PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 26, No. 6, Sept. 21, 2006

brief notes

Asian Film Festival
South Korean cinema to be showcased
The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and the Asian Educational Media Service will host the Fourth Annual Asian Film Festival, which will feature five recent films from South Korea. The movies represent a variety of genres, showcasing some of the most talented filmmakers and actors in contemporary South Korean cinema. The festival begins at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 at Boardman’s Art Theatre in Champaign with a screening of “The Unforgiven,” a drama exploring masculinity and Korea’s mandatory military service. A discussion with the film’s director, Yoon Jong-bin, will take place after the movie.

On Sept. 30, four movies will be shown: “Empress Chung,” an animated feature based on a Korean folktale; “Please Teach Me English,” a satirical, slapstick comedy; “Sad Movie,” four relationship stories set in contemporary urban Korea; and “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance,“ a stylish and violent thriller. A full schedule with descriptions and trailers is available at www.aems.uiuc.edu/HTML/ff06.htm. Admission is free and open to the public. 

The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies also will offer a free educator’s workshop on teaching about Korea through film, led by Heinz Insu Fenkl, State University of New York at New Paltz. Also speaking will be Aaron Magnan-Park, University of Notre Dame; Seungsook Moon, Vassar College; and Hyungju Park, UI. The workshop will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Springer Cultural Center in Champaign.

A related Korea workshop led by Moon will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the Foreign Languages Building on “The Rise and Decline of Militarized Modernity in South Korea.”

For more information, e-mail tanyalee@uiuc.edu or visit www.aems.uiuc.edu and www.eaps.uiuc.edu.

Vacketta-DLA Piper lecture series
Former Michigan governor to speak
James J. Blanchard, a former governor of Michigan and former ambassador to Canada, will present the fourth annual Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law at 3 p.m. Oct 5 in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium of the College of Law Building.

The event is free and open to the public. Overflow seating will be available in the Law Building.

Blanchard was ambassador to Canada from 1993 to 1996, after serving two terms as governor of Michigan (1983-1991) and four terms as a member of Congress (1975-1983).
Alumnus Carl Vacketta and the firm DLA Piper jointly endow the Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture Series.

College of Medicine
Events celebrate 35 years Oct. 5-7
The UI College of Medicine will celebrate its 35th anniversary by hosting its returning alumni during Homecoming weekend, Oct. 5–7. 

The weekend will include a CAS/MillerComm lecture, “Bioethical Challenges in a 21st-Century World,” by Mark Siegler, the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, professor in the department of medicine, and director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center and is free and open to the public.

The weekend also will feature two sessions with alumni faculty speakers and moderators, receptions and an awards banquet. Awards to be given: Art of Medicine Award to Kirk D. Moberg of Mahomet and Contributions to the College of Medicine Award to Carol and Jason Rockhill of Seattle. A new award, to be given by the college alumni to a peer-nominated senior medical student at the 2007 convocation, also will be announced at the banquet.

IDEALS
Library seeks participants for digital project
The UI Library and Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services plan to begin the pilot phase of the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship, a digital repository for the scholarly works of campus faculty and staff members and students. The library is seeking assistance from faculty members, departments, and other academic units for the initial phase of the project.

Services offered through IDEALS will include a free service that will enable faculty members to make their publications widely accessible; permanent URLs for accessing digital publications and related materials; long-term preservation of research and scholarship in digital form and worldwide accessibility from a variety of locations.
IDEALS will include a variety of digital materials, such as publications, reports, working papers, presentations and symposia proceedings. Interested parties can contact IDEALS coordinators Sarah Shreeves, sshreeve@uiuc.edu or 244-3877, or Cindy Ingold, cingold@uiuc.edu or 333-7998.

IDEALS is funded by the library with support from the Office of the Provost. For more information, visit www.ideals.uiuc.edu.

‘Electing Health Care’ and election forums
Election issues discussed on WILL-TV
Medicaid is a central issue in the Nov. 7 mid-term elections because of the importance of health care and the costs of Medicaid, say UI health-care experts. A panel of these experts will join representatives from the Democratic and Republican parties to discuss Medicaid as an issue in the elections in a one-hour special, “Electing Health Care,” at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 on WILL-TV. Audio of the program will be broadcast on WILL-AM (580) at 5 p.m. Sept. 30.

The program will explore the candidates’ positions on Medicaid eligibility, financing, access and cost containment. Experts will offer a critique of Medicaid policy and financing in terms of special populations such as the mentally ill, children and pregnant immigrants.

Participating from the UI will be Robert F. Rich, director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs; Wynne Korr, dean of the School of Social Work; Robert Kaestner, Institute of Government and Public Affairs and department of economics; and Noreen M. Sugrue, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program. John Paul of WILL will moderate the program. A studio audience, including health-care providers, community members, elected officials, professors and teachers will have the opportunity to question the experts.

Other WILL-TV upcoming Friday night election forums:

• 8 p.m. Oct. 6: 103rd District state House candidates Tom Abram (Green), Rex Bradfield (R) and Naomi Jakobsson (D)
  
• 8 p.m. Oct. 13: 15th Congressional District candidates David Gill (D) and Tim Johnson (R)
• 8:30 p.m. Oct. 20: 52nd District State Senate candidates Mike Frerichs (D), Judy Myers (R) and Joseph Parnarauskis (Socialist Equality)
• 8 p.m. Oct. 27: gubernatorial candidates Rod Blagojevich (D) and Judy Baar Topinka (R)
• 8 p.m. Nov. 3: election roundtable discussion with reporters and experts
  

All except the gubernatorial forum will be rebroadcast on WILL-AM at 5 p.m. on the following Saturday.

WILL-AM will broadcast a candidates’ “Public Square” at 5 p.m. Oct. 28.

Portico Membership
Print journal cancellation decisions eased
As part of its strategy to assure sustained access to journal literature, the UI Library has become a member of Portico, an electronic archiving service that provides a third-party repository for electronic journals. Portico’s mission is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and ensure that the materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers and students.

Membership in Portico provides the library with access to a permanent archive of electronic journals from major publishers such as Elsevier, SAGE and John Wiley & Sons.

“Portico gives us the opportunity to continue our thoughtful approach to the long-term stewardship of our collections,” said Karen Schmidt, acting university librarian. “We are a recognized leader among research libraries in our commitment to preservation for future users. Decisions such as joining Portico will continue to set us apart from other research libraries as we move into the digital age.”

Librarians are now engaged in making the annual journal cancellation decisions needed to balance their discipline-based collection budgets, and Portico will be an important factor in their cancellation decisions. More information on Portico is available on at www.portico.org/index.html.

Sept. 25-29
Library to host multilingual tours
The UI Library is preparing for its second annual international language tours, an outreach initiative to international students, scholars and other interested parties. The tours, which are conducted in languages other than English, will take place in the main library Sept. 25-29.

Tours will be begin in the lobby of the Main Library near the east entrance (across from the Undergraduate Library). Languages offered include Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Urdu. For the tour schedule, go to: www.library.uiuc.edu. Click on the calendar, under “About the Library.”

Baroque Artists of C-U
BACH concert schedule announced
Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH) has announced its 11th anniversary concert season. Highlights include J.S. Bach’s “St. John Passion”; a traditional BACHtoberfest complete with Bavarian beer and wine tasting, German food, silent auction, “oompah” band and concert of Vivaldi concertos: a Christmas concert featuring Charpentier’s “Midnight Mass”; and a new event, the BACH Coffee Klatsch. For ticket prices, a complete schedule and an online ticket-order form, visit www.baroqueartists.org or e-mail info@baroqueartists.org.

‘Walk Toward Wellness’
Event promotes benefits of walking
The entire campus community – students, faculty and staff members and their families – is invited to participate in the “Second Annual Walk Toward Wellness – Building Communities Through Walking and Wellness.” The first 2,000 participants who register will receive a free pedometer, T-shirt, and wellness-related giveaways and information.

The event will begin on the Quad at noon Sept. 29 with comments from Provost Linda Katehi. The Altgeld Hall chimes will signal the start of the walk, and the route will take participants about 4,000 steps around campus. Register at www.campusrec.uiuc.edu/wellness/index.html. Registration also may be made by mail (by Sept. 25) and in person on the day of the event after 11:30 a.m. at the registration table located at Anniversary Plaza on the Quad.

The walk is sponsored by Campus Recreation, McKinley Health Center, the Office of the Chancellor and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Health Alliance and PersonalCare.

Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence
Nominations sought for acpro award
Nominations are sought for the 2007 Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award, which recognizes demonstrated excellence by academic professionals at the Urbana campus.

Any academic professional whose appointment is at least 50 percent, has been employed as an AP for at least three years at full-time or the equivalent, and does not have a tenured or tenure-track appointment, is eligible to be nominated for the CAPE award. Nominees for the CAPE award will be judged on three criteria: work, personal and professional contributions.

Each winner will receive $2,000 in cash for personal use, a $1,000 permanent salary increase and $1,000 will be added on a one-time basis to each winner’s departmental budget to be used for the purchase of equipment, materials or training that would benefit the recipient’s workplace. A maximum of six awards may be given annually.

The deadline for nominations is 8 a.m. Oct. 27. For further information, visit www.ahr.uiuc.edu/cape/index.htm or contact Elyne Cole, associate provost for human resources, at e-cole1@uiuc.edu.

International Achievement Awards
Nominate faculty by Oct. 16 for award
To honor UI faculty members, students and alumni who have exemplified the highest ideals of welfare in the international community, the Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs is seeking nominations for its annual awards.

The awards recognize accomplishments in the global community through research, leadership, dedication and public service. Nominations must be received by Oct. 16. The awards will be presented at the annual Spring International Achievement Awards Banquet, hosted by the Office of the Chancellor. Nomination forms, award descriptions and selection criteria are available at www.ilint.uiuc.edu/awards.html.

Higher Education Collaborative
Higher education issues to be discussed
Current issues in higher education will be discussed this fall in a series of talks on the UI campus.

Among the topics: the trend toward “academic capitalism”; how effectively higher education communicates with the public; the status of women on college faculties; learning and cognitive development during the first year of college; and higher education policy in China.

All talks will be at noon and in Room 242 of the Education Building, unless otherwise noted. The talks are free and open to the public, but seating may be limited.

The lecture series, in its third year, was organized by the Higher Education Collaborative, based in the College of Education. Several talks are co-sponsored by other units.

Upcoming lectures:

• Sept. 27: “Academic Capitalism and the Public Good” by Sheila Slaughter, the Louise McBee Professor of Higher Education at the University of Georgia. Slaughter will discuss the implications of a growing trend in higher education to market and sell research products, educational services and consumer goods in the private marketplace, causing colleges and universities to focus on knowledge more as a commodity than as a public good.
• Oct. 11: “Higher Education and the Public: Can We Talk?” by Stanley Ikenberry, UI education professor and president emeritus, and Judy Rowan, former associate chancellor for public affairs on the Urbana campus. Ikenberry and Rowan will talk about the need for colleges and universities to communicate more effectively with the American public, drawing on lessons learned from the national “Solutions for Our Future” public relations campaign (www.solutionsforourfuture.org), which they helped to develop. The lecture will be at the Institute for Government and Public Affairs, room to be determined.
• Oct. 20: “Higher Education Policy in China,” by Jing Lin, professor of education at the University of Maryland. Location to be determined.
• Oct. 25: “Women and Higher Education,” by Jane Loeb, UI professor of educational psychology and former campus administrator. Loeb will discuss the status of female faculty members after 35 years of equal opportunity legislation.
• Nov. 15: “What Do We Know About Learning and Cognitive Development During the First Year of College?” by Ernest Pascarella, the Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education at the University of Iowa. Pascarella will focus on the net contribution of the first year of college and differences based on the type of student, where they go to school, and their experiences. Location to be determined.
  

For additional information, check the Higher Education Collaborative Web site at www.ed.uiuc.edu/hedcollaborative.

Master calligrapher featured
Japan House open house is Oct. 7
Master calligrapher Suizan Mochizuki will be the featured artist at the annual fall open house Oct. 7 at Japan House.

The facility is an educational and cultural facility focusing on Japanese arts, and is affiliated with the College of Fine and Applied Arts. The open house is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with demonstrations by Mochizuki planned at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. His artwork will be on view all day.

The open house also will feature tea ceremonies, conducted throughout the day by members of the Urbana-Champaign Association of Chado Urasenke Tankokai.
Mochizuki, one of the most revered calligraphers in Japan, creates his work in the kokotsubun style, known for its vigorous, expressive brushstrokes. Kokotsubun, an ancient Chinese written language, is regarded as the origin of modern-day Chinese pictographic characters.

During his visit to the area, Mochizuki also will conduct a number of other public outreach events, including a calligraphy workshop, from 10 a.m. to noon on Sept. 30 at Japan House (registration required); a lecture-demonstration at 2 p.m. Oct. 1 at the university’s Spurlock Museum; and workshops and demonstrations for schoolchildren, UI students and community members at various locations.

More information about Mochizuki’s scheduled activities, and other upcoming Japan House events, is available at www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse, or by calling 244-9934.

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