Tag: Founders

  • Calling all nominations for the 2023 Founders Awards

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    It is time to start submitting nominations for the 2023 Founders Awards! The Awards & Recognition Committee wants to encourage departments, units, offices and other working communities to consider which of their colleagues they would like to see honored at next year’s Fall Convocation. The nomination form can be completed electronically by clicking on this…

  • Nominations for the 2022 Founders Awards due March 4

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    It is time to start submitting nominations for the 2022 Founders Awards! The Awards & Recognition Committee encourages anyone from the UW-Green Bay community (especially students) to consider nominating a faculty member / instructor / lecturer or staff member they would like to see honored at next year’s Fall Convocation.  A list of awards can…

  • Faculty note: Associate Provost Ganyard to step away from administrative role, return to teaching

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    Clif Ganyard will be stepping down as Associate Provost and returning to his faculty position this summer. Ganyard is the University’s second-longest-serving associate provost and has boldly led a number of key initiatives including Project Coastal (the addition of campuses in Marinette, Manitowoc and Sheboygan to UW-Green Bay) and Higher Learning Commission (HLC) accreditation. He…

  • First call: Founders Award nominations

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    It’s time to start submitting nominations for the 2019 Founders Awards! The Awards & Recognition Committee wants to encourage departments, units, offices and other working communities to consider which of their colleagues they would like to see honored at next year’s Fall Convocation. The nomination form for the 2019 Founders Awards is available electronically. The…

  • Deadline to nominate for Founders Awards is March 6

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    Anyone from the UW-Green Bay community can nominate a faculty member, instructor, lecturer or staff member for the 2017 Founders Association Awards, to be honored at the 2017 Fall Convocation. A list of awards, criteria and previous award winners can be found here. The deadline to submit your nomination(s) is March 6. The nomination form can be completed electronically. If…

  • Passing of Len Seidl, UW-Green Bay’s real-estate champion

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    On graduation day in May 2008, UW-Green Bay presented the Chancellor’s Award — for exemplary service to the University — to Len Seidl, the well-known local real estate executive who in the late 1960s was instrumental in securing the bayshore site that would become the University’s campus. Seidl, who always professed pride in helping broker…

  • Slideshow: Founders Association funds scholarships for students

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    UW-Green Bay students who are recipients of scholarships funded by the generosity of the Founders Association posed for a photo Friday afternoon, Nov. 8, at a donor/student reception at the Weidner Center. Celebrating 40 years this year, the Founders Association is the vehicle for annual giving by community members, past and present UW-Green Bay employees,…

  • Kate Meeuwsen: Considers UW-Green Bay part of her family

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    She remembers seeing Chancellor Edward Weidner in the audience for her junior vocal recital. “It was an incredibly exciting time on campus,” recalls Kate Meeuwsen, Class of ’76. “To have the chancellor and professors know your name, greet you in the halls and show up at your recital… it was cool to be here.” The…

  • Slideshow: Scholarship recipients meet Founders Association donors

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    The second annual Founders Association Scholarship Reception, held Oct. 19 at the Weidner Center, was a chance for members of the Founders Association Board of Directors — community supporters of the University — to meet the student beneficiaries of their philanthropy.

  • Snapshots: Founders Association directors briefed on scholarship needs

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    About two dozen members of the Board of Directors of the UW-Green Bay Founders Association talked University business — and heard a report on the University’s need to increase the number of privately funded student scholarships — at a recent board meeting on campus.