The Office of University Advancement reports that UW-Green Bay has received an additional $500 gift for the recently established Veteran's Scholarship. The intent is that awards will be made on Veterans Day, this coming Saturday, Nov. 11, and annually thereafter. Per the donor's request, five $100 awards will be made this first year to get the program started. The un-named donor will be contacting local VFW posts to get involved in the recognition of the program, and he is also hoping that the VFW involvement will create additional interest in the scholarship endowment. The donor is a former UW-Green Bay student who was active in the campus Vets Club of the early 1970s when it numbered several hundred members. A Vietnam veteran himself, he still feels passionately about helping others continue their education, and he is working to fully endow this scholarship within a year.

Prof. Francine Tompkins, chair of Education and founding director of the Institute for Learning Partnership, has been selected by the Faculty Development Council to receive the fall 2000 Featured Faculty award. The Featured Faculty recognition program was started in 1996 to showcase excellent teaching at UW-Green Bay. Recipients receive an honorarium and a plaque. Watch future issues of the LOG for the date, time and place for Tompkins' recognition event.

By this point, they're already as familiar locally as George Stephanopoulos or Doris Kearns Goodwin nationally, but UW-Green Bay's political experts still have at least one more day of volunteer duty, outreach and public service. If you haven't noticed, faculty specialists in political science, advertising and communication have been extraordinarily helpful in helping the media help local voters sort through Campaign 2000. Click through the local channels, scan the radio or flip through the papers and you almost can't miss David Littig or Scott Furlong, PEA, responding to the latest political developments; Peter Smith, BUA, on the advertising avalanche; Phil Clampitt, on communication strategies; and others. Watch for faculty members including Michael Kraft, Francis Carleton and Denise Scheberle if the Electoral College dominates the news Tuesday night.

A correspondent for the LOG ONLine informs us that Bob Balsley of the UW-Green Bay music program was invited to play guitar for Al Gore's rally in Green Bay last Monday. That was the rally that was initially to have taken place on campus. The appearance may have been moved from the campus, but UW-Green Bay still had campus representation at the campaign stop.

The Research Council invites the University community to the first in this year's series of faculty lectures from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in Rose Hall 220. Sandra Stokes, Education and Women's Studies, will describe a summer and after-school arts program for elementary and middle-school children which she began last summer in partnership with the Fort Howard-Jefferson, Howe and Northeast Family Resource Centers and the Family Services Association. After-school programs are underway in 2000-2001 and another summer program is scheduled for 2001. David Dolan, Natural and Applied Sciences, will speak on the three-workshop series, "Critical Thinking, Science, and the Environment," which he and Andrew Fiala, Humanistic Studies, conducted earlier this fall. The series was aimed at helping laypeople understand and evaluate competing viewpoints and complex environmental issues. The schedule promises time for discussion and refreshments.

The enrollment deadline for year 2001 Employee Reimbursement Accounts (ERAs) is this Friday, Nov. 10. ERAs, also referred to as "Flexible Spending Accounts," are an optional benefit authorized under Section 125 of the IRS Code and Wis. Stats. 40.85. This program allows an employee to pay eligible expenses from pre-tax income rather than after-tax income, on a calendar year basis. This means that employees who participated in the medical expense and/or the dependent day care reimbursement account in 2000 must re-enroll for 2001. Current deductions do not carry over into 2001. Eligible employees received a packet of information in early October. This packet contained a worksheet and detailed instructions on how to enroll for 2001. Call Human Resources, ext. 2390, with questions.

Heard by media, fans and others attending last week's Media Day for Phoenix basketball: UW-Green Bay has been an amazing success story at the NCAA Division I level, but the program needs to pay attention to facilities if it hopes to continue that success. That was the gist of a forceful public testimonial from Jon LeCrone, the commissioner of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, in town for the kickoff event. He praised UW-Green Bay but warned that the Phoenix Athletics program risks being left behind in the 20th century if recreation/athletics needs aren't addressed soon. He also noted that UW-Green Bay is the only MCC program not to play its men's basketball home games in an on-campus facility.

Kevin Borseth and Mike Heideman are the guests of honor on Tuesday, Nov. 14, in the Union's Point Sable Room for the 15th annual, pre-season faculty/staff basketball lunch. Show up at noon with your lunch, and your questions for the coaches.

Prof. David Coury, HUS, received recognition last week in the Green Bay News-Chronicle's "champs and chumps" column as being among the former. Coury was deemed a hero for his leadership in coordinating the free Green Bay Film Festival, a series of international and independent films that otherwise would not be screened in the area.

Profs. Alla Wilson and Sally Dresdow from Business Administration have had their case "Sexual harassment at a Seminole University: What action should be taken?" accepted for publication in the Annual Advances in Business Cases 2000. The journal is due out early in 2001.

Prof. Sally Dresdow has had her case "It isn't that simple: Infra-structural change at Royce Consulting" accepted for publication in the Annual Advances in Business Cases 2000, due out early in 2001.

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