UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 33 No. 18



Lapse instead of freeze Chancellor's first day	Vol. 33, No. 18 / November 1, 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. UW System gets flexibility to choose 'lapse' instead of 'freeze' Today's announcement of a hiring freeze for most state agencies does not directly apply to the University of Wisconsin System. Chancellor Bruce Shepard relays word from President Katharine Lyall that the governor has agreed to let the System meet the purpose of the freeze by lapsing a lump sum total of $2.7 million, Systemwide, for the current fiscal year. While the campus share of that lapse has yet to be determined, Shepard says, there will be no suspensions of new hiring or search and screen activities at UW-Green Bay. Shepard went on to say that the flexibility extended the UW System in managing this issue is positive recognition for the System, its Economic Stimulus Package and its potential role in any turnaround of the state's economy. Additional details are available online in a statement from Chancellor Shepard at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/features/freeze.html. An Associated Press news report on how the freeze will be applied at most other state agencies is online at http://www.jsonline.com/WI/110101/wi--hiringfreeze110101125151.asp * * * * * Aside from that, it was a good first day New Chancellor Bruce Shepard made good on his pledge to get out and see the campus and meet faculty, staff and students. Among the videographers and photographers who turned out for the customary "first day on the job" shots was an intrepid agent for the LOG ONLine. Check the note on the UW-Green Bay Today page at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/todaypg/today.htm * * * * * 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. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Lapse instead of freeze

Chancellor's first day

Vol. 33, No. 18 / November 1, 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.

UW System gets flexibility to choose 'lapse' instead of 'freeze'

Today's announcement of a hiring freeze for most state agencies does not directly apply to the University of Wisconsin System. Chancellor Bruce Shepard relays word from President Katharine Lyall that the governor has agreed to let the System meet the purpose of the freeze by lapsing a lump sum total of $2.7 million, Systemwide, for the current fiscal year. While the campus share of that lapse has yet to be determined, Shepard says, there will be no suspensions of new hiring or search and screen activities at UW-Green Bay. Shepard went on to say that the flexibility extended the UW System in managing this issue is positive recognition for the System, its Economic Stimulus Package and its potential role in any turnaround of the state's economy. Additional details are available online in a statement from Chancellor Shepard at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/features/freeze.html. An Associated Press news report on how the freeze will be applied at most other state agencies is online at http://www.jsonline.com/WI/110101/wi--hiringfreeze110101125151.asp

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Aside from that, it was a good first day

New Chancellor Bruce Shepard made good on his pledge to get out and see the campus and meet faculty, staff and students. Among the videographers and photographers who turned out for the customary "first day on the job" shots was an intrepid agent for the LOG ONLine. Check the note on the UW-Green Bay Today page at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/todaypg/today.htm

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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. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.