INTRODUCTION

The first consists of degrees awarded by UW-Green Bay. These are in three distinct areas of study:

• Master of Science in Administrative Science
• Master of Science in Applied Leadership for Teaching and Learning
• Master of Science in Environmental Science and Policy

The second group is comprised of cooperative programs with the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Course work in these programs normally is completed on the UW-Green Bay campus, but degrees are awarded by the sponsoring institution. Cooperative programs are:

• Master of Science in Administrative Leadership — Educational Administration and Supervision Emphasis (UW-Milwaukee)
• Master of Science in Educational Psychology — Counseling (UW-Milwaukee)
• Master of Business Administration (UW-Oshkosh)
• Master of Science in Education — Reading (UW-Oshkosh)

PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is committed to a distinctive academic plan characterized by a strong interdisciplinary education grounded in the liberal arts. It is a practical education that prepares students to evaluate issues and solve problems. The University has a strong commitment to serve the needs of the region and to extend the learning environment beyond campus boundaries.

Graduate programs at UW-Green Bay are offered in areas reflecting particular strengths of the academic program and needs of the region.

In 1965 when the Wisconsin Legislature authorized a new campus of the University of Wisconsin System for Northeastern Wisconsin, Green Bay was already the home of a two-year University of Wisconsin Center enrolling about 1,000 students. It was integrated with the new University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 1968. In the fall of 1969, classes opened in the first three buildings of the new campus overlooking the waters of Green Bay east of the city. The University is one of 13 baccalaureate degree-granting institutions in the UW System.

With more than 5,000 undergraduate students and 550 graduate students, including approximately 350 students in the cooperative programs, the University is large enough to offer a diversity of programs and small enough to offer an individualized educational experience. The diverse student body includes students from most of Wisconsin's counties, half of the states, and about 30 foreign countries. The University has nearly 180 full-time faculty, 96 percent of whom have earned a doctorate or its equivalent.

ACCREDITATION
UW-Green Bay is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools for the bachelor's degree and for the master's degree. Accreditation is granted after a thorough examination of all aspects of a college or university by a team of faculty and administrators from other established institutions.

CAMPUS

The University is situated on a beautifully landscaped 700-acre site seven miles from the city center of Green Bay, Wisconsin. All of the University's academic buildings have been built since 1969.

The academic center of campus is the eight-story Cofrin Library. Clusters of academic buildings are grouped like points of the compass on the north, south, east and west around it.

The new Mary Ann Cofrin Hall that opens for classes in September 2001, houses nearly 40 percent of all classes on campus. The classrooms, lecture halls, and laboratories located in it have the capability for state-of-the-art technology. The building is designed as a demonstration project for energy efficiency and is projected to result in one-third less the energy cost of a comparable building designed to meet Wisconsin codes. The University is partnering with Wisconsin Public Service in installing roofing materials and glass containing photovoltaic capabilities. Ventilation air will be pre-warmed by passive solar heat. Other measures include maximum daylighting, and glass that is “tuned” for different exposures. The building also uses a number of “green” or recycled materials, particularly in floor finishes and tile.

The Edward W. Weidner Center for the Performing Arts is adjacent to the Theatre Hall and Studio Arts buildings. The academic buildings and the University Union are connected outdoors by plazas and walkways and indoors by a system of concourses. The concourses, ramps and elevators in every building make the University particularly accessible to students and visitors with disabilities.

The Phoenix Sports Center, east of the academic buildings, includes the gymnasium, swimming pool, racquetball courts, team rooms, and other indoor athletic facilities. Tennis courts, baseball and softball diamonds, and other playing fields are nearby. UW-Green Bay's soccer teams play at Phoenix Field on the campus' east side.

Student apartments and residence halls are near the University Union and academic buildings and not far from the gym, swimming pool, and other sports facilities.

Communiversity Park on the bay shore is a popular area for picnics and strolls.

Since the primary buildings are clustered, much of the campus is left open for recreational use. The nine-hole golf course is used in winter for cross-country skiing. Bicycle, skiing, and pedestrian paths connect all parts of the campus.

FACILITIES
Facilities used by the graduate programs, in addition to general classroom and office space, include laboratories, the library, computer center, and a number of ancillary program or research centers. Each of these is described below.

Area Research Center
The Area Research Center of the Cofrin Library is a depository for archives and manuscripts of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 11 northeastern Wisconsin counties. These records provide a rich source of organizational information for students of history, genealogy, and local culture. This center is one of the most active units in the network established by the State Historical Society.

Center for Biodiversity
The Cofrin Arboretum Center for Biodiversity promotes education, research and community services that help conserve native plants and animals of the western Great Lakes region. The center incorporates resources listed in this section including the arboretum, herbarium and Richter collections, along with the University greenhouse and the archives of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology.

Center for Public Affairs
The Center for Public Affairs at UW-Green Bay provides an opportunity for students to participate in team research, internships, and technical assistance experiences in public policy, politics, government and public management.

Students work with state and local government officials, legislators, public managers and other public professionals in such diverse areas as hazardous materials assessment, recycling and other environmental policies, health care administration, seismic risk assessment, community design and development, zoning analysis, cultural diversity, public opinion surveys and government/business relations. Some of these projects have been funded by agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; others have been inspired and supported by local hospitals and citizen groups.

The center works closely with the University of Wisconsin General Extension to develop outreach programs in government affairs, and students have opportunities to participate in some of these activities. The goal of the center is to provide quality experiences for students and faculty and to serve the need for research, policy analysis, and training for the local community and northeastern Wisconsin.

Cofrin Arboretum and Natural Areas
The 290-acre Cofrin Arboretum encircling the campus is a significant resource for field trips, class projects, and individual research. Other University natural areas expand the range of landforms, vegetation communities, and animal habitats available for study.

The University supports a program of grants for individual student research within the arboretum and natural areas. Students whose proposals gain support may receive up to $1,000 to carry out their projects. Students present results of completed projects in an annual symposium.

The arboretum has mature upland forests, a cedar swamp, several types of restored prairie communities, old fields, several ponds and wetlands, a stream, an extensive dolomite outcrop of the Niagara Escarpment, and more than a half mile of shoreline on Green Bay. Other University natural areas include sites on Lake Michigan and in the interior of the Door County peninsula.

Within this diversity are opportunities to study sites that are preserved, areas undergoing restoration and development, and formerly cultivated sites in various stages of colonization by woody plants. A large number of the plant and animal species of northeastern Wisconsin exist in these natural areas.

Computing Facilities
UW-Green Bay runs a Windows 2000 network that serves faculty, staff, and students. Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and FrontPage) and Outlook for e-mail have been selected as campus software standards. All registered students have free access to the University's computing facilities for their coursework, e-mail, and Internet access. A student's account is opened during their first semester and remains open for the duration of their tenure at UW-Green Bay.

UW-Green Bay's general computer access student labs are located in the Instructional Services building and the Cofrin Library. The GCA labs house about 200 Windows PCs and 50 Macintosh computers, as well as laser printers and scanners. Student consultants are available to help users with software related issues and to maintain the lab and its equipment. Print accounting software and print release stations are installed in all student labs, where students can print their documents using their Passport ID. Passport IDs are charged $5 each academic year to help cover the printing costs.

The University also has numerous specialized computing labs elsewhere on campus. These include composition, graphic arts, business, social science, engineering, music, and computer science labs. Students in these academic areas will find a variety of equipment to meet their instructional needs. The Cofrin Library also has computer workstations to provide students with access to UW-Green Bay, state, and national holdings, as well as CD-ROM multimedia facilities. Students may enroll in free, noncredit workshops offered by Computing and Information Technology on how to use various computer tools.

Data, Video and Voice Network
UW-Green Bay has a comprehensive data and voice network that uses a state-of-the-art universal wiring system. Over 1,000 personal computer workstations, including both IBM PC compatible and Apple Macintosh units, are attached to the campus network using switched ethernet equipment. The data network enables students, faculty, and staff to use all of the campus computing resources regardless of their location. Data and voice wiring connects all classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices, administrative areas, and on-campus student housing.

The campus network is connected to the Internet via high-speed links providing worldwide access for students, faculty, and staff from anywhere on campus. Via the campus Internet link, and in conjunction with the library mainframe system, campus users are able to access all UW System library online catalogs and online catalogs from other libraries. The Cofrin Library also supports Internet-based connections to many online database services which provide retrieval of citation and/or full text/graphics versions of selected items.

Herbarium
The UW-Green Bay Herbarium houses a collection of over 25,000 specimens of vascular plants and provides many opportunities for student research, collection, and cataloging projects. Students have collected and prepared a large number of specimens from northeastern Wisconsin, including endangered and threatened species. They continue to catalog specimens from the Cofrin Arboretum, Toft Point, and other UW-Green Bay natural areas. With the addition of computer support, students are also able to map the distribution of plants and their responses to environmental changes. Specimens from the Herbarium are used for classroom demonstrations and laboratories. Researchers from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, other University of Wisconsin campuses, and universities in other states frequently make use of the Herbarium collection.

Institute for Learning Partnership
The Institute for Learning Partnership is designed to engage UW-Green Bay in support of learning along with the 37 school districts and businesses, civic leaders and parents of Northeast Wisconsin. The partnership was forged to help these organizations and groups work collaboratively to improve learning. Among its goals is developing leadership to support innovative school cultures and structures that integrate teaching, learning and technology for the benefit of student performance and achievement. Under the aegis of the institute, the University offers undergraduate, graduate and professional development programs designed to bring continuity to the discrete stages of a teacher's career.

Institute for Research
The Institute for Research assists faculty members in obtaining support for research. Graduate students working with faculty can learn to develop proposals for funding from federal agencies, private foundations and industry. The Institute has access to the latest information on funding sources through the Sponsored Program Information Network of New York as well as the Grants Information Office of the University of Wisconsin System.

Laboratories
The University has devoted a significant portion of its resources to developing laboratory facilities to support the natural and social sciences. A number of these labs are devoted mostly to research and include a water analysis laboratory, a waste management resource recovery lab, and a computer-based cartography lab. Available equipment includes gas and liquid chromatographs, GC-MS, spectrophotometers (UV, IR, visible), atomic absorption spectrometer, liquid scintillation apparatus, growth chambers, microscopes and other equipment. Microcomputers are available in ecology and engineering laboratories in the Laboratory Sciences building. Other spaces available for research use include a herbarium and greenhouse. The University also has boats and a variety of other equipment for field studies.

Cofrin Library
Centrally located among the academic buildings of the campus is the Cofrin Library, which supports the academic program with a collection of more than one million items and computer access to the accumulated knowledge of humankind.

Library holdings include over 280,000 books, subscriptions to 1,300 print periodical titles and 9,500 electronic periodical titles, and 730,000 periodical and government document microforms. As a depository for the U.S. government and the State of Wisconsin, the library has also acquired 357,000 print documents, including some from international organizations. Links in the library online catalog are available to government documents now published electronically and to research-oriented websites. The library's website (www.uwgb.edu/library/) offers additional access to many electronic databases and quick reference tools.

Other specialized collections include 44,000 art slides; 6,000 instructional materials for teachers; 57,000 maps; 1,900 music scores; and 3,500 CDs and sound recordings. The Special Collections Department contains historical records of northeastern Wisconsin, fine print books, rare materials including old maps and manuscripts, and the University Archives.

Facilities for student use are varied: quiet study areas, individual and group study rooms, a library instruction room, a general access computer lab, and general reading and study areas. Students can conduct their research at computer workstations which provide access to the Cofrin Library's online catalog and reserve systems, as well as CD ROM databases, full text electronic newspapers and journals, census data and other resources. These computers give library access to all the UW System libraries and a database of 46 million items held by libraries throughout the world. Students can access Internet resources directly or through selected links available on the Cofrin Library web site.

Librarians are available to assist students in their research during most of the open access hours. The library catalog and databases are available from remote sites even when the library is not open.

Richter Natural History Collections
The Richter Natural History Collections are a gem among such campus-held collections in the United States. Students from a variety of majors and professionals from across the country make use of the unique resource.

The collections began with a large collection of bird eggs, nests, and study skins gathered by the late Carl H. Richter, who was one of North America's foremost amateur oologists. It includes more than 10,500 egg sets, some of which are dated as early as 1884. The collection includes a large series of vertebrate specimens, Indian artifacts, mollusks and butterflies, geological specimens, historical documents, and photographs. The holdings also preserve Richter's extensive field notes and papers.

The Richter Collections include more than 90 percent of the North American avian species and subspecies, including endangered species such as whooping crane, snail kite, and Kirkland's warbler, and several extinct species. The egg collection is North America's 13th largest. In addition to fluid preserved specimens, study skins, and skeletons, the museum has a library of related books, journals, and reprints. Holdings represent nearly 100 percent of the locally breeding bird species, 95 percent of the mammals, 80 percent of the reptiles, amphibians and fishes.

Specimen collections continue to grow through contributions from students, faculty and other researchers.

Sea Grant Program
UW-Green Bay faculty members participate in the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant College Program. The Green Bay program involves public education and research projects dealing with water quality, fisheries, coastal marshes, and human impact on the Bay of Green Bay and the Great Lakes. Several University boats are available for research.