A top executive from Sentry Insurance shared his “View from the Top” with more than 100 students from the UW-Stevens Point School of Business & Economics on Nov. 20. Jim Weishan, executive vice president and CIO at Sentry Insurance, oversees Sentry’s financial investments and its charitable foundation. He shared how he progressed through his career […]
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They serve macaroons at McDonald’s in France. No kidding; we couldn’t believe it! Just to clarify we only went into McDonald’s in Paris in the first place because we heard about the macaroons and just had to try. Now I’m no macaroon connoisseur, but we had one in the group and she said they […]
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m involved in stuff. At the end of my last post I mentioned the importance of involvement with student organizations here on campus. I guess I realized as I continued to think about it that my feelings on the subject are more than what fits into a little blurb at […]
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At stronggggg advisal from my parents, I spent my first year of college at a two-year in the UW system, about a 15-minute drive from the town where I grew up, Slinger, Wis. I commuted in my beat-up old Dodge Neon and lived at home. I transferred to UW-Stevens Point for my sophomore year rather […]
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Although I like to think I’m a worldly, cultured person, the truth is I’m a small-town Midwestern girl who has yet to venture outside the border of the U.S. As pathetic as it may sound, it’s probably true for most of us. While I get the opportunity to go to Spain this January, there are […]
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Future teachers from the UW-Stevens Point School of Education gained valuable professional development on “Practical Tips for Teaching Diverse Students” at the fall forum on Tuesday, Nov. 12. [Photo Gallery] Breakout sessions included: Professor Maysee Herr, education strategies for immersion experiences in culture, based on Camp Phoojywg-Friend Professor Kimiko Ott, Diversity and classroom/school issues Mary […]
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As I mentioned in blog #1, I am currently involved in an internship at a charity named emerge poverty free here in London. It has been an extremely interesting experience thus far, and I’d like to talk about it just a bit. First off, to be honest I was very nervous about this internship; I […]
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As you know, I’ve been studying social entrepreneurship in my Business 390 course, Business Ethics, with Professor Lyna Matesi. A few weeks ago, we had Wayne Kostroski, Taste of the NFL founder, come into our classroom for a two-part presentation on social entrepreneurship, ethical business practices and general life lessons. He drew on his life […]
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A group of 27 family & consumer sciences students from UW-Stevens Point and UW-Stout attended the Wisconsin Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Student Unit Conference on Nov. 9 in Stevens Point. The event was student planned and included three guest speakers who spoke of the value and importance of an FCS education, discussed various […]
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I’ve always been big on signing up for things. This is probably the first thing and possibly the most important thing to understand about me, other than my awful, dry, and sarcastic sense of humor. My friend Ryan Specht, with whom I worked on an independent writing credit, suggested last spring semester that I consider […]
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