UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 31 No. 18



Galaty wins 'Featured Faculty' 'Teaching at Its Best' awards UW System divvies up added enrollment Jazz Fest 2000 New MIS grad course Girl Scout cookies sale Book drive surpasses goal Diversity initiatives Bayfest plans Community MLK celebration Parent Connection Reminder Jobs listed	Vol. 31, No. 18 / Jan. 3, 2000 This e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website. Galaty is UW-Green Bay 'Featured Faculty' honoree David Galaty, Humanistic Studies, was selected for the fall semester "Featured Faculty" award by the Faculty Development Council. The award presentation and session in which the recipient describes his teaching philosophy will be scheduled in coming months because Galaty was in Spain as an exchange professor at the University of Leon during fall semester. The award recognizes Galaty's overall leadership in developing curriculum, in discussions of teaching methods, and in internationalizing the curriculum, and the broad intellectual range he brings to the classroom. More. *** * * * * Curl, Toonen, Walter cited for 'teaching at its best' Singled out for fall semester "Teaching at Its Best" awards were individual strategies devised by Linda Curl, lecturer in Information Science; Linda Toonen, lecturer in Composition; and Lynn Walter, professor in Social Change and Development. The recognition program is sponsored by the Faculty Development Council. • Curl's idea: marketing programming In Linda Curl's computer programming class, her "Teaching at its Best" idea was to have students work in groups to develop computer programs and then "market" their products to the class as a whole. • Toonen: career connections The "Teaching at its Best" selectors note that students in Linda Toonen's Project Connect sections of College Writing choose a career field as a research paper topic and do much of their research on the Internet. The Connect program is aimed at improving retention; Toonen said research showing that lack of career direction is a major factor in college dropouts was an inspiration in devising the writing assignment. • Walter: diverse approaches Earning "Teaching at its Best" recognition for Lynn Walter is the fact she promotes critical thinking about reading materials in the Women, Race, and Culture class by organizing small discussion groups; each individual is responsible for one of six different ways of exploring the reading. * * * * * UW System divvies up added enrollment capacity More students will be admitted to University of Wisconsin System schools next fall under a plan approved late last month by the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee. The committee approved spending $3.8 million and creating 67 new FTE positions to increase enrollment by 1,000 students as follows: Madison 300; Milwaukee 175; UW Colleges 100; Oshkosh, River Falls and Whitewater 50 each; Platteville 40; Stout 30; Stevens Point and Superior 20; Eau Claire 15. Campuses assigned an allotment of zero are Green Bay, La Crosse and Parkside. * * * * * Trumpeter Mustafa headlines Jazz Fest 2000 The annual UW-Green Bay Jazz Fest, always a premiere event, promises another big evening with its 30th anniversary concert set for Saturday, Jan. 15. Trumpeter Melton Mustafa will perform on several of his own compositions with the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble in the 7:30 p.m. concert at the Weidner Center. The Vocal Jazz Ensemble and an outstanding high school jazz ensemble also are on the program. Mustafa's performing experience includes eight years with the Count Basie Orchestra and stints with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Charlie Mingus Epitaph Orchestra, the Woody Herman Orchestra, and others. Tickets are $12 at the door or $10 if purchased in advance. More. * * * * * UW-Green Bay offers new Management Information Systems course A graduate-level course in Management Information Systems (MIS) is being offered for the first time this spring to meet the demands of area business people looking for professional advancement and employee training in information systems and technology. The three-credit course can be used as an elective toward UW-Green Bay's master's degree in Administrative Science. Instructor for the Monday evening course is Mark Kohls, director of e-commerce technology for KI Inc., Green Bay. More. * * * * * Can't find a Girl Scout? Call the cookie hotline The annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale is taking place Jan. 13-30. If you don't know a girl who is a scout, the Lac Baie Girl Scout Council offers this alternative: place your order at $3/box by calling 800-236-4475. Flavors are thin mints, caramel delites, peanut butter patties, peanut butter sandwich cookies, shortbread, reduced fat lemon pastry cremes, upside-down frosted oatmeal cookies and, new this year, "animal treasures." Cookies come in early March. * * * * * Book drive surpasses goal The totals are in. A record-setting 15,000 new books were donated to the tenth annual Give-a-Kid-a-Book campaign organized by the Friends of the Brown County Library. Sherry Rasmussen, coordinator of the drive at UW-Green Bay, says participation rates here are still climbing, but fast enough to show the idea is starting to catch on. * * * * * Diversity Initiatives: Marketing and University Communication The Office of Marketing and University Communication will work with the American Intercultural Center and academic units to identify students of color interested in assisting the University tell its story. A focus for 2000 is gathering visuals and testimonials for use in the Admissions Office's new recruitment video. * * * * *** Bayfest plans big blowout Bayfest director Tim Quigley is exploring the idea of a big concert for the 20th anniversary edition of the festival this June. He told the Green Bay Press-Gazette last month he's looking at bringing in a headline act for an outdoor concert on Wednesday, June 7, kicking off Bayfest weekend. *** * * * * Community MLK celebration is Jan. 15 UW-Green Bay is a co-sponsor of the popular community celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 15, at NWTC. Keynote speaker is Dr. G. Manns, senior pastor of Appleton Sanctuary Outreach Ministries; performers include the McKenzie Sisters, Divine Temple Sunshine Choir, Children's Readers Theater and the Green Bay African-American Gospel Choir. Admission is free. A reception with light refreshments follows the program. * * * * *** Parent Connection: 'Honorable Children' The next statewide broadcast of Parent Connection will look at "Raising Honorable Children." It will air Tuesday, January 11, at 8:00 p.m. on WPNE-TV 38. *** * * * * Reminder: Academic Staff Regents Award for Excellence Wednesday (Jan. 5) is the deadline if you would like to nominate a non-instructional academic staff member as UW-Green Bay's candidate for the 2000 Academic Staff Regents Award for Excellence. Criteria have been circulated campuswide via e-mail. The ASC's Nominating Committee will recommend a name to the ASC and forward it to Madison; Anne Buttke, chairperson, can answer questions. * * * * * Jobs listed Open searches include: Assistant Professor, Human Development, apply by Feb. 18 to Lloyd Noppe; Group Sales Coordinator, Weidner Center, apply by Jan. 3 to David Green; Assistant Professor, Nursing, apply by Jan. 15 to Sylvia Kubsch; and Halftime Lecturer, Nursing, apply by Jan. 15 to Jane Muhl. Deadlines have passed for the following (but applications accepted until filled): Internal Auditor, Business and Finance; and Reference Librarian, Cofrin Library. * * * * *** LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. To submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or just plain feedback, UW-Green Bay employees can call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Galaty wins 'Featured Faculty'

'Teaching at Its Best' awards

UW System divvies up added enrollment

Jazz Fest 2000

New MIS grad course

Girl Scout cookies sale

Book drive surpasses goal

Diversity initiatives

Bayfest plans

Community MLK celebration

Parent Connection

Reminder

Jobs listed

Vol. 31, No. 18 / Jan. 3, 2000

This e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website.

Galaty is UW-Green Bay 'Featured Faculty' honoree

David Galaty, Humanistic Studies, was selected for the fall semester "Featured Faculty" award by the Faculty Development Council. The award presentation and session in which the recipient describes his teaching philosophy will be scheduled in coming months because Galaty was in Spain as an exchange professor at the University of Leon during fall semester. The award recognizes Galaty's overall leadership in developing curriculum, in discussions of teaching methods, and in internationalizing the curriculum, and the broad intellectual range he brings to the classroom. More.

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Curl, Toonen, Walter cited for 'teaching at its best'

Singled out for fall semester "Teaching at Its Best" awards were individual strategies devised by Linda Curl, lecturer in Information Science; Linda Toonen, lecturer in Composition; and Lynn Walter, professor in Social Change and Development. The recognition program is sponsored by the Faculty Development Council.

• Curl's idea: marketing programming
In Linda Curl's computer programming class, her "Teaching at its Best" idea was to have students work in groups to develop computer programs and then "market" their products to the class as a whole.

• Toonen: career connections
The "Teaching at its Best" selectors note that students in Linda Toonen's Project Connect sections of College Writing choose a career field as a research paper topic and do much of their research on the Internet. The Connect program is aimed at improving retention; Toonen said research showing that lack of career direction is a major factor in college dropouts was an inspiration in devising the writing assignment.

• Walter: diverse approaches
Earning "Teaching at its Best" recognition for Lynn Walter is the fact she promotes critical thinking about reading materials in the Women, Race, and Culture class by organizing small discussion groups; each individual is responsible for one of six different ways of exploring the reading.

* * * * *

UW System divvies up added enrollment capacity

More students will be admitted to University of Wisconsin System schools next fall under a plan approved late last month by the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee. The committee approved spending $3.8 million and creating 67 new FTE positions to increase enrollment by 1,000 students as follows: Madison 300; Milwaukee 175; UW Colleges 100; Oshkosh, River Falls and Whitewater 50 each; Platteville 40; Stout 30; Stevens Point and Superior 20; Eau Claire 15. Campuses assigned an allotment of zero are Green Bay, La Crosse and Parkside.

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Trumpeter Mustafa headlines Jazz Fest 2000

The annual UW-Green Bay Jazz Fest, always a premiere event, promises another big evening with its 30th anniversary concert set for Saturday, Jan. 15. Trumpeter Melton Mustafa will perform on several of his own compositions with the UW-Green Bay Jazz Ensemble in the 7:30 p.m. concert at the Weidner Center. The Vocal Jazz Ensemble and an outstanding high school jazz ensemble also are on the program. Mustafa's performing experience includes eight years with the Count Basie Orchestra and stints with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Charlie Mingus Epitaph Orchestra, the Woody Herman Orchestra, and others. Tickets are $12 at the door or $10 if purchased in advance. More.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay offers new Management Information Systems course

A graduate-level course in Management Information Systems (MIS) is being offered for the first time this spring to meet the demands of area business people looking for professional advancement and employee training in information systems and technology. The three-credit course can be used as an elective toward UW-Green Bay's master's degree in Administrative Science. Instructor for the Monday evening course is Mark Kohls, director of e-commerce technology for KI Inc., Green Bay. More.

* * * * *

Can't find a Girl Scout? Call the cookie hotline

The annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale is taking place Jan. 13-30. If you don't know a girl who is a scout, the Lac Baie Girl Scout Council offers this alternative: place your order at $3/box by calling 800-236-4475. Flavors are thin mints, caramel delites, peanut butter patties, peanut butter sandwich cookies, shortbread, reduced fat lemon pastry cremes, upside-down frosted oatmeal cookies and, new this year, "animal treasures." Cookies come in early March.

* * * * *

Book drive surpasses goal

The totals are in. A record-setting 15,000 new books were donated to the tenth annual Give-a-Kid-a-Book campaign organized by the Friends of the Brown County Library. Sherry Rasmussen, coordinator of the drive at UW-Green Bay, says participation rates here are still climbing, but fast enough to show the idea is starting to catch on.

* * * * *

Diversity Initiatives: Marketing and University Communication

The Office of Marketing and University Communication will work with the American Intercultural Center and academic units to identify students of color interested in assisting the University tell its story. A focus for 2000 is gathering visuals and testimonials for use in the Admissions Office's new recruitment video.

* * * * *

Bayfest plans big blowout

Bayfest director Tim Quigley is exploring the idea of a big concert for the 20th anniversary edition of the festival this June. He told the Green Bay Press-Gazette last month he's looking at bringing in a headline act for an outdoor concert on Wednesday, June 7, kicking off Bayfest weekend.

* * * * *

Community MLK celebration is Jan. 15

UW-Green Bay is a co-sponsor of the popular community celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 15, at NWTC. Keynote speaker is Dr. G. Manns, senior pastor of Appleton Sanctuary Outreach Ministries; performers include the McKenzie Sisters, Divine Temple Sunshine Choir, Children's Readers Theater and the Green Bay African-American Gospel Choir. Admission is free. A reception with light refreshments follows the program.

* * * * *

Parent Connection: 'Honorable Children'

The next statewide broadcast of Parent Connection will look at "Raising Honorable Children." It will air Tuesday, January 11, at 8:00 p.m. on WPNE-TV 38.

* * * * *

Reminder: Academic Staff Regents Award for Excellence

Wednesday (Jan. 5) is the deadline if you would like to nominate a non-instructional academic staff member as UW-Green Bay's candidate for the 2000 Academic Staff Regents Award for Excellence. Criteria have been circulated campuswide via e-mail. The ASC's Nominating Committee will recommend a name to the ASC and forward it to Madison; Anne Buttke, chairperson, can answer questions.

* * * * *

Jobs listed

Open searches include: Assistant Professor, Human Development, apply by Feb. 18 to Lloyd Noppe; Group Sales Coordinator, Weidner Center, apply by Jan. 3 to David Green; Assistant Professor, Nursing, apply by Jan. 15 to Sylvia Kubsch; and Halftime Lecturer, Nursing, apply by Jan. 15 to Jane Muhl. Deadlines have passed for the following (but applications accepted until filled): Internal Auditor, Business and Finance; and Reference Librarian, Cofrin Library.

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LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. To submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or just plain feedback, UW-Green Bay employees can call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.