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Why Analytics Matter to Small Businesses

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Kit Kiefer

Analytics gives you the power to grow in two strategic areas. It helps you understand the growth your business has had and forecast the direction your company can take in the future. It is one of the hottest topics in business today. While it has always been a growing focus, the pandemic rapidly pushed it […]

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Students, professor help create translation guide for refugee families

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SLP students

Communication between Ukrainian refugees, their host families and agencies in European countries such as the Netherlands was helped by an unlikely source – the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Two graduate students in speech-language pathology and a professor helped create a “Refugee Dictionary.” It is a compilation of 124 […]

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Leader in Regional Economic Development

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Darrell Martin & Garrett Neta, MBA '21

The MBA program at UW-Stevens Point was developed with local economic impact in mind, including unique course offerings in business-to-business sales and marketing When the faculty members of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) School of Business and Economics (SBE) were exploring the addition of the Master of Business of Administration (MBA) degree, they knew […]

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School of Education hosts Academic Freedom in the Digital Age Thompson Speaker Event

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Academic Freedom event

Imagine our faculty members being put in prison–or even assassinated–just for being professors. That is what is happening in numerous countries around the world and was the topic at the “Academic Freedom in the Digital Age” event on Thursday, April 14 in the UW-Stevens Point Dreyfus University Center Theater. [View Photos] School of Education’s own […]

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Leading economist John List ’92 speaks about scaling ideas and The Voltage Effect

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John List

University of Chicago professor of economics, Walmart chief economist and UW-Stevens Point Distinguished Alumnus John List ’92 returned to campus March 3-4 to speak about his experiences of scaling great ideas and shared stories from the White House and Chicago Heights schools to Uber and Lift. [View Photos] List presented “The Voltage Effect: How to […]

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Educators Rising Summit held at UW-Stevens Point

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High school students from 18 school districts across the state explored future career opportunities in education at the 2022 Educators Rising Wisconsin Annual Summit and Competition Wednesday, March 2, hosted by the UW-Stevens Point School of Education. [View Photos] Intended for students in grades 9-12, the event focused on the theme “To Plant a Seed […]

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Faculty represent UWSP School of Ed at state reading conference

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The UW-Stevens Point School of Education was well represented at the 2022 Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference as literacy faculty and staff Mary Kenas, Jackie Sernau, Stacy Gray, Amber Garbe and Sarah Beaulieu attended the event on Feb. 3-5 in Milwaukee. Three faculty presented at the conference, which had a theme of “The Art of […]

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3 Ways to Enhance Culturally Responsive Teaching

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Middle and high school teachers can cultivate student agency to facilitate conversations about difficult subjects in history class. By Julia Benedith UW-Stevens Point Ed.D. candidate Jay Benedith writes about “3 Ways to Enhance Culturally Responsive Teaching” on Edutopia. Jay is in her third semester in the Educational Sustainability doctoral program and was one of the […]

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Alumni College Experiences: Marketing On A Professional and Personal Level

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As a part of the UW-Stevens Point Alumni Alumni College Experiences (ACE), Associate Professor of Business Ricardo Boeing reviews marketing on a professional and personal level in a three-part series. ACE is a program from the UW-Stevens Point Alumni Association that taps into and nurtures the desire for lifelong learning. ACE is an educational tool […]

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UW-Stevens Point professor: Openness to new experiences linked to gifted, talented students

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Uzeyir Ogurlu

If you are more open to trying new experiences, it could mean you among the more creative and gifted of the world, according to a new study by a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point education professor. Assistant Professor Uzeyir Ogurlu, an expert in gifted education, analyzed the personality differences of gifted students using the widely used […]

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