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Being a CPS Student

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Hola chicos, I love being a student at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I know I’ve said that before and I’ve described countless times what it is like to be a student here at this wonderful university. However I don’t often talk about specifically what it is like to be a part of the College of […]

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Studying Abroad: Thinking Ahead

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Hola Chicos, In case I haven’t made it obvious by now, I love traveling. I love to study abroad. I love everything about it. I have been on a short-term program and a long-term program in these past three years at UW-Stevens Point. I think studying abroad is a vital part of going to college […]

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Alum earns fellowship from Phi Kappa Phi

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A 2013 graduate of UW-Stevens Point has been awarded a fellowship worth $5,000 by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi — the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Devin Christensen, who received bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and economics from the UW-Stevens Point, is continuing his studies in political […]

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Goodbye Learners!

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On Wednesday we said our goodbyes to the learners and teachers at The School For the Visually Impaired. It was bittersweet. I have no idea where the last three and a half weeks went, but I enjoyed every second of it. The day started very quiet, as the students knew later on they would have […]

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Goodbye to Namibia

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Today we said goodbye to the learners at The School for the Visually Impaired in Namibia. Our hearts broke, to say the least. I can’t believe the month is already up and that we are headed back to the United States tomorrow. The students have learned so much from us, but we have learned even […]

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Wrapping Up Week Three

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        Last week everyone rotated classrooms. We were all assigned a new classroom that did not have university students. We wanted all the learners to feel involved. As much as we were just getting to know our first class, we really did not want to make any of the learners feel left out. Our first […]

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NISE

For the past 20 days we have been working within the School for the Visually Impaired. Over the duration of this week we were able to tour Moreson, the School for the Mentally Impaired, and the School for the Hearing Impaired, all incorporated under National Institute for Special Education (NISE). These three special schools are […]

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NEEDED: Tissues, lotion and the WJIII

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To be honest, it has been an emotional few days at National Institute for Special Education (NISE). The learners are still a little riled up from their long weekend (“out weekend”) and the teachers are becoming accustomed to having us around, but today we got to see, for the first time, the depths of some […]

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Cue “The Lion King” opening credits: African Safari

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When the 5 a.m. alarm rang on Saturday morning I don’t think any of us realized how indescribable the next 12 hours would be. It was the ever anticipated safari day and lucky was an understatement. We entered Etosha National Park, over 100 square miles of free range parkland, around 6:30 a.m. with all our […]

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