UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 31 No. 10



New Biodiversity Center Books examine UW-Green Bay's early years 'From the Beginning' is online 'Innovative Campus' lauds UW-Green Bay System officials praise budget Diversity initiatives Women's basketball on the air Entwistle, Nekola share research Concert features tribute to Ellington Program reminders Forum on youth crime New Bowling Club to meet Briefs Publications	Vol. 31, No. 10 / Nov. 2, 1999 This e-mail news digest is distributed each Monday 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. New Biodiversity Center seen as step forward for UW-Green Bay A new center joins together formerly separate University resources and research efforts to focus on the diversity of life in Northeast Wisconsin. The Cofrin Arboretum Center for Biodiversity is being launched to promote education, research and community services that help to conserve plants and animals of the western Great Lakes region. The Center's director, Prof. Robert Howe, and Dean Carol Pollis say they expect the new entity to be a draw for students; attract interest from researchers, local educators, community members and others; and contribute to continued visibility for UW-Green Bay's efforts in environmental sciences and related fields. An initial priority is making available some of the vast array of information on birds, mammals, and other wildlife from the Richter Natural History collections, and materials on plants from the University Herbarium. The Center is developing a site on the World Wide Web at http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/ as its first step toward sharing its resources more widely. The creation of the Center also anticipates a higher profile for the Arboretum and related collections and academic programs with the opening of the new academic building in 2001. Read more. *** * * * * Books virtual and real re-examine UW-Green Bay, the early years An insider has written the story of UW-Green Bay's first quarter century, and it's online today. An outside researcher offers her analysis of the University's innovative history in a book published earlier this year by Oryx Press. Each is interesting reading. Read on. * * * * *** Brown's book, 'UW-Green Bay: From the Beginning', is now online Betty Brown worked in communications for UW-Green Bay from its opening in the late 1960s to its modern-day growth into the early 1990s. She has written a history of the first 25 years. It's a candid, behind-the-scenes recollection of the new University's progress through its earliest decades, based on material drawn from UW-Green Bay archives and interviews with members of the campus community past and present. It contains a wealth of historical information, with names and dates recorded for posterity, but it also provides interesting reading for those who enjoy a good story, well told. Read From the Beginning online. *** * * * *** UW-Green Bay among six 'pioneers' revisited in 'Innovative Campus' The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is one of six schools profiled in the book The Innovative Campus (Oryx Press, 1999), which takes a look back at groundbreaking higher education institutions of the 1960s and early 1970s. Author Joy Rosenzweig Kliewer devotes the chapter "Eco U in the 1990s" to what she sees as UW-Green Bay's success in honoring its roots as an innovative, experimental institution. Along with UW-Green Bay, The Innovative Campus profiles Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif.; the New College of the University of South Florida in Sarasota; Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. Those interested in buying or borrowing the book may contact the Phoenix Bookstore regarding purchase; the Cofrin Library has a copy or two in its collection, as well. More on Kliewer's project. *** * * * * UW System officials sing praises of budget signed by Governor Analysts are calling it a "pro-UW budget" and System President Katharine Lyall says it "restores public higher education among the state's top priorities." The 1999-2001 state budget signed last week by Gov. Tommy Thompson carries a total operating budget increase of $90.6 million for the UW System. The Governor said the funds designated for the university "will help the UW System remain a world leader in higher education." The budget includes: • a much-publicized flexibility tool (the "continuing appropriation" measure) that will allow UW institutions to offer more classes to non-traditional students; • a freeze on tuition increases for resident undergraduate students next year; • $3.8 million to provide access to an additional 1,000 students Systemwide; • sufficient resources to cover a 5.2 percent per year average faculty and academic staff play plan if approved by the legislature's Joint Committee on Employment Relations; and • significant funding for new initiatives including library improvements, training of student IT workers, advising, international education, and Design for Diversity. * * * * *** Diversity initiatives: Advising, Admissions, Human Biology Last year, in anticipation of UW-Green Bay's development of its Plan 2008, a number of programs and offices initiated activities to address the campus climate for diversity. Those offices responded to a call from the Provost to list new and continuing activities and publicize them. That effort is being repeated. Just as last year, initiatives will be listed in the LOG weekly throughout 1999-2000. This week's sampling: Academic Advising: require diversity session attendance at NACADA and subsequent shared staff development. Admissions: repeat recognition program for outstanding high school students of color. Human Biology: various, including application for reading-seminar grant; pot-luck for students; and participation in targeted high school workshops and related events. *** * * * * Women's basketball has new home (on the air) Basketball season is starting. If you can't make it to the games or if you want to follow the team on the road, without literally following the team on the road, tune in WECB-FM 104.3 for Phoenix women's basketball. That's a new location on the dial for the women. Broadcast of men's games will remain on WGEE-AM 1360. * * * * * Faculty research series features Entwistle, Nekola Jeff Entwistle, COA, and Jeff Nekola, NAS, are featured presenters at the Faculty Research Lecture Series program this Thursday (Nov. 4) at 4:45 p.m. in Rose Hall 230. Entwistle's topic is "Concept to Realization" and stage design for major productions by UW-Green Bay or Pamiro Opera. Nekola's topic is "Ice Age Survivors" and the remarkable persistence and species diversity of land snails of the western Great Lakes region. * * * * * Tribute to Ellington part of Symphonic Band, Jazz concert The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Symphonic Band and the Jazz Ensemble II will commemorate the 100th anniversary year of Duke Ellington's birth in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 9, at the Weidner Center. Both the Symphonic Band, directed by Prof. Scott Wright, and Jazz Ensemble II under the direction of Thomas Pfotenhauer, will go heavy on the Ellington. They'll perform music from other people and periods, too. More on the concert. * * * * * Reminders: Friends 'Voices', movie music, sustainability, rainforest Things you've probably already seen but worth repeating: The Friends of the Cofrin Library's "Creative Voices" program at 5 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 3) in the Christie Theatre; the "Evening in Hollywood" concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Weidner; the Sustainable Green Bay conference all day Saturday in the Phoenix Room; and the "Spirit of the Rainforest" program at 4 p.m. next Monday (Nov. 8) in the Phoenix Room. * * * * * Students, Social Work program plan public forum on youth crime issue A public forum on the topic of juvenile offenders is being organized by the Social Work Professional Program, the student Social Work Club, and students in the Social Policy Analysis class. Scheduled for Dec. 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Christie Theatre, the program will feature a panel of local experts discussing who is responsible and what can be done. Contact Linda Cates or Candy Conard at 465-2049 for more information. * * * * * Attention, all bowlers The Bowling Club of UW-Green Bay has arrived. President Jon Koltz reports that the club is officially established as a student organization, they've lined up John Katers as adviser, and they are about to hold their first informational meeting. It's from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 2) in ES 301. It is expected the club will be sanctioned by College Bowling USA and have the opportunity to enter tournaments with other colleges and universities. Koltz writes that "prior success in the sport of bowling is not required." (Hey, that's me!) If you're interested but can't make the meeting, e-mail Koltz at teambowling@hotmail.com * * * * * Briefs Kevin Borseth, Athletics, was inducted Saturday into the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame. He coached the women's basketball team there to a 225-97 record from 1987 to 1998, with seven appearances in the NCAA Division II tournament including a third-place finish nationally in 1993. Pianist Arthur Cohrs and mezzo-soprano Sarah Meredith, both COA, agreed to be featured performers last month at the Spies Public Library in Menominee, Mich., in a free community program celebrating the music of Frederick Chopin. * * * * * Publications E. Nicole Meyer,** HUS, Modern Languages and Women's Studies, has an article, "Silencing the Noise, Voicing the Self: Ken Bugul's Textual Journey Towards Embodiment" in the recently published Bodyscape: Women, Orgy, Parody or Corps/Decors: Femmes, Orgie, Parodie. The work, edited by C. Nesci in collaboration with Grethchen Van Slyke and Gerald Prince, was celebrated with a reception in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania. Meyer's recent publications also include entries in The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature, edited by Eva Sartori. James Brey of UW-Fox Valley and Joseph M. Moran, NAS, are co-authors of "Online Weather Studies: A Unique Introductory Course in Atmospheric Science Delivered via the World Wide Web," in the October 1999 issue of the online journal, Teaching with Technology Today. The authors discuss their experiences with the national pilot offering of an online introductory weather and climate course developed by the American Meteorological Society and funded by the National Science Foundation. Some 21 UW-Green Bay students successfully completed the course during the 1999 spring semester. Last summer, Moran also reported on the course at the Fourth International Conference on Computer-Aided Instruction and Distance Learning in Meteorology held in Helsinki, Finland (delivered remotely) and the Fifth International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (delivered in person). Brey and Moran's article may be accessed at http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/index.htm The article "A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Relationships Among Ecosystem Stressors" has been published in the current issue (October 1999) of the Journal of Environmental Management. Authors are Robert Wenger and H.J. Harris, professors emeriti of Natural and Applied Sciences, with R. Sinvapillai and D.S. DeVault. Sivanpillai is a former UW-Green Bay graduate student now at the Mapping Sciences Laboratory at Texas A&M University, and DeVault is with the US Fish and Wildlife Service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. *** * * * *** 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.

New Biodiversity Center

Books examine UW-Green Bay's early years

'From the Beginning' is online

'Innovative Campus' lauds UW-Green Bay

System officials praise budget

Diversity initiatives

Women's basketball on the air

Entwistle, Nekola share research

Concert features tribute to Ellington

Program reminders

Forum on youth crime

New Bowling Club to meet

Briefs

Publications

Vol. 31, No. 10 / Nov. 2, 1999

This e-mail news digest is distributed each Monday 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.

New Biodiversity Center seen as step forward for UW-Green Bay

A new center joins together formerly separate University resources and research efforts to focus on the diversity of life in Northeast Wisconsin. The Cofrin Arboretum Center for Biodiversity is being launched to promote education, research and community services that help to conserve plants and animals of the western Great Lakes region. The Center's director, Prof. Robert Howe, and Dean Carol Pollis say they expect the new entity to be a draw for students; attract interest from researchers, local educators, community members and others; and contribute to continued visibility for UW-Green Bay's efforts in environmental sciences and related fields. An initial priority is making available some of the vast array of information on birds, mammals, and other wildlife from the Richter Natural History collections, and materials on plants from the University Herbarium. The Center is developing a site on the World Wide Web at http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/ as its first step toward sharing its resources more widely. The creation of the Center also anticipates a higher profile for the Arboretum and related collections and academic programs with the opening of the new academic building in 2001. Read more.

* * * * *

Books virtual and real re-examine UW-Green Bay, the early years

An insider has written the story of UW-Green Bay's first quarter century, and it's online today. An outside researcher offers her analysis of the University's innovative history in a book published earlier this year by Oryx Press. Each is interesting reading. Read on.

* * * * *

Brown's book, 'UW-Green Bay: From the Beginning', is now online

Betty Brown worked in communications for UW-Green Bay from its opening in the late 1960s to its modern-day growth into the early 1990s. She has written a history of the first 25 years. It's a candid, behind-the-scenes recollection of the new University's progress through its earliest decades, based on material drawn from UW-Green Bay archives and interviews with members of the campus community past and present. It contains a wealth of historical information, with names and dates recorded for posterity, but it also provides interesting reading for those who enjoy a good story, well told. Read From the Beginning online.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay among six 'pioneers' revisited in 'Innovative Campus'

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is one of six schools profiled in the book The Innovative Campus (Oryx Press, 1999), which takes a look back at groundbreaking higher education institutions of the 1960s and early 1970s. Author Joy Rosenzweig Kliewer devotes the chapter "Eco U in the 1990s" to what she sees as UW-Green Bay's success in honoring its roots as an innovative, experimental institution. Along with UW-Green Bay, The Innovative Campus profiles Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif.; the New College of the University of South Florida in Sarasota; Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. Those interested in buying or borrowing the book may contact the Phoenix Bookstore regarding purchase; the Cofrin Library has a copy or two in its collection, as well. More on Kliewer's project.

* * * * *

UW System officials sing praises of budget signed by Governor

Analysts are calling it a "pro-UW budget" and System President Katharine Lyall says it "restores public higher education among the state's top priorities." The 1999-2001 state budget signed last week by Gov. Tommy Thompson carries a total operating budget increase of $90.6 million for the UW System. The Governor said the funds designated for the university "will help the UW System remain a world leader in higher education." The budget includes:

• a much-publicized flexibility tool (the "continuing appropriation" measure) that will allow UW institutions to offer more classes to non-traditional students;

• a freeze on tuition increases for resident undergraduate students next year;

• $3.8 million to provide access to an additional 1,000 students Systemwide;

• sufficient resources to cover a 5.2 percent per year average faculty and academic staff play plan if approved by the legislature's Joint Committee on Employment Relations; and

• significant funding for new initiatives including library improvements, training of student IT workers, advising, international education, and Design for Diversity.

* * * * *

Diversity initiatives: Advising, Admissions, Human Biology

Last year, in anticipation of UW-Green Bay's development of its Plan 2008, a number of programs and offices initiated activities to address the campus climate for diversity. Those offices responded to a call from the Provost to list new and continuing activities and publicize them. That effort is being repeated. Just as last year, initiatives will be listed in the LOG weekly throughout 1999-2000. This week's sampling:

Academic Advising: require diversity session attendance at NACADA and subsequent shared staff development.

Admissions: repeat recognition program for outstanding high school students of color.

Human Biology: various, including application for reading-seminar grant; pot-luck for students; and participation in targeted high school workshops and related events.

* * * * *

Women's basketball has new home (on the air)

Basketball season is starting. If you can't make it to the games or if you want to follow the team on the road, without literally following the team on the road, tune in WECB-FM 104.3 for Phoenix women's basketball. That's a new location on the dial for the women. Broadcast of men's games will remain on WGEE-AM 1360.

* * * * *

Faculty research series features Entwistle, Nekola

Jeff Entwistle, COA, and Jeff Nekola, NAS, are featured presenters at the Faculty Research Lecture Series program this Thursday (Nov. 4) at 4:45 p.m. in Rose Hall 230. Entwistle's topic is "Concept to Realization" and stage design for major productions by UW-Green Bay or Pamiro Opera. Nekola's topic is "Ice Age Survivors" and the remarkable persistence and species diversity of land snails of the western Great Lakes region.

* * * * *

Tribute to Ellington part of Symphonic Band, Jazz concert

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Symphonic Band and the Jazz Ensemble II will commemorate the 100th anniversary year of Duke Ellington's birth in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 9, at the Weidner Center. Both the Symphonic Band, directed by Prof. Scott Wright, and Jazz Ensemble II under the direction of Thomas Pfotenhauer, will go heavy on the Ellington. They'll perform music from other people and periods, too. More on the concert.

* * * * *

Reminders: Friends 'Voices', movie music, sustainability, rainforest

Things you've probably already seen but worth repeating: The Friends of the Cofrin Library's "Creative Voices" program at 5 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 3) in the Christie Theatre; the "Evening in Hollywood" concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Weidner; the Sustainable Green Bay conference all day Saturday in the Phoenix Room; and the "Spirit of the Rainforest" program at 4 p.m. next Monday (Nov. 8) in the Phoenix Room.

* * * * *

Students, Social Work program plan public forum on youth crime issue

A public forum on the topic of juvenile offenders is being organized by the Social Work Professional Program, the student Social Work Club, and students in the Social Policy Analysis class. Scheduled for Dec. 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Christie Theatre, the program will feature a panel of local experts discussing who is responsible and what can be done. Contact Linda Cates or Candy Conard at 465-2049 for more information.

* * * * *

Attention, all bowlers

The Bowling Club of UW-Green Bay has arrived. President Jon Koltz reports that the club is officially established as a student organization, they've lined up John Katers as adviser, and they are about to hold their first informational meeting. It's from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 2) in ES 301. It is expected the club will be sanctioned by College Bowling USA and have the opportunity to enter tournaments with other colleges and universities. Koltz writes that "prior success in the sport of bowling is not required." (Hey, that's me!) If you're interested but can't make the meeting, e-mail Koltz at teambowling@hotmail.com

* * * * *

Briefs

Kevin Borseth, Athletics, was inducted Saturday into the Michigan Tech Sports Hall of Fame. He coached the women's basketball team there to a 225-97 record from 1987 to 1998, with seven appearances in the NCAA Division II tournament including a third-place finish nationally in 1993.

Pianist Arthur Cohrs and mezzo-soprano Sarah Meredith, both COA, agreed to be featured performers last month at the Spies Public Library in Menominee, Mich., in a free community program celebrating the music of Frederick Chopin.

* * * * *

Publications

E. Nicole Meyer, HUS, Modern Languages and Women's Studies, has an article, "Silencing the Noise, Voicing the Self: Ken Bugul's Textual Journey Towards Embodiment" in the recently published Bodyscape: Women, Orgy, Parody or Corps/Decors: Femmes, Orgie, Parodie. The work, edited by C. Nesci in collaboration with Grethchen Van Slyke and Gerald Prince, was celebrated with a reception in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania. Meyer's recent publications also include entries in The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature, edited by Eva Sartori.

James Brey of UW-Fox Valley and Joseph M. Moran, NAS, are co-authors of "Online Weather Studies: A Unique Introductory Course in Atmospheric Science Delivered via the World Wide Web," in the October 1999 issue of the online journal, Teaching with Technology Today. The authors discuss their experiences with the national pilot offering of an online introductory weather and climate course developed by the American Meteorological Society and funded by the National Science Foundation. Some 21 UW-Green Bay students successfully completed the course during the 1999 spring semester. Last summer, Moran also reported on the course at the Fourth International Conference on Computer-Aided Instruction and Distance Learning in Meteorology held in Helsinki, Finland (delivered remotely) and the Fifth International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia (delivered in person). Brey and Moran's article may be accessed at http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/index.htm

The article "A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Relationships Among Ecosystem Stressors" has been published in the current issue (October 1999) of the Journal of Environmental Management. Authors are Robert Wenger and H.J. Harris, professors emeriti of Natural and Applied Sciences, with R. Sinvapillai and D.S. DeVault. Sivanpillai is a former UW-Green Bay graduate student now at the Mapping Sciences Laboratory at Texas A&M University, and DeVault is with the US Fish and Wildlife Service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.

* * * * *

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.