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UW-Green Bay invites minority teens to sample video careers
“It takes knowledge to go to college.” That clever tagline punctuates a 30-second, teen-oriented public service announcement now available for broadcast.
      The spot was produced by a group of about three dozen middle-schoolers, most of Hispanic heritage, who learned about writing and video production at the seventh annual Stars of the Future pre-college program this summer at UW-Green Bay. The program and others like it encourage young people — especially those from diverse or low-income backgrounds — to expand their horizons.
      “They spent two weeks living in the dorms on a college campus, eating college food, working in college facilities,” says Mike Schmitt, a UW-Green Bay media specialist.
      By the second day, students were out on test shots with Canon mini-DV camcorders, practicing pans, tilts, two-shots, zooms and establishing shots. The middle-schoolers story-boarded concepts, explored Avid editing, and mapped out interviews staged in the Educational Television Productions broadcast studios.
      They capped their campus experience with their own red-carpet “awards show” at the student union, and the screening of an eight-minute, behind-the-scenes “Making of” video for their families on the camp’s final day.
To see their video, go to UW-Green Bay’s pre-college site at http://www.uwgb.edu/precollege/.

Gains in fall enrollment, diversity
UW-Green Bay greeted fall semester 2007 with an enrollment exceeding 5,800 students, including more than 1,000 new freshmen and a record 681 transfers. The students come from 71 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, 37 other states and 26 other countries. Fall enrollment also includes a record number of new students of color, including 64 new freshmen and 67 transfers.

New mission is accomplished at UW-Green Bay
Following campus, community and Board of Regents discussion, UW-Green Bay has an update of its campus Mission Statement for the first time since 1988.
      “It states what makes UW-Green Bay distinctive,” says Chancellor Bruce Shepard. “It reflects our core values — values such as our commitment to interdisciplinary education and environmental awareness — and the need to connect learning to the life of a rapidly changing region.”
      Shepard says UW System colleagues have complimented him on the succinct and focused nature of the collaboratively drafted, 62-word statement.

“The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay provides an interdisciplinary, problem-focused educational experience that prepares students to think critically and address complex issues in a multicultural and evolving world. The University enriches the quality of life for students and the community by embracing the educational value of diversity, promoting environmental sustainability, encouraging engaged citizenship, and serving as an intellectual, cultural, and economic resource.”