http://www.lakeland.edu/ RSS feed of Lakeland College Academics news. en-us Copyright © 2008 Lakeland College Tue, 13 May 2008 10:23:41 CST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lakeland RSS Generator GallianettiDD@lakeland.edu webmaster@lakeland.edu http://www.lakeland.edu/images/template/lc_ltblue.gif http://www.lakeland.edu/ http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4512 Lakeland College and Lakeshore Technical College students teamed up to put nearly $1 million in to pockets of local taxpayers this spring as Lakeland's Voluntary Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program posted record numbers. From January 24 thru April 15, the student VITA volunteers prepared and filed 625 tax returns, up from 453 in 2007, at the Salvation Army in Sheboygan. The average... Wed, 07 May 2008 15:49:53 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4512 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4505 Lakeland College awarded degrees to 848 graduates on Sunday at the college's 146th Commencement Exercise. A total of 425 of the graduates participated in the 2 p.m. ceremony in the Todd Wehr Center. Lakeland awarded 627 undergraduate degrees, 448 to students that attended classes through Lakeland's Kellett School of Adult Education and 179 to students from the college's full-time... Mon, 05 May 2008 10:33:15 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4505 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4502 Lakeland College will award degrees to just under 850 graduates on Sunday at the college's 146th Commencement Exercise. A total of 425 of the 848 graduates eligible to receive diplomas are expected to participate in the 2 p.m. ceremony in the Todd Wehr Center. Lakeland will award 627 undergraduate degrees, 448 to students that attended classes through Lakeland's Kellett School of Adult... Fri, 02 May 2008 09:13:02 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4502 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4501 The Annual Lakeland College Student Art Exhibition opening reception was held on April 29 in the Bradley Art Gallery. There are 724 art works on display in the exhibition, which appears through May 22. The following awards were presented: Drawing I: Best Body of Work -Asami Tsutsui; honorable mention - Ashley Ader, Myly Her Drawing II: Best Body of Work -... Thu, 01 May 2008 10:50:38 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4501 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4444 Lakeland religion professor Karl Kuhn addresses one of the more fundamental issues on which Christians disagree - how to regard and read Scripture - in his new book, "Having Words with God." On one end of the spectrum, many argue that the entire Bible was dictated to human authors by God, and thus all of its elements are to be embraced as God's "inerrant" or... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:05:20 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4444 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4442 Lakeland College honored a number of students at its recent year-end Honors Convocation Banquet. The event, held near the end of the school year, recognizes students in each academic division at Lakeland for academic achievement. The following students received Outstanding Student Awards: Outstanding International Student for Academic Achievement and Leadership - Ndamyo Mwanyongo ... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:45:09 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4442 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4440 Peter Sattler, an associate professor of American literature and a Lakeland faculty member for a decade, is the 2008 winner of the annual Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. A champion of Lakeland's interdisciplinary core curriculum and a teacher that's driven to help students mature intellectually, Sattler is Lakeland's 17th winner of the Underkofler, an award that... Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:22:03 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4440 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4431 David Lehman, an accomplished poet and series editor of "The Best American Poetry," will deliver the commencement address at Lakeland College's 146th Commencement on Sunday, May 4. In addition to serving as series editor of "The Best American Poetry," which he initiated in 1988, he is general editor of the University of Michigan Press's Poets on Poetry Series. He is the author of several... Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:18:20 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4431 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4226 Holly Whitcomb, a pastor and clergywoman in the United Church of Christ for three decades, will deliver the annual Lakeland College Founder's Day Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 5. Whitcomb's address, entitled, "Being Present to Your Life: Spiritual Tools for the Spiritual Journey," will be at 11 a.m. in the Bradley Fine Arts Building on the Lakeland campus. The lecture is free and open... Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:11:23 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4226 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4143 Lakeland College will join over 1,500 college and university campuses around the U.S. participating in Focus the Nation, an unprecedented effort to discuss global warming solutions. The event is Jan. 31. Lakeland's Focus The Nation event is set for 11 a.m. in the Bradley Auditorium, and will include an introductory presentation by Environmental Science Professor Paul Pickhardt, followed by... Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:44:30 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4143 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4091 The Lakeland Science and Engineering Fair will be held on Saturday, February 16th 2008. For more information, please visit the official website: http://lcsef.lakeland.edu/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:26:44 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=4091 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3902 The Lakeland College Music Department will hold its annual Fall Music Concert on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 3 p.m. in the Bradley Fine Arts Building. The Lakeland College Concert Band, Concert Choir, Frauenchor and Schilcutt Handbells will all perform. The concert will open with the singing of the Lakeland College Alma Mater, conducted by 1988 graduate Lisa Landwehr, a music teacher in the... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:47:29 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3902 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3901 Rodney Clapp Whether talking about Elvis, the Eucharist, Christian hope, sex or reality TV, Rodney Clapp is insightful, funny, earthy, challenging and wise. Clapp, editorial director and cofounder of Brazos Press, a publishing house of ecumenical Christian books cast at the trade and academic levels, will deliver Lakeland College's Mission House Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 11... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:39:59 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3901 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3879 The investigation will get started with an anonymous tip, a meeting with law enforcement or maybe something as innocent as a bag of garbage. From there, 25 Lakeland College students on five teams will have four hours to work with special agents of the Internal Revenue Service to solve one of five hypothetical financial crimes. Lakeland will partner with the IRS Criminal Investigation... Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:51:43 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3879 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3867 The Great Lakes Writers Festival, Lakeland College's 10th annual celebration of the written word, will be held on Lakeland's campus, Nov. 1-2. This two-day event features several readings and workshops with guest authors Philip Dacey and Margaret Dawe, along with members of the Lakeland faculty. The Great Lakes Writers Festival is free and open to the public. Hosted by Karl Elder,... Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:21:53 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3867 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3828 Scott Niederjohn What better place to learn about money than the home of the Green and Gold? Green Bay Packers President Bob Harlan and Wisconsin State Treasurer Dawn Marie Sass will be part of a one-day conference on personal finance and economics education for K-12 teachers at the Lambeau Field Atrium on Wednesday, Oct. 10, as part of Money Smart Week Wisconsin. Approximately... Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:56:37 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3828 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3644 It would appear that the secret is out. Lakeland College's enrollment for the 2007-08 school year is 958 full-time students, the ninth straight year the 146-year-old college has achieved record student totals. The 958 total is a 2.4 percent increase over last fall's total of 935, which was Lakeland's previous record. The total is fueled by an incoming class of 324 high school graduates... Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:07:16 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3644 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3643 Joe DeCecco Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco will be the featured speaker as Lakeland College commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. DeCecco will deliver an address entitled "Separation of Church and State, Myth or Legend?" on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 11 a.m. in the Bradley Fine Arts Building. His lecture is free and open to the public. ... Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:37:22 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3643 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3618 Lakeland President Stephen Gould He was speaking to college students, but Lakeland President Stephen Gould found some pretty useful advice for Lakeland students from a third grade teacher. Asked to deliver a charge for the new academic year at Thursday's 145th Opening Convocation, which officially kicked off the 2007-08 academic year, Gould offered the following: take care of... Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:51:08 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3618 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3614 Once again this summer, Lakeland College's English Language Institute is hosting a number of international visitors. A group of 23 students from Ansan College in South Korea studied English language and American culture for four weeks. Their English instruction was supplemented with and variety of other activities intended to give students a deeper understanding of the life of Americans. ... Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:27:35 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3614 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3604 Lakeland College is welcoming several new faculty members to its roster for the 2007-08 school year. Nathan Lowe is a new assistant professor in composition and rhetoric. He earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Idaho in 2005 and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Iowa in 2001. He comes to Lakeland from Washington State University where he taught... Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:35:36 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3604 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3485 Lakeland College's teacher education program has become the first among Wisconsin colleges and universities to receive accreditation status from the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). Lakeland becomes one of just 41 teacher education programs in 38 institutions of higher education in the U.S. to earn TEAC accreditation. "Our education program has been a source of... Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:02:04 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3485 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3368 Arthur Johnson Listen to and order CD online What has become a personal crusade for Arthur Johnson has turned into a tremendous learning opportunity for some of his students at Lakeland College. Johnson and seven Lakeland students will perform works by Hungarian composer/conductor András Viski on Thursday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Weill Center in downtown Sheboygan.... Mon, 14 May 2007 14:58:49 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3368 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3350 Sue Ann Thompson View photo gallery Lakeland College might be approaching its 150th anniversary, but there is still room for a little history now and then. Lakeland celebrated its 145th Commencement on May 6 with 898 graduates earning diplomas, a record graduating class. A total of 416 students participated in Sunday's ceremony in the Todd Wehr Athletic Center, also a record. ... Mon, 07 May 2007 14:18:26 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3350 http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3345 Lakeland College will honor a former member of its Board of Trustees during its 145th Commencement this weekend. Alice K. Senty of Sheboygan, a Lakeland Trustee from 1994-2006, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to recognize a lifetime of civic engagement and service to her community during Sunday's Commencement Ceremony. Senty earned her bachelor's degree in journalism... Fri, 04 May 2007 08:10:33 CST http://www.lakeland.edu/academics/news.asp?article=3345