Faculty and staff from UW-Green Bay have received a $2,500 grant to develop an African American Dance Group on campus. Juliet Cole (Institute for Learning Partnership), Sheila Carter (Student Life), Jane Lynch (Financial Aid), Peter Kellogg (History) and James Coates (Education) received the good news in late June from the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity. The funding will cover supplies and expenses, and pay for professional consultants. The goal is to promote African and African American cultures and enhance University and community appreciation while validating the cultural heritage of African American students. The group will perform at University and community functions. Call Juliet Cole at 465-5094 if you are interested.

Career Services reports good news from the results of a follow-up survey of those graduating in December 1999 and May and August 2000. "Yes" was the answer for 87.7 percent of the respondents when asked if their positions were related to their majors or programs of study at UW-Green Bay. Over half of the graduates (52 percent) had accepted jobs before graduating and overall, 78.6 percent had secured positions before graduating or within three months. The number pursuing graduate or professional school was up — 14.3 percent — compared to 10 percent for 1999 graduates. The survey response rate was 64.3 percent.

UW-Green Bay results support the UW System contention that the universities are a major force in the state's economy, and that their graduates contribute to the state's growth. Ninety-three percent of class of 2000 survey respondents who reported employment location are employed in Wisconsin. Others are located from California to Washington, D.C. and Minnesota to Florida.

Budget progress or not, the UW System has to set tuition and fees for fall 2001. The numbers are needed ASAP not only by students and parents, of course, but by universities and staff preparing for the fall semester. In previous years in which a state budget had not been finalized before fall, the System took its best shot and made adjustments later. UW System Administration will announce plans the week of July 9 when the Regents meets July 12 and 13 in Madison to consider tuition and budget issues.

UW-Green Bay was host to 475 of the state's best high school musicians during the Wisconsin School Music Association High School State Honors Camps June 20-23 and 24-27. Orchestra, mixed chorus and jazz ensemble groups met during the first session and band, treble chorus and vocal jazz ensemble students attended the second. Students who came to camp were selected from among 2,300 from across the state who auditioned. UW-Green Bay Vocal Jazz Ensemble Director Chris Salerno was one of six directors. Music Chair Kevin Collins says the hosting the camp was a "plum" for UW-Green Bay and that being selected to direct was special recognition for Salerno. The six group directors typically are selected from across the country.

After their final concert on Saturday (June 23), members of the WSMA High School State Honors Orchestra filed out of the Weidner Center and released nearly 50 Monarch butterflies. They had just performed one movement, "Flight of the Monarch," of a new composition by Appleton composer John Harmon. The work, "A Suite of Migrations," was commissioned by WSMA specifically for the State Honors Orchestra. Harmon has dedicated the composition to the late Wisconsin conservationist and author Aldo Leopold.

UW-Madison reports it recorded an all-time high in Webcam "hits" earlier this month when plant enthusiasts from around the world tuned in to watch the rare flowering of the unusual, pungent "Corpse Flower." On June 8, the day of peak blooming, the Webcam site's server logged 30 million hits, so heavy the university had to earmark one of its biggest servers to handle it. No hits were logged by the LOG editor, who instead visited the greenhouse in person that day while in Madison on other business. The smell? A familiar one to a fisherman: melted nightcrawlers.

Finding Books and Other Material in the Library: explains the various classification systems and locations used in the Cofrin library.

ERIC and E*Subscribe: explains the ERIC database that includes documents and journals in the field of education, and E*Subscribe, which provides full-text to many documents (not journal articles) in the ERIC database.

Banking, Finance and Investing: descriptions of reference books, indexes and Internet resources covering these fields.

Chemistry Resources: descriptions of reference books, indexes, bibliographies and Internet resources covering this field.