Good morning, colleagues. Here is this week’s update from Academic Affairs – and may you all have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
Kudos
– Over the last two years, WUWM Radio has collaborated with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WNOV-AM, 371 Productions, and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism to explore the issue of gun violence in our area. In more than 100 reports, producers put a face/voice to the stories of tragedy and the impact it has on young lives. WUWM’s Dave Edwards and Michelle Maternowski recently made a presentation of the project to several hundred public radio managers at a conference in Pittsburgh. Here is the powerful video they shared: https://vimeo.com/18609840
– The most recent issue of the journal Polish American Studies – the journal of the Polish American Historical Association – is largely composed of articles and reminiscences regarding our late colleague, Prof (Emeritus) Victor Greene, History, and his contributions to labor, ethnic, and immigration history.
– Jonathan Bruce, a UWM graduate with a master’s degree in history, an instructor in the Comparative Ethnic Studies program, and tutor for the Writing Center, contributed to an upcoming exhibit in Appleton’s History Museum at the Castle. The exhibit, Asylum: Out of the Shadows, examines mental health at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century using the Outagamie Asylum as a case study.
The Week
Monday
I’m attending the Academic Staff Committee, the Chancellor’s Cabinet meeting, and another budget meeting focusing on strategic position control. I also have several staff meetings.
Tuesday
Not too many meetings on Tuesday – I will attend part of the Associate Deans’ meeting and in the afternoon, I travel downtown, where I will have an interview with WUWM.
Wednesday
I will spend most of the day catching up on some admin work.
Announcements
Nominate a faculty or staff member for an Alumni Employee Award.
Center for 21st Century Studies call for 2017-2018 Fellows.
Register for Campus Connect Suicide Prevention Training or refresh your skills with BOOSTER Training.
The UWM chapter of WWHEL will sponsor a Holiday Chili Luncheon on December 1 at noon in the Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Room. Please RSVP to Evelyn Scott (evy@uwm.edu) by November 28.
2017 Fromkin Research Grant and Lectureship proposals due Friday, December 2.
PantherFILE retires in 7 Weeks!
Other
Wishing everyone a meaningful Thanksgiving.
Take care,
Johannes
Johannes Britz
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs