UW-Green Bay announced that a $5.5 million gift received earlier this year from Dr. David A. Cofrin, coupled with previous gifts from the Cofrin Family, will result in creation of the University’s second fully endowed chair, a permanent endowment to fund academic enhancements, and a new name for the school’s business program. For more, read the article in UW-Green Bay’s Inside news site.
That’s correct. UW-Green Bay is in partnership with BEM Management School, Bordeaux, France. Participating students from either school will enroll in a minimum of 15 credits at UW-Green Bay. During the following semester, students will complete the equivalent of 15 credits in either Bordeaux or at UW-Green Bay. The program (read news release) can be completed in 17 months. For more information contact Don McCartney, senior lecturer and adviser in the Master’s of Management program, at (920) 465-2520 or via e-mail at mccartnd@uwgb.edu.
Alumni are invited to take part in the inauguration of Thomas K. Harden as the University’s fifth chancellor.
For full details of events surrounding the formal ceremony, including the fall Founders Association Reception, click here.
The eighth annual Chancellor’s Scholarship Dinner, the first for UW-Green Bay’s new chancellor, Thomas Harden, brought together community leaders and campus friends to benefit student scholarships.
Jonathan Holloway, professor of History and African American Studies, and master of Calhoun College at Yale University, will speak to campus as part of the Historical Perspectives Lecture Series, at 12:45 p.m Monday, Oct. 26. At Yale, Holloway teaches courses on post-emancipation social, cultural, and intellectual history. His lecture is titled, “‘It Never Happened’: Race, Class and the Unbearable Burden of Memory.”
The Historical Perspectives Series lectures are free, open to the public and held in the University Union’s Christie Theatre. Read more here.
You can join in on the campus Common Theme discussion. This year’s topic is “Realizing Our Sustainable Future” with a common reading, Red Sky at Morning by James Gustave Speth. Check the Common Theme website for details.
UW-Green Bay and UW-Superior are joining forces to meet their adult and distance learners living in Northern Wisconsin. It will make it move convenient for those living in the northern part of the state to earn a UW degree. The new initiative is called “The UW Where YOU Need It!” The degrees are available either completely online or by taking courses at various locations in Northern Wisconsin.
For more information, call UW-Green Bay at 800.621.2313, UW-Superior at 877.528.6597, or visit us online at www.UWWhereYouNeedIt.com.
UW-Green Bay’s Adult Degree Program features its programs, services, and activities of students and alumni in its “A.L.L (Adults Learning for Life) Newsletter.” It’s published exclusively online mid-month each season and is available to all alumni, students, faculty/staff, and friends of the University.
To submit news, updates, photos, and stories for the newsletter, contact Eric Craver at 800.621.2313 or e-mail information to: adultdegrees@uwgb.edu.
See current as well as archived issues of the newsletter – click here.
With students glued to their cell phones, UW-Green Bay has added an emergency text messaging tool to its crisis communication toolbox. GB Alert can send out urgent news to the cell phones and email boxes of current students, faculty and staff members. Read more about the addition.
More than 4,000 animals are taken in each year by the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary. UW-Green Bay students play a big part in their care. Students receive internship credit and hands-on experience that will further them in their careers while the sanctuary receives the extra help they need to take care of the animals.
Watch the video about this great partnership.
UW-Green Bay hit a couple of all-time enrollment highs this fall with 1,041 first-year students and more than 6,300 students in all. The freshman class represents 13 states and 16 countries.
We asked, “Why UW-Green Bay?” Watch their responses on video.
UW-Green Bay Prof. Jennifer Zapf is asking Green Bay-area alumni, University employees and returning adult students with young children to consider volunteering for a visit to the Language Learning Lab on campus. Zapf and her Human Development and psychology students are conducting a major study of toddlers’ skill and language development.
Participation is easy, with only a single 30- to 45-minute session in which the parent will gently guide his or her child through a few simple play exercises. Participants (the children, anyway) get a free book or toy as a parting gift. Zapf and/or one of her student research assistants will observe.
If you have a child between the ages of 1 and 3 and a willingness to play games for science, contact Zapf at MAC Hall C310; e-mail zapfj@uwgb.edu, phone 920-465-2490. Parents can sign up online at the project website, www.uwgb.edu/learnlab.
The 13th Annual UW-Green Bay Alumni Phone-A-Thon gets underway in mid-October as more than 20 student callers attempt to reach more than 26,000 alumni. Callers will be taking time to update your alumni profile (address, employer, etc.) as well as seeking contributions to UW-Green Bay in support of scholarships and academic programs.
This year we’ll be calling different majors each month. In October, we’ll be focusing on alumni who earned degrees in Growth & Development, Human Development, Psychology and the Master’s program in Community Human Services. Calling will take place on October 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22.
If you would like to support your alma mater, but are a bit difficult to reach by phone, feel free to visit us online 24 hours a day to make your gift at www.uwgb.edu/giving/alumni/.
Please help us build a stronger UW-Green Bay…one student at a time.
From Oct. 8 – Oct. 29, “The Art of the Fold: Accordian Publications,” will be on exhibit at the Lawton Gallery. It examines and surveys a broad range of printed matter that utilizes the accordian fold. All Lawton Gallery exhibits are free and open to the public.
See the Lawton Gallery 2009 Exhibition Schedule.
They’ve been featured in our Inside magazine (click here) before — the story is worth repeating.
What use to be an empty cannery building is now a showcase and studio space for local artists thanks to a couple of UW-Green Bay art majors. The 4,000 square feet “ARTgarage” is located on Cedar Street in Green Bay. Read more.
UW-Green Bay alumni artists put their talent on show for Green Bay’s annual Artstreet event.
Click here to learn more about these talented alumni artists and to view photos of their work.
Your one-stop information source to everything UW-Green Bay is Inside online: http://blog.uwgb.edu/inside/. News, features, events, video, photo galleries about your favorite people, places, events and activities. Don’t let a day go by without getting your UW-Green Bay fix.
Dr. Thomas K. Harden began this summer as the fifth chancellor of UW-Green Bay. He served previously as president of Clayton State University, a metropolitan institution of about 6,000 students located outside Atlanta. During his tenure, from 2000 through 2009, enrollment increased by 39 percent and the university was ranked No. 1 in the South for campus diversity by U.S. News & World Report six out of seven years.
Get to know Chancellor Harden at www.uwgb.edu/chancellor/profile/.
Dr. Julia Wallace is UW-Green Bay’s Provost, taking over for longtime faculty member Bill Laatsch, who served in the interim following the departure of Sue Hammersmith last year. She leaves her position as Executive Vice President and Provost, and Professor of Psychology with tenure at Central Michigan University. Wallace will begin her new role at UW-Green Bay at the end of July.
Read more about Julia Wallace.
It’s a tribute to Founding Chancellor Edward Weidner, but it’s the UW-Green Bay students that will get the biggest benefit, and a new tradition. See a time-lapse video of the new Campus Carillon going up this summer, and hear what sounds will greet new and returning students this fall.
Video and Audio - click here.
Everyday UW-Green Bay works on its mission to improve lives of students and families in the region and beyond. Here’s a couple of comments (below) from happy customers and other photos showing the good work of YOUR UW-Green Bay.
“I am a marketing director so I am a tough judge to service; you do an excellent job on organization and welcoming participants to campus.”
“I was pleasantly surprised to learn of the many facilities and activities offered to the students… I really had no idea how wonderful this campus is!”
“I am impressed with how thorough UWGB has been in providing information to make my daughter’s freshman year successful.”
“A fun and informative experience! Go Green!”
FOCUS 2009: Preparing for a smooth transition
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Diplomas and smiling faces never get old
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Spring Mentoring Event helped students gain lasting connections
‘Green’ is more than a catch-phrase at UW-GREEN BAY.
Here’s more research to support it is part of our culture.
By now you may have heard that Student Apartment Building 109 burned to the ground this summer. Fortunately it was unoccupied, and there were no injuries. Arson has been ruled out. Approximately 60 of the 2,000 students returning to live on campus in fall of 2009 are currently being helped by University officials to locate alternative housing while campus officials investigate longterm solution. Could more suites be in our future? We would love for you to share your memories of living in 109. Perhaps you met your future spouse there. Did you begrudge having to make the longest walk to classes and the Union? Did you request 109 for four years? Why? Please click on the following link and share your thoughts.
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UW-Green Bay and the BEM Bordeaux Management School in Bordeaux, France, have established a Degree Program Partnership at the master’s level that allows for the transfer of credits between schools. “This international partnership, a first of its kind in Northeastern Wisconsin and one of the first such programs in the UW System, will enable our graduate students and graduate students from overseas the chance to enrich their learning by studying abroad,” said Prof. Meir Russ, Management. Details follow. Help us spread the word! Read more.