Archive of News and Events
Continuing Education addresses racism through dialog, action and change
Improving race relations is a challenge for many communities in Wisconsin.
Assistant Dean is an ACE award winner
Kay Taube, Assistant Dean for Collaborative Programs, Continuing Education, Division of Outreach and E-Learning Extension, has received the 2004 E. Nelson "Al" Swinerton Distinguished Service Award by the American Council on Education (ACE). Taube serves as the Wisconsin State Affiliate for ACE's College Credit Recommendation Program. The College Credit Recommendation Service is a national ACE program that evaluates workplace education and training programs and recommends appropriate college credit levels. As the Wisconsin state affiliate, Taube serves as the link between the national program and Wisconsin business and industry, labor unions, professional and volunteer associations, government agencies, and trade, technical and business schools. In announcing the award, ACE cited Taube for her work promoting the credit recommendation program.
"Since Wisconsin came on board as a state affiliate in 2000, she has been a positive advocate and energetic activist in many areas of the ACE Corporate Programs."
Gearing Up for College Goes Multilingual
To improve higher education and career awareness for Latino families in Wisconsin , the Higher Education Location Program (HELP) is translating their popular Gearing Up for College brochure into Spanish and Hmong. The brochure is designed for middle school students, to help them begin thinking about college and how to prepare for it. Funding for the project was provided in part by a Diversity Program Development Initiative grant (DPDI) from the Continuing Education, Division of Outreach and E-Learning. HELP is a UW-Extension service that provides academic advising for the entire UW System.
More information on Gearing Up for College.
Engaging Faculty in a Digital Future Demonstration Project
Continuing Education, Division of Outreach and E-Learning is working with the Division of Broadcasting and Media Innovations to provide accessible and useful teaching tools and learning materials for Wisconsin 's K-12 teachers and students. Chemistry video segments and other related materials will be cataloged, indexed, correlated to state standards for K-12 teachers, and made accessible through the IDEAS portal website. Funding for this project was provided by UW-Extension's Cross-Divisional Grant Program.
Additional information about this program.
Outstanding Student Service Recognized
Denny Roark received the first-ever University of Wisconsin-Extension Academic Staff Council non-instructional Award of Excellence. She was honored for her hard work furthering the Wisconsin Idea by providing outstanding service to thousands of students, parents, and advisors around the state as part of the Higher Education Location Program (HELP).
Continuing Education pre-college programs target minority youth
Continuing education programs on 26 University of Wisconsin campuses, offered in partnership with UW-Extension, help minority students transition successfully from high school to college.
Bill Draves presents Nine Shift
In preparation for developing a new five-year strategic plan, the Continuing Education Extension Council recently completed a visioning exercise with William A. Draves, president of the Learning Resources Network (LERN), a continuing education association with 5,000 members in 18 countries.
Draves' presentation (MS Powerpoint). ( Note: This file is 31mb.)
Draves' presentation (Adobe PDF). ( Note: This file is 7mb.)
Continuing Education, Division of Outreach and E-Learning Earns Two Regional Awards
The Continuing Education, Division of Outreach and E-Learning will be honored with two awards at the 2004 University Continuing Education Association Region IV conference later this month. The School for Workers program "Building Opportunity: Diversity that Pays Off" won the Creative Non Credit Program Award. "Building Opportunity: Diversity that Pays Off" project addressed the under-representation of minorities and women in good-paying jobs, the trades, and post-secondary education by providing classes to prepare for employment in the trades or for required entry exams. The program was funded by the Continuing Education, Division of Outreach and E-Learning's Diversity Program Development program.
Amy Pikalek, University Relations Specialist, has been named the 2004 recipient of the Continuing Education Support Specialist Award. She was honored for "creativity and innovation in the area of program support ." Pikalek has also been elected to a one-year term as Secretary for the region beginning in April 2005. Both awards will be presented at the annual conference in Kansas City October 24-26 and will be forwarded to UCEA for national award consideration.
HELP takes national honors
The Higher Education Location Program (HELP) won two 2004 UCEA awards in the Marketing and Publications Awards competition. The HELP publication, "Introduction" won a gold in the most improved, over 25,000 enrollments, category. The same publication also won a bronze in the Print Publications: Booklet 3+ colors category. Linda Barrett worked tirelessly on overseeing the production of this publication, with support from many HELP and UW staff. And, as if one huge honor was not enough; HELP's Introduction has also won a Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) award! They received a Silver Medal for the Individual Student Recruitment Publications category. There was tough competition in this category with 122 entries. Only one Grand Gold, six Gold, three Silver and three Bronze medals were awarded.
UW-Platteville course, designed and supported by UWLI, wins national award
The UW-Platteville course, Theories of Personality in the Criminal Justice System , is the winner of the 2004 University Continuing Education Association's (UCEA) Distance Learning Community of Practice Distinguished College Course Award. In notifying UWLI, Award Chair John Stoll said, "The competition was very stiff this year with nominations submitted form across the country. The committee worked very hard to get to this point and it is a testament to your hard work and levels of quality control that your end up at the top of this year's reviews."
UW Colleges and UW Learning Innovations honored with national award
UW Colleges and UW-Extension Learning Innovations recently won an award from the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Instructional designer Penny Ralston-Berg and Chemistry Professor Kim Kostra, UW-Rock County, received the Design and Development Division's 2003 Outstanding Practice Award at the AECT's annual meeting in Anaheim, California. Penny and Kim were honored for their work on the University of Wisconsin Colleges online undergraduate Chemistry 124 course, Natural Science Chemistry. In the notification letter, they were told,
"Your work is an innovative product and we think is a real contribution to online learning, as well as to the advancement of development in Instructional Technology. Your online lab course with extensive interaction using standard tools is a terrific example of superior instructional design. The choice was difficult again this year since the applications really demonstrated unique and promising work."