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The search for Marquette’s 24th presidentBy Lynn Sheka

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As the fall semester comes to a close, the

search for Marquette’s 24th president is in

full swing, propelled by the goal of having

a permanent president in place to start the

2014–15 academic year.

In early October, the Board of Trustees

formed a Presidential Search Committee —

chaired by Board of Trustees Member John

F. Ferraro, Bus Ad ’77, that for the first time

includes a dean and faculty member (see

Committee membership call out box).

This presidential search marks a pivotal

moment in Marquette’s history: it is the first that

will include both Jesuit and layperson candidates

following amendment of the university’s bylaws

by the Board of Trustees in 2011.

Ferraro says the next president, whether

Jesuit or layperson, must be wholeheartedly and

unequivocally committed to Marquette’s Catholic,

Jesuit mission and identity.

“Choosing the most qualified and the best

person, man or woman, to lead Marquette has

got to be at the top of the agenda, and Catholic

identity and Jesuit mission has got to be in

the DNA of that person,” Ferraro said in an

introductory video posted on the Presidential

Search website.

To ensure the Marquette community has

multiple ways to weigh in on the qualifications

and characteristics that the university’s next

president should possess, the Search Committee

hosted 10 community input sessions during the

first two weeks of November and provided an

online input form for faculty, staff, students, the

Jesuit community, alumni, parents and friends

of the university to share their thoughts.

Individuals were asked to review the

Presidential Profile created during the presiden‑

tial search in spring 2010, and share feedback

on whether the qualities and characteristics

identified as important then were still relevant

or needed to be updated. Notes from each of

the community input sessions are posted on

the Presidential Search website.

The Search Committee is developing a

Presidential Position Statement to reflect the

Presidential Search Committee Members n John F. Ferraro, Bus Ad ’77, vice chair

of the Board of Trustees, chair of the Presidential Search Committee, global chief operating officer at Ernst & Young

n Patricia Cervenka, professor of law and director of the Law Library

n Dr. William Cullinan, PT ’81, dean of the College of Health Sciences

n Patrick Lawton, Bus Ad ’78, Grad ’80, Trustee, managing director, fixed income capital markets group, Robert W. Baird & Co.

n Dr. Arnold Mitchem, Grad ’81, Trustee, retired president, Council for Opportunity in Education

n Rev. Joseph O’Keefe, S.J., Trustee, professor of education at Boston College

n Dr. Janis Orlowski, Eng ’78, Trustee, senior director, Health Care Affairs, American Association of Medical Colleges

n Owen Sullivan, Arts ’79, Trustee, retired CEO of Right Management, Jefferson Wells, and president of specialty brands, ManpowerGroup

More than 285 people attended 10 community input sessions held during the first two weeks of November, and more than 850 individuals submitted feedback online.

Final Mid-year Commencement will be held Dec. 15Marquette’s final December graduation ceremony will take place at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, at the U.S. Cellular Arena. Speakers will include Interim President Robert A. Wild, S.J., a student speaker and Dr. Donald Neumann, professor of physical therapy in the College of Health Sciences. The Baccalaureate Mass will be held Saturday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Church of the Gesu.

Annual giving to Marquette tops $47 million in fiscal 2013Nearly 28,000 benefactors invested $47 million in Marquette during fiscal 2013, according to University Advancement, resulting in 30 new endowed scholarships and support for more than 650 funds. Three gifts of more than $1 million were received, including $8.3 million to fund the new O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism. Annual giving of more than $10 million included a record-high $4 million to the Blue and Gold Fund.

Deadlines for Way Klingler awards approachingUp to four full-time, regular, junior faculty will receive Way Klingler Young Scholar Awards for 2014–15. The awards of up to $32,000 fund $2,000 in operating expenses and cover up to 50 percent of salary so the recipients can take a one-semester sabbatical. Award winners are selected by the Committee on Research. The application is due Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. Deans have until Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, to nominate full-time associate or full professors for a Way Klingler Fellowship. Two fellowships will be awarded in 2014, one in science and a second in the humanities/social sciences. The science fellow will receive $50,000 annually for three years, and the humanities fellow will receive $20,000 annually for three years. The fellows will be chosen by the Committee on Research. Applications for the 2014–15 Way Klingler Teaching Enhancement Award, intended to foster the development of effective and sustainable changes and innovations in teaching approaches within specific courses or clusters of courses, are due Monday, Dec. 2. Applications for all Way Klingler Faculty Development Awards are available on the Office of the Provost website.

Marquette community’s feedback, as well as the

challenges and opportunities of the presidential

role. The comprehensive position description

will be presented to the Board

of Trustees for approval

in December.

The Search

Committee is also

actively building a

broad pool of qual‑

ified candidates

— both Jesuit

and layperson —

While the next year might not be as wild

as 2012, there will be plenty to keep tabs

on. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is up for

re‑election in 2014, and both Walker and Ryan

are being touted as potential 2016 Republican

presidential candidates.

“It would be kind of disappointing to be in a

state that was so lopsided that everything was a

foregone conclusion — and we’re certainly not

that,” Franklin says. “The different outcomes we

saw in 2012 are certainly proof of our continued

swing status.”

Franklin will continue to track those races

in 2013 and beyond, but he’s also using the

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The next chapter for the Marquette Law School Poll By Chris Jenkins

“I have requests right now

from both Democratic

and Republican firms for

anybody with these [big

data] skills to walk into

a job,” Franklin says.

For a veteran observer of Wisconsin politics

such as Charles Franklin, it’d be hard to top 2012.

Between the gubernatorial recall election,

Paul Ryan’s vice presidential candidacy and

Wisconsin’s swing‑state status in the November

election, there was no shortage of national

attention to state politics.

Through it all, the Marquette Law School

Poll, led by Franklin and the largest indepen‑

dent polling project in state history, consistently

gave voters an accurate look at public opinion.

The poll correctly predicted the margins of the

recall, senate and presidential races, each within

two points of the final results.

Franklin, who spent 2012 as a visiting

professor at Marquette on leave from the

University of Wisconsin–Madison, joined the

Marquette faculty on a full‑time basis Aug. 1.

He remains director of the poll while adding

the title of professor of law and public policy,

and is looking forward to building on the poll’s

successful first two years.

“I think bringing some perspective to the

issue is the No. 1 goal here,” Franklin says. “Not

to argue one side or the other, or take posi‑

tions on public policy, but to try to provide the

set of base facts from which different perspec‑

tives can legitimately argue the virtues of their

side and the defects of the other side. That’s

consistent with the purpose of the Law School’s

public policy initiative since Mike Gousha came

on board in 2007. Using the poll to support the

work of the policy initiative in collaboration with

Gousha and others has been deeply satisfying.”

poll for other purposes. The poll is supporting

Prof. Michael O’Hear of the Law School and

Associate Professor Darren Wheelock of Social

and Cultural Sciences as they examine public

attitudes on truth‑in‑sentencing policies and has

incorporated questions from Political Science

Assistant Professor Amber Wichowsky and

Diederich College of Communication Professor

Robert Griffin among other faculty.

Franklin continues to poll on topics outside

of politics and law, seeking public attitudes on

everything from people’s financial outlook to

their participation in religious activities, and

welcomes suggestions from other faculty.

“Those other topics don’t always get the head‑

lines that a ‘horse race’ poll or question gets, but

they give us over time the chance to look at a

variety of issues,” Franklin says.

“Big data” and analytics are hot right now, in

everything from politics and business to sports.

Franklin doesn’t think it’s a fad, and he hopes

current students pay attention to a growing field.

“I have requests right now from both

Democratic and Republican firms for anybody

with these skills to walk into a job,” Franklin

says. “And a pretty good job, not an internship.

I would love to be able to help send students to

those places as opportunities to start a career.

It requires building those skills while you’re still

an undergrad, and it requires being aware that

these opportunities exist.”

Building off the Law School Poll’s success during its first two years, Charles Franklin is collaborating with Craig Gilbert, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter who is in the middle of a six-month stint as the Law School’s Lubar Fellow for Public Policy Research, in exploring political polarization in the region.

with the help of national executive search firm

Witt/Kieffer, which has extensive experience

assisting with presidential searches at Catholic

and Jesuit universities. Next, the confidential

work of winnowing that candidate pool and

reviewing candidates’ credentials will begin.

The Search Committee plans to conduct inter‑

views with semifinalists during the spring 2014

semester. As the search moves toward finalists,

the Search Committee would prefer that various

stakeholders participate in the final selection,

but is unwilling to lose top candidates who

prefer a confidential process. At a recent input

session, Witt/Kieffer consultant, Dennis Barden,

shared that current presidential searches at

private universities are typically confidential,

as candidates often hold executive positions at

other institutions and want to return to those

positions if they are not selected.

The Search Committee will present finalists, as

well as a recommendation for president, to the

Board of Trustees, which will elect Marquette’s

president. Ferraro says he is confident the next

president of Marquette will be announced before

the end of the academic year.

Learn more at marquette.edu/presidentialsearch.

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The next evolution of student advising

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The top five biggest sales days at the Spirit Shop during the 2012-13 fiscal year were:

1. National Marquette Day, March 2

2. Alumni Weekend, July 27

3. Elite 8 Friday, March 29

4. Elite 8 Saturday, March 30

5. Christmas Break, December 15

Visit the Spirit Shop online at marquette.edu/spiritshop.By Laura Moderhock

Rev. John D. Jones, professor of philosophy and interim chair of the Department of Physics, has always used music and prayer to center himself, but his passion for photography has also begun to play a key role in his personal expression.

Father Jones, an Orthodox Christian priest, says the camera allows him to focus on ordinary things and affords him a different perspective on the world.

“I value photography and music precisely because they are ways of conveying rich meaning in a non-conceptual and non-verbal way,” says Father Jones. “I often refer to photography and music

Marquette University’s advising enterprise

is ever‑evolving because as programs and

course offerings change, so too do students’

advising needs.

After several recent student‑based surveys

indicated that undergraduate advising improve‑

ments could be made, the Office of the Provost

charged deans of every college to take a closer

look at the needs of their students, and how

advising could be improved

“Advising is a key factor in student success;

it is a priority to us, and it’s going to stay a

priority,” says Anne Deahl, associate vice provost

for academic support programs and retention.

“It is also a process that needs to evolve as the

needs of the students change. As a new process,

we have to give it time to work.”

Deahl says deans continually study how to

best resource advising and review best practices

to utilize faculty expertise to serve students’

needs. Significant changes have taken effect

this fall, including in the College of

Engineering, which created an Academic

Advising Center.

The center includes a new director of

academic advising, two staff members with

redefined roles and responsibilities, and an

existing faculty member, who assumed a part‑

time role as the associate dean for academic

affairs and oversees the center’s staff. The

center provides drop‑in advising services

for any undergraduate engineering student.

“We saw an opportunity to be proactive and

create new pathways for academic advising

to better serve the needs of the students and

allow faculty more time for career advising

and mentoring,” says Dr. Kristina Ropella,

executive associate dean of the College

of Engineering.

Similar changes and advancements are in

place in the College of Nursing and the Helen

Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences.

Advising, of course, is a two‑way partner‑

ship requiring student participation. Students

are equipped with a pair of self‑guidance tools

to better the advisee‑adviser relationship. The

graduation checklist available in the Academic

Advisement tool indicates exactly where students

are on their graduation path, and the tool also

provides opportunities to both track progress

and explore alternate degree possibilities.

Students should have course selections in

mind and be prepared with questions prior to

their appointments with advisers, says Brigid

Lagerman, the director of academic advising

in the College of Engineering. She also asks

students to bring their graduation checklist.

“The level of preparedness on the part of

the student varies widely,” Lagerman says.

“With prepared students, we are able to

agree on a course list quickly, and I spend

the rest of the time answering any questions

the student has.”

in my classes to give students examples of ways in which they can learn about the world through experience, not just rational reflection and analysis.”

“Philosophy and academic work is very head-centered for me,” says Father Jones. “But music and photography are very centered in the heart, the place where we are really centered as whole persons.”

View more of Father Jones’ photos at johndjonesphotos.com.

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Physical therapy professor receives Fulbright scholarship to Nepal By Jesse Lee

Dr. Guy Simoneau, professor of physical therapy in the College of Health

Sciences, will travel to Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University — which

offers the only physical therapy program in Nepal — this spring on a

Fulbright scholarship. While in Nepal, he will collaborate with Kathmandu

University faculty on teaching, research and publication projects.

“Seeking out opportunities to collaborate with faculty and staff at

schools all over the world has been and continues to be an important

component of my professional mission,” says Simoneau. “This Fulbright

scholarship is consistent with that mission and with the program’s overall

goal of sharing physical therapy education and research globally.”

Dhulikhel Hospital, which cares for a population of 1.9 million people,

began offering physical therapy treatment in 2003, and Kathmandu

University added its first Bachelor of Physiotherapy program in 2010.

Simoneau will partner with the university’s faculty on the development

and implementation of goals that the faculty has identified for the

physical therapy program, including a skill lab, fitness clinic and

Master’s and doctoral programs.

“Dr. Simoneau is one of the leaders of our department’s initiative to

further physical therapy on a global scale,” says Dr. Larry Pan, chair of

the Physical Therapy Department. “Receiving a Fulbright scholarship is a

testament to his outstanding work in this arena and his spirit of service.”

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Apply for faculty retirement benefit by Dec. 2The deadline for tenured faculty to apply for retirement benefits is 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2, for the 2014–15 academic year. To be eligible for retirement 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 retirement 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.

Behavior Clinic’s 10th anniversary celebration is Dec. 4The Behavior Clinic, a collaboration between the College of Education and the Penfield Children’s Center, will host a 10th anniversary celebration Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in the AMU, Henke Lounge. The Behavior Clinic has enhanced the lives of Milwaukee-area families by bringing cutting-edge pediatric mental health counseling to the community. As one of only a few pediatric programs of its kind in the country, the Behavior Clinic is at the forefront of a growing field throughout the world. Register online at marquette.edu/alumni/events.

Holiday hours in effect Dec. 24, 2013, to Jan. 1, 2014The university will be closed Tuesday, Dec. 24, through Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014, for the Christmas holiday. Limited campus services, including Public Safety, Facility Services and the Rec Plex, will remain open. The university will re-open Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. Buildings and services with special hours of operation during the semester break include the Alumni Memorial Union, IT Services, Raynor Memorial Libraries, the Rec Center, the Rec Plex, the Spirit Shop and the Union Sports Annex. Complete holiday and semester break hours can be found at marquette.edu/holiday-hours/index.shtml.

Winter Compendium submission deadline is Dec. 6Faculty and staff with professional accomplishments such as publications, presentations and awards, should make sure they are documented by Friday, Dec. 6, by submitting them to the Faculty Activities Database (for full-time and clinical faculty members) or online at marquette.edu/omc/compendium.php (for part-time, adjunct, participating, emeritus or visiting faculty members, and full-time staff members). Faculty members submitting through the FAD need to check the appropriate box on the “Report Permissions” page in the FAD to submit items to Compendium. Accomplishments that have occurred between June 1, 2013, and Nov. 30, 2013, will be used to compile the winter issue, which will be distributed in February 2014.

College of Nursing one of six nursing schools chosen for $5 million partnership with Veterans AffairsBy David Cotey

A partnership between Marquette University and the

Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center will not only

allow 40 more students to join the College of Nursing

by 2014–15, but also ensures military veterans continue

to receive the specialized care they have earned.

Over the summer, the Department of Veterans Affairs

chose the College of Nursing and the Milwaukee VA as

one of six sites in the nation to participate in a five‑year,

$5 million VA Nursing Academy Nursing Academic

Partnership Program. The veteran‑centric cohort program

will help fill expected future vacancies with nurses

prepared to care for the specific needs of veterans and their

families — nurses who require less training and orientation

time due to their clinical experiences in VA settings.

The goal is to place graduates into nursing positions

at the Milwaukee VA or another VA facility.

“It’s a great partnership,” says Dr. Kerry Kosmoski‑

Goepfert, associate dean in the College of Nursing. “We’re

fortunate to be working with Zablocki VA Medical Center.

The care there is phenomenal and to be able to educate

nurses in that care is a wonderful opportunity.”

The College of Nursing expects to add 10 full‑time

faculty members funded by the partnership (some based

at the Milwaukee VA) during the next five years, enabling

college undergraduate enrollment to increase to 150

students by 2014–15.

Veteran‑centric educational opportunities have been

woven throughout the college’s revised pre‑licensure

curriculum so all students benefit from the focused content.

Students who participate in the veteran‑centric cohort

receive the same education as their peers, but complete

nearly all their clinical studies at the Milwaukee VA.