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News
- Chancellor's Awards recipients honored at Sept. 20 banquet
- Chancellor David Wilson presented 14 Chancellor's Awards to UW Colleges and UW-Extension employees and partners at the inaugural Chancellor's Awards Banquet on Sept. 20 in Madison
- Almost 400 attend national Outreach Scholarship Conference hosted by UW-Extension
- The Access through Engagement conference, held Oct. 7-9 in Madison, provided a forum for discussion, debate and celebration of university-community outreach
- Appointment
- Gayle Kugler has been appointed interim director of the UW-Extension Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
- Update on searches and screens in process
- Progress in hiring for the UW Colleges and UW-Extension upper-level positions
- Employee Assistance Office offers help to employees
- Mike Hallenbeck counsels UW Colleges and UW-Extension employees coping with workplace and personal issues
Features
- UW Colleges and UW-Extension collaboration provides students statewide with access to credit courses
- Through distance education, students can take the courses required to enter their major after their sophomore year at UW Colleges
- Wisconsin Public Television's "Way of the Warrior" will be broadcast nationally in November
- A one-hour TV documentary produced by Patty Loew explores what motivated Native Americans in the 20th century to join the U.S. military in percentages greater than any other group
- Teacher helps class 1,000 miles away
- An Evansville teacher helps her fifth-grade students expand their knowledge of differing cultures through her participation in the UW-Extension Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program (Reproduced with permission from the Janesville Gazette)
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- People
- Recent statewide, regional and national professional awards and appointments received by UW Colleges and UW-Extension faculty and staff
- Books
- New books authored by UW Colleges and UW-Extension faculty and staff and a new book available from the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
- Calendar
- Events and deadlines coming up at UW Colleges and UW-Extension
News
UW Colleges and UW-Extension employees dealing with workplace and personal issues can turn to Employee Assistance Office consultant Mike Hallenbeck for help.
Photo by Jim Gill
Features
Native American and World War I soldier Edward DeNomie is featured on "Way of the Warrior" to be broadcast on PBS stations nationwide in November.
Photo provided by the DeNomie family
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