Category Archives: Communicative Disorders

CPS Dean’s List announced for Spring 2015

Dean's List

Spring semester grades are in and a total of 482 students had a GPA over 3.75, including 158 with a perfect 4.0, to earn dean’s list honors at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Professional Studies. Congratulations to all! Dean’s List by major (number of 4.0): Athletic Training: 22 (8) Accounting: 23 (5) Business […]

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Chancellor’s Leadership Award honors 2015 graduates

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Each semester, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s best and brightest student leaders are presented with the Chancellor’s Leadership Award. This spring, 16 students from the College of Professional Studies have been selected for this honor. These students are a select group of graduating seniors who throughout their careers at UWSP have contributed significant leadership, demonstrated […]

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A tribute for the alumni heroes of the School of Communicative Disorders

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This declaration and dedication for you alumni speech and language and audiology heroes of Communicative Disorders, is now and forever, one of truth and reality. Perhaps you came to study at UW-Stevens Point determined to become a specialist who could help the handicapped, and it was communicative disorders wherein you became enwrapped. As students, whichever […]

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Defeating Cancer with Optimism: Student Earns CPS Heroes Award

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By Ashley Remington ’15 Graduate school is challenging in itself, but not too much for University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point speech-language pathology student Alysa Firkus—even while fighting the battle of a lifetime. In March 2014, during her second semester in the UW-Stevens Point School of Communicative Disorders master’s program, Alysa was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Choosing […]

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Scholarships, awards earned by communicative disorders students

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The UW-Stevens Point School of Communicative Disorders presented nearly $20,000 in scholarships at its 2015 Awards Reception Sunday, April 26 in the Dreyfus University Center Alumni Room. [Photo Gallery] A School Tradition: The School of Communicative Disorders developed the tradition of giving student and alumni awards in 1967 and expanded that tradition significantly in 1982. […]

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Dean’s List released for College of Professional Studies

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The grades are in for the 2014 fall semester and a total of 580 students had a GPA over 3.75, including 171 with a perfect 4.0, to earn dean’s list honors at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Professional Studies. Congratulations to all! Dean’s List by major (number of 4.0): Athletic Training: 29 (4) […]

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Point to the Future! Trends in Teaching and Learning

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Teach. Learn. And learn to teach. That’s what the faculty and staff did at the 19th Annual UW-Stevens Point Teaching Conference “Point To The Future! Trends in Teaching and Learning” held in the Dreyfus University Center on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. [Photo Gallery] The Teaching Conference Planning Committee assembled various panel discussions and presentations that […]

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Listening to her passion: Lucy Woerfel ’17

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By Ashley Remington ’15 “I didn’t always know what an audiologist was, but I always knew I wanted to be one,” said Lucy Woerfel ’17. When she was in the fifth grade, her two-year-old cousin Billy was diagnosed as being severely hearing impaired, igniting a passion that would determine her education and future career. “It […]

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King named new associate dean of School of Communicative Disorders

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Julia King, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, was appointed as the associate dean and department head of the UW-Stevens Point School of Communicative Disorders, announced College of Professional Studies Dean Marty Loy. As associate dean and department chair, King will lead the faculty, staff and students in the School of Communicative Disorders (ComD) in their mission as a premier […]

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More than 500 students earn CPS Dean’s List honors

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The grades are in for the spring semester and a total of 506 students had a GPA over 3.75, including 173 with a perfect 4.0, to earn dean’s list honors at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Professional Studies. Congratulations to all! Dean’s List by major (number of 4.0): Athletic Training: 17 (5) Accounting: […]

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