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The UW System Board of Regents will set tuition rates for the 2009-10 academic year at the board meeting July 9 in Madison. It was announced Friday (July 3) that President Kevin P. Reilly will ask the Board to approve tuition increases of 5.5 percent for most of the system’s students. Reilly called the increase “modest” if considered in light of the UW System’s need to manage more than $100 million in reductions, lapses, and reallocations for the new fiscal year that began this week. Reilly is also proposing a tuition freeze for the third consecutive year at the 13 UW System Colleges.

If UW Regents approve tuition levels as proposed today, the “total” — tuition plus segregated fees, which are set at the campus level — will be $6,614 for a Wisconsin resident attending UW-Green Bay full-time for the 2009-10 academic year. That breaks down to $5,364 for tuition and $1,250 for student fees. With an increase of only $26 in seg fees, the combined number is up roughly 4.85 percent from last year’s $6,308 annual bill.

A new book by Prof. Derek Jeffreys takes a strong stand on the use of torture as part of the “war on terror.” His book, Spirituality and the Ethics of Torture, is recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. View the rest of this entry »

The Green Bay Press-Gazette is publicizing the University’s unusual step of keeping applications open through August for students in 11 local counties. “We’ve had a few exchanges with students who have had to change their plans because of the economy,” Pam Harvey-Jacobs, admissions director, told the newspaper. “And those are typically local students, who decide they want or need to stay closer to home… it’s good to be able to accommodate those students.” For the story, click here

The Green Bay Athletics program, in cooperation with commercial partner JumpTV, launched its new and enhanced website this week at GreenBayPhoenix.com. Worth checking out, even during the summer break from competition, are features including video coaches’ shows (a few minutes in length) offering preseason insights on various Phoenix teams. The new emphasis on video, spotlighted under the headline “Phoenix Flix,” will also be a resource for highlights, facility and campus tours, feature stories and behind-the-scenes access at both the standard and premium-user levels. To learn more, visit http://www.GreenBayPhoenix.com

Public presentations have been scheduled during July for each of the four finalists for the position of UW-Green Bay webmaster. Candidates will showcase some of their previous projects and respond to questions. Each session will take place in Cofrin Library Room 304 from 11 a.m. until noon on the day of each interview. For further details, contact either chair Diane Blohowiak or co-chair Anne Kasuboski. The finalists are: View the rest of this entry »

Graduate student Simone Kolb’s thesis from UW-Green Bay’s Environmental Science and Policy graduate program was awarded the cover of the July-August 2009 issue of the prestigious international journal Soil Science Society of America Journal. Kolb’s paper, “Effect of Charcoal Quantity on Microbial Biomass and Activity in Temperate Soils,” is co-authored by her adviser, Prof. Mathew Dornbush, Natural and Applied Sciences, and graduate committee member Prof. Kevin Fermanich, Natural and Applied Sciences. View the rest of this entry »

If you see high-powered fishing boats racing across the bay of Green Bay Thursday through Saturday (July 2-4), or trolling slowly past campus, here’s why: The AIM Pro Walleye Series is using the public boat launch at the mouth of the Fox River as home base for its three-day, catch-and-release fishing tournament.  Green Bay continues to acquire a national rep for its trophy walleyes. You can read more about the fishery — and also see passing reference to our local “branch campus” — at http://www.walleyecentral.com/articles/?a=2168

Flags flew at half-staff recently at UW-Green Bay and other state institutions as a mark of respect for State Trooper Jorge Dimas. He died unexpectedly while convalescing from injuries suffered in a motor vehicle crash while on duty (for the State Patrol’s Northwest Region, in Polk County) in May.

“College program for poor families expands to second UW campus” was the headline over a Wisconsin Public Radio story earlier this week. Officials with the Phuture Phoenix program pioneered at UW-Green Bay will work to export the model to UW-Eau Claire, for BluGold Beginnings. Scroll down to the July 1 entry at http://www.wpr.org/news/newsheadlines.cfm

Sheila Blackman, a longtime member of the Phoenix Sports Information staff and, long ago, a one-time intern/LTE with the Marketing and University Communication Office, is packing up. She and family are relocating to northeast Ohio, where she has accepted a position with Kent State University and will soon be adjusting to “Golden Flashes” instead of “Phoenix.” The former Sheila Krambs is a 1998 graduate of UW-Green Bay’s communication program and a former Phoenix soccer player.