First Year Seminars - News
In ART 198 First Year Seminar "From One Many: Repetition in Art & Design" taught by Professor Chris Style, the last project was five 36" H x 26" W visual segments that go together to create a 10'3" x 36" wall piece. The students are worked in 5 groups, each with a different environmental issue that they had been exploring visually. Each student made 150 multiples of one item based upon their issue. Per panel are as many as 750 items adhered.
World-renowned poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator Nikki Giovanni delivered a keynote address to the first year seminar students on Wednesday, Nov. 2 as part of the 2011-12 UW-Green Bay Common Theme, “Celebrating Differences, Creating Community.” Dubbed the “Princess of Black Poetry” early in her three-decade career, Giovanni is well known for her outspokenness in both writing and lectures. One of the most widely-read American poets, she prides herself on being “a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English.” Giovanni remains dedicated to the fight for civil rights and equality, and is insistent on presenting the truth as she sees it. She has been called a “national treasure” and was named one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 “living legends.” Giovanni has written some 30 books for adults and children, and is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades.
Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, the first female Najavo surgeon, was on campus October 13 to present several lectures on her experiences in practicing Western medicine with Navajo traditional medicine. She is the author of the best selling book The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, her autobiography.
Dr. Denise Bartell, Associate Professor of Human Development, has been appointed Director of the Center for Students in Transition. Dr. Bartell will be working with various constituents on campus to help create a supporting environment for first year and transfer students.
UW-Green Bay was awarded a 2011-2012 Growth Agenda Grant from the UW-System to support a Center for Students in Transition. Professor Scott Furlong, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, led the group that was awarded the grant. The project propsoes the establishment of a Center for Students in Transition that would provide support for not onlly UW-Green Bay but the remaining UW System institutions on the development and successful transition programs for its students.
Dr. Denise Bartell, Associate Professor of Human Development, and Dr. Donna Ritch, Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, presented a pre-conference workshop "Get With the (First Year Seminar) Program: Creating Connections to Engagement" at the 30th Annual Conference on The First Year Experience, February 4-8, 2011, in Atlanta, GA.
Paul Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen, delivered a presentation to the First Year seminar classes in Fall of 2010.
