Partnerships with other institutions, community service
UW-Green Bay continues to seek ways to further leverage the UW System’s strengths by collaborating with others to maximize our impact. Examples:
- The number of students in the Bachelor of Applied Studies program, a relatively new collaboration with the Wisconsin Technical College System, continues its robust growth, going from 209 declared majors in spring 2009, shortly before my arrival, to better than 300 for the coming fall;
- It was another huge year for Phuture Phoenix with receipt of major grants to replicate our program at UW-Eau Claire and extend our tutoring efforts and reach out to local families. Phuture Phoenix now serves more than two dozen schools or districts;
- There was record enrollment (287) for the summer Clerks and Treasurers Institute, drawing municipal officials from around the state for continuing education;
- Our Adult Degree Program at UW-Green Bay teamed up with UW-Superior to co-promote distance-learning and satellite-site opportunities across Northern Wisconsin, under the banner “The UW Where You Need It.”
- Thirty-six Northeastern Wisconsin elementary schoolteachers went back to school last summer at a grant-funded seminar at UW-Green Bay. The teachers partnered with our faculty to learn how to better incorporate science-teaching methods into daily classroom activities, including learning new hands-on experiments they can do with students. The summer seminar was developed in partnership with local Einstein Project and funded through part of a $335,595 grant from the Wisconsin Improving Teacher Quality program;
- Weidner Center performances and Phoenix Athletics events each drew total annual attendance of 100,000 or more.
