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12/7/2022

UW-PARKSIDE ALUMNI SERVE AS PRODUCTION TEAM FOR 'AS YOU LIKE IT'

By: Ericka Karshna

The upcoming theater production As You Like It will be premiering Friday, December 2nd at 7:00 p.m. Not only will this play be bringing the classic works of Shakespeare back to Parkside’s stage, it will also be bringing 6 alumni back on Parkside’s production team as guests. Laura Arnold ’15, Kevin Nelson ’11, Katlin Gerlach ’14, Chris Payne, Phil Wooding ’11, Bethanne Duffy ’14, and Kevin Duffy ’13 will all be returning to help in this production. We interviewed a few of our alumni to hear about their careers after graduation and what it’s been like returning to campus as a guest artist.

OPID Spring Conference: April 20-21, 2023

Memorial Union, Madison | In-Person and via Zoom

The University of Wisconsin System’s Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) is seeking proposals for the 2023 Spring Conference on Teaching and Learning. Online Form. Deadline: January 9, 2023.

Theme : The Joys of Teaching and Learning : Centering Students 

From the classroom to department meetings and from learning management systems to addressing mental health and wellbeing, students are the focus of our professional lives. In the past few years, we have increased our attention to centering our teaching practices around the “whole student.” Re-examining assessment strategies, updating curriculum, exploring teaching methods and modalities while increasing flexibility and compassionate responses to students’ needs are just a few examples.

Centering Students is what we do as educators and is tied to our goals, challenges and the rewards of teaching and learning. As we deal with the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have an opportunity to explore what we have learned, and what we still need to learn, about connecting with and supporting students. How might we consider what we need in terms of self-care and care for colleagues so we can feel a sense of well-being and enable us to better care for others around us? How do we cultivate relationships and create a sense of community with our students? How do we bring student voices into our face-to-face, online, and blended learning environments? What opportunities are there to cultivate connections both within and external to our class environments? How can we meet students where they are, while advising and mentoring them to succeed beyond our learning contexts?



We invite you to contribute to the conversation about centering students by presenting at OPID’s 2023 Spring Conference. Please share your experiences, ideas, insights, questions, failures, and accomplishments so we can collaborate and learn together to explore possibilities for centering students in our teaching/learning contexts. 

UW-Parkside Installs Narcan Boxes Across Campus

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside has installed Narcan boxes across campus that can be accessed by students if necessary. Narcan is a life-saving medicine that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. UW-Parkside is one of several UW System campuses that have signed an agreement with Wisconsin Voices of Recovery.



The boxes have been installed near many AED kits in 14 locations on campus. All campus police officers continue to carry kits in their squad cars as they were already doing so prior to this agreement. The Nalox-Zone boxes are available for students, staff, faculty and campus visitors to use as needed. When the boxes are opened, Wisconsin Voices of Recovery receives notification so they can be resupplied within 72 hours. University Police are not alerted when a box is opened.

Postponed: Fireside Chat with Shani Tran

Due to extenuating circumstances, today's Fireside Chat with Shani Tran has been postponed. Stay tuned for the rescheduled date!

Questions? Contact D’Jena Kelly-Perry ’18.

Let us know: Communications Needs

Effective immediately, please send any requests or inquiries about stories, press releases, social media posts, or other communication needs to university.relations@uwp.edu and we will respond as soon as possible. Thank you for understanding!

Nominations Open for the 2022-2023 UW-Parkside Teaching Excellence Award

Nomination Windows: Dec. 8-21, 2022 and March 13-April 3, 2023

The Committee on Teaching and Learning is soliciting nominations for the 2022-2023 University of Wisconsin-Parkside Teaching Excellence Awards. All members of the faculty and teaching academic staff who have taught courses at UW-Parkside in the 2022-2023 academic year are eligible to receive this award. Students may nominate as many instructors as they like during nomination windows in the fall and spring semesters. In the spring semester students may nominate instructors from any point in the 2022-2023 academic year.

Two awards are available: the Stella Gray Teaching Excellence Award is for instructors who have been at the university for more than five years, and the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award is for instructors who have been at the university for five years or fewer. Recipients of the award in the last seven years are not eligible to receive the award this year. 

 The following criteria will be used to help select an award winner:

• Ability to support, inspire, and challenge students
• Ability to make course material accessible to students and to help students in thinking critically and independently
• Personal impact on students in an academic and/or professional context

Incomplete nominations will not be considered. Students may choose to have their name withheld from the nominee. For questions about these awards or this form, please contact Dr. Amber Handy at handy@uwp.edu.

Watch the Administrative Transformation Program (ATP) Readiness Workshop #1: “Introduction to Workday”

ATP will conduct Readiness Workshops on a variety of topics, monthly through go-live in July 2024. Recordings will be available to anyone with a UW login. The “Introduction to Workday” Readiness Workshop provides a first look at the Workday landing page and some of the employee self-service features. You can learn more about this workshop on the ATP website.

Readiness Workshop 1: Intro to Workday

This workshop introduces the Workday landing page and a few of the employee self-service features. It also provides an overview of the roles of the Readiness Team members and Change Ambassadors.

Key Takeaways:

• Employee self-service (ESS) refers to personal information that employees can view or change on their own. With Workday’s employee self-service features, you can:

• Change your legal or preferred name

• Update contact information

• Set up or change payment elections in existing or new accounts

• View and download your pay slips

• Tasks are clearly labeled in Workday – or you can use the Search Bar to bring up a task quickly when you type its name.

UW-Parkside Fall 2022 Commencement Set for Dec. 17

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will hold its Fall 2022 Commencement on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 10 a.m. in the DeSimone Arena located in the Sports and Activity Center. The ceremony will honor nearly 500 students, including 200 master’s degrees. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Petretti Fieldhouse. Refreshments and Photo opportunities will be available.

This semester’s commencement speakers will be UW-Parkside alumni Dr. and Mrs. Brent ’84 and Susan Podlogar ’84. Regent John Miller of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will also be in attendance.

Education Matters With Host Dr. Jonathan Shailor and

Guest Jackie Arcy

Dr. Jonathan Shailor's guest on WGTD's Education matters on Dec. 3 was Jackie Arcy, an Associate Professor of New Media and the Graduate Director of the MA in Professional Communication at UW-Parkside.

Costume Cosplay Contest Dec. 10

To celebrate UW-Parkside Theatre’s finale of Shakespeare’s “As You Like it” on, The Rita is hosting a costume cosplay contest! Prizes include Cash, Rita tickets, and trophies! First 20 guests in costume attending the play get 50% off their ticket.

Save 50% on purchases in the Brickstone Grill & Eatery!

A commuter dining plan can be used to pay for purchased in all campus dining locations.

Sign up for a Commuter Plan November 28 through March 24, 2023

Sign up and more information at uwp.edu/diningplans or stop by the Campus Concierge.

Now on Amazon!

Support Parkside Athletics! Grab the gear on Amazon!

UW-Parkside to Host Series of Community Town Halls

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will host a series of town halls in December for community residents to hear about new possibilities sparked by technological developments that could increase well-being in local neighborhoods. The town halls, hosted by UW-Parkside at various community locations, will give residents the opportunity to share their perspectives on gaps in services in areas such as transportation, health, education, security, and access to government services. 

Campus Cleaning Survey

Facilities Management wants your feedback. Take the cleaning survey here. The survey is open until Dec. 16 at 11:59 p.m.

Student Loans Forgiven Under PSLF

In Oct. 2021, the Department of Education (ED) announced temporary changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program rules to help more borrowers benefit from the program while ED works to rewrite the rules to make it more effective. The PSLF program, established in 2007, forgives the remaining balance on a qualifying borrower’s eligible loans after they have made 120 qualifying monthly payments under a qualifying repayment plan while working full time for a qualifying employer.

The temporary waiver eases some requirements so that eligible borrowers can have any prior period of repayment qualify, regardless of loan program, repayment plan, or whether the payment was made in full or on time. The current deadline to apply is Oct. 31.

Read more here.

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Paws to You

Paws to You is an employee appreciation program designed to offer gratitude to a fellow coworker. Maybe they helped you complete a task or project and it made a large impact on the outcome. You can show them thanks and appreciation by sending them a Paw they are able to display for all to see in their email signature, and a running total of all Paws will be displayed here on the Paws to You website. So what are you waiting for?

Save Clam Shell Containers for Parkside Community Garden!

Help our community gardeners feed food insecure students and community members by saving your clam shell containers. Bring saved containers to Alex Hobbs in the Student Success and Learning Commons. Thank you!

2022 Winter Holiday Office Hours

Christmas Holiday



Beginning December 27 through December 30, 2022 university offices will be closed to the public. Employees may choose to take vacation time, work from home (if the job is conducive and with approval from the supervisor), or come into the office and work as normal. 



There are some exceptions to this notice for areas that support 24-hour, 7 days-a-week operations such as the police department, heating plant, housing services, and other essential student-facing departments. Other less-than-essential student-facing departments should make sure students are able to reach someone in the department, if needed, via call forwarding or email.

Because Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve fall on Saturdays this year, eligible employees will receive floating holidays for both days. Christmas Day and New Year’s Day both fall on Sundays, and therefore the holidays are observed on Monday, December 26, and Monday, January 2, respectively. 

Below is an outline of how the floating holiday may be used: 

• An eligible employee may use floating legal holiday hours prior to the date on which the holiday occurs. 
• Floating legal holidays (for eligible employees) must be used by the end of the year in which it was granted.
• University staff must use the hours on or before December 31 of the calendar year granted.
• Academic, and Limited staff must use it on or before June 30 of the fiscal year granted.
• If the hours are not used by the end of the designated year, the hours are lost and cannot be carried into the following year (calendar or fiscal).

The full policy may be found here.

If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at 262-595-2204 or Aaron at shanahaa@uwp.edu.