UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 36 No. 95



Budget update on-line Laatsch named new chairman The A-Z on Bayfest Shorewood/Bayfest combo Free admission to Bayfest Angelou rescheduled New York! Board of Regents at UW-M $1.3 million grant for nursing Another pro-UW editorial 'College-grad gap' in Wisconsin Civic engagement guide available Half-staff flags honor fallen soldiers Van fundraiser for Schroeder	Vol. 36, No. 95 / June 9, 2005 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. Chancellor's budget update is on-line UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard shared a report on the campus response to the latest round of budget cuts from Madison. For off-campus readers, or those who might have missed his all-employee email of Wednesday, his summary is archived at http://www.uwgb.edu/chancellor/remarks/email15.htm. *** * * * * Laatsch named new chairman at Carroll UW-Green Bay's longest-serving faculty member, Bill Laatsch, is assuming additional duties as the new chairman of the Board of Trustees at Carroll College in Waukesha. Laatsch is a 1960 graduate of Carroll. He has been a member of the board since 1991. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel had full coverage at http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/may05/324810.asp. * * * * * Tim Quigley remembers: The A-to-Z on Bayfest and its 25th anniversary If you missed the great story in this morning's Press-Gazette, you missed references to: • This year's headliners, American Hi-Fi and Frickin' A • Friday night's musical fireworks • Outback Jack and Vince Vance updates • Sand-sculpture horses • A full-size NASCAR simulator • A special "Bayfest at 25" vintage wine • Highs and lows of a quarter century • Memories of Bayfest 1980, a concert by the "mother of bluegrass" Wilma Lee Cooper, and a small crowd near the Phoenix Sports Center. Tim Quigley tells all in a Green Bay Press-Gazette story at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/et_21279837.shtml. * * * * * Shorewood and Bayfest offer golf and fun combo Shorewood Golf Course and Bayfest have teamed up to offer the enticing combination of golf, lunch and a Bayfest ticket for $19 Thursday and Friday, (June 9-10) and $21 Saturday and Sunday (June 11-12). Schedule an early tee time at Shorewood this upcoming weekend, enjoy a fine sandwich, and then head on over and enjoy the activities as Bayfest celebrates its 25th year. Call 465-2118 to schedule your tee time. * * * * * Final Reminder: Free admission for faculty/staff at Friday noon Employees and students who are on campus Friday the 10th can enjoy the festival free of charge from noon until 2 pm. Show your ID at the gate. See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/logarchive/logarchive36/2005may31.htm#bayfest. * * * * * Maya Angelou appearance rescheduled The Weidner Center has rescheduled Maya Angelou's appearance for Monday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. The Bistro and showcase exhibits will open at 5:30 p.m. All tickets for the May 4 engagement, cancelled because of illness, will be honored. Tickets for the general public will go on sale starting on July 18 at 10 a.m. * * * * * Be a part of it — New York! Six spots remain for the Weidner Center's annual New York City Travel Tour, which takes place the weekend of October 6-9. The $1,495 price includes tickets to the hit Broadway shows Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as well as transportation and hotel accommodations. For more information see http://www.uwgb.edu/weidner/WeidnerWire/wire060705/ or call Tracy or Amy at Journeys Unlimited at (920) 469-TRIP. * * * * * Board of Regents meeting held at UW-Milwaukee Board of Regents committee meeting will be held at UW-Milwaukee today (Thursday, June 9) from 11 a.m. until about 12:30 p.m. Audio will be available for the full board meeting starting at 9 a.m. on Friday at http://www.uwex.edu/ics/stream/regents/meetings/. * * * * * UW schools land $1.3 million grant to lessen nursing shortage The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $1.3 million to UW schools to fund a program that will address the nation's nursing shortage by reducing the length of time it takes for nurses to be certified. The program, "The State of Wisconsin Initiative to Fast-Track (SWIFT) Nurse Educators," will help solve the problem by adding 70 more nurse educators with master's degrees by 2007, enabling 800 more students per year to be educated. For more, click http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2005/r050607.htm. * * * * * Another pro-UW editorial "Are they dismantling UW?" is the headline over a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial from earlier this week. See http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jun05/331624.asp. * * * * * More news coverage of 'college-grad gap' in Wisconsin Perhaps you've already heard of the report by North Star Economics' David Ward (the former UW System administrator and UW-Green Bay faculty member). If not, a story headlined "Report: Number of Wisconsin college grads short of U.S. average" appeared this week in the Business Journal of Milwaukee at http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2005/06/06/daily25.html. * * * * * Campus Compact's civic engagement guide available at Library The first printed edition of the Community-Campus Civic Engagement Resource Guide is available for review in the Cofrin Library. The guide is a result of a survey by Wisconsin Campus Compact to document and share the civic work of member institutions and to provide practitioners in postsecondary institutions with some useful tools for creating meaningful and effective civic partnerships. The guide is also available on the WI Campus Compact Website at http://www.uwp.edu/departments/community.partnerships/wicampuscompact/Guide/guideintro.htm and the Web-based version will be updated on a regular basis. * * * * * Half-staff flags for fallen soldiers Flags flown at half-mast on campus in recent weeks came at the direction of Gov. Jim Doyle as signs of respect for Wisconsin service people killed in action. • Memorial Day, May 30 • Specialist Kyle Hemauer, June 2 • Sergeant Mark Maida, June 4 • Chief Warrant Officer 2 Joshua Scott, June 4 * * * * * Van fundraiser for Georgia Schroeder off to great start The Pilgrim Lutheran School "Friends with a Plan for a Van" fundraiser raised $39,000 recently toward its $50,000 goal for the purchase of a van for Georgia Schroeder. Donations are still welcome. Checks may be made out to Pilgrim Lutheran Church and mailed to Schroeder Family Fund, c/o Pilgrim Lutheran Church, 1731 St Agnes Dr., Green Bay, WI 54304. Schroeder, a UW-Extension employee who worked for UW-Green Bay in the late 1990s, was paralyzed in a February sled-hill accident. * * * * *** 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.

Budget update on-line

Laatsch named new chairman

The A-Z on Bayfest

Shorewood/Bayfest combo

Free admission to Bayfest

Angelou rescheduled

New York!

Board of Regents at UW-M

$1.3 million grant for nursing

Another pro-UW editorial

'College-grad gap' in Wisconsin

Civic engagement guide available

Half-staff flags honor fallen soldiers

Van fundraiser for Schroeder

Vol. 36, No. 95 / June 9, 2005

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.

Chancellor's budget update is on-line

UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard shared a report on the campus response to the latest round of budget cuts from Madison. For off-campus readers, or those who might have missed his all-employee email of Wednesday, his summary is archived at http://www.uwgb.edu/chancellor/remarks/email15.htm.

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Laatsch named new chairman at Carroll

UW-Green Bay's longest-serving faculty member, Bill Laatsch, is assuming additional duties as the new chairman of the Board of Trustees at Carroll College in Waukesha. Laatsch is a 1960 graduate of Carroll. He has been a member of the board since 1991. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel had full coverage at http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/may05/324810.asp.

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Tim Quigley remembers: The A-to-Z on Bayfest and its 25th anniversary

If you missed the great story in this morning's Press-Gazette, you missed references to: • This year's headliners, American Hi-Fi and Frickin' A • Friday night's musical fireworks • Outback Jack and Vince Vance updates • Sand-sculpture horses • A full-size NASCAR simulator • A special "Bayfest at 25" vintage wine • Highs and lows of a quarter century • Memories of Bayfest 1980, a concert by the "mother of bluegrass" Wilma Lee Cooper, and a small crowd near the Phoenix Sports Center. Tim Quigley tells all in a Green Bay Press-Gazette story at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/et_21279837.shtml.

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Shorewood and Bayfest offer golf and fun combo

Shorewood Golf Course and Bayfest have teamed up to offer the enticing combination of golf, lunch and a Bayfest ticket for $19 Thursday and Friday, (June 9-10) and $21 Saturday and Sunday (June 11-12). Schedule an early tee time at Shorewood this upcoming weekend, enjoy a fine sandwich, and then head on over and enjoy the activities as Bayfest celebrates its 25th year. Call 465-2118 to schedule your tee time.

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Final Reminder: Free admission for faculty/staff at Friday noon

Employees and students who are on campus Friday the 10th can enjoy the festival free of charge from noon until 2 pm. Show your ID at the gate. See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/logarchive/logarchive36/2005may31.htm#bayfest.

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Maya Angelou appearance rescheduled

The Weidner Center has rescheduled Maya Angelou's appearance for Monday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. The Bistro and showcase exhibits will open at 5:30 p.m. All tickets for the May 4 engagement, cancelled because of illness, will be honored. Tickets for the general public will go on sale starting on July 18 at 10 a.m.

* * * * *

Be a part of it — New York!

Six spots remain for the Weidner Center's annual New York City Travel Tour, which takes place the weekend of October 6-9. The $1,495 price includes tickets to the hit Broadway shows Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as well as transportation and hotel accommodations. For more information see http://www.uwgb.edu/weidner/WeidnerWire/wire060705/ or call Tracy or Amy at Journeys Unlimited at (920) 469-TRIP.

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Board of Regents meeting held at UW-Milwaukee

Board of Regents committee meeting will be held at UW-Milwaukee today (Thursday, June 9) from 11 a.m. until about 12:30 p.m. Audio will be available for the full board meeting starting at 9 a.m. on Friday at http://www.uwex.edu/ics/stream/regents/meetings/.

* * * * *

UW schools land $1.3 million grant to lessen nursing shortage

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded $1.3 million to UW schools to fund a program that will address the nation's nursing shortage by reducing the length of time it takes for nurses to be certified. The program, "The State of Wisconsin Initiative to Fast-Track (SWIFT) Nurse Educators," will help solve the problem by adding 70 more nurse educators with master's degrees by 2007, enabling 800 more students per year to be educated. For more, click http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2005/r050607.htm.

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Another pro-UW editorial

"Are they dismantling UW?" is the headline over a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial from earlier this week. See http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jun05/331624.asp.

* * * * *

More news coverage of 'college-grad gap' in Wisconsin

Perhaps you've already heard of the report by North Star Economics' David Ward (the former UW System administrator and UW-Green Bay faculty member). If not, a story headlined "Report: Number of Wisconsin college grads short of U.S. average" appeared this week in the Business Journal of Milwaukee at http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2005/06/06/daily25.html.

* * * * *

Campus Compact's civic engagement guide available at Library

The first printed edition of the Community-Campus Civic Engagement Resource Guide is available for review in the Cofrin Library. The guide is a result of a survey by Wisconsin Campus Compact to document and share the civic work of member institutions and to provide practitioners in postsecondary institutions with some useful tools for creating meaningful and effective civic partnerships. The guide is also available on the WI Campus Compact Website at http://www.uwp.edu/departments/community.partnerships/wicampuscompact/Guide/guideintro.htm and the Web-based version will be updated on a regular basis.

* * * * *

Half-staff flags for fallen soldiers

Flags flown at half-mast on campus in recent weeks came at the direction of Gov. Jim Doyle as signs of respect for Wisconsin service people killed in action. • Memorial Day, May 30 • Specialist Kyle Hemauer, June 2 • Sergeant Mark Maida, June 4 • Chief Warrant Officer 2 Joshua Scott, June 4

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Van fundraiser for Georgia Schroeder off to great start

The Pilgrim Lutheran School "Friends with a Plan for a Van" fundraiser raised $39,000 recently toward its $50,000 goal for the purchase of a van for Georgia Schroeder. Donations are still welcome. Checks may be made out to Pilgrim Lutheran Church and mailed to Schroeder Family Fund, c/o Pilgrim Lutheran Church, 1731 St Agnes Dr., Green Bay, WI 54304. Schroeder, a UW-Extension employee who worked for UW-Green Bay in the late 1990s, was paralyzed in a February sled-hill accident.

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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.