UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 31 No. 39



Faculty promotions Bayfest is a success Get your Catalog here 'Service Learning' training UW System looks at retention Regents change accountability 'yardstick' New WARF subsidiary Smith is new president Outreach summer offerings for educators Student Information System Project update Briefs: Muhl, Kaufman, Pollis	Vol. 31, No. 39 / June 12, 2000 The LOG ONline is distributed every other week during the summer. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website. Regents OK promotions for seven at UW-Green Bay Promotions for UW System faculty members including seven from UW-Green Bay were on the agenda for the Board of Regents last week. Promoted to full professor from the rank of associate professor are Cheryl Grosso, Judith Martin, and Laura Riddle. Grosso and Riddle are both professors in COA, and Grosso serves as its chair. Riddle, who joined the faculty in 1993, is chair of the theatre discipline. Grosso, a member of the music discipline, earned her bachelor's degree at UW-Green Bay in 1978 and joined the faculty in 1985 after completing advanced degrees. Martin, a professor of Social Work, came to UW-Green Bay in 1999 from the University of Pittsburgh where she had been a professor in the School of Social Work and a member of its faculty since 1978. Four faculty members move from probationary status as assistant professors to the rank of associate professor. They are Gregory Aldrete of HUS, Marcello Cruz of HS, Mark Everingham of SC&D, and Marilyn Sagrillo of BUA. *** * * * *** Bayfest brings boffo biz Bayfest cleanup is well under way today (Monday, June 12), and organizers are smiling. With good weather, good bands, and good gates every day, they say the festival likely passed the 100,000 mark in attendance and raised as much or more than was expected for Intercollegiate Athletics scholarships. The Green Bay Press-Gazette has a recap in its online edition at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0006/0612abayfest.html *** * * * *** New undergraduate catalogs are here The undergraduate catalogs - the official University of Wisconsin-Green Bay 2000-02 Undergraduate Catalogs - are here, in the University Communication Office, CL 815. If you want them there, wherever there is for you, you're welcome to pick them up. Call Nancy Matzke, agency printing manager, at ext. 2214, to specify a quantity and arrange for pickup. *** * * * *** UW-Green Bay grad is featured as campus hosts 'Service Learning' training K-12 teachers will attend an all-day, on-campus training session, "Service Learning for K-12 Educators: Strategies for Classroom Implementation," on Thursday, June 15, funded by the federal Corporation for Learn and Serve America. Linda Peacock-Landrum, Career Services, explains that UW-Green Bay is one of six UW campus members of Wisconsin Partnerships in Service Learning which employed the grant funding to partner with each other, two-year institutions, and K-12 schools over a three-year period in order to develop service learning programs. Lead trainer for the session here is alumna Ann Shoemaker, a 1979 graduate in Human Development. An elementary teacher in Story City, Iowa, Shoemaker is a member of the Iowa Coalition for the Integration of Service Learning and the author of Teaching Young Children Through Service, a guide for understanding and practicing service learning. In addition to the Partnership organization and UW-Green Bay, support for the conference came from CESA 7 and the UW College-Sheboygan. *** * * * * Research brief: UW System looks at retention Which UW System comprehensive retains 81 percent of its new freshmen? And which has only 69 percent coming back for a second year? You can find out by accessing the just-released research brief "New Freshmen Outcomes: Retention and Graduation" compiled by the System's Office of Policy Analysis and Research. (You can download a PDF file for viewing at http://www.uwsa.edu/opar/orblist.htm and look for statistics in Appendices A, B, C and D.) UW-Green Bay's retention and graduation numbers over the years have shown gradual progress, but they also leave room for improvement, as has been discussed in regard to institutional repositioning. * * * * * Regents change accountability 'yardstick' The yardstick by which the UW System measures its progress toward achieving excellence has changed with Board of Regents action Friday. The Regents accepted the recommendations of a task force charged with creating new accountability measures. Replacing the series of 18 performance indicators devised in 1993, the updated measures focus more on access regardless of age, gender or ethnicity; preparing students for the knowledge age and global economy; and stewardship and efficiency. Sue Keihn, dean of students, was a member of the task force that shaped the revisions. For a look at the new measures, visit the UW System news site at http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/releases/r0067b.htm * * * * * UW System unveils new WARF subsidiary System President Katharine Lyall is touting the potential of a new program that will enable all UW campuses to harness the commercial applications of their research discoveries. A new subsidiary of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is being formed. Called WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc., the program is described online at http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/releases/r0069b.htm * * * * * Smith is new Regents president Jay L. Smith of Middleton has been elected to a one-year term as president of the UW System Board of Regents. He succeeds San Orr Jr. of Wausau. Smith is president and CEO of JLS Investment Group, which he founded in 1992. Gerard Randall was elected to a one-year term as vice president. For full bios on Smith and Randall, click http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/releases/r0069.htm * * * * * For Outreach, 'summer school' for educators is already in high gear The University's Office of Outreach and Extension is taking advantage of summer to offer more than 20 courses for K-12 educators. Credit courses ranging in subject matter from brain-based learning to assessment strategies to the Internet are offered through August at sites around Northeast Wisconsin. A highlight is an institute presented by the Anti-Defamation League. The program, "A World of Difference," takes place on Thursday, Aug. 3, and Monday through Friday, Aug. 7 to 11, and recognizes the critical role that educators play in teaching students how to counter bigotry and violence. For more, visit UW-Green Bay news online at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000june.htm#courses * * * * * Student Information System Project update Matt Clark reports that an expanded prototyping schedule is in the works which will allow two concurrent sessions and will include Wednesday in addition to Monday and Tuesday. This is possible because of increased time allotted for consultant Bob Dusterberg to be on campus, and the reconfiguration of the project room. Bob may also be available on selected Thursdays to assist with technical and/or administrative issues. For expanded project news click the link at http://www.uwgb.edu/sis/Log_Update11.htm. * * * * * Briefs: Muhl, Kaufman, Pollis Interim Dean Jane Muhl is a member of the most recent graduating class of the Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Green Bay program. The eight-month training series prepares participants to take significant leadership roles in the community. Nancy Kaufman and Carol Pollis were honored at the Green Bay-De Pere YWCA's seventh annual Women of Vision luncheon recently. The former academic deans were honored for their mentoring and support of colleagues and students, as well as outstanding professional accomplishments. * * * * *** 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.

Faculty promotions

Bayfest is a success

Get your Catalog here

'Service Learning' training

UW System looks at retention

Regents change accountability 'yardstick'

New WARF subsidiary

Smith is new president

Outreach summer offerings for educators

Student Information System Project update

Briefs: Muhl, Kaufman, Pollis

Vol. 31, No. 39 / June 12, 2000

The LOG ONline is distributed every other week during the summer. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website.

Regents OK promotions for seven at UW-Green Bay

Promotions for UW System faculty members including seven from UW-Green Bay were on the agenda for the Board of Regents last week. Promoted to full professor from the rank of associate professor are Cheryl Grosso, Judith Martin, and Laura Riddle. Grosso and Riddle are both professors in COA, and Grosso serves as its chair. Riddle, who joined the faculty in 1993, is chair of the theatre discipline. Grosso, a member of the music discipline, earned her bachelor's degree at UW-Green Bay in 1978 and joined the faculty in 1985 after completing advanced degrees. Martin, a professor of Social Work, came to UW-Green Bay in 1999 from the University of Pittsburgh where she had been a professor in the School of Social Work and a member of its faculty since 1978. Four faculty members move from probationary status as assistant professors to the rank of associate professor. They are Gregory Aldrete of HUS, Marcello Cruz of HS, Mark Everingham of SC&D, and Marilyn Sagrillo of BUA.

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Bayfest brings boffo biz

Bayfest cleanup is well under way today (Monday, June 12), and organizers are smiling. With good weather, good bands, and good gates every day, they say the festival likely passed the 100,000 mark in attendance and raised as much or more than was expected for Intercollegiate Athletics scholarships. The Green Bay Press-Gazette has a recap in its online edition at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0006/0612abayfest.html

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New undergraduate catalogs are here

The undergraduate catalogs - the official University of Wisconsin-Green Bay 2000-02 Undergraduate Catalogs - are here, in the University Communication Office, CL 815. If you want them there, wherever there is for you, you're welcome to pick them up. Call Nancy Matzke, agency printing manager, at ext. 2214, to specify a quantity and arrange for pickup.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay grad is featured as campus hosts 'Service Learning' training

K-12 teachers will attend an all-day, on-campus training session, "Service Learning for K-12 Educators: Strategies for Classroom Implementation," on Thursday, June 15, funded by the federal Corporation for Learn and Serve America. Linda Peacock-Landrum, Career Services, explains that UW-Green Bay is one of six UW campus members of Wisconsin Partnerships in Service Learning which employed the grant funding to partner with each other, two-year institutions, and K-12 schools over a three-year period in order to develop service learning programs. Lead trainer for the session here is alumna Ann Shoemaker, a 1979 graduate in Human Development. An elementary teacher in Story City, Iowa, Shoemaker is a member of the Iowa Coalition for the Integration of Service Learning and the author of Teaching Young Children Through Service, a guide for understanding and practicing service learning. In addition to the Partnership organization and UW-Green Bay, support for the conference came from CESA 7 and the UW College-Sheboygan.

* * * * *

Research brief: UW System looks at retention

Which UW System comprehensive retains 81 percent of its new freshmen? And which has only 69 percent coming back for a second year? You can find out by accessing the just-released research brief "New Freshmen Outcomes: Retention and Graduation" compiled by the System's Office of Policy Analysis and Research. (You can download a PDF file for viewing at http://www.uwsa.edu/opar/orblist.htm and look for statistics in Appendices A, B, C and D.) UW-Green Bay's retention and graduation numbers over the years have shown gradual progress, but they also leave room for improvement, as has been discussed in regard to institutional repositioning.

* * * * *

Regents change accountability 'yardstick'

The yardstick by which the UW System measures its progress toward achieving excellence has changed with Board of Regents action Friday. The Regents accepted the recommendations of a task force charged with creating new accountability measures. Replacing the series of 18 performance indicators devised in 1993, the updated measures focus more on access regardless of age, gender or ethnicity; preparing students for the knowledge age and global economy; and stewardship and efficiency. Sue Keihn, dean of students, was a member of the task force that shaped the revisions. For a look at the new measures, visit the UW System news site at http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/releases/r0067b.htm

* * * * *

UW System unveils new WARF subsidiary

System President Katharine Lyall is touting the potential of a new program that will enable all UW campuses to harness the commercial applications of their research discoveries. A new subsidiary of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is being formed. Called WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc., the program is described online at http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/releases/r0069b.htm

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Smith is new Regents president

Jay L. Smith of Middleton has been elected to a one-year term as president of the UW System Board of Regents. He succeeds San Orr Jr. of Wausau. Smith is president and CEO of JLS Investment Group, which he founded in 1992. Gerard Randall was elected to a one-year term as vice president. For full bios on Smith and Randall, click http://www.uwsa.edu/univ_rel/releases/r0069.htm

* * * * *

For Outreach, 'summer school' for educators is already in high gear

The University's Office of Outreach and Extension is taking advantage of summer to offer more than 20 courses for K-12 educators. Credit courses ranging in subject matter from brain-based learning to assessment strategies to the Internet are offered through August at sites around Northeast Wisconsin. A highlight is an institute presented by the Anti-Defamation League. The program, "A World of Difference," takes place on Thursday, Aug. 3, and Monday through Friday, Aug. 7 to 11, and recognizes the critical role that educators play in teaching students how to counter bigotry and violence. For more, visit UW-Green Bay news online at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000june.htm#courses

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Student Information System Project update

Matt Clark reports that an expanded prototyping schedule is in the works which will allow two concurrent sessions and will include Wednesday in addition to Monday and Tuesday. This is possible because of increased time allotted for consultant Bob Dusterberg to be on campus, and the reconfiguration of the project room. Bob may also be available on selected Thursdays to assist with technical and/or administrative issues. For expanded project news click the link at http://www.uwgb.edu/sis/Log_Update11.htm.

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Briefs: Muhl, Kaufman, Pollis

Interim Dean Jane Muhl is a member of the most recent graduating class of the Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Green Bay program. The eight-month training series prepares participants to take significant leadership roles in the community.

Nancy Kaufman and Carol Pollis were honored at the Green Bay-De Pere YWCA's seventh annual Women of Vision luncheon recently. The former academic deans were honored for their mentoring and support of colleagues and students, as well as outstanding professional accomplishments.

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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.