PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 22, No. 11, Dec. 6, 2002

brief notes

Office of Business and Financial Services
Business workshops announced
The Office of Business and Financial Services is offering free spring workshops on university policies and financial and administrative systems. These sessions, which promote continuous improvement of campus financial management, are offered to department heads, as well as departmental business office staff members. Workshop locations will vary.

Class descriptions and the most current class workshops are on the OBFS Web site. Reservations can be made online.

International students to share experiences
Ally meeting to be Dec. 6
The Ally Network will hold a meeting from noon to 1:30 p.m. Dec. 6 in Room 405 of the Illini Union. Lesbian, gay and bisexual international students from the Urbana campus will share their experiences.

For more information, contact Jane Reid at the Counseling Center, 333-3701.

‘The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’
Faculty Retreat is Jan. 27
The ninth annual Faculty Retreat on Active Learning will take place Jan. 27 at the Levis Faculty Center. The focus of the retreat will be "The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning."

"Viewing teaching as scholarly work is essential," said keynote speaker Lee S. Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. "Teachers so often have to carry out their work in isolation from their colleagues. The result is that those who engage in innovative acts of teaching do not have many opportunities to build upon the work of others … we seek to render teaching public, subject to critical evaluation, and usable by others in the field."

The retreat will bring faculty members together to learn about and discuss best practices in teaching at the college level. Following the keynote there will be concurrent sessions featuring Carnegie Scholars presenting their successful Scholarship of Teaching and Learning projects. These scholars are outstanding faculty members from across the country who are committed to investigating and documenting significant issues in the teaching and learning in their fields. They will team with Illinois faculty members to explore how these projects can have an impact on teaching in many disciplines.

The retreat will begin with a welcome by Provost Richard Herman, who will present the 2002-03 Distinguished Teacher/Scholars: Steven Helle, professor of journalism, and Arlette Willis, professor of curriculum and instruction.

Faculty members can register at www.conted.uiuc.edu/facultyretreat/ or by calling 333-2880.

Faculty/Staff Assistance Program
FSAP offices to move Dec. 12
The offices of the Faculty/Staff Assistance Program will move to a new location Dec. 12. The new offices at 1011 W. University Ave. are on the northeast edge of campus at the corner of Harvey Street and University Avenue.

FSAP is designed to provide personal, professional, confidential assistance to all UI employees and members of their households who are experiencing problems that interfere with their ability to work or their well-being. The program seeks to help clarify issues, identify resources and offers follow-up assistance as needed.

Office hours will continue to be weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The phone number remains 244-5312; the fax number is 244-8961. Free parking will be provided next to the building in lot B-8. The program’s new mail code is MC-255.

For more information, call the FSAP offices or go to www.admin.uiuc.edu/fsap.

April 23-27
Passes on sale for Ebert film fest
Festival passes now are on sale for the fifth annual Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival, to be held April 23-27 at Champaign’s Virginia Theater and on the UI campus.

Passes, which cover all screenings during the five-day event, are $60. They can be purchased through the theater box office (phone: 356-9063; fax: 356-5729) or through the festival Web site. Tickets for individual films will be $7 each when they become available closer to the event.

Ebert, a 1964 Illinois journalism graduate, adjunct professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will again host the event and select the films that he believes have been overlooked by audiences, critics and distributors. The lineup of films, along with additional information on film-associated guests and other festival events, should be available after Feb. 1. Updates on the festival, a special event of Illinois’ College of Communications, will be posted on the festival Web site.

About 20,000 admissions were recorded for the 14 featured films, associated panels and other events at the 2002 festival, most of which was held at the Virginia Theater, a 1920s-era Champaign movie palace.

Sponsors and volunteers for the festival are still being sought. Those interested should contact Mary Susan Britt, the festival’s assistant director (244-0552). Those seeking additional information and updates on films, guests and festival events should contact either Britt or festival director Nate Kohn at (706) 542-4972..

Chicago’s I space gallery
FAA faculty members’ art featured
Painting, printmaking and architectural drawings and models are featured in three new exhibitions on view through Dec. 21 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the UI’s Urbana campus.

"I space: 1992-2002" features works by four faculty members – past and present – in Illinois’ College of Fine and Applied Arts, and was organized as a continuation of the gallery’s 10th anniversary-year celebration. The exhibition includes architecture professor Jeff Poss’ sketches, digital images and models of proposed war memorials for the university and the state of Illinois, and two large-scale paintings by retired art and design professor Jerry Savage. The show also features six new monoprints on wallpaper by art and design professor Dan Socha, and 20 architectural drawings representing travel sketches from Europe by Hub White, a retired professor of architecture who now lives and teaches in Ann Arbor, Mich.

"Race at the Subdivide: Todd Allison" consists of 12 oil and alkyd paintings on panels by the Texas-based artist, who received his master of fine arts degree from Illinois in 1999. In creating the works in this series, Allison began with images collected from satellite photography.

"Split Fractions: Macyn Bolt" features recent oil paintings by the New York artist, who received his master of fine arts degree from Syracuse University. Bolt has exhibited his work extensively in New York, as well as nationally.

The gallery, located at 230 S. Superior St., Chicago, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Updated 2002-03 data
Campus Profile available online
The 2002-03 version of the online Campus Profile is now available at www.dmi.uiuc.edu/cp.

The profile contains 10 years of data for all academic and administrative departments and offices, with totals at the campus, college and school levels. Customized reports and downloadable spreadsheets can be created by selecting the units and data items needed from simple drop-down menus.

For more information or to submit comments, contact Carol Livingstone in the Division of Management Information, 333-3551.

Planning for your financial future
Credit union offers workshops
The UI Employees Credit Union is offering more free financial services workshops to UI employees (credit-union members and non-members): Jan. 21, Mutual Funds; and Feb. 4, Long-term Care.

Workshops begin at 7 p.m. and will be at the Credit Union, 2201 S. First St., Champaign. Reservations are required. Call 278-7768 or e-mail mfs@uiecu.org.

Second Sunday concert
Irish pianist, UI’s Hobson to perform
Irish pianist John O’Conor, right, joins UI pianist Ian Hobson for a dual piano performance at the Dec. 8 WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert.

The public is invited to the 2 p.m. free concert in the West Gallery of the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. The concert will be broadcast live on WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) with WILL-FM music host Roger Cooper.
O’Conor, who also will perform with Sinfonia da Camera Dec. 6, has earned a reputation as a masterful interpreter of the Classic and early Romantic piano repertoires.

Hobson, a Center for Advanced Study professor of music and holder of a Swanlund Endowed Chair, has achieved considerable success in international piano competitions. He performs regularly as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, Israel and the United States.

On the program are Mozart’s Sonata in D major for Two Pianos; Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17; Witold Lutoslawski’s "Variations on a Theme of Paganini for Two Pianos"; and Darius Milhaud’s "Scaramouche."

'Epigraph of a Condemned Book'
Local exhibitions complement recital
Pianist Sarah Rothenberg will present "Epigraph for a Condemned Book" at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7 in the Tryon Festival Theater. Through readings of texts by Charles Baudelaire, video presentation of images by Delacroix and early masters of French photography, and specialized lighting design, Rothenberg and her collaborators dramatically contextualize the music of Chopin in this unusual piano recital.

To complement the performance, Krannert Art Museum and the UI Rare Book and Special Collections Library are mounting exhibits highlighting the artistic interests of Baudelaire and the many books and manuscripts that have been censored throughout history.

"Charles Baudelaire: A Poet and His Painters" will be on display in the Light Court Gallery at Krannert Art Museum through Jan. 26. It includes paintings and prints from its permanent collection that highlight the work and artistic interests of Baudelaire. The exhibit is curated by David O’Brian, professor of art history, and Proust librarian Caroline Szylowicz.

"Epigraph for Condemned Books Around the World: From the Rare Book and Special Collections Library" is on display in Room 346 of the UI Library through Feb. 1. The library’s exhibit offers a copy of Baudelaire’s banned poetry along with historical background on his painful experiences with the French authorities who banned his book. The exhibit also provides background on UI’s tradition of collecting banned books and writings on censorship.

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