Newsletter of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) FALL 2013 VOL. 45 NO. 3

INDEPENDENT INSIGHTS WAICU Paper or plastic? In every grocery checkout line, the formerly were called libraries. Libraries, AlvernoAlverno College Bellin College baggers ask, “paper or plastic?” Unless we are too, collect and transmit massive amounts Beloit College organized enough to bring our own carriers of information to large numbers of users, Cardinal Stritch University Cardinal Stritch University or coordinated enough to juggle multiple whether formally enrolled in an institution Carroll University items in our arms, these are the choices. or not, for free. The parallels are interesting. CarthageCarthage College ColumbiaConcordia College University of Nursing When it comes to education, commentators No matter how open, neither MOOCs nor ConcordiaEdgewood University College Wisconsin and critics frequently, and vehemently, libraries are ultimately free. Both librarians LakelandEdgewood CollegeCollege suggest there are only two choices, “paper or and faculty need to be able to support LawrenceLakeland University College digital?” Or, “traditional or technologically themselves and their families. Both WAICU LawrenceMarian University University mediated?” and the UW spend tens of millions of dollars MarquetteMarian University University The popular news media treatment of on technology. WAICU itself operates what Institute of Art & Design Medical College of Wisconsin MOOCs—Massive Open Online Courses— I believe to be one of the most expansive Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design has gone through an interesting cycle. technology consortia in the United States. Mount Mary College Milwaukee School of Engineering MOOCs were first seen as revolutionizing Two equally significant parallels between Northland College education and the harbinger of the ultimate MOOCs and libraries are the importance NorthlandRipon College College St. RiponNorbert College College extinction of colleges and universities. Now, of applying critical reasoning and analysis SilverSt. Norbert Lake CollegeCollege gradually, there has been a reaction. I read to the “massive” amount of information Silver LakeViterbo College University of the Holy Family a comment on MOOCs the other day which available. Several years ago, I was listening to WisconsinViterbo Lutheran University College suggested they have always existed, but a radio call-in program while driving across Wisconsin Lutheran College continued on page 7 New website for students launched WAICU’s student access programming programs of study under 16 broad is designed to be a “one stop shop” categories so students and counselors for potential students and for school can focus on areas of interest without counselors. Wisconsin Private College having to know the precise name of Week, WAICU School Counselor the major at a particular college or Workshops, the Guide to Admission and university. Financial Aid, college fairs, and high school Along with financial aid college nights are all integral components of information, advice on applying for our student access programming. WAICU college and for financial aid, and is proud to unveil its revamped—fully information on college entrance redesigned and renamed—student access requirements and on careers, the new website, WisconsinsPrivateColleges. The website also includes information redesign incorporates features counselors, specifically developed for school students, and parents told WAICU were essential for helping in counselors. School counselors will also find online links to resources their college search. For example, students interested in contacting provided by WAICU, like the College Visit Opportunities and Quick multiple WAICU members can enter their information once and it Facts publications. immediately goes to those colleges. The most important change is a WisconsinsPrivateColleges.org reflects the unique character of more robust feature to help students and counselors “find the right each WAICU member by using content, images, and multimedia fit” by matching students’ interests with college majors and more. resources from WAICU members’ own web pages. The new search tool organizes hundreds of individual majors and To learn more, visit WisconsinsPrivateColleges.org. COUNSELOR NEWS & NOTES The 2014 WAICU Guide to Admission and Financial Aid is on its way to counselors and students

The annual WAICU Guide to Admission and Financial Aid is designed by and for school counselors and the students they serve. At the request of middle school and high school counselors, WAICU also provides a large poster highlighting major areas of study and the dates for Private College Week. Demand for the Guide is burgeoning. Copies of the 2014 WAICU Guide have now been shipped to counselors, schools, and libraries. If you would like additional copies (at no charge), please call the WAICU Student Access Center at 1-800-4-DEGREE or e-mail at [email protected]. In our tradition of continuous improvement, this fall WAICU will be collecting critical information from key audiences on the Guide and other TheThe WAICU 2014 student access publications. If you would like to share your thoughts, please GuGuide to Admission contact Molly Vidal, WAICU director of outreach, at [email protected].  anand Financial Aid iiss shipping now! CCall WAICU at 11-800-4-DEGREE Drop by the WAICU table at the tto place your Wisconsin Education Fairs oorders! COUNSELOR WORKSHOP DATES WAICU will once again be represented at this year’s Wisconsin Education Fairs. Be sure to stop at the WAICU table to learn about how private, nonprofit 2013-2014 WAICU colleges make higher education affordable and accessible. School Counselor 2013 Wisconsin Education Fairs Workshops Superior/UW-Superior - September 16, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Ashland/Northland College - September 17, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Minocqua/Lakeland High School - September 18, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. No charge to attend Wausau/UW-Marathon - September 18, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. September 19, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Monday, October 14, 2013 Wisconsin Rapids/Mid-State Technical College - September 20, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Wisconsin Lutheran College, Fond du Lac/Marian University - September 23, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Milwaukee Menasha/UW-Fox Valley - September 23, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Cleveland/Lakeshore Technical College - September 24, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Beloit College, Beloit Mequon/Concordia University - September 24, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Monday, October 21, 2013 Oshkosh/UW-Oshkosh - September 25, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. St. Norbert College, De Pere DePere/St. Norbert College - September 25, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Tues., October 22, 2013 September 26, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Metropolis Resort Marinette/UW Marinette - September 27, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Eau Claire, WI Kenosha/UW-Parkside - September 30, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 12, 2014 New Berlin/New Berlin West High School - September 30, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Holiday Inn Delavan/Delavan-Darien High School - October 1, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Rolling Meadows, IL Franklin/Franklin High School - October 1, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Milwaukee/Mount Mary University - October 2, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Workshops include continental Hartland/Arrowhead High School - October 2, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. breakfast, breakout sessions with Beloit/Beloit Memorial High School - October 3, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. representatives from WAICU- Richland Center/UW Richland - October 4, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. member colleges and universities, Rice Lake/UW-Barron County - October 7, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. a presentation by staff of the La Crosse/Expo Center - October 8, 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. WAICU Student Access Center, Eau Claire/UW-Eau Claire - October 8, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. and lunch. The Wisconsin October 9, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. workshops also include a tour of Sun Prairie/Sun Prairie High School - October 10, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. the host campus. Register for the October 10, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. fall workshops now at waicu. Platteville/UW-Platteville - October 11, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. org/counselors.

2 FALL 2013 THE WISCONSIN INDEPENDENT MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS ALL WAICU MEMBERS FEATURED IN A REGULAR ROTATION Science advances through the Program in Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell men tor-student partnership Biology at MCW, is a lead investigator for a $9 million MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN NIH grant to use stem cells to study the genetics of Max Cayo is studying to be a future cardiovascular disease. physician-scientist, but already he is a Cayo’s grant is to productive researcher. While pursuing his investigate the use of stem PhD in the Medical College of Wisconsin’s cell-derived liver cells to (MCW) Graduate School of Biomedical study a common, inherited Sciences, Cayo accomplished the rare disorder named familial feat of obtaining a National Institutes of hypercholesterolemia, Health (NIH) grant as a student, and with which is marked by his mentor, Stephen Duncan, Ph.D., is elevated LDL cholesterol. A mentor-student partnership at the Medical College of Wisconsin advancing translational research to improve The disease affects about will advance science. treatments for cardiovascular diseases. one in every 500 people. Cayo is working toward a dual MD-Ph.D. By applying techniques disease characteristics as the patient’s actual in MCW’s Medical Scientist Training honed in the lab, Cayo can collect a small liver cells. This would allow researchers Program. He brings a background in sample of skin cells from a patient with to test the effectiveness of new drugs medicine, cell biology and drug discovery to hypercholesterolemia and transform the cells and therapies on liver tissue in the lab, the laboratory of Dr. Duncan, a nationally into “induced pluripotent stem cells,” which, eventually leading to improved treatments recognized innovator in stem cell and in turn, have the potential to become any for familial hypercholesterolemia. developmental biology. Dr. Duncan, the type of cell in the body. The research team By sharing his expertise, Dr. Duncan is Marcus Professor of Human and Molecular then “influences” the stem cells to develop helping Cayo advance his research while Genetics; Professor of Cell Biology, into liver cells. Cayo hypothesizes that preparing him for a promising future as a Neurobiology, and Anatomy; and Director of these induced liver cells will carry the same scientist and physician. 

New science center to multiply opportunities for innovative science education classroom overlooking Lake Michigan. “The lake is symbolic Carthage College has unveiled plans for of the Division of the a new science center that will be a catalyst Natural Science’s emphasis for innovative science education. The center on interdisciplinary, grand also will advance the college’s commitment challenges in science: to greater research experiences for energy, freshwater, the undergraduates—the kind usually reserved brain, the cosmos, climate for graduate students. change,” said professor The new science center will increase Kevin Crosby, chair of on-campus classroom and laboratory space the division. “This new by 40 percent, provide state-of-the-art building provides us with facilities for study in the natural sciences, a way to re-envision our and provide new ways for students and curriculum around these faculty to collaborate on the forefront of A rendering of the new science center at Carthage College societal challenges.” research. Groundbreaking is scheduled for Woodward. “With this new construction, The architect is Stantec, spring 2014. Carthage will have one of the most up-to- a firm known internationally for its science The $40 million project includes a major date, advanced, and attractive undergraduate buildings and student centers in higher renovation of the 70,000-square-foot David science buildings in America. The future education. The student-focused building will A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Natural and of undergraduate science education is have collaborative learning areas on every Social Sciences and a new 35,000-square- being created right here and right now at floor, complete with frosted glass surfaces foot wing to the south and east. Carthage.” for sketching out ideas as inspiration strikes. “Our investment in undergraduate The new science center will embrace A glass-walled learning commons will serve research and education in the sciences is one its lakeside location with soaring views in as a tutoring center, and faculty offices will of our strongest institutional commitments,” the new east wing and an outdoor stone surround open, social spaces.  said Carthage president Gregory S.

THE WISCONSIN INDEPENDENT FALL 2013 3 MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS Forty years of Abilities

ALVERNO COLLEGE communicate about bigger issues. The ultimate mastery of abilities is done within collaboration also strengthens the student- the context of mastery of subject matter This year, celebrates faculty connection. or content, which takes the learning 40 years of its continually growing At Alverno, the development and process from mere knowledge to actual and groundbreaking abilities-based application. In so doing, students enter curriculum. It took extraordinary the workforce with the ability to turn vision, years of hard work, and complex ideas into action, thoughts into practice, collaboration and consultation to and beliefs into behavior. develop the curriculum implemented The specific abilities identified by during the 1973-74 academic year. Alverno faculty as central to the liberal Since that time, the curriculum—which arts learning experience and professional was always intended to evolve and education are: Communication, Social improve over time—has undergone 13 Interaction, Valuing in Decision-making, revisions. Developing a Global Perspective, An important part of Alverno’s Effective Citizenship, Analysis, Aesthetic history is that the educational Engagement, and Problem-solving. innovation was faculty-driven—as Alverno is now joined by a growing it is to this day. This committment Implemented 40 years ago, the ability-based list of educational institutions that resulted in the integration of many curriculum at Alverno College redefines education, are redefining education in terms of perspectives and fields of knowledge—a preparing students for effectiveness at work, at abilities needed for effectiveness at complex matrix of learning outcomes home, and in the broader community. These eight work, at home, and in the broader within programs and courses, and even abilities were identified as key to the liberal arts community. However, Alverno’s abilities across disciplines. This collaboration focus is always a work in progress, and learning experience and professional education. establishes a common language across Alverno is a leader in more than just disciplinary teams from which they can chronology. 

Summer course offers century, and about how that cross-cultural collaboration affects the way the west looks at women and interacts with the Middle East.” BELOIT COLLEGE Each Beloit student was paired with two Egyptian Imagine trying to create a theatre students from Cairo, with production from scratch—concept, script- whom they discussed the writing, staging, blocking, producing— course readings via email but throw in an intercontinental, cross- and Skype. Beloit students cultural collaboration. performed “rough drafts,” Those were some of the challenges or a “staged reading” of faced this summer by associate professor their theatrical pieces at the of Theatre Arts Amy Sarno and the course’s end in June. students in her Beloit Blocks course. This The next step is for Sarno is the second year that Beloit College has to travel to Egypt this fall on offered its students the opportunity to Students participating in the summer class at Beloit a Fulbright and work with earn a unit of credit and deeply explore a Basiouny’s students in Cairo. topic by taking one of several intensive, After that? three-week courses offered in a block the Beloit students in Sarno’s class read The professors are format. literature written by women traveling in hoping to bring the Beloit students Sarno developed the class in Egypt, articles about Islam, corseting, to Egypt over winter break to stage a partnership with an Egyptian colleague veiling, women’s rights movements collaborative performance and to bring and friend, assistant professor of Theatre past and present, and Edward Said’s the Egyptian students to Beloit in the Arts, Dalia Basiouny, of The American Orientalism. Sarno says the readings spring of 2014.  University in Cairo. fostered discussions about “how the west Throughout their eight-week course, looks at the east during the early 20th

4 FALL 2013 THE WISCONSIN INDEPENDENT MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS Students play key role in series on mental health

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY Bergen, dean of the Diederich College of the series, which was published in the Communication. Journal Sentinel in May. Two groups of Marquette Four additional students created University students from the J. two documentaries. One was based in William and Mary Diederich College Milwaukee and examined a man’s struggle of Communication teamed with dealing with a family member who was Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter diagnosed with schizophrenia and later Meg Kissinger to produce the took his own life. The second documen- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel series on tary provides a contemporary story of how mental health, “Chronic crisis: A a Geel, Belgium, family took adults with system that doesn’t heal.” Working as mental illness into their home. reporters and documentary filmmak- Bergen praised Kissinger, a 2009 ers, the students helped to examine Pulitzer Prize finalist for investigative Milwaukee County’s mental health reporting, for enabling the students to system and related efforts in Belgium. immerse themselves in the community to The Journal Sentinel series explores make a difference. the challenges Milwaukee County of- Alexandra Whittaker, a junior jour- ficials have in caring for the mentally nalism major from Naperville, Illinois, ill and emphasized the need to focus more Sixteen Marquette students worked in teamed with a classmate to interview a on continual care. teams of two to produce audio interviews Milwaukee-area mental-health advocate. “There is no better way for our stu- and photographs of various field profes- “This project is really in line with dents to gain experience than to work side sionals, and to examine potential solu- Marquette’s philosophy to do real journal- by side with one of the nation’s top re- tions to Milwaukee County’s mental health ism and to go out into the community to porters on in-depth features that directly needs. In addition, six students worked apply your skills in a totally new way,” impact our community,” said Dr. Lori with Kissinger as research assistants for Whittaker said. 

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of pharmacology with MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING medication administration The Milwaukee School of Engineering in four state-of-the-art (MSOE) has opened its new Ruehlow laboratories. These skills Nursing Complex. The complex is a $3 prepare sophomores for their million, 25,000 square-foot innovative first clinical experience with and experiential learning center for the real patients. MSOE School of Nursing. MSOE Regent A home care lab is set up Kathleen Ruehlow, an alumna of the like a handicap accessible Milwaukee County General Hospital studio apartment. Students School of Nursing (MCGHSN), is the play the role of the patient major supporter of the project. MCGHSN and teach one another how merged into MSOE in 1995. to maneuver within the The new complex features four Students in the Ruehlow Nursing Complex at MSOE take home using adaptive devices simulated hospital rooms connected by a advantage of the direct linnkage of classrooms and simulation such as wheelchairs, walkers central nurses station—an arrangement rooms. and other, similar devices, similar to a hospital intensive care unit. and receive a simulation of The rooms feature call lights for the of two classrooms with two simulation what their patients experience. patients, who are high-fidelity manikins. rooms. Students learn theoretical concepts “Having the environment and floor The life-like manikins are driven by in class and can immediately turn to the layout simulate what we’ll experience in computer software that enables them to back of the classroom where the opened the clinical setting really enhances our breathe, cough, talk or change conditions wall allows them to apply what they have learning and helps to optimally prepare based on what nursing professors have just learned to the care of a “patient” in us for when we practice on our own,” said programmed. the simulated hospital. MSOE nursing student Megan Syversen. A unique feature of the Ruehlow Students learn health assessment MSOE nursing graduates enjoy a 100 Nursing Complex is the direct linkage skills and about active integration percent placement rate. 

THE WISCONSIN INDEPENDENT FALL 2013 5 MEMBER AND WAICU HIGHLIGHTS Phase One of research and environmental lab complete analyzes samples from regional waters for certification,” said laboratory supervisor and NORTHLAND COLLEGE quality monitoring and student research environmental chemist Chris McNerney. projects and provides beach monitoring The next step will be a state certification Northland College and its Sigurd Olson bacteria analysis for Ashland County and the that will allow ARELab to test for nutrients, Environmental Institute (SOEI) have Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of phosphorous and nitrogen, as well as other announced the completion of phase one of Chippewa Indians. important water quality measurements like its research and environmental laboratory. “This is the very first step in the world of total suspended solids and chlorophyll-a. “This is a very important Then comes national accreditation. development for the College Northland students will run the lab and the Institute,” said Randy on a day-to-day basis. “This is in line Lehr, laboratory director and Bro with Northland College’s strategic plan,” professor of sustainable regional McNerney said. “This is a literal learning development at SOEI. “I am laboratory—we’re getting students ready to excited about the possibilities go out into the real world.” for students and outreach to the Before working in the lab, students region that now lie before us.” undergo a rigorous training program. “It’s The Applied Research and step-by-step for students and certification Environmental Laboratory insures that quality control and quality (ARELab) is part of Northland’s assurance procedures are in place,” Ecological Solutions Initiative, McNerney said. a new program working to While students are gaining experience, promote water quality and the laboratory also will provide services ecosystem health in the region Chris McNerney, laboratory supervisor and environmental to the northern region not only for The ARELab has achieved chemist at the newly-created Applied Research and environmental and scientific reasons, but certification to conduct bacteria Environmental Laboratory (ARELab) at Northland College, trains also for landowners who want their soil or sample analysis. The laboratory student Dylan Hudson to use new scientific equipment. well tested. 

Internal research grant recipients announced and resources and we’re looking CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN forward to collaborating with Concordia University Wisconsin others to build southeast recently announced seven internal Wisconsin as a pharmaceutical research grants. The research will be drug discovery and development performed by various Concordia faculty hub,” said Concordia School of members from different departments. Pharmacy professor Dr. Daniel The research projects are highly Sem. interdisciplinary and include faculty Dr. Sem is one of the grant who are clinicians, scientists, and recipients and is currently other scholars at varying stages of their researching the effects of the nasal careers. The work performed through delivery of a drug used to treat these grants reinforces Concordia’s Pharmacy lab at Concordia University Wisconsin schizophrenia. commitment to research that addresses Other recipients of the recent serious problems and issues in the end-of-life communication, to a zebrafish CIRG include: Dr. Dale Gerke, assistant community and world. model of human stress and anxiety professor of Physical Therapy; Dr. Robert “The Concordia Internal Research responses, the research is a must for the Burlage, professor in the School of Grants, or CIRG, aim to promote university. These grants help the broader Pharmacy; Dr. Michael Pickart, associate research on campus, enhance faculty community recognize the contributions professor in the School of Pharmacy; development, and provide seed funds to the faculty are making to their respective Dr. Mary Lou Kopp, assistant professor develop projects to compete for external fields of study and understand the in the School of Nursing; Dr. Uvidelio funding,” said Dr. Joe McGraw, chair of cutting edge research in which many Castillo, visiting assistant professor in the Internal Research Grant Committee. faculty members are involved. the School of Pharmacy; and Dr. Aaron From investigating birth defects in the “The university has assembled an Miller, assistant professor of Physiology. spine to effective teaching strategies for incredibly talented group of faculty 

6 FALL 2013 THE WISCONSIN INDEPENDENT Paper or plastic? continued from page 1 WAICU BULLETIN BOARD

Wisconsin. A teacher on the program iN MEMORIAM was bubbling with enthusiasm because, • Curtis Tarr, who served as president from 1963-69, died June 21, with all of the modern digital resources, 2013, at his home in Walnut Creek, Calif. He was 88. Tarr led the college during one of the students could go online and “learn most significant events in Lawrence’s history—the consolidation with the all-women’s Milwaukee exactly what Lincoln did after the Civil Downer College in 1964. War.” I waited for the teacher, the host/ • Dr. Bill Medland, former president of , died August 17, 2013. Dr. Medland moderator, or for a listener to call in to was the longest serving president in the history of Viterbo, holding the post from 1991–2006. remind everyone that Lincoln was of During the 15 years of the Medland administration, Viterbo transformed from a college to a course dead after the Civil War. Indeed, university. The Viterbo community generated yearly record enrollment, including annual increases you probably could go online and learn in undergraduate and graduate degree recipients, generated new master degrees in business, about Lincoln’s—and Elvis’s—postmortem nursing, and servant leadership, and six undergraduate degrees as well as experienced increases activities, but my point is that, as the in fundraising and the annual budget. “ information flow” has become the • Mark Torinus, former president of the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges (WFIC) “information avalanche,” the need for died on August 21, 2013, at age 60. WFIC merged with WAICU in 2011 after his retirement. He critical thinking is more important than was most proud of his work with the College Readiness 21 program. ever. Teaching worthy of the name is KUDOS about so much more than conveying • Raechelle Clemmons, vice president and chief information officer at St. Norbert College, was information. appointed to the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) advisory board Technology is a valuable tool for effective July 1. NITLE works with more than 150 nonprofit colleges, universities and educational teaching and for learning—accelerating organizations across the country. both the collection of information and • The Center for Research Libraries, an international consortium of 260 university, college, the speed and complexity of the analyses and independent research libraries supporting advanced research and teaching, has named of this information. Knowledge is not Marquette University dean of university libraries Janice Welburn as secretary of its board of wisdom, but knowledge is a precursor to directors. wisdom. Wisconsin’s private, nonprofit • Dr. Pam Pinahs-Schultz, professor of physical education at Carroll University, has been colleges and universities were the first nominated to serve on the Academy on Persistence and Completion (APC), a national committee higher education institutions in the state focused on retention and graduation of the nation’s college and university students. to put complete degree programs online • Arches, Mount Mary University’s student newspaper, has been named a finalist for the and to offer flexible degree programs on a Associate College Press 2013 Pacemaker award. schedule and in places needed by working • MSOE plans to improve a building downtown and use the building for an apartment-style adults. residence. But back to my original question, • Sierra Magazine has named Lawrence University and Northland College as two of the “paper or digital?” Students and school “greenest” colleges in the nation. In compiling its ranking, Sierra considered goals and counselors across Wisconsin have told achievements in eleven categories: co-curricular, energy supply, food, innovation, planning, us they do not see this as a matter purchasing, transportation, waste management, financial investments, water management, and of “either/or, but rather of both.” instruction/research. WAICU’s new student access website, • Lakeland College junior men’s basketball player Justin Ward of Wisconsin Dells has been WisconsinsPrivateColleges.org (page 1) honored as a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court and our Guide to Admission and Financial for the 2012-13 school year. Aid, published annually since 1978 • has been selected as a grant recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson (page 2), have both experienced growing Foundation, and will receive $100,000 to support students in the Accelerated Bachelor of popularity and increasing usage over the Science in Nursing program who are traditionally underrepresented in the field of nursing and are years. The reason—I think—is that the pursuing second careers in the field. users, and not clichés or fads, are driving • Ripon College professor of communication Jody Roy has signed a movie option agreement the design process. with East Gate Entertainment for her book Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Thanks to all of you....Now about Meeink Story as told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D. The author and book were featured in The Wisconsin Elvis? Independent in the Summer 2010 issue. • Michael Kamenski, assistant professor of music at Alverno College, has been honored with Sincerely, a 2013 Vatican II Award for Distinguished Service for outstanding contributions to the church and society. The awards, established in 1991, recognize men, women, and young adults who exemplify the Catholic Church’s vision set forth in the Second Vatican Council. • Marquette University engineering professor Dr. Chung Hoon Lee was recently named one of the 2013 Way Klingler Young Scholar Award recipients. • Dr. Ritu Tannan, assistant professor of information technology at Marian University, will serve as a co-chair of the technology and innovations management track for the Milwaukee Academy Rolf Wegenke, Ph.D. of Management conference in October. WAICU President continued on page 8

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