INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE
UWSP is honored to recognize Maggie Beeber as the UWSP 2009
Regent's Individual Excellence Award nominee. The Academic Staff Regents Awards
for Individual Excellence recognize two outstanding academic staff members from
the UW System with a $5,000 monetary award.
The following criteria are utilized in selecting recipients:
- Excellence of Performance
- Personal Interaction
- Initiative & Creativity
- Outstanding Achievement
Maggie Beeber has served UWSP since 1991 as Coordinator of
Undergraduate Advising in the School of Education and has served as
the UWSP Teacher Certification Officer since 2003.
Her commitment to excellence is described by her nominators:
- "Maggie is considered by her university system peers to
be among the most knowledgeable in the state about advising and
licensing issues."
- "She helps this campus eliminate some possible public
relations nightmares by watching out for her students."
- "Her impact upon her students and colleagues serves as
a testament to the key role academic staff play in the
educational mission of the University of Wisconsin System...."
- "Her faith and confidence in their abilities to
succeed, along with her leadership and collaboration with the
Project Forward, Title VII grant and the DPI Refugee Teacher
Training Grants have opened the way for the many Hmong Americans
who have successfully completed our programs and are now
teaching in classrooms in our region."
- "I believe that the quality of Maggie Beeber's work on
a daily basis is the single best reason as to why she deserves
this award."
Previous campus nominees for this award are:
- 2008 - Anne Mathson
- 2007 - Susan Kissinger
- 2006 - Lynn Markham
- 2005 -
- 2004 -
- 2003 - John Strassburg
- 2002 -
- 2001 -
- 2000 -
- 1999 -
- 1998 -
PROGRAM EXCELLENCE
UWSP is honored to recognize the Wisconsin Center for
Environmental Education (WCEE) as the UWSP 2009 Regent's Program
Excellence Award nominee. The Academic Staff Regents Awards for
Program Excellence recognizes an outstanding non-instructional
academic staff program from the UW System with a $5,000 monetary
award.
The following criteria are utilized in selecting recipients:
- Excellence of Performance
- Initiative and Creativity
- Outstanding Achievement
The Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education was established
by the Wisconsin state legislature and UWSP in 1991. The
Center was placed in the College of Natural Resources, but has a
statewide mission toward the development, promotion and evaluation
of environmental education in Wisconsin K-12 schools.
The WCEE's commitment to excellence is described by its
nominators:
- "In addition to serving Wisconsin residents, the WCEE can
claim the outstanding achievement of being a national and
international model for the development of environmental
education."
- "Never content to rest on its laurels, the WCEE has
continued to develop innovative programs and offer the foremost
support to the field of environmental education through the
development of excellent resources, much-needed online courses
and - perhaps most importantly - the sharing of expertise
throughout the country and the world."
- "Partnerships and other collaboration are a hallmark of the
Center. WCEE staff and programs are involved at many
levels with: the Wisconsin Association for Environmental
Education, the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board, the
Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation, Wisconsin Focus on
Energy, the Wisconsin DNR Division of Forestry, and many
others."
- "The WCEE faculty and staff have worked endlessly to
establish outreach opportunities for Wisconsin's teachers and
youth."
- "Recently, an Environmental Science Teachers Network has
been created by the Center and now serves to connect hundreds of
teachers around the state and region who previously were without
this assistance."
