Hospital workers have been working long, stressful hours to provide care to COVID-19 patients. The last two years haven’t been easy for SSM Health nurses working at local hospitals. UW-Stevens Point RN to BSN student Treazure Kotlowski is a registered nurse working at SSM Health St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo. She says she’ll never forget the […]
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The January Stock Market (and Interest Rates)
The stock market has been up, down, and all around in January. For the week ending Jan. 21, 2022, the S&P 500, a benchmark for large company stocks (a large-cap index), fell 5.7% and the NASDAQ, a technology heavy stock index, declined 7.6%. That was the worst week for the market since the first quarter […]
More...Alumni College Experiences: Marketing On A Professional and Personal Level
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 […]
More...New transfer agreement between Mid-State and UW-Stevens Point creates affordable path to accounting bachelor’s degree
Mid-State Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have partnered to help accounting students more easily transfer to a four-year program to continue their education. The new transfer agreement allows students who earn their two-year associate in applied science degree in Accounting from Mid-State to begin as juniors in the Accounting major in the […]
More...UW-Stevens Point professor: Openness to new experiences linked to gifted, talented students
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 […]
More...Chancellor’s Leadership Award winners for fall 2021
Each semester, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s best and brightest student leaders are presented with the Chancellor’s Leadership Award. This semester, 21 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 UW-Stevens Point have contributed significant leadership, demonstrated […]
More...CBEI Central Wisconsin Fall 2021 Report
Interesting Times Recent times have been both interesting and challenging with the spread of the Delta variant interrupting a return to normalcy that we were all looking forward to. Now, the emergence of the Omicron variant promises to keep things interesting as we head into the holiday season and the new year. Speaking of interesting […]
More...UWSP School of Business and Economics Internship Expo – Fall 2021
A group of 26 fall interns from the UW-Stevens Point School of Business and Economics presented about their experiences during the SBE Internship Expo in the Dreyfus University Center Laird Room on Dec. 8, 2021. The event is an effort from the Anderson Classroom to Career Center and made possible thanks in part to a […]
More...Nearing the End
The finish line is near! Not only is my fellowship coming to an end in December but so is the semester. I am just one semester away from graduating with my undergrad and it feels insanely crazy. It feels like just yesterday I was moving into my freshman dorm worried if I was going to […]
More...The U.S. Economy: Like Nothing That You’ve Seen Part 3–Inflation
Inflation Overview There are two broad factors that affect prices – supply and demand. Generally, inflation is caused when there is a change to one of these factors. If the supply of goods is reduced for a given demand, prices (inflation) will increase until a higher price level is reached that balances the demand to […]
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