UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 31 No. 15



UW-Green Bay Learning Experience goes to Regents Length of service awards Chancellor's Medallion recipients Student awards program Phoenix/Badgers on TV MCC tries Internet broadcasts Goals 2000 says Wisconsin's a leader Graduate test goes electronic Percussion concert Holiday choral concert Jazz combos concert Reminders Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign Phoenix Bookstore outlet store Profs earn Race/Ethnicity grant Residence Life is recognized Penny Wars fundraiser Day Without Art Briefs	Vol. 31, No. 15 / Dec. 6, 1999 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. UW-Green Bay Learning Experience is on Regents' agenda this week A presentation on the UW-Green Bay Learning Experience is on the agenda for the Education Committee of the UW System Board of Regents at its meeting Thursday afternoon (Dec. 9) in Madison. Chancellor Mark Perkins will describe UW-Green Bay positioning and issues addressed by the Task Force on the Compelling Idea. Student, faculty and staff representatives will be in attendance. UW-Green Bay shares the agenda with UW-Superior; the two institutions are first up as the Regents begins to hear from campuses with enrollment and positioning proposals in advance of next summer's UW System budget deliberations. *** * * * * Dec. 16 awards program will honor wisdom, experience, longevity Warren Bader. Joseph Moran. Robert Obenberger. Roger Gorzelanczyk. Margaret Laughlin. Gladys Haase. Linda Toonen. Cecily Dawson. These are just a few of the 60 or so people who will receive years-of-service commendations at the reception 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16, in the 1965 Room. Recognition will go to those celebrating 30, 25, 20 and 10 years of service. Here's the list of honorees. * * * * * Top students to receive Chancellor's Medallions Curious as to the sorts of things that UW-Green Bay's best students are involved in? Nine December graduates will receive the Chancellor's Medallion at a luncheon this week; they are being honored for sustained campus and community service and leadership during their university careers. Recipients are Jaclyn L. De France, Heather Fritsch, Cassandra L. Hlavka, Sara Ann Kleinhans, Holly Gale Mueller, Amy S. Piaget, Dawn M. Spang, Farah Stewart and Kelle Wygralak. See a review of their achievements. * * * * * Student awards program is Dec. 17 The semiannual leadership awards program takes place the night before commencement at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, in the Christie Theatre. Along with the Chancellor's Medallion recipients listed above, honored will be six winners of the University Leadership Award for academic and service achievements over the past year, and 29 students included in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. * * * * * Phoenix at Badgers will be on TV Midwest Sports Channel is carrying the Phoenix-Badgers men's basketball showdown live from the Kohl Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 8). MSC is available on most cable systems. The cableless or sports-bar averse can tune in for tape-delayed action at 11 p.m. on Wisconsin Public Television. * * * * * MCC Sports Network unveils Internet broadcasts The Midwestern Collegiate Conference is initiating a game-of-the-week Internet broadcast via Real Audio at http://www.mccsportsnet.com. No UW-Green Bay appearances have been scheduled yet, but if you want to check out the service there is a game available at 6 p.m. tonight (Monday, Dec. 6) when the Wright State women's basketball team hosts Morehead State. The MCC says the service will permit fans to access stats and game photos in addition to hearing the announcers' call of the action. * * * * *** Wisconsin near head of the class, Goals 2000 report says While the United States falls short of many of the educational goals set for the year 2000, Wisconsin was recognized last week as one of 12 states that have achieved "outstanding performance" in improving education as outlined by the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. State students score high in math and science achievement, being ready to learn, and completion rates, and they scored a "most improved" rating for eighth-grade math. (Links to the full report and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel coverage are online at http://www.negp.gov/ and http://www.onwis.com/news/state/dec99/educ03120299.asp) *** * * * *** Tests put paper in the past Circulated on the EduPage digest this week, from last week's Baltimore Sun, is a short news story noting the demise of paper in association with the Graduate Record Examination. The GRE, like the GMAT and TOEFL before it, is now offered only on computer. Some students have questioned the move, but testmaker ETS says the electronic version is more adaptive and a better product. *** * * * * Friday's percussion concert promises both tradition, 'cutting edge' Music from traditional cultures and "cutting edge" contemporary composers will be performed in concert by the Contemporary Percussion and Hand Drumming Ensembles at 7:30 p.m. this Friday (Dec. 10) in the University Theatre. The program includes traditional African and Cuban rhythms and the premiere performance of a new composition, "Rhythm Chant Concertino," by faculty member Cheryl Grosso, who directs both groups. The program also includes John Cage's "Third Construction," a quartet in which each player uses three graduated drums, five tin cans and wooden sticks called claves. Accessory instruments include lion roarers, cricket callers, rattles, cow bells, Chinese cymbals, and others. More on the program. * * * * * Choral groups present 'Holiday Traditions' at the Weidner From the opening with Zoltan Kodaly's "O Come, O Come, Emanuel" sung quietly from the balcony, to selections showcasing Prof. Arthur Cohrs and the Wood Family Organ, to the close with Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Fantasia on Christmas Carols" performed by combined choirs, the UW-Green Bay choral concert on Saturday, Dec. 11, carries out the theme, "Holiday Traditions." The program is at 7:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center. Performers include the Vocal Ensemble and Concert Choir, directed by William Witwer, and the Women's Chorus, directed by Jeffery McGhee, along with guest choir, The Appleton East High School Easterners. More. * * * * * Student jazz combos offer free concert Interested in great music at a great price? Check out the concert at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday (Dec. 14), when three UW-Green Bay student jazz combos offer a free program in the Union's Phoenix Room. All three groups will feature music by jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Nat Adderley, and others. Several selections in each program will showcase arrangements by student members of the group. More on the program. * * * * * Reminders: Social Work's juvenile justice forum, craft sale, luncheon Worth repeating here: The program "Jail for Juveniles: Have we gone too far? Or not far enough?" is at 7 p.m. Thursday (Dec. 9) in the Christie Theatre (read more); the Southeast Asian Student Union craft sale continues Tuesday (Dec. 7) in the library alcove; and the Holiday Luncheon takes place at noon Friday (Dec. 10) in the Nicolet Room, with advance tickets required. * * * * * Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign? It's your last chance Sherry Rasmussen, Outreach, says you still have a day or two if you want to contribute to the communitywide Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign. New books or checks (made payable to Friends of Brown County Library: Give-A-Kid-A-Book) may be directed to Sherry. Give her a call at ext. 2164 by Thursday, Dec. 9. * * * * * Coincidentally - Phoenix Bookstore has some real bargains The Phoenix Bookstore has been offering nice discounts on children's books (see item above) in recent days, as well as other items for holiday gift giving. Shoppers should also be on the lookout for bargains at the new "Phoenix Bookstore Outlet Store" open periodically in the space adjacent to the Garden Cafe formerly occupied by the 2nd Gear Shop. * * * * * UW-Green Bay professors earn Race/Ethnicity grant Professors Hye-Kyung Kim and E. Nicole Meyer, Humanistic Studies, have been awarded a Faculty Reading Seminar grant from the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity. * * * * * Residence Life recognized for multicultural efforts UW-Green Bay's Office of Residence Life recently received an award from the Upper Midwest Region of the Association of College and University Housing Officers. The award was presented at the 1999 UMR-ACUHO conference and recognizes Residence Life for its commitment to multicultural organization development. * * * * * 'Penny Wars' Helps Support Local Charity In November the Office of Residence Life RA Special Events Committee held the fundraiser "Penny Wars." Each housing building competed to have the most pennies in its container. Awards were given to the building that had the most pennies and the highest contest score. The total amount of money raised was $417.76. All proceeds went to the Family Violence Center of Green Bay. Prizes were sponsored by the Residence Hall and Apartment Association. * * * * * More student involvement: Day Without Art UW-Green Bay was one of 5,000 cultural institutions and AIDS service organizations participating in the 11th annual Day Without Art, an international day of action and mourning in response to the aids crisis, on Wednesday, Dec. 1. The student Art Agency and Alternate Theater organizations coordinated the campus observance, which included shrouding campus art works and an installation in the Studio Arts cafeteria. * * * * * Briefs Carol Pollis, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, participated in a panel presentation on "Deans and Assessment: What Are Our Roles?" at the annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, a national organization of academic deans of arts and sciences, in Seattle in November. E. Nicole Meyer presented "Shifting Contexts: Choosing Texts to Fit Institutional, Programmatic and Individual Needs" at the 1999 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in London, Ontario, Canada in October. Weiping Liu, BUA, has a research paper, "An Empirical Study of Asian Countries' Debt Service Capacity," accepted for presentation at a meeting of the Midwest Finance Association, March 31-April 2 in Chicago. * * * * *** 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.

UW-Green Bay Learning Experience goes to Regents

Length of service awards

Chancellor's Medallion recipients

Student awards program

Phoenix/Badgers on TV

MCC tries Internet broadcasts

Goals 2000 says Wisconsin's a leader

Graduate test goes electronic

Percussion concert

Holiday choral concert

Jazz combos concert

Reminders

Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign

Phoenix Bookstore outlet store

Profs earn Race/Ethnicity grant

Residence Life is recognized

Penny Wars fundraiser

Day Without Art

Briefs

Vol. 31, No. 15 / Dec. 6, 1999

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.

UW-Green Bay Learning Experience is on Regents' agenda this week

A presentation on the UW-Green Bay Learning Experience is on the agenda for the Education Committee of the UW System Board of Regents at its meeting Thursday afternoon (Dec. 9) in Madison. Chancellor Mark Perkins will describe UW-Green Bay positioning and issues addressed by the Task Force on the Compelling Idea. Student, faculty and staff representatives will be in attendance. UW-Green Bay shares the agenda with UW-Superior; the two institutions are first up as the Regents begins to hear from campuses with enrollment and positioning proposals in advance of next summer's UW System budget deliberations.

* * * * *

Dec. 16 awards program will honor wisdom, experience, longevity

Warren Bader. Joseph Moran. Robert Obenberger. Roger Gorzelanczyk. Margaret Laughlin. Gladys Haase. Linda Toonen. Cecily Dawson. These are just a few of the 60 or so people who will receive years-of-service commendations at the reception 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16, in the 1965 Room. Recognition will go to those celebrating 30, 25, 20 and 10 years of service. Here's the list of honorees.

* * * * *

Top students to receive Chancellor's Medallions

Curious as to the sorts of things that UW-Green Bay's best students are involved in? Nine December graduates will receive the Chancellor's Medallion at a luncheon this week; they are being honored for sustained campus and community service and leadership during their university careers. Recipients are Jaclyn L. De France, Heather Fritsch, Cassandra L. Hlavka, Sara Ann Kleinhans, Holly Gale Mueller, Amy S. Piaget, Dawn M. Spang, Farah Stewart and Kelle Wygralak. See a review of their achievements.

* * * * *

Student awards program is Dec. 17

The semiannual leadership awards program takes place the night before commencement at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, in the Christie Theatre. Along with the Chancellor's Medallion recipients listed above, honored will be six winners of the University Leadership Award for academic and service achievements over the past year, and 29 students included in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

* * * * *

Phoenix at Badgers will be on TV

Midwest Sports Channel is carrying the Phoenix-Badgers men's basketball showdown live from the Kohl Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 8). MSC is available on most cable systems. The cableless or sports-bar averse can tune in for tape-delayed action at 11 p.m. on Wisconsin Public Television.

* * * * *

MCC Sports Network unveils Internet broadcasts

The Midwestern Collegiate Conference is initiating a game-of-the-week Internet broadcast via Real Audio at http://www.mccsportsnet.com. No UW-Green Bay appearances have been scheduled yet, but if you want to check out the service there is a game available at 6 p.m. tonight (Monday, Dec. 6) when the Wright State women's basketball team hosts Morehead State. The MCC says the service will permit fans to access stats and game photos in addition to hearing the announcers' call of the action.

* * * * *

Wisconsin near head of the class, Goals 2000 report says

While the United States falls short of many of the educational goals set for the year 2000, Wisconsin was recognized last week as one of 12 states that have achieved "outstanding performance" in improving education as outlined by the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. State students score high in math and science achievement, being ready to learn, and completion rates, and they scored a "most improved" rating for eighth-grade math. (Links to the full report and Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel coverage are online at http://www.negp.gov/ and http://www.onwis.com/news/state/dec99/educ03120299.asp)

* * * * *

Tests put paper in the past

Circulated on the EduPage digest this week, from last week's Baltimore Sun, is a short news story noting the demise of paper in association with the Graduate Record Examination. The GRE, like the GMAT and TOEFL before it, is now offered only on computer. Some students have questioned the move, but testmaker ETS says the electronic version is more adaptive and a better product.

* * * * *

Friday's percussion concert promises both tradition, 'cutting edge'

Music from traditional cultures and "cutting edge" contemporary composers will be performed in concert by the Contemporary Percussion and Hand Drumming Ensembles at 7:30 p.m. this Friday (Dec. 10) in the University Theatre. The program includes traditional African and Cuban rhythms and the premiere performance of a new composition, "Rhythm Chant Concertino," by faculty member Cheryl Grosso, who directs both groups. The program also includes John Cage's "Third Construction," a quartet in which each player uses three graduated drums, five tin cans and wooden sticks called claves. Accessory instruments include lion roarers, cricket callers, rattles, cow bells, Chinese cymbals, and others. More on the program.

* * * * *

Choral groups present 'Holiday Traditions' at the Weidner

From the opening with Zoltan Kodaly's "O Come, O Come, Emanuel" sung quietly from the balcony, to selections showcasing Prof. Arthur Cohrs and the Wood Family Organ, to the close with Ralph Vaughn Williams' "Fantasia on Christmas Carols" performed by combined choirs, the UW-Green Bay choral concert on Saturday, Dec. 11, carries out the theme, "Holiday Traditions." The program is at 7:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center. Performers include the Vocal Ensemble and Concert Choir, directed by William Witwer, and the Women's Chorus, directed by Jeffery McGhee, along with guest choir, The Appleton East High School Easterners. More.

* * * * *

Student jazz combos offer free concert

Interested in great music at a great price? Check out the concert at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday (Dec. 14), when three UW-Green Bay student jazz combos offer a free program in the Union's Phoenix Room. All three groups will feature music by jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Nat Adderley, and others. Several selections in each program will showcase arrangements by student members of the group. More on the program.

* * * * *

Reminders: Social Work's juvenile justice forum, craft sale, luncheon

Worth repeating here: The program "Jail for Juveniles: Have we gone too far? Or not far enough?" is at 7 p.m. Thursday (Dec. 9) in the Christie Theatre (read more); the Southeast Asian Student Union craft sale continues Tuesday (Dec. 7) in the library alcove; and the Holiday Luncheon takes place at noon Friday (Dec. 10) in the Nicolet Room, with advance tickets required.

* * * * *

Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign? It's your last chance

Sherry Rasmussen, Outreach, says you still have a day or two if you want to contribute to the communitywide Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign. New books or checks (made payable to Friends of Brown County Library: Give-A-Kid-A-Book) may be directed to Sherry. Give her a call at ext. 2164 by Thursday, Dec. 9.

* * * * *

Coincidentally - Phoenix Bookstore has some real bargains

The Phoenix Bookstore has been offering nice discounts on children's books (see item above) in recent days, as well as other items for holiday gift giving. Shoppers should also be on the lookout for bargains at the new "Phoenix Bookstore Outlet Store" open periodically in the space adjacent to the Garden Cafe formerly occupied by the 2nd Gear Shop.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay professors earn Race/Ethnicity grant

Professors Hye-Kyung Kim and E. Nicole Meyer, Humanistic Studies, have been awarded a Faculty Reading Seminar grant from the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity.

* * * * *

Residence Life recognized for multicultural efforts

UW-Green Bay's Office of Residence Life recently received an award from the Upper Midwest Region of the Association of College and University Housing Officers. The award was presented at the 1999 UMR-ACUHO conference and recognizes Residence Life for its commitment to multicultural organization development.

* * * * *

'Penny Wars' Helps Support Local Charity

In November the Office of Residence Life RA Special Events Committee held the fundraiser "Penny Wars." Each housing building competed to have the most pennies in its container. Awards were given to the building that had the most pennies and the highest contest score. The total amount of money raised was $417.76. All proceeds went to the Family Violence Center of Green Bay. Prizes were sponsored by the Residence Hall and Apartment Association.

* * * * *

More student involvement: Day Without Art

UW-Green Bay was one of 5,000 cultural institutions and AIDS service organizations participating in the 11th annual Day Without Art, an international day of action and mourning in response to the aids crisis, on Wednesday, Dec. 1. The student Art Agency and Alternate Theater organizations coordinated the campus observance, which included shrouding campus art works and an installation in the Studio Arts cafeteria.

* * * * *

Briefs

Carol Pollis, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, participated in a panel presentation on "Deans and Assessment: What Are Our Roles?" at the annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, a national organization of academic deans of arts and sciences, in Seattle in November.

E. Nicole Meyer presented "Shifting Contexts: Choosing Texts to Fit Institutional, Programmatic and Individual Needs" at the 1999 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in London, Ontario, Canada in October.

Weiping Liu, BUA, has a research paper, "An Empirical Study of Asian Countries' Debt Service Capacity," accepted for presentation at a meeting of the Midwest Finance Association, March 31-April 2 in Chicago.

* * * * *

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.