Subject: RE: Feedback, please? Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 10:32:05 -0500 Message-ID: <376546015E56D640AB10F112B8127DDF01B1874F@PEPSI.uwec.edu> From: "Welch, Karen A." <WELCHKA@uwec.edu>
I like this idea very much. It might draw some who are unfamiliar with
SFPJ and will, as you say, give more people a chance to discuss their
concerns.
Thanks!
Karen
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From: sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.edu
[mailto:sfpj-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On Behalf Of Hale, C. Kate
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:14 AM
To: SFPJ
Subject: Feedback, please?
Colleagues,
While mulling over possibilities for SFPJ's contribution to the UWEC
community this year, an idea came to me that I want to run past you. I
welcome responses/discussion on the list serve, of course, and hope this
will also provide some material for next week's meeting.
Here goes:
SFPJ sponsors a series of talks throughout the academic year-- brownbag
luncheons? At these, a different speaker/speakers would be featured
each time but the continuing general topic would be "The World I'd Like
To See, and What We Need to Get There." Some might approach this from a
disciplinary perspective--say, an enlightened shift in economics, or an
environmentally conscientious approach to chemistry, that would make a
better world. Others might speak from community work they are invested
in. Perhaps SFPJ would want, sometimes, to co-sponsor one of these
with another organization or office on campus-or from the Eau Claire
community.
What I like about the idea is that it approaches problems positively; I
also like the fact that it would let so many different people speak to
their particular concerns and from their particular experiences and
abilities. Additionally, it would be less work all at once than a
teach-in (not that I'm saying teach-ins are a bad idea!) AND would
provide a regular infusion of SFPJ's presence/ideas throughout the
academic year.
Heck-we could even use some of the goals of the baccalaureate degree to
focus!
Thanks for considering this.
In hope,
Kate
Dr. C. Kate Hale
* Interim Assistant to the Chancellor for Affirmative Action
* Department of English Assessment Coordinator & Senior Lecturer
Office: 217B Schofield Hall
University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire
phone: 36-2522
fax: 36-2902 (AffirmAct) or 36-5996 (English Dept)
email: halecl@uwec.edu
on-line: http://www.uwec.edu/affirm/
http://www.uwec.edu/halecl/clh.html