Media Coverage

A familiar name in a new role is previewing the 100th season of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, headquartered at the Weidner Center. Longtime Green Bay Press-Gazette critic-at-large Warren Gerds is now in a similar role at WFRV, Channel 5, and he covered the GBSO’s new season in a recent report. In it, Gerds makes [...]

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Associate Prof. Marcelo Cruz, Urban and Regional Studies, offered his academic and personal take on downtown living for a section-front Business story in Sunday’s (June 9) Green Bay Press-Gazette. Options for residential living increasingly are in demand in downtown Green Bay, the story says, and it’s a local trend that mirrors what’s happening elsewhere in [...]

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The UW System Board of Regents wrapped up its two-day June meeting Friday (June 7) at UW-Milwaukee. As we told you here yesterday, the proposed state budget garnered a lot of attention, with a new report that the System would face some $202 million in cuts, funding transfers and unfunded expenses if the Joint Finance [...]

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Prof. Emeritus Mike Kraft on Thursday (June 6) offered some context for a story making headlines after it was reported the U.S. government obtained a court order to receive customers’ phone records from Verizon Wireless. Customers and civil libertarians locally and nationwide cried foul at the revelation, and Jenn Sullivan of WFRV, Channel 5 reported [...]

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The UW System would sustain $202 million in cuts, funding transfers and expenses if the budget OK’d by the Joint Finance Committee is approved by the state legislature, according to a new System analysis shared during Thursday’s (June 6) Board of Regents meeting at UW-Milwaukee. The System’s review shows the anticipated net loss of funding [...]

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As we told you here the other day, Gov. Scott Walker visited UW-Green Bay earlier this week, the first of several campus stops he’s made to tout a proposed two-year UW System tuition freeze. On Wednesday (June 5), Walker visited UW-La Crosse, calling the freeze a “key issue” that has bipartisan support. As he did [...]

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Prof. Emeritus Michael Kraft offered context Wednesday (June 5) for a story on the $650 million income tax cut passed by the state’s Joint Finance Committee after a marathon overnight session. The proposal would condense the number of tax brackets from five to four, providing across-the-board reductions that have been criticized for disproportionately benefiting the [...]

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As we told you here previously, Gov. Scott Walker visited the UW-Green Bay campus Tuesday (June 4), voicing his support for a two-year tuition freeze proposal making its way through the state legislature. The freeze is good news for students, Walker said during his brief remarks, made during the news conference held in MAC Hall. [...]

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Prof. Emeritus Tim Meyer late last week offered his expertise for a fun and interesting Green Bay Press-Gazette story on the culture of old-school arcade games. The piece, which ran in Sunday’s (June 2) newspaper, describes a new exhibit titled “The Golden Age of Video Arcade Games From the Collection of Bradley Czech,” which is [...]

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That’s the headline over a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel story. It says working adults who want to finish a college degree through the University of Wisconsin System’s new Flexible Option degree program will likely have two options, starting this fall: the all-you-can-learn in three-months term, or assessment-only to immediately gain credits toward a degree.

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