The UW-Green Bay Chancellor’s Office emailed the following from Chancellor Michael Alexander and Interim Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs & Campus Climate Gail Sims-Aubert to the UW-Green Bay Faculty and Staff on Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
Dear UW-Green Bay Students,
Thank you for the questions several of you have asked regarding your Segregated Fees for the upcoming year. We would like to take this opportunity to share some information about the services and programs these fees provide to you, including during the ever-changing conditions surrounding the pandemic.
Student fees are used to support various aspects of your UW-Green Bay educational experience, providing important support services like counseling and health, building and maintaining facilities and creating programming and events. Your fees also help support employee salaries that make these types of student services possible.
It is important for you to know that student fees are comprised of several different fees. You received information regarding adjustments designed to make the Distance Education Fee as equitable as possible across the student population. In the coming weeks, we will update you on plans for our Athletic Department and student athletes; and as the semester progresses, we will keep you informed of any changes to other programming or services and use of the fees allocated to those areas.
For UW-Green Bay students who live on campus, off campus or learn online, these services remain important and the fees needed to deliver them are valid and necessary, including during this unusual year. In some cases fees will even be shifted and augmented to support the goals of Student Life, University Recreation/Intramurals, the University Union and student use of the Kress Event Center, all areas that are pivoting to find creative, interesting and safe ways to build community in the midst of the pandemic.
Every facet of the University experience has been touched by the pandemic and there is no denying that student life and engagement activities are going to be quite different for the coming year. As we continue to take the necessary steps to prevent the spread of the virus, we will not lose sight of the fact that your college experience should be filled with a robust schedule of out-of-classroom activities.
Though we cannot gather like we have in the past, rest assured that we are being inventive in finding ways to provide you with opportunities to engage with fellow students and unwind from your academic course work. For the first time ever, our programming includes online and virtual experiences that can engage even more students who live off campus and take courses online. It is truly exciting to expand our campus community and be inclusive in a way not possible before. Campus can now come to you, wherever you are and regardless of your learning mode.
Some of the events being planned for your return include: gourmet s’mores at the campus fire pit, a drive-in movie, photo booths, Headphone Disco, and much more! We are also excited to announce a vast array of virtual activities like video game tournaments (Esports has arrived at UW-Green Bay!), bingo, speed friending, and Kahoot/Trivia nights. Campus favorites like GB Nites and the Union craft series will also be back. UREC is open and is launching new outdoor fitness classes, the Outdoor Adventure & Recreation Center is ready to help you explore northeast Wisconsin and intramurals, including bag toss, badminton and ping pong, will kick off this fall. By mid to late fall, we hope to be able to open more activities in the pool, gyms and across campus as conditions allow.
Thank you for allowing us to share all of this with you today, and thank you for your patience while we work through these details in our ever-changing environment. We are excited to return to learning this fall and appreciate your commitment to our university community.
Best,
Michael Alexander
Chancellor
Gail Sims-Aubert
Interim Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs & Campus Climate