2008 Woodie Awards
UW-La Crosse's new academic building, tentatively named "Centennial Hall" is now the center of fundraising efforts for the UW-L Foundation's Centennial Campaign. "The Centennial Campaign is a comprehensive one. Right now, our main focus is on Centennial Hall," said Jackie Jensen-Utz, Development Officer for the UW-L Foundations.
UW-L will build more new facilities in the next few years than in any time since the 1960s and new facilities require new faculty and staff. The hiring process for an influx of new faculty members has already begun and will allow the new academic building to hit the ground running.
UW-L is renovating the way students access their information online, phasing out TALON and replacing it with a new system called PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. The PeopleSoft project will provide students, faculty, and staff with a more interactive access to admissions, financial aid, records and registration, student financials and academic advising.
This semester, the Counseling and Testing Center in Wilder Hall will be presenting two workshops entitled "Reading in the Fast Lane" and "Brain Ways." The two-part "Reading in the Fast Lane" workshop will focus on learning to read faster, while the one-part "Brain Ways" workshop will focus on learning and memory techniques.
If you were anywhere on campus last Wednesday, you likely noticed it. Groups of protesters handing out flyers filled with explicit pictures of aborted fetuses. Giant boards covered with the same graphic images. Perhaps even a verbal altercation between the demonstrators and students.
For anyone who has ever wished that they could be paid for going to class, their opportunity has finally come. A new social networking site, Knetwit.com, will now pay students for their class notes. The site allows students from schools all over the globe to post their notes from specific classes so that others may use them.
Today's college students prefer online lectures in combination with regular classes, according to a new study done by the University of Wisconsin-Madison E-Business Institute. La Crosse students agree. Cailin Iwen, a junior majoring in nuclear medicine at UW-La Crosse, feels that webcasting class lectures are a great idea.
October 7 is Higher Education Day in Wisconsin. This initiative is backed by State Treasurer Dawn Mari Sass, Governor Doyle and other officials to raise awareness of higher education accessibility in Wisconsin. Among the day's activities, there will be three contests targeting prospective higher education students.
Walking somewhere during the day may not seem dangerous, but when the sun goes down, you may not want to risk walking home alone. UW-L has a program called Safety on Our Sidewalk (SOS) to help combat any of the creepiness or loneliness that goes hand-in-hand with walking alone at night.