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Chancellor Mash welcomes
faculty and staff back to campus
Speakers to raise awareness
about sexual assault and alcohol use
UW-Eau Claire School of Nursing
receives oxygen monitoring equipment
Music and theatre arts department
offers preparatory arts music program
United Way campaign to kick
off this week
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UW-Eau Claire recognizes outstanding faculty
and staff with excellence awards
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| (clockwise) Robert Nowlan, English; Paula
Stuettgen, University Centers and Programs; Tamara Lindsey, curriculum
and instruction; Sue Ann Warden, Registrar's Office; Vicki Snider,
special education; and Judy Sims, communication and journalism.
(UW-Eau Claire photo by Rick Mickelson) |
Six UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff members
received excellence awards Aug. 26 during the opening meeting of the
2003-04 academic year.
Chancellor Donald Mash, UW-Eau Claire Foundation Chairman Larry Weber
and Lee Markquart of Eau Claire presented the awards. Recipients received
a university medallion and $1,500 from the UW-Eau Claire Foundation
in recognition of their commitment to excellence.
• Tamara Lindsey,
associate professor of curriculum and instruction, received the Excellence
in Teaching Award*.
• Vicki Snider,
professor of special education, received the Excellence in Scholarship
Award.
• Judy Sims, professor
of communication and journalism, is the recipient of the Excellence
in Advising Award.
• Robert Nowlan,
associate professor of English, is the recipient of the Excellence in
Service Award.
• Paula Stuettgen,
senior coordinator of student development and programs for University
Centers and Programs, received the Administrative and/or Professional
Academic Staff Excellence in Performance Award*.
• Sue Ann Warden,
I.S. program area liaison, senior/student records and data systems specialist
in the Registrar’s Office, received the Classified Staff Excellence
in Performance Award*.
* The
Excellence in Teaching Award for faculty and the excellence awards for
classified and academic staff are being supported by Markquart Chevrolet, Markquart Motors and Markquart Toyota of Eau Claire. The Markquart family made a commitment
of more than $100,000 last year to build an endowment that will fund
three of the excellence awards in perpetuity and to provide annual funding
for these awards while the endowment builds. Full
story. 
Chancellor Mash welcomes
faculty and staff back to campus
 UW-Eau
Claire continues to get better at meeting its primary goals of student
learning and personal development and regional service despite the funding
challenges it currently faces, Chancellor Donald Mash told about 600
faculty and academic staff members Aug. 26 and classified staff members
Aug. 28 during the opening meetings of the 2003-04 academic year.
“In spite of budget reductions, tuition increases and the impact
these things have on our students and the university, we’re getting
better and better at preparing students and providing regional service,”
Mash said during his “State of the University” address.
“The university is managing its enrollment, we’re currently
admitting the best freshman class in the university’s history
in terms of academic credentials and again U.S. News & World Report
magazine has ranked us in the top tier for quality in its 2004 Best
Colleges guidebook." Full
story.
Speakers to raise awareness
about sexual assault and alcohol use
 Two
nationally known speakers will try to increase awareness among incoming
UW-Eau Claire freshmen about sexual assault and alcohol use during presentations
Sept. 4 on campus.
The first-year students will participate in an interactive presentation,
“He Said — She Said,” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4 in Zorn
Arena.
“We are very excited to have an initiative in place for all first-year
students that focuses on these serious issues,” said Jodi Thesing-Ritter,
assistant director of Housing and Residence Life. “The speakers’
presentations are powerful and I am sure will make a significant impact
on our first-year students.”
The speakers, Katie Koestner and Brett Sokolow, have gained national
attention for their male-inclusive approach to discussions about sexual
assault and alcohol use.
The two speakers also will offer a faculty
and staff training session at 3 p.m. Sept. 4 in the Tamarack Room of
Davies Center and a student leader training
session at 5 p.m. in Schofield Auditorium. Full
story.
UW-Eau Claire School of Nursing
receives oxygen monitoring equipment
The clinical skills laboratory for nurses at
the UW-Eau Claire School of Nursing received state-of-the-art oxygen
monitoring equipment and additional educational resources valued at
more than $5,000 from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
and the American Organization of Nurse Executives.
Pulse oximeters are routinely used in critical care units and increasingly
in many other patient-care areas. Pulse oximeters offer a cost-effective
way to measure a patient’s heart rate and the amount of oxygen
in the blood non-invasively, that is, without needing to pierce the
skin.
" The pulse oximeter is a very important assessment tool for nurses
and it is very fortunate that our students will be able to use this
equipment to understand oxygen monitoring in a school laboratory,”
said Michaelene Mirr Jansen, the UW-Eau Claire professor of adult health
nursing who applied for the grant. “The students also will be
able to take this equipment on home visits or other clinical settings
to accurately assess their client’s oxygen status. In this time
of budget constraints, we are very appreciative of the generosity of
Nellcor, AACN and AONE to provide expensive monitoring equipment.”
Full
story.
Music and theatre arts department
offers preparatory arts music program
UW-Eau Claire's Preparatory Arts Music Program offers lessons in piano,
voice, brass instruments and woodwind instruments for children and adults
in the Chippewa Valley. Suzuki Strings lessons for children ages 4 and
older also are being offered.
The music and theatre arts
department is sponsoring the programs in cooperation with Continuing
Education/Extension. More information on Suzuki
Strings or the other
music programs can be found online.
 United
Way campaign to kick off this week
The UW-Eau Claire United Way campaign committee
invites faculty, staff and students to participate in this year's United
Way campaign kickoff by contributing school supplies to be distributed
to local school children.
Donations can be dropped off Sept.
5-12 in barrels located in the west lobby
of Davies Center (across from the Blugold Card office), in the Haas
Fine Arts Center lobby or on the main floor of Hilltop Center. Backpacks
are needed most, but all new or like-new school supplies, hats and mittens
are welcome.
Supplies will be distributed
to the Eau Claire YMCA, ARC of Eau Claire, the Children's Service Society,
the Salvation Army, the Chippewa Valley Free Clinic, Big Brothers/Big
Sisters of Northwest Wisconsin, the American Red Cross, Bolton Refuge
House and the Family Resource Center. For more information, contact
Barb Bowers in Human Resources
at bowersba@uwec.edu or 836-3871.
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