Chancellor's News and Notes

  • SOFAS Response on Interdisciplinarity

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    Cliff Abbott, UW-Green Bay Secretary of the Faculty and Academic Staff, issued an paper in response to Chancellor Miller’s essay Thoughts on Interdisciplinarity posted here last week. Prof. Abbott opens his remarks as follows…

  • Immediate Cost Containment Measures

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    UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller released the following statement via e-mail to employees on Wednesday, February 4, 2015: As you know, we have initiated the difficult process of taking a substantial reduction in the university budget.  In order to manage resources to achieve as much flexibility as possible I am taking the following actions…

  • Essay: ‘Thoughts on Interdisciplinary’

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    Since arriving at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay as Chancellor in August 2015, Gary L. Miller has said the University’s commitment to the ideals of interdisciplinarity, a founding principle, is both one of institution’s most important assets and potentially one of the strongest inertial forces to progress. In this essay, he reflects on higher learning,…

  • Governor’s comments on faculty, staff workload

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    On Jan. 29, Chancellor Gary L. Miller issued the following message to all UW-Green Bay faculty and staff: I want to join President Cross in expressing deep disappointment with the suggestion by Governor Walker that university faculty and staff do not work as hard as they could.  My nearly thirty years of experience in higher…

  • Academic Achievement Night

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    UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller released the following invitation via e-mail to employees on Tuesday, January 27, 2015: Excellence in academics is at the core of what we do as a university, and we will be emphasizing that commitment at the men’s basketball game on THURSDAY, February 5 at the Resch Center.  We will…

  • Budget reductions and university autonomy

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    UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller released the following statement via e-mail to employees on Tuesday, January 27, 2015: Colleagues, You have no doubt by now learned of the Governor’s proposal to reduce funding for the University of Wisconsin System by $300 million in the coming biennium.  The Governor is also proposing to give the…

  • Mid-Year Convocation remarks

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    Jan. 22, 2015 The prepared text of Chancellor Miller’s Mid-Year Convocation remarks is as follows: Thank you and welcome to the Mid-Term Convocation of the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay. And, most especially, welcome to the beginning of a new semester and exciting new year. Let me begin by again congratulating those celebrating a service milestone…

  • Enrollment Drive Update

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    UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller sent the following message via e-mail to employees on Tuesday, January 13, 2015: In November 2014, we began an initiative to focus on recruiting more local students to UWGB.  November and December were busy months for those who work in, and volunteered with, the Enrollment Drive.  A volunteer phone…

  • Mid-Year Convocation – Jan. 22, 2015

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    The Chancellor’s office invites the UW-Green Bay campus community to reconvene after winter break and kick off the spring semester with the annual UW-Green Bay Mid-Year Faculty and Staff Convocation on Thursday, January 22, 2015. Date: Thursday, January 22 Time: 10:30 a.m. program followed by lunch Location: Phoenix Room, University Union RSVP: by January 16…

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    Fox 11 installation story focuses on future of UW-Green Bay

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    WLUK, Fox 11 education reporter Kelly Schlicht covered the Friday, Nov. 14 installation of UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary L. Miller, focusing her coverage on his message for the future of UW-Green Bay. You can watch her report here.