UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 32 No. 40



Regents speak on budget Tuition is up Green Bay tuition, fees Summer comedy revue Budget, continued Chancellor candidates New building's 'electric windows' Student athletes New library catalog What's new at library JSTOR collection National Ecological Society symposium Grad student participant	Vol. 32, No. 40 / July 16, 2001 The LOG Online 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 Web site and to an archive of past issues. Regents speak out on UW System budget squeeze The UW System Board of Regents voted Thursday in Madison to endorse a 2001-02 spending plan of more than $3 billion that includes tuition increases of 7 percent and up at the System's 26 colleges and universities. They approved the plan, however, only after speaking out against what one Regent called a growing reliance on tuition that's beginning to look "like Northwestern." Said another, "If we take this trend line out another two decades, there will be no state support." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel coverage of last week's vote is online at http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul01/uw13071201a.asp *** * * * * Tuition is up 7 and 9 percent for UW-Green Bay students The impact of Thursday's news from Madison regarding tuition for UW System campuses is summarized on the UW System news site at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2001/r010709.htm. In general, for the comprehensive campuses, tuition for Wisconsin resident students will increase 7 percent, and tuition for out-of-state students will climb 9 percent. * * * * * Green Bay tuition/fees: Still a bargain, if you consider. . . What's the impact for students at UW-Green Bay? Add in segregated fees, and the total annual bill for a full-time resident student calculates out to $3,648. (The breakdown is $2,776 for the tuition portion of the bill, and $872 for fees). For a non-resident, the total bill should be $11,906. Worth noting: UW-Green Bay remains at or below the national average in regard to cost. Also, while its highest-in-the-System seg fees push UW-Green Bay to the top of the tuition/fees chart (Oshkosh, by comparison, will be at $3,225, more than $400 lower), the University offers the promise of top-notch new facilities, as well as an attractive time-to-degree payback. Because students here graduate, on average, with fewer credits, planning and budget experts say the apparent disparity in semester costs is largely erased when you apply the you're-paying-for-fewer-semesters factor. * * * * *** Riddle, UW-Green Bay unveil summer comedy revue The UW-Green Bay Theatre program and Green Bay's Comedy City are teaming up to present GET DOWN(sized)! an original comedy revue, in the Weidner Center Studio Two. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, July 20 and 21 and 27 and 28.Director Laura Riddle says she envisioned a sketch comedy show with no live spoken dialog. The result is 75 minutes of physical comedy set in an office space. "Lots of prop gags and shtick," says Riddle. Tickets are $5. For more on the show, click on http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001july.htm#comedy *** * * * * UW System still waiting for conference committee While UW System officials were on alert Friday, July 13, with hopes the System's appropriation would be settled, the day came and passed without action. The Legislature's budget-writing conference committee was scheduled to resume its work today. UW System Regents and others are hoping the committee funds the Economic Stimulus Package as endorsed in the Senate version of the state budget. For a recap, check http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2001/r010620.htm * * * * *** Chancellor candidates called 'awesome' In the event you missed Sunday's edition of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the newspaper offered an update on the search committee's efforts to find a new UW-Green Bay chancellor. The tone was upbeat and included superlatives from a student member of the panel. The story is on the P-G archives at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_731305.shtml *** * * * * Mary Ann Cofrin Hall's 'electric windows' get PR with WPR The electricy-generating solar windows of the new Mary Ann Cofrin Hall generated recent publicity from Wisconsin Public Radio. As of today, in fact, still archived on the WPR news site is a portion of the network's coverage of the first-in-the-country installation of "Vision Glass." The link is http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wpr/news/ * * * * * Student athletes star in the classroom Did we mention that Phoenix Athletics is bragging up one of its best years ever in terms of academic achievement? We should have. A link to the story is featured prominently at the UW-Green Bay Today page at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/todaypg/today.htm * * * * * Cofrin Library Catalog is new, improved The Cofrin Library Catalog was scheduled to be upgraded July 9 and 10. Users should notice a substantially different look and some great new features. The five different search buttons are gone and searches can be entered before choosing the type of search. The listing of titles will include the location, call number and availability. Users will be able to sort the title list and limit results after the search is performed. The online catalog is accessible from the library's main web page and at http://cofrinweb.uwgb.edu/ * * * * * What's new at the Library? Check here Once a month the library will post a list of the new items that have been added to the collection. The link, "New Acquisitions for the Cofrin Library," is located on the library web site under "News & Information" at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/info/news.html. New books, videorecordings and other items are listed alphabetically by subject. (This is a very large file and will take time to download if you are trying to access it from off campus through a dial-up modem.) * * * * * New collection is available on JSTOR The Cofrin Library now has access to another collection through JSTOR — the Arts & Sciences II collection. This includes the full images of articles from journals in Asian Studies, Economics, History, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Slavic Studies, and Statistics. JSTOR's objective is to provide access to a complete back-run of every participating journal. The link to JSTOR is on the Online Databases page at: http://www.uwgb.edu/library/databases/title.html. * * * * * National Ecological Society symposium will have a UW-Green Bay flavor Prof. Jeff Nekola, Natural and Applied Sciences, is co-organizer of one of the lead symposia at the Ecological Society of American 2001 annual meeting August 5 through 10 at Monona Terrace in Madison. Titled "The role of spatial extent in ecological pattern and process," the symposium will have a distinct UW-Green Bay influence. Joining Nekola on a panel assessing the extent of zebra mussel dispersal will be Clifford Kraft, formerly with the Sea Grant program on the UW-Green Bay campus and now on the faculty at Cornell University. Jonathan Bossenbroek, who earned his master's degree in Environmental Science and Policy, will give a paper, "Gravity models: from long-distance dispersal to local patterns of movement," based on his UW-Green Bay master's research. Nekola's paper will examine the concept of distance decay, based partly on his work with rare land snails, including those of the Niagara Escarpment which runs through campus. Martin Cody, Ladd Johnson and Peter White, faculty members at other institutions in the U.S. and Canada who've spoken on campus through Ecology Lecture Series presentations, also are symposium participants. * * * * * Grad student is a poster participant at ESA annual meeting Environmental Science and Policy graduate student Matt Barthel will participate in a poster session along with Prof. Jeffrey Nekola at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America on Aug. 9 in Madison. The topic, "Scales of coexistence for terrestrial gastropods within wooded wetlands," is based on Barthel's thesis research at UW-Green Bay. Barthel started his new job as farm manager at Heritage Farm, Decorah, Iowa, in May. * * * * *** LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Regents speak on budget

Tuition is up

Green Bay tuition, fees

Summer comedy revue

Budget, continued

Chancellor candidates

New building's 'electric windows'

Student athletes

New library catalog

What's new at library

JSTOR collection

National Ecological Society symposium

Grad student participant

Vol. 32, No. 40 / July 16, 2001

The LOG Online 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 Web site and to an archive of past issues.

Regents speak out on UW System budget squeeze

The UW System Board of Regents voted Thursday in Madison to endorse a 2001-02 spending plan of more than $3 billion that includes tuition increases of 7 percent and up at the System's 26 colleges and universities. They approved the plan, however, only after speaking out against what one Regent called a growing reliance on tuition that's beginning to look "like Northwestern." Said another, "If we take this trend line out another two decades, there will be no state support." Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel coverage of last week's vote is online at http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jul01/uw13071201a.asp

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Tuition is up 7 and 9 percent for UW-Green Bay students

The impact of Thursday's news from Madison regarding tuition for UW System campuses is summarized on the UW System news site at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2001/r010709.htm. In general, for the comprehensive campuses, tuition for Wisconsin resident students will increase 7 percent, and tuition for out-of-state students will climb 9 percent.

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Green Bay tuition/fees: Still a bargain, if you consider. . .

What's the impact for students at UW-Green Bay? Add in segregated fees, and the total annual bill for a full-time resident student calculates out to $3,648. (The breakdown is $2,776 for the tuition portion of the bill, and $872 for fees). For a non-resident, the total bill should be $11,906. Worth noting: UW-Green Bay remains at or below the national average in regard to cost. Also, while its highest-in-the-System seg fees push UW-Green Bay to the top of the tuition/fees chart (Oshkosh, by comparison, will be at $3,225, more than $400 lower), the University offers the promise of top-notch new facilities, as well as an attractive time-to-degree payback. Because students here graduate, on average, with fewer credits, planning and budget experts say the apparent disparity in semester costs is largely erased when you apply the you're-paying-for-fewer-semesters factor.

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Riddle, UW-Green Bay unveil summer comedy revue

The UW-Green Bay Theatre program and Green Bay's Comedy City are teaming up to present GET DOWN(sized)! an original comedy revue, in the Weidner Center Studio Two. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, July 20 and 21 and 27 and 28.Director Laura Riddle says she envisioned a sketch comedy show with no live spoken dialog. The result is 75 minutes of physical comedy set in an office space. "Lots of prop gags and shtick," says Riddle. Tickets are $5. For more on the show, click on http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001july.htm#comedy

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UW System still waiting for conference committee

While UW System officials were on alert Friday, July 13, with hopes the System's appropriation would be settled, the day came and passed without action. The Legislature's budget-writing conference committee was scheduled to resume its work today. UW System Regents and others are hoping the committee funds the Economic Stimulus Package as endorsed in the Senate version of the state budget. For a recap, check http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2001/r010620.htm

* * * * *

Chancellor candidates called 'awesome'

In the event you missed Sunday's edition of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the newspaper offered an update on the search committee's efforts to find a new UW-Green Bay chancellor. The tone was upbeat and included superlatives from a student member of the panel. The story is on the P-G archives at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_731305.shtml

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Mary Ann Cofrin Hall's 'electric windows' get PR with WPR

The electricy-generating solar windows of the new Mary Ann Cofrin Hall generated recent publicity from Wisconsin Public Radio. As of today, in fact, still archived on the WPR news site is a portion of the network's coverage of the first-in-the-country installation of "Vision Glass." The link is http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wpr/news/

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Student athletes star in the classroom

Did we mention that Phoenix Athletics is bragging up one of its best years ever in terms of academic achievement? We should have. A link to the story is featured prominently at the UW-Green Bay Today page at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/todaypg/today.htm

* * * * *

Cofrin Library Catalog is new, improved

The Cofrin Library Catalog was scheduled to be upgraded July 9 and 10. Users should notice a substantially different look and some great new features. The five different search buttons are gone and searches can be entered before choosing the type of search. The listing of titles will include the location, call number and availability. Users will be able to sort the title list and limit results after the search is performed. The online catalog is accessible from the library's main web page and at http://cofrinweb.uwgb.edu/

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What's new at the Library? Check here

Once a month the library will post a list of the new items that have been added to the collection. The link, "New Acquisitions for the Cofrin Library," is located on the library web site under "News & Information" at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/info/news.html. New books, videorecordings and other items are listed alphabetically by subject. (This is a very large file and will take time to download if you are trying to access it from off campus through a dial-up modem.)

* * * * *

New collection is available on JSTOR

The Cofrin Library now has access to another collection through JSTOR — the Arts & Sciences II collection. This includes the full images of articles from journals in Asian Studies, Economics, History, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Slavic Studies, and Statistics. JSTOR's objective is to provide access to a complete back-run of every participating journal. The link to JSTOR is on the Online Databases page at: http://www.uwgb.edu/library/databases/title.html.

* * * * *

National Ecological Society symposium will have a UW-Green Bay flavor

Prof. Jeff Nekola, Natural and Applied Sciences, is co-organizer of one of the lead symposia at the Ecological Society of American 2001 annual meeting August 5 through 10 at Monona Terrace in Madison. Titled "The role of spatial extent in ecological pattern and process," the symposium will have a distinct UW-Green Bay influence. Joining Nekola on a panel assessing the extent of zebra mussel dispersal will be Clifford Kraft, formerly with the Sea Grant program on the UW-Green Bay campus and now on the faculty at Cornell University. Jonathan Bossenbroek, who earned his master's degree in Environmental Science and Policy, will give a paper, "Gravity models: from long-distance dispersal to local patterns of movement," based on his UW-Green Bay master's research. Nekola's paper will examine the concept of distance decay, based partly on his work with rare land snails, including those of the Niagara Escarpment which runs through campus. Martin Cody, Ladd Johnson and Peter White, faculty members at other institutions in the U.S. and Canada who've spoken on campus through Ecology Lecture Series presentations, also are symposium participants.

* * * * *

Grad student is a poster participant at ESA annual meeting

Environmental Science and Policy graduate student Matt Barthel will participate in a poster session along with Prof. Jeffrey Nekola at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America on Aug. 9 in Madison. The topic, "Scales of coexistence for terrestrial gastropods within wooded wetlands," is based on Barthel's thesis research at UW-Green Bay. Barthel started his new job as farm manager at Heritage Farm, Decorah, Iowa, in May.

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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. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.