Rhonda Sprague

Research Interests

• Interpersonal Communication
• Applied Communication
• Human Relations I have been able to use my expertise more in consulting activities. I am especially happy to have been asked to host a workshop about Managing and Transforming Conflict for the Wisconsin Local Government Leadership Academy for the past three years. 

Campus Involvement

• Member, University Curriculum Committee, 2018-
• Member, Constitution and Handbook Revision Subcommittee, 2018-2019
• Member, Career Specialist Search & Screen Committee, Spring 2018
• Member, Student Misconduct Hearing Board, 2017-2019
• Chair, University College Dean Search & Screen Committee, 2016
• Member, Budget Review & Advisory Committee, 2015-2017; Co-chair 2016-2017
• Member, UWSP Advising Council, 2015-2018
• Member, Student Misconduct Hearing Board, 2013-2015
• Member, MAPworks trial team, 2012-2013
• Chair, Faculty Retention Appeal Hearing Committee, Spring 2011
• Chair, Constitution and Handbook Revision Subcommittee, 2008-2011
• Chair, Faculty Mediation Subcommittee, 2009-2010, 2010-2011
• Member, Faculty Senate (COFAC rep), 2009-2011
• Chair, University Curriculum Committee, 2007-2009
• Member, University Task Force on the First-Year Experience, 2007-2008

Community Involvement

• Board Member, Land O’ Lakes Public Art, Fall 2020 – present
• Board Member, Forest Lake Association, Summer 2020  – present
• Volunteer, Wisconsin Special Olympics Summer Games, 2012 – present
• Judge, Miss Wisconsin Rapids Area Scholarship Pageant, 2016, 2018
• Member, American Suzuki Foundation Board of Directors, 2015-2016
• Member, Central Wisconsin Symphony Board of Directors, 2015-2017
• Member, Monteverdi Chorale Board of Governors, 2011-2013
• Thrivent Builds Homes Coordinator, Central Wisconsin Habitat for Humanity, 2008
• Board of Directors, Central Wisconsin Habitat for Humanity, 2006-2015
• Member, Monteverdi Chorale, 2004-2014

Professional Memberships

• Wisconsin Association of Mediators, 2020 –
• National Communication Association, 1991 – present; Life Member 1998

When they see there is a name for what they have been feeling, an answer to a problem they’ve experienced, or a strategy for improving something in their lives. I love that moment of direct application.

Rhonda Sprague