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New FAA dean brings focus to UI arts BY MAGGIE SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER
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Dean of FAA Kathleen Harleman stands at the Krannert Art Museum, where she has worked as the director for the last 10 years. Harleman began as FAA dean earlier in September, taking over for Edward Feser, who is serving as interim provost.
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ing on Tuesday at noon at the University YMCA and at 7 p.m. in the SDRP multipurpose room of the Ikenberry Commons. The second speaker is Dr. Milo Dodson, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Irvine Counseling Center and an advocate for service-based leadership. Dodson is scheduled to speak on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the SDRP multipurpose room.
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Illini Union Courtyard Cafe, was a new addition to i-Unite in 2014. Boten said the films were successful in drawing interest from a wider range of students who normally wouldn’t go out of their way to participate in the weeklong events. Another change to this year’s itinerary is the addition of a second guest speaker. Dr. Bernard LaFayette, a civil rights activist who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, will be speak-
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films to guest speakers and take place all over campus. “We’re trying to give people an opportunity to think and talk about ways to make the world a place that’s better for all of us,” said January Boten, an area coordinator for student affairs. “We’re working to bring people that are going to spark in people’s minds ways in which they can be inclusive toward each other.” The film series being shown this week, which begins Wednesday in the
provided the services such as (the American Political Science Association) are sometimes too expensive for academics to afford, which particularly affects graduate students,” she said. And if academics can afford the child-care services offered by conferences, information about whether child-care service will be provided can be unclear. Academics need to apply for child-care services before they attend the conferences; however, the conferences will decide whether to provide child-care
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Students participating in i-Unite this year will be encouraged to “create the world that we imagine.” i-Unite is an annual week-long affair organized by the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations that aims to educate and to embrace differences within the campus community. A variety of events are scheduled throughout the week; i-Unite events kicked off Saturday and will continue through Friday. Events range from
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tive for students to stay off their phones during class, Gardner said. “I’ve noticed a lot of people use cell phones in class,”
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linger, freshman in LAS. “You get better grades and coupons. Double win.” Founders of the app, Mitch Gardner and Robert Richardson, came up with the idea as an incen-
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY TYLER COURTNEY THE DAILY ILLINI
Neha Akella, freshman in LAS, accumulates points on the Pocket Points app while studying.
Students often only realize their professors’ role in the classroom, but another major part of a job in academia entails attending conferences to present the research professors conduct. Rachel S. Harris, professor in comparative literature, recently contested the child-care challenges many scholars face in the realm of academic conferences. “There’s only a few conferences which are willing to provide child-care services to academics who have babies, and those who
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Students who are tempted to reach for their cell phones during class may have a new reason to focus after downloading Pocket Points. Pocket Points is a new app, available for iPhone and Android users, that recently made its way to the University. The app is designed to discourage students from using their cell phones in class. During lectures, students can open the app, which locks them out from using their phones.
The more often a student uses the app, the faster the points accumulate, according to the Pocket Points’ website. For every 20 minutes a student uses the app, one point is earned. The app operates on a point system that eventually translates to coupons or deals from local businesses. For example, a user can redeem five points for 60 percent off a large pizza from Papa John’s Pizza or 50 percent off a side at Fat Sandwich Company. “The app gets you to take your school work more seriously,” said Jack Hol-
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Kathleen Harleman, acting dean of FAA, said if she did not decline within the two minutes of Interim Provost Edward Feser asking her to serve as dean, she knew she’d have to say yes. “I have too much respect for Ed to say no,” Harleman said. “But it was never something I intended.” Harleman, who is the fulltime director of the Krannert Art Museum, has worked at the University for ten years, serving two five-year terms as the museum’s director. She will continue to spend about 25 percent of her time at the museum while she serves as the dean of FAA, and her business manager, Claudia Corlett-Stahl, will take on an increased role at the museum in her absence. “She’s the best boss I’ve ever had,” said Anne Sautman, the director of education at the Krannert Art Museum. “She’s built a staff she trusts, and she believes in us and lets us do our work, but she’s always there to give direction when needed.” Sautman said it was unusual for Harleman to step in as the dean of FAA because she’s never worked as a professor; Harleman’s background is in art history, and she has worked at seven art and architecture museums in her career. “I know she’s very uncertain about maybe not fully understanding all the professorial things,” Sautman said. “But I know she has people to go to. It may be a challenge for her, but I think she also gets it.” Harleman said her biggest goal for FAA as acting dean is to increase the college’s visibility — both on campus and across the nation. “We have a lot of really talented people doing extremely creative work here,” she said. “I think there needs to be a greater awareness on how FAA connects with the campus and the world. There are students here working on solutions to real world problems.”
Harleman said she believes increasing visibility will help increase enrollment in FAA, which has declined in recent years. Additionally, she said FAA increased its focus on undergraduate academic affairs, recently employing professors to spend 50 percent of their time in the office of undergraduate academic affairs. “Kathleen has an excellent vision for the arts on a public research university campus,” Feser said. “She has a great sense of how the arts can have an impact on the campus; she’s a wonderful blend of collaborative and decisive, and you really need that in a dean.” Harleman said it will be hard for the college to function without Feser’s strategic leadership but she believes he will serve the provost’s office well. “I think the impact on people in our college is we’re happy our areas of concern are being represented,” she said. Feser said while people may see a lot of symbolism around moving from two science-based academics serving as the provost and chancellor to arts and humanities based leadership, he doesn’t believe there will be a change in governing the University on a day-to-day basis. “I think it’s more the quality of the individuals serving in the roles,” Harleman said. “They are people of incredible integrity, they have a lifetime of accomplishments and they’re committed to making the best decisions for the campus.” Feser said he looks forward to Harleman’s leadership of FAA in his absence. “It’s probably an unexpected role for her since she doesn’t have career experience as a faculty member, but because FAA is a blend of traditional scholarship and engagement presentation, the fit is working well,” he said. “I have every confidence in her ability to lead the college.”
TOREY BUTNER THE DAILY ILLINI
SOURCE: IWPR 2013 Analysis of National Survey of Student Engagement Annual Results 2012
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