SCD Minutes

Meeting of 19 February 2006 DRAFT of 15 March 2006

The meeting convened in the MAC Gathering Room, MAC 212, at 2:00 p.m.

Present: Everingham, Lockard, Kaye, Kersten, Nielsen, Smith

I. Celebrations

Tony Galt’s Far from the Church Bells, Settlement and Society in an Apulia Town, 1991, will soon be out in paper from Cambridge U. Press.

Harvey Kaye has been invited to contribute:

TELEVISION INTERVIEWS MLS Media/Comcast show “Books of Our Time” (one hour)

RADIO INTERVIEWS: Radioactivity (Rob Lorei) WMNF – Greater Tampa Bay Community Radio American AM (Henry Raines) WWPR – Tampa Bay Plus (twice) 
WWPR 1490 AM (It’s Your Gavel w/Mitch Mallett) – Tampa Bay Plus WUSF – Greater Tampa Bay Public Radio (All Things Considered – local pieces) Progressive Radio (Matt Rothschild) – Madison WI – community radio nationally Thom Hartmann Morning Show on KPOJ (Air America) – Portland OR Radio Times (Marty Moss-Coane) on WHYY Public Radio – Philadelphia PA

TALKS: Florida Veterans for Common Sense, Sarasota FL, Veterans Museum, Madison WI, UW-Madison History Dept/class on 20C, American Foreign Policy Retired Men’s Group of Green Bay - Brown County Public Library Readers Loft, Green Bay

COLUMNS/Op-Eds: “Paine's counsel for a new time that tries men's souls” (for History News Service) published by SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, CHARLESTON GAZETTE, SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE, CAPITOL TIMES

Andy Kersten’ book Race, Jobs, and the War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000/2006 will soon appear in paper.

Kim Nielsen's books The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (NYUP 2004) and Helen Keller: Selected Writings (NYUP 2005) were selected for inclusion in the American Council of Learned Society’s e-book project (http://www.historye-book.org). Kim also published a review of Nancy Beck Young, Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady (University Press of Kansas, 2004). Journal of Illinois History 8/2 (Summer 2005): 177-178.

SCD graduate Becca Hiller will soon become curator of a small museum in Kansas.

II. Senate

Harvey reported on the recent Senate discussions related to ethical issues, mostly statewide.

III. New Business

Andy reported on the evolving social sciences discussions, the proposed campus-wide Continuing Program Review Cycle, and budget issues.

Elements of context for SCD’s engagement with these interlocking agendas include:

· SCD’s attractiveness to students, with currently c. 120 majors; general student success in employment and post graduate education, and strong engagement with general education

· The substantial story SCD’s official documents: mission statement, program development plans, etc tell about the how the current success has evolved

· The proximity of three more SCD faculty retirements over the next few years

· The university growth initiative, which SCD must engage

· University and System budgetary concerns

The general consensus of the ensuing discussion was that non-retiring faculty should carry the bulk of the conversation and that that conversation should proceed as quickly as possible.

Meeting adjourned 4:35 p.m.