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

Kudos

– Tanya Joosten, Academic Affairs, was named by D2L to be part of its inaugural EduFan Council, consisting of 50 edtech pioneers. Congratulations, Tanya!

– There was also a story over the weekend in the Journal Sentinel, highlighting the excellent work done by our American Sign Language team.

January 19-22

Tuesday
The day starts with the Deans Morning Meeting and there is a meeting on Climate and Culture that I will attend (right after the Deans’ meeting). The Chancellor’s Cabinet has its regular weekly meeting. In the afternoon, I will meet with my small staff (weekly meeting), and then the Chancellor and I will travel to the Medical College of Wisconsin for a regular meeting with Drs. Raymond and Kirschner (senior administration at MCW).

Wednesday
The day is occupied by a number of meetings with some of my direct reports. In the afternoon, there is a meeting on international student recruitment.

Thursday
I’ll attend the APBC meeting in the morning and my weekly meeting with the Chancellor in the afternoon, followed by a meeting with the President and Vice President of the Student Association.

Friday
I’ll give a welcome address at the Biomedical Engineering Retreat at Innovation Campus in the morning, followed by meetings with my direct reports. In the afternoon, I meet with Chancellor Mone and Vice Chancellor Van Harpen, followed by more direct report meetings.

Announcements

Spring Start of Semester Memo
– The 2016 spring memo is now available.

From UITS
– The Tech Timeout period for the 2016 start of spring semester begins this Friday at 12:01 a.m. and ends Monday, February 1 at 11:59 p.m.

During this timeframe, UITS will not make changes that affect production-level services, functions, or activities. Exceptions to the policy include situations that require maintaining the stability or security of services. Questions: please contact the UWM Help Desk, 414-229-4040; toll-free at 877-381-3459; or online at GetTechHelp.uwm.edu. Additionally, you’ll find the answers to many more questions in the UWM knowledge base.

Take care,

Johannes

Johannes Britz
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs