Vol. 39, No. 112, May 1, 2008     /     Log Archive

Here's more LOG newsletter for faculty, staff and friends of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay:

Music students to descend on campus for Solo and Ensemble Festival
Have a bulletin board or reader rack that needs updating? Might want to do it before this Saturday (May 3). About 3,000 high school and middle school students from around the region, along with their parents, friends, and music directors will be on campus for the Wisconsin School Music Association State Solo and Ensemble Festival. For more on the event, http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-121.htm

Two years in a row, we're No. 1
In the kind of harmless fun that doesn't mean all that much but is still good for school spirit, for the second straight year a mail-in poll has proclaimed UW-Green Bay to be a 2008 "Best of the Bay" pick in the local college/university category as voted on by Northeastern Wisconsin readers of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Their special section appears in the paper on May 17.

Visiting scholar has big name, big voice
Make sure to say "ciao" (that's "hello" in Italian) to visiting scholar, Prof. Anna Toccafondi, if you see her around campus. Toccafondi will be here Thursday through Wednesday (May 7), coaching UW-Green Bay singers and giving voice lessons. She will also spend an afternoon at St. Norbert College. Toccafondi has studied the classics throughout Europe and has sung with well-known opera performers including Alessandro Corbelli, Liliana Poli, Leonardo De Lisi, Lorna Windsor, Barbara De Maio and more. She teaches piano accompaniment at the G.B. Martini Conservatoire in Bologna, Italy, and is the vocal coach for the annual summer courses for opera singers held by the University of Michigan in Florence, Italy.

Governor says he hopes meeting gets budget deal
Gov. Doyle meets with legislative leadership today (Thursday, May 1) to try to reach agreement on how to solve the state budget shortfall. See http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/284113

'Student loan plan advances: Senate measure raises amount for borrowing'
That was the headline in Thursday's Journal-Sentinel after the U.S. Senate passed a bill, similar to one passed by the House of Representatives last month, that would improve access to federally backed student loans: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=745895

Reminder: Input wanted on proposed University web site designs
The new University web site is scheduled to be launched Aug. 18, with a beta version to be available for use starting July 21. You can stay updated on this project by visiting the Redesign blog at https://blog.uwgb.edu/redesign The final design should be selected and announced before the semester ends.

Ganyard says other changes in store with Web services this summer
Campus Webmaster Paula Ganyard says "This summer will bring many changes for Web services on campus. Here is a quick but important rundown for all web authors:
• FrontPage replaced by Expression Web - Microsoft has replaced their web editor FrontPage with Expression Web. Everyone will be converted to this new editor as you receive your Office 2007 upgrades. Some people have already received this. For training please use the new online training available at http://www.uwgb.edu/compserv/ehelp/onlineTraining.htm This change does not require you to do anything other than start using it in place of FrontPage. For off-campus access you should continue to do what you have been doing. If you have FrontPage at home you can continue to use that, Dreamweaver or any other editor.
• New Web Server - along with the launch of the new Web site, there will also be a new server launched on August 18. To help make this transition easy we ask that everyone with a web site review all of the files on those sites. Remember that web sites are not storage drives; they should only contain the files that are part of your web site. This means that any MP3, video, PowerPoint files, etc. that are not part of the site should be removed. This means that all images on the web site should be optimized to the appropriate size for the web or removed. Sites will be checked for compliance, so please take a few minutes to do some clean-up.
• Elimination of FrontPage Server Extensions - this summer will also be the end to FrontPage Server Extensions. A number of years ago we stopped supporting these extensions for themes and other features within FrontPage, but we continued to support the database connection piece. If you have a web site that uses a form to collect data into a database and that database resides within an FPDB folder please contact the University Webmaster (ganyardp@uwgb.edu) for assistance in converting these forms.
• Blogging now available - we have installed the blogging software WordPress and can now offer blogs for university departments, faculty, staff, and student organizations. If you are interested in this service you can learn more about it at or contact the University Webmaster at ganyardp@uwgb.edu
Any questions about any of these updates, please contact Paula Ganyard, University Webmaster at ext 2951 or ganyardp@uwgb.edu

Early coverage of Ward announcement
Carrying edited versions of today's release were the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=5/1/2008&id=39110 and the Green Bay Press-Gazette at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080501/GPG0101/80501123/1978

No, not THAT David Ward
Today's announcement that David J. Ward is the choice for interim chancellor at UW-Green Bay reminds us of a time in Madison, a decade or so ago, when between the former UW System administrator in Van Hise Hall and the former UW chancellor in Bascom Hall it was hard to keep your David Wards straight. We're getting the Green Bay/Oshkosh version. Here, just to be clear, is the other version: http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/wardlegacy/bio.html

Parkside announces its four chancellor finalists
• Robert Felner currently serves as dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Ken.
• T. J. Bryan is a professor of English language and literature at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, NC. She previously served as chancellor at Fayetteville State (2003-'07).
• Gloria J. Gibson is dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and serves as a professor in the Department of English, Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Ark.
• Maurice C. Taylor is currently dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore.
For more, see https://www.uwp.edu/chancellor.search/

Maybe Wells at Oshkosh, too
The Associated Press moved a story earlier this week headlined "UW System chancellor exodus could grow," describing how UW-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells has been announced as a finalist to be chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. See http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-uwchancellors,0,5878912.story

UW-Madison apologizes to top job applicant for breach
UW-Madison and a private search firm have apologized for publicly disclosing a chancellor applicant's name when the individual had requested confidentiality. See http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-uwchancellorsearc,0,3248350.story

Beatles, Cash and Coltrane featured in spring jazz concert
UW-Green Bay's annual spring jazz concert is 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (May 7) with the two jazz bands and the Vocal Jazz Ensemble performing in the University Theatre. Selections range from the Johnny Mercer rendition of "Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)" to John Coltrane's "Naima" and the Johnny Cash hit "Ring of Fire" to vocal selections of jazz-infused rock by the Mamas & Papas, The Beatles and Paul Simon. See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-122.htm

News coverage of Nicolet College/UW-Green Bay deal
NewsoftheNorth.Net carried a note on how UW-Green Bay courses will be offered at Nicolet College to give adults in the northern regions of Wisconsin the opportunity to pursue a bachelor's degree: http://newsofthenorth.net/article.cfm?articleID=23892

Brookings researcher visits to tout Great Lakes Region options
If you're reading this Thursday evening, there's still time to catch Brookings Institution fellow and Great Lakes economic and environmental researcher John Austin. He is lead author of the Brookings report "Healthy Waters, Strong Economy," which determined Great Lakes cleanup could bring in an additional $50 billion for the U.S. economy. He'll make a free, public presentation at 6:30 p.m. Thursday (May 1) at the Brown County Central Library, 515 Pine St. Read more about his background and his visit to Green Bay at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-112.htm

Tuesday event to address homelessness in Green Bay
A panel of speakers will discuss how homelessness affects a community at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6 at the Salvation Army, 626 Union Court, Green Bay. The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Social Work Program is sponsoring the free event in tribute to the late Anne Kok. Speakers include Karina O'Malley, Alison Draheim, Christi Engels, Steve Herro, Rich Langan and Kathy McMurray. For details, http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-120.htm

RSVP for SGA Leadership Transition Dinner
The Student Government Association Leadership Transition Dinner is set for 5 p.m. Monday, May 5 in the 1965 Room of the Union. Send your RSVP via e-mail to Elizabeth Meier in the Dean of Students Office at meiere@uwgb.edu

LIR's meeting highlighted by Dick Bennett, ambitious spring agenda
Former UW-Green Bay basketball coach and well-known retiree Dick Bennett shared reflections on his career and the values that guide him at the Learning in Retirement Annual Meeting last week. His appreciative audience of 260 LIR members then moved on to the business of electing new officers and to reports on yet another successful year of offering a rich array of courses. Topics featured in the Spring catalog included: Great World Religions-Islam; Exploring the Solar System, The Plays of Arthur Miller, and An Evening with the Green Bay Symphony.

Former dean sues Whitewater over what he says was racist persecution
A former dean of UW-Whitewater's College of Letters and Sciences has filed a federal lawsuit against the Board of Regents alleging racial discrimination as the reason for his termination; an investigation by the Wisconsin Equal Rights Division previously found no basis for the claim. The campus paper had coverage at http://media.www.royalpurplenews.com/media/storage/paper1225/news/2008/04/30/News/Ross-Sues.Uw.System.For.Racial.Discrimination-3355718.shtml

Feedback wanted on campus dining issues
From the Union: "UW-Green Bay strives to provide quality dining services for the students and campus community. Your opinions and feedback are vital to our planning and evaluation processes. Your collective responses will help guide the product variety, offerings, and hours of operation for the 2008/2009 academic year. Please take some time to complete the online survey, in regards to dining offerings and hours. Click the below link. Any questions, please contact Rick Warpinski (warpinsr@uwgb.edu). Thank you!
http://www.uwgb.edu/surveys/TakeSurvey.asp?PageNumber=1&SurveyID=31H7876I6856I

See where you can go with a UW-Green Bay degree?
The Seattle Times carried a story this week noting that, at $1 million per year or more, Tony Bennett has received a boost from Washington State University. Bennett is a 1992 Humanistic Studies graduate and also one of the nation's top young basketball coaches. See http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/cougars/2004384558_bennett01.html?syndication=rss

Service Learning Symposium/Showcase is May 21 at Marquette
Registration is now open, and the full program is available, for the Service Learning Faculty Symposium and Showcase to be held at Marquette University on Wednesday, May 21. This event offers a variety of workshops, (from the "How To" to theory to research) geared to all levels of practitioners (from novice to expert). Keynote speaker is Kenneth Reardon, chair of the Cornell University Dept of City & Regional Planning. To learn more, see: http://www.mu.edu/servicelearning/upcomingevents/symposiumoverview.shtml

Brief
Prof. Sandra M. Stokes, Education and Women's Studies, and Sheri R. Klein, Professor of Art Education at UW-Stout, are the authors of "Academic Mobbing: Is Gender A Factor" in Vol. 17, #5 of Women in Higher Education, whose readership is approximately 12,000.

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