Tag: Social Change and Development
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Kersten book reexamines crusading Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow: An American Iconoclast, a new book by award-winning University of Wisconsin-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…
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Carolina radio show live with Kaye on ‘Greatest Generation’
Prof. Harvey Kaye of Social Change and Development has done a number of guest spots recently on the North Carolina-based progressive radio outlet 880 AM, “The Revolution.” He’s on at this very moment, if you’re reading this during the 4 p.m. CDT hour on Tuesday (April 26). Kaye and host Lesley Groetsch will be taking…
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Kaye returns to ‘The Revolution’ in N.C.
Prof. Harvey Kaye of Social Change and Development appeared Tuesday afternoon (April 12) on the 4 p.m CDT hour of ‘The Revolution’ progressive talk radio station, Asheville, N.C., and its Local Edge Radio. His topic was FDR, the New Deal, and Politics Today.
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Kersten, Nelson win student-nominated teaching awards
For the second year in a row, the Instructional Development Council is recognizing two teachers with Student Nominated Teaching Awards. As the name implies, nominations are made solely by students. One award goes to an experienced teacher, and the other to an instructor new in his/her career. This year’s honorees are Andrew Kersten, Social Change…
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Kersten, Nelson win student-nominated teaching awards
Beginning last spring, the Instructional Development Council has recognized two teachers with Student Nominated Teaching Awards each year. As the name implies, nominations are made solely by students. One award goes to an experienced teacher, and the other to an instructor new in his/her career. Each honoree will receive a $100 S&E line to use…
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Faculty note: Harvey Kaye
Thomas Paine scholar Prof. Harvey Kaye (Social Change and Development) shares news that another play based on the Revolutionary Era firebrand is about to launch, this time on the West Coast. Kaye has been an adviser both to this project and a previous effort in Philadelphia. Click here to learn more about this latest production.…
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Prof. Kaye to join The Revolution
Progressive activist and UW-Green Bay Prof. Harvey Kaye will continue his flurry of interviews, published essays and appearances when he does a guest segment at 4 p.m. CDT next Wednesday (March 23) on a western Carolina radio station. The outlet, AM 880 in Asheville, is known as “The Revolution” so it figures to be friendly…
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Editorial: Inequity still exists for women
An editorial in the Green Bay Press-Gazette calls attention to the importance of celebrating women’s history. UW-Green Bay Prof. Kim Nielsen (Social Change and Development) is quoted in the piece saying, “All the research continues to show that women, while having made great strides, are certainly lagging behind economically, politically, socially in the United States,…
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Alumni nominated for ‘Dreamers and Doers’ awards
Two of the nominees for the Annual Dreamers and Doers Awards are UW-Green Bay graduates. Devon Christianson (1987 Human Development, 1993 master’s degree Administrative Science) and Bobbie (Ellis-Klaus) Lison, (1986 Social Change and Development) are among those honored. Christianson works for the Aging and Disability Resource of Brown County and Lison works with Catholic Charities.
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Faculty note: Kim Nielsen
Prof. Kim Nielsen of Social Change and Development is the latest faculty member to weigh in at a national blog site with a first-person essay from the front lines of Wisconsin’s budget battles. Nielsen writes of her support for the pro-union cause in a piece posted to the site maintained by Beacon Press, a national…