Academic Affairs

Office Staff:

Barb Grasamkee - Biography

Barb Grasamkee serves as the University Executive Staff Assistant to the Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Her primary responsibilities include serving as the Provost/Vice Chancellor's major office support person, managing the Provost/Vice Chancellor's calendar, and managing the budgets in the Office of Academic Affairs. She serves as a resource person and liaison between the Provost/Vice Chancellor and faculty, staff, students, UW System offices and the general public in facilitating the work of the office.

Barb came to UWSP after working at two other campuses in the UW System (UW-Stout from 1981-88 and UW-Whitewater from 1988-91). She transferred to UWSP in 1991 to a position in the Chancellor's office and in 1995 transferred to her current position in the Office of Academic Affairs.

You can reach Barb at bnelson@uwsp.edu or (715) 346-4686.

Paulette Rogers - Biography

As the Program Assistant-Advanced-Confidential in the Office of Academic Affairs, Paulette Rogers has a wide range of responsibilities dealing with non-classified staff (Faculty & Academic Staff).

These duties include, but are not limited to: Processing appointment contracts (new hires and renewals); payment requests; outside activity reporting; the campus wide merit and salary increase process which includes preparation of salary letters; working with departments to compute salaries for new faculty and academic staff hires; serve as a resource for matters pertaining to appointment, reappointment, retention, tenure, promotion, salary, rank, education code and other personnel issues.

Paulette also works through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service in processing the appropriate paperwork to obtain work authorization for UWSP Faculty and Academic Staff who are non-US citizens.

Paulette started her state service in the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation in 1982. She transferred to UWSP in 1984 and has worked in various campus offices prior to transferring in 2002 to the Office of Academic Affairs.

You can reach Paulette at progers@uwsp.edu or (715) 346-4687.

Mick Veum - Biography

Dr. Mick Veum is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget, Personnel, Grants, and Summer Session at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP). Mick serves as the chief assistant to the Vice Chancellor and Provost in the listed areas. Among his other duties, Mick is responsible for consulting with academic departments and administrative units on matters relating to personnel management, coordinating the review of recommendations for appointment, retention, tenure and promotion for faculty and academic staff, serving as UWSP’s liaison to the University of Wisconsin System on unclassified personnel, providing general oversight of the Academic Affairs budget, overseeing the merit and salary increase process, reviewing starting salaries for new faculty and academic staff appointments, providing leadership and coordination of summer session, and providing university leadership and oversight for grants and sponsored programs.

Mick received a B. A. in physics from Carleton College in 1990 and a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1997. He was an assistant professor of physics at Millsaps College for three years before joining UWSP’s Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2000. He moved into UWSP’s Academic Affairs Office as Associate Vice Chancellor in 2006, and he remains active in his research field of experimental condensed matter physics. Mick and his wife, Nina, live in Stevens Point with their two daughters.