UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 36 No. 87



Commencement photos Honorary alumni Laatsch remarks Professorship details to come Jean Weidner Theatre dedication Softball team to NCAA NCAA entries Phoenix opens NCAA tourney 'Merging' article Service learning	Vol. 36, No. 87 / May 16, 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. Commencement snapshots Prof. Bill Laatsch, bagpiper David Bradley, Regent Eileen Connolly-Keesler, Chancellor's Award recipient Leona Cloud '80 and others were captured via photography at Saturday's UW-Green Bay commencement. Click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/events/may05comm.htm. * * * * * Cofrins are honorary alumni They've done so much for Northeast Wisconsin but never lived here as a couple, so much for higher education though it's not their profession, so much for UW-Green Bay even though they're not alumn... wait... they are alumni. Read more about Saturday's ceremonial honors for Dr. David and Mary Ann Cofrin at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_21038787.shtml. * * * * * Laatsch remarks Prof. Bill Laatsch invoked UW-Green Bay's innovative tradition, paid tribute to UW-Green Bay's hard-working students, and mixed humor and candor in Saturday's Commencement address(es). Press-Gazette coverage is at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_21039037.shtml. * * * * * Details to come The word is generally getting out about UW-Green Bay adding its first new named professorship since 1987... but full details won't be announced until a later date. (One of the reasons the announcement wasn't made Saturday was to streamline an already full Commencement program, complicated by the two-ceremony format.) Watch this space. * * * * * Jean Weidner Theatre dedication We'll link to a full photo gallery of Sunday's re-dedication of Studio Two as the Jean Weidner Theatre later this week. In the meantime, check out the Green Bay News-Chronicle's lengthy and detail-rich coverage at http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=131499. * * * * * Holy cow! Softball team is headed for NCAAs They're probably too young to remember the trademark call of baseball broadcasting legend Harry Caray, but the Phoenix women's softball team had a "Holy Cow!" Saturday with a series of thrilling wins and game-winning HRs. Picked for last in a pre-season poll, Coach Jean Rivett's UW-Green Bay team grabbed the Horizon League tournament title and a trip to the NCAAs. See http://www.uwgb.edu/athletics/softball/051405.asp. * * * * * Softball joins list of NCAA entries The first NCAA Division I tournament berth for women's softball, another milestone in what has been a successful year overall for Phoenix athletics, puts the team among elite company in school history. Only five UW-Green Bay sports programs have qualified for D-1 tourney play at the team level. Chronologically, they are: • Men's soccer, 1983 • Men's basketball, 1991, '94, '95, '96 • Women's basketball, 1994, '98, '99, 2000, '02, '03, '04, '05 • Women's volleyball, 2003 * * * * * Phoenix opens NCAA tourney in Madison on Friday Goodman Diamond in Madison will be the site of opening-round play this Friday (May 20) for the Phoenix women's softball team (26-16). Other teams in the NCAA Division I regional include Wisconsin (31-22) and DePaul (40-18), who open play at 5 p.m., and national powerhouse Oregon State (40-14), who will provide the opposition for the Phoenix at 7:30 p.m. For more on the double-elimination weekend tourney, see http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/sports/archive/sports_21048654.shtml. * * * * * Merging UW-Superior and UM-Duluth? Some Wisconsin lawmakers have had a series of ideas recently about "merging" UW System functions and campuses, and this latest one has a twist: a collaboration with the University of Minnesota. Some observers have big concerns, others see possible benefits. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel coverage is at http://jsonline.com/news/state/may05/326367.asp. * * * * * Article on service learning The latest issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning is available for review in Cofrin Library. Linda Peacock-Landrum, the Campus Compact coordinator for UW-Green Bay, reports that: "Of particular note is an article by a Wisconsin faculty member — Dean Pribbenow at Edgewood College entitled, "The Impact of Service-Learning Pedagogy on Faculty Teaching and Learning." * * * * * 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.

Commencement photos

Honorary alumni

Laatsch remarks

Professorship details to come

Jean Weidner Theatre dedication

Softball team to NCAA

NCAA entries

Phoenix opens NCAA tourney

'Merging' article

Service learning

Vol. 36, No. 87 / May 16, 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.

Commencement snapshots

Prof. Bill Laatsch, bagpiper David Bradley, Regent Eileen Connolly-Keesler, Chancellor's Award recipient Leona Cloud '80 and others were captured via photography at Saturday's UW-Green Bay commencement. Click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/events/may05comm.htm.

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Cofrins are honorary alumni

They've done so much for Northeast Wisconsin but never lived here as a couple, so much for higher education though it's not their profession, so much for UW-Green Bay even though they're not alumn... wait... they are alumni. Read more about Saturday's ceremonial honors for Dr. David and Mary Ann Cofrin at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_21038787.shtml.

* * * * *

Laatsch remarks

Prof. Bill Laatsch invoked UW-Green Bay's innovative tradition, paid tribute to UW-Green Bay's hard-working students, and mixed humor and candor in Saturday's Commencement address(es). Press-Gazette coverage is at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_21039037.shtml.

* * * * *

Details to come

The word is generally getting out about UW-Green Bay adding its first new named professorship since 1987... but full details won't be announced until a later date. (One of the reasons the announcement wasn't made Saturday was to streamline an already full Commencement program, complicated by the two-ceremony format.) Watch this space.

* * * * *

Jean Weidner Theatre dedication

We'll link to a full photo gallery of Sunday's re-dedication of Studio Two as the Jean Weidner Theatre later this week. In the meantime, check out the Green Bay News-Chronicle's lengthy and detail-rich coverage at http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=131499.

* * * * *

Holy cow! Softball team is headed for NCAAs

They're probably too young to remember the trademark call of baseball broadcasting legend Harry Caray, but the Phoenix women's softball team had a "Holy Cow!" Saturday with a series of thrilling wins and game-winning HRs. Picked for last in a pre-season poll, Coach Jean Rivett's UW-Green Bay team grabbed the Horizon League tournament title and a trip to the NCAAs. See http://www.uwgb.edu/athletics/softball/051405.asp.

* * * * *

Softball joins list of NCAA entries

The first NCAA Division I tournament berth for women's softball, another milestone in what has been a successful year overall for Phoenix athletics, puts the team among elite company in school history. Only five UW-Green Bay sports programs have qualified for D-1 tourney play at the team level. Chronologically, they are:

• Men's soccer, 1983
• Men's basketball, 1991, '94, '95, '96
• Women's basketball, 1994, '98, '99, 2000, '02, '03, '04, '05
• Women's volleyball, 2003

* * * * *

Phoenix opens NCAA tourney in Madison on Friday

Goodman Diamond in Madison will be the site of opening-round play this Friday (May 20) for the Phoenix women's softball team (26-16). Other teams in the NCAA Division I regional include Wisconsin (31-22) and DePaul (40-18), who open play at 5 p.m., and national powerhouse Oregon State (40-14), who will provide the opposition for the Phoenix at 7:30 p.m. For more on the double-elimination weekend tourney, see http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/sports/archive/sports_21048654.shtml.

* * * * *

Merging UW-Superior and UM-Duluth?

Some Wisconsin lawmakers have had a series of ideas recently about "merging" UW System functions and campuses, and this latest one has a twist: a collaboration with the University of Minnesota. Some observers have big concerns, others see possible benefits. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel coverage is at http://jsonline.com/news/state/may05/326367.asp.

* * * * *

Article on service learning

The latest issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning is available for review in Cofrin Library. Linda Peacock-Landrum, the Campus Compact coordinator for UW-Green Bay, reports that: "Of particular note is an article by a Wisconsin faculty member — Dean Pribbenow at Edgewood College entitled, "The Impact of Service-Learning Pedagogy on Faculty Teaching and Learning."

* * * * *

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.