Fall 05 (pdf) - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

From the CHANCELLOR
his issue of UW Oshkosh Magazine
features UW Oshkosh as a Place of
Distinction. One of our guiding,
strategic directions at UW Oshkosh is to
enhance the scholarly and physical environment
we provide for teaching excellence,
active learning and dynamic curricular programs.
I would like to share with you a few
examples of how enhancing UW Oshkosh’s
infrastructure has benefited people, places
and programs.
We recently remodeled the Polk Library Archives to add a
new reading room and to expand storage space. The enhancement
of this facility makes it easier for patrons to use our collections of
old newspapers, photographs, maps and other historical materials
about our community.
A new partnership between the Wisconsin Historic Records
Advisory Board and UW Oshkosh has resulted in the creation of
the Wisconsin Archives Mentoring Service (WAMS), which
matches volunteer archivists with Wisconsin libraries, museums,
local historical societies, art galleries, private firms and other
institutions that hold historical collections. By helping individuals,
organizations and institutions to improve the preservation of
their historical collections, the new WAMS partnership heightens
our ability to extend the reach of our intellectual and specialized
capabilities
The facility, once known as Titan Stadium, is being transformed
into the Oshkosh Sports Complex for football, soccer,
track and field, baseball, softball and intramural competition.
Through a partnership between UW Oshkosh, the Oshkosh Area
School District and the Unified Catholic Schools of Oshkosh, the
facility will become home to Oshkosh’s middle school, high school
and collegiate athletes who will benefit from this distinctive, multiseasonal,
multipurpose, lighted complex.
As an added bonus to Oshkosh and the Fox River Valley,
the Oshkosh Sports Complex recently was chosen as the 2007
and 2008 home for the NCAA Division III men’s and women’s
outdoor track and field national championships. We anticipate
attracting other regional and national athletic championships and
events to the new complex in the future.
In an historic first, the city of Oshkosh’s industrial development
corporation, Chamco, has agreed to assist UW Oshkosh with
the purchase of the vacant Cub Foods store on Witzel Avenue.
This acquisition allows us to move our Facilities Management Center
to the Fox River’s opposite side, making room for the construction
of a new $48-million academic building on campus.
The partnership between UW Oshkosh and Chamco is
mutually beneficial. It enables the University to move ahead with
plans for the new building that we need to help offset a shortage of
214,000 square feet of campus academic space. Since the University
is the city’s largest employer, its enhanced scholarly and physical
environment will ensure that it continues to provide a highly
educated workforce for Oshkosh and the Fox Valley.
I hope you will take pride in reading about our engagement in
these community projects and agree with me that they make UW
Oshkosh—the Fox Valley’s public service University—a Place of
Distinction.
Richard H. Wells, Chancellor
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UW OSHKOSH MAGAZINE
On the Cover
he new Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Petra
Roter, center, is just one of many the recent
additions to the campus community. Roter saw
the investment in building projects as one of many good
reasons to be at UW Oshkosh, both from a faculty and a
student perspective. Shown with her are two students of
distinction, Eric Stetler and Sarah Edbauer, in front of
the newly renovated Taylor Hall.
Stetler, a junior from Blue River, is triple majoring in
accounting, finance and Spanish. A four-year Academic
Excellence Scholar
and a member of the
Honors Program,
Stetler represents UW
Oshkosh as a College
of Business Ambassador
and an Odyssey
Captain for the
orientation program.
While maintaining
his impressive 3.94
grade-point average, he
works about 35 hours
per week in a local real
estate investment firm
and as a management
universiTy
PLAces oF
Distinction
A grand reopening of a
renovated Taylor Hall
marks one of many
physical changes on
campus.
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information office computer technician. He recently was
awarded the John E. Kerrigan Scholarship.
Edbauer, a junior from Kingsford, Mich., is an
elementary education major with minors in math and
French. She chose UW Oshkosh for its outstanding
education program. In addition to being a University
Honors Program student on the Dean’s List for four
semesters, she was awarded the Excellence in French
Language Award for 2004-2005 and was inducted into
Kappa Delta Pi, the education honor society, in 2004.
Edbauer works as a Residence Life leadership development
specialist, a University Honors Student Association
activities director, a Big Brothers/Big Sisters School-
Based mentor and as a volunteer at South Park Middle
School.
UW Oshkosh is committed to following
“green,” or earth-friendly, principles.
In October, the University hosted
the largest Earth Charter community
summit in the world. Everything
from expos on clean energy and “green” business
to wolves in Wisconsin and “Wars, Energy, Global
Climate Change and the Environment” were part of
the fifth annual event.
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UW Oshkosh helps Katrina victims
F
ive students attending universities closed by Hurricane
Katrina have been guaranteed admission
and a residence hall room at UW Oshkosh. The
university has hardship funding to cover the out-of-state
portion of the tuition for up to 12 students displaced by
the storm.
In addition, the UW Oshkosh
Foundation has set up a
Student Hurricane Katrina
Relief Fund to help students
transferring to UW Oshkosh
because of the hurricane.
In September, UWO violinist
Klara Bahcall and pianist
Eli Kalman, Madison,
presented an evening of
“Arts for Life” to raise
funds for hurricane victims.
HAPPENING AT
UW OSHKOSH
Amanda Wolf, center, a junior from Antigo majoring in
biology, and Stacy Isferding, a junior from Burlington
majoring in chemistry, take a study break with Chancellor
Richard H. Wells, during the spring 2005 Chancellor’s
Midnight Breakfast at Blackhawk Commons.
More than 160 UW Oshkosh student leaders and staff
volunteered to help 16 community programs as part of
the annual Residence Life Day of Service. The day was
fueled in part by a spring 2005 student survey that said
UWO students want to volunteer even more. The agencies
assisted by student volunteers included Winnebago
County Literacy Council, Oshkosh Recreation Department,
Oshkosh Humane Society, UW Oshkosh Head
Start, Oshkosh Meals on Wheels, Oshkosh Public
Library and Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh-Bethel Home.
Managers of a UW Oshkosh student-investment fund
must have learned something when the high-tech
bubble burst four years ago. Their Student-Managed
Endowment Fund has outperformed the Standard and
Poor’s 500 for the last three years. Student-Managed
Investment Fund managers are Adam Bremberger,
West Bend; Andrew Debroux, Fond du Lac; Melanie
Degener, Kenosha; Anna Kovalenko and Cliff Moll,
Oshkosh; Matt Stolen, Edgerton; and Erin Walterman,
Racine.
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