Social Change and Development meeting
November 22, 2002, MAC Hall B315
Present: Austin, Everingham (minutes), Kersten, Lockard, Nielsen, Walter (chair)
Excused: Galt, Kaye, Smith
The meeting convened at 2 pm
1. Minutes of September 13, 2002 were approved.
2. Celebrations:
Lockard signed a contract with Houghton-Mifflin to write a world history text.
Austin won the 2002 award for the best article in Sociological Spectrum,“Advancing Accumulation and Managing Its Discontents: The U.S. Anti-Environmental Countermovement,” 22 (2002, 1): 71-105. The award was presented at the 2002 Mid-South Sociological Meeting in October.
The Green Bay School District invited Austin to serve on a committee to examine the connection between reading scores and truancy.
Kersten received a grant of $822,146 for Teaching American History from the US Dept. of Education.
Nielsen received a Campus Diversity Grant to invite Professor Paul Young to campus in February 03. Professor Young's lecture is tentatively entitled "What does it mean to be an educated person of color?". Date to be determined.
Nielsen received a Grant in Aid of Research to support copyright permission requests for photos in her new book.
Everingham's article on "Negotiated Peace, Disputed Land: Conflict over Property Rights in Guatemala and South Africa" was translated into Portuguese and published in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil-based journal Contexto Internacional (vol. 24, no. 1).
Nielsen and Everingham secured $500 from UW-Milwaukee's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies to support Stephen Gill's Historical Perspectives lecture in March 03.
3. A discussion of the impending flow of overhead into SCD's S and E budget from Kersten's US DoE grant centered around the timing of and uses for the funds. Those present agreed to reserve a decision on the matter until the budget cut picture for the next academic year becomes painfully clear.
4. Given Galt's leave of absence in Spring 03, candidates for a one-semester Faculty Senate seat were identified.
5. The Academic Affairs Council filed a positive program review of SCD which Chair Walter will discuss with the Dean shortly.
6. Candidates for a new SCD chair were discussed in light of faculty members' academic schedules and research agendas.
The meeting adjourned at 2:55 pm.