Tag: Social Change and Development
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Dale weighs in on freshman lawmakers
Speaking of the contentious political climate, legislative newcomers — including several from Northeastern Wisconsin — quickly became part of the debate as soon as they were sworn into office in January. UW-Green Bay Prof. Timothy Dale offered his take on the freshmen lawmakers for a story in Sunday’s (June 19) Green Bay Press-Gazette. Fitting in…
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Faculty notes: Kaye, Howe, Wolf, Fewless
Prof. Harvey Kaye of Social Change and Development (soon to be Democracy and Justice Studies) contributed a column to the website New Deal 2.0. In it, he tears into several Republican presidential contenders for their apparent lack of knowledge with regard to American history… and for not recognizing that it was once considered the height…
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Kersten’s C-SPAN2 spot on Darrow is posted online
Last Saturday’s program spotlighting award-winning UW-Green Bay Prof. Andrew Kersten and his new biography, Clarence Darrow: An American Iconoclast, has been posted to the website of national cable outlet C-SPAN2. The URL: www.c-spanvideo.org/program/299819-8
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Kersten brings Darrow to national audience Saturday on C-SPAN2
Award-winning UW-Green Bay Prof. Andrew Kersten has a national cable television shot Saturday (June 4) as part of C-SPAN2’s Book TV programming. The network will be broadcasting live from the 2011 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest. The network will carry seven different author talks/panel discussions during the day. Kersten will cap the lineup with…
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Prof. Dale is new FOCUS co-director
Timothy Dale, an assistant professor of Social Change and Development, was recently appointed co-director of UW-Green Bay’s FOCUS program for first-year students. He succeeds Prof. Steven Meyer of NAS, who will conclude a four-year stint as the faculty point person with this June’s round of orientation and registration sessions. Dale will co-direct with Brenda Amenson-Hill,…
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Austin featured in Press-Gazette story on prisons and the state budget
Andrew Austin, associate professor of social change and development, lent his expertise on the role Wisconsin’s corrections system has played in contributing to state budget woes for a front-page story in Sunday’s Green Bay Press-Gazette. The state and nation need to take a careful look at the costs associated with corrections and incarcerations. Read more.
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Video of Kaye’s May 1 labor address
There’s now video online of Prof. Harvey Kaye’s remarks at the May 1 commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the bloody Bay View Rolling Mill incident, an 1886 conflict in which state guardsmen opened fire and killed labor demonstrators near Milwaukee. Click here.
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Featured speaker: Kaye reflects on 1886 shooting at May Day labor observance
UW-Green Bay Prof. Harvey Kaye was a featured speaker May 1 in Milwaukee at ceremonies commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Bay View Tragedy. About 300 citizens gathered to remember the day when the state militia opened fire on laborers marching on the Bay View Rolling Mills with demands for an eight-hour work day. Seven…
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Kersten book wins praise for fresh look at Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow: An American Iconoclast, a new book by award-winning UW-Green Bay historian Andrew Kersten, was released this week by Hill & Wang, a division of Macmillan publishing. The book is described as the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades. It draws upon new archival records and goes well beyond the familiar story of…
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You want wild political conspiracy theories? Kaye’s got ‘em
Now that the President Obama “birther” movement has apparently had its moment in the sun (and shriveled), UW-Green Bay Prof. Harvey Kaye has tongue in cheek with his Top 10 “other” juicy conspiracy theories. For instance… what’s Donald Trump hiding in his hair? Fun read, at the national Huffington Post website, click here.