Wisconsin Idea tour showcases state for faculty, staff

Faculty and staff interested in learning more about educational, industrial, social and political realities of Wisconsin should consider applying for the Wisconsin Idea Seminar, a five-day study tour of the state.

The tour, May 17-21, introduces faculty and staff to the Wisconsin Idea, the commitment to use university expertise and resources to address the state’s problems.

Nominations must be turned in to deans’ offices by Monday, March 1.

This program is designed 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 professor Walter Dickey, Law School; Dick Wideman, superintendent of the Peninsular Experimental Station; Cindy O’Donnell, deputy secretary for the state Department of Corrections; and Howard Fuller, director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, Marquette University.

The tour will include visits to the state Capitol; the Aldo Leopold Shack Reserve, Baraboo; the Boldt Company in Appleton; a dairy farm near Fond du Lac; the Oneida Nation, Oneida; Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Founders’ Day in Sturgeon Bay; an arts panel and winery in Door County; Green Bay Correctional Facility; UW-Manitowoc and Natural Ovens Bakery, Manitowoc; the superintendent of the Milwaukee Public Schools and an inner-city high school in Milwaukee.

For more information and nomination forms: http://wisideaseminar.wisc.edu, or contact Miriam Simmons, 262-9970, msimmons@bascom.wisc.edu.