Media Coverage

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

“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

Twice as much Camp Lloyd means twice as much fun and twice as much healing for grieving kids. The camp — a place where children who lost a loved one can go to understand they are not alone in their situations — is meeting for full days at the Ecumenical Center this year. The weeklong camp had previously only been available for kids in the afternoon. “They have more time to interact with their peers,” camp founder and UW-Green Bay Human Development Prof. Illene Noppe said, “because we’re not hustling them off from one point to the next and trying to squeeze it all in, in five half-days. So it’s really worked out well.” Read more.

Some experts are predicting a bumper crop of mosquitoes in Wisconsin this summer. Current weather conditions and the heavy snowfall the last two winters may lead to an increase in the buzzing blood-suckers. “The cool, wet beginning of our June has probably doomed us to a big crop of mosquitoes this year. The warm weather recently has probably speeded their development, but I doubt it’s a big factor in how many there are,” Biology Prof. Michael Draney told a newspaper reporter recently. Read more.

Media coverage of the June 25, 2009 campus apartment fire.
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UW-Green Bay faculty and staff members were part of a group of 40 educators who gathered to further the understanding of issues related to the history, culture and tribal sovereignty of Wisconsin’s American Indian tribes and bands. The 13th annual American Indian Studies Summer Institute is taking place at the Oneida Nation’s Turtle Elementary School. Prof. Lisa Poupart, chair of the First Nations Studies program, described for the Press-Gazette how the state mandate to ingrain awareness of native issues in K-12 curricula (Wisconsin Act 31) is an outgrowth of the 1980s and unruly protests in northern Wisconsin over treaty rights, a history addressed at the weeklong workshop. Read article.

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. The Press-Gazette publicized the initiative today. Read more.

Public Safety officers found pieces of the stolen statue of St. Anthony on the Cofrin Arboretum trail near the South Circle Drive entrance Friday, June 19. The broken pieces of the plaster statue, which was reported stolen on Sunday, June 14, were in tall grass just off the arboretum trail entrance close to Nicolet Drive. The evidence suggests the suspect or suspects used the trail to transport the 4 ½-foot tall statue from the chapel toward Nicolet Drive. View the rest of this entry »

Internships often lead to college grads landing jobs once they enter the workforce. About two-thirds of UW-Green Bay seniors report completing at least one internship by the time they graduate. They offer invaluable experience. “Those relationships you build, you can’t get anywhere else, besides working for a good organization,” Career Services Director Linda Peacock-Landrum told the Press-Gazette. Read article.

All four Green Bay TV stations covered the theft of the St. Anthony statue from the LeMieux Chapel in the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Arboretum.

Here are reports and links from the Green Bay Press-Gazette, WLUK (Fox 11) and WBAY (ABC Channel 2).

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