Institutional Honors

360º of awards, honors, achievements

UW-Green Bay is proud to be both state and nationally recognized with a number of honors.

State Honors

UW System Diversity Award

Angela Bauer a UW-Green Bay Professor of Human Biology and Women's and Gender Studies Angela Bauer, UW-Green Bay Professor of Human Biology and Women's and Gender Studies, in January 2013 was named the individual recipient of the UW System Board of Regents Diversity Award. During her time at UW-Green Bay, Bauer, who serves as special assistant to the Provost, has undertaken numerous efforts to close the academic achievement gap and increase minority participation in the sciences. She has been particularly lauded for conceptualizing and implementing the Targeted Opportunities for Success in the Sciences (TOSS) program, which has been effective in closing the achievement gap in UW-Green Bay Introduction to Human Biology courses. Bauer also worked with a colleague to develop the course Ethnic Minorities in Science (Human Biology 202), and has spearheaded efforts to bring notable scientists of minority backgrounds to UW-Green Bay.

State's Best Professor

UWGB History Professor Greg Aldrete History Prof. Greg Aldrete, a classics scholar renowned for bringing alive the worlds of ancient Rome and Greece for his students, is named 2012 Wisconsin’s Case/Carnegie state professor of the year.

UW System’s Best Professors

UWGB Professor Regan A.R. Gurung The UW System Board of Regents honors the state’s best public university teachers each year with presentation of the Regents Teaching Excellence Awards. UW-Green Bay faculty members dominate the list of 2011-12 award winners, with Psychology Prof. Regan A.R. Gurung of Human Development earning individual recognition, and The Professional Program in Education accepting “department of the year” honors.

Best Library in Wisconsin

The David A. Cofrin Library Circulation Desk The Wisconsin Library Association names the Cofrin Library at UW-Green Bay its 2012 State Library of the Year, recognizing excellence in use of technology, physical space, quality of the collection, community service and personal attention to patron learning and research.

Regents award for First Nations Studies

Classroom of First Nations Studies at UWGB UW-Green Bay’s First Nations Studies program receives the 2012 UW System Board of Regents Diversity Award, with special mention of the program’s emphases on pairing students with Tribal Elders and promoting involvement with local tribal communities.

Regional Honors

Top tier in popular rankings

UW-Green Bay once again ranks in the top tier of the “Best Regional Universities — Midwest” category of the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges list, climbing 12 spots, from No. 78 last year to No. 66 this year.

National Honors

Top political science instructor in America

UWGB Professor Denise Scheberle Longtime UW-Green Bay faculty member Denise Scheberle is recognized by the American Political Science Association as its 2012 national teacher of the year.

Phoenix Women's Basketball is top

The Phoenix Women's Basketball Team

The final Associated Press Top 25 poll of spring 2012 places the UW-Green Bay women’s basketball team No 10 in the nation among all major-college, Division I teams. The Phoenix goes on to finish 31-2 with an NCAA tournament win.

The Phoenix women’s basketball team earns the nation’s top academic ranking for 2012 from the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, with a collective team GPA of 3.61.

Military Friendly School

Military Friendly Schools Award Statistics show UW-Green Bay enrolls a larger percentage of veterans and their eligible dependents than any other four-year public university in Wisconsin, with 355 individuals receiving veterans benefits, including 252 veterans and service members as well as dependents. A national publication, names UW-Green Bay a “Military Friendly School” for the fourth consecutive year.

Silver STAR

Silver Star Award The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is seeing STARS thanks to an environmental rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. STARS — the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System — is a program that measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.

‘Eco U’ makes Green Colleges guide

Green College Award UW-Green Bay is selected for inclusion in the Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition. The publishers bill their product — created in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council — as focusing “solely on colleges that have demonstrated a notable commitment to sustainability.”