The UW System Board of Regents approved promotions for nine UW-Green Bay faculty members at the monthly meeting last week in Milwaukee. Heading the list were Denise Scheberle and Sandra Stokes, promoted to full professor from the rank of associate professor. Scheberle, a member of the Public and Environmental Affairs faculty, joined UW-Green Bay in 1992. She has served as interim associate dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences since July 2000. Stokes has been on the Education faculty since 1993, and also teaches in the Women's Studies program. She presently is chairperson of Women's Studies.

Seven faculty members have been promoted to associate professor, a tenured position, from the probationary rank of assistant professor. They are David Coury, Catherine Henze, Andrew Kersten and Lisa Poupart, all of the Humanistic Studies program; Sally Dresdow, Business Administration; Patricia Ragan, Education; and Thomas Nesslein, Urban and Regional Studies. Coury, Henze, Ragan and Nesslein have been members of the UW-Green Bay faculty since1996, and Poupart joined the faculty in 1997. Dresdow and Kersten assumed tenure-track positions in 1998.

The Board of Regents voted Thursday to adopt the 2002-03 UW System operating budget, but it chose not to set tuition for the coming academic year because of the continuing impasse on the state budget repair bill. "The ultimate impact of these reductions on our enrollments and services cannot be known until we know what tuition increase will be included in the final bill — whether tuition will be capped at the Governor's proposed 10 percent, or 8 percent, or somewhere in between," said UW System President Katharine Lyall. A special tuition-setting meeting is expected by early July, regardless of Legislative progress on the budget.

One more interesting tidbit from last week's Regents meeting and budget discussion: With the 2002-03 fiscal year, state funding as a percentage of the university budget will fall to its lowest level ever since the UW System merger in 1971, officials noted. State funds will comprise 31.3 percent of the UW budget in 2002-03. At merger, the state provided 50 percent of university funding.

Did you know that there's new software called "LIFT" (an add-on to Web-creation software) that will prompt page designers to keep things in compliance with common accessibility standards? There is. And you'll learn about that and more in workshops presented this month by CIT. As the Aug. 1 deadline nears for showing significant progress on meeting Web-accessibility standards, CIT is inviting people across campus who do Web-development work to attend a workshop session. The brief sessions are hands-on affairs in which participants will actually update their own pages. Call the Help Desk for more info.

Haven't yet returned your bright-yellow "Campus Request for Information: 2002-2003 Campus Phone Directory" card? Curse your wretched soul, and may you feel the white-hot fire of a thousand suns! Just kidding. Actually, all is cool if you can return it this week. Simply e-mail or campus mail the info to Betsy Bassett-Piehl in CL 815 at bassettb@uwgb.edu

Profs. Angela Bauer-Dantoin and Donna Ritch of Human Biology were invited to speak at a plenary session of the Curriculum Reform Institute sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System Women and Science Program on June 9 in Oshkosh. The title of their talk was "Lessons Learned: First Experience Offering the Course Ethnic Minorities in Science."

Prof. Ray Hutchison, Urban and Regional Studies, is the new secretary/treasurer-elect of the Community and Urban Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. He'll begin a three-year term at the group's annual meeting in August in Chicago.

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