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Recep Pekdemir, Accountancy; Cord Brundage and Tisha King-Heiden, both Biology; Kristin Koepke, CATL; Eugenia Turov, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Ashley Edwards and Jessica Welsh, both Communication Studies; Bryan Kopp, English; Jason Sumontha, Psychology; and Katherine Evans, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation; served by representing UWL at UW System’s Faculty College event May 30-June 2, 2023. The theme for Faculty College 2023 was Teaching & Learning with a Social Justice Lens.
Becky Vianden, Academic Advising Center & Career Services; and Sandra Grunwald and Betsy Morgan, both Provost's Office; co-authored the article "Improved Student Experience with Advising at a Comprehensive University: NSSE Results and Planful Responses" in Assessment Update published on May 30 by Wiley.
Recep Pekdemir, Accountancy; Cord Brundage and Tisha King-Heiden, both Biology; Kristin Koepke, CATL; Eugenia Turov, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Ashley Edwards and Jessica Welsh, both Communication Studies; Bryan Kopp, English; Jason Sumontha, Psychology; and Katherine Evans, Recreation Management & Therapeutic Recreation; served by representing UWL at UW System’s Faculty College event May 30-June 2, 2023. The theme for Faculty College 2023 was Teaching & Learning with a Social Justice Lens.
Becky Vianden, Academic Advising Center & Career Services; and Sandra Grunwald and Betsy Morgan, both Provost's Office; co-authored the article "Improved Student Experience with Advising at a Comprehensive University: NSSE Results and Planful Responses" in Assessment Update published on May 30 by Wiley.
Professor Emeritus Bill Pemberton died Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Pemberton, a history faculty member from 1966 until 1998, died in Half Moon Bay California after battling Parkinsons for the past several years. Born in Duncan Oklahoma in 1940, he was a creative thinker, a radical true to his SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) roots. His analysis, his teaching, and his published biographies, especially of Harry Truman, and his everyday commitment to students and programs like the precollege programs of the 70’s and Hmong immigrant adults of the 80’s, exemplified his life. A devotee of racial justice and equity, it was Pemberton who took the lead to establish an investigative discussion group at UW La Crosse in 1980 when the Office of Minority Studies and Programs had collapsed leading to a complete restructuring and renewal of what became OMSS in 1983. He read and reviewed Latin American literature for scholarly publications, was knowledgeable about classical music, had an extensive blues collection. Born in Oklahoma, he encountered white supremacy in the form of Jim Crow and sought to liberate himself from those constraints and narrow provincial thinking. While studying for his doctorate, he undertook what at that time was called “new left” historical analysis, a project to which he was devoted. His analysis of American culture and history was fresh, insightful and challenging. Conversations nearly always offered new and unusual ways of seeing life and ethics. He sought a synthesis of Marxist analysis of social relations with a mix of Sartre, Foucault and Wallerstein in his understanding of the historical process. He was a voracious reader and a demanding conversationalist. He was committed to making the university and the La Crosse community a better place for all and was uncompromising in his devotion to equity and justice.
Former faculty member Richard Snowberg died March 19. A memorial service for Snowberg will be from 2-5 p.m. Monday, June 12, at the Concordia Ballroom, 1129 La Crosse St. For more information see the obituary.