THEWisconsin INDEPENDENT Fall 2007 Newsletter of the Association of Independent and (WAICU) Vol. 39 No. 3

An IT collaboration WAICU members play key role “that will never on Campus Safety Task Force work”

Editor's note: In lieu of our regular President’s Letter, we are featuring an article written by WAICU president Dr. Rolf Wegenke that appeared in the March 2007 issue of Business

Officer, a publication of the National Assistance ce of Justice Association of and fi Business Officers (NACUBO). Reprinted with permission.

The twenty private institutions of higher education comprising the

Wisconsin Association of Independent Of Wisconsin Courtesy of Colleges and Universities (WAICU) are committed to an ambitious Governor Doyle convened the State Task Force on Campus Safety in June, following the tragic project to control college costs by events at Virginia Tech University last spring. The task force has just issued its interim report. performing their administrative Following the tragic mass shooting at Virginia Tech University in April, Governor functions on a collaborative basis. The Doyle launched a statewide Task Force on Campus Safety. Representatives from Congressional report, The College WAICU-member colleges and universities are playing a key role on the task force. Cost Crisis, has called WAICU’s At the task force’s kickoff meeting in June, Maggie Balistreri-Clarke, vice president efforts “transformative.” One of the for student development and dean of students at in Madison, top priorities was for the association represented WAICU on a three-sector panel that laid out the parameters and context for to help members select, purchase, the work to be done. Dr. Balistreri-Clarke emphasized the importance of developing implement, and maintain a common a comprehensive preventive approach to campus safety that goes beyond a law Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) enforcement model to focus on “prevention, intervention, response, and recovery.” The system. As we began the ERP selection nature of campus security issues and threats to individual safety are likely to reflect the process, I was invited to speak at a local community in which a college or university is located, and Dr. Balistreri-Clarke national meeting. When the meeting urged the task force to identify best practices that eliminate barriers to communication ran overtime, the moderator said, “In between campus and community resources. the interest of time, we are going to At an early August task force public summit in Eau Claire, WAICU members’ active skip Rolf’s presentation because we all involvement in task force issues was again apparent. The WAICU Counselors Group know this project will never work.” submitted a presentation alerting task force members to emerging trends in student Despite this negative prediction, mental health, including the need for campus counseling centers to work with outside we organized the WAICU Educational resources in making complex student mental health assessments; the increasingly Technology Consortium (WAICU challenging interaction between federal privacy laws, on the one hand, and disclosure of ETC) as an continued on page 7 continued on page 5

Alverno College • • Cardinal Stritch University • Carroll College • Concordia University • Edgewood College • Lakeland College • Marian College • Institute of Art & Design • Milwaukee School of Engineering Mount Mary College • Northland College • Ripon College • St. Norbert College Silver Lake College • • Wisconsin Lutheran College THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Fall 2007 Page 2 MSOE students work with NASA researchers Gifts and Grants yourself away from thinking about things that would work here on earth. We’re thinking about the conditions on Mount Mary College was awarded the moon, from the vacuum, to lower $10,000 from the Bradley Foundation temperature and gravity. It’s always for the college’s Midtown Campus thinking outside the box,” Tim added. Program. Mount Mary also received A self-sustaining power plant is $36,000 from the Corporation for necessary for a continuously inhabited National and Community Service lunar base to exist. Because a moon base (AmeriCorps) to provide stipends would likely be located at one of the for graduate students in the Urban lunar poles, the group explored using a Education Fellows Program. The heat engine to generate electrical power. Rose Monaghan Charitable Trust gave Before MSOE’s senior design show, Mike This technology would make the most of $33,000 to Mount Mary’s James L. McCambridge, Jeff Reiter, and Tim Swets the huge temperature variation between Monaghan Endowed Scholarship Fund, prepared their team’s prototype of a lunar self- and the Forest County Potawatomi sustaining power plant for display. the deep, perpetually shaded craters (such as Peary near the North Pole or Community Foundation granted “Coming out of high school, I never Shackleton in the south) and the rims, Mount Mary $5,000 to support the would have guessed that within four which receive direct sunlight. NEW Leadership Wisconsin Program years I would be invited to a NASA “With solar power you collect sunlight within the Women’s Leadership research facility,” said Tim Swets. and use an electrode reaction to generate Institute … St. Norbert College has But last spring Tim and six fellow electricity,” explained MSOE team received a $347,834 grant from the mechanical engineering students at member Jeff Reiter, a native of Austin, U.S. Department of Education to Milwaukee School of Engineering Texas. “Basically, what we’re doing continue its Upward Bound program (MSOE) met with engineers at Marshall is collecting and focusing the thermal helping high school students achieve Space Flight Center in Huntsville, energy from the sun to heat up a pipe a college education. St. Norbert has Alabama., after their group project filled with liquid to boil it.” also received a $500,000 grant from the caught the space agency’s attention. The main benefit is the efficiency; National Science Foundation supporting “When I was in high school, I would solar power yields only about 10-to- scholarships for math and computer have laughed at somebody who said that 15 percent of usable energy, while the science studies, $242,570 from the would be me in three or four years,” said thermal power system could yield more State of Wisconsin to fund a partnership Tim, who is from Walworth, Wisconsin. than 40 percent. supporting math instruction in Green Beyond the excitement of having met The team and their professor Bay area schools, and $100,000 NASA engineers, team member Chris collaborated throughout their senior year, from the William Randolph Hearst Edwards, from Mercer, Wisconsin, saw taking what they learned in the classroom Foundations to support scholarships the practical side of the trip as well. “It and labs and putting it into practice. for underserved and underrepresented gave us a chance to get our names into The final project included the prototype, populations … The Lynde & Harry the engineering community on a rather along with various descriptions of next Bradley Foundation has granted large-scale project.” steps and benefits of different liquids $300,000 to Marquette University Their project, a thermal power plant to heat, such as carbon monoxide and in support of the Institute for the that could help humans live on the moon, dioxide or propane. Transformation of Learning, and the was not without its share of challenges Tim summed up the experience: Marquette University Law School due to its uniqueness. “Five or ten years from now, if they’re has received a $30 million gift from “No one has ever done this before. putting this thing up there, we can all Joseph Zilber … MSOE’s Center for There is no base on the moon. There say, ‘I worked on that my senior year of BioMolecular Modeling received a is no power plant. You have to get college.’”™ $745,000, five-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to disseminate two high school programs The new WAICU nationally, and MSOE’s Upward Bound 2008 Guide to Note: In order to highlight all twenty program was re-funded for five years Admissions and of Wisconsin’s private colleges and by the U.S. Department of Education Financial Aid was universities, The Wisconsin Independent … Alverno College received $396,000 follows a regular rotation featuring six mailed in August. from the Joyce Foundation to nurture or seven colleges in each quarterly issue. Did you receive school leadership in the Milwaukee yours? If not, call Each college or university appears in every third issue. Public Schools.™ 1-800-4-DEGREE. THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Fall 2007 Page 3 Marquette’s College of Engineering transforms future workforce

• building a new facility, the Discov- disciplines to develop low-cost, effi cient ery Learning Complex, that will house and sustainable solutions to problems state-of-the-art labs, provide space for plaguing communities around the world. regional and national conferences, and “As we educate innovative engineers foster cutting-edge research. at Marquette, we want to produce lead- “We need to educate students for a ers who make a difference to mankind lifelong career in engineering,” says Jas- because of their work. It is our intent kolski. “What our engineers are trained that because of our discovery learning for today may be obsolete a few years focus, steeped in the ethics of moral and down the road…so they need to know social justice leadership, our contribution how to be adaptable and more entrepre- to industry is indeed leaders who make a neurial.” Today that means understand- difference,” says Jaskolski. Marquette engineering students learn to be ing that there are many answers to one Marquette’s College of Engineer- adaptable and entrepreneurial. problem. ing received a signifi cant boost toward In fi nding better ways to solve prob- realizing Jaskolski’s vision over the past Since arriving as dean in 2003, Dr. lems, students will work together with year. In December 2006, a $25 million Stan Jaskolski has set out to change the faculty in three “cluster” areas identifi ed anonymous gift was made to enable the way tomorrow’s engineers are educated. as issues facing the world now and into transformation of engineering education He wants to transform Marquette’s Col- the foreseeable future: sustainable engi- at Marquette. The donors also promised lege of Engineering and prepare a 21st neering, neurosystems, and safety and to give $1 million a year in perpetuity century workforce by: security. Jaskolski notes that hands-on if they feel a transformation has taken • attracting more students to engineer- learning not only enhances the engineer- place. Shortly after the anonymous ing by offering endowed scholarships; ing curriculum but also emphasizes Mar- gift, Jim and Kelly McShane, Marquette • hiring top faculty who offer aca- quette’s mission of service to others. By alumni, donated $5 million to endow a demic and industry experience to foster participating in service learning, students faculty chair in construction engineering innovation among students; and work together from across engineering management.™

Northland gift supports business ethics and social responsibility

with Northland and the Ashland area, curriculum that emphasizes the college’s beginning with John C. Chapple, who environmental expertise and commitment served as a Northland trustee. Chapple’s to ethics with a strong business core. grandfather, John B. Chapple, was a The endowment comes at a crucial frequent guest lecturer on campus, and time, coinciding with the current was respected for his knowledge of restructuring of Northland’s academic Northern Wisconsin. John D. Chapple, the program. Not only will the endowment donor’s father, is an alumnus of Northland allow Northland to strengthen the business who graduated with the class of 1955. program and offer courses that focus on President of Hawkeye Investments, leadership and entrepreneurship, but it Chapple has followed the example set by will also allow the integration of business his family members and has been a part components for students in environmental John H. Chapple has endowed a Northland of Habitat for Humanity and the Fred majors. College chair in support of business ethics and Hutchinson Cancer Center. Northland College is an environmental social responsibility. President Karen Halbersleben said, liberal arts college located in Ashland, Northland College has received a $1.25 “This investment in Northland College near the shores of Lake Superior. The million endowment from John H. Chapple demonstrates the Chapple family’s college has been recognized as one of the to establish and endow the Chapple commitment to, and its belief in, this top colleges in the nation for science and Family Chair in Business Ethics and college. We are deeply honored to receive mathematics, as a model environmental Social Responsibility. An Ashland native, this very generous gift, which will expand campus for the Lake Superior Basin, and Chapple currently resides in Washington, the business program at Northland as one of Wisconsin’s true liberal arts and still maintains a strong bond with College.” colleges. Founded in 1892, Northland Northland College. The Chapple Family Professor will now enrolls 700 students from 38 states, The Chapple family has a long history be expected to develop and execute a Puerto Rico, and three countries.™ THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Fall 2007 Page 4 Beloit College physicist accompanies high school students to Iran year, he led the five top American high previously to Spain and Singapore. school students in physics to Isfahan, Winners receive medals, with about Iran, to compete against more than 300 six percent of the competitors winning of the best young physics minds in the gold; the U.S. is usually among the top world. In total, there were 135 leaders, ten countries. Last year, the team came in 327 contestants, 86 observers, and 17 second, bested only by China. visitors from 73 countries participating in The U.S. team is sponsored by the the event. American Physical Society and the “It was a once-in-a-lifetime American Association of Physics opportunity, and we want to build new Teachers. relationships there, not look upon them as The team, accompanied by Stanley negative,” says Professor Stanley. and Robert Shurtz, a physics teacher He sees no irony in Iran’s hosting the from The Hawken School in Gates Mills, Paul Stanley, Dobson Professor of best young physics minds in the world at Ohio, competed in the event July 11-21. Physics at Beloit College a time when there is a global focus on the The U.S. team tied for third in medals When it comes time to write that essay country’s nuclear development. won, after China and Russia, and came in this fall about “How I spent my summer “The site for these meetings is fifth on aggregate point total. vacation,” five U.S. high school students selected about a decade in advance and This year’s International Physics and a Beloit College professor are sure to the country needs to raise a great deal Olympiad was the 38th to have been held get some quizzical looks. of money to host this event. We hope since its debut in Warsaw in 1967. In Paul Stanley, Dobson Professor that people won’t play politics with the addition to Spain and Singapore, previous of Physics and chair of the physics remarkable achievements of these young hosts for the contests have been South department at Beloit College, spent people.” Korea, Indonesia, Turkey, the United the summer as the senior coach for the Stanley has helped to coach the team Kingdom, Italy, Iceland, and Canada, United States team competing in the 2007 for the past five years and has been among others. Future locations will International Physics Olympiad. This senior coach since 2005, taking the team include Vietnam, Mexico, and Croatia.™

Carthage undergrads get research lab experience through SURE

research has been presented at national strongly the drugs and large molecules conferences and has resulted in several interact and how fast the drugs rotate publications co-authored by students. when they are bound. Neal Sleszynski, associate professor Other projects have included of chemistry, says most Carthage natural generating ethanol from agricultural science graduates will work in industry waste, assessing salmon spawning or go on to graduate school. In either habitats, studying alternative methods of case, he adds, they will be expected to buckthorn removal, and detecting bacteria work in a laboratory setting with minimal growth inside pipes and tubing. supervision. “Our students can’t get Under supervision by biology a realistic idea of what their career is department chair Patrick Pfaffle, seniors going to be like without a research lab Amber Vogelman and Raja Banerjee Carthage students work closely with experience,” Professor Sleszynski says. sought to use the waste products of professors while conducting independent A better understanding of drug agriculture to generate ethanol rather than research in the SURE program. separation techniques, for example, foodstuffs. Through genetic engineering, Carthage College’s Summer may lead to the development of new they have altered bacteria to mass- Undergraduate Research Experience, or improved drug separations. Using produce proteins that may be used to SURE, allows students in natural sciences nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy break down biomass into a form from to work with professors on a research to study how these separations work at which ethanol may one day be made. topic during an eight-week period. the molecular level, 2007 graduate Keith “It’s a great thing to put on a resume,” Carthage provides a stipend, room and Pedersen and senior Stephanie Kingsbury says 2007 graduate Jennifer Hansen. board, and a research budget for 10-15 have focused on the interactions between “I can apply to graduate schools and students each summer who are chosen by drugs and large molecules used in the say that I have done fairly independent a faculty committee. In past years, SURE separation experiments to study how research work.” ™ THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Fall 2007 Page 5 Concordia’s Business Scholars program graduates its first class

Business Administration (MBA) degree in degree with an emphasis in corporate just four years. communications. McCarty, Ronsman, and Druckrey Part of the reason the three feel they are the first students to complete the were successful in the Business Scholars strenuous program, which requires program was that all of them had a jump students to take a minimum of 18 credits start on their degrees prior to entering per semester, enroll in four January winter Concordia in the fall of 2003. terms, and complete a career-related McCarty had 18 dual enrollment internship within four years. credits, Ronsman had 6 credits when According to Dr. William Ellis, dean she arrived, and Druckrey came with of the School of Business and Legal 9 credits, earning another 8 retroactive Studies, “This program is a unique credits in Spanish for starting at an opportunity, which is only offered to a intermediate level of Spanish in college. Kathryn Rousman, Heidi McCarty, and Brittany select group of outstanding, first-year According to Ellis, the tuition for Druckrey are the first graduates of Concordia's business majors who have maintained Concordia’s Business Scholars Program Business Scholars program excellent grade point averages in high is the same as regular undergraduate fees, Four years ago, people thought Heidi school (3.5) and have scored well on their saving a student in the program more McCarty of Arlington, Nebraska, Kathryn ACT (28) or SAT (1250) examinations.” than $14,000, a year’s worth of tuition, Ronsman of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and McCarty and Ronsman earned a by completing a five-year program in just Brittany Druckrey of Abrams, Wisconsin Bachelor of Science in accounting and four years. were on a mission impossible when they a Master of Business Administration After graduation, McCarty spent her enrolled in Concordia’s academically degree, while Druckrey earned a Bachelor summer at Ace Worldwide while studying accelerated Business Scholars program. of Science with a double major: business for her CPA. Ronsman has taken a job But last May, the three proved those management and international business, with a regional accounting firm, and naysayers wrong when they earned and a minor in Spanish along with a Druckrey is interviewing with a Fortune a bachelor’s degree and a Master of Master of Business Administration 500 company.™

Governor’s Task Force on Campus Safety continued from page 1 information about students who may be at specialists also consult with landscaping • Assessment of appropriate campus risk to themselves or others; and insurance experts to apply the principles of security and threat assessment systems; policy restrictions on the coverage of CPTED to campus areas. This includes • Assessment of emergency response mental health disorders. maintaining existing trees and shrubbery systems; The task force submitted an interim and strategizing about new plantings and • Timely and effective identifi cation of report to Governor Doyle in mid-August landscaping projects. high-risk students; and that highlighted several “best practice” In addition, WAICU campuses •Prevention strategies and services for initiatives already underway on WAICU- maintain procedures to identify and reach high-risk students. member campuses to ensure safety and out as quickly as possible to students The following individuals from security, such as full-scale emergency who are experiencing academic, learning, WAICU-member colleges and universities management exercises that provide local behavioral, or personal concerns, so that are serving on the task force: first responders and campus officials potential problems can be dealt with at • Barbara Bloomer, Director of Health with a realistic opportunity to test the earliest possible moment, before they Services, St. Norbert College, De Pere local preparedness plans in the unique result in serious consequences. • Gordon Bothun, Student, Carthage environment of higher education. Later this fall, the task force is slated College, Kenosha Some campuses make use of specialists to release a final report recommending • William Flanagan, Vice President trained in Crime Prevention Through best practices aimed at improving for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, Environmental Design (CPTED) to help college campus safety across the state. Beloit College, Beloit with the planning and preparation stages Recommendations are expected to • Larry Rickard, Director/Chief of of new construction projects on campus include: Public Safety, Marquette University, so that building design and layout, as • Coordination between campus Milwaukee well as the development of policies and offi cials and local law enforcement; •Amy Uecke, Associate Dean of procedures, are determined with safety • Support for innovative Students for Residence Life, Lawrence and security in mind. Crime prevention communication systems; University, Appleton ™ THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Fall 2007 Page 6

OF INTEREST TO GUIDANCE COUNSELORS Wisconsin Look for the High school grades vs. test scores: Education Fairs WAICU table! which best predict success? WEEK ONE SEPTEMBER 17-21 Which are more accurate in predicting student success in Rice Lake Sept. 17, 9-11 a.m. college—high school grades or test scores? Some feel that Ashland Sept. 18, 9-11 a.m. differences in grading standards across high schools render Minocqua Sept. 19, 9-11 a.m. grades an unreliable indicator, whereas standardized tests Wausau Sept. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. are seen as methodologically rigorous, providing a uniform Wausau Sept. 20, 9-11 a.m. yardstick for assessment of student achievement and potential. Wisconsin Rapids Sept. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. But a new study by researchers at the University of California Wisconsin Rapids Sept. 21, 9-11 a.m. at Berkeley contends that grades are much more reliable. The researchers, Saul Geiser and Maria Veronica Santelices, WEEK TWO SEPTEMBER 24-28 examined what happened to almost 80,000 freshmen who Fond du Lac Sept. 24, 9-11 a.m. entered the University of California System between 1996 Sheboygan Sept. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. and 1999. An earlier study by Dr. Geiser had compared Sheboygan Sept. 25, 9-11 a.m. their freshman grades with their SAT scores; now he and Menasha Sept. 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Dr. Santelices followed the students through their college Marinette Sept. 26, 9-11 a.m. career, weighing their grades and their graduation rates. To De Pere Sept. 27, 6:30-8:30 pm. eliminate the possibility that the results could be affected by the De Pere Sept. 28, 9-11 a.m. disciplines chosen by the students, the researchers broke down the data for each campus in the system and for each major area WEEK THREE OCTOBER 1-5 of academic disciplines. Platteville Oct. 1, 9-11 a..m. The study found that test scores can be somewhat helpful La Crosse Oct. 2, 9:30 a.m.-1:25 p.m. as indicators of future success, but the researchers argue Eau Claire Oct. 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m. that they are too tied to socioeconomic status. Rather than Eau Claire Oct. 3, 9-11 a.m. basing admission decisions on test scores, they say, colleges Richland Center Oct. 4, 9-11 a.m. and universities should focus on the high school grade point Verona Oct. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m. average (HSGPA), which “provides a fairer, more equitable, Verona Oct. 5, 9-11 a.m. and ultimately more meaningful basis” for deciding who is admitted. WEEK FOUR OCTOBER 8-11 One surprise of the study was that not only were grades Franklin Oct. 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. more reliable indicators of success, their importance increased Kenosha Oct. 9, 9-11 a.m. as time went on. According to the report, “the predictive Janesville Oct. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. weight associated with HSGPA increases after the freshman Whitewater Oct. 10, 9-11 a.m. year, accounting for a greater proportion of variance in Hartland Oct. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. cumulative fourth-year than first-year college grades.” New Berlin Oct. 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m. A key finding was the effect of the grades-vs.-scores decision on minority students and those whose parents did not attend college. “As an admissions criterion, HSGPA has less Milwaukee National College Fair adverse impact than standardized tests on disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students,” the report states. In other Sunday, Oct. 21, Noon - 3:30 p.m. words, fewer minority students were denied admission when grades, rather than test scores, were used.™ Talks on private colleges: 1:30 & 2:30 p.m.

Workshops for school counselors—Register now! Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 8 a.m. – noon, Plaza Hotel & Suites, Eau Claire (NEW location!) Monday, October 22, 2007, 8 a.m. – noon, Holiday Inn Select, Appleton Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 8 a.m. – noon, Davians, Menomonee Falls Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 8:00 a.m. – noon, Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL To register, go to www.waicu.org/counselors THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Fall 2007 Page 7

An IT collaboration “that will never work” continued from page 1

affiliate of WAICU. The first members have achieved on its own. Since then, the of the next wave of colleges considering to go forward on a joint ERP solution Milwaukee School of Engineering and moving forward together. were Lakeland College, Ripon College, Cardinal Stritch University have joined We learned that the project was not and Wisconsin Lutheran College. Chief WAICU ETC, achieving comparable about the technology, it was about people. technology and chief financial officers, savings. The CFOs of the participating institutions along with other college staff, came to exerted considerable leadership, acting agreement on their requirements for Benefits of Teamwork as change agents for their campuses. a common ERP. WAICU staff then All consortium members agree The CFOs, the CIOs, and everyone else solicited bids, managed the vendor that the benefits go well beyond the involved already had their hands full with selection and financing processes, and dollars saved. Participants were able to full-time jobs. By being able to rely on coordinated training and implementation. develop best practices in their business WAICU to provide organizational skills This first group selected Jenzabar processes and—based on their collective and support, they were able to tackle a EX. By working through WAICU, the experiences—fix problems the first time significant project and release the power members reduced software costs by 80 they emerged rather than waiting for each of collaboration on their campuses. As a percent, maintenance costs by 40 percent, college to discover and resolve issues result, “the project that wouldn’t work” and time to implementation by 44 percent campus by campus. WAICU will return did work, because everyone worked compared to what each college could to the original group of vendors on behalf together.™

– WAICU BULLETIN BOARD – KUDOS—At its June commencement, Lawrence University Norbert, has been awarded the prestigious Freeman-ASIA awarded honorary doctorates to Wisconsin Supreme Court Award by the Institute of International Education in New Justice Louis Butler and Margaret Carroll, former journalist York for the 2007-2008 academic year … Alverno College’s and executive director of the Investor Responsibility new campus design won the “Nice Touch” award from Research Center … The American Association of Museums the Milwaukee mayor’s office … Diane Long Hoeveler, has accredited the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit professor of English at Marquette University, received the College in recognition of its commitment to excellence, 2007 Way Klinger Sabbatical Award … MSOE students accountability, high professional standards, and continued won the American Public Power Association’s annual DEED institutional improvement. The Logan Museum is one technical design award for a device that uses ultraviolet LEDs of only two Wisconsin museums affiliated with a college to sterilize indoor air. MSOE students also won the national or university to be so recognized … Northland College, Intercollegiate Rocket Competition, took second place in the famed for environmental liberal arts, is a leader in a national national construction competition sponsored by Associated initiative to make campuses “climate neutral” by emphasizing General Contractors/Associated Schools of Construction, environmental sustainability. Northland President Karen won first place in the regional Concrete Frisbee competition, Halbersleben signed the Presidents’ Climate Commitment, and took first place in five (of seven) competitions at the which was made public at a June ceremony in Washington, Future Business Leaders of America/Phi Beta Lambda state D.C. … The St. Norbert College student chapter of the conference. Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has been recognized as one of the top ten student chapters in NEW PROGRAMS—MSOE has added three new master’s the nation—the fourth straight year the chapter has been so degree programs: The M.S. in Clinical Nurse Leadership, honored. In addition, St. Norbert’s e-newsletter sent out allowing qualified B.S.N.-prepared Registered Nurses to monthly to alumni, parents, and students won an award for focus on an area of interest, such as mental health, pain excellence from the Council for Advancement and Support management, or school nursing; the M.S. in New Product of Education (CASE). Gratzia Villarroel, associate Management, allowing graduates to help their company professor of political science and the director of international capitalize on its strengths, position, capabilities, market studies at St. Norbert, has been selected as the 2007-2008 opportunities, and resources; and the M.S. in Marketing Santo Domingo Fellowship Visiting Scholar by the David and Export Management, which helps senior managers and Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) entrepreneurs lead teams to envision, design, create, sell and at Harvard University. Cassondra Tori Powers, a Green maintain products and services to markets across the globe … Bay native and junior communication/theatre major at St. Mount Mary College will launch its new Master of Business THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Fall 2007 Page 8

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Vol. 39, No. 3, Fall 2007 Administration (MBA) program in result in what has been described as a

Rolf Wegenke, Ph.D. January. The 36-credit program will “Google map of the mouth.” President & CEO stress the acquisition of advanced skills Mari McCarty, Ph.D., Editor and knowledge in accounting, finance, APPOINTMENTS—Hillary Executive Vice President economics, marketing, management, and Pollack, director of teacher education Katy Kaiser information technology, with particular at Northland College, has been Editorial Assistant emphasis on ethics and leadership appointed to a second three-year term Paul Nelson development with a global perspective on the Wisconsin Department of Public Senior VP for Public Policy … Cardinal Stritch University will Instruction’s Professional Standards Rodney Opsal Senior VP for Collaboration offer a two-year Certificate in Lay Council for Teachers ... Paul Nelson, Ministries program designed for lay senior vice president for public policy The Wisconsin Independent is published quarterly by the Wisconsin Association of Independent people who want to serve in a variety of at WAICU, serves on the Leadership Colleges and Universities (WAICU). To be placed ministries. Team for the American Diploma Project on the mailing list without charge, contact: and the Partnership for 21st Century WAICU EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATION Skills. The Wisconsin Department of 122 W. Washington Avenue, Suite 700 —Researchers at the Marquette Public Instruction is coordinating the Madison, WI 53703-2718 University School of Dentistry and the state’s participation in these two national 608/256-7761, fax 608-256-7065 [email protected] University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are initiatives designed to insure that all working together to apply geographic high school graduates are prepared for For more information, call 1-800-4-DEGREE information system technology to the careers, citizenship, and postsecondary or visit www.waicu.org

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