News and Ideas

Currently Viewing: Spring 2007

UWin Web site helps adults connect to undergraduate degrees: The UWin Web site underpins the Adult Student Initiative goal of increasing the number of Wisconsin residents with an undergraduate degree
Appointments: Chancellor Wilson names the new senior leadership team; Thomas Pleger is appointed dean and campus executive officer of UW-Baraboo/Sauk County
Updates on searches and screens in process: Progress in hiring for upper-level UW Colleges and UW-Extension positions
Extension Conference Centers (ECC): providing facilities, technical support, food and lodging: Plan on holding your next UW Colleges/UW-Extension event at one of the three convenient, affordable Extension Conference Centers
Instructional Communications Systems (ICS): providing distance-learning and communications services: Save travel money and time by using the leading-edge distance-learning and communications services of Instructional Communications Systems
UW-Extension division gets a new name: Business and Manufacturing Extension is now called the Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Working together to build a diverse community: The Diversity Circles program is faciliating open, respectful discussion about racial, ethnic and cultural changes and differences in Manitowoc County
Community Mosaic Garden links people and plants in the Fox Valley: A new gardening project is fostering interaction among and learning by the people who live in the Fox Valley

Recent statewide, regional and national professional awards and appointments received by UW Colleges and UW-Extension faculty and staff

News
The UWin Web site is designed to support nontraditional students like Crystal Fey.

Features
A garden project in the Fox Valley helps people learn about plants and cultures.

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