Daily Archive: November 7, 2011
More than half of the 447 people UW-Madison rehired after they retired have been on the job for more than one year, the limit set by the university under a new policy last month,...
WLUK-TV reporter Mark Leland filed a story last Thursday that examined the practice of rehiring public employees after retirement. Although the piece used the term “double dipping” throughout, it also pointed out that at...
As we told you recently, UW-Green Bay is preparing once again to host early rounds of the prestigious Czech and Slovak Voice International Competition of Montreal. The Green Bay Press-Gazette on Saturday (Nov. 5)...
The Green Bay men’s soccer team (10-6-1, 5-3 Horizon League) beat regular-season champ Valparaiso over the weekend to snare the No. 4 seed and home-field advantage in the opening round of the league tournament....
UW-Green Bay Theatre on Friday (Nov. 11) will open Unnecessary Farce, its second show of the 2011-12 season. We recently brought you the details of this fast-paced, unabashedly silly show, some of which were...
Assistant Professor Hernan Fernandez-Meardi of Spanish and Humanistic Studies was an invited speaker in The Independence Effect Symposium at Dartmouth College. This symposium focuses on the processes that, in the Humanities, gave rise to...
Among the presenters at the recent community seminar, Newfare: A Forum Cultivating Health and Wealth Through the Local Food Economy, was Prof. Debra Pearson of UW-Green Bay’s Human Biology program. With Prof. Emerita Lynn...
Stacey Spencer, who acquired the Stadium Bakery last summer, was profiled in a Press-Gazette business page Q&A recently. She praised the local Urban Hope program and also the Small Business Association (actually, UW-Green Bay’s...
In case you missed it, that huge statewide story about the Wisconsin Assembly and its all-night debate deciding whether minorities should get preferential treatment for a college grant program had a surprise ending. It...
Not that we believe it — as this article states, starting and finishing the right college education remains a very solid choice — but it’s getting hard to ignore the recent run of media...