UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 33 No. 68



Tuition, fees reach $4,000 'Wisconsin ideas' is online - only Budget cuts cover story UW near the cream puffs Nekola garden interviews Worksite Wellness Summit Employee-Alumni Reception Briefs	Vol. 33, No. 68 / July 22, 2002 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. Tuition, fees reach $4,000 for academic year You read about the UW System's 8 percent average tuition hike in this space two weeks ago, but we didn't localize the numbers for UW-Green Bay. The bottom line? A Wisconsin resident attending UW-Green Bay full time will pay $2,011.50 in tuition and fees for the fall semester and $4,023 for the entire 2002-03 academic year, according to Richard Anderson, UW-Green Bay Bursar. Non-resident students will pay $7,034.70 a semester and $14,069 a year in tuition and fees. The figures reflect tuition increases of $112 a semester for residents and $751 a semester for non-residents, plus previously approved increases in segregated fees. *** * * * *** Budget cuts mean 'Wisconsin Ideas' is online only The summer issue of the UW System's magazine, 'Wisconsin Ideas,' is being distributed this week in an electronic-only format. The print edition fell victim to budget cuts. The issue is at http://www.wisconsin.edu/wisconsinideas/. Content highlights include: * "Fitting the Pieces Together: the UW System budget puzzle" * Q&A with UW Colleges Chancellor William Messner * Parkside alum helps New York rebuild after 9/11 * Stout freshmen bike 1,700 miles to register (photo) * Milestones *** * * * * About those budget cuts … Incidentally, if you're to read only one primer on the current UW System budget situation, read this one. Linda Weimer, vice president for university relations, tackles the budget in a 'Wisconsin Ideas' cover story. Charts, lists and plain-English narrative place the state's higher education spending in perspective. Among Weimer's conclusions: While talk of draconian cuts was discouraging, current experience can be seen as a launching point for conveying the importance of university funding in the next biennium. The story is at http://www.wisconsin.edu/wisconsinideas/coverstory.htm * * * * * Look for UW headquarters near the cream puffs "UW Day at the State Fair" is Friday, Aug. 2. Details are now available, and the list of activities is quite lengthy. Not sure about any symbolism, but the UW System Main Stage will be located right next to the Cream Puff Pavilion on the West Allis fairgrounds. Activities are listed in the news release at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2002/r020718.htm * * * * * How does his garden grow? Check TV-26 and find out Prof. Jeff Nekola, Natural and Applied Sciences, is the subject of two interviews taped by Channel 26 meteorologist Randy Peterson for his weekly garden reports. The first will air on the 6 a.m. show on Tuesday, July 23 (Peterson says the segments typically run about 6:45 a.m.), with a repeat on the 6 p.m. news program. The second interview will run on Tuesday, July 30 on the same schedule. Peterson says if the repeats don't make the Tuesday evening news, they may be carried on the following Thursday. Peterson interviewed Nekola in his heirloom pepper and tomato garden, focusing on what needs to be done in order to assure true strains of seeds for next years' garden. * * * * * UW-Green Bay hosts another health 'summit' While UW-Green Bay is hosting a governor's listening session on health care today (see the next LOG for a recap), there are also plans for a "Worksite Wellness Summit" on campus early next month. Prof. Regan Gurung of the Human Development unit sends word that organizers are putting the finishing touches on a morning conference Friday, Aug. 9. It will include a keynote presentation on wellness and a panel discussion about the wellness programs of various local companies. Watch for more details in the next LOG ONLine. * * * * * UW-Green Bay Employee/Alumni Reception II is scheduled for November The first was such a success that plans are being made for "the second annual" edition! The event is the campus reception for UW-Green Bay employee-alums, and the date set is Tuesday, November 15, 2002, at 4:30 p.m. in the Phoenix Room. The event, sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association, follows in the footsteps of last November's well-received gathering. It will feature great food, free drink and great prizes as well as a visit from Chancellor Bruce Shepard. UW-Green Bay has more than one hundred employee/alumni. Mark your calendars. * * * * * Briefs Patricia Ragan, associate professor in Education, and Arthur Lacey, educational technology instructor, have had two proposals accepted for presentation at the Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference (GWETC) to be held in Madison at the Alliant Energy Center, October 8-10. The results of their 3-year UW System PK-16 Technology Initiative grant are the focus of their first presentation, "Technology in Early Childhood." Their second presentation, "Web-based Learning and Teacher Preparation: The Results are In," discusses the summative data from their innovative FIPSE -funded project to reform teacher preparation. Prof. Joyce Salisbury, Humanistic Studies, is giving two public lectures in the community this August: She is the keynote speaker at the 2002 Aestival Festival of Writing, speaking on "Finding Your Writer's Voice." Salisbury is also doing a reading at Artstreet as part of their new Writers' Tent exhibition. * * * * *** 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.

Tuition, fees reach $4,000

'Wisconsin ideas' is online - only

Budget cuts cover story

UW near the cream puffs

Nekola garden interviews

Worksite Wellness Summit

Employee-Alumni Reception

Briefs

Vol. 33, No. 68 / July 22, 2002

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.

Tuition, fees reach $4,000 for academic year

You read about the UW System's 8 percent average tuition hike in this space two weeks ago, but we didn't localize the numbers for UW-Green Bay. The bottom line? A Wisconsin resident attending UW-Green Bay full time will pay $2,011.50 in tuition and fees for the fall semester and $4,023 for the entire 2002-03 academic year, according to Richard Anderson, UW-Green Bay Bursar. Non-resident students will pay $7,034.70 a semester and $14,069 a year in tuition and fees. The figures reflect tuition increases of $112 a semester for residents and $751 a semester for non-residents, plus previously approved increases in segregated fees.

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Budget cuts mean 'Wisconsin Ideas' is online only

The summer issue of the UW System's magazine, 'Wisconsin Ideas,' is being distributed this week in an electronic-only format. The print edition fell victim to budget cuts. The issue is at http://www.wisconsin.edu/wisconsinideas/. Content highlights include:
* "Fitting the Pieces Together: the UW System budget puzzle"
* Q&A with UW Colleges Chancellor William Messner
* Parkside alum helps New York rebuild after 9/11
* Stout freshmen bike 1,700 miles to register (photo)
* Milestones

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About those budget cuts …

Incidentally, if you're to read only one primer on the current UW System budget situation, read this one. Linda Weimer, vice president for university relations, tackles the budget in a 'Wisconsin Ideas' cover story. Charts, lists and plain-English narrative place the state's higher education spending in perspective. Among Weimer's conclusions: While talk of draconian cuts was discouraging, current experience can be seen as a launching point for conveying the importance of university funding in the next biennium. The story is at http://www.wisconsin.edu/wisconsinideas/coverstory.htm

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Look for UW headquarters near the cream puffs

"UW Day at the State Fair" is Friday, Aug. 2. Details are now available, and the list of activities is quite lengthy. Not sure about any symbolism, but the UW System Main Stage will be located right next to the Cream Puff Pavilion on the West Allis fairgrounds. Activities are listed in the news release at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2002/r020718.htm

* * * * *

How does his garden grow? Check TV-26 and find out

Prof. Jeff Nekola, Natural and Applied Sciences, is the subject of two interviews taped by Channel 26 meteorologist Randy Peterson for his weekly garden reports. The first will air on the 6 a.m. show on Tuesday, July 23 (Peterson says the segments typically run about 6:45 a.m.), with a repeat on the 6 p.m. news program. The second interview will run on Tuesday, July 30 on the same schedule. Peterson says if the repeats don't make the Tuesday evening news, they may be carried on the following Thursday. Peterson interviewed Nekola in his heirloom pepper and tomato garden, focusing on what needs to be done in order to assure true strains of seeds for next years' garden.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay hosts another health 'summit'

While UW-Green Bay is hosting a governor's listening session on health care today (see the next LOG for a recap), there are also plans for a "Worksite Wellness Summit" on campus early next month. Prof. Regan Gurung of the Human Development unit sends word that organizers are putting the finishing touches on a morning conference Friday, Aug. 9. It will include a keynote presentation on wellness and a panel discussion about the wellness programs of various local companies. Watch for more details in the next LOG ONLine.

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay Employee/Alumni Reception II is scheduled for November

The first was such a success that plans are being made for "the second annual" edition! The event is the campus reception for UW-Green Bay employee-alums, and the date set is Tuesday, November 15, 2002, at 4:30 p.m. in the Phoenix Room. The event, sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association, follows in the footsteps of last November's well-received gathering. It will feature great food, free drink and great prizes as well as a visit from Chancellor Bruce Shepard. UW-Green Bay has more than one hundred employee/alumni. Mark your calendars.

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Briefs

Patricia Ragan, associate professor in Education, and Arthur Lacey, educational technology instructor, have had two proposals accepted for presentation at the Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference (GWETC) to be held in Madison at the Alliant Energy Center, October 8-10. The results of their 3-year UW System PK-16 Technology Initiative grant are the focus of their first presentation, "Technology in Early Childhood." Their second presentation, "Web-based Learning and Teacher Preparation: The Results are In," discusses the summative data from their innovative FIPSE -funded project to reform teacher preparation.

Prof. Joyce Salisbury, Humanistic Studies, is giving two public lectures in the community this August: She is the keynote speaker at the 2002 Aestival Festival of Writing, speaking on "Finding Your Writer's Voice." Salisbury is also doing a reading at Artstreet as part of their new Writers' Tent exhibition.

* * * * *

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.