‘Quick Fix’ solutions
Suggestions poured in — more than 100 in all — when Chancellor Thomas Harden called for “Quick Fix” solutions and small but creative ideas to better the campus. University officials investigated each proposal and adopted roughly two dozen projects for immediate action.
Import student ID photos to the SIS database
| September 2, 2010
Various faculty members have observed for years that portrait-type photographs would be a useful addition to the PeopleSoft Student Information System, helping them learn and remember their students’ names more quickly.
Further enhance the Academic Excellence Symposium
| September 2, 2010
Changes are planned for April 2011 in order to maximize exposure for, and benefits from, the annual showcase of talented students and top research projects.
Continue to promote on-campus opportunities for student internships
| September 2, 2010
UW-Green Bay already sponsors a healthy number of for-credit internships across campus (averaging 85 per academic year.)
‘You Pick the Music Days’ for the University carillon
| September 2, 2010
Every great university has a carillon, it is said, and UW-Green Bay dedicated its new Weidner Memorial Carillon last year.
Facilitate volunteer service by employees
| September 2, 2010
The Human Resources Office will use its website to draw attention to volunteer opportunities on campus and in the community. The website might also emphasize state pay-status and work-hours flexibilities already in place for such activities as voting, jury duty, disaster relief, blood or organ donation, military service and professional development.
Celebrate service to community with all-campus charitable drives
| September 2, 2010
The University will renew its commitment to acknowledging and supporting initiatives as they arise. A good example was the Registrar’s Office and its food drive in December 2009, with individuals volunteering their personal time and resources to pull it off.
Create a new outdoor break area near the Cofrin Library
| September 2, 2010
For the use of those brown-bagging it outdoors or enjoying short breaks from work or study, two picnic tables with umbrellas have been ordered for the sunny, red-brick plaza area on the library’s southwest side.
Increase visibility of art from the permanent collection
| September 2, 2010
UW-Green Bay has a fine collection of artworks including award-winning pieces by our own students, many of which are displayed in individual offices and suites.
Create a community vegetable garden on campus
| September 2, 2010
In 2009, UW-Green Bay students with counsel from faculty and staff members took the lead in creating the SLO Food Alliance. (The acronym stands for “sustainable, local, organic.”)
Continue to enhance the new-student welcome
| September 2, 2010
Addressing two Quick Fix ideas at once — the second suggestion involved more attention to cultivating student tradition — FOCUS administrators will unveil new wrinkles to the already successful freshman-welcome program.