'Team Green Bay' impresses Regents
A delegation of Green Bay business, civic and educational leaders presented
Northeastern Wisconsin’s case for an enhanced University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay to the UW System Board of Regents on Friday, April 7. Posing informally
before the full board meeting were, from left, presenters William Gollnick,
Diane Ford, Bruce Shepard, Susan Finco, Jeff Rafn, Larry Ferguson, Paul
Linzmeyer and Paul Jadin. After their presentation, Regent President David
Walsh told the group, “Your message is remarkable… I wish
I could package you all, take you back to Madison and sit you down with
our Legislature.” To which Finco quickly replied, “We’re
ready.”
Diane Ford of Wisconsin Public Service told the Regents meeting that UW-Green
Bay graduates, in high demand locally, tend to come from Northeast Wisconsin
and stay in Northeast Wisconsin following graduation, boosting the regional
economy.
Regents and UW System staff listen intently to the UW-Green Bay presentation.
William Gollnick, chief of staff for the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin,
talked of the importance of UW-Green Bay to leadership development and
educational opportunities for members of Oneida, Menominee and other Wisconsin
tribes.
“Success is in the Cards” is the headline on the poster.
Chancellor Bruce Shepard distributed smaller take-home versions to the
Regent and UW System visitors to illustrate the impressive reach of UW-Green
Bay graduates. The well-received poster offers a sampling of business
cards from some of UW-Green Bay’s most accomplished alumni.
Friday’s meeting of the UW System Board of Regents, held in the
University Union’s Phoenix Room, was the first in seven years on
the UW-Green Bay campus. Previous stops came in 1998-99, 1992 and 1985.
The meeting was video- and audio-recorded and Webcast. That’s
local public relations executive Susan Finco, who moderated the UW-Green
Bay presentation, at the lectern.
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