In the midst of a historic political year for

Wisconsin — beginning with the gubernato-

rial recall and ending with pundits predicting

the state will play a key role in the 2012 presi-

dential election — the Department of Political

Science has used political events as a backdrop

to educate students on the many facets of elec-

tion season and politics in America. The game-

changing political season will culminate with an

election night party hosted by the Department

of Political Science, beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday,

Nov. 6, in the Olin Engineering atrium. Students,

faculty and staff from all disciplines can enjoy

free food while watching the election results

on MSNBC, CNN, FOX News and CSPAN.

Other campus events leading up to Election

Day included:

✪ Various departments sponsored a panel on

“What It Means to Stick to the Constitution”

in mid-September. Although the event did

not directly tie to the election, Dr. Lowell

Barrington, chair and professor of the

Department of Political Science, says it was

an example of how “topics discussed during a

campaign season can frame a campus event.”

✪ The effect of media coverage on modern

political campaigns was debated at a panel

discussion held in early October featuring CBS

News Correspondent and Board of Trustees

member Ben Tracy, Nieman Professor of

Journalism Bonnie Brennan and Les Aspin

Center for Government Visiting Instructor

Christopher Murray.

✪ Dr. Susan Giaimo, visiting assistant professor of

political science, organized a panel discussion

held in late October that discussed how health

care issues — including Medicare and Medicaid

CAMPUS HAPPENINGS

NOVEMBER 2012

Annual giving to Marquette tops $50 million in fiscal 2012 Alumni, parents and friends contributed more than $50 million in cash and pledges to Marquette in fiscal 2012, according to University Advancement. For the first time in the university’s history, giving to the annual fund surpassed the $10 million mark, generating more than $10.5 million to support the Marquette Fund, Blue and Gold Fund, Scholars Fund and Bridge to the Future. The $10.5 million figure also exceeded the fiscal 2011 annual giving total by nearly $1 million. In addition, benefactors to the university increased from 26,500 to nearly 27,000.

Apply for faculty retirement benefit by Dec. 3The deadline for tenured faculty to apply for retirement benefits is 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, for the 2012–13 academic year. To be eligible for retire-ment benefits, a tenured faculty member must be eligible for retirement under University Policy and Procedure 4-18, including being at least 55 years of age and having a combined total age and years of full-time service with the university that equals at least 70. The retirement/tenure buyout policy also allows for mid-year retirements, meaning faculty can consider retiring in December. The deadline for faculty to apply for retirement with full retire-ment benefits at the end of a fall academic term is Feb. 1 of the calendar year in which the faculty member intends to forgo tenure. The policy is located at go.mu.edu/retirement-policy.

Benefits enrollment period runs through Nov. 9The annual benefits enrollment period runs through Friday, Nov. 9. Employees do not need to re-enroll unless they are changing their plan option. Those who wish to continue participating in the flexible spending account benefit must also re-enroll at myjob.mu.edu. On-campus biometric screenings for the two-part health risk assessment are available through Nov. 17, for all employees and voluntarily for spouses and same-sex domestic partners. Call 1.877.765.3212 and press “1” to schedule an appointment. Employees who complete the two-part health risk assessment will receive a 10-percent discount on the employee portion of their medical premium.  

Winter Compendium submission deadline is Dec. 7Faculty and staff with professional accomplishments, such as publications, presentations and awards, should make sure they are documented by submit-ting them for inclusion in Compendium by Friday, Dec. 7. Accomplishments submitted to the Faculty Activities Database can be shared directly with Compendium by checking the box to grant permission. Faculty and staff who do not use the FAD need to submit accomplishments online at marquette.edu/omc/compendium.php. Accomplishments that have occurred between June 1 and Nov. 30, 2012, will be used to compile the winter issue, which will be distributed in February 2013.

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— may sway some voters. “The issues are

vitally important, yet very complex. The

panel hopefully helped students under-

stand the positions of the two parties,

and what their plans may mean in

practice,” says Giaimo.

✪ Dr. Karen Hoffman, also of the

political science department, teaches

a class on politics and the media, and

this semester focused on the issue of

sensational journalism. “Students are attuned

to biases in the media,” she says. “We try to

get away from ideologies and hone in on

Teaching political science in a historic election yearBy Lynn Sheka and Alexa Porter

From the New York Times to FOX News,

the Marquette Law School Poll has created

a national buzz from coast to coast. With

Wisconsin at the epicenter of the national

political landscape, the Law School Poll has

become a sought after source providing an

unbiased pulse of public opinion.

Since launching in January, the Law

School has conducted 15 polls throughout

the year, releasing complete results to

the public.

It has garnered nearly 9,000 media

placements worldwide, including major

broadcast networks, daily newspapers

and political websites.

While providing the public with an

independent snapshot of the electorate on a

regular basis during the campaigns, the Poll

will also serve as a repository of information

about the 2012 election year for researchers

and academics for years to come.

Led by Charles Franklin, director of

the Poll and visiting professor in law and

public policy (on leave from the University

of Wisconsin–Madison’s political science

department), and Mike Gousha, distinguished

fellow in law and public policy at the Law

School, the Poll is part of the broader public

policy efforts launched by Dean Joseph D.

Kearney in 2006.

By Brigid O’Brien Miller

Marquette Law School Poll shows pulse of public opinion

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Leading the charge: Hossenlopp and Ganey discuss the strategic planning processBy Lynn Sheka

discussions about campaign ads, campaign

money and why the media is so influential.”

✪ Marquette University Student Government

and the Les Aspin Center led a Student Voter

Registration Drive on campus, which offered

non-partisan venues for students to register to

vote at their campus addresses.

Political science faculty members have also

been tapped as expert sources on the political

climate by local and national media. Dr. John

McAdams commented in USA Today on the

news that Republican presidential nominee

Mitt Romney chose Wisconsin Congressman

Paul Ryan as his running mate, Dr. Julia Azari

weighed in on which U.S. presidents have

been the “coolest” on NPR.org and Dr. Amber

Wichowsky provided context on Wisconsin’s

gubernatorial recall election on PBS’ Nightly

Business Report, among others.

Although this historic election year is drawing

to a close, Barrington says it’s important to

remember: “Politics doesn’t end on election night.

Neither does student involvement in politics.”

Election activities C O NT I N U E D F R O M PAG E 1

By Kate Venne

Twenty years ago, the Ralph C. Hartman Literacy and Learning Center opened its doors to help improve the literacy acquisition of urban children and to strengthen teacher preparation in this critical area. Since then, the Hartman Center, housed within the College of Education, has helped hundreds of Milwaukee children master the core competency of reading.

“If children don’t learn to read well in early schooling, they have a very difficult time catching up to their peers,” says Dr. Kathleen Clark, the center’s director. “In the Hartman Center, undergraduate teacher education students design and deliver specific, targeted reading instruction that accelerates children’s learning.”

Undergraduate students teach inner-city Milwaukee school children twice weekly at the center, while College of Education faculty members and local teachers, many of whom are reading specialists, review lesson plans and supervise tutoring sessions. Faculty and grad-uate students also conduct research on factors that improve children’s reading and language acquisition abilities, as well as the effectiveness of teacher training in literacy instruction.

Jim and Janet Hartman funded the Hartman Center — founded in 1982 by College of Education Professor Emerita Dr. Lauren Leslie — in honor of Jim’s father, Ralph Hartman, a 1931 Marquette Law School graduate. A 20th anniversary celebration attended by Provost John Pauly, College of Education Dean Bill Henk, Dr. Leslie and children who have benefitted from the Hartman Center, was held Oct. 5.

We caught up with strategic planning

Coordinating Committee Co-Chairs Dr. Jeanne

Hossenlopp and Thomas Ganey to discuss the

strategic planning process.

Q: What is the role of the Coordinating Committee in the strategic planning process?

Jeanne Hossenlopp: We start with two

basic jobs that we’ve been given to do this year.

One is to facilitate campus-wide discussion, first

with the themes that Father Pilarz has developed

following his listening sessions last year. Our job

is to make sure people are talking about them,

understanding and grappling with them, and

providing their input. The other thing that we’ve

been asked to do is to develop an environmental

scan. This is a crucial part of us looking at

where higher education is going in the future,

what the landscape outside of Marquette is and

how that will impact the decisions that are made

as we move forward.

Tom Ganey: There’s also the spirit of the

committee, in that Father has made it clear that

we should have a transparent and open process.

The existence of the committee holds all of

us — the co-chairs, the President, the Provost,

the Executive Vice President — a little bit more

accountable. There’s a group that’s raising

questions and reminding us to go the extra

step in communication, in seeking input and

conducting a campus-wide conversation.

Q: What makes your partnership as co-chairs of the Coordinating Committee work?

JH: Each of us works with different groups in

the course of our normal day of business. I talk

a lot to faculty, I work with faculty committees

— those conversations take a certain form and a

certain cadence, and there’s a perspective that’s

shared. When you work with somebody who

then takes a step back and looks at the university

from a different perspective, ( particularly some-

body like Tom, who has been involved in a lot

of project planning, because that’s the nature of

his work) learning how to get different people

to come to consensus about ideas is a really

valuable tool for this whole process.

Q: If someone wants to share feedback with the Coordinating Committee, how do they go about doing that?

JH: One way is they can go and share their

thoughts online through the feedback form on

the strategic planning website. Tom and I are

also holding office hours and we’ve been having

some wonderful discussions.

TG: The other opportunity is if someone

wants to host a conversation they can reach out

to us and either one of us, or another member

of the Coordinating Committee, will go and

meet with them — in a group of four, five, six, it

doesn’t have to be a whole department. In fact it

might be a lot more interesting if it was people

from different departments and different units,

different colleges.

JH: Tom raises a really important point.

This is a great opportunity to disrupt those

normal modes of conversation and bring people

together, bring students into conversations with

faculty and staff, where that may not be the

normal group that comes together to grapple

with a big issue.

Q: What will success look like in May?TG: It will be a plan that people can rally

behind, that people can find themselves in, that

they don’t feel excluded from, but that they

rather feel ownership of, and broad ownership,

across the university community. It will also be

a plan that carries on beyond May, that inspires

department- and college-level planning and

holds us accountable to keep going with it.

JH: And I’d also like to add that a successful

strategic plan will be a collaborative effort with

the entire Marquette community. We hope the

campus and our alumni and friends throughout

the world will continue to be partners in

building Marquette’s strategic plan.

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Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp, vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate School, and Tom Ganey, university architect, are serving as the co-chairs of the strategic planning Coordinating Committee. Together, they have more than 40 years of service at Marquette.

Celebrating 20 years of increasing literacy in Milwaukee

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Just as an artist is able to see a completed painting on a blank canvas, Stephanie Glanzmann can visualize ornate costumes from just one bolt of fabric. Glanzmann, an office assistant in the School of Dentistry, has always been fascinated with fashion history. To her, analyzing fashion trends from various eras is an exciting way to learn intrica-cies about the people who lived during a specific time.

Glanzmann’s mother and grandmother started teaching her how to sew when she was seven. Today, she creates costumes for plays and for the annual Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha, Wis., blending her love for sewing and her fascination with history.

“Costumes can take 20 to 30 hours to create,” says Glanzmann. “If I’m creating a costume for a Renaissance event, I have to be careful with the color selections. During one Renaissance Faire, I worked as a merchant for a friend who runs a leather business, which historically would have made me a middle-class citizen. I couldn’t wear colors such as black, royal blue and purple because they had to be reserved for upper-class citizens.”

Renaissance costumes are very detailed, but when Glanzmann is designing a costume for a play, she uses the “ten-foot rule:” if the costume looks realistic from ten feet away, it will work. For Glanzmann, creating concepts for a costume is the most difficult part of the process.

She recommends costume creation to others who enjoy sewing, as she finds it to be “an excellent outlet to exercise your creative mind.”

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

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The top five numbers associated with the Office of Residence Life’s weekly dining hall meal traditions are:

900 cookies for each “cookie night”

200 pounds of chicken nuggets for each “nugget night”

150 pounds of mac n’ cheese for each “nugget night”

50 pounds of yogurt for each “smoothie night”

50 pounds of fruit for each “smoothie night”

To learn more about the tasty traditions in Marquette’s dining halls, read the Marquette Magazine web exclusive at: go.mu.edu/cookienight.

Arts and Sciences dean search progressingBy Brian Dorrington

We sat down with Dr. Phillip Naylor, chair of the Klinger College of Arts and Sciences dean search committee, to learn more about the college’s current dean search.

Can you update us on the Arts and Sciences Dean Search?The committee began meeting in June, and we met during the summer. The committee is very engaged and excited about finding a new dean. President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., has been especially supportive of our efforts, as well as Provost John Pauly. We are working closely with our search firm, Isaacson, Miller, to identify and pursue qualified candidates, and are on track with our timeline to bring final candidates to campus early in the spring semester. The committee is optimistic that a new dean will be in place by fall semester 2013. 

Has the last dean search affected your current search?I regard the search as a process. I also appreciate the conscientious efforts of colleagues in the past as contributors to the process and have consulted with them. Over the past several years,

I believe the university has learned a lot about itself and, to its credit, has acted positively, especially regarding LGBT inclusion initiatives, notably the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. Although the past informs the present, the committee is most interested in the future.

What are a few key characteristics you and your committee are looking for?If you look at our “Opportunities and Challenges Profile” document at marquette.edu/deansearch, you’ll note that we’ve identified the need for an imagina-tive leader and an advocate, as well as one who values cooperation and collaboration and, of course, Catholic, Jesuit education. We are also looking for a leader who will possess energy and enterprise, especially toward building strong relationships with our college departments and alumni.

How do the arts and sciences remain central to the mission of a Marquette University education? To understand our increasingly complex world today, one needs an expansive imagi-nation and intellect. This is what the college strives for in its courses. This is the beauty of the arts and sciences, its breadth in addi-tion to its depth. The college instills curiosity and inspires exploration that enhances and enriches one’s life. Père Jacques Marquette serves as our exemplar as an explorer of the secular as well as the spiritual self. The College of Arts and Sciences particularly honors that Jesuit mission and legacy.

Dr. Phillip Naylor, professor of history, is serving as the chair of the College of Arts and Sciences dean search committee.

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Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award applications due Nov. 30Applications for the 2013–14 Way Klinger Teaching Enhancement Award are now available. This award is intended to foster the development of effective and sustainable changes and innovations in teaching approaches within specific courses or clusters of courses. Applications are due by Friday, Nov. 30, and should be submitted to Dr. Gary Meyer, vice provost for under graduate programs and teaching. Applications can be found online at go.mu.edu/teaching-enhancement.

Center for Teaching and Learning faculty fellows available for consultation The first recipients of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Faculty Fellowships, Dr. Lisa Hanson, associate professor of nursing; Dr. Richard Taylor, professor of philosophy; and Dr. John LaDisa, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, are available throughout the spring 2013 semester to consult in their areas of interest as well as to conduct workshops for faculty on topics such as using video conferencing in a global context, creating learning simulations that address issues of diversity and exploring the use of 3-D virtual environments. 

Dr. Joe Daniels, professor of economics,

enjoyed his first Fulbright to Canada in 1997

so much that he headed back a second time.

Daniels is the Visiting Fulbright Chair in

Governance and Public Policy in the Department

of Political Science at McMaster University in

Hamilton, Ontario, this fall. While there, he is

not teaching, but instead is focusing on his latest

research regarding how patriotic and national-

istic attitudes after 9/11 have shaped U.S. and

Canadian residents’ views on trade, immigra-

tion and foreign direct investment policies.

Although his initial research will focus on the

United States and Canada, he plans to expand

his analysis by using survey data collected from

23 countries over an eight-year period. The ulti-

mate goal of his research is to better understand

various groups’ resistance to global economic

engagement and thereby improve policy

communications.

“I anticipate that my interaction with the

faculty and students at McMaster University will

give me new insights on immigration and trade

policy by exposing me to differing perspectives,”

he says.

Daniels, who is also part of the G8

Research Group at the University of Toronto,

says McMaster is a good home base because of

his other professional connections in Ontario

and because of McMaster’s highly regarded

political science department.

This is Daniels’ third sabbatical spent at

another university (in 2009 he served as the

Daniels wins Fulbright to research attitudes toward immigration, trade policyBy Nicole Sweeney Etter

Visiting Professor of International Economics

at Wake Forest University), and his second

time being assigned to a department other

than economics. “I’m most excited about being

located in the political science department,”

he says. “This has really helped me maintain a

multidisciplinary approach in both my research

and teaching.”

Dr. Joe Daniels, professor of economics, is serving as the Visiting Fulbright Chair in Governance and Public Policy at McMaster University in Ontario.

Hard work shines through Zilber Hall’s Madonna della Strada Chapel By Lexi Lozinak

President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., dedicated and blessed the Madonna della Strada Chapel on Sept. 27, the 500th anniversary of the approval of the Society of Jesus as a religious order of the Catholic Church.

As a champion of the university’s commitment to ensure each

new building on campus has a designated space for reflection and

prayer, the Office of Mission and Ministry, working with the Office of

the University Architect, envisioned a quiet, reflective, unique space

for Zilber Hall. After almost three years of thoughtful planning and

deliberation, the Madonna della Strada Chapel on the second floor

of Zilber is now open to the Marquette community.

On the north wall of the chapel — named in honor of the first Jesuit

church in Rome — four stained glass windows depict illustrated scenes

from the St. John’s Bible, which was produced in 1998 as the first hand-

written Bible in 500 years. Rev. Doug Leonhardt, S.J., associate vice

president of Mission and Ministry, and Dr. Stephanie Russell, vice presi-

dent for Mission and Ministry, spent numerous hours with University

Architect Thomas Ganey, discussing the design of the chapel, especially

the stained glass windows. Ganey worked with the Board of Trustees

at St. John’s University and Donald Jackson, artistic director of the

St. John’s Bible, to secure permission to re-duplicate on glass several of

the illuminations from the Bible. Ganey spent many hours with a local

stained glass artist to ensure the windows accurately depict the bright

colors of the original illuminations.

“We wanted scenes that portrayed the central themes of Judaism and

Christianity,” says Father Leonhardt. The result is vibrant stained glass

depictions of the Creation Story, the Word Made Flesh, the Suffering

Servant and the Resurrected Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene.

While the chapel is a beautiful space to engage in prayer, Father

Leonhardt believes it also serves a greater purpose for the Marquette

community. “The Ignatian spirituality that infuses the vision and mission

of Marquette is a spirit of reflection,” says Father Leonhardt. “This space

invites people to stop, look at their own experiences and see that God

is more active in their lives than they may think.”

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