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Vol.
38, No. 106, May 9, 2007 / Log
Archive
This is the LOG newsletter for faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay where, following yesterday's honoring of recent or soon-to-be retirees, the thought occurs: Bad enough the new freshmen look younger every year, now the retirees are getting younger, too: fit, tan and positively beaming. They're all conspiring to make the rest of us look older. In real news today:
• Hendrickson dedication is Monday, May 14
• Community center 'completed' only recently
• Here's a juicy tomato of an heirloom perk
• Del Bianco joins exclusive club
• Tax recap: Experience for students, $275,000 for clients
• Journal-Sentinel praises Phoenix coaching search
• Covenant Day arrives
• Dietetics receives continued accreditation
• With new hire, number of interns will climb to 10
• Congratulations Winslow, Reisinger, Solidarity, Roy, dietetics and others
• High honors for art seniors Winters, Krumpos
• University Leadership Awards
• Katers heads West for big biofuels meeting
• Stricter rules on students' off-campus behavior?
• UW System wants your two cents
• Money still available for Academic Staff Professional Development
• SBDC on optimizing Web sites
• Reminder: Biodiversity, 'Spring's Wings' festival
• Cookout was yesterday, but State Employee Recognition Day is today
• Finalists for UW System academic affairs
• Finally, 'Posters in the Rotunda' photos
• Names in the news: Gerard Magill
• Brief: Voelker
Campus invited to Monday's Hendrickson dedication at Residence Life
Mark you calendars: Open to all is the dedication ceremony at 4 p.m. Monday (May 14) at the Residence Life community center. The facility is being named the Philip J. and Elizabeth B. Hendrickson Community Center, honoring a Green Bay couple famous for their longstanding support of civic causes including UW-Green Bay. A reception on the back deck follows the brief program.
Community center was completed relatively recently
The Hendrickson Community Center will be the new name for a "half-new" building. How's that? Well, when the original Residence Life headquarters was completed in 1989 it was designed with the expectation it would double in size as demand grew. With growth in on-campus population from 1,200 to 2,000, more programming, more demand for services and a central gathering spot... that plan was implemented. The community center was built out to its current, two-story, 10,000-square foot dimensions for the 2004-05 academic year.
Shhhhh... keep it secret, but here's a juicy tomato of a perk for faculty, staff
The annual Heirloom Plant Sale, a fundraiser for NAS, is only a week-and-a-half away. Here's the news that UW-Green Bay faculty and staff have been starving for: You are invited to sneak over for the employee-only advance sale between 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 18. (Long lines are common for the general-public sale that begins the next morning.) Location is the greenhouse area on the south end of the Laboratory Sciences Building, second floor. Eye up your selections in advance at http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity.
Del Bianco joins exclusive club at UW-Green Bay
UW-Green Bay has been authorized to award honorary doctoral degrees since 1989. To date, four Doctor of Laws degrees — for professional contributions to education, government or the common good — have been awarded, to Joseph Murphy, chancellor of the City University of New York, 1989; John Gronouski, former postmaster general and ambassador to Poland, 1990; Henry Cisneros, U.S. cabinet secretary and former San Antonio mayor, 1992; and Henry Spille, a former UW-Green Bay administrator who went on to become an officer of the American Council on Education, 1994. For more on Paolo Del Bianco, who will Saturday become the first to receive the "Doctor of Humane Letters," see Thursday's LOG newsletter.
Tax recap: Experience for accounting students, $275,000 for clients
With the advent of e-filing this year, the IRS can now provide a succinct summary of just how well UW-Green Bay's accounting-student volunteers did in helping low-income and elderly filers. The stats for spring 2007:
204 Federal returns e-filed
$58,801 in Federal EITC
$14,753 in Child Tax Credit
$9,461 in Education Credits
$154,992 in Federal Refunds
$72,738 in State Refunds
$45,900 in fees saved
That's $273,630 to the community
Says adviser Marilyn Sagrillo, "We are proud of the students who volunteered their time this tax season." The volunteers were Brooke Borchert and Amanda Tisch, co-coordinators, and Melissa Schuh, Nicole Buhr, Sarah Dopkins, Melissa Will, Jessica Joas, Michelle Lehmann, Katherine Johnson, Rebecca Meyer, Sue Xiong, Jamie Krueger, Kayla Gries, Josh VanMinsel and Ann Lor. In addition, Carol Scott, an employee of the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and UW-Green Bay Class of 1989, volunteered alongside the students and was a great help to the student volunteers and taxpayers alike.
Journal-Sentinel notes 'transparency' of Phoenix coaching search
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel sports columnist Bob Wolfley highlights the open search for a new Phoenix women's basketball coach. It's not common in college athletics, he writes, and quotes UW-Green Bay AD Ken Bothof as saying that it's part of the larger campus culture. That, and as Bothof says, "I think it gives the community an opportunity to listen and get a feel for, at least from my standpoint, how good our pool of candidates is and know that a lot of time and effort has been put into identifying people we think will be a very good fit for our athletic department." See http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=602999.
May 10 is Wisconsin Covenant Day...
And what that means is still a little unclear. Under the Wisconsin Covenant proposed by Gov. Jim Doyle, state students who meet certain academic and nonacademic criteria will be guaranteed admission to a Wisconsin college or university and affordable payments; Thursday marks the first day 75,000 eighth-graders can sign up for the Covenant. Click http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=601768.
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At least one area newspaper sees it as worthy notion, yes, but also a high-stakes game of chicken, with a risk of disappointing hopeful high schoolers and their families. See the Appleton Post-Crescent editorial at http://www.appletonpostcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/APC0602/705040462/1036/APCopinion.
Undergraduate program in Dietetics receives continued accreditation
At the April, 2007 meeting of the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education board of the American Dietetic Association, the board granted continued accreditation for the Nutritional Science/Dietetics emphasis in Human Biology at UW-Green Bay. Karen Lacey, director of the program, submitted a 5-year interim report that met the requirements of ongoing program assessment and improvement in order to maintain this accreditation status. The current accreditation timeline will be in effect until 2011, when the next review and campus site visit will be conducted. The program has seen a significant increase in both enrollment and success of graduates since the last accreditation site visit in 2001.
With new hire, number of dietetic interns to increase to 10 by September 2008
The American Dietetic Association's accreditation group also recently approved an increase in the number of UW-Green Bay's post-baccalaureate dietetic interns. Since the start of the program here in 1994, six interns had been accepted annually. Beginning in September 2007, eight interns will be enrolled and plans have been approved to increase that number to ten interns starting in September 2008. This expansion was made possible with the hiring of Shelly Gabel, MS, RD, as the Dietetic Internship Coordinator and new agreements with hospitals, schools and health agencies in the Fox Valley that will serve as rotation sites for the new interns. Current facilities in the Green Bay and Door County area will still continue to serve as sites as in the past.
Congratulations to Winslow, Reisinger, Solidarity, Roy, dietetics and others
Also announced this week on campus are the honorees in various staff and student organization categories associated with the annual University Leadership Awards. The program is Friday night (May 11) on campus. Among the award-winners:
• Outstanding Advisor Award: Grant Winslow
• Outstanding Support Staff Award: Julie Reisinger
• Outstanding Student Organization Award: Students of Solidarity
• Most Improved Student Organization Award: Creative Campus Television
• National Residence Hall Honorary
• Best New Student Organization Award: Roy Community Council
• Outstanding Service Project Award: Dietetics Club
High honors for art seniors Winters, Krumpos
Winners of UW-Green Bay's 2007 "Outstanding Senior Exhibitions" are Johanna Winters and Don Krumpos. Both students also held public thesis defenses of their exhibitions as part of their Honors in the Major projects. Winters exhibited a suite of intaglio prints that metaphorically examined the limitations of human stamina, reflecting her experience as an endurance athlete competing at elite national levels; she was a standout for the Phoenix Nordic ski team. Krumpos created "Don's Wunderkammer," an investigation of nostalgia, collecting, and reverie drawing on his idyllic Wisconsin childhood. (Each artist has exhibited at the annual Academic Excellence Symposium.) The award are a significant honor demonstrating the faculty's respect for the students' efforts, selected from among 15 participating artists in this spring's Senior Art Exhibitions.
University Leadership Awards honor year's achievements
We listed here yesterday the names of spring 2007 Chancellor's Medallion recipients, those honored for "lifetime achievement," so to speak. (That list is at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/logarchive/logarchive38/2007may8.htm#medallions.)
Now, we have the names of 45 students honored for outstanding leadership and involvement over the current academic year. They are, listed in order of their hometowns:
Algoma - Marc Seidl; Antigo - Eric Meyer; Appleton - Andrea Heiting, Rebecca Heitpas; Bryant - Anton Williams; Cambria - Tracey Hoffmann; De Pere - Patricia Lopez; Elkhart Lake - Jamie Froh, Amy Mauk; Franksville - Melissa Merkovich. Green Bay - Yer Lor, Rochelle Meylink, Erik Mims, Kari Olsen; Hartford - Allison Martin; Hartland - Jaqueline Johannes; Hilbert - Angela Breit; Hustisford - Michelle Lehmann; Irma - Stacey Watzlawick; Kendall - Megan Witt; Kiel - Adam Halfmann; La Crescent, Minn. - Kari Dockendorff; La Crosse - Peter Ruud; Luck - Crystal Osman. Madison - Renee Dodge, Victoria Oxendine, Nicholas Schmidt; Manawa - Ryan Smith; Manitowoc - Allen Voelker; Merrill - Andrea Roets; Montello - Nathanael Brown; New Holstein - Amy Jeanty; New London - Heather Wochinski; Onalaska - Michael Roderique; Oshkosh - Michael Blum, Benjamin Kotenberg; Portage - Valerie Jensen; Port Washington - Crystal Jushka, Kristin Nett, Jennifer Schanen. Racine - Stephanie Peters; Rhinelander - Katie Grafelman; Sheboygan - Ellen Cook; Sheboygan Falls - Nicole Luykx; Viroqua - Emily Krambs.
Katers heads West for big biofuels meeting
Prof. John Katers of Natural and Applied Sciences has been invited by the Sun Grant Western Regional Center to participate in a grant-review process for proposals related to biomass for biofuels, bioproducts and bioprocessing, which will be held in Portland, Oregon, on May 17-18, hosted by Oregon State University. Other Sun Grant Centers are located at South Dakota State University, Cornell University, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Tennessee, with additional collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colo). The Sun Grant mission is to (1) enhance national energy security through development, distribution and implementation of biobased energy technologies, (2) promote diversification and the economic viability of America's agriculture through land grant based research, extension and education programs in renewable energy and biobased products, and (3) promote opportunities for biobased economic diversification and the development of new biobased industries in rural communities.
UW System weighs stricter rules on students' off-campus behavior
Should UW System institutions discipline their students for conduct that occurs off campus? Some are pushing for more regulation. At a forum in Milwaukee this week, neighbors registered complaints including one that a residential neighborhood was "plagued by five student-occupied houses that were operating as taverns without licenses and two student-occupied houses in which students were dealing drugs." Conversely, a Regent-directed committee is also hearing from students who fear "double jeopardy." See Journal-Sentinel coverage at http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=602074.
Your input sought on UW conduct rules
A committee of UW System staff and students is gathering feedback (see previous item) about what kinds of updates or clarifications might be made to Chapters 17 and 18 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. Rules in Chapter 17 of the code regulate nonacademic conduct by UW students, and establish sanctions for rule violations. Chapter 18 regulates conduct on university lands, such as operating motor vehicles, parking, riding bicycles, and selling goods and services. Comment will be accepted through May 21 at http://www.wisconsin.edu/admincode/.
Money still available for Academic Staff Professional Development
The Academic Staff Professional Development Allocations Committee still has some funding available for those who are planning to attend a professional development activity before July 1. Eligible proposals will be funded up to 50%, with a maximum of $500 per staff person per fiscal year. Submit requests to Anne Seidl, Counseling and Health, no later than Wednesday, May 22. The application form can be found at: http://www.uwgb.edu/hr/Documents/FormsPolicy/Benefits/ASAC/ASACApplication.doc. If you are planning to attend a professional development activity in July or August, please submit your request by June 15. The committee can tentatively approve requests for the next fiscal year.
Small Business Development Center offers program on optimizing Web sites
The UW-Green Bay Small Business Development Center is offering a program that will help businesses get their Web sites noticed. "Optimizing Your Web Site" will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, May 23 at the Business Assistance Center, 2701 Larsen Road. For more on the workshop, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2007may.htm#workshop.
Reminder: Center for Biodiversity, 'Spring's Wings' festival
UW-Green Bay's Cofrin Center for Biodiversity is co-sponsoring the Spring's Wings Birding and Art Festival on May 11 and 12. For more, check http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/logarchive/logarchive38/2007may3.htm#biodiversity.
Cookout was yesterday, but State Employee Recognition Day is today
You guys do a great job! That's the message from Madison today on State Employee Recognition Day from Karen E. Timberlake, director of the Office of State Employment Relations. "State employees' work touches the lives of people all over the State of Wisconsin, every day of the year," she writes. "We are fortunate to have a talented state workforce full of people who are dedicated to public service and to improving the lives of the people of Wisconsin."
Finalists named for UW System academic affairs leader
James L. Applegate, Andrew Bodman, Estela R. Lopez and Rebecca Martin. They're the finalists announced this week for the UW System's search for a person to succeed Cora Marrett, who left her senior vice president for academic affairs role in December. For more, click http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2007/r070508.htm.
Finally, 'Posters in the Rotunda' photos
Know one of the students who exhibited in Madison at last month's "Posters in the Rotunda" undergraduate research exhibit? (Jonathan Cwiak, Brendan Hladilek, and Daniel Kelly; Victoria Oxendine; Aaron Weinschenk; Shannon Kinderman; Jenny Olson; Michael Lindsley; Michael Tipping; Judson Anderson; Sara Dellemann; Nicholas Walton; Amanda Jeske and Peter Ruud.) They're now on a UW System photo page, with individual images at http://www.wisconsin.edu/posters/archive/2007/gallery/greenbay.htm.
Names in the news: Gerard Magill
Gerard Magill, formerly of St. Louis University, made the acquaintance of some here in March with his visit and candidacy for a high-level administrative position at UW-Green Bay. He subsequently withdrew. An alert reader sends notice of his appointment as the Gallagher Chair in healthcare ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh: http://www.newsroom.duq.edu/r20070419-gallagher.html.
Brief
David Voelker (Humanistic Studies and History) has published an essay titled "Blogging for Your Students" in the May 2007 issue of Perspectives, the magazine of the American Historical Association. The essay is available online at: http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2007/0705/0705tec7.cfm.
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