Academic Staff Committees
Professional Development and Recognition Committee
Responsibilities
  • Promote the concept of professional development and recognition for UW-Madison academic staff.
  • Work with the administration to explore and develop programs to enhance the professional skills and abilities of academic staff.
  • Make recommendations regarding the review of and changes to academic staff professional development guidelines.
  • Work with the administration, the UW Foundation and the faculty to locate or create funding resources for professional development.
Membership
Twelve members elected by the Assembly. Four are elected each year to serve three-year terms. There are no term limits.

Each of the elected seats represents specific areas:
--biological/medical sciences
--physical sciences/engineering
--humanities/social sciences
--administrative/student services/libraries

All members should have shown commitment to professional development of academic staff.

ASEC Liaison
The committee liaison to ASEC is the chair of the committee who is elected by the majority vote at its first committee meeting. The chair occasionally attends ASEC meetings, as appropriate, to inform ASEC on the committee's work.
07-08 Members

Daña Alder, 1552 University Ave, 5-4901
Sandy Bertics, 952 Animal Science, 3-4615
Rick Burnson, 5135 Helen C. White, 3-3770
Donna Cole, T221 Waisman Center, 5-8107 dmcole@wisc.edu (co-chair)
Maddy Covelli, B268A Comp Sci, 5-4615
Ulrike Dieterle, 2337 HSLC, 2-8025
Lyn Edlefson, 611 Eagle Heights Apts., 2-9715
Lynette Karls, 274 Nutritional Sciences, 2-5847
Lisa Jansen, 279 Van Hise Hall, 2-1126 (co-chair) eajansen@wisc.edu
Miranda McClenaghan, 722 Lowell Hall, 5-8041
Kevin Niemi, 445 Henry Mall, 2-5480
Sarah Schutt, 124 Below Alumni, 2-5699

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