UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 36 No. 96



Regents promote three Eleven gain tenure Assistant chancellor moonlights Chance to give back Opportunity for Scheidt JFC finishes work on budget	Vol. 36, No. 96 / June 10, 2005 The LOG Online e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication Web site and to an archive of past issues. Regents promote three to full professor Three University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty members were promoted to the rank of full professor by action of the UW Board of Regents meeting today at UW-Milwaukee. They are Scott Furlong, Gregory Aldrete and Derryl Block. • Furlong, who joined the University in 1993, is a member of the faculties in Public and Environmental Administration and Political Science. He presently serves as chairperson of the Environmental Policy and Planning and Public Administration academic programs. • A historian, Aldrete teaches in that academic discipline and in Humanistic Studies. He has been a member of the faculty since 1995. Aldrete is the author or co-author of several books, and is completing a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship that supported work on a book about ancient Rome. • Block, who serves as chairperson of the Nursing degree completion professional program, joined UW-Green Bay in 2001. Block came to UW-Green Bay with an extensive background in nursing higher education. *** * * * * Eleven gain tenure, associate-professor title The Board of Regents also approved promotions to associate professor for 11 UW-Green Bay faculty members. They are: • Kevin Roeder, Social Work • David Dolan, Natural and Applied Sciences and Mathematics • Michael Draney, Natural and Applied Sciences and Biology • Hye-Kyung Kim, Humanistic Studies and Philosophy • Michael Ingraham, Communication and the Arts and Theater • Steven Muzatko, Accounting • Andrew Austin, Social Change and Development and Sociology • Linda Tabers-Kwak, Education • Dean Von Dras, Human Development and Psychology • Kristy Deetz, Communication and the Arts and Art • Heidi Fencl, Natural and Applied Sciences and Physics * * * * * UW-Green Bay assistant chancellor volunteers to moonlight as West coach Steve Swan, the University's assistant chancellor for advancement, is front-page sports news in today's Green Bay Press-Gazette. Swan has accepted an invitation and made a one-year, evenings-only volunteer commitment to serve as boys head basketball coach at Green Bay West High School. Read more at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/sports/archive/sports_21375536.shtml. * * * * * Swan: 'a way to give back to community' Even with little spare time and a hectic schedule as a full-time friend- and fund-raiser for the University, Steve Swan said he couldn't say no when West High officials approached him about filling a sudden vacancy as boys' basketball coach for 2005-06. Swan, a part-time jayvee coach this past winter at Bay Port High School, says the added responsibility of being a head coach will be manageable only because of special accommodations offered by West. Among them: evening rather than daytime practices; understanding that the University is his priority should scheduling conflicts arise; and permission to employ an "associate head coach" (rare in high school programs) who could direct the team in his absence. Swan will accept no salary for his work with the near-westside school and he describes it as "a way to give back to the community." * * * * * Opportunity for Scheidt The UW-Green Bay connection at Green Bay West will also include associate head coach Derek Scheidt, a business administration graduate employed by a local social-services agency. He played for the Phoenix from 2000 to 2004 and served as a graduate assistant for last year's team. For the 2005-06 season at West, Scheidt joins Steve Swan, who was an assistant under Dick Bennett for eight years in Stevens Point and nine years in Green Bay. * * * * * JFC finishes work on budget Not much new regarding the UW System allotment - that work was done several weeks ago - but the latest out of Madison this morning is that the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee has finished its version of the 2005-07 state budget. It passed 11-5 (Green Bay representative and UW-Green Bay graduate Rob Cowles cast his dissenting vote with the Democrats against the plan, saying it relied too much on borrowing). See http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun05/332731.asp * * * * *** LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Regents promote three

Eleven gain tenure

Assistant chancellor moonlights

Chance to give back

Opportunity for Scheidt

JFC finishes work on budget

Vol. 36, No. 96 / June 10, 2005

The LOG Online e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication Web site and to an archive of past issues.

Regents promote three to full professor

Three University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty members were promoted to the rank of full professor by action of the UW Board of Regents meeting today at UW-Milwaukee. They are Scott Furlong, Gregory Aldrete and Derryl Block. • Furlong, who joined the University in 1993, is a member of the faculties in Public and Environmental Administration and Political Science. He presently serves as chairperson of the Environmental Policy and Planning and Public Administration academic programs. • A historian, Aldrete teaches in that academic discipline and in Humanistic Studies. He has been a member of the faculty since 1995. Aldrete is the author or co-author of several books, and is completing a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship that supported work on a book about ancient Rome. • Block, who serves as chairperson of the Nursing degree completion professional program, joined UW-Green Bay in 2001. Block came to UW-Green Bay with an extensive background in nursing higher education.

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Eleven gain tenure, associate-professor title

The Board of Regents also approved promotions to associate professor for 11 UW-Green Bay faculty members. They are: • Kevin Roeder, Social Work • David Dolan, Natural and Applied Sciences and Mathematics • Michael Draney, Natural and Applied Sciences and Biology • Hye-Kyung Kim, Humanistic Studies and Philosophy • Michael Ingraham, Communication and the Arts and Theater • Steven Muzatko, Accounting • Andrew Austin, Social Change and Development and Sociology • Linda Tabers-Kwak, Education • Dean Von Dras, Human Development and Psychology • Kristy Deetz, Communication and the Arts and Art • Heidi Fencl, Natural and Applied Sciences and Physics

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UW-Green Bay assistant chancellor volunteers to moonlight as West coach

Steve Swan, the University's assistant chancellor for advancement, is front-page sports news in today's Green Bay Press-Gazette. Swan has accepted an invitation and made a one-year, evenings-only volunteer commitment to serve as boys head basketball coach at Green Bay West High School. Read more at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/sports/archive/sports_21375536.shtml.

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Swan: 'a way to give back to community'

Even with little spare time and a hectic schedule as a full-time friend- and fund-raiser for the University, Steve Swan said he couldn't say no when West High officials approached him about filling a sudden vacancy as boys' basketball coach for 2005-06. Swan, a part-time jayvee coach this past winter at Bay Port High School, says the added responsibility of being a head coach will be manageable only because of special accommodations offered by West. Among them: evening rather than daytime practices; understanding that the University is his priority should scheduling conflicts arise; and permission to employ an "associate head coach" (rare in high school programs) who could direct the team in his absence. Swan will accept no salary for his work with the near-westside school and he describes it as "a way to give back to the community."

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Opportunity for Scheidt

The UW-Green Bay connection at Green Bay West will also include associate head coach Derek Scheidt, a business administration graduate employed by a local social-services agency. He played for the Phoenix from 2000 to 2004 and served as a graduate assistant for last year's team. For the 2005-06 season at West, Scheidt joins Steve Swan, who was an assistant under Dick Bennett for eight years in Stevens Point and nine years in Green Bay.

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JFC finishes work on budget

Not much new regarding the UW System allotment - that work was done several weeks ago - but the latest out of Madison this morning is that the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee has finished its version of the 2005-07 state budget. It passed 11-5 (Green Bay representative and UW-Green Bay graduate Rob Cowles cast his dissenting vote with the Democrats against the plan, saying it relied too much on borrowing). See http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun05/332731.asp

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LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.