Nontraditional Student Updates and Reminders

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Scholarship Information:
The GFWC Bloomer Woman’s Club will be accepting applications for Women In Need (WIN) Scholarships of $300.00 each to women who are furthering their education or training beyond high school to satisfy the requirements for a job.
The criteria for eligibility are:

1. Woman 25 years of age or older
2. Financial need
3. Primary or secondary breadwinner
4. Lives in the Bloomer School District
5. Motivated to succeed
6. For more information and/or an application blank, call Janet Lebeis at 715-568-5972 or email at psjlebe@bloomer.net.  The application deadline is December 18, 2009.

Look for other nontraditional student scholarships at http://www.uwec.edu/advising/nss/scholar.htm. Many of them have deadline dates of December 1.

Registration Information

Special Student Registration is on January 22.

Commencement Information
If you are graduating in December please see the commencement information in this link. http://www.uwec.edu/activities/commencement/index.htm
If you are not planning on attending the ceremony but are willing to share your tickets with other students who are looking for extra tickets, please let me know.    I already have a request for an additional afternoon ceremony ticket if someone has one to share.

Leadership Seminar Series Applications Now Available for Spring - The Leadership Seminar Series is a 12-week, non-credit opportunity available for up to 25 students.  Seminar participants meet for 90 minutes each week throughout the duration of the program.  There is no cost to participate, and all books and materials are provided for participants. Interested individuals should fill out the application and submit by Friday, January 15.    The application is located at: https://orgsync.com/forms/show/17304.  Participants will be notified of their acceptance no later than Friday, January 22.
The Leadership Seminar Series is designed to provide you with an opportunity to explore leadership with a small group of your peers and apply what you learn to your life experiences.  Students will examine the history and evolution of leadership, will learn about personal strengths and preferences and how to work with others, will learn about important components of effective leadership, and will identify strategies for creating positive change. 
The Spring 2010 Leadership Seminar Series will be held on Mondays from 3:30-5:00 p.m., beginning on Monday, February 1.  Interested individuals must be available to meet at this time in order to participate.  For questions or for more information, please contact Angie Bong (bongal@uwec.edu; 836-3855).

Terri's Tidbits
Wow! We are only a month away from the end of this semester. It always comes barreling at me like an academic freight train, and I can hear the whistle blowing and the wheels rolling down the tracks getting closer every day. It gets hard at this time to keep our priorities straight, or to even know what they are at times. There is so much homework; assignments, readings, papers to write, exams and even pod casts to make if you are a Scientific and Technical Writing major like myself.  If you celebrate the holidays then you have all of the planning surrounding them as well, add in jobs and families, and it can be a pretty chaotic time.

My motto at this point in the semester is to just "keep it simple".

We can only do so many things and be so many things to so many people. We can only do the best that we can do and after that the rest just has to be let go of. This weekend I had homework, so much homework to do, but also all of my kids were home and we are the type of family who spends time together on the weekends. As a single parent it can be tough to balance it all, but this weekend I decided to keep it simple and just do the best I could do, and it was a wonderful weekend! This is a rough time of the year financially, so the kids and I spent our family time together building a gingerbread house, playing Yahtzee, having a nice Sunday breakfast/brunch of sausage gravy and biscuits and sweet rolls, and we just played and enjoyed being together. In between those family times, I did homework. I was able to get 5 papers written this weekend and started on the 6th! The weekend came to an end and frankly it was a really nice weekend of free entertainment and lots of laughing.

At times it is important to say no to areas outside of our academics and family life. It is OK to let go of some things in order to make our lives more manageable so that we can give more to our priorities. At this point in the semester it might be time for some of you to remember that you need to take care of yourself/your academics/families (not necessarily in that order) and let go of a few others things so that you can keep it simple. I realize that not all of you are parents, and you might have different obligations and responsibilities, but regardless of what they are, needing to keep it simple and balanced at this time of the semester applies to all non-trads.

Thanks for the emails regarding the social club. I am thinking that it might be a good idea to meet soon, but that it won't really get going until Spring semester. I'd like to set up one meeting time this semester and then we will really get it going in January. Keep sending me any thoughts you have on this, I am getting them and reading them!
Have a great week ahead!

Terri-Lynn Introwitz
Major; English Scientific and Technical Writing Minor; Communication Journalism/Public Communication
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
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I hope that you are all keeping your head above water.  Terri said it well when she said, “keep it simple”.  If you are having problems, remember we have a great Counseling Center on campus where you can talk in confidence with a neutral party.  Sometimes just saying your concerns out loud can help.  I’m here, too.  Let me know if you want to meet.

Have a great week—I’m off tomorrow afternoon to visit my granddaughter at her kindergarten.  It’s a first for me—“Grand Visitor Day”!
 
Bonnie Isaacson
Nontraditional Student Adviser
Schofield Hall 226-E
Phone: 715-836-3259

 Nurturing Thought:
You can do anything if you put your focus on how to do it rather than on why you can’t.
--Bob Proctor

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