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From the desk of the Alumni Association director

Greetings from the FIRST floor of Old Main!

That’s right, the Alumni Office has relocated as part of a multi-unit move involving several departments across campus. We are now located in Suite 134 of Old Main along with the UWSP Foundation as part of the advancement unit. We hope you will visit us in our new space the next time you are on campus!

Our most sincere thanks goes out to everyone in the alumni community for an amazing Homecoming 2011!

Alumni News - Fall 2011

Distinguished Alumni Council 2011 named
Four distinguished alumni have been named to the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Council at UWSP. The honorees represent one alumni from each college at the university.
Success and service recognized by Alumni Association
Four alumni and a U.S. congressman were honored at the University awards, receiving the Alumni Service Award, Trailblazer Award, Lifetime Achievement Award and William C. Hansen Distinguished Service Award.
Alumni offered discount on Adventure Tours
UWSP Adventure Tours is offering alumni discount on their trips in 2012, which offer opportunities for hiking, biking, snorkeling, rafting and more in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.
Career Services credentials reminder
The Career Services Office reminds education alumni who graduated between 1976 and 2003 that teacher credentials will be shredded beginning January 1, 2013

From the desk of the Alumni Association director...

    Greetings from the second floor of Old Main,

    I hope this note finds you well and enjoying the start to spring, wherever you may be experiencing it.

    We’ve been busy at UWSP since our October issue. While doing our best to ensure alumni and friends have all the information and resources they require to stay engaged, we continue to remain focused, as a campus, on our core mission of educating and preparing the next generation of Pointer alumni.

    To that end, our alma mater is undergoing a strategic planning effort that will be complete in May of this year. Meetings began at the start of the fall semester, but much of the groundwork was already laid thanks to the great foresight and efforts of those who move the campus forward on a daily basis. Over 300 faculty, students, staff and alumni have given input on the direction and objectives of the strategic plan and we look forward to seeing the completed plan put into action.

    In the Alumni Office, we continue to update, tweak and modify our programs to ensure they are keeping up with the times and serving your needs. You will notice that this second edition of the online Alumnus is available for download to your Nook and Kindle. We hope these portable formats assist you in keeping in touch on the go.

    In the fall semester, our office also undertook a collaborative project with a class of students majoring in GIS. Working together, we provided zip codes and a four college breakdown of where all of our alumni live and these amazing students produced a representational dispersion map of where UWSP alumni have moved to since graduation.

    This map has been utilized in many presentations, events, and even at the UW-System level this semester as a demonstration of just how far and wide the UWSP experience reaches. Next week, the students that produced the map will present their research at a conference in Seattle, Wash. We plan to update this map at least once a year to show the movement of alumni over time. We hope you enjoy seeing this graphic representation of the location of UWSP alumni.

    As we look toward our summer events calendar, we are working harder than ever to showcase alumni at our events with unique behind-the-scenes opportunities. I hope you will join us at one of these events, re-connect with UWSP and continue to celebrate the Pointer spirit!

    Sincerely,

    Laura Gehrman Rottier, '02
    UWSP Alumni Association, director