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OCTOBER 2010

With an esteemed history dating back to 1881, Marquette University can boast many successful, long-established programs and colleges. Three of them — the College of Business Administration, the journalism program and the College of Nursing — celebrate milestone anniversaries during the 2010-11 academic year.

Marquette’s College of Business Administration was among the first 15 business schools estab-lished in the United States, back in September 1910 with 122 students, according to Dr. Linda Salchenberger, Keyes Dean of Business Administration. One hundred years later the college has 2,200 students and 20,000 alumni. Along the way the college established its MBA program in 1953, followed by an executive MBA and the Graduate School of Management. Other programs and centers include the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship, Applied Investment Management program, Center for Real Estate, Center for Global and Economic Studies and Center for Supply Chain Management.

“Milestones are reasons for looking back and celebrating what has been,” said Salchenberger. “They are also an important time for looking forward to what is still to come.” According to Salchenberger, there are two main purposes of “Marquette University Business Celebrating 100 Years.” First is simply to engage students, faculty, alumni and supporters in a celebration of the school’s role and its accomplishments. Second is to hold a series of centennial-themed events for business alumni.

The Diederich College of Communication is also celebrating a centennial — “100 Years of Journalism at Marquette University.” At the height of yellow journalism in 1910, John Copus, a former journalist turned Jesuit priest, decided that Marquette’s urban campus was the perfect place to start the first journalism program at any Catholic university in the world.

“This year-long observance of our journalism centennial is designed to reflect the impact that journalism plays in a free society,” said Dr. Lori

Race and housing in Milwaukee to be discussedTwo authors and local community activists will participate in a forum on race issues Monday, Oct. 11, at 2 p.m. in Raynor Beaumier Suites BC. Sociologist Matthew Desmond, author of The Theory of Racial Domination and Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty; historian Patrick Jones, author of The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee, and William Tisdale and Carla Wertheim of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council will focus on housing issues and race relations in Milwaukee. The program is sponsored by the Institute for Urban Life, the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, McGee Lecture Series, and the Department of History. A reception will follow.

Bishop Robert Morneau to lead free, fall retreatThe Faber Center’s Annual Fall Retreat, “Mentors and Models for the Journey,” will take place Oct. 29-31 at the Jesuit Retreat House in Oshkosh, Wis. In this free, silent retreat, Bishop Robert Morneau, auxiliary bishop of Green Bay, will help draw participants to a deeper faith life through the lives of exemplary indi-viduals. Employees of all faiths and beliefs are welcome. For more information visit http://bit.ly/Faberretreat10.

Jesuit to present “Ecojustice and Creation Care”Rev. John Coleman, S.J., associate pastor of Saint Ignatius Church in San Francisco, will present “Ecojustice and Creation Care” Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium for the Gathering Points Lecture series. The series features topics on the contemporary Catholic Church and is sponsored by Marquette and Church of the Gesu. Father Coleman, the former Charles Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University, lectures and writes about environmental topics.

Center for peacemaking offering $4,000 grantsThe Center for Peacemaking is offering $4,000 Rynne Faculty Research Fellowships to two full-time Marquette faculty to advance research on an aspect of nonviolent peacemaking. The awards are intended to fund work for a two-month period during the summer of 2011 and may not be combined with teaching responsibility or other grant-supported work during the period of the grant. The submission deadline is 5 p.m. March 1. For more information visit www.marquette.edu/peacemaking/.

Marquetteanniversary celebration X 3Legacies of business, journalism and nursing programs honored

Bergen, dean of of the Diederich College. “We want our students, faculty, alumni and others to reflect on that role and bring their passion for free speech, for the unfettered and civil exchange of ideas that is jour-nalism, to refine and define that mission for the next century.”

To that end, the college is holding a series of student-produced round-table discussions, Centennial Seminars, with nationally known journalists and media scholars on media, journalism and public life. “This is a year to cele-brate successes as well as look to our future,” Bergen said.

As with the business and jour-nalism celebrations, the College of Nursing will commemorate its anni-versary with a focus on its alumni and students, through events to bring both groups together to estab-lish “beautiful relationships that grow out of a common experience — a Marquette nursing educa-tion,” according to Dr. Margaret Callahan, dean of nursing. Events will include a lecture series, a retreat and a professional conference, culminating in a cele-bration during reunion weekend 2011. “We’re celebrating 75 years of nursing excellence to honor the impact our 7,000 nursing alumni have made in this community and around the world,” said Callahan. “Marquette nurses have made significant contributions to patient care, nursing education, health care system leadership, and development of the scientific basis for practice and health systems research.”

For the anniversary celebration itself, “75 Years of Caring,” Callahan hopes to better engage alumni in college activities and create an environment where Marquette nursing students understand the legacy of the college and what it means to be a Marquette nurse.

Anniversary eventsOct. 3 — Nursing Commitment to the

Profession Ceremony

Oct. 7 — Mass for Health Care Professionals

Nov. 9 — Business sustainability panel

Nov. 14-20 — Business entrepreneurship week

Feb. 24, 2011 — Communication Burleigh Centennial Seminar

March 7-8, 2011 — Communication Nieman Academic Conference

April 30, 2011 — Communication Awards Ceremony

May 14, 2011 — Business Centennial Celebration

July 29, 2011 — Nursing 75th anniversary gala and professional conference

For more information about the anniversary celebrations, monitor the college websites and News Briefs.

Marquette’s College of Journalism moved into Copus

Hall (above), 552 N. 13th Street, in 1950 from Johnston

Hall. The college moved back into the remodeled and

renovated Johnston Hall in 1975.

By Tim Olsen

Once again, the vast majority (96 percent) of

graduating seniors completing the annual junior/

senior survey indicated that their Marquette

education met their overall goals “well” or “very

well” and 89 percent would choose Marquette

again if starting over. In a change from previous

years, the percentage of Marquette juniors who

reported “marked” or “moderate” improvement

in their ability to apply mathematical concepts

jumped from 33 percent in 2009 to 43 percent

in the spring 2010 Junior and Graduating Senior

Survey. The percentage of juniors who reported

at least moderate improvement in their ability to

understand mathematical concepts increased to

42 percent in 2010, up from 35 percent in last

year’s survey.

Marquette received a three-year, $631,661

grant from the U.S. Department of Education

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary

Education in 2007 for “Who Counts? Math Across

the Curriculum for Global Learning” to inte-

grate mathematical reasoning into courses in

various disciplines. “We can’t directly attribute

survey gains to Who Counts,” said Dr. Christine

Marquette Matters

New PA fellowship addresses growing job demandBy Christopher Stolarski

It’s one of the fastest growing professions in

America, and Forbes in May 2010 ranked physi-

cian assistant studies No. 1 for “Best Master’s

Degrees for Jobs.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics

has projected that the number of PA jobs will

increase by 27 percent between 2006 and 2016.

Responding to the demand, the Physician

Assistant Studies program in the College of

Health Sciences is expanding, launching a

fellowship in emergency medicine.

The intensive, one-year training program is

the first of its kind in Wisconsin. It is just the

second PA program in emergency medicine in the

Midwest and only the seventh such program in

the United States. The fellowship is a collabora-

tion with clinical partners at Aurora-Sinai Medical

Center and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.

Students will participate in clinical rotations

and receive practical training at both hospitals.

“In today’s highly competitive job market,

specialized training programs like this one

can make the difference in physician assistant

hiring,” said Mary Jo Wiemiller, PA program

director. “This was a strategic response to the

markedly increased role PAs are playing in the

delivery of primary care.”

Marquette’s emergency medicine fellowship

program is on the front end of what is sure to

be a nationwide trend, according to Wiemiller.

Plus, national health care reform has yielded

a greater emphasis on bringing additional

providers into the health care structure, she said.

“PAs are cost-effective to train, job autonomy

provides PAs with high levels of personal fulfill-

ment and PAs are increasingly respected and

accepted by patients as well as other members of

the health care team,” she said. “Global pressure

to improve preventive care draws attention to

the need for more providers in primary care.”

“This profession is booming and students are

beginning to recognize that,” added Dr. William

Cullinan, dean of the College of Health Sciences.

“Over the past year, applications to our PA

program quadrupled and we grew from 35

students per class to 50. Offering specialized

postgraduate education was the next logical step

in preparing excellent physician assistants.”

PA graduate Ryan Fulcer is completing his PA emergency medicine residency at Aurora Sinai. One of only three PA programs in Wisconsin, Marquette’s program is ranked in the top 40 nationally by U.S. News & World Report, and mean scores on the PA board exam rank the program in the top 10 nationally.

Do the mathJuniors report increased numerical proficiency in student surveyBy Tim Olsen

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Krueger, associate professor of English and prin-

cipal investigator for the grant. “However, nearly

2,000  students have been in more than 30 Who

Counts courses in many disciplines, and our

assessments reveal these students’ improvements

in quantitative reasoning confidence as well.”

The Division of Student Affairs and the Office

of Institutional Research and Assessment annu-

ally survey Marquette juniors and graduating

seniors about co-curricular learning experiences,

future plans and impact of their education.  

“We hope that faculty, staff and adminis-

trators will better understand how students

interpret their Marquette experience and will

use this information to continuously improve

our teaching, programs and services,” said

Dr. Jon Dooley, senior associate dean of

student development.

Other survey highlights include:

• Graduating seniors reported high rates

of involvement in student organizations (85

percent), community service (82 percent) and

student organization leadership (60 percent).

• The percentage of graduating seniors who

reported participating in a culminating academic

experience (capstone course) rose to 79 percent

in 2010 (from 70 percent in 2009 and 57 percent

in 2008).

The executive summary report is available at

http://bit.ly/MUsurvey10. Complete results are

available at http://bit.ly/studentsurveys.* Survey conducted in April 2010

On the SideLori Frederich and Dax Phillips – Food bloggers

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Marquette Matters is published monthly, except June, July and August and a combined issue for December/January, for Marquette University’s faculty and staff. Submit information to: Marquette Matters – Zilber Hall, 235; Phone: 8-7448; Fax: 8-7197E-mail: marquettematters@marquette.eduEditor: Tim OlsenGraphic design:Nick Schroeder

Copyright © 2010 Marquette University

Two Marquette employees have turned a passion for cooking, writing and photography into food blogs with growing followings.

Dax Phillips, law school director of technology, started blogging in 2007 as a way to make colleagues comfort-

able in contributing to the law school faculty and staff blog. Today his site, The Comfort Is Always Here —

www.simplecomfortfood.com, has been featured in online food hubs like Tastespotting, Ree Drummond’s Tasty Kitchen and Foodgawker.

Some of his favorite posts include food related to childhood memories and experiences

of knowing his wife for 20 years. With three chil-dren under age 10, he aims to convey recipes that are simple to make at home.

“My goal is to make comforting food,” he said. “Trust me, that helps after stressful and busy days.”

Lori Fredrich, assistant director of PR, marketing and recruitment in the College of Education, also created her Burp! blog three years ago. The site — www.eatatburp.com – began as a way to track

recipes and catalogue ideas. Soon it built an audi-ence of both local and worldwide foodies.

“If I had to boil everything down it would be about showing people that local eating is possible

in Wisconsin, regardless of budget,” Fredrich said. “It pays to focus on food and nourishment as a community-building tool.”

As a result of her success, Milwaukee Magazine enlisted her help to launch and write for its new blog, FOODCrush.

Marquette has officially become the 10th

higher education institution bestowed with

the Changemaker Campus title by the Ashoka

Institute, a leader in social entrepreneurship —

the practice of applying sustainable business

models to attack and solve social problems at

their root causes.

By earning the designation, Marquette

recently joined a highly select group of colleges

and universities committed to social change

and improving society through entrepreneur-

ship. The program will help equip faculty and

students to learn innovative ways to be men

and women for others.

“We clearly have the capacity to be a leader in

this field,” said Special Adviser to the President

Jeff Snell, who spearheaded Marquette’s applica-

tion. “It seems like a natural outflow of our insti-

tutional DNA.”

Current Changemaker Campuses include

Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University,

Duke University and the University of Colorado

at Boulder. Marquette is the first Changemaker

Campus in the Midwest and the first Jesuit

college or university to earn this designation.

Through the Changemaker Campus program,

Ashoka works with teams of entrepreneurial

students and faculty to accelerate their insti-

tutions’ growth as hubs of social innovation.

Ashoka assists by providing access to resources,

curriculum, role models, learning opportunities

and peers to help social entrepreneurs advance

in a variety of disciplines.

Marquette’s foray into social entrepreneur-

ship was accelerated in 2009 by the weeklong

residency of Jane Leu, founder of the immi-

grant career-placement organization Upwardly

Global in San Francisco. The university will

host a second social entrepreneur in residence

in November. Rajiv Vinnakota, cofounder of the

SEED Foundation to bring high-achieving educa-

tional opportunities to urban communities, will

spend a week at Marquette sharing his social

entrepreneurship expertise.

Marquette becomes a Changemaker CampusSelect program partners social innovation with entrepreneurshipBy Tim Cigelske

With the focus of the Changemaker Campus

status, Snell envisions the next year will provide

faculty and administration more data and feed-

back to help shape the direction of social

entrepreneurship across disciplines and in

curriculum. A key benefit of the Ashoka partner-

ship for faculty and administration, Snell said,

is the national network of peers offering social

entrepreneurship instruction and support across

the disciplines.

“Take Five” is a brief list concerning an inter-esting aspect of Marquette life. E-mail your list suggestions to marquettematters@marquette.edu.

TAkE5The top five most popular Human

Resources-administered benefits chosen

by employees in fiscal 2010, according

to Human Resources, by percentage of

eligible employees enrolled.

1) Dental insurance — 92%

2) Health insurance — 84%

3) Vision insurance — 81%

4) tIaa-CreF (matching plan) — 81%

5) Flexible spending accounts — 31%

Changemaker Campus Information Sessions

“‘What’s it mean for me?’ The Ashoka Partnership and the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative at Marquette” will explain the part-nership and how faculty and students can be involved with the cross-campus Social Entrepreneurship Initiative at Marquette:

• Oct. 6, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in AMU 380, with refreshments

• Oct. 7, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. in AMU 380, with a light breakfast

• Oct. 8, noon to 2 p.m. in AMU 380, with light lunch

RSVP to Elizabeth Wieland, university advancement office associate, at elizabeth.wieland@marquette.edu or 8-0726. Space is limited.

Rajiv Vinnakotato will spend the week of Nov. 8 at Marquette as social entrepreneur in residence.

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“On the Side” offers a glimpse of faculty and staff interests outside of Marquette. E-mail your story suggestions to marquettematters@marquette.edu.

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Law school hosting Mps superintendent and Republican and Democratic party chairsGregory Thornton, Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent, will discuss issues facing the state’s largest school district at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12 (previ-ously scheduled for Sept. 16), in Eckstein Hall’s Appellate Courtroom as part of the “On the Issues with Mike Gousha” series. Gousha, distinguished fellow in law and public policy, will also break down the races for governor, U.S. Senate, Congress, and control of the state legislature with Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus and Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate on Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 12:15 p.m. in Eckstein Hall (room TBD). Register at http://bit.ly/MPS-partychairs.

Marquette named “Developer of the Year” by Wisconsin Builder magazineMarquette University has been selected “Developer of the Year” by Wisconsin Builder magazine for its annual “Newsmakers of the Year” issue, which will run in November 2010. Marquette will be honored at an awards dinner Oct. 27 for its many recent construction and renovation projects.

The Beaux stratagem is next in theatre line-upThe Department of Performing Arts 2010-11 theatre season will feature The Beaux Stratagem; A Year with Frog and Toad, which captures the spirit of Arnold Lobel’s stories; The Laramie Project, partially sponsored by the Theatre and Social Justice Fund; and a collaboration with the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, The Lion in Winter. Single performance tickets for employees cost $16 and for the general public from $16 to $20. Discounts are offered to senior citizens and alumni. Season ticket packages are also available. Tickets can be purchased online at http://theatretickets.marquette.edu. Call the theatre box office at 8-7504 for more information.

pulitzer prize winner to give simmons lectureJacqui Banaszynski, Comm ’74, will deliver the Dr. Edward D. Simmons Lecture at 5 p.m. Oct. 28 in the AMU Ballroom. Banaszynski, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for “AIDS in the Heartland,” will present “The Heart of the Story.” Banaszynski will discuss how crucial it is for journalists to be on the scene to record moments both epic and intimate, calling for a renewal of the kind of j ournalism that stands at the center of events, dares to challenge authority and fight for justice, and that cares about the human condition.

Reciprocal relationships emerge from Faculty Mentoring Programby Tim Olsen

Junior faculty know all too well the chal-

lenges — getting to know new (to them) faculty

co-workers and systems, in a new program at

a new university in a new city that may be in a

state, or even country, that’s new to them. And

they still have their professional responsibilities

of teaching and research, possibly combined

with personal respon-

sibilities as a spouse

or parent. All with

the road to tenure

extending in front of

them. To help support

assistant professors

along their path to a

successful career at

Marquette, the univer-

sity offers a Faculty

Mentoring Program.

The program

extends Marquette’s

principle of cura

personalis particularly

to junior faculty, to

support their profes-

sional development,

according to Dr. Ed

de St. Aubin, director.

He matches individual

assistant professors

with a senior faculty

member for a confiden-

tial, supportive relation-

ship. It’s an informal

program with no specific requirements, although

de St. Aubin recommends that mentors and

mentees meet at least a few times a year. About

64 pairs are participating so far this year.

“The mentor helps guide the junior faculty

member’s journey to tenure while helping to

alleviate anxiety along the way,” said de St.

Aubin. “It may not be as important as other rela-

tionships on campus for the junior member, but

it plays a role.”

Dr. Jody Jessup-Anger, assistant professor of

educational policy and leadership, started in the

mentor program when she joined Marquette in

fall 2009. “It is nice to know that I have someone

to call upon should I need advice on anything,”

said Jessup-Anger. “We have discussed topics

such as annual review, promotion and tenure

and teaching, as well as work-life balance. Most,

if not all, of the suggestions that my mentor

has given me I have followed through on,

which I think will ulti-

mately make me more

successful when it

comes time for promo-

tion and tenure.”

But it’s not just the

mentees who grow

from the program.

Mentors also benefit

from getting engaged

with someone new in

his/her career.

“Just because my

mentee is untenured

doesn’t mean that he

or she doesn’t have a

great deal of wisdom,”

said Dr. Heather

Hathaway, associate

professor of English

and a program mentor.

“I believe that we

consider one another

trusted and valuable

colleagues and friends.”

“As a 24-year veteran

faculty member, I’ve

experienced everything they’re going to experi-

ence, ranging from P & T to choosing service

opportunities to raising kids,” said Dr. James

Marten, professor and chair of history and

program mentor. “There’s the intangible reward

of helping a new faculty member make his or her

transition from graduate student or outsider to

faculty member and member of the community.”

For more information about the Faculty

Mentoring Program see www.marquette.edu/

fmp/ or contact de St. Aubin at ed.destaubin@

marquette.edu.

Benefits enrollment begins this monthPremium increases kept low

Marquette’s proactive approach to health care

costs, including health risk assessments, a 2010

network change and emphasizing wellness and

preventive care, is helping the university avoid

the double-digit premium increases projected

for the Milwaukee region.

The 2011 health insurance premium will

increase only 2 percent for employees who

complete both parts of the HRA. The health plan

design, deductibles and copays will remain the

same as last year. Dental and vision benefits

will also remain the same — with no premium

increase for vision and a minimal premium

increase for dental.

Legislative changes for 2011 include extending

health insurance coverage to adult children

— through the end of the month of their 26th

birthday. Over-the-counter medicines are no

longer reimbursable under the health care flexible

spending account, unless by doctor’s prescription.

Marquette’s annual enrollment period will begin

Oct. 25 and run through Nov. 12, beginning with

Benefits Information and Wellness Day in the AMU

Monaghan Ballroom from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 25.

Key steps for benefits enrollment, with

changes made through myjob.mu.edu, are:

• Update/verify personal information, including

beneficiaries, dependents’ birth dates and social

security numbers and emergency contacts.

• Choose whether to participate in the health,

dental and vision insurance plans.

• Decide whether to participate in an FSA.

Enrolling annually is required. Existing health

care debit (benny) cards are valid through

Dec. 31, 2014, and 2011 elections are auto-

matically loaded onto the card.

• Take the health risk assessment, which is avail-

able to all employees. Health plan participants

who complete both HRA parts — biometric

screening and health questionnaire — receive

a 5-percent discount for 2011 health insurance

premiums. Call 1-877-765-3213 and press “1” to

schedule an on-campus appointment for Oct. 25

through Nov. 19. Employees must complete

their biometric screening by Nov. 19 and the

online questionnaire Oct. 25 through Nov. 22.

Additional information is available on the

benefits website, www.marquette.edu/hr/benefits.

“I have a three-year-old child and my mentor also has kids, so she understands the consistent tension between work and family,” said Dr. Jody Jessup-Anger, with her daughter, Olivia.

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