Tag: Social Work
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UW-Green Bay announces 2014-15 Teaching Scholars
The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and the UW-Green Bay Teaching Scholars Program are proud to announce the names of eight individuals selected to be 2014-15 Teaching Scholars. They are UW-Green Bay faculty members Sawa Senzaki, Human Development; Aaron Weinschenk, Public and Environmental Affairs; JP Leary, Humanistic Studies/ First Nations Studies;…
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Memories and milestones: Video shares highlights of commencement 2014
The 634 graduates who participated in Saturday’s commencement ceremony had plenty to reflect on from their time at UW-Green Bay. [youtube id= gxQ0fyC65aU width= 400 height= 300] For Phoenix soccer’s Chanel Aries, it was applied learning and a one-of-a-kind education. For Heba Mohammad, a 2012 UW System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award recipient, it…
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The ‘Phuture’ has arrived for former fifth-graders
Graduating seniors Jenny Mottl and Seenia Thao were asked to pose for a photo before Saturday’s commencement ceremony to mark a UW-Green Bay milestone: the first diplomas awarded to alumni of the University’s heralded Phuture Phoenix Program. Back in April 2003, the two young women were fifth-grade participants in what was then a still-new program…
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‘I didn’t think I’d survive biology, algebra, statistics’
Graduating class speaker Susan Exworthy of De Pere began her remarks at Saturday’s UW-Green Bay commencement by recalling her initial trepidation at enrolling in college as a returning adult student. It was 2011, she was 48 years old and, she said, “I didn’t think I’d survive biology, algebra and statistics… but I did.” She went…
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Address by Master’s in Social Work grad urges serious work on serious issues
Graduating class speaker Susan Exworthy of De Pere credits the help of caring faculty members and UW-Green Bay’s interdisciplinary, problem-solving approach for her academic success. She urged her fellow grads and the nearly 5,000 in attendance to be more active members of their communities. We have a photo and more.
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In the news: launch of Campus Kitchens
UW-Green Bay’s Campus Kitchens launch got some nice media play for the group’s inaugural meal service May 3 at Fort Howard Apartments in Green Bay. As we told you here before, Campus Kitchens works to recover food that would otherwise go to waste and serve it to those in need. UW-Green Bay earned a $5,000…
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Waste less, feed more: UW-Green Bay Campus Kitchen set for official launch
After a hard-fought grant competition and a semester’s worth of preparation, UW-Green Bay officially will launch its Campus Kitchen Saturday (May 3), turning leftover dining service food into delicious, healthy meals for those in need. We told you this winter about the efforts of the Feeding the Hungry and Reducing Waste student organization, which earned…
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UW-Green Bay students to launch Campus Kitchen to address hunger, food waste
On Saturday, May 3, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will join The Campus Kitchens Project network and launch the Campus Kitchen at UW-Green Bay, a student-run organization that will provide free, healthy meals to Green Bay residents by using donated food that would otherwise go to waste. With the program’s official status, UW-Green Bay will…
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UW-Green Bay announces Student Employee of the Year
The head student building manager at UW-Green Bay’s Kress Events Center was named the University’s Student Employee of the Year Monday (April 14) during a special recognition event on campus. Emily Buelow manages 60 student employees, 25 at the Kress front desk and 35 in the weight room. She runs the 8-week group fitness instructor…
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Tilot receives Volunteer Leadership Award
Among the award recipients of the 2014 WPS Volunteer Awards today (April 10) was UW-Green Bay alumnus Glen Tilot. Tilot, a social worker with Brown County Human Services, received the Schneider National Foundation Volunteer Leadership Award. UWGB has long recognized Tilot’s impact to campus and community. In 2010 he was named UWGB’s Recruitment Partner of…