Tag Archives: administration

UWSP Wrestles With Teacher Shortage and College Restructure

UWSP staff and faculty continue to contend with the problem of teacher position shortages, lack of funding, and administrative structural issues that affect multiple colleges across campus. Faculty, staff, and students bear most of the brunt of these shortages and systemic restructuring, creating a vacuum of space where certain resources were once held. According to educationaldata.org, the U.S. falls below ... Read More »

SPARC Writes Open Criticism of Administration for Board of Regents

On Thursday, Nov. 29, the Stevens Point Academic Representation Council released an open letter to the UW Board of Regents that expressed a lack of confidence in Bernie Patterson, Chancellor of UWSP. The letter brought forward a series of accusations against Patterson and his administration.  These accusations illustrated cases of administration’s supposed neglect and mismanagement over the last several years ... Read More »

Experiencing the Power of the People Firsthand

The April 9 edition of The Pointer went out on newsstands around noon, and at 5:01 p.m. that same day, Chancellor Bernie Patterson sent a campus-wide email stating the elimination of the College of Fine Arts and Communication’s administrative structure is no longer on the table as a budget reduction strategy. Now I’m in no way saying my article about ... Read More »