Positive headlines
- A student group established a permanent Memorial Garden on campus this spring. Research (including that of Prof. Illene Noppe) suggests that serious grief and depression episodes are under-diagnosed in the college-age population; this is one positive response locally;
- Noppe and students expanded the Camp Lloyd summer-retreat experience for grieving children;
- The University spotlighted to friends the happy fact that a majority of the dozen or so 2010 Golden Apple teachers (a popular community program celebrating standout K-12 educators) happened to be UW-Green Bay graduates;
- UW-Green Bay received UW System approval to begin planning an online Master of Science in Nursing with a Clinical Nurse Leader Emphasis, continuing to build on our very strong nursing-completion offerings;
- The UWGB Stands With Haiti campaign raised $4,138 over a short period of time to forward to Partners in Health, a medical aid organization which has had a longstanding relationship with the University (faculty, staff and students) even before January’s deadly earthquake in Haiti;
- Billboards promoting UW-Green Bay alumni, faculty and academic excellence appeared around the area in the first use of that advertising medium in decades;
- Nothing much happened with H1N1 except plenty of common-sense preparation and an abundance of communication with students, families and employees — in a calm and reassuring tone — about prevention measures and the availability of flu-shot clinics on campus. UW-Green Bay’s dedicated response team met regularly, granted countless interviews, and dealt with relatively few confirmed cases that presented themselves here;
- At age 40, UW-Green Bay (through its Faculty Senate) voted to adopt the Latin phrase Ad Scientiam Renovandam for us as appropriate in formal ceremony or academic documents. Ad means “toward” or “for.” Scientiam is the source of the word “science,” but in the Latin of ancient Rome it meant both “learning” and “knowledge,” and thus spans the teaching and research aspects of academic life. Renovandam comes from a verb that means “to renew,” “recreate,” or “innovate”;
- UW-Green Bay inaugurated a new chancellor on Oct. 20. Chancellor Harden thanked all who contributed to or attended the event at the Weidner Center. Additionally, the community reception and, especially, a meet-the-chancellor gathering for students at the Union that week, were great opportunities to engage stakeholders and celebrate this University’s relationship to the community;
- It was a miracle! Not quite, but the University found itself in the media spotlight for a few weeks last fall with a crime whodunnit. Luckily, they found the missing statue of St. Anthony (Headline: “Patron Saint of Lost Items is Found”) and returned it to the LeMieux Chapel on the grounds of the Cofrin Memorial Arboretum. (Private donors, from the family that owned the land previously, maintain and preserve the chapel as a historically significant building from the Belgian settlement era);
- Nine new freshmen, who excelled in and out of the classroom during high school, were extended an opportunity to participate in the new Academic Enrichment Experience, offering a semester-long independent study during their first year here.
- Chancellor Harden hired an experienced academic administrator and scholar as the new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. Julia E. Wallace, formerly vice president of Central Michigan University and before that a longtime administrator and faculty member at the University of Northern Iowa, started July 27.
- UW-Green Bay students in urban planning won recognition for their role — through a series of studies, projects and volunteer efforts — in helping to freshen and revitalize the formerly blighted Broadway District in Downtown Green Bay. Broadway has won awards as a successful “Main Street” project;
- The University streamlined and shortened its commencement ceremonies with the aim of providing more focus on the graduates.
The UWGB Stands With Haiti campaign raised $4,138 over a short period of time to forward to Partners in Health, a medical aid organization which has had a longstanding relationship with the University.
