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Former professors give millions to UNI Former CBA dean and bestselling author Robert Waller, deceased math professor Bonnie Litwiller make multimillion-dollar gifts to the university KARI BRAUMANN Executive Editor

Two former University of Northern Iowa professors recently donated millions of dollars to the university to fund scholarships, a professorship and various campus programs.

Robert Waller, the bestselling author of “The Bridges of Madison County” and other works, donated an undisclosed seven-figure sum. Waller, a UNI alumnus, was a professor in the College of Business Administration for 20 years and served as the first dean of the college for six years.

Bonnie Litwiller was a professor of mathematics at UNI, retiring in 2000. UNI received a $1.5 million gift from her estate after Litwiller died in January 2012.

The funds from Waller’s gift will go to several different areas. A portion of the funds will be used for the Robert James Waller Scholarship in Economics, an annually funded full tuition and fees scholarship for a student majoring in ecnomics; the Charles T. Leavitt Scholarship in Economics; the Robert James Waller Professorship in Economics; and the Robert James Waller College of Business Faculty Enrichment fund.

Waller’s gift will also support jazz scholarships and the Honors Program. In addition, the Rod Library will receive royalties from his books.

“UNI allowed me to explore my intellectual interests and my tastes, as a stu-

dent, a professor and a dean,” said Waller. “As a professor, UNI provided me room to experiment with courses and course content; and as the first dean of the business school, to have some influence on the direction of the university. I am pleased to lend support to my alma mater and to help it grow as a first-class university,” Waller said in a UNI press release.

UNI President Ben Allen said Waller’s gift “will have an immediate and significant impact on current and future generations of UNI students and faculty,” according to the

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UNI allowed me to explore my intellectual interests and my tastes, as a student, a professor and a dean. ... I am pleased to lend support to my alma mater and to help it grow as a first-class university.

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Robert Waller Former UNI professor and dean

release.

“We are grateful to see an alumnus, former professor and dean give back to the university in such a significant way,” Allen continued. “We also appreciate the way that Dr. Waller continues to challenge all of us at UNI with his own rigorous scholarly work. Robert’s gift provides support for our students and the example he sets inspires us to always strive for excellence in our academic programs.”

Litwiller’s gift will support the Bonnie Litwiller Mathematics Teacher Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to students who demonstrate financial need and academic excellence, with preference to secondary math teaching majors.

Litwiller taught at UNI for more than 30 years, beginning in 1968. She was a prolific scholar, co-authoring more than 900 journal articles, publishing four books and editing 26 books for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Litwiller often published articles with fellow UNI professor David Duncan. The two collaborated to write about a wide variety of topics, including number patterns and an analysis of the game Yahtzee. Litwiller served as president of the Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

She received several awards for her service, including the 2003 Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1995 University of Northern

ADMINISTRATION

Associate provost Arthur resigns KARI BRAUMANN Executive Editor

Virginia Arthur, the associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Northern Iowa, is leaving the university for a new position. Arthur was recently named provost and vice president of academic affairs at Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis.

Arthur began work

at UNI in February 2009.

Before her appointment at UNI, she was a professor of management at the College of Saint Benedict/St. John’s University in St. Cloud, Minn.

According to a May 23 article in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Arthur commented on the transition in a prepared release.

“I am excited about the opportunities and challenges

ahead of me,” Arthur said.

“I will be joining an institution with which my personal values are well aligned.”

Arthur will assume her new position at ARTHUR Metropolitan State July 16, according to the Courier article.

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Former University of Northern Iowa professor and bestselling author Robert Waller speaks at UNI Oct. 19. UNI recently announced that Waller and former UNI professor Bonnie Litwiller have each made multi-million-dollar gifts to the university.

Iowa Outstanding Service Award and the 1993 Regents Award for Excellence from the Iowa Board of Regents.

“Dr. Litwiller’s gift will honor her legacy of national leadership in mathematics education by encouraging gifted students to become mathematics educators, thus bringing a new generation of potential leaders into the profession,” said Joel Haack, dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences in a press release.

“Of course, it will provide an

impact on these educators’ students as well, so that this gift will reach generations of students.”

Waller’s and Litwiller’s gifts both came through the UNI Foundation’s “Imagine the Impact” campaign. The campaign aims to raise $150 million to support students, faculty and programs at UNI, according to its website, www.uni-foundation.org. As of Dec. 31, 2011, the foundation had raised $137.5 million toward that goal.

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UNI to host solar boat racing competition NI NEWS SERVICE

For the second year in a row, the University of Northern Iowa will host the 2012 Solar Splash World Championship of Intercollegiate Solar Boat Racing.

The event is “an international intercollegiate solar/ electric boat regatta” according to its website, www.solarsplash.com. Solar Splash pits teams from different colleges against one another to test the visual appeal, workmanship, speed and maneuverability of solar boats they construct themselves.

Competitors will face off at George Wyth State Park in Cedar Falls over a span of five days, June 13-17.

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MUSICAL: “OLIVER” Oster Regent Theatre 103 Main Street, Cedar Falls 7:30 p.m.

Charles Dickens’ characters are brought to life in musical form on the Oster Regent Stage. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online at www.osterregent.org.

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BALLROOM DANCE Waterloo Center for the Arts 225 Commercial Street, Waterloo 7 p.m.

Ballroom dance featuring swing, foxtrot, waltz and Latin dances, among others.

Sponsored by the Cedar Valley Dance Club. A ChaCha lesson for beginners will take place at 7:15 p.m., followed by a lesson for intermediate dancers at 8 p.m. A dance will follow from 8:30 to 11 p.m. The lesson is free with admission, which is $6 for Cedar Valley Dance Club members, $8 for nonmembers and $4 for students presenting ID. For more information, email wheedance@mchsi.com.

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UNI censure would hurt all regent universities The Iowa State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) expresses its deep concern for, and strong support of, the faculty and the AAUP chapter at the University of Northern Iowa.

We take extremely seriously the recent decision of the national AAUP to undertake a formal investigation of UNI and the possibility of censure for our sister institution.

Public and private reports raise the concern that in dealing with the current budget situation, the UNI administration may have improperly terminated tenured faculty and/or improperly pressured others to retire. If this is indeed the case, these actions would constitute serious violations of the principles of AAUP, principles that UNI, ISU and the University of Iowa, like most colleges and universities nationwide, have freely and publically promised to uphold.

For 100 years, AAUP prin-

ciples and policies have provided American colleges and universities with a framework for academic freedom and shared governance within which they have thrived. These principles and policies have helped make the American system of higher education the envy of the world and an engine of creativity and economic development. American society and the state of Iowa have greatly benefited. Without the AAUP principles, our university system could not function.

AAUP recognizes and endorses the shared governance responsibilities of faculty. Faculty do much of the work of creating and managing university teaching, research and extension/ service programs. Only the faculty have the professional expertise to do this. Shared governance recognizes this role of the faculty and the importance of that work.

Appropriate recognition of the faculty responsibilities must be part of the decision-

making process for an institution of higher education to maintain its academic integrity.

Difficult budget times have placed enormous stress on the Iowa regent institutions. State support has been cut by 25 percent in the last three years.

No institution can be unaffected by cuts of this magnitude. The question is how to respond.

Successful institutions of all kinds, both public and private, in business and in government, understand that to survive difficult times, they need the best efforts from all members of the institution.

They need creativity, energy, new ideas, and new proposals, and they can only get them from individuals who are involved, who care for the institution and who feel that they were included properly in the decision-making process.

The question is, in difficult times, does an institution draw together through shared

effort and shared governance or does the institution draw apart by artificially and inappropriately separating faculty from the decision-making process?

The success of all three regent universities in Iowa depends on the quality and reputation of the faculty.

UNI, like UI and ISU, must compete to recruit and retain quality faculty in a national/ international market for talent. The best young faculty candidates always have a choice of where they wish to work. Top senior faculty with records of success can leave for more welcoming academic environments. An AAUP censure of UNI due to the administration’s failure to follow accepted principles of shared governance would harm not only that institution’s ability to recruit and retain talented faculty, but also disadvantage all of Iowa’s regent universities in the competition for the best and the brightest.

The regents universities

brought in more than $800 million in research funding last year. They also launch thousands of young Iowans into professional careers every year. Destroying or ignoring the principles of shared governance and academic freedom effectively guarantees the decay of higher education in, and a great loss to, the state of Iowa.

Sincerely, The Executive Committee of the Iowa State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors Mack Shelley, President Heimir Geirsson, Vice President Sue Ravenscroft Cullen Padgett-Walsh Jack Girton Terry Besser John Pleasants April 29, 2012

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UNI softball falls to SIU; fails to reach NCAA tournament BRAD EILERS

Sports Editor

After going 21-4 in Missouri Valley Conference play, the University of Northern Iowa softball team locked up their first regular season title in school history.

With the regular season title came the No. 1 seed and a bye into the MVC tournament semifinals where the Panthers squared off with the host team, the No. 4 seed Southern Illinois University Salukis on May 11.

The Panthers (38-16) and Salukis (37-19) battled down to the wire in a classic pitchers’ duel between UNI’s Jamie Fisher and SIU’s Brittney Lang. Fisher finished with a complete game three-hitter in which she recorded four strikeouts, three walks and allowed one run off a fifthinning SIU home run. Despite a strong pitching performance from Fisher, the Panthers were stifled by Lang, compiling only two hits in a 1-0 loss.

“The difference in that game was one pitch, really,” said UNI head coach Ryan Jacobs following the Panthers’ loss. “(SIU) did a nice job of attacking (Fisher) and swinging at some pitches that she was successful with early.

“The other thing that (SIU) did really well was they made great plays,” said Jacobs. “We swung the bats well, even though we didn’t have a ton of hits up there.

We hit some balls really hard and (SIU) made some phenomenal defensive plays, and that’s what it takes to win these types of games.”

After the loss, the Panthers were forced to sit and wait to see if they would receive an atlarge bid to the 64-team NCAA Tournament. However, with an RPI (Rankings Percentage Index) in the 70s and a 7-6 record in their final 13 games, the Panthers were left out of the field.

“Our kids just kept fighting and kept fighting …

We played our game; some

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University of Northern Iowa pitcher Jaye Hutcheson hurls a pitch in a home game against Drake University April 11. Hutcheson is one of eight seniors who will not appear in next year’s lineup.

days you win and some days you lose. That’s just the way it is sometimes,” said Jacobs.

“That’s a tough way to lose, but we did what we’ve been doing all year long and we have been building and we’ve continue to build a lot this year and we continued to push that bar even higher.”

Next season, the Panthers

will lose eight seniors and six starters from this year’s team.

“These kids continued to set another level of the foundation for the next group of kids who come in,” Jacobs said of his senior class. “It’s a process – it’s been a process, and we are just going to continue to do the things that we have been doing because we know

they put us in a position to be successful.”

Despite losing eight seniors, the Panthers have a good group of young players, including MVC Pitcher of the Year Jamie Fisher, to build their future around.

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