Fellowships
The Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service (WIPPS) sponsors an annual Fellowship Program for UW Colleges and UW-Extension faculty. Fellows receive course release time or equivalent compensation to undertake a project that addresses community concerns or engages the public in some meaningful way. WIPPS also sponsors a Senior Fellowship Program to recognize outstanding and significant contributions in program, policy, and service areas of interest to the organization. Senior Fellowship work and research also supports and expands further areas of interest to WIPPS.
To review the WIPPS Fellowship Program application criteria and details, click on
WIPPS Fellow Program AY 2011 uwc.DOC orPDF or
contact eric.giordano@uwc.edu for more information.
Senior Fellows
- David R. Obey, former Congressman, 7th District
- James Lorence, Emeritus Professor of History, UWMC
WIPPS Fellowship Recipients and Projects
2010-2011:
- Connie Abert, UW-Extension Youth Development Faculty. Working with her colleague Randy Stoecker, Abert and a Professional Development Task Force Training Team developed, organized, and executed a Program Innovations Fund (PIF) grant called “Sustainable Collaborative Service Learning Practices to Meet Community-Identified Needs” that created a process model to address community-identified service learning needs.
- Randy Stoecker, Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin (with a joint appointment in the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development), worked with colleague Connie Abert on the PIF “Sustainable Collaborative Service Learning Practices to Meet Community-Identified Needs” grant along with other UW-Extension agents, UW Colleges faculty, and staff members of Wisconsin Campus Compact and the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service.
2009-2010:
- Diana Budde, Associate Professor of Art, UW-Marathon County. Professor Budde organized a comprehensive campus/community service- learning art project titled: “Art as Play That Builds Community. ” Artist Tommy Rueff of the Happen, Inc. studio collaborated with UWMC, area elementary and Head Start students, local model railroad clubs, and other community groups to create an exhibit, panel discussion, celebration, and residency on the historic significance of trains and the role of art in community-building.
- Joel Friederich, Assistant Professor of English,-UW Barron County. Professor Friederich coordinated a year long project called "Sustainable Literature in N.W. Wisconsin.” This project promoted engagement of the creative imagination as a significant factor that enables rural communities and economies to flourish by bringing together a visiting authors writers-in-residence program for Barron County elementary and middle schools, a community-wide writing workshop, a statewide creative writing contest, a special publication feature in the Red Cedar literary journal, and a literature and arts festival held in Barron County in 2010.
- Jerry Hembd, Associate Professor, Department of Business and Economics, UW Superior. Professor Hembd’s project documented a community development policy framework for Wisconsin through local government commitments to sustainability, building on prior work by the UW-Extension Sustainable Communities Capacity Center and culminating in a presentation at the “Building Sustainable Communities” UW System Public Policy Forum.
2008-2009:
- Ann Herda-Rapp, Associate Professor of Sociology, UW-Marathon County. Professor Herda-Rapp undertook a study called: "'Making Ends Meet' in Wisconsin: A Study of Families, Work and 'Getting By' in a Changing Economy." This project, conducted with the assistance of Jim McCluskey, Assistant Professor of Geography, UWMC, researched the effects of poverty on rural Wisconsin counties using mapping software to track variables such as education, transportation, housing, jobs and healthcare; results were presented at the “Understanding and Overcoming Poverty in Wisconsin” conference held in Wausau on August 6 and 7, 2009.
2007-2008
- Mark Brown, Professor of Philosophy, UW-Marathon County. Brown partnered with WIPPS, UWMC, Aspirus Wausau Hospital, the WiCell Research Institute, and the Wisconsin Humanities Council to organize a professional conference, “The Science and Medicine of Stem Cell Research,” followed by a public forum, “The Ethics of Stem Cell Research” held on April 22, 2008 in Wausau.