Masthead-13.EPS Faculty/Staff Newsletter Volume 27, Number 8 November 2006 UWM TO LAUNCH REDESIGNED WEB SITE By Wendy Luljak, Information & Media Technologies UWM YEARBOOKS NOW ONLINE The digital collection of the UWM yearbook, The Ivy, is now online at www. uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/yearbooks/ index.html. The yearbook was named for the ivy- clad campus buildings, which symbolized a tradition of knowledge and learning. It was published from 1942 to 1968. No volumes appeared in 1960 or 1961. The 25 volumes in the digital collection contain 5,266 pages. The annual docu- ments the history of both the Milwaukee State Teachers College – later renamed the Wisconsin State College, Milwaukee – and the formative years of UWM. The yearbooks constitute a pictorial history of the UWM campus, its adminis- trators and faculty. It is an especially rich source for understanding student life and activities, including academics, honor soci- eties, professional groups, sororities and fraternities, and athletics. UWM Archivist Michael Doylen he worldwide public face of UWM gets a A carryover from the current home page will expressed the hope that this digital collec- facelift with the launch of a redesigned UWM be the news feature “Today at UWM.” This daily tion will support research in the history of Web site at the end of the fall semester. The headline and accompanying article highlights what’s UWM, student life generally and family T site will feature a new look that reflects UWM’s happening at UWM, including news about student history. strategic direction and will provide an upgraded Web programs, faculty achievements, upcoming events, presence. The new site will also incorporate the latest the arts and sports. Web technologies by using a content management system (CMS) and a new server environment. IMPROVED AND STREAMLINED NAVIGATION SHOWCASING THE FACE OF UWM The new uwm.edu will introduce improved Visitors to the new UWM home page will see navigation that is simplified and reorganized. The three distinct aspects of the university through goal is to provide visitors with greater accessibility, featured areas: the research and “Access to Success” and more timely and accurate information about initiatives in the “Something Great in Mind” section; academic programs, research initiatives, community profiles of life on the campus in “Inside UWM”; and partnerships and events. the current day’s news in “Today at UWM.” The redesigned navigational structure allows The new “Something Great in Mind” feature individuals to easily find information based on their is designed to showcase UWM’s commitment to user profile – future or current student, faculty or research, student success, diversity and community staff, alumnus or friend, business partner or visi- partnerships. Stories, which will rotate every two to tor. Additional links on the home page have been three weeks, will introduce the public to research condensed to seven primary areas: Academics, initiatives and profiles of the students benefiting from Research, Access to Success, Diversity, Libraries, UWM’s Access to Success program. Athletics and the Campaign for UWM. “The ‘Something Great in Mind’ feature will pres- This new navigation structure is based on exten- ent powerful images of the great work happening in sive research, including online surveys, focus groups, A page from the 1943 edition of The Ivy. Deferred our research laboratories and classrooms,” said Tom consultation with experts in the field of Web design until graduation, most male students immediately went Luljak, vice chancellor for university relations. “It and incorporation of “best practices.” off to serve in World War II. allows us to share with the world the aspirations of our campus community.” INCORPORATING THE LATEST WEB The new “Inside UWM” element will introduce TECHNOLOGIES visitors to the people who make up UWM. This The Web redesign will utilize UWM’s new content section will profile students, faculty members, alumni management system (CMS). This system, which will and community partners. “The goal is to show the soon be available for all campus units, provides an personal face of UWM,” said Luljak, “giving our easier way to update and manage Web content. visitors a greater understanding of who we are.” Continued on page 3 UWM Report • June/July 2006 • 1 FROM THE CHANCELLOR BECOMING AN ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY Call for nominations UWM ALUMNI he concept and practice of academic entrepre- been established to support UWM research and ASSOCIATION AWARDS neurship has been gaining strength at institu- collaborative ventures that will encourage economic Nominations are now being tions of higher education over the past decade development and the formation of new companies. T sought for the following UWM Alumni or so and, thanks to recent progress made by the What is especially encouraging about this advance Association awards. Nominations will be UWM Foundation, our university is no exception. is the operational support we are receiving from key accepted from UWM alumni and faculty The need to become an entrepreneurial university Milwaukee-area organizations. Harley-Davidson members. The nomination deadline for is based on the realization that traditional funding Motor Company and Wisconsin Energy Corporation both awards is Friday, Dec. 1, 2006. sources for public have stepped forward with pledges of $1 million For more information or nomination colleges – specifically each, and the prominent law firm of Michael Best & forms, call Erin Harrass at 414-906- from the state govern- Friedrich has partnered with the Research Foundation 4662 or e-mail [email protected]. ment – has shrunk and to provide legal services critical to the foundation’s will continue to do so. success. I believe we will see additional investors in 2007 DISTINGUISHED Student fee income is this initiative in the coming months. ALUMNUS AWARD now the single largest Again, as with the Real Estate Foundation, it is Recipients must have distinguished source of funding for hoped that the developments coming from these themselves, in the period since gradu- UWM (58 percent for investments will be both beneficial to the investors ating from UWM, with outstanding the 2005-06 fiscal year). and will establish a revenue stream for UWM to achievements in their career, civic involve- Just five years earlier, it support future initiatives. ment or both. Up to four awards may be was almost the opposite I am very grateful to Foundation Board Chair presented at Spring Commencement. – the state accounted Mark Reinemann of Jefferson Wells International for 61 percent of for his leadership in these entrepreneurial efforts to Carlos E. Santiago 2007 GOLD (GRADUATE OF UWM funding in support this endeavor and take this risk. I would THE LAST DECADE) AWARD 2000-01. also like to thank Foundation Board members Bruce Recipients must have graduated As I mentioned in my September Plenary address, Block of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C. and Dan from UWM within the last 10 years and the UWM Foundation has become an integral Bader of the Helen Bader Foundation Inc. for their have achieved a measure of success in element in our efforts to develop alternative revenue willingness to take on the chair positions for the real their field, bringing credit to themselves sources to offset state funding decreases. The founda- estate and research foundations, respectively. Without and the university. Up to 10 awards tion is our platform on which we will build partner- their leadership, these exciting new initiatives would may be presented annually; one repre- ships. Chief among them right now are partnerships not be possible. sentative from each UWM school and in the areas of real estate and research. I also hope that all faculty and staff scientists and college may be honored. The awards Those observing recent university housing researchers will get to know Brian Thompson, the are presented at the UWMAA Awards developments at UWM know that the fourth tower former TechStar co-managing director who joined Reception in May. of the Sandburg Residence Halls took more than a UWM in June to oversee the Research Foundation. decade to move from concept to completion, and He is on staff specifically to help our innovators find the Kenilworth Square took nearly a decade. Under ways for the private sector to support their research. the guidance of the UWM Real Estate Foundation, He is based in Mitchell Hall and can be reached at the freshman housing complex now under construc- 414-229-3397 or [email protected]. tion at the northeast corner of North Avenue and Other public research universities with longer Humboldt Boulevard will have moved through the histories than UWM’s had the advantage of estab- same process in less than two years. lishing themselves and their research operations prior Through the Real Estate Foundation, the new to the downturn in traditional public funding sources. structure is being created with no state funds, but We cannot build UWM in the way those other with the agreement of our private partners that the universities were built – there are just not enough completed facility will be managed by university staff. state dollars to go around. But that does not mean we The project also is intended to create a revenue stream cannot build our research infrastructure. It just means for the university to support related operations. we must be more creative and entrepreneurial – both This specialized foundation is starting with univer- of which our university is quite capable of doing. GET THE LATEST sity housing, but we should all expect it to go beyond ON THE WEB that to also create partnerships that will lead to the For a complete schedule of events construction of research and academic facilities. and the latest campus news, start That leads us to our second specialized orga- your day at www.uwm.edu. Carlos E. Santiago, Chancellor nization, the UWM Research Foundation.