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Chancellor Bunnell has challenged the
university to launch academic programs that serve emerging needs
in the region. Chief among them is the major in health sciences
and the expansion of the paper sciences program. UWSP has also
established the Center for Leadership, Excellence & Economic
Development in downtown
Wausau, offering courses to professionals
from throughout the region.
UWSP has committed to a sustainable future
under Bunnell’s leadership. She was among the first leaders in
the nation to sign the University Presidents and Chancellors
Climate Commitment in Washington, D.C.
The governor of
Wisconsin
named UWSP one of four UW System campuses to become “carbon
free” by 2011. The university’s new Master Plan outlines
numerous initiatives to improve, beautify, and sustain UWSP’s
learning, research, and residential facilities and grounds over
the coming decades. Developed under Bunnell’s leadership, this
is the first UWSP Master Plan since 1968.
UWSP has seen dramatic improvements in the
diversity of its student body during Bunnell’s tenure, and the
university leads the UW System in the number of students
studying abroad. Creating global citizens is another objective
of Vision 2015.
Before coming to UWSP, Bunnell served the
College Board as senior vice president for higher education. In
this position she was responsible for $170 million in revenue of
the $320 million not-for-profit organization whose products and
services include the SAT and other examinations used throughout
the world.
Prior to joining the College Board, she was
chancellor of the University
of Colorado at Colorado Springs for eight years. Under
Bunnell’s leadership, the enrollment increased dramatically,
with the campus more than doubling in size in space available
for teaching and learning by 2001.
A strategic fundraising effort brought a
seven-fold increase in private dollars flowing to Colorado Springs. The number of individual
donors to the institution increased by 45 percent between 1993
and 2001. Along the way, the university also saw a major
increase in federal funding. The Economic Development
Corporation of Colorado
Springs recognized Bunnell as Community
Leader of the Year for 2001.
Bunnell is a fourth-generation Texan who
grew up in Fort Worth.
She earned a B.A. at Baylor University and Ph.D. and master’s degrees in English
Literature at the University
of Colorado at
Boulder
where she was a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow and a
University Fellow. Baylor
University
designated her as a Distinguished Alumna in 1995.
Bunnell has served on numerous boards
throughout her career. Currently, she is a member of the Board
of Directors of Aspirus, Inc.
and the Girl Scouts of Woodland Council. She is also a
member of the
Wisconsin Security Research Consortium (WSRC) and the University of Wisconsin
System Council on Federal Relations.
Bunnell is a member of the Episcopal Church
of the Intercession. She is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, unless
they are playing the Green Bay Packers. She enjoys cooking,
gardening, theatre, music, and movies.
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