The Dean's Distinguished Achievement Certificates - Every semester, this certificate is given in honor to all majors in the College of Letters and Science for each person who completes at least 12 credits in any semester with a grade point average of 3.76 or above receives this award.  The College of Letters and Science graduating honor students receive Summa Cum Laude (3.9+ GPA), Magna Cum Laude (3.75-3.89 GPA) or Cum Laude (3.5 - 3.74 GPA) honors.

     Dec 2007 Honor Graduates                                                     Dec 2007 Dean's Distinguished Achievement    

Academy of Letters and Science Awards - The Academy of Letters and Science recognizes distinguished achievement in the pursuit of the goals of a liberal arts and science education by members of the student body and faculty at its annual awards banquet in April.  Each year, one continuing student and one senior from each academic department is selected to receive the Academy of Letters & Science Distinguished Achievement Award, a recognition of high academic achievement within the College of Letters and Science.
     

    2008 Academy of L&S Student Award Recipients                 2007 Academy of L&S Student Award Recipients

Eugene Katz Faculty Awards - Beginning in 1999, two members of the Letters & Science faculty are awarded the Eugene Katz Letter and Science Distinguished Faculty title each year. The award is named for the late Eugene Katz, a long-time member of this area's business community and friend of UWSP.  Faculty recipients are given this award to recognize distinguished performance over a period of years.  The recipient also receives a commemorative plaque, the title "Eugene Katz Letters and Science Distinguished Faculty" for the award year, along with a financial award.      

Eugene Katz Faculty Award 2008 Recipients - Marcia Parker, Foreign Languages, and William Lawlor, English.                Marcia Glidden Parker, Professor of French, came to UW-SP in 1994, after teaching French at all levels and ages, from French for Fun summer classes for elementary students, through middle and high schools in Ohio and Wisconsin to university courses at UW-Madison, The College of William and Mary, and finally here in Point.  Her research and reading passions began in 19th century theatre, shifting to culture and film in recent years, with continued interest in improving teaching methods.  Authored works range from an intermediate and advanced writing French textbook to chapters or essays on French culture and literary figures.  Various awards through the years include the UW-SP Excellence in Teaching Award, the Academy of Letters and Science Junior Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, Mentor awards, an award from the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers, and Educator of the Year Award from Amery Schools, Wisconsin.  Various grants have led to fascinating experiences such as: filming with a group of 15 teachers in Benin, Africa, to create videos used in teaching language and culture; interviewing a family of 10 siblings born in Eastern France between 1931 and 1948 to learn about changes in French culture and to develop materials for teaching; and creating a computer game with Leslie Midkiff DeBauche for a team-taught French Film and Culture class.  From these experiences, conference presentations took place in Côte d’Ivoire, Africa, France, Belgium, Québec and around the United States.  If asked about her favorite moments in a long teaching career, she would say working with students, developing courses, teaching, helping students get ready to study in France, observing student teachers who have a passion for teaching, watching Freshmen improve their skills while maturing and becoming caring citizens of the world, and working with great colleagues.  Parker earned her BA from Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, and her Ph.D from UW-Madison.    William Lawlor received his B. A. and M. A. from Lehman College of the City University of New York and completed his Ph. D. at Ball State University in 1978. Although he began work at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1978 as a teacher of developmental English, he now has taught at all levels, including literature courses for English majors, creative writing courses for English majors and minors, literature courses for graduate students, and seminars on the teaching of writing for faculty. Lawlor is the editor of Beat Culture (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2005), an encyclopedia about the artists, culture, and history of the mid-twentieth century, and he is the author of several other books and numerous scholarly articles. He is the recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and a System Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   To view all Letters & Science Katz Award Faculty Recipients To Date --->  Click Here                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                       William Lawlor           Marcia Parker                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

The Justus F. and Barbara J. Paul faculty Award - This annual award provides sabbatical support to faculty in the College of Letters & Science and in the University Library.  L&S ranked faculty and University Library ranked faculty who have been granted sabbatical may apply for this grant which is awarded and administered by the College of Letters & Science.    Justus F. Paul began his distinguished UWSP career in 1966 and served as L&S Dean from 1986 to 2004.  Barbara J. Paul began her UWSP career in 1967 and retired as an associate professor with the University Library in 2002.   The 2008 Justus F. and Barbara J. Paul faculty award winner is Richard Barker - Foreign Languages.  Richard Barker, Professor of Spanish, received his B.A from Hamilton College and his M.A. from the University of Iowa and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon in 1982. He began his teaching career at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania before joining the Foreign Language Department at the UWSP in 1988. Although his training is in Spanish American and Spanish literature, he was sidetracked into the field of oral history after a conversation in 1986 with an older man in his wife’s hometown of Castilleja del Campo (Seville, Spain). During the following twenty years he interviewed scores of people who remembered events in the town during the Second Spanish Republic (1931‑36), the Spanish Civil War (1936‑39), and the Franco regime (1939‑75). He also read extensively in the bibliography on the period and did research in the Municipal Archive of Castilleja del Campo and other archives in the Province of Seville. In 2007 he published a long micro history of the town: El largo trauma de un pueblo andaluz: República, represión, guerra, posguerra, which has been well received by Spanish historians and the Spanish public. While on sabbatical during the 2008‑2009 academic year, he will interview residents of Castilleja del Campo who have read his work and he will incorporate their reactions, corrections or additions into a second edition. He will also prepare an English edition to be published as The Long Trauma of an Andalusian Town: Republic, Repression, War, Postwar. Richard Barker is grateful to the UWSP for its support for this long project and to his colleagues who gave him the emotional support to persevere during twenty years of laborious work.  He is also indebted to the thousands of students who, during twenty six years, taught him how to make difficult concepts understandable.                                                                                                           Barbara and Justus Paul, Richard Barker, Dean Grahn