Good Morning, everyone! Here is this week’s update from my office (many things happening on campus):
HLC Accreditation visit next week
– The Higher Learning Commission peer review team will be on campus next week on Monday and Tuesday (April 20 and 21). Meetings requested by the visit team are being arranged. The visit schedule includes open forums for faculty, staff, and students. I will let you know the time and place for each open forum. I encourage you to attend the forums and interact with the visit team members. More information about the process and the accreditation materials that we submitted can be viewed at https://uwm.edu/academicaffairs/current_projects/accreditation/.
Campus Budget Meeting Today – now 2:15 p.m. (instead of the announced 2 p.m.)
– It will take place today in the Wisconsin Room from 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Show Your Support
– The Budget Communication Committee is launching a social campaign to increase UWM’s visibility and impact in the metro-Milwaukee area and beyond. See https://uwm.edu/budget/all/show-your-support-with-uwmvital/.
CHS Dean Candidates
– A quick reminder that the College of Health Sciences Dean Candidates will be on campus next week. The candidates’ CV’s are online at http://uwm.edu/secu/news_events/chs-dean/index.cfm and campus visit schedules will be posted by the end of the day today.
Work Group on Undergraduate Advising Open Forum
– A Work Group on Undergraduate Advising has been formed and I will send a separate email message with more details.
Targeted Phishing Campaign
– Bob Beck alerted me to a new, targeted phishing campaign under way. Faculty, students, and staff are receiving messages that appear to have been sent by the UWM Help Desk to inform them that their password will expire in 48 hours. It’s actually a trick used to collect ePantherID and password combinations, which can be used to send additional spoof mail, or to collect sensitive information for future use – possibly up to months or years later! Remember: UWM will never ask for your ePanther password!
Steps to take:
1. Do not reply.
2. Do not click on links.
3. Delete the email upon receipt.
Kudos
– Xavier Siemens and David Kaplan were awarded by NSF $14.5M over the next 5 years for the proposal, “NANOGrav Physics Frontier Center.” Well done!
– Assistant Prof. Nikole Bouchard’s project, “NEST(led),” was recently exhibited in the NEST Gallery Exhibition at the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has also been accepted to be a MacDowell Fellow at the prestigious MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire this summer, following which, she will travel to Iceland as one of five international architects/artists selected to be an Artist in Residence at The Baer Art Center in Hofsos, Iceland. Well done!
– This year’s recipients of CETL’s Certificate in Online and Blended Teaching: Janice L. Blankenburg, Business; Peter Blewett, Educational Policy; Michael Blight, Communication; Lori Bokowy, Public Health; Anita Chosé, English; Rachel D. Davidson, Communication; Daniel Fuhrmann, Social Work; Megan Haak, Educational Policy; Jennifer Kibicho, Nursing; Renee Mazurek, Health Sciences; Drago Momcilovic, French, Italian, and Comparative Literature; Stacey Oliker, Sociology; Diane M. Schadewald, Nursing; Alyssa J. Schnorenberg, Occupational Science; Jeanne Wagner, Social Work; Yuko Kojima Wert, Foreign Languages and Literature.
– UWM Sociology and Urban Studies Professor Jennifer Jordan on the launch of her book, “Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods.”
– Mark Williams’s, (Assistant Professor in Social Work), letter to the Editor of the Journal Sentinel got published this Sunday (http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/letters-b99477946z1-299412031.html) and David Pate, (Associate Professor in the same department), will be a live guest on MSNBC’s The Ed Show today (Monday).
Here is a synopsis of my week:
Monday
I start the morning with a meeting with V/C Tom Luljak, followed by a meeting with the School of Freshwater Sciences with the Chancellor. (We have now met with five schools and colleges.) Back on campus, I meet with V/C Robin van Harpen and then we have the cabinet meeting. In the afternoon, we have the all-campus budget meeting in the Union Wisconsin Room. Finally, I have a Board of Directors meeting at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Tuesday
The day is occupied with a number of meetings with my direct reports. In the afternoon, I’ll attend the UC meeting and then several follow-up budget meetings. In the evening, I have dinner with Dean Eloff from the University of Pretoria who is visiting campus this week.
Wednesday
A day of meetings, including: Dean Shoho, the Budget Planning Task Force, Dual Enrollment, Department Chairs, direct reports, and the Academic Leadership Council. Agenda items include: UWM4Health Environmental Scan and Community Collaborations.
Thursday
I will give the Welcome Address at the Southeast Asian Youth Education and Career Conference, followed by regular meetings with the Chancellor and VC Michael Laliberte. I have several meetings in the afternoon, and then I will attend the Faculty Senate meeting.
Friday
I will be in Madison for the System Provosts’ meeting. The agenda is not yet available but will be out later this week.
Announcements
From the School of Education
– Dr. Irma Eloff, Dean of Faculty Education at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, will present her lecture, “Education in South Africa: A Dean’s Perspective,” on Wednesday, April 15 at 1 p.m. in Enderis 788. See https://uwm.edu/education/event/education-in-south-africa-a-deans-perspective/.
Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies
– Michael Meng (Clemson University) presents, “The Evil of Blind Obedience: Hannah Arendt’s Interpretation of Nazism in Historical Perspective,” on Wednesday, April 15 at 4:30 p.m. in the Greene Museum.
Garden of the Heart’s Desire: The Art of Persian Textiles
– Iranian artist Mahin Ghanbari (MFA, University of Florida) presents, “Garden of the Heart’s Desire: The Art of Persian Textiles,” on Wednesday, April 15 at 4 p.m. in the American Geographical Society Library. See http://uwm.edu/letsci/events/upload/2015-April-15-FICL.pdf.
From the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21), the School of Information Studies (SOIS), and UWM Libraries
– Matthew Kirschenbaum (Maryland) will be on campus for three events: on Thursday, April 16 at 1 p.m. in the Digital Humanities Lab, he will lead a symposium on computer history and the humanities; then on Friday, April 17 he will be giving a hands-on workshop in game design at 12 noon in the Digital Humanities Lab, and a lecture on, “Sand Tables: A Granular History of a Speculative Form,” at 3:30 p.m. in Curtin 175. For details see http://uwm.edu/c21/pages/events/abstracts/15spring/kirschenbaum.html.
Third Coast Consortium for Biomedical and Health Informatics
– A Celebration of Partnerships in Informatics Research and Education will be held on April 17 and 18 at the Milwaukee School of Engineering Alumni Partnership Center (APC). Registration is free. See https://milwaukee.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8CwzN6EwlHJ88br.
From the Geography Department
– The Department will host the International Geographical Union’s Gender and Geography Commission, entitled “Gendered Rights to the City,” which will be held April 19 and 20. For further information, see http://uwm.edu/letsci/conferences/igu-gender2015/.
From the Institute of World Affairs (IWA)
– Lydia H. Liu will present, “Who Owns Great Ideas? The Untold Story of Human Rights After World War II,” on Thursday, April 23 at 7 p.m. at the Hefter Center. See http://www.iwa.uwm.edu.
From the Center for International Education (CIE)
– CIE presents its annual conference April 24-25 at the Hefter Center. This year’s focus is translation and exploring the term in its most expansive, trans-disciplinary sense. See http://www.uwm.edu/translationconference.
Theatre with a Kick
– “Luchadora,” a play written by UWM’s Alvar Saar Rios, runs through April 26 at the First Stage Theater. See: https://uwm.edu/researchreport/ideas/latino-theatre-duo/. Tickets are available at http://www.firststage.org.
From UITS
– Office 365 Tip of the Week
Looking for something on the calendar and can’t find it? Use the calendar search tool! In the Outlook Web App, the search box is in the upper left corner of the calendar screen and in the upper right corner in the Outlook client. Type in the search box, click the magnifying glass icon, and the results appear
Take care and enjoy the week!
Johannes
Johannes Britz
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs