Faculty, staff invited to apply for Wisconsin Idea seminar

Faculty and staff interested in learning about the state of Wisconsin and the university’s relationship to the state should apply for the Wisconsin Idea Seminar, a five-day study tour of the state, to be held May 16-20.

The tour introduces faculty and staff to the Wisconsin Idea, the commitment to using university expertise and resources to address the problems of the state. Nominations are due to dean’s offices March 1.

The program is for recently tenured faculty, new associate deans, new department chairs, new faculty and lead academic staff with statewide responsibilities.

The bus-tour lecturer this year is William Cronon, Vilas and Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies. Guest speakers include Ada Deer, director of the American Indian Studies Program, and Howard Fuller, professor and director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University.

For more information and for nomination forms, go to http://wisideaseminar.wisc.edu, or contact Miriam Simmons, assistant dean of the Graduate School, at 262-9970 or msimmons@bascom.wisc.edu.