UW-Green Bay, Chancellor, The Growth Agenda

Northeastern Wisconsin's Growth Agenda University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard presented "Northeastern Wisconsin's Growth Agenda" to the UW System Board of Regents Business, Finance, and Audit Committee on Thursday, April 6. The board held its April 2006 meetings on the UW-Green Bay campus.
	Northeastern Wisconsin's Growth Agenda What the Growth Agenda Means for UWGB What is driving the Agenda? The Growth Agenda...Why Now? UW-Green Bay Today It's About Our Region's Future A Region in Economic Transition Northeastern Wisconsin: A Rising Economic Star for Wisconsin Region in Demographic Transition Diversity Plan 2008 Phuture Phoenix Looking Even Deeper: Who succeeds at UWGB? UWGB...A University in Demand Connecting Learning to Life..."A Unique Education" What is Happening at UWGB? How will UWGB Grow? Partnerships: Public Higher Education, Private Higher Education, K-12, Private Sector Why Talk Growth Now? Office of the Chancellor David A. Cofrin Library, Suite 810 University of Wisconsin-Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Drive Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 Phone: 920-465-2207 Comments to: Chancellor Web Manager Revised 04/07/2006 E-mail: shepardb@uwgb.edu

		Our region is changing economically and demographically, more on that in a moment. We are large, rapidly growing, and, as I have noted, now understand that development in Appleton benefits Green Bay and development in Green Bay helps Appleton. Our region owned the 1900s when manufacturing was king. That leads to certain strengths: a strong workforce and a legacy of wealth that sets us apart from the rest of the state in the capacity for entrepreneurial investment. There is another legacy less positive as we prepare for the future: there were days, now gone, when a lifetime well-paying job was assured in one of the mills and without higher education. So, today in our region, were we a state, the percentage of our adult population with baccalaureate degrees would rank us near rock bottom among the 50 states.
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