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It's
Phuture Phoenix time, again!
Expect more scenes like this when a record 800+ fifth-graders descend
on campus for the third annual Phuture Phoenix Day, scheduled for Wednesday,
Oct. 13. The program is designed to encourage children from city schools
to think seriously about education and higher education as part of their
long-term plans. Several hundred UW-Green Bay students and community volunteers
lend their time as mentors before, during and after the campus tour date.
For more, visit the Web at http://www.uwgb.edu/phuturephoenix/.
Motivating kids
is topic of Fall Conference
With truancy rates as high as 30 percent in some Northeast Wisconsin high
schools, timing couldn’t be better for the Institute for Learning
Partnership’s Fall Conference and its focus on helping educators
motivate students to stay in school. The event will take place in the
Phoenix Room of the University Union at 7 p.m. Oct. 21. Marcia Tate, a
nationally recognized educational consultant, will give the keynote address.
She is the author of “Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20
Professional Learning Strategies that Engage the Brain.” She will
lead workshops on campus the following day. The public is invited..
You can always go.
. . downtown
With the help of community leaders, the University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay officially opened the doors to the University’s Downtown Learning
Center at Washington Commons. The dedication Thursday (Sept. 16) drew
local officials, business leaders, the news media and many members of
the campus community. UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard, Green Bay
Mayor Jim Schmitt, Chamber of Commerce President Paul Jadin, Russ De Mille
of Development Associates (owners of Washington Commons) and Dennis Feld,
representing Downtown Green Bay, Inc., cut the ribbon. The 2,600-square-foot
Downtown Learning Center includes a classroom, conference room, office,
reception area and storage space.
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"During his
many years with UWGB, Keith helped the University through numerous challenges
and changes. He was a good man, with a great sense of humor, absolutely
dedicated to his work. His death is a great loss to the University, and
an even greater loss to those of us who knew him as a colleague and good
friend."
Former Vice Chancellor William Kuepper
commmenting on the untimely passing of his colleague for more than two
decades. UW-Green Bay budget officer Keith Prechter. Services wer set
for Oct. 2.
Frankenthal honor goes to one of UW-Green Bay's 'own'
Prof. Cheryl Grosso, long-time faculty member in music and Communication
and the Arts — and a UW-Green Bay graduate — has been selected
for the Frankenthal Professorship, named in honor of the late Siegfried
W. Frankenthal of Green Bay. Grosso will officially assume the title on
Jan. 1, 2005.
Named professorships support the scholarship of outstanding
faculty. Grosso’s scholarship includes composing, performing and
conducting.
Her compositions have won regard from other composers,
performers, teachers, conductors, publishers, and others in the music
world. Professional and student musicians across the country perform her
compositions and arrangements of contemporary and hand drumming music.
Major music publishing houses have published her compositions and a hand
drumming methods book.
Grosso performs with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra,
chamber groups and other small ensembles, and professional groups that
tour to the Weidner Center. She founded and conducts the UW-Green Bay
Hand Drumming Ensemble.
Grosso graduated from UW-Green Bay in 1978 and went
on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in percussion performance from California
Institute of the Arts, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University
of Iowa.
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