Administrative &
Student Life Services
News from the Vice Chancellor
In
the Shadow of Thomas Micek
Diane Moen, Vice Chancellor
In this issue:
UW-Stout & the
Environment
2
Great News!
2
New Employees
3
Red Cedar Hall Award
4
News from the Vice Chancellor
is published quarterly for
ASLS Division employees.
Publisher: Diane Moen
Vice Chancellor
moend@uwstout.edu
(715) 232-1683
Editor: Raina Clark
Communications Specialist
clarkra@uwstout.edu
(715) 232-1681
225 Administration Building
Menomonie, WI 54751
Fax: (715) 232-1527
You could call Tom Micek, of academic
custodial, the king of campus recycling.
He drives a new recycling truck,
complete with a lift; a fuzzy, black and
white striped seat cover; and a picture of
his 11-year-old daughter,
Sammy, taped to the dash.
Last year, he and his
colleagues recycled over
six thousand pounds of
aluminum, tin, glass, and
plastic from the academic
areas and more than 224
thousand pounds of paper
campus-wide.
Two weeks ago I tagged
along with Tom on his
route. He has 20 stops on
campus, mainly in academic
facilities.
Tom also took me along on his regular
trip to the Dunn County Recycling Center
where he drops off five to seven hundred
pounds of cardboard each trip.
He says his new recycling truck is
working out great. Much better than the
U-haul truck he had to drive for several
months. The State required Stout to use
the rented vehicle while they decided if
we could replace an old van that burst into
flames on Tom’s route in 2005.
While we drove in the new shiny, white
vehicle, Tom explained that
this has been one of his
favorite jobs in his 29 years
at Stout.
For the past two years he
has enjoyed the variety of
the recycling position and
all the different people he
works with.
Tom says he has 16 more
paychecks coming. Then
he will be enjoying the
company of his children
and his wife, Sharon. He
will also be spending more time on his 17
½ acre homestead between Menomonie
and Downsville.
Still, I can tell that he will miss his
recycling route with all the waving and
hollering back and forth with coworkers
and buddies.
Jarvis Hall Science Wing
Fall 2006
The Division of State Facilities (DSF) is soliciting proposals from architectural/engineering firms for the design of the Jarvis Hall Science Wing Renovation and Addition.
Three UW-Stout representatives attended the preliminary screening of applicants on
October 19, 2006 in Madison.
UW-Stout will provide tours of the Jarvis Hall Science Wing and an overview of the
project to interested firms on October 31, 2006. DSF, UW System, and UW-Stout will vote
on the selection of a firm on November 17, 2006 in Madison.
Design work is estimated to begin in June 2007 and substantial completion and
occupancy is planned for June 2011.
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UW-Stout & the Environment
Last year we recycled…
224,215
pounds of mixed paper
51,485
pounds of scrap metal
and wood
38,740
pounds of corrugated
cardboard
6,127
pounds of aluminum,
tin, glass, and plastic
UW-Stout has the lowest
energy usage of any UW
comprehensive campus.
The Administrative & Student Life
Services division contributes to an
environmentally sound university.
Here are just a few examples:
A Jeff Russell Leadership &
Professional Development group
took on the charge of recommending
energy conservation measures that
engage the campus community and
increase our energy efficiency.
Building maintenance installed
motion sensing light switches in most
of the rest rooms, storage rooms, and
service areas in the Residence Halls,
Student Center, and Commons.
Instead of going to the dump, the
heating plant’s waste ash is picked
up by a local excavating company
to be reused in roads and other
construction projects.
Great News!
►
Wendy Knutson, Institutional Planning Associate, will be presenting at the 2006 conference for the
Association for Institutional Research in the Upper Midwest. Wendy, of the Business, Planning &
Analysis office, will present jointly with Char Schmidt, Assistant Professor. They will discuss their
work, “Student Engagement at UW-Stout: A Phenomenological Study.”
► In July, Joel Heuschele, Financial Program Supervisor in the Business & Financial Services office,
earned his Certified Public Accountant license through the Department of Regulation and Licensing.
► Four members of the University Housing staff served on committees in the Upper Midwest Region-
Association of College and University Housing Officers. They will represent UW-Stout at the annual
conference in Coralville, Iowa in late October.
Martin Fritz—Awards & Recognition Committee
Ann Marie Hoffman—Comprehensive Training Committee (Chair)
Kelly Podach—Newsletter Committee
Don Francis—Information Technology Committee
► Darrin Witucki, Senior Student Services Coordinator, presented at the fall workshop of the
Indianhead Federated Library System. Darrin spoke about the characteristics of the millennial generation (those born between 1982 and 2002), and strategies for working with and serving people of
different generations
► Meridith Wentz, Director of Budget, Planning & Analysis, co-authored an article with Provost
Furst-Bowe in University Business magazine. The article is titled “Beyond Baldrige: What the first
institution of higher education to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award has learned
in the five years since.” You can find the article at www2.universitybusiness.com under the October
featured articles section.
► The stats are in from the 2005-2006 ACT Student Opinion Survey. Within the Administrative &
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Student Life Services division, recreation and intramural sports was the highest ranked program or
service. Student health services and food services at UW-Stout both rated higher than the national and
peer comparative groups. Personal security and safety on our campus, as well as several areas related
to facilities, also out-ranked similar institutions in the survey.
Welcome!
Please help welcome the following new employees to the ASLS Division:
Cindy Wangen ran her
own restaurant and
bakery in Prairie Farm,
Wisconsin for 10 years.
Now she prepares
scrumptious baked goods
from Stout’s Student
Cindy Wangen Center kitchens as a
new permanent employee. Cindy grew up in
Prairie Farm and has also lived in Chetek.
She started at Stout in 2005 as an LTE.
Angelina
ngelina Symicek is
Physical Plant’s new
half-time environmental
health specialist. She
has performed surveys
and audits for companies
world-wide as a health
Angelina Symicek and safety consultant.
Angelina graduated from the Milwaukee
School of Engineering and is a Certified
Safety Professional with licences in the
asbestos and hazardous waste field. She grew
up in Milwaukee and moved to River Falls
a year and a half ago. She and her husband,
Alan, enjoy caring for their farm animals
including a horse, mule, chickens, steer, and a
pet cockatiel.
Tami Seehaver is also
a new Food Service
Assistant in the Price
Commons. She is from
the Colfax area where
she lives with her other
half, Dave Lee; her
Tami Seehaver 13-year-old daughter,
Abbie; 11-year-old son, Austin; and her dog,
Bear. Tami says she is a big Packers fan
and her family loves camping, fishing, and
anything outdoors.
Lynn Bonjour is one of
Dining Services’ newest
Food Service Assistants.
She grew up in historic
Galena, Illinois but
has called Menomonie
home for the past 14
Lynn Bonjour years. For the past 10
years she has worked
ed at Stout as an LTE and
temporary worker. Lynn is married with two
adult children and one grandson and enjoys
spending time with her family. She is also a
fan of yoga and gardening.
Janie
nie Gilbert just started
in the Price Commons
kitchen as a Food
Service Assistant, but
says she already really
enjoys it. She grew up in
Wabasha, Minnesota and
Janie Gilbert lived there until 1989.
After she married, she moved to Downsville
where she worked at the Creamery for seven
years. Jane likes gardening, pets, and the
great outdoors and has a daughter who keeps
her busy.
Debra Friedli says she
is looking forward to
being part of the UDS
team as the new front of
the house service lead
at Tainter Dining. Deb
is a graduate of Colfax
High School and comes
Debra Friedli
from the food industry
in the Colfax area. Deb and her husband,
Wesly, have one son, Blake, and a granddog,
Sam. Blake is 22 and in the manager trainee
program at Wal-Mart. Deb enjoys tubing the
Red Cedar, campfires, and cooking.
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Diane Moen, Vice Chancellor
225 Administration Building
Menomonie, WI 54751
(715) 232-1683
Fax: (715) 232-1527
moend@uwstout.edu
People working together
for service excellence and
innovation.
Red Cedar Hall Award
Red Cedar Hall will be featured as a citation winner in the 2006 American School & University
Architectural Portfolio, due in print in late
November.
The Architectural Portfolio competition for
school design showcases the very best in educational interiors and construction.
UW-Stout’s newest residence hall was designed by ESG Architects, Inc. of Minneapolis
and SDS Architects of Eau Claire with a great
deal of input from students and the Student
Life Services staff.
The American School & University
Architectural Portfolio jury was impressed
with Red Cedar Hall’s communal kitchen layout.
They commented that “the design really
focuses on getting students together, which can
be a problem with suite/apartment living.”
Scott Griesbach, Director of University
Housing, said “we did focus groups with
students and the communal kitchens were an
outgrowth of those discussions. Building community is vital to our mission so we created
these areas to draw students out of their suites.”