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Empowering Lives Together:
Supporting Chancellor's Fund for Community Dialogue
will help strengthen university's future

Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff who would like to support the Chancellor's Fund for Community Dialogue can do so through a contribution to the Campus Campaign. For more information, contact the Foundation at 836-5630 or by e-mail at fdn@uwec.edu. • Reminder: The UW-Eau Claire Foundation will host its annual Faculty/Staff Appreciation Luncheon Thursday, Feb. 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Council Fire Room-Willow Lounge, Davies Center. Come when you can and stay as long as you are able!

When he arrived at UW-Eau Claire in July, Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich challenged the university community to find ways to promote open community discourse on a wide variety of issues. He believes so strongly in this approach that he established the Chancellor's Fund for Community Dialogue as part of his inauguration celebration and committed his own gifts to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation for this fund. The Foundation board responded by designating $10,000 in honor of the chancellor's October 2006 inauguration to endow the fund and ensure its future. The fund will encourage campus initiatives focused on meaningful community discourse.

To foster community-university interaction through the new fund, an annual theme will be announced each spring for the next academic year, starting in May 2007 for the 2007-08 academic year. Departments, faculty, staff and students will be encouraged to plan activities reflective of the theme. Key activities on campus such as the opening meeting, faculty and staff orientation, Forum lectures and other public and university events also will incorporate the theme.

"I am looking forward to engaging the campus community in an effort to focus our collective attention on issues critical to our future,” Levin-Stankevich said. "The fund will serve as a cornerstone to focus institutional energy and resources on specific initiatives, areas of excellence and the university's strategic direction. The resulting interactions should strengthen our university."

Levin Stankevich will help choose the annual theme and a keynote speaker. The chancellor's Web site will serve as a central clearinghouse of information on the theme, activities and the outcomes of the project's initiatives.

"UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff understand and value the exchange of thoughts and ideas between the university and the greater community." said Carole Halberg, president of the UW-Eau Claire Foundation. "And they support these efforts financially. Their participation through the annual campus campaign makes it possible for the UW-Eau Claire Foundation to facilitate great ideas such as the Chancellor's Fund for Community Dialogue."

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