Tag: Phoenix GPS Program
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GPS students tour Downtown Green Bay
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On Wednesday, Sept. 21, free buses running to and from Downtown Green Bay will provide students an opportunity to explore everything Downtown Green Bay has to offer. A brief walking tour of student favorites will be included as well as free samples from Polito’s Pizza, Nectar Juice bar, coupons, and a night at the Farmer’s…
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Bartell named UW-Green Bay’s Director of Student Engagement
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Associate Prof. Denise Bartell (Human Development and Psychology) will be joining UW-Green Bay’s academic affairs administrative team as the Director of Student Success and Engagement. While this is a new position in the Provost’s office, its creation recognizes and seeks to institutionalize work that Bartell has been conducting for several years. Her duties include the…
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GPS displays service learning projects Friday
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The Gateways to Phoenix Success (GPS) program will hold its spring reception celebrating GPS teams’ spring service learning projects on from 1 to 3 p.m., Friday, April 29 in Phoenix B.
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First-year students go Viking
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First-year students Haley Falcon, Wynne Larson and Emily Poull really got into their first-year GPS seminar with historian Heidi Sherman of the Humanistic Studies faculty. The students chose to make a five-minute video on ‘Daily Life of Viking Women’ to cap their semester’s historical studies. Kind of interesting, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc7xfnV9F7o
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Undergraduate researchers honored and recognized
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The experience is worth celebrating, but so is the recognition. A number of UW-Green Bay undergraduates had a fantastic opportunity to participate in graduate-level research this year and were honored among the winners of the outstanding presentation awards at the 14th Annual UW-System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. Their research and presentation was…
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Phoenix GPS Program invites campus to Friday’s poster session
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Associate Prof. Denise Bartell and the students of the 2014-15 Phoenix GPS Program would like to invite the campus community to their annual Poster Session and Reception, set for 1 to 2:30 p.m. this Friday (May 1) in Phoenix B of the Union. During the event each of the five GPS teams will share stories…
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Phoenix GPS students learn, help others learn about success at college
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News from director Denise Bartell and the Phoenix GPS Program: The students from the Hopscotching the World of Nonprofits team have just completed their service learning project working with the NEW Scholars program of Scholarships Inc. A college readiness program for under-represented students, the NEW Scholars work on reading, writing, and character while earning credits…
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Students promote scholarship to honor professor’s late mother
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Here’s another good story from the Phoenix GPS Program. A student team has chosen as its service project the idea of raising money for a student scholarship at UW-Green Bay. Their goal is to endow a fund creating a $1,000 annual award for the Rosemary C. Bartell Memorial Scholarship at UW-Green Bay. They would designate…
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Academic Advising and Phoenix GPS team up for ‘peer advising’
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For what is believed to be the first time in its existence, UW-Green Bay is making use of peer advisers. The PAC people (Peer Advising Consultants) represent a collaborative effort between the Office of Academic Advising and the Phoenix GPS Program. The advisers, a group of four sophomores who completed the GPS program last year,…
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Video: Phoenix GPS helps students navigate critical first year
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Now in its second year, UW-Green Bay’s Phoenix GPS program is helping University freshmen get engaged and stay engaged as they navigate that all-important first year. We talked to students and faculty about what makes the program unique.