CAMPUS HAPPENINGS

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2014

MARQUETTE

Mission Week 2014Feb. 2–7

SUNDAY, FEB. 2

Mission Week MassCelebrated by Rev. Doug Leonhardt, S.J., associate vice president for mission and ministry11:30 a.m. ; Church of the Gesu

MONDAY, FEB. 3

“Rethinking Christian Forgiveness: Theological, Philosophical and Psychological Explorations”Rev. James Voiss, S.J.7 p.m. ; AMU, Monaghan Ballroom

TUESDAY, FEB. 4

Keynote address: “Forgiving the Unforgivable”Immaculée Ilibagiza4 p.m. ; AMU, Monaghan Ballroom

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5

Leading from the Spirit luncheon and panel discussion: “Women, Faith and Forgiveness”Noon to 1 p.m. ; AMU, Monaghan Ballrooms ABE

“God of Our Fathers and Mothers: Forgiveness in an Interfaith World”Rabbi Abie Ingber4 p.m. ; AMU, Monaghan Ballroom (reservations required)

Film: The Power of Forgiveness7:30 p.m. ; Cudahy Hall, 001

THURSDAY, FEB. 6

“Race and Reconciliation”Rev. Bryan Massingale, professor of theology 4 p.m. ; Weasler Auditorium

FRIDAY, FEB. 7

“Celebrating God’s Mercy”Timothy Johnston, assistant director of Campus MinistryNoon ; AMU, Chapel of the Holy Family

Examination of Consciousness: A Reflection on Forgiveness4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. ; AMU, Chapel of the Holy Family

For more information about Mission Week 2014, a complete schedule of events, and RSVP and ticketing information, visit marquette.edu/missionweek.

“The Art and Practice of Forgiveness” to be celebrated during Mission Week 2014By Christopher Stolarski

In her powerful 2007 book, Left to Tell:

Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust,

Immaculée Ilibagiza wrote, “I knew that my

heart and mind would always be tempted to feel

anger—tofindblameandhate.ButIresolved

that when the negative feelings came upon me, I

wouldn’t wait for them to grow or fester. I would

always turn immediately to the Source of all true

power: I would turn to God and let His love and

forgiveness protect and save me.”

A 23-year-old engineering

studentwhentheRwandan

genocide began in 1994, Ilibagiza

survived by hiding with seven

other Tutsi women in a small

bathroom at the home of her

Hutu pastor. After 91 days, she

emerged to discover a horrible

reality: all of the other members

of her family had been murdered

at the hands of Hutu Interahamwe

soldiers, with the exception of a

brother who was studying abroad

at the time. Ilibagiza’s harrowing

personal tale will highlight Mission

Week2014:TheArtandPractice

of Forgiveness, which runs

Feb. 2–7. The weeklong celebra-

tion of Marquette’s Catholic, Jesuit

foundations will also feature the

film The Power of Forgiveness,

an all-campus book discussion

and speakers from a variety of

faith traditions.

“Weareespeciallyhappy

towelcomeMissionWeekspeakersfrom

a diversity of religious traditions,” says Dr.

StephanieRussell,vicepresidentformission

and ministry. “Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and

Sikh speakers will all offer their perspectives

on forgiveness. This engagement of other reli-

gious traditions is an important element of our

Catholic identity and a wonderful chance to

think about forgiveness in nuanced ways.”

In a keynote address Tuesday, Feb. 4, at

4 p.m.intheAMU,MonaghanBallroom,

IlibagizawillshareherstoryoftheRwandan

genocide, reflecting a depth of suffering beyond

what most people will ever experience. In the

midst of losing nearly everyone dear to her and

being threatened to the point of death, she now

stands as a beacon of forgiveness for others.

“Immaculée is gifted, as some are, with the

ability to love and forgive after being ground

downbythehatredofothers,”Russellsays.

“Whenweseeloveriseaboveevil,itisa

compelling experience, and we

are all better for it. Her courage,

faith and humanity call us all to

become better people.”

A reception and book signing

will follow the speech. Free tickets

are available to Marquette faculty,

staff and students in the AMU,

BrooksLounge.Thereisalimit

of two tickets per MUID.

The Power of Forgiveness will be

screenedat7:30 p.m.Wednesday,

Feb. 5, in Cudahy, 001. The film

explores recent research into the

psychological and physical effects

of forgiveness on individuals and

within relationships, and exam-

ines the role forgiveness holds in

various faiths traditions. It includes

feature stories on the Amish, the

9/11 tragedy and peace-building

inNorthernIreland,along

with interviews with renowned

BuddhistteacherThichNhatHanh,

NobelLaureateElieWiesel,and

best-selling authors Thomas Moore, Marianne

Williamsonandothers.

The all-campus book discussion will be on

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits

of Forgiveness, which recounts author Simon

Wiesenthal’sexperienceinaconcentrationcamp

during the Holocaust and his journey toward

forgiveness. Discussion sessions will be held

atvarioustimesMondaythroughWednesday.

Copies of the book are available from the Office

ofMissionandMinistryortheBookmarq.

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Four new exhibitions open at Haggerty Museum of Art The Haggerty Museum of Art is featuring four new exhibitions that run through May 18. Brian Ulrich: Copia — Retail, Thrift and Dark Stores, 2001–2011, inves-tigates the American consumer psyche from exuberant excess to closed malls and empty parking lots. Between Critique and Absorption: Contemporary Art and Consumer Culture, uses post-consumer plastic waste, discarded clothing, receipts and common household goods to expose consumption as a flawed but enduring societal impulse. Aesthetic Afterlife: An Exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation, addresses the problems America’s “throw-away culture”raises by using old objects to create beautiful works of art. The Print Room: An Exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation, showcases transfer-printed ceramics and their role in print culture.

Nominate a colleague for an Excellence in University Service Award Nominations for this year’s Excellence in University Service Awards will be accepted until Friday, March 21. The application can be found at marquette.edu/excellence/. This is an opportunity for Marquette employees to nominate colleagues who demonstrate and support the Ignatian ideal of care for others and carry out the mission of the university. Candidates should be nominated based on service that is above and beyond the duties normally assigned to their position. Four employees will be chosen to receive Excellence in University Service Awards. Faculty members, deans and vice presidents are not eligible. Nominations from 2013 were kept on file for consideration this year.

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View the Champions for Change videos at:

marquette.edu/champions.

“ SOCIAL PROBLEMS SPAN THE GLOBE. MARQUETTE HAS A GAME PLAN.”

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Marquette’s Social Innovation Initiative teamed up with Brady Corporation to create four feature videos on social innovation projects at Marquette that are changing the world. The Champions for Change videos feature a human-powered nebu-lizer that’s treating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, the fifth-leading killer in the world; humanoid robots that are helping fight child-hood obesity and increasing STEM education; smartphone technology that’s helping households conserve water; and Countries Without Cavities, which offers preventative measures and treat-ment techniques to those who cannot afford dental health care or lack access to clean water for basic dental hygiene.

“Thanks to our partner, Brady Corporation, the videos are running during men’s basketball home games at the BMO Harris Bradley Center this spring,” explains Dr. Jeff Snell, founder of the Midwest Consortium for Social Innovation and leader for Marquette’s Changemaker Campus designation. “These are just a few examples of the remarkable ways faculty and students demon-strate scholarship in action and promote human well-being in Milwaukee and around the world.”

Comprehensive enrollment strategy taking shapeBy Lynn Sheka

One of the main objectives under the “Pursuit

ofAcademicExcellenceforHumanWell-being”

theme in the university’s strategic plan, Beyond

Boundaries: Setting the Course for Marquette’s

Future, is to “be a first-choice university for

bright and promising students.” To accomplish

this objective, Interim Provost Dr. Margaret

Faut Callahan is spearheading a comprehensive

enrollment management strategy.

Last summer, Dr. Callahan, with the support

of academic leadership across campus, deter-

mined nine areas of enrollment strategy: tradi-

tional freshman; transfer students; non- traditional

students; graduate and professional students;

student success and retention; summer school;

inter national students; online and hybrid delivery;

and pricing and financial aid.

“Freshman enrollment is certainly a major

component of enrollment and one we need to

continue to put emphasis on as we have for

many years,” Interim Provost Callahan says.

“But wealsoneedtolookattheareasthatwe

have significant challenges in and the segments

of enrollment planning and management where

we see opportunities.”

Each area of enrollment strategy has a team

that has been charged with evaluating the

current status of their enrollment area, exploring

best practices and new ways to improve the

strategy in alignment with strategic plan priori-

ties, and setting challenging and attainable

goals with consideration of resource and cost

needs. A progress report of each strategy team’s

findingstodatewassharedwiththeBoardof

Trustees in December. In January and February,

the enrollment management steering committee

— comprising representatives from academic

and administrative areas across campus — will

review the recommendations from the nine

strategy teams to determine the initiatives the

final enrollment strategy plan will focus on.

Dr. Callahan is encouraging each enrollment

strategy team to look for new enrollment oppor-

tunities. Two areas of immediate impact could be

in transfer and summer school enrollment, since

both are areas identified by the strategy teams as

having potential to increase revenue. The strategy

team for transfer students is reviewing areas

where university policies could be changed to

improve the process and help transfer students

make a seamless transition to Marquette. Dr.

RichardHolz,deanoftheKlinglerCollegeof

Arts and Sciences, is coordinating the summer

studies program this year and hopes to bring in

best practices from his experience coordinating

summer studies at Loyola University Chicago.

This spring, a draft enrollment management

plan with priorities, resource needs, an imple-

mentation timeline and metrics for success will

be assembled from the recommendations of each

enrollment strategy group. It will be shared with

InterimPresidentRobertA.Wild,S.J.,theDean’s

Council, University Academic Senate and Staff

Assembly for feedback before being presented

totheBoardofTrusteesforapprovalatthe

end of April.

By Julia Otto

Dave Tamburrino, director of development for corporate and foundation relations in University Advancement, had a different undergraduate experience than most Marquette students. A national champion in short-track speedskating at ages 14,15 and 16 and long-track speedskating at 18, Tamburrino was asked to train with the national team in prep-aration for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, at age 20, halfway through his undergraduate career. Having dreamed about the Olympics ever since he started skating at age five, it was an invitation he couldn’t turn down.

The memories of the opening ceremony in Lillehammer still give Tamburrino goosebumps. “You walk through this tunnel, come out and it’s so bright,” he recalls. “They announced the USA and the whole place just erupted in cheers.”

Tamburrino placed 22nd in the men’s 1,500 meters at the 1994 Olympics, setting a personal record by two seconds as the highest American finisher in the event. He followed that up with a fifth-place finish at the 1995 World Championship, an 11th-place finish at the 1996 World Championship and a 10th-place finish at the 1997 World Championship. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, he placed 16th in both the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races.

With his racing days behind him now, Tamburrino remains friends with people all over the world whom he once competed against. He still gets his speedskating fix, but on the administrative side as a member of the Board of Directors of the Pettit National Ice Center and as chair of the U.S. Speedskating Judicial Committee.

Currently pursuing a sports law degree at Marquette, Tamburrino is looking forward to taking a break from his studies to watch the opening ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. “It brings back a lot of memories, especially when you see some of the faces of athletes that might be experiencing the Olympics for the first time,” he says.

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The top five oldest books in Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Rare Books Collection in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives are:

1. De Civitate Dei, by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, published in 1473.

2. Biblia Sacra Latina cum Postilla Nicolai de Lyra, by Nicholas of Lyra, published in 1482.

3. Phisiologus Theobaldi Eposcopi de Naturis Duodecim Animalium, by Episcopus Theobaldus, published in 1484.

4. Aeneae Siluij Senensis Praecepta Artis Rhetoricae, by Albrecht von Eyb, published 1488.

5. Morticellarium Aureum, no author, published in 1488.

For more information on the university’s Rare Books Collection, visit: go.mu.edu/rare_books.

TheCollegeofEducation’sBehaviorClinic

anticipates treating more than 500 children

this year, but it still has a significant waiting

list of Milwaukee families with young children

withseriousbehaviorissues.Dr. RobertFox,

professor of counselor education and counseling

psychologyandfounderoftheBehaviorClinic,

believes part of the problem is a lack of suffi-

cient professionals with expertise in serving

young children.

“There’s not a lot for parents of young kids

that have serious problems,” Fox says. “There

are a couple of other programs that address

behavior problems in young children, but

they don’t target the low-income families,

where the need is the greatest.”

To help train psychologists, social workers,

counselors, nurses and other practitioners about

clinical childhood behavior problems, Fox and

thestaffattheBehaviorClinicplantolaunch

a new online course in February. The course

will be adapted from pioneering work done

attheBehaviorCentertohelpyoungchildren

with serious behavior issues, such as persistent

temper tantrums; aggression; sleeping and eating

problems; issues at school or day care; and

difficulties with relationships after experiencing

or witnessing a traumatic event.

The course will use videos, written material

and exams to reach professionals who interact

with troubled children and their parents but don’t

have the training it takes to help. The course —

which is expected to count toward continuing

education requirements for professionals in

Behavior Clinic debuting new online course to train practitionersBy Chris Jenkins

Wisconsin—willteachseveraltechniquesthat

have proven effective in the clinic, from showing

practitioners how to help parents set limits and

develop reasonable expectations to something

as simple as teaching them how to play.

“[The online course] is a way to increase the

community’s capacity to deal with these kids,”

Fox says. “There’s a lot of need, and there just

aren’t enough people who have been trained

to effectively address their problems.”

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Founder of the Behavior Clinic, Dr. Robert Fox, films a segment for a new online course that will train practitioners who work with young children. The Behavior Clinic, in partnership with the Penfield Children’s Center, is the only program of its kind in Milwaukee offering family-centered, in-home treatment sessions that address issues very early in a child’s development to help prevent serious mental health issues from developing in the future.

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Peter Faber canonized by Pope Francis By Jesse Lee

On December 17, 2013, Pope Francis announced the canon-

ization of St. Peter Faber, the first Jesuit priest and one of the

founding members of the Society of Jesus. St. Faber, born in

France in 1506, was a contemporary of St. Ignatius of Loyola

and St. Francis Xavier, meeting and living with the men at the

University of Paris.

In canonizing St. Faber, Pope

Francis followed the process

of “equivalent canonization,”

where normal procedures and

ceremonies are bypassed. This

process is most commonly used

with historical candidates like

St. Faber, whose holiness and

virtue are uncontested.

It was those same qualities

of holiness and virtue that led

the founders of Marquette’s

Faber Center for Ignatian

Spirituality to choose St. Faber

as its patron in 2006, when the

center was formed.

“Faber was selected in recognition of his exceptional ability

in directing people through the Spiritual Exercises, his great

capacity for interior discernment and his keen awareness for the

movement of the Holy Spirit in people’s lives,” says Dr. Michael

Dante, director of the Faber Center. “His great pastoral sensitivity

and desire to help people with their interior journey model what

the Faber Center strives to offer Marquette’s faculty and staff.”

In that spirit, the Faber Center provides seminars and

reflection, spiritual direction and companionship, retreats,

prayer, meditation and other spiritual opportunities for the

Marquette community.

Celebratory Mass to honor St. FaberThe Faber Center will host a celebratory Mass on Thursday, Jan. 30, at noon in the AMU, Chapel of the Holy Family.

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Community Campaign nets $310,000More than 740 Marquette employees contributed nearly $310,000 in support of United Way, the United Performing Arts Fund and Marquette’s Annual Fund in this year’s Community Campaign. University Advancement thanks all employees who participated in this annual giving initiative.

College of Engineering hosting Connecting with the World Seminar Series Dr. Thomas Kurfess, professor and HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control at Georgia Institute of Technology, will kick off the series Friday, Jan. 31, from noon to 1 p.m. in Olin Engineering, 202. Katie Weiss, senior flight software engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will visit campus Feb. 21. Dr. Charles Haas, chair of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at Drexel University, will continue the seminar series in March, and Dr. Gary S. May, professor and dean at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering, will conclude the seminar series April 15.

Theatre Arts to present Almost, Maine Marquette Theatre will present Almost, Maine, a comedy that chronicles how the residents of the tiny town of Almost find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways one magical winter night. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. February 13-15; 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 16; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19-22; and 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 23. All performances will be held at the Helfaer Theatre. Tickets are available by calling the Helfaer Theatre Box Office at 414.288.7504 or online at marquette.edu/boxoffice.

Faber Center Spring Speaker to discuss prophetic hopeThe Faber Center will host Sister Rhea Emmer of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes as its Spring Speaker on Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 4 p.m. in Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Beaumier Suites B/C. Sister Emmer will present, “Disillusionment: The Grit and Grace of Prophetic Hope,” followed by a panel discussion. A reception will follow the event.

Thriving in today’s higher education landscape By Lynn Sheka

It’s no secret that higher education is facing one of its most chal-

lenging decades ever. The number of high school graduates in many parts

of the country is projected to decline through 2020, according to 2013

data from Inside Higher Education. As student demographics change,

the qualities potential students value in first-choice universities are also

changing. At the same time, for-profit colleges and new technologies

have added competition to an already-saturated market. And the recent

recession, stubborn unemployment and stagnant real income coupled

with rising costs of higher education have made it harder for families

to make the investment in higher education.

University leadership is proactively addressing Marquette’s current

financial situation in alignment with the six strategic plan themes, which

together provide a comprehensive framework to enhance and improve

the university not only in response to current financial realities, but

also to position it for future success.

• AnenrollmentstrategyledbytheOfficeoftheProvostisunderway

(see page 2) and new admission strategies are being developed

to boost enrollment in areas with revenue potential to ensure

Marquette remains an accessible, affordable first-choice university.

• TheBoardofTrusteesvotedtoauthorizethelowestundergraduate

tuition increase in three years and hold graduate, summer and part-

time tuition rates flat.

• Thisfall,theOfficeofFinanceintroducednewupdatestothe

university’s travel and expense reimbursement and credit card

policies to cut down on unnecessary costs.

• Inmid-November,InterimPresidentRobertA.Wild,S.J.,asked

deans and vice presidents to prepare budget reduction scenarios

that identified the opportunities and consequences at each budget

scenario level — 95 percent, 90 percent and 85 percent of the

current division or college operating budget during the next

three years.

“The President’s Advisory Group is studying the dozens of scenarios

from every college and administrative division, which we expect to take

the first few months of the spring semester,” says Interim Provost and

DeanoftheCollegeofNursingMargaretFautCallahan.“Thisapproach

takes longer than making uniform reductions across the board, but it will

help determine the best, most creative ways to ensure fiscal sustainability

in alignment with the priorities in the strategic plan.”

“We’veseenfirsthandthatmanyfacultyandstaffmembershavebeen

taking on more responsibilities and making sacrifices this year, and your

energy, creative thinking and commitment to putting students first has

notgoneunnoticed,”saysFatherWild.“We’reconfidentthataddressing

our fiscal challenges now will ensure we continue to be a premier

university and an employer of choice moving forward.”