Good morning, colleagues. Here are this week’s updates from Academic Affairs.

Kudos

– UWM has advanced to R1 status in the recently released Carnegie Classifications. This is a huge accomplishment (first time in our history) and is a tribute to our faculty and staff and our students who have advanced our research mission! See the article in the Washington Post. The Chancellor will send a more detailed message to campus later today.

– Anne Basting, Theatre, has been asked to give the 2016 Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture in Medical Humanities at the University of Virginia Medical Center on April 1. Her talk is called, “Beyond Words: Caring and Connecting in Late Life.”

In Memoriam

The obituary for Distinguished Professor Harold Rose is available online.

The Week: 

Monday 

The day begins with my weekly meeting with Robin Van Harpen and meetings with a few direct reports. We continue this week our retention and recruitment (yield) meetings with the schools and college. Today we meet with the School of Education. In the afternoon, I will be attending the Chancellor’s Cabinet meeting, as well as the Chancellor’s Enrollment Management Action Team (CEMAT) meeting. Agenda items include an update on strategic enrollment management planning, the Student Success Collaborative, the Sister City Program, an upcoming visit by the Education Advisory Board, and a discussion on the redesign of the UWM home page.

Tuesday 

The day starts with the Deans Morning Meeting, my bi-weekly meeting with the Chancellor and Robin Van Harpen, and my one-on-one weekly meeting with the Chancellor. In the afternoon, I’ll attend the University Committee meeting, as well as the Academic Staff Senate meeting.

Wednesday 

I have a dissertation defense in the morning. In the early afternoon, I’ll be attending the Distinguished Professors’ meeting, followed by my bi-weekly meeting with Dean Swain.

Thursday

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Enrollment and Retention Incentives meeting is in the morning, as well as several meetings with direct reports. In the afternoon, more direct report meetings, along with my bi-weekly meeting with UC Chair John Reisel. In the evening, we host the Democratic Primary debate here on campus.

Friday 

I’ll be in Madison for the majority of the day, attending the monthly Provost meeting.

Announcements

Zika Roundtable Discussion

The Center for Global Health Equity and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) have organized a roundtable, “The Zika Virus in the Americas and Beyond: Implications for Global Maternal and Infant Health,” scheduled for Friday, February 12 at 3:30 p.m. in Bolton B56. For more information contact Anne Dressel at banda@uwm.edu.

From the Institute of World Affairs

The 2016 Fireside Forum on Foreign Policy continues this week and will explore inequality and health at 7 p.m. on February 9 in the Wisconsin Room, UWM Student Union.

From C21

The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) is hosting a visit from Native American author Stephen Graham Jones who will be reading excerpts from his science fiction, experimental, horror, and crime fiction on Friday, February 12 at 3:30 p.m. in Curtin 175.

From the UWM French Program

Feb 12-21, 2016: The 19^th Annual Festival of Films in French, organized by the UWM French program, brings a rich array of French language films to Milwaukee at the UWM Union Cinema.

From Integrated Marketing Communications

The 2016 UWM Fact and Impact statement is now online.

Title IX Sex Discrimination Training

The Office of Equity/Diversity Services is hosting a Title IX Sex Discrimination Training Session on March 15 from 2-3:30 p.m. in Golda Meir Library Room E281. To attend, please register online. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Office of Equity/Diversity Services at 414-229-5923 or diverse@uwm.edu.

Tinker Field Research Awards

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), in partnership with the Master in Sustainable Peacebuilding Program (MSP), is pleased to announce 2016 Tinker Field Research Awards, with funding from the Tinker Foundation and J.M. Kohler Foundation. Tinker Field Research Awards support pre-dissertation graduate field research in Latin America and the Caribbean (defined by the Tinker Foundation as Portuguese- or Spanish-speaking). See the full announcement.

From the Center for Community-Based Learning, Leadership, and Research

Service learning is proving to be a high impact practice at UWM. Students from the fall 2014 freshman class who took a course with a service-learning component had a retention rate of 76.3% compared to those not enrolled in a course with a service-learning component, whose retention rate was 70.6%. More striking, first generation students from the fall 2014 freshman class who took a service-learning course had a retention rate of 78.1% compared to 63.5% for those that did not have a service-learning course. And, students from underrepresented populations from the fall 2014 freshman class who had a course with a service learning component had a retention rate of 72.14% compared to their non-service learning counterparts whose retention rate was 61.5%. If you would like to consider incorporating service-learning into a course you teach, please contact Laurie (lmarks@uwm.edu) at the Center for Community-Based Learning, Leadership, and Research,www.community.uwm.edu.

Online Summer Courses
Teaching an online course in summer 2016? Consider promoting your course on the Online Summer Courses website!

Got Panther Pride?

There’s still time to sign up to be a Spirit Liaison for your office before February 19, the first Spirit Day of 2016! Learn more about Black & Gold Spirit Days and volunteer to lead your office in fun activities as you compete for Most Spirited Office. Cool prizes, too, of course.

Take care,

Johannes