Save the Date: 2011 First-Year Experience Conference

This one is a ways off, but well-worth marking down: the 2011 First-Year Experience Conference, sponsored by the Center for the First-Year Experience, Friday, November 11, 2011 at the Pyle Center.

I had the opportunity to teach radio production to first-year students in an innovative First-Year Interest Group (FIG) program last fall. It was a personally enriching experience and we all (instructors and students) alike got a lot out of the course. To read more about my department’s participation in the FIG program, click here.

Back to classes but with added financial stresses

Students and faculty are heading back to classes today at UW-Madison in what has been a tumultuous year in Wisconsin. The effects of Wisconsin Act 10, which strips public sector workers (including graduate assistants) of our collective bargaining rights, are only now beginning come to pass.

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