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UW-Whitewater
website offers slice of life
College recruiting
meets the MTV generation in a new UW-Whitewater website called "A
Day in the Life," a video glimpse into the lives of four undergraduate
students.
The website,
www.visit.uww.edu, a project
of the UW-Whitewater Office of Admissions, seeks to capture the
attention of prospective college students, who increasingly are
turning to the Internet as their first source of college information.
The site contains more than 50 video vignettes of the students,
who comment on everything from Monday-morning Spanish lab to attending
a "midnight madness" basketball practice.
A 2001 study
by UW System's market research office indicated that 80 percent
of high school students are garnering their first impression of
a college campus through the Internet.
Other notable
UW System websites
- Portal Wisconsin,
www.portalwisconsin.org,
is an online resource for Wisconsin's arts, culture, humanities
and history. Launched in January, the website is a collaborative
effort of Wisconsin's Cultural Coalition and funded by the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and
UW-Extension.
- UW-La Crosse
Associate Professor Tom Volk has one of the hottest websites when
it comes to fungi at www.tomvolkfungi.net.
The site has received many honors and awards, including a "Cool
Images Site" award from Science magazine.
- UW-Stevens
Point students can link to class and financial information and
other important websites through the new "myUWSP" campus
portal at http://my.uwsp.edu.
While the portal is designed primarily for students, employees
and alumni, anyone can use it to customize a home page.
- UW-Madison
has shifted to an Internet-based system to distribute student
grade reports. Students can view and print official copies of
their grade reports through the My UW-Madison portal at http://
my.wisc.edu. Students can also find e-mail, campus calendars
and information about class schedules, tuition and housing through
the portal.
- UW-Superior's
distance learning programs and online learning opportunities are
housed under its new Distance Learning Center to provide a single
point of contact. Visit www.uwsuper.edu
and select the "distance learning" link.
- UW-Richland's
website, www.richland.uwc.edu,
features "News Views," with photos and captions of recent
campus events. International students have been e-mailing their
families urging them to view the website to get a look at life
on campus.
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