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Chancellor Mash to discuss campus
changes at University Senate meeting
Gov. Doyle to address UW-Eau Claire
graduates
UW System President Katharine
Lyall to visit Eau Claire Monday
Sasser worm help available
UW-Eau Claire to graduate its first
online MBA class
Web site redesign preview now available
UW-Eau Claire announces Research
Day winners
Plan to attend service recognition
and retirement reception
UW-Eau Claire celebrates
"UW Spirit Day"
Nursing news
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Chancellor Mash to discuss campus
changes at University Senate meeting May 11
University Senate Chair Susan Harrison has invited
Chancellor Donald Mash to attend the Tuesday, May 11, University Senate
meeting to continue discussions and answer questions about the recent
administrative changes and plans to create a College of Nursing and
a College of Education.
The Chancellor discussed the
reorganization with members of the University Senate Executive Committee
May 4 and outlined the plan in an e-mail message to all UW-Eau Claire
faculty and staff the following day.
The University Senate meeting
will begin at 3 p.m. in the Tamarack Room of Davies Center.
You can read the Chancellor’s
May 5 message to faculty and staff at message
from Chancellor Mash. 
Gov. Doyle
to address UW-Eau Claire graduates
 Wisconsin
Gov. Jim Doyle will be at UW-Eau Claire May 22 to speak during the morning
spring commencement ceremony in Zorn Arena. Students from the College
of Business and the College of Professional Studies will participate
in the 9:30 a.m. ceremony.
The Rev. Donald Wisner, pastor at University Lutheran
church at the Ecumenical Religious Center, will give the commencement
address during the afternoon ceremony.
Approximately 1,160 students will graduate from UW-Eau
Claire during the two ceremonies.
UW System President Katharine
Lyall to visit
Eau Claire Monday
 UW
System President Katharine Lyall will make a brief visit to Eau Claire
today as part of a two-day, three-city Western Wisconsin trip.
Lyall will meet with the Leader-Telegram editorial board at 11 a.m.
and make a presentation to the Noon Rotary Club at Sweetwaters restaurant
during the noon hour. A number of UW-Eau Claire, business, community
and local education representatives have been invited to the Rotary
presentation. Lyall also will participate
in a Monday afternoon event hosted by UW-Stout in Menomonie and a Tuesday
event at UW-River Falls.
Lyall announced her retirement as UW System president earlier this year
and is making visits to campus communities throughout the state to discuss
the importance of the UW System as an educational and economic asset
for Wisconsin.
Sasser worm
help available
A part of the campus network was affected May
3 by the Sasser worm, which infects Windows XP and 2000 machines. The
virus has been removed from all university computers, and updates have
been installed to protect the system from future Sasser threats. However,
students, faculty and staff should take action to protect their personal
computers, whether in the residence halls or off campus. Even those
whose computers have not been infected with Sasser should install the
Windows update to prevent future security threats.
Defense against this virus is available from CNS as
well as from the Microsoft Web site. If your computer is or may be already
infected, you must take steps to first remove the worm from the system.
To download the Sasser removal tool and the Windows security update,
visit ResCom
(Residence Hall Computing) or CNS
Help Desk Downloads. Make sure to download both the Sasser removal/repair
tool and the Windows XP/2000 security patch.
If you are unable to download these files to your
infected computer, CDs with the necessary tools are available through
ResCom. If you need help off campus, contact the CNS Help Desk, Old
Library 1144, at 836-5711.
For more information about protecting your computer from general security
threats, visit this Microsoft
Web site.
UW-Eau Claire to graduate
its first online MBA class
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| Evgeny Dobrovolsky, an international
student from Russia, will graduate May 22 with his master’s
degree in business administration. |
When Suzanne DeCann visits the UW-Eau Claire campus
for the first time in May, it will be to pick up her newly earned master
of business administration degree.
DeCann, who lives in Georgia, will be among the first 11 UW-Eau Claire
students to earn their MBAs completely online. When she comes to Eau
Claire for commencement, she’ll get her first real look at the
campus and her first opportunity to talk face-to-face with her classmates
and professors.
Since 2002, UW-Eau Claire MBA students have had the option of completing
the entire MBA program online, the entire program on campus or combining
the two options as it meets their needs.
“The online option gives our MBA students choices they never had
before,” said Robert Erffmeyer, MBA program director. “Our
students can complete a 30-credit online program in about two years,
and they can do it on their schedule instead of ours. There is no set
clock time during which they must do their work and they don’t
need to travel to campus, so they can literally be anywhere in the world.
Full story.
Web site
redesign preview now available
A prototype offering a limited number of redesigned
upper level pages of the UW-Eau Claire Web site is now available online.
The work group chartered to redesign the upper level pages has finalized
design, navigation and technical considerations. Content development
is ongoing and staff members are encouraged to check the site periodically
for updates.
Following an initial prototype review period, it is
anticipated the redesign will be completed in the coming weeks. If all
goes as planned, the new Web redesign will “go live” prior
to the eight week Summer Session, which begins June 12.
The redesign has been presented to a number of groups
on campus that represent faculty, staff, students and administration,
and their suggestions have been taken into consideration as the redesign
has progressed. Your feedback also is welcome. Comments
can be submitted via the Web.
Members of the Web redesign work group include
Lillian Hillis and Brian Hogan, Computing and Networking Services; Mindy
Merryfield and Mari Jo Janke, Publications; Michelle Karstensen, Records
and Registration; Judy Berthiaume, News Bureau; and Mike Rindo, University
Communications.
UW-Eau Claire announces Research
Day winners
UW-Eau Claire's 12th Annual Student Research Day, April 26-27, featured
182 displays involving 345 students and 130 faculty mentors. A seven-member
panel consisting of faculty from the University of Minnesota-Duluth,
St. Olaf College, University of St. Thomas, Edgewood College, WiSys:
The Wisconsin Technology Foundation and UW System selected posters for
special recognition in five categories. Find out who the award winners
are in this full
story. (Photo by Rick Mickelson, TLTDC.)
Plan
to attend service recognition and retirement reception Thursday
The university community is invited to attend
a reception honoring retiring faculty and staff and those who have been
with the university for 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 or 40 years. A
list of honorees
can be viewed online. The event will run from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday,
May 13,
in the Council Fire Room of Davies Center. A ceremony will be
held at 3:30 p.m.
UW-Eau Claire celebrates "UW
Spirit Day"
Photo gallery
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| Alumni Board President William Hutchinson
'77 (left) and Alumni Relations Director John Bachmeier '81 pose
with Gov. Jim Doyle after the signing of the Proclamation. |
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Approximately 135 UW-Eau Claire community
members, alumni and friends joined in the first statewide "UW
Spirit Day" celebration
May 7. (Photo by Bruce Dybvik, TLTDC.) |
Nursing
news
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| The first Nursing Honors Luncheon was held
April 22. Nursing faculty, honors students and School of Nursing
Associate Dean Elaine Wendt attended the event. Special guests were
Chancellor Mash and former nursing honors student, Melyssa Heintz
’03 (left), who presented her research "Health Risk Factors
of Young Adults and Adolescent Females." The event was sponsored
by UW-Eau Claire alumni Guy and Lauren Brubaker and coordinated
by the School of Nursing Honors Committee. |
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An African roundtable event was held
April 20 in the School of Nursing for interested students and
faculty. Richard Mokua, Kenya; Lydia Chowa, Swaziland; and Komba
Omaru, Sierra Leone, talked about health care issues in their
respective countries. The three presenters are sophomore nursing
students at
UW-Eau Claire. The program was sponsored by the School of Nursing
International Education and Global Health Committee, which has
taken an active role in promoting nursing study abroad and related
international nursing activities. (Photos by Bob
Lieske, School of Nursing.)
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