MAILED: June 20, 2001
EAU CLAIRE - A cooperative
transfer agreement between the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the UW
Colleges in American Indian studies is now in effect.
UW-Eau Claire Provost Ronald Satz and UW Colleges Provost
Margaret Cleek recently signed the agreement, which allows UW Colleges students
who have been accepted through the Guaranteed Transfer Program to take American
Indian studies courses on their home campuses and make a seamless transfer into
UW-Eau Claire’s American Indian studies baccalaureate program. The Guaranteed
Transfer Program enables students to begin their education as freshmen at one of
the UW Colleges local campuses and be guaranteed admission to a UW System
institution as a junior.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for UW Colleges
students interested in American Indian studies to begin taking classes at their
local campus and then smoothly transfer to UW-Eau Claire’s excellent
program,” Cleek said.
According to the transfer agreement, students will be
able to take 12 to 15 credits of American Indian studies coursework on their
home college campus. Some of these credits may be taken through distance
education offerings. Upon transfer, students will complete a 36-credit bachelor
of arts or bachelor of science degree or a 24-credit minor in American Indian
studies.
The impetus for the agreement resulted from a discussion
that took place at the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity, “Symposium
on American Indian Studies and Act 31,” held on the UW-Fond du Lac campus in
April 1999.
UW-Eau Claire American Indian Studies Director Lawrence
Martin met with UW Colleges professors Roger Wall from political science,
Carolyn Polodna from business and economics, and William Griffiths from the art
department to discuss the development of an arrangement that would take
advantage of both the expertise in American Indian studies throughout the UW
Colleges and the degree program in American Indian Studies at UW-Eau Claire.
As a result, a two-day program development workshop,
funded by the Institute for Race and Ethnicity, was held the next year on the
UW-Eau Claire campus. Interested faculty from the UW Colleges met with faculty
from UW-Eau Claire’s American Indian studies program to develop a set of
introductory courses to be offered at the Colleges. These courses parallel the
beginning courses at UW-Eau Claire.
Individuals interested in this opportunity may contact
Wall at UW-Fond du Lac (920) 929-3654, or by e-mail, rwall@uwc.edu; or Martin,
at the Center for American Indian Studies, UW-Eau Claire, (715) 836-3243 or by
e-mail, martinlt@uwec.edu.
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JW
[Administrative Offices]
[News Bureau]
Janice B. Wisner
UW-Eau Claire News Bureau
Schofield 201
(715) 836-4741
newsbur@uwec.edu
Updated: June 20, 2001
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