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Vol. 38, No. 47, January 8, 2007 / Log Archive

This is the LOG newsletter for faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The New Year began one week ago today, the new semester begins one week from tomorrow, and the LOG year starts... right now:

• Research Scholar Program has Feb. 6 deadline
• Publicity for greenhouse pledge
• Student Life announces LifeLines group discount
• Act by Jan. 12 for Mavis Leno
• Lucky winners of $500 Friends gift cards

• Commencement on cable
• Reminder: 'high-performance teams' on Feb. 13
• Funds remain for academic staff development
• ...if you know where to look
• Press-Gazette profiles faculty member

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel supports 'Growth Agenda'
• UW-Oshkosh dean touts regional partnership
• Doyle mentions health care, schools
• Fired dean sues UW-Whitewater for discrimination
• Wishful thinking? Leading legislators see less contention

• New Web site for Wisconsin Campus Compact
• Letters to the editor on UW admissions
• Brief: Clampitt

Fall Research Scholar: Feb. 6 is deadline for course-release grant
The UW-Green Bay Research Council is soliciting proposals for the Fall 2007 Research Scholar Program. The Program provides a three-credit course release to the successful applicant to work on his or her scholarship. The call for proposals is open to all full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty members. Applications may be submitted for the Spring or for the Fall. The Research Scholar will be expected to work on a specific research project and generate a tangible product during the semester of work (e.g., grant proposal, draft of manuscript, book proposal, or completed body of work for an exhibition). Applications for The Research Scholar: Fall 2007 must be submitted to the Institute for Research Office (WH 303) by 4 p.m. on Feb. 6. Guidelines and evaluation rubric are available from the Research Council Web site, http://www.uwgb.edu/rc.

Publicity for UW-Green Bay's greenhouse pledge
The AASHE — the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education — highlights UW-Green Bay in the first 2007 edition of its Bulletin newsletter. The lead item was Chancellor Bruce Shepard's promise to support the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, a pledge to develop a long-range plan to reduce and ultimately neutralize greenhouse gas emissions on the campus. Organizers seek to identify at least 200 college and university presidents who will become charter signatories at a major public summit in June 2007. The AASHE's Web site on the climate issue is at http://www.aashe.org/presidentsclimatecommitment.php

Student Life announces Weidner Center/Bellin LifeLines group discount
The Office of Student Life will offer group rate tickets for the Bellin Health LifeLines presentations at the Weidner Center. The rates are $15 for students and $22.50 for non-students for each event. Tickets must be purchased through the Office of Student Life. Individuals interested in purchasing tickets should contact Student Life at 465-2200 ext. 40 before the following dates.

Deadlines for purchasing group rate tickets through Student Life:
— Mavis Leno, discount ticket deadline of Jan. 12
— Erin Gruwell, Feb. 16
— Star Jones, April 6
— Jane Pauley, May 2

Lucky winners of $500 gift cards in Friends Raffle
Chosen as winners in the 2006 Friends of the Cofrin Library Textbook Raffle:
* Erin Bartaczewicz (Franklin, Wis.)
* Noah Haban (Manitowoc)
* Kristine Gielow (Sussex)

The raffle, which put Phoenix Bookstore $500 gift cards into each of the winners' hands, is a fundraiser for the David A. Cofrin Library sponsored by the Friends of the Cofrin Library organization. The drawing was last week on campus.

UW-Green Bay mid-year commencement on cable TV in January
UW-Green Bay's 2006 mid-year commencement ceremony will be televised this month on local cable television. Taped telecasts of the Dec. 16 commencement will be carried consecutive Saturdays in January on Time Warner Cable Television. Each telecast — Jan. 13, 20 and 27 — will begin at noon. The ceremonies can be viewed on cable Channel 4 in Green Bay, Howard, Suamico, Seymour, Kaukauna, Little Chute, Combined Locks, Kimberly, Wrightstown, Appleton and Greenville, and on cable Channel 2 in Neenah and Menasha. Time Warner digital customers also will be able to view UW-Green Bay commencement on Wisconsin on Demand (WIoD), Time Warner's local video-on-demand channel. The ceremony can be found on Channel 1111 under the categories of "All New" and "Special Events."

Reminder on 'high-performance teams' workshop on Feb. 13
A national-caliber speaker and author, Jane Boucher, visits campus Feb. 13 from 8:30 to 12:30 to speak on "How to Build a High Performance Work Team." This program is sponsored by the Academic Staff Professional Development Programming Committee, "and is open to all faculty, staff, and classified employees. Please encourage your team members to come". For more, check out this link: http://www.uwgb.edu/union/assets/pdf/workteam.pdf.

Funds available for academic staff development
The UW-Green Bay Academic Staff Professional Development Allocations Committee is happy to announce that funds remain to assist academic staff in attending professional development meetings and programs. For more information on how to secure up to $500 in funding, please refer to the Request Form and Allocations Committee information found at http://www.uwgb.edu/hr/forms/index.asp?search=ASAC. Please note that personal funds can be used to match the amount awarded from the Allocations Committee funds, but departmental or institutional matches are strongly encouraged. The next scheduled meeting will be Jan. 30, so the deadline for applications and supporting letters from supervisors is Jan. 26. Questions? Contact any member of the Allocations Committee: Marlys Brunsting (Chair), Lynn Niemi, Anne Seidl, Kristy Aoki and Zach Voelz.

More funds available for staff development... if you know where to look
Because the demand for funding usually outstrips the amount available through its account, the committee would like academic staff to be aware of other funding opportunities. The Institute for Research pays a subscription fee to access the largest database of funding sources in the world. Many grants, scholarships and fellowships are listed here. Although most have specific application requirements and are competitive, awards are often considerable. UW-Green Bay staff can search this database by doing the following:

Link to http://www.uwgb.edu/research/COSFUND.HTM

Click on "COS" at the top

Click on "Search COS Funding Opportunities" and enter a few keywords

You may refine your query for location, type of funding, etc.

This tip from Lidia Nonn: "The best place for a staff member to begin is probably with the organizations they are members of professionally. For example, if I wanted to attend a meeting for grant administrators, I would search stipends or funding from the National Council of University Research Administrators."

Press-Gazette profiles faculty member on diversity, community involvement
UW-Green Bay Prof. Jim Coates was profiled in a recent Press-Gazette article that focused on diverse contributions by various community members. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061229/GPG0101/612290523/1978.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel supports 'Growth Agenda'
The state's largest newspaper suggests Wisconsin would be wise to invest in the UW's "Growth Agenda" to boost research and grow the knowledge economy. Click http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=549066.

'Education needs to be sold as an investment with state'
The state should consider higher education as an investment when preparing the next state budget, according to the dean of the College of Business Administration at UW-Oshkosh, who touts regional cooperation involving his institution, UW-Green Bay and others, in a guest column at http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612310503.

Doyle mentions health care, schools
In his inaugural address last week, Gov. Jim Doyle highlighted the Wisconsin Covenant and stem cell research as key initiatives for his second term in office. Click http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=549131.

Fired dean sues UW-Whitewater for discrimination
Former dean Lee Jones, removed after a UW-Whitewater audit declared he had improperly used university funds, claims in a federal lawsuit that he was discriminated against because he is black. Click http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_6839.shtml.

Leading legislators see less contention
Some legislative leaders predict that pocketbook and quality-of-life issues will replace social issues as major areas of focus at the Capitol. See http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=548365.

New Web site for Wisconsin Campus Compact
Campus Compact is reworking its Web page slightly — reorganizing and updating.

They invite calendar submissions and reports of civic engagement activities happening on member campuses. There's also a new link to their newsletters. The WiCC Word for the 4th quarter of 2006 can now be found at http://www.uwp.edu/departments/community.partnerships/wicampuscompact/Updates/Newsletter%202%20DEC2006.pdf.

Letters to the editor on UW admissions
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published a range of citizen viewpoints in a recent Sunday edition. Click http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=545046.

Brief
Phillip G. Clampitt, Hendrickson Professor of Business, recently published an article in the MIT Sloan Management Review. The journal is read by over 75,000 executives world-wide and is considered to be one of the most elite journals in the field. The article, "Decision Downloading," was based on research he conducted with dozens of executives across the U.S. Several UWGB students assisted him with the study. Abstracts are available at the following Web site: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2007/winter/15/.

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