CAMPUS HAPPENINGS

MARCH 2013

Nominate a colleague for an Excellence in University Service Award Nominations for this year’s Excellence in University Service Awards will be accepted until Friday, March 22. The application can be found at marquette.edu/excellence/.This is an opportunity for Marquette employees to nominate colleagues who demonstrate and support the Ignatian ideal of care for others, and carry out the mission of the university. Candidates should be nominated based on service that is above and beyond the duties normally assigned to their position. Four employees will be chosen to receive Excellence in University Service Awards. Faculty members, deans and vice presidents are not eligible. Nominations from 2012 were kept on file for consideration this year.

Law School hosting conference on charter schoolsThe Law School will bring together noteworthy national, state and local figures to examine the charter school movement at a free conference Wednesday, March 20, from 8 a.m. to noon in Eckstein Hall. More than two million children nationwide are enrolled in charter schools, but the impact of such schools has been difficult to assess. Speakers will include the director of the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, Sarah Carr, author of Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City and America’s Struggle to Educate its Children, and a panel of local leaders. Register online at law.marquette.edu.

MARQUETTECharting a course for the future President’s Strategic Planning Workshop brings together faculty, staff and students By Lynn Sheka

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To ensure collaboration at the critical goal-

setting stage of the university-wide strategic plan,

President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., chose to forego this

year’s Presidential Address to bring the univer-

sity together for an interactive workshop Jan. 30.

Speaking to an overflow crowd assembled in the

AMU’s Monaghan Ballroom for the President’s

Strategic Planning Workshop, Father Pilarz noted

the importance of collaboration throughout the

strategic planning process, which began last

spring with 17 listening sessions.

“Throughout this process, if we have heard

anything loud and clear, it has been the need

to collaborate, and about the powerful things

that happen when we reach across traditional

departmental boundaries to cooperate with one

another,” Father Pilarz said. “Along the way,

we’ve learned the importance of preparing

our students for a world that demands they

cross boundaries.”

Nearly 425 faculty, staff and students attended

the workshop to share their ideas for univer-

sity goals. Participants were seated at tables of

eight, which were assigned in advance to ensure

they included faculty, staff and students from

different departments.

“Today is about the university community

having a forum that promotes reaching across

traditional boundaries,” Father Pilarz said in his

opening remarks. “If you think about it, that

was the genius of Father Marquette: to reach

out  fearlessly, to explore, to imagine the future.”

Father Pilarz offered several guidelines for

participants:

• This process is about university-wide goal

setting, so please think outside your depart-

ment or division. What goals will help

advance education across Marquette’s full

range of colleges and departments?

• Try to break away from your day-to-day

role. Be creative. What would you see

for Marquette when you think about the

university in a more holistic way? And

don’t afraid to be bold about that.

• Not every idea will ultimately make it into

the plan, but all of your ideas will influence

us as we determine the goals that will be

included in the plan. So don’t hold back.

At this stage of the game, there are no

bad ideas.

He concluded by reminding participants that

they were engaging in a time-honored Jesuit

tradition. As long as there have been Jesuit

colleges and universities,” he said, “there have

been educators just like you ‘reading the signs of

the times’ and determining how to best use the

gifts at their disposal to extend knowledge and

prepare students for lives as leaders — agents of

change — in a world waiting to be more gentle,

more just.”

After Father Pilarz’s opening remarks, Dr.

Jeanne Hossenlopp, co-chair of the Strategic

Plan Coordinating Committee, dean of the

Graduate School and vice provost for research,

provided further directions for developing goal

statements before the brainstorming portion of

the workshop began. During the discussions,

Father Pilarz, Provost John Pauly, Executive Vice

President Mary DiStanislao, Hossenlopp and

Strategic Plan Coordinating Committee Co-chair

and University Architect Tom Ganey, wound their

way through the tables, listening to conversa-

tions. Table facilitators — academic department

chairs, director-level staff and assistant/associate

vice presidents — kicked off the roundtable

discussions and helped to keep the conversa-

tions focused on goal-setting. Participants wrote

their ideas on paper tablecloths and index cards

provided at each table, and facilitators also

documented ideas.

The planning leadership then reviewed and

synthesized the goal ideas collected from the

workshop, the University Academic Senate, the

Nearly 425 faculty, staff and students shared ideas for university-wide goals at the President’s Strategic Planning Workshop on Jan. 30. Each table brainstormed goal ideas stemming from six overarching strategic planning themes. The workshop took the place of the annual Presidential Address this year.

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Strategic planning C O NT I N U E D F R O M PAG E 1

One out of every 88 children may now fit the criteria to be on the

autism spectrum, according to the newest assessment from the Federal

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So, when autism experts in

three of Marquette’s colleges heard of each other’s work, they decided to

join forces to “become a much more powerful advocate for the growing

number of individuals on the autism spectrum,” explains Mary Carlson,

adjunct lecturer in the College of Education.

Carlson and her collaborators, Dr. Amy Van Hecke, assistant professor

of psychology in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, and Wendy

Krueger, clinical instructor of speech pathology and audiology in the

College of Health Sciences, developed a multidisciplinary, cross-college

teaching initiative titled, “Educating Students about Autism: Putting the

Pieces Together through an Integrated, Experiential Approach,” which

received the 2013–14 Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award. The

class will be offered during the spring 2014 semester and will be open

to undergraduates with speech-language pathology, education and

psychology majors.

“One of the most important things students will learn in this class is

just how important a team approach is in working with individuals who

have autism,” says Van Hecke, director of the Marquette Autism Clinic

and Project, the only location in the Midwest to offer the Program for the

Enrichment and Education of Relational Skills, or PEERS. “Many of the

families of children with autism see a psychologist, a speech pathologist

and a special education teacher. The way we will be teaching our under-

graduates to work in a care team will encourage them to work together

in their professional careers in the future.”

Throughout the semester, students will collaborate in cross-disciplinary

teams of three encompassing one student from each of the three majors.

Each team will be placed at a service-learning site and paired with a

group of children and young adults with autism. The students will develop

a collaborative paper and give a final presentation on their experiences

during the semester.

“I think we can help students see how much we can all learn from

individuals with autism and how we benefit from the opportunity to

make a difference in their lives through our work as therapists,

clinicians and educators,” Krueger says.

The Committee on Teaching selects the Teaching Enhancement Award

winner and looks for projects that foster the development of effective and

sustainable innovations in teaching approaches within specific courses

or clusters of courses. The autism course was chosen in part because of

its focus on promoting high-impact educational practices, including inter-

disciplinary, experiential and service learning.

Teaching Enhancement Award winners strive to educate students about autismBy Lynn Sheka

Left to right: Dr. Amy Van Hecke, Mary Carlson and Wendy Krueger, pictured in a sensory integration room in Cramer Hall, will collaborate to teach undergraduate students about working with children and young adults on the autism spectrum.

Dr. Craig Andrews awarded 2013–14 Way Klingler Sabbatical Award By Christopher Stolarski

Dr. Craig Andrews, professor

and Charles H. Kellstadt Chair

of marketing in the College

of Business Administration,

has been named the 2013–14

Way Klingler Sabbatical Award

winner. During his sabbatical,

Andrews will continue his

research on the effectiveness of

using graphic pictorial warn-

ings on cigarette packages to

increase information about the

severity of tobacco’s health risks

in countries around the world.

Andrews was part of a team

that conducted an experiment

with more than 500 U.S. and

Canadian adult smokers, which

found that highly-graphic images of the negative consequences of

smoking have the greatest impact on smokers’ intentions to quit.

Their research received the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing’s

prestigious Thomas C. Kinnear Award, which honors the journal

article that has made the most significant contribution to the

understanding of marketing and public policy issues.

Coordinating Committee, hundreds of emails to the strategic planning

email address, and input from alumni strategic planning workshops held

in Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.

Priority university-wide goals will be presented to the Board of Trustees

this month. Next, work will turn to developing specific, measurable tactics

that align with available university resources and are tied to metrics

that will hold the university accountable. The final strategic plan will be

shared with the University Academic Senate for approval in April, before

being presented to the Board of Trustees and shared with the university

community in May.

View a video of the President’s Strategic Planning Workshop at

marquette.edu/president/strategic-planning-workshop.php.

Input from the President’s Strategic Planning Workshop is being used to develop priority goals, which will be shared with the university’s Board of Trustees in March.

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By Alexa Porter

Even when Mykl Novak, Web development manager for IT Services, is not at work, he is consciously contemplating “finding Marquette in all things,” a twist on the core tenet of Ignatian spirituality: “finding God in all things.” Novak is the blogger behind postmarq, a Tumblr page where he documents all things related to Marquette University. Tumblr is a micro-blogging social media platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, quotes and audio content in an appealing visual layout.

While postmarq is not directly associated with his role at Marquette, Novak, Arts ‘92, Grad ‘10, sees his blog as a way to serve the Marquette community outside of work. Since its launch in fall 2011, more than 15,000 people have visited the site. Novak spends about 30 hours per month updating postmarq, which is located at postmarq.tumblr.com.

“I take photos on campus before work, over my lunch hour or after work. That’s the quick and easy part,” Novak says. “The real effort happens at home: brainstorming ideas for daily posts, keeping an editorial calendar, researching content online, choosing photos, editing images in Photoshop, writing captions and occasionally stories, and engaging with Marquette fans on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Pinterest,” he says.

Novak has received positive feedback from students, faculty, staff, alumni and Milwaukee residents. “I’ve shared my postmarq photos with university publications, and turned them into computer and smart phone wallpaper, Facebook posts, greeting cards and framed prints.”

Novak’s postmarq was immortalized last spring when it became part of Raynor Memorial Libraries’ digital archives.

Marquette Matters is published monthly during the academic year, except for a combined issue in December/January, for Marquette University’s faculty and staff. Submit information to: Marquette Matters – Zilber Hall, 235; Phone: 8-7448; Fax: 8-7197Email: marquettematters@marquette.edu

Editor: Lynn Sheka

Graphic design:Nick Schroeder

Copyright © 2013Marquette University

On the SideMykl Novak – postmarq blogger

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

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Marquette and the United Community Center partner to empower Milwaukee’s youthBy Jesse Lee

“Take Five” is a brief list about an interesting aspect of Marquette life. Email your list suggestions to marquettematters@marquette.edu.

TAKE5

“It all started with a phone call,” says

Dr. Larry Pan, chair of the physical therapy

department in the College of Health Sciences,

recalling the beginning of a partner ship between

the United Community Center — a Milwaukee-

based social service agency — and two

Marquette professors.

“The UCC called and asked if we’d be

interested in submitting a Youth Empowerment

Program grant with them,” says Pan. “We’re inter-

ested in fitness and wellness, and that’s an issue

in the Hispanic community served by the UCC.”

The Youth Empowerment Program is

a national initiative funded by the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services’

Office of Minority Health, which is focused

on eliminating unhealthy behaviors in at-risk

minority youth.

Pan’s commitment to urban health initia-

tives and his background in grant writing and

management — he oversees one of the largest,

longest-running Health Careers Opportunity

Programs in the nation — made him a sought-

after grant partner for the YEP grant.

Pan knew that, in order to be successful, he

would need to find someone with fitness and

exercise expertise who would also embrace

the grant’s mission-based focus. He called

Dr. Paula Papanek, associate professor of

exercise science and founding director of

the exercise science program.

“Larry called and asked, ‘Can you prepare

a budget by tomorrow?’” says Papanek. “It

was a huge task, but I thought, ‘We have an

opportunity to change people’s lives in real time,’

so we got it done.”

One significant outcome of the partnership

has been in the area of health and wellness,

specifically implementing controlled school

lunch programs to limit caloric intake.

“We’ve taken Marquette’s mission and

transferred it to a community only two

miles from here,” Papanek says.

It’s that mission, along with the dedication

of Pan, Papanek and the staff at the UCC, that

has built the program into a national model.

“We’ve been asked to take on a leadership

role for the Office of Minority Health,” Pan says.

“We now provide program assistance across

the country, including site visits, and we help

make sure the programming fits the needs of the

specific community.”

Pan has presented YEP data four times to the

Department of Health and Human Services in

Washington, D.C., and to the offices of several

members of Congress. He and Papanek continue

to educate leaders at the highest levels on the

need for this type of programming.

“Our goal is to meet with First Lady Michelle

Obama,” says Papanek. “We’re working to get in

touch with her.”

If Pan’s and Papanek’s past experiences

are any indication, success may be a phone

call away.

To learn more about the program, visit

TheYEP.org.

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The top five most interesting numbers related to the Office of Admissions’ recruitment of the Class of 2017:

407,329 email messages sent by the Office of Admissions

12,327 admission decision letters hand‑signed by Roby Blust, dean of admissions and enrollment planning

11,723 total guests to the Office of Admissions

1,170 members in the Class of 2017 Facebook group

611 high school visits in more than 30 states by admissions staff

Earlier this year, Pan (pictured), Papanek and the UCC received an additional $875,000 Youth Empowerment Program grant to continue their work with minority youth who face disproportionately high health risks, a problem that persists across America.

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MARQUETTE HAPPENINGS

MARQUETTE MATTERS

Freedom Project forum to feature experts on U.S. intelligence Experts in the field will participate in a discussion forum titled, “Challenging Freedom: The FBI, U.S. Intelligence Services and Individual Freedoms in Modern America,” Thursday, March 21, at 4:30 p.m. in Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Beaumier Suites. The event is sponsored by the Department of History and the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Mellon Fund. It is part of the ongoing Freedom Project, Marquette’s celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, which is exploring the many meanings of emancipation and freedom.

Marquette Theatre performing Urinetown April 18–28Marquette Theatre will present Urinetown, a satirical musical, April 18–28 at the Helfaer Theatre. The musical follows the story of the residents of Urinetown, who come together to defend their right to answer nature’s call after being told they will need to pay to go to the bathroom. The musical was honored with three Tony Awards in 2002 for its unexpected and witty storyline, which encompasses love and freedom. Tickets are $16 for faculty and staff, and can be purchased at the Helfaer Theatre Box Office or online at marquette.edu/boxoffice.

GROW with Marquette offering session on how to avoid micromanagingGROW with Marquette will sponsor “How to Avoid Micromanaging Your Direct Reports,” presented by Dr. Kerry Egdorf, ombudsman, Tuesday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to noon. Register for the session by emailing growwithmu@marquette.edu. For details on other GROW with Marquette classes that will be held this spring, including sessions on reducing stress and workplace worry, making the most of performance appraisals and honing communication skills, visit marquette.edu/hr. All GROW with Marquette classes are free for Marquette employees, and are intended to foster job-related professional growth and development.

Some hours of operation change for spring break, March 10–17Many departments and services have special hours of operation for spring break, March 10–17. The AMU, Campus Ministry, Help Desk, Raynor Memorial Libraries, Rec Center, Rec Plex, Spirit Shop and the Union Sports Annex will have limited hours during spring break. A complete list of spring break hours can be found at marquette.edu/spring-break-hours/.

For Dr. Toni Roucka, assistant professor

and pre-doctoral program director of general

dentistry in the School of Dentistry, teaching the

building blocks of dental care is more than a job

— it’s a mission. Beginning in 2003, Roucka has

taken her passion around the world by exam-

ining access to dental care.

One of Roucka’s largest projects on dental

access involves long-term refugee camps in

Tanzania, which Roucka first traveled to in 2007.

In these camps, funded by the United Nations

High Commissioner for Refugees, the main

objectives are providing a safe environment,

housing, fresh water, food and basic medical

care to refugees.

“The medical care in these camps is very

basic, and dental care is not funded,” Roucka

says. “These people are displaced and have fled

their homelands due to extreme violence and

fear for their lives. It makes sense that dental

needs take a back seat to everything else

going on in their lives.”

During her first visit to Tanzania, Roucka

learned the refugee camps were staffed with

health care providers whose only medical

training had been provided within the camps.

“We taught refugee health care providers the

basics of emergency care and health promotion

through a two-week training course of lectures

and clinical training,” says Roucka.

By the time she left, those same individuals

were equipped with the means and skills to

provide emergency dental services, such as tooth

extractions and treatment of active infections.

For nearly two years, Roucka collected data

from patient logbooks from two refugee camps

in Tanzania, finding that the programs she had

implemented were self-sustaining and provided

access to dental care that had not existed

previously. Her studies were published in the

International Dental Journal in 2011.

Thanks to Roucka’s work, the two Tanzanian

refugee camps she visited serve a combined

1,900 dental patients each year. Additional

patients now benefit from her services through

Compassionate Dental Care International,

Roucka’s nonprofit organization that provides

similar dental services to underserved popula-

tions around the world. Roucka plans to travel

with her nonprofit to the Dominican Republic

during spring break to provide dental care to

the local population.

While tackling the issue of access to

dental care in refugee camps may

seem daunting to most people,

Roucka’s studies have proven

On a mission: providing dental care in Tanzania’s refugee camps By Lexi Lozinak

that even basic programs

can make a significant differ-

ence in the lives of the most

vulnerable populations.

“My favorite part of working abroad

is meeting the people my dental care

programs affect and seeing how grateful they

are,” Roucka says. “I thought that a project like

this would be the epitome of what mission

work is all about. And it really is.”

Dr. Toni Roucka and her nonprofit organization, Compassionate Dental Care International, provide dental care to underserved populations worldwide, including this patient in a Tanzanian refugee camp.

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