, discussion of the Advising Working Group, an A2S Summit summary, and a discussion of the Higher Learning Commission’s expectations regarding retention, persistence, and completion rates.
Please share with your students: The UWM Exploring Majors Fair will take today from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. More information is available at www.majorsfair.uwm.edu. Please direct questions to Lauren Lessac at lpeyton@uwm.edu.
Tuesday
I have monthly meetings with four deans. The University Committee meets and I will attend. The Data Analytics Working Group meets as well; agenda items include refining the proposed draft, data governance structure for UWM, including the charge/purpose/goals, as well as the subcommittee memberships.
Wednesday
I’ve called a meeting with our Distinguished Professors to discuss the budget from a research perspective. The rest of the day is occupied by meetings with my direct reports and in the evening, I’m attending a meeting of the College of Health Sciences Deans Advisory Board.
Thursday
The day is fully booked with meetings with direct reports and the Academic Leadership Council meets in the afternoon; agenda items include the future of the Cozzens-Cudahy Center, and the FaB Wisconsin Initiative.
Friday
I meet with several direct reports, plus Zilber School of Public Health Dean Magda Peck, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare Dean Stan Stojkovic, and Vice Chancellor Robin Van Harpen. I will also stop by the FAA Friday Affairs open house in the morning.
Announcements
From Finance and Administrative Affairs
– Kathy Heath has been named Director of Integrated Administrative Services in the Division of Finance and Administrative Affairs. In that role, she also serves as the Unit Business Representative for the Division. Congratulations, Kathy!
From the Institute of World Affairs
– The Fireside Forum on Foreign Policy on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the UWM Ballroom is Bringing the Story Home: The Economics of International News. More information can be found at www.iwa.uwm.edu.
From the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies
– Boris Fishman, A Replacement Life, Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Avenue.
Call for Educational Technology Fund Proposals
– The Advisory Committee on Educational Technology invites proposals from the campus for one-time funds in 2015-16 supporting projects in line with the intent of the Educational Technology fees. See: http://uwm.edu/acad_aff/policy/edtechfee.cfm to learn more about the RFP. The deadline for proposals is March 6.
Feminist Lecture Series 2015
– As part of the Year of the Humanities 2014-15 Celebration, the Feminist Lecture Series presents a lecture by the renowned feminist philosopher, Alison Jaggar, on Thursday, March 5 at 3:30 p.m. in the UWM Libraries 4th Floor Library Conference Center. Alison Jagger, Event Poster
Sponsors are William F Vilas Trust Fund, Year of the Humanities, College of Letters and Science, and UWM Department of Philosophy, and UWM Women’s and Gender Studies.
Academic Update Information
– All UWM instructors who are teaching courses that enroll first-year students, transfer students, students living in University Housing, Lawton Scholars, Academic Opportunity Center students, and Life Impact students are encouraged to complete Early Warnings/Academic Updates between February 9 and March 6. We ask that instructors put in place a means of assessing student performance to provide feedback to the student. See: http://uwm.typepad.com/news_from_academic_affair/2015/02/academic-update-information.html for more information.
Gospel Music Lecture and Performance
– All are invited to attend, “I Just Can’t Make It by Myself: The Great Migration and the Birth of Gospel Music,” on Tuesday from 4:30-6 p.m. in Engelmann 105. See http://uwm.edu/acad_aff/update/2015-feb24.jpg for more information.
From the Libraries
– Patrick D. Jones, Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discusses his award-winning book, “The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee,” (Harvard University Press, 2009) tonight, Monday, February 23, at 6 p.m. in the 4th Floor Conference Center of the UWM Golda Meir Library. More information at https://uwm.edu/libraries/event/author-of-the-selma-of-the-north-civil-rights-insurgency-in-milwaukee-to-speak-at-library/.
– Tomas Lipinski, Dean of the UWM School of Information Studies, presents a half-day session entitled, “Using Copyright to Your Advantage in the Digital Humanities,” this Friday, February 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Digital Humanities Lab, 2nd Floor East Wing, Golda Meir Library. Registration is required for this event. For more information and to register, visit https://uwm.edu/libraries/event/using-copyright-to-your-advantage-in-the-digital-humanities/.
On Public Health Lecture
– Chelsea Weirich presents, “Linking Limnology to Cyanotoxins in Drinking Water,” on Tuesday, February 24 from 12-1:30 p.m. at the Zilber School of Public Health, Room 590, 1240 N. 10th St., Milwaukee. See: https://uwm.edu/publichealth-news/event/on-public-health-chelsea-weirich-zilber-phd-student-in-environmental-health-sciences/.
From the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
– The spring issue of the NWQ Active Learning at UWM newsletter is out. See
https://uwm.edu/cipd/Partners/upload/Newsletter2-9-2015master2.pdf.
From UITS
– If you find yourself hunting for email folders, Favorite Folders is for you! Right click on a folder in the left pane, choose Add to Favorites (or Show in Favorites in Outlook) and that folder will appear at the top of your folder listing.
I wish you all a great week and take care,
Johannes
Johannes Britz
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs