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DSC Gives Students Leadership and Career Experience

Since June of 2009, Dining and Summer Conferences has been completely student run. The shift to being a student run location has given students more control over their dining program and allowed students to introduce innovations that promote sustainable, local, farming and food practices. One of these innovations is called Green on the Go, this initiative offers students the opportunity ... Read More »

Just inCASE You Didn’t Know about the New SIEO

Two of the universities largest programming units, Campus Activities, and the Student Involvement and Employment Office have merged to create Campus Activities and Student Engagement, CASE. The merge took place when Susan Lebow, the previous Assistant Director of SIEO, took a new position. Due to budget cuts associated with declining enrollment, the decision was made to merge SIEO with Campus ... Read More »

Hungry Students Find Closed Stations at Dining Services

Like a first semester freshman’s Dawg Dollars balance, the number of students employed by Dining and Summer Conferences is declining. When Dining first transitioned into being self-operated in 2009, the goal was to employ more students. Suzette Conley, assistant director of Business Operations, said that while finding employees has never been easy, the difficulties have been increasing over the past ... Read More »

Working On Campus Could Improve Academics

Working in college is now more frequent than not working in college. Michael Bialas, financial associate at Thrivent Financial, said the most successful people he encounters are those who work multiple jobs while in college. At the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, well over three thousand students work on campus in various positions, at all levels and in almost all departments. ... Read More »