THEWisconsin INDEPENDENT Summer 2006 Newsletter of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU) Vol. 38 No. 2 President’s Letter More than 11,000 graduate from To Marty, RIP WAICU colleges and universities Dear Friends, On March 2, my good friend— Alverno College – Speaker was director of the Carroll Institute for Civil really, everyone’s good friend—Martin Susan Lennon, executive director of War Studies, spoke and received a Doctor F. Stein died. Marty and I had traveled the Women’s College Coalition in of Humane Letters. 5/14 to Israel together and worked together Washington, D.C., and Bobbie Reiman Carthage College – Honorary degrees on a project to promote volunteerism. of the Reiman Foundation received an were awarded to Rev. Timothy This issue’s President’s letter will be honorary degree. 5/20 Michael Dolan, Catholic Archbishop of from Marty. It originally appeared in Beloit College – Speaker was Michael Milwaukee, and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, the the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Novacek, senior vice president of commencement speaker. 5/21 science and curator of palentology at the Concordia University Wisconsin – The Sincerely, American Museum of Natural History Honorable Christine Nuernberg, mayor in NYC. Recipients of honorary degrees of Mequon, delivered the address. An were Elizabeth Hayford, retiring president honorary Doctor of Letters was presented of the Associated Colleges of the to Dr. Donald Knuth, in absentia. 5/13 Midwest, and Abner Mikva, former chief Edgewood College – Don and Marilyn Rolf Wegenke, Ph.D. judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Anderson, philanthropists, received President District of Columbia. 5/14 honorary degrees. 5/14 Cardinal Stritch – Dr. Rosalie Mirenda, Lakeland College – Speaker and Dear Editorial Page Editor: president of Neumann College in honorary degree recipient was Jackie When you read this letter I will Philadelphia, was the speaker, and Frank Spinner, staff reporter for The Washington have passed on. However, I have left Zeidler, former mayor of Milwaukee, Post. 5/7 with great concerns about our Nation received an honorary degree. 5/21 Lawrence University – Speakers and and its future. Carroll College – Lance Herdegen, honorary degree We are living in the greatest country Continued on page 2 in the world, filled with freedom, opportunity and possibilities that no other generation has ever been exposed to. Some people, however are existing in a “living hell”— • Where drugs, prostitution, illiteracy, abuse and, yes, even murder are regular occurrences; • Where three families live in a two- bedroom apartment, sleeping on dirty mattresses; • Where people don’t know how and where to go to better their lot in A scene from the WAICU school counselors fair held in Chicago area: The event was evaluated as life—people with Continued on page 7 a great success with one high school counselor saying that it was best organized and most useful event of its type that she had been to. Here St. Norbert admissions offi cers visit with counselors. Alverno College • Beloit College • Cardinal Stritch University • Carroll College Carthage College • Concordia University • Edgewood College • Lakeland College Lawrence University • Marian College • Marquette University Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design • Milwaukee School of Engineering Mount Mary College • Northland College • Ripon College • St. Norbert College Silver Lake College • Viterbo University • Wisconsin Lutheran College Spring graduations THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Summer 2006 (continued from page 1) recipients will be Richard Franke, Edgewood College to build new residence hall retired CEO of the investment banking firm John Nuveen Company, and Catherine Tatge, Emmy-winning television and documentary film director. 6/11 Marian College of Fond du Lac – Speaker was Michael A. Conger, vice president of operations at Oshkosh Truck Corp. 5/13 Marquette University – Speaker was U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao. Honorary degree recipients were Richard Burke, chairman of Trek Bicycle; Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., religion professor at Fordham University; and Eleonore A. Staump, Ph.D., philosophy professor at Saint Louis University. 5/21 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design An artist’s sketch of Edgewood’s new residence hall – Speakers were President Robert Edgewood College will open a new magnificent trees. Rindler and the Chair of the Board residence hall on campus in August The new residence hall moves Claire Hackmann. 5/13 of 2007. The new residence hall will Edgewood College toward achievement of MSOE – Speakers were James welcome 198 students in its first year. its long-standing goal of reaching an on- Finley, Deputy UnderSecretary of the Construction is slated to begin in campus resident population of 600 out of Department of Defense, and Dr. Stefan July of this year. In order to proceed, a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,850. Barels, rektor of the Fachhochschule the college first secured approval of its Increasing the opportunity for Lubeck, Germany. 5/27 plans from neighboring Edgewood High Edgewood College students to experience Mount Mary – Richard A. Burke, School and from the Edgewood Campus living in an on-campus community will chair of Trek Bicycle, spoke and School. The college also worked with two benefit the students, the college, and the received an honorary degree. 5/13 neighborhood organizations in the city of greater Madison community. There is Northland College – Environmental Madison to come to agreement over plan a direct, demonstrated positive impact historian William Cronon spoke and details. College officials said the process on the quality of the education that received an honorary doctorate. 5/27 of engagement with neighbors was critical results when students are engaged in a Ripon College – Dr. Phillip Sharp, to the plans’ moving forward. community of learners. founding director of the McGovern The Edgewood College campus is a Research shows that students who Institute for Brain Research at MIT, very special place and has been since live on campus tend to stay in college. spoke. Dr. Sharp and Steve Fossett, before recorded history. The campus is As part of this goal, Edgewood College aviator and adventurer, received home to Native American burial mounds; has introduced a new housing policy in honorary degrees. 5/14 extensive archeological testing shows anticipation of the opening of the new St. Norbert College – The address construction at the site will not disturb the residence hall in August 2007. That policy was presented by Gillian A. Wolfe, ancient site. will eventually ensure that all freshmen head of education at Dulwich Picture The campus is also graced by and sophomores—who do not live with a Gallery. She and Edward and Sally several ancient, old-growth oak trees. family member—will be required to live Thompson received honorary degrees. The site chosen for the new residence on campus for their first 2 years. 5/14 hall accommodates several of these Silver Lake College – The students were addressed by Sr. Paula Vanden Hogen, former acting president of the Wisconsin Private college. 5/14 Note: In order to highlight all twenty Viterbo University – Retiring College Week of Wisconsin’s private colleges and president Dr. William Medland July 10–15, 2006 universities, The Wisconsin Independent follows a regular rotation featuring six provided remarks. 5/13 Receive a waiver of application or seven colleges in each quarterly issue. Wisconsin Lutheran College – Dr. fees at any campus you visit! For Each college or university appears in John E. Bauer, former WLC Vice details, call 1-800-4-DEGREE or every third issue. President of Academic Affairs, spoke visit www.goindependent.org. and received an honorary degree. 5/13 THE Wisconsin INDEPENDENT • Summer 2006 Page 3 Lawrence University students work hard for their spring break tans Hatfield Primary and Junior High School, They helped the kitchen prepare and introducing a curriculum that provides serve more than 2,000 meals a day for strategies for reducing and coping with residents and area volunteers. Daily conflict and counterproductive peer duties included everything from washing pressure. vegetables to cooking rice and staffing the “Teaching was exhilarating, but serving lines. The kitchen operated from exhausting as well,” said Kornaus, a 5:30 a.m. to after 10 p.m. every day. freshman from Brussels, Wisconsin. Other students in New Orleans helped Lawrence students provided community “Looking back, I realize that our presence hurricane victims gut their homes, service on their spring break. and kind words meant a lot to those kids. removing water-damaged furniture and A thank-you note from the fifth-grade ripping out mold-infested drywall and Community engagement is a defining students was simple and sincere: ‘Miss insulation. characteristic of a Lawrence education. In Kornaus, we love you.’ ” “Even after watching the news, to March, five dozen students collectively Fourteen members of Lawrence’s find an obliterated city was beyond put that aspect of their education into chapter of Habitat for Humanity worked comprehension,” said senior Elizabeth practice, participating in four different with the Pickens County chapter of Hermanson. “Seeing the extent of the alternative spring break trips that took Habitat for Humanity in Liberty, S.C., devastation was an incredibly emotional them to Jamaica, South Carolina, and building a home. experience. New Orleans. More than 50 students made the 18- “Working side-by-side with the Tiffany