2007–2008Annual Report

College of Professional Studies

School of Education

School of Communicative Disorders

School of Health Promotion & Human Development Dietetics • Family & Consumer Sciences • Health Promotion

School of Health, Exercise Science & Athletics Physical Education • Athletic Training

Division of Interior Architecture

Department of Health Sciences Clinical Laboratory Sciences • Health Sciences

Military Science

Effective July 1, 2008

Division of Business and Economics Business • Accounting • Economics

Our College prepares an annual report to highlight accomplishments from the previous academic

year. We share this report with faculty and staff in the College, UWSP personnel, and College

friends so that everyone may celebrate our collective and individual successes from last year.

This report summarizes notable accomplishments that complement our primary pursuits: teaching/

mentoring students and contributing to our fields. I am proud to present our 2007–2008 year.

Joan North, Dean

www.uwsp.edu/cps/

While our majors vary greatly, they share characteristics common to professional programs: state/

national program accreditation, testing/assessment of graduates, and semester-long internships.

Students majoring in CPS outperform their counterparts nationally on competitive national

exams, internship awards, and job placements. CPS programs are at the forefront of innovative

collaborative ventures with schools, communities, and employers. The College enrolls about 1,700

undergraduates—and will add 650 more in the coming year from the Division of Business and

Economics. We also have more than a thousand graduate and continuing education students. Job

placement or advanced graduate study in professional fields for all majors is above 94 percent. Our

students provided 91 outreach programs and were involved in 52 community service projects.

HPHD teamed with the Wisconsin Department of Health and Physical Activity to host training on the Wisconsin Worksite Wellness Resource Kit. HPHD students and faculty also practiced their skills by creating a wellness program with the Stevens Point Police Department. HPHD also continued several key partnerships, including the “Wellness Report Card” project designed in collaboration with Ben Franklin Junior High School and the Camp HOPE Kids Newsletter—a collaboration between HPHD practicum students and Camp HOPE—and consulting provided by several HPHD faculty for Saint Michael’s Hospital, the National Wellness Institute, Midwest Renewable Energy Association, and Golden Sands Resource Conservation and Development and local farmers on use of local farm products.

The School of Education worked with the PK-18 Council of Central Wisconsin (see https://www.uwsp.edu/education/AP/PK-18Council.asp) and CESA 5 and 9 to offer the second Mentor Academy for teachers in mentoring roles.

The School of Education’s Site-based Master’s Degree Program completed its cycle in the Wautoma School District, and the program’s 20 participants graduated with their MSE-General in the May commencement ceremony. The program is offered completely at a school district site, offers an innovative and integrative curriculum with a focus on best practice and teacher leadership. The Wautoma program involved participants from the following districts: Wautoma, Montello, Princeton, Adams-Friendship, Omro, Waupaca, Green Lake, Westfield, and Stevens Point. Each participant in the program completed a portfolio that represents growth in all 10 Wisconsin Teacher Standards, as well as completing a Master Teacher Initiative, a project that is linked to school district goals and provides benefits to the district beyond the teacher’s own classroom.

The School of Education’s third Oscar W. Neale Fellowship went to three Madison Elementary school teachers who reshaped their “family literacy nights” by creating a family story of significance, transcribed to

create a bilingual book illustrated by the family. Upon the completion of the project, families will each receive a copy of every bilingual book published by the families

PartnershipsBy their very nature, CPS pre-professional programs develop strong partnerships with their professional counterparts, colleagues elsewhere, and surrounding communities. The list below illustrates the hundreds of partnerships that CPS departments enjoy.

involved in the project, and the following semester UWSP students will work with the three teachers to create learning approaches.

The School of Education graduate programs continue to diversify and expand. A series of courses that will lead to licensure in Gifted and Talented Education is being developed as a joint online program between UW-Stevens Point and UW-Whitewater.

The School of Education served 100 school districts with almost 250 student teachers and interns in central Wisconsin as well as more than 500 clinical experiences in Stevens Point.

Interior Architecture has successfully collaborated with 25 design firms participating through its Internship/Field Experience program. The Division also created a course for graduates who are preparing for the NCIDQ professional exam.

The School of Communicative Disorders continued to provide essential services to partner schools, agencies, and the community such as an increasing number of inpatient and outpatient speech-language and swallowing services for St. Michael’s Hospital, speech-language and hearing services for preschoolers and children from the Stevens Point Area Public Schools and for Hospice of Portage County, hearing diagnostics for the Early Intervention program, and hearing screening for the Migrant Farm Workers Program.

The joint Clinical Doctorate in Audiology with UW-Madison graduated its first four students.

Athletic training continues to work with clinical sites at McDonough Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Clinic in Wisconsin Rapids, Physical Therapy Associates in Stevens Point, Riverside Hospital in Waupaca, Bone and Joint Clinic in Wausau, and Rice Clinic in Stevens Point.

The physical education major continues strong partnerships with Stevens Point Public Schools, Stevens Point Christian Academy, and Stevens Point Catholic Schools in our numerous physical education, adapted physical education, health education, and adventure

education programs that involve college students interacting and working with K-12 children.

With the official separation of the UW-Stevens Point and the UW-Stout ROTC programs, Stevens Point retains two important partnerships at UW Marshfield and UW Marathon County. During the 2007-2008 school year, instructors from UW-Stevens Point ROTC instructed a total of 24 students at these two-year campuses, and 12 of the 24 plan to attend UW-Stevens Point to continue in the ROTC program.

The Health Sciences Department currently has affiliation agreements with 15 hospitals for the placement of CLS students. Partnerships for a capstone course in Health Sciences, HS 490—Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Health Care, are being developed. Health Sciences majors are matched with projects and research endeavors identified in cooperation with local agencies; current partnerships include Marshfield Clinic, the American Red Cross, Portage County Literacy Council, Portage County Health and Human Services Department, UWSP Health Services.

Additional articulation agreements with area technical colleges are being considered. These agreements would ease the transition from various associate degree programs to bachelor's degree programs with majors in Health Sciences or Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

Collaboration with SPASH resulted in a university credit course, Evolution of Health Care Professions, being offered at Stevens Point Area High School. Students successfully completing the course will earn credits toward the introductory course for majors in Health Sciences.

CPS Continuing Education coordinated 111 courses, (plus 60 independent studies) with 1,089 registrants. CPS-CE shares revenue with the College and participating departments, spurring on additional investment in outreach. CPS-CE almost doubled the number of incentive grants to encourage CPS faculty to meet the needs of new audiences and use online courses. See www.uwsp.edu/CPS/Network/ for more information.

Partnershipscontinued

The CPS Teaching Partners Program completed its 14th year with five sets of partners exploring their teaching.

Twenty-two CPS faculty members received grants to develop online courses.

The College’s library on teaching resources and Web information can be accessed at www.uwsp.edu/cps/academics/teachlearn/.

Upgrading teaching spaces has long been a priority of the College. Last summer we renovated the IA Lighting Lab and classroom and created offices for new health sciences faculty. We also provided a lab modernization grant to upgrade the observation system in the speech and hearing clinic.

Active involvement of undergraduate and graduate students in research is an important aspect of active learning. A student copresented with HPHD faculty members at the National Council on Family Relations National Conference in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Two Athletic Training majors presented at the Wisconsin Athletic Trainers’ Association and at the UW-System Undergraduate Research Symposia at UW-Stout.

IA majors presented posters at the Annual UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity at UW-River Falls and at the Annual Poster in the Rotunda 2008 event in Madison. Twenty-five clinical students presented case studies and research projects for the Ninth Annual Student presentation Day on April 7.

Teaching&LearningFocus on

CPS adopted a focus on teaching more than a dozen years ago after faculty noted that few University resources highlighted our teaching mission.

The College's placement rate in jobs or graduate schools nears 100 percent.

Across CPS, 613 students participated in record numbers—most using their own funds—in state and national professional conferences. Of those, 32 made presentations at the conferences.

The UWSP chapter of Kappa Delta Pi won a second national Achieving Excellence Award, which was presented to our representatives at the biennial convocation in Louisville, Kentucky, last November. The UWSP chapter is one of only 22 chapters (of 567 worldwide) to receive the award.

The Student Wisconsin Education Association (STWEA) received the Outstanding Newsletter award from the National Education Association.

The Wisconsin Education Association named Maggie Beeber Outstanding Advisor of the Year and gave StWEA its Outstanding Newsletter of the Year award.

Josh Cole was recognized as a NASPE Major of the Year at the 2008 convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation,and Dance.

Michele Holzer was named the Wisconsin Student Representative to the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association. She will serve a three-year term.

CLS students won several prestigious awards. One student won one of 34 Emil von Behring Scholarships and another CLS student won one of five Dade Behring Legacy Scholarships; both awards were made by the American Society for Clinical Pathologists. Six CLS Medical Technology students received the American Society for Clinical Pathologists' National Honor Award, which recognizes students in the laboratory sciences who demonstrate academic excellence and

a commitment to community service and leadership activities. Another CLS student was awarded the state Clinical Laboratory Managers' Association Scholarship.

Four sports placed in the top 10 nationally: men’s cross country—6th, baseball—9th, women’s soccer—9th, and wrestling—10th.

UWSP placed 15th in the Director’s Cup, which ranks the overall athletics programs of Division III institutions. This marks the 11th consecutive year that UWSP has been in the top 25 in the Director's Cup.

UWSP qualified teams or athletes to NCAA tournament competition in 12 different sports. Men’s swimming and diving won a conference title, and baseball and women’s basketball won conference tournaments.

The 1600-meter relay team of Brad Koback, Nicholas Ver Duin, Pat Leonard, and Kyle Steiner ran to victory at the 2008 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, giving men's track its first national championship since 1988.

ExcellenceStudent-Centered

College of Professional Studies students exhibit their potential in so many ways: by achieving high academic goals, by participating in the professional arenas to which they aspire, and by being among the very best in the activities in which they participate.

Most College of Professional Studies programs require students to take national qualifying exams before entering the profession. These exam provides a measure of each program’s achievement. In 2007–2008, CPS students continued to score well above the national average.

National Exam Pass Rates: 2007–08UWSP National

CLS 95 70Speech-Language 100 75Audiology 100 70Dietetics 98 84Athletic Training 90 39

Communicative disorders students provided hearing screenings through United Migrant Services and worked with speakers of other languages on speech patterns.

SOE gained two new positions to recruit and retain diverse students and to promote cultural awareness and strategies for faculty members engaging with students of diversity.

The Interior Architecture program attracted international students from Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, and China. The Division maintained its strong connection with UWSP International Programs, which facilitates the London Internship program.

The 2008 summer short-term study abroad program focused on art and architecture in Northern Italy. Interior Architecture professor Kathe Julin and Larry Ball from the Department of Art & Design facilitated the program for 28 students.

General degree Interior Architecture courses on minority cultures in the United States and non-Western design continued to emphasize the importance of cultural diversity and its impact on design.

Several majors are incorporating a diversity objective into their classes. HPHD has incorporated this objective into all of its classes, and HESA is on the way to that goal.

HPHD faculty members led study abroad programs to Austria and Mexico. Anne Abbott participated on a UW system-wide committee that assessed campus climate issues. Marty Loy participated in a UW-System symposium on cultural diversity in the curriculum. HPHD also hired its first international faculty member, Chinese citizen Cuiting Li, who will join the faculty in fall 2008.

Minority students represent nearly 9 percent of the Health Sciences student enrollment, and retaining minority students remains a focus in Health Sciences' student advising.

Military Science made recruiting visits to Milwaukee- and Chicago-area high schools, offering scholarships to qualified students who want to pursue a commission at UWSP. This effort paid off with our first three four-year scholarship cadets since 2004; two of the three are minority students. Military Science also sent four cadets overseas this year for cultural immersion training at sites throughout the world.

HESA continues to support study abroad experiences through course support by offering WL 199 opportunities for students on semester abroad experiences. In addition, Rory Suomi lead a semester-long program in Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand in spring 2008; HESA is evaluating the possibility of leading students in educational experiences in England and Jamaica next year.

As many as eight Athletic Training students will travel to Beijing to volunteer at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Senior Physical Education major Matt Goodness did mission work in Ecuador and Peru. Senior Athletic Training major Amy Statz did medical mission work in Guatemala.

International FocusDiversity

The College recognizes that interaction with diverse people enriches and strengthens students and faculty experiences. The nearly 60 CPS students who participated in international experiences this year learned first-hand the value of global citizenship.

Individual & CommunityWellnessNaturalpreserving

ResourcesHPHD reestablished a campus wellness committee that included representation from the personnel, safety, and employee wellness departments, as well as our primary campus insurer, Security Health. Employee Wellness wrote and distributed a health newsletter to all employees and ran several successful wellness programs, including a nutrition and healthy cooking class, a “Hold the Stuffing" diet program, and a Walk at Work Day event.

The IA Division strongly focuses on designing for sustainability and healthy environments through its curriculum and extracurricular activities. In studio courses, students apply sustainability concepts to the livable spaces they design with the larger community in mind. The current elective course on sustainable design, taught by Tom Brown, will become a required upper-level course, effective Spring 2009. All faculty emphasize sustainable design aspects in the courses they teach, while some faculty continue to research extensively on

the subject. IA faculty made several presentations on green design, and an honors program student, Layla Hainchek, recently worked with Kathe Julin in a research project on sustainable aspects of design.

The recent renovation of a Interior Architecture classroom included energy efficient lighting, natural flooring material, and low-VOC paints. The student resource room is continuously updated with sustainable products.

A large part of the ROTC curriculum focuses on maintaining health, from diet to fitness to leading a balanced life. Each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning throughout the school year, the Department of Military Science meets at the Health Enhancement Center for the Military fitness class offered by the department. The class challenges cadets to push themselves to achieve personal fitness goals while preparing for a physically demanding career as an officer.

We received substantial gifts adding to or establishing endowments this fiscal year from a community member interested in athletics, Jerry and Chris Chappell, the Gorectke family, Ken and Sandy Falkinham, Marilyn Kapter, and Patricia Okray. Our thanks to all.

At fiscal year end, we had received 1,106 gifts from 722 donors. The previous fiscal year we received 1,326 gifts from 975 donors. However, this fiscal year we received a total of $331,976.82 in cash, stocks, pledged and matching gifts pledged, while last year within the same time period we received a total of $253,410.84 in the same categories.

The Traditions of Excellence campaign—though in the quiet phase of major gift solicitation—has been well received and continues to generate excitement campus-wide. With two primary focal points—basketball and wrestling facilities and equipment—and two important names to honor—Jack and Dick Bennett and John Roberts—this campaign promises to continue to open

doors for Pointer athletics and showcase an important student activity. Our activities have led to significant contact with about 40 top prospective donors. In addition, we have had more than 50 personal meetings with prospective athletic donors, not including attendance at a kickoff athletics campaign event.

Anticipating the addition of the Division of Business and Economics, a letter introducing the Dean and initial activities was sent to key alumni, donors, and friends.

Excellence mailings to Schools of Education, Communicative Disorders, and Athletics alumni have generated thousands of unrestricted dollars to support the majors. This year was one of prospecting: mailing to alumni who may have a predilection to give, but have not in the past. Because gifts continue to arrive, preliminary findings would not be based on final data, but a best guess is that a specific request builds awareness of the opportunity as well as additional support.

CPS DevelopmentDeepening Connections:

The first Health Science majors graduated on May 18, 2008. Graduates included three in Pre-Physical Therapy; three in Pre-Occupational Therapy; and two in Health Care Administration. Enrollment in all of the options is increasing. Twenty-five CLS majors joined the workforce as practicing professionals. The demand for Clinical Laboratory Scientists remains high, with many of the May graduates securing positions of employment months prior to graduation. The Health Sciences Department continues to pursue entitlement for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing.

Communicative Disorders received 43 applications to the joint Au.D. program. Of that number, we have accepted 5 new students in the fall, and Madison has accepted 10 new students.

The graduate speech-language pathology program had 93 applications, from which we chose 25 new students.

The School of Education is dedicating two new positions to diversity and attending to high-demand certification areas. Major new programs will be announced next year.

The School of Health, Exercise Science, and Athletics reports 100 percent placement of graduates in physical education and athletic training.

The athletic program finished 15th in the NCAA Division III Director’s Cup standings out of 441 campuses. Information on the many individual and team championships our students achieved is available at www.uwsp.edu/athletics/.

The School of Health Promotion and Human Development's Human and Community Resources graduate program is now a leadership program for nonprofit personnel. The School has also created a new graduate-level certification in Family and Consumer Sciences for working adults.

The Division of Interior Architecture will offer the BFA in Interior Architecture, the only degree of its kind in the state of Wisconsin. The degree program requires only six additional credits to the existing curriculum for BA/BS degrees. The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) selected Patricia Kluetz as the 2007–2008 ASID Faculty Advisor of the Year out of more than 550 ASID chapters in the USA and Canada.

The Department of Military Science had a particularly successful year, as demonstrated by the placement of cadets high on the National Order of Merit List (OML). This placement, combined with other quality indicators, led the Brigade Commander to designate the program as the top small Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Program in the four-state area covered by the Brigade.

Program

Each College of Professional Studies program area makes a full report on its annual accomplishments; see http://www.uwsp.edu/cps/about/reports/. Here are some highlights.

Highlights

Renovation Funding, 2007–2008

New floor for MAC $880,000

New floors for Berg and Quandt Gym 57,000

Softball dugouts 25,000

Athletic Training Room floor 25,000

New health promotion faculty office 15,000

CLS Lab chairs 4,000

SOE meeting room 5,000

IA classroom technology 6,000

Soccer bleachers 25,000

Health science equipment 8,060

New floor for football locker room 25,000

Cardio-equipment-mounted LCDs 7,000

Classroom upgrades 8,849

Health Science lab/health information system 85,000

Renovate Communicative Disorders Clinic waiting area 9,100

Business and Economics Department move $4,800

CPS room 231, construct office $5,600

CPS room 444, conference room $9,750

CPS Café $10,000

Total 1,215,159

of theCampusLife and Look

During 2007–2008, CPS received $820,081 for improvements in facilities, support for teaching and scholarship, and partnerships.

Internal Funds, 2007–2008

Undergraduate Initiative Funds $10,595

Faculty Recruitment/Retention 11,000

Faculty Computer Replacements 48,654

Lab/Classroom Modernization (Anatomy Lab) 59,368

CPS-Continuing Education funds to departments/college 164,106

Grant Overhead Monies 2,083

PDN Grants for Hybrid Course Training/new ventures 60,000

UWSP Technology Grants 9,000

New Positions in Health Sciences 190,800

New Position in Health Promotion 58,822

New Half-time Position in Health Science Advising 21,469

New diversity positions in School of Education 177,800

UWSP UPDC 8,467

Total $822,164

Individual Extramural Grants/Gifts, 2007–2008

JoAnne Katzmarek (SOE)—Recruitment/retention of Hmong-Americans into teacher education $31,414

Maggie Beeber (SOE)—National Endowment for the Arts $1,000

Perry Cook (ED)—science education $25,000

Annie Wetter (HPHD)—Validating TestWell $38,000

Total $95,414

UWSupport

Outside

Education students raised funds to promote literacy in area schools and with many classroom projects.

Clinical Laboratory Science students sponsored blood drives and raised money for local and international needs. Through partnerships established with the Marshfield Clinic, the American Red Cross, the Portage County Literacy Council, the Portage County Health and Human Services Department, UWSP Health Services, and others, the Department of Health Sciences helped to complete projects and research studies of vital interest to the community.

Communicative Disorders students provided speech/language and hearing services for preschoolers and children in the Stevens Point Area School District, for the Wisconsin Special Olympics, and for Ministry Home Care. The Clinic served 356 people with speech services and 494 with hearing services. The School also operates a lending program for equipment for adults with degenerative diseases.

Interior Architecture students and faculty volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, Operation Bootstrap Holiday Baskets, Historic Preservation, and Relay for Life/American Cancer Society fundraisers.

Military Science students volunteered in numerous Color Guards and adopted a highway cleanup.

Student athletes volunteered in the Athlete Reading Program in elementary schools, for Special Olympics, and as part of athletic camps for kids.

Physical Education and Athletic Training students were involved in Fit Kids Challenge Day, the Operation Bootstrap Food Drive, the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, Adopt-A-Highway, and the American Heart Association's Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser.

Community service continued to be a cornerstone of the HPHD curriculum as students provided nearly 10,000 hours through fieldwork, practica, service learning, and volunteering. HPHD students contributed significant time to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, the March of Dimes, Operation Bootstrap, the Audubon Society, The National Wellness Institute, Walk Wisconsin, Camp HOPE, and the Stevens Point Alternative School.

ServiceCommunity

Students and faculty in CPS are in helping professions, so they naturally find ways to help our communities. Tens of thousands of hours are devoted to these worthy activities.

Joan North, Dean, 715-346-3169Kathy Buenger, Director of Development, 715-346-2130

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