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Colleges seek ways to better serve clients
by Mary Johns, EagleHerald Staff Writer
October 7, 2004
MARINETTE—Wisconsin's two-year colleges are taking a good look at who they serve and searching for ways to serve them better.
And when they've finished they'll have to talk about it.
"We've got to get our message out better," says Margaret Cleek, acting chancellor for the 13-campus UW Colleges System, which includes UW-Marinette.
Cleek, whose permanent title is provost and vice president for aademic affairs, visited the campus earlier this week. She expects to serve in her interim capacity through the current academic year.
Cleeck is an unabashed supporter of the two-year colleges system, formerlyknown as the center system.
"I fell in love with the colleges," she says. The system's two-year campuses grant associate but not baccalaureate degrees.
The mechanics of student transfer to a four-year UW campus are a high priority: The system has a guaranteed transfer program that makes transition seamless, at least in terms of credits.
But physical transfer isn't always necessary. In recent years, students who have completed two years of college have been able to earn baccalaureate's or bachelor's degrees through four-year institutions, thanks in part to distance and online learning opportunities at two-year colleges.
UW-Marinette offers a number of options, including the College Connection program which offers four-year degrees from UW-Milwaukee. The arrangement is a boon for students with family and job commitments.
Additional programsms, as well as more evening and weekend classes aimed at nontraditional students, could be part of the future for two-eyar campuses, says Cleek.
"We need to serve people in the ways they need us to serve them," she adds.
At UW-Marinette, Dean Paula Langteau has said she expects to take a close look at what the community needs and how the campus can fulfill those needs.
Since Langteau joined the campus in August, she has quietly met with community leaders to seek input.
On Wednesday, Langteau conducted the first session of what will likely be a six-month effort to develop a strategic plan.
the plan that emerges — and its measurable goals and objectives — will support both the campus mission and vision and the overall strategic plan of the Colleges system.
"That could be changing," cautioned Langteau. "It could very well be changing."
In developing a strategic plan, UW faculty, staff and ultimately students and community members will look at new outreach efforts, course offerings, community awareness and marketing, student retention, promotional efforts and campus appearance and usage.
a mission is a reason for existence and a vision statement is "what it looks like when we di it well," said Langteau.
The strategic plan, she said, "is something you do everyday."
And, she noted, it's a way fo being accountable "to ourselves and to the community."
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Twelfth Night Opens Oct. 15 at UW-Marinette
October 8, 2004
Pirates, Dukes, Countesses, star-crossed lovers, separated twins and drunken uncles will all visit Theatre on the Bay when Shakespeare’s best-loved and funniest comedy, Twelfth Night, Or What You Will is co-produced by the Bohemian Renaissance Theatre Company and Theatre on the Bay October 15 - 17 and 22 - 24 at 7:30 pm.
The first show of the TOB season offers swashbuckling swordplay, rollicking brawls, hilarious mistaken identity and gender confusion and a parade of fools, all in search of love and happiness. This shortened, more accessible version of the timeless classic was adapted and directed by Jason Larche, who also directed last season’s acclaimed BRTC offering, Much Ado About Nothing.
The younger Larche has a masters degree in Theatre Arts from Minnesota State University, a Diploma with Merit from the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and has studied Jacobean Theatre at Oxford University. He was formerly on the faculty of the Department of Theatre at Central Michigan University. He is also currently directing the C.S. Lewis classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for the UW-Marinette Continuing Education Youth Theatre and the Neil Simon classic, Barefoot in the Park for the Rail House Dinner Theatre.
Members of the cast include Larche as Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Amanda Rhines as Viola, sister to Sebastian played by Ricky Berlin, Patrick Mines as Sir Toby Belch, Doug Tiede as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Courtney Monnette as Olivia, the countess of Illyria, Susan Vairus as Festa, the clown, and Brian Cashen as Malvolio, Olivia’s steward.
Other members of the cast include Annalisa Mines, Debra Quick, Doug Townsend, Don Kaletka, Ben Martin, Bill Shepard, Barb Bertagnoli, Adam Hanson, Rhian Smith, C. Hawk Puttonen, Josh LaLonde, and Rob Rickaby.
Sarah Bertagnoli is the assistant director, costume design is by Vairus and Rhines, wigs by Vicki Gebhard, set design by Larche and Dennis Rabbie, and lighting design by Philip Smith.
Original music for the production is by the local band Wynki Tucker whose members include Jason Kohnert, Dave Langenseid, Michelle Mcarthy, and Jim and John Plummel.
Tickets are $10 and $12 on sale at the box office beginning October 11. Box office hours are Monday - Friday from 4 - 6 pm and to curtain time on show days. Call 715-735-4313 for reservations.
Plan now to attend the next TOB production, November 18 as well. Taras and Me, the new historic-patriotic play was written in and performed across Ukraine last year by recent Fulbright scholar and TOB Playwright-in-Residence, Dr. Doug Larche. This performance will be a staged public reading featuring the author and Yuliya Barstow, a Ukrainian native who lives in Menominee and is married to local attorney Jonathan Barstow, in the title roles.
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