Almanac

(Almanac lists facts, figures and miscellany of campus interest. Know something, or want to know? Call us: 262-3846, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu.)

New employees invited to “know your university”
A new employee orientation program, “Know Your University,” is planned Feb. 15, 8:30 a.m-12:30 p.m., Kohl Center.

New Employees will meet in the Kohl Center under “The Mendota Wall” glassworks by UW alum Dale Chihuly, join colleagues for coffee and conversation, and visit with knowledgeable resource representatives for various offices on campus.

Representatives will be on hand from many offices of service to employees. Badger Trolley campus tours and Kohl Center tours are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. New employees should call 263-1016 or register online: http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/NEO.

Enrollment figures released
Preliminary figures show that 36,404 students were enrolled Jan. 22, the first day of instruction for the spring semester. The preliminary figure, from the Office of the Registrar, will change as students can register for classes during the first two weeks of instruction. The final spring semester enrollment figure won’t be available for several weeks. Final total enrollment for spring 2000 was 38,053, according to the Office of the Registrar.

Can’t dance?
From mambo to ballroom and the Lindy to lounge dancing, Wisconsin Union Mini Courses offer classes in just about any contemporary steps. Offered are five-week beginner and advanced classes in Ballroom Dance, East Coast and West Swing and Two-Step country style, Lounge Dancing, Mambo and Merengue, Salsa, Boogie Woogie and the Savoy Style Lindy Hop. Classes don’t start until February, so there is still time to enroll, but class sizes are limited. Costs vary; Wisconsin Union membership is required to enroll, but $30 introductory memberships are available.

Information, 262-3156/5771, wumini@union.wisc.edu. For an update on all classes: http://www.wisc.edu/minicourses.

Teaching fellow nominations
Nominations for the 2001 Teaching Fellows are due Monday, Feb. 5. Eighteen Letters and Science teaching fellows will be selected to plan and lead workshops at the August training session for L&S teaching assistants. Nomination recognizes the outstanding performance of the finest teaching assistants. The L&S Teaching Assistant Instructional Development Program Committee selects fellows and works with them as they develop plans for the workshops. Send nominations to 307 South Hall. Information: Chris Bruhn, bruhn@ls.admin.wisc.edu; Brian Bubenzer, bubenzer@ls.admin.wisc.edu.

Scholar Harth to be honored
Scholars of eighteenth-century British literature will convene Feb. 3 at noon on the seventh floor of Helen C. White Hall to honor the English Department’s Merrit Hughes emeritus professor Phillip Harth. “Eighteenth-Century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth” will be published this spring by the University of Wisconsin Press. It will include essays on John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, and the music, drama, novels, and literary criticism and theory of the British Restoration and eighteenth century.

Backward glance
From Wisconsin Week, Jan. 23, 1991: About 60 to 70 UW–Madison students have been called to active duty as a result of the Persian Gulf war. Chancellor Donna Shalala has declared a “day of education” on campus regarding issues surrounding the conflict … The three-year-old Madison Plan has helped the university hire 46 targeted minority faculty, Provost David Ward says…. UW–Madison is launching a strategic review of all biology programs on campus.