Emily Johnson joined the faculty of UW-L’s Psychology Department as an instructor in 1990 making this her 25 th year of service. She became a ranked faculty member in 1997. Prior to earning her doctorate in Child and Family Studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison she had experience in both Head Start and as an elementary school teacher. She holds a Master’s in Education from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities after obtaining a bachelor’s degree from
UW-Stevens Point.
A tireless advocate for student learning, she is known for “tinkering” with her classes every semester and was in her office until midnight THIS semester making changes to her syllabi.
Emily has prepped and taught over 15 courses while UW-L. Of particular note is Emily’s career- long devotion to high quality advising. She was the main innovator in the psychology department behind a course on the major, an online tutorial, the psychology advising center, and training new faculty to be good developmental advisors. Related to high quality advising, is
Emily’s passion for liberal education. She was UW-L Director of General Education for many years and heavily involved in local, regional, state-wide and national liberal arts promotions.
She stewarded UW-L’s development of student learning outcomes for the general education program.
Emily’s area of expertise is developmental psychology. She has a deep love for children and their healthy development. Her scholarship reflects her interests in development, advising and liberal arts curricula.
Emily’s service to the university is both wide and deep. She served as the chair of the psychology department, several faculty senate committees, and, as noted, the director of general education. In recent years, Emily led a study tour to India and has devoted considerable service to UW-L’s committee on international education. Emily is an avid reader and an animal lover.
Her husband, Barry and son Kai are proud supports of her career and achievements.
The department will remember Emily in her office with a student, an Advisement Report on a computer screen and a discussion of the student’s life goals as the sound track for the scene.
Carol K. Oyster moved to La Crosse with her daughter and joined the faculty of UW-L’s
Psychology Department in 1989. She holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology from
Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles, and master’s and doctoral degrees in social psychology from the University of Delaware. Since 2009, Oyster has been UW-L’s director of the

Institute for Ethnic and Racial Studies, chair of the Ethnic and Racial Studies (ERS) Department and adviser to the Student Veterans Association. Her work with ERS is associated with the establishment of a department and a growth in both faculty and students. Carol continued to try new ideas and activities in her courses through her last semester. She has prepped over 20 classes while at UW-L. Oyster’s area of scholarly expertise is stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination. She has authored two textbooks, one on research design and the other on group dynamics; co-authored a trade book on women, firearms and feminism; and co-edited an award-winning encyclopedia on women in today’s world. Carol’s service to the university is wide and varied but is best captured by her passion and advocacy for Veteran’s issues. In her spare time, Oyster enjoys spending time with her dog and cat, both rescue animals. She also engages in a number of crafts, including knitting, quilting and fabric sculpture. Her daughter
Katherine is a physician and a proud supporter of her mother.
Don Sloan served as the Department of Art's Art Historian since the fall of 2004, teaching 15 different art history and Gen Ed courses since that time. Before that he attended the University of Kansas (BA 1970, MA 1999, PhD, 2004) and Yale Law School (JD 1976). For twenty-years he practiced law in California, and then decided to pursue art history and university teaching as a second career. Nearly 3,000 students have taken his classes while he has been here at UW-L.
Tim began employment at UW-L on July 1, 2000 as an advisor in the Deans’ Offices of the
College of Science and Health (50% time) and the College of Liberal Studies/School of Arts and
Communication (50% time). In 2005, he became a full time advisor in the CLS/SAC Dean’s office. Tim has been responsible for supporting advising in the SAC and the departments of
English, Modern Languages, Psychology, Philosophy and Economics. He has advised new transfer students, completed credit checks and degree verifications, organized faculty/staff participation for Campus Close-Up events, and assisted with a variety of other academic advising-related events and activities in the College.
Tim has been an active member of the Wisconsin Academic Advising Association and held every officer position in the organization except treasurer. He has also been a member of the UW-L
Academic Staff.
Dr. Bill Zollweg has had a long an illustrious career since joining the UW-L Sociology faculty in
1982. Over the past 33 years his work has consistently revolved around the theme of service to others. At the university and the department, he has worked to increase the quality of mentorship and professional development for his colleagues through both individual mentoring as well as directly helping to develop fair and useful policies and procedures. As an Applied

Sociologist, Bill's contributions are found in the many programs he helped to develop or that drew upon his expertise as a consultant. His most recent and perhaps most well-known contributions came in the area of community programs addressing alcohol and drug addiction.
Specifically, Bill was instrumental in the establishment of local area drug and alcohol diversion courts. His work in this area earned him both a state and national reputation in the areas of drug courts and, more generally, in restorative justice. Bill's primary passion, however, has always been his teaching. Over the years Bill taught classes on marriage and family, sociology of sport, small group dynamics, and contemporary theory. Additionally, he spent decades developing and refining the senior research experience course, and was the driving force behind the development of the current senior option courses that have earned our students offers from top graduate programs and helped them get solid job offers in a wide variety of occupations. However, his best known classes in recent years were his Sociopharmacology course which focused on drugs and addiction in contemporary society, and the introductory
Social World course. The Social World course, in particular, always seemed to be his favorite as he helped guide students towards developing and applying the sociological perspective.
Students consistently gave this course high marks, students were often found in Bill's office talking with him about a wide variety of current issues and events, and many were encouraged to enter CLS and to declare Sociology as a major or minor as a result of his guidance and encouragement.