Month: May 2024
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State Language Access Initiatives Are Helping to Serve an Increasingly Diverse Workforce and Aging Population – PHI
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Immigrants have long been critical to the direct care workforce and to ensure older adults and people with disabilities receive quality care; in fact, at least 27 percent of our country’s direct care workers are immigrants (up from 21 percent in 2011). The importance of immigrant direct care workers to meeting our country’s long-term care…
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UW Green Bay sends off 2024 graduating class
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GREEN BAY (WLUK) – More than 1,100 students celebrated a major milestone on Saturday; college graduation. The UWGB graduation was split into two ceremonies, both being held at the Kress Events Center. The first celebration set the bar high with a powerful speech from speaker Blai Yang of Manitowoc. The student offered advice for those…
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Local organizations join forces for One Stop School Shop – The Press
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GREEN BAY – The Service League’s Back to School Store, The Salvation Army’s Tools for School program, with support from NEWCAP and Howe Community Resource Center, joined forces for one event — the One Stop School Shop. “Our vision behind this collaboration was to pool our resources for families to make one stop and shop…
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The economy is the top issue for Wisconsin voters, but most have a negative view – WPR
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Oshkosh resident Tracy Heuring and her husband have both received a few wage hikes in the last couple years, but she said it still doesn’t feel like they’re getting ahead. With inflation, she said, “it’s almost as if you didn’t receive a raise in the first place.” “I’m in my 50s, and I’m to the…
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UW graduation speakers share their advice | Education | captimes.com
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Listen to your inner voice. Do what makes you afraid. Embrace uncertainty. And dodge Cupid’s arrow. That’s some of the advice that the spring commencement speakers across the Universities of Wisconsin say they wish someone had given them when they graduated from college. This month, roughly 23,000 students across the UW system will receive their…
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Free Electronics Recycling at UW-Green Bay
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – MRM Recycling will be sponsoring an Electronics Recycling event hosted by the UWGB Office of Sustainability on June 8th. The event is completely free, though registration is required to participate to manage the high volume of traffic that past events have generated. MRM Recycling will be teaming up with the UWGB…
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Three generations of Phoenix alum including former Wisconsin State Senator Dave Hansen
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In a message that only a proud grandparent can give, former Wisconsin State Senator Dave Hansen shared the following on social media Saturday: “My GRANDDAUGHER, NALANI BICOY, graduates from UWGB on SATURDAY – 3 generations – her MOTHER, CARI BICOY (CLASS OF 2012) her GRANDFATHER, DAVE HANSEN (CLASS OF 1971)!! This is truly special!!” Amidst…
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Social Justice in Northeast Wisconsin is the focus of UW-Green Bay Summit
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2024 The second annual Social Justice Summit will be held on June 5, 2024 Green Bay, WI — The University of Wisconsin – Green Bay campus will host the second annual Social Justice Summiton June 5, 2024, and will take “A Look into Social Dominance and Resistance.” The in-person event…
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Sundance Wicks Named Wyoming Head Men’s Basketball Coach
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Sundance Wicks has been named the Wyoming head men’s basketball coach. The following statement was made by UWGB Athletics Director Josh Moon. “We are so thankful and proud of the work Sundance did during his time in Green Bay. He reenergized our program, university and this entire region and we will be forever…
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First Generation Student Speaker: ‘You have as much right to be here as anyone else’ applies to college and life
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Freshly minted UW-Green Bay graduate and morning commencement speaker Blai Yang knows all about “imposter syndrome.” As a First Generation college graduate, she experienced it while participating in the Rising Phoenix program in high school and her undergraduate years at UW-Green Bay. She anticipates she’ll encounter it her entire life, as will her fellow graduates.…