Reservation forms for the keynote address on the opening day (Oct. 11) of the Fall Conference are available by calling the Institute for Learning Partnership at (920) 465-5555. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Previous conferences featuring nationally known education advocates Alfie Kohn and Kati Haycock drew capacity crowds.

The Institute for Learning Partnership Fall Conference is a three-day event running Thursday through Saturday (Oct. 11-13). The public is invited to a showcase of educators from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13. During the morning, graduates and students in the UW-Green Bay Applied Leadership in Teaching and Learning master's degree program and its professional development certificate program, undergraduate students, and Institute research teams will display materials. In the afternoon, area elementary, middle and high school educators will lead multicultural education workshops.

A stairwell tower in the new campus quad will be named for former Chancellor Mark Perkins, it was revealed last Friday. Interim Chancellor William Kuepper announced during the Mary Ann Cofrin Hall dedication program that donors Dr. David and Mary Ann Cofrin have made an additional pledge toward landscaping features. Expected to take place in conjunction with the planned expansion of the University Union, the Quad work will be anchored by a glass and open-air stairwell tower. The structure will draw pedestrian traffic from Residence Life into the quad, and provide another scenic overlook of the central campus. Among the names being tossed around: "The Perkins Panorama."

A major gift mentioned during dedication ceremonies last week but not yet celebrated in this column: a donation of $250,000 from the Byron Walter Family Trust to support a state-of-the art distance learning classroom in the new Mary Ann Cofrin Hall. The room is equipped with two 61-inch video display monitors and other equipment so students can see and participate in the action in multiple, remote class sites. The gift also helps to provide advanced audio and video production and editing capabilities to support distance learning. Rooms 133 and 137 are site of the new facilities.

The gift for state-of-the-art equipment in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall is just the latest in a long line of contributions from the Walter Family Trust. The Trust has supported significant projects at UW-Green Bay for nearly two decades, including scholarships, student housing, academic programs and the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts. Byron L. Walter, who died in 1954, was the president of Green Bay Hardware and a co-founder of Paper Converting Machine Company. One residence hall at UW-Green Bay bears his name and another the name of his daughter, the late Arlene B. Walter. The institution also has an Arlene B. Walter Scholarship.

The UW-Green Bay Office of Public Safety is justifiably proud after winning the Wisconsin Crime Prevention Program of the Year Award on Sept. 20 at the annual Wisconsin Crime Prevention Practitioners Training Conference. The award recognized the work done on the Anti-Violence and Threat Policy and Training Program to be implemented at UW-Green Bay this year. The program was voted the best crime prevention program among police departments with fewer than twenty sworn officers. Randy Christopherson, director of Public Safety, commended Police Officer Gina Primavera and the members of the university community involved in making the program possible.

The UW System Board of Regents will meet this Thursday and Friday in Eau Claire and receive a brief progress report on "Plan 2008," the UW System's 10-year initiative to enhance diversity, and discuss campus climate and retention issues. Also on the agenda are student retention issues Systemwide, and authorization to search for a new provost and vice chancellor at UW-Green Bay.

State assembly committees on health and public health met last week in Marshfield to hear testimony from invited speakers including UW System representatives who addressed the need for more nurses. Issues included loan and scholarship programs, funding for education, transferability of credits and curriculum. Among the positives being touted was the System's online Collaborative Nursing Program, of which UW-Green Bay is a key component.

The Rev. Dora Arce visits campus next Tuesday (Oct. 9) for a noon reception in the 1965 Room and a 7 p.m. talk at the Ecumenical Center. She is affiliated with an interfaith program sponsored by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Lutheran Campus Ministry to explore the role of students, educators, faith leaders and community activists in shaping peace and reconciliation. Watch for additional details Monday. The program is cosponsored by the Office of Student Life, Humanistic Studies, and the Ecumenical Center.

Another event of note for those interested in issues underlying current events. The Green Bay Film Society will offer a free showing at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31 of Earth (India, 1998) at the Neville Public Museum. Set in Pakistan, the film tells the story of a young Parsee girl and her friends, both Muslim and Hindu, and how they struggle to maintain friendships as politics and religion come into conflict.

The makers of two of the films in the International Film Series (see previous item) will be on hand to discuss them. On Oct. 17, co-writer Fatima El-Tayeb will present the 1998 German film, Everything Will Be Fine, directed by Angelina Maccarone. The award-winning comedy explores the lives of two Afro-German women. The program will be at 7 p.m. on campus at a location to be announced. Director Gregg Bordowitz will introduce his 1994 documentary short film, Fast Trip, Long Drop and talk about his activism in the struggle against AIDS on Nov. 7 at the Neville. The program is co-sponsored by the Lawton Gallery in conjunction with an exhibition in the Gallery of five sections of the internationally acclaimed AIDS quilt.

"The Little Town That Could: Green Bay's Survival in the Early National Football League, 1921-1940," is the topic of a lecture at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 5 in the Christie Theater. The speaker is Craig Coenen, a 1992 UW-Green Bay graduate who researched the topic for his Ph.D. in American History at Lehigh University. His major here was history with social change and development was a minor. The presentation is part of the Historical Perspectives Lecture series sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change at UW-Green Bay.

The first of three on-campus workshops by the renowned Ko-Thi Dance Company of Milwaukee is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 12, on campus. The visit is part of a grant the campus received from the UW System's Institute for Race and Ethnicity to begin a dance group here focused on African and African American dance. Juliet Cole, ext. 5094, is the contact if you're interested.

Several panels of the national AIDS Quilt will arrive on campus this month and UW-Green Bay employees can be among the first to view them. The campus Employee Assistance Program is sponsoring a presentation and viewing of the quilt on Thursday, Oct. 18, at noon. The presentation will start in the University Theater in Theatre Hall, where Mary Grosklaus, clinic educator of the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, will discuss the impact that HIV and AIDS have had on our area. She will also provide insight into what its like to live with HIV today. After the presentation, participants will visit the Lawton Gallery and view the quilt sections.

The UW-Green Bay volleyball team is, for the third consecutive year, running the "Aces for Special Olympics" program whereby the players collect pledges for each service ace they earn, donating the money to the Special Olympics of Northeastern Wisconsin. This year, reports coach Debbie Kirch, funds are also being directed to the United Way September 11th Fund. The red-hot Phoenix team has nearly surpassed last year's season total, this early in the season. Contact Kirch if you'd like to donate.

Do you know any girls who might be interested in volleyball? The Phoenix women run a Future Phoenix Spikers club which is a club for girls ages 8th grade and younger. The team holds two clinics for the club on two Saturdays, Oct. 13 and Nov. 10; they get a t-shirt, media guide, schedule card and a pass to attend our home matches for free. The clinics run 9-11 a.m. on those two Saturdays. The cost of the club is $15. Contact Kirch at ext. 2145 if you're interested.

In November, Prof. Scott Wright of the UW-Green Bay music faculty will spend a week recording and performing at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Performing Arts Center in Richmond, Virginia, with an orchestra being assembled by folk musician Arlo Guthrie. The recording and concerts will celebrate American composers including Copeland, Bernstein, Gershwin, and others. Wright's Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance is from Arizona State University.

Peter Han, assistant director, Cynthia Thomas, academic adviser, and Trudy Jacobson academic adviser, of the Extended Degree Program presented "Web Accessible Student Services (WASS): Development and Challenges" at the annual conference of the Wisconsin Academic Advising Association in Stevens Point last month. Their presentation focused on their work in developing and using WASS as a new tool. Consisting of a MS Access database and ASP scripts, WASS is nearly complete with about 1000 records currently in the database. The system is slated to improve the operations of most functions of Extended Degree, and also to allow customized student interface on the Web. In the great collegial spirit, Bruce La Plante, lecturer of Information Sciences, contributed critically to the project.

Prof. Alla Wilson, Business Administration, has had a paper accepted in the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. The article is titled "Organizational Context, Climate and Innovativeness: Adoption of Medical Imaging Technology". Wilson also was a presenter at the "Women's Event" sponsored by the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce at the KI Center last month; her seminar was "Working Madly and Behaving Badly: Resolving and Avoiding Conflict."

Prof. Harvey Kaye, Social Change and Development, has accepted an invitation by the publishers W.W. Norton & Co. to prepare a Norton Critical Edition of Thomas Paine's Writings.

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