Tag: Phoenix GPS Program

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    More media: Students’ role in recycling study gets additional airtime

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    We’ve got more media coverage to share on a Brown County recycling study and UW-Green Bay students’ role therein, this time courtesy of WBAY, Channel 2. Reporter Kristyn Allen spent time this week at the county’s resource recovery facility as UW-Green Bay students and Associate Prof. Christopher Martin sorted through mounds of recyclables as part…

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    Phoenix GPS students to host poster session, reception

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    The Phoenix GPS Program will host a poster session and reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, May 2, in Phoenix C of the University Union. The event spotlights the contributions students have made to the larger community through their GPS service learning projects; over the course of the semester, students in each of the five GPS classes…

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    GPS Program raising items for House of Hope

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    The Phoenix “GPS” (Gateways to Phirst Year Success) Program is hosting a Green Bay House of Hope Donation Drive and is asking for participation from faculty and staff. The drive will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday, April 21 to Thursday, April 24 in front of the Phoenix Bookstore. Your donation means…

  • New video: Phoenix GPS posts testimonial piece

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    The Phoenix GPS (Gateways to Phirst Year Success) program has a great new testimonial piece posted on its homepage, http://www.uwgb.edu/gps/. As we’ve told you here previously, the GPS program is a support community for first-year students that aims to increase connections to the University and foster student success. The effort received a boost in September,…

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    Press-Gazette person of year to address Phoenix GPS students Friday …

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    An inspirational athlete named the Green Bay Press-Gazette’s 2013 Person of the Year will share his story with students in the Phoenix GPS program Friday (Feb. 7), speaking on campus and attending a reception with students, faculty and staff. Christian Jensen created the Wisconsin Chapter of My Team Triumph, a non-profit athletic mentoring program that…

  • Slideshow: GPS students tackle ‘UWGB Trivia’

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    Students in the Phoenix GPS program — that’s the first-year retention initiative led by Prof. Denise Bartell of Human Development — enjoyed themselves in a  UWGB Trivia Challenge Nov. 5 at the Union’s Phoenix B. Students worked in teams with each other and a University “celebrity” including Brenda Amenson-Hill, Stefan Hall, Deanne Kusserow, and Mark…

  • Students will tackle “UWGB Trivia” Tuesday night at the Union

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    Students in the Phoenix GPS program — that’s the first-year retention initiative led by Prof. Denise Bartell of Human Development — will be taking part Tuesday (Nov. 5) in a UWGB Trivia Challenge from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Union’s Phoenix B. Students will work in teams with each other and a University “celebrity”…

  • More on $161,000 grant for new approaches to first-year achievement

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    We included a link to the news release in Friday’s LOG Extra, but for the benefit of non-subscribers and those who might have missed it, here goes: 
UW-Green Bay has received a grant award of $161,504 for the “Phoenix GPS Program” from Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation. Denise Bartell, associate professor of Human Development,…