Year: 2013
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Aptly named, Project Win-Win finds success in increasing AAS degrees conferred
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Each year a handful of Associate of Arts and Sciences degrees are awarded to deserving students at UW-Green Bay. Project Win-Win, a program designed to get former students who are a few credits shy of an associate’s degree to come back to school, was a first step in increasing the number of AAS degrees we…
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UW-Green Bay remembers Mandela’s life, legacy
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Assistant Prof. Eric Morgan shared his expertise for a WBAY Channel 2 News story on Nelson Mandela’s legacy Thursday (Dec. 5), recalling the visionary South Africans leader in the wake of his passing at age 95. Morgan, Democracy and Justice Studies (History) has been to South Africa several times and much of his scholarship has…
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Men are gigolos and women are gold diggers? Let’s talk
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This Thursday’s Philosophers’ Café promises much great discussion. As an apt follow-up to September’s Café suggestion that there may not be such a thing as gender, UW-Green Bay’s Christine Smith, associate professor of Human Development, will help participants consider whether gender differences explain sex differences. According to the Sexual Strategies Theory of evolutionary psychology, women…
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Interviews this week for AIC adviser position
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If you are interested, feel free to sit in on the multicultural adviser interviews taking place in the American Intercultural Center this week. Each of the candidates will make a presentation and respond to questions in the AIC, UU Room 150. (Sorry we missed the first candidate with today’s publication, but the entire candidate list…
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In the news: As Native American athlete, Phoenix b-ball’s Buck inspires
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The Green Bay Press-Gazette on Friday (Dec. 6) carried a terrific story about Phoenix women’s basketball player Tesha Buck, one of only a handful of Native American athletes playing hoops at the Division I level. Buck has overcome long odds to get to where she is today, reporter Scott Venci says, as just 25 of…
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In the news: Nesslein offers take for story on minimum wage protests
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Associate Prof. Tom Nesslein, Urban and Regional Studies (Economics) spoke Thursday (Dec. 5) about nationwide protests on the minimum wage, offering an economist’s perspective for interviews with NBC 26 and WBAY, Channel 2. Were the minimum wage to increase as protesters have demanded, employers would have few options on how to react, Nesslein said. “They…
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National Cheese Institute to honor Bob Bush for life’s work
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Bob Bush, chairman emeritus of Schreiber Foods, Inc., and longtime member of the University Council of Trustees (he’s now emeritus), has been named the recipient of the 2014 National Cheese Institute’s Laureate Award. This award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and growth of the cheese industry. The award ceremony will…
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A big win for Coach Wardle, a welcome-home for Tony Bennett ’92
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We have a link here to the pre-game tribute that played on the big board at the Resch Center during opening introductions for Saturday’s Virginia-Green Bay showdown. Tony Bennett, Class of ’92, received a heartfelt welcome home, but Coach Brian Wardle’s Phoenix men’s basketball team defeated Bennett’s Cavaliers in a terrific game. We have that…
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President Reilly bids farewell at Regents meeting
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Outgoing UW System President Kevin Reilly bid system leaders farewell Friday, delivering a lofty speech about the system’s responsibility to search for truth. Reilly has served as system president since 2004. Friday’s Board of Regents meeting was Reilly’s last. The regents honored him with a resolution thanking him and gave him a standing ovation as…
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Ke$ha at the Kre$$: Tickets on sale later this month
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Here’s a follow-up to last week’s big announcement that pop superstar Ke$ha will play the Kress Events Center Sunday, April 13. Tickets for the public, $40 apiece plus fees, will go on sale at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, at all Ticket Star locations, online or via phone at 800-895-0071 or 920-494-3401. UW-Green Bay students…