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FACULTY/STAFF NEWSLETTER Volume 29, Number 1, February 2008 RiverView: A new home for first-year students By Beth Stafford. Photography by Greg Walz-Chojnacki. N ew residents have moved into UWM’s RiverView Residence Hall, located at the intersection of E. North Ave. and N. Commerce St., for the beginning of the spring semester. The building is designed exclusively for first-year students and will ease the university’s shortage of freshman housing. The building has 488 beds, mostly organized into shared suites. The building also includes a dining facility, fitness room, laundry facility, coffee shop, lounges, music practice room, convenience store, student kitchen and indoor bicycle storage. Other unique aspects of RiverView freshmen feel connected to their fellow students, include a resident assistant for every 43 students, instructors and UWM, says Peak. 24-hour shuttle service to campus, location on the Members of LLCs have access to special Milwaukee River and easy access to riverside bike resources, programs and activities, and take classes and walking trails. at RiverView related to their LLC topic. The remain- Scott Peak, director of university housing, adds der of their classes are on the main UWM campus that this “first-year experience” also includes class- about 1.5 miles away. room space, faculty offices and a clear connection to The areas of focus for LLCs are visual arts, nurs- academic life. ing and health sciences, cultures and communities, There are five Living Learning Communities information and technology, and exploring majors. (LLCs) at RiverView Residence Hall. Open only to With the completion of RiverView, UWM now has RiverView residents, each LLC is designed to help a total of 3,600 beds available in University Housing. February 2008 • UWMREPORT • 1 FROM THE CHANCELLOR UWM’s distinct approach UBUS PARK-RIDE LOT ADDED ON SOUTH SIDE to growing funded research Acting on a request from students, UWM has joined forces with Rockwell ne of the walls I keep running up against The state would do what, it can be argued, O Automation and the Milwaukee County when discussing the academic and, especially, the state does best: build facilities. With its access Transit System (MCTS) to offer a new bus the research growth needed for UW–Milwaukee is to capital, it is extremely qualified to handle this stop and free commuter parking lot to pas- the misperception that we want to build “another segment of the partnership. It must be made clear, sengers who use the South Side express Madison.” Nothing could be further from reality. however, that if the state’s solution for UWM is to service, Route 40U, to get to UWM. First, and this is make the university stand in line before the state The new UBus Park-Ride lot, which was a big “first,” the state building commission, we are all going to be pretty provided by Rockwell, began does not have the old before the next building is built. Given our service on Jan. 22 with a resources to create a success with going from concept to completion at the ribbon-cutting at the site, adja- second university with RiverView Residence Hall in less than two years, I cent to the Rockwell plant on the depth and breadth hope we can keep similar options open. Polcyn Street, between Scott that is the University The private and nonprofit sectors, I believe, and Madison streets. of Wisconsin–Madison. bring to the tripartite partnership the prospect of A group of UWM The land alone would coordinating with the university their current R&D students called “Loyalty Equals be a staggering acqui- operations and, I believe even more important, Brotherhood” initiated action sition. Imagine the access for the university to their research equipment. to add the lot to help near cost of acquiring all Just consider a handful of the distinguished South Side residents pick up the property from advanced automation companies in this region the direct bus to campus a our current northern – Johnson Controls, Rockwell Automation, GE Carlos E. Santiago little closer to downtown. boundary, Edgewood Healthcare and Astronautics – and it becomes The Rockwell stop is north of both the Avenue, west to the incredibly invigorating to consider what such College Avenue and Holt Avenue Park-Ride Milwaukee River, east to Lake Michigan – and then partnerships could mean if these organizations are lots along Interstate 94. In addition to the south to Center Street! willing to work out with us confidentiality and new stop, Route 40U will continue to pro- Beyond acquiring territory would be the cost of proprietary issues, and co-locate in UWM-operated vide Freeway Flyer service to UWM from building facilities, and hiring faculty and staff. And research facilities. the College and Holt Park-Ride lots. what of creating the myriad programs, which Madison What would UWM bring to this tripartite part- Passengers will pick up the northbound accomplished over the past century and a half? nership? People. They are our advantage. Many bus at the Rockwell stop, but on the return Even if the State of Wisconsin had the resources UWM scientists and engineers already have estab- trip they must get off at Greenfield Avenue. to take the university in Madison and reproduce it lished regional partnerships. Because of the impor- and 5th Street, and walk three blocks back in Milwaukee, I would say that is not the way to tance of such relationships to our university’s future, to the Rockwell lot. go. I think the Milwaukee region’s structure and I am confident we all will be creating more. This routing was chosen to keep the composition – in particular, its advanced automa- In the months and years ahead, we will be buses on schedule and limit costs. MCTS tion, biomedical engineering, health care sectors and further developing the distinct Milwaukee approach. estimated that adding the new stop would freshwater science – make the cities and the regions Please feel free to share this concept with other have a nominal impact on the Route 40U very different. people – especially the next time someone suggests schedule (5 minutes northbound and 3.5 At this point, I believe it is easy to see that the our research and academic expansion plans are the minutes southbound). Madison model is unique to Wisconsin, and what equivalent of UWM trying to become “another is needed instead is something I believe we could Madison.” call a distinct new Milwaukee approach. It would be based on a tripartite partnership exclusively GET THE LATEST focused on UWM building its research infrastruc- ture. Involved would be the state government, ON THE WEB private and nonprofit entities, and the university. Carlos E. Santiago, Chancellor For a complete schedule of events and the latest campus news, start your day at www.uwm.edu. Campus Master Plan update By Amy Watson C urrently, UWM is engaged in the first of many infor- UWMREPORT mation-gathering phases of the Campus Master Plan. During this phase, department chairs February 2008 Vol. 29, No. 1 and directors of large centers are responding to an academic plan- UWM Report is published nine times ning survey that gives them the a year for the faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee by opportunity to provide details the staff of University Communications about their plans for academic and Media Relations. programs, research and interdisci- plinary initiatives in the next five Editor: Nancy A. Mack and 10 years. Academic deans Associate Editor: Angela McManaman Assistant Editor: Laura L. Hunt will also provide input about Designer: Mario R. Lopez plans for their school/college. Photos: UWM Photographic The surveys will be completed Services in early March, and the responses will be compiled for the master been submitted in response to a request for consult- University Communications and plan consultants, who will examine the informa- ing services. Consultants will be selected later this Media Relations Mitchell B-95, 414-229-4271 tion when they arrive on campus later this spring. month, and will likely arrive on campus in April. Subcommittees that represent faculty in Engineering At that time, they will begin gathering information, Back issues of UWM Report are avail- and Basic Sciences, Health Disciplines, and Liberal including the survey results, as well as meeting with able on the Web at: www.uwm.edu/ Arts and Professions will facilitate this phase of the internal and external constituencies. News. campus master plan. As soon as a consultant selection is made, details This publication may be requested in At the same time, the Wisconsin Department will be posted on the Campus Master Plan Web site accessible format. of Administration is reviewing proposals that have at www.uwm.masterplan.edu. 2 • UWM REPORT • February 2008 UWM employees are key to SECC success By Angela McManaman A lthough contributions are still trickling in, campaign assembling packets, distributing materials its fund-raising goal, and UWM has become SECC’s UWM’s State and University Employees and coordinating with the citywide SECC campaign. single largest contributor. Combined Giving Campaign (SECC) has once again Then there are the special events organized by indi- Despite these successes, Prince hints that she is surpassed its annual fund-raising goal. vidual departments: Enrollment Services’ Book, Bake ready to shake things up for 2008. Faculty, staff and retired faculty contributed more and Media Sale; the College of Health Sciences’ Pasta “But people will have to wait and see,” she says. than $160,000 for nonprofit organizations throughout Cook-Off; UITS’ penny wars, sumo wrestling and more. And what won’t change in 2008? The greater Milwaukee. The dollars raised at UWM account Last year, UWM won the SECC Gold Award for most Chancellor’s parking spot will once again be for 70 percent of the citywide campaign’s total earnings.