Wisconsin Covenant to end
The Wisconsin Covenant program, which former Gov. Jim Doyle said he started to help encourage more high school students to go to college, will end. But under Gov. Walker’s budget proposal, the state will...
Monthly Archive: March 2011
Some people run, some people walk, some people shave their heads
Assistant Prof. Vince Lowery (Humanistic Studies/History) is going bald at St. Brendan’s Inn in downtown Green Bay. On Saturday, March 12, Lowery will participate in the St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraiser for childhood cancer research,...
Faculty note: Phil Clampitt
Oracle Magazine features Prof. Phillip Clampitt’s book, Transforming Leaders into Progress Makers, in the latest issue (March/April). Clampitt, of the Information and Computing Science academic unit, is the Hendrickson Professor of Business.
Faculty note: Kim Nielsen
Prof. Kim Nielsen of Social Change and Development is the latest faculty member to weigh in at a national blog site with a first-person essay from the front lines of Wisconsin’s budget battles. Nielsen...
Faculty note: Sandra Stokes
Professor Emerita Sandra M. Stokes of Education has been named to the Publications Committee of the International Reading Association.
Faculty note: David Voelker
David Voelker (Humanistic Studies and History) has published a co-authored article, “The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model,” in the March 2011 issue of the Journal...
Conservationist to speak at UW-Green Bay
Conservationist Liz Titus Putnam, the founder of the Student Conservation Association, will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, in Phoenix Room B of the University Union on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus, 2420 Nicolet Drive.
UW-Green Bay to host Fox River watershed symposium
Area high school students, teachers and university researchers will gather at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Tuesday, March 15 for the eighth annual watershed symposium hosted by the Lower Fox River Watershed Monitoring Program and the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity.
Photos: Students work with opera's Simon Estes
UW-Green Bay students had a chance to meet, hear and work with well-known opera singer Simon Estes on campus March 4. Estes led a morning master class in Fort Howard Hall in the Weidner Center...
Chancellor: Avoiding layoffs and maintaining enrollment
UW-Green Bay’s top priorities in dealing with steep state budget cuts will be maintaining current enrollment and services and avoiding faculty and staff layoffs if at all possible. That is the message Chancellor Thomas...
