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Community Service Education
The Outreach School
NEWSLETTER - Summer 2002 - (Volume 5 Issue 2) What's Cooking This Summer
American Indian Boy Scout Association *** National EYE *** Mountain Folk School *** Girls State *** Boys Basketball *** Universal Cheerleaders. What do all these groups have in common? Many of these groups visiting campus this summer will be tied into future recruitment efforts for the university. We have been working with Admissions to make sure we get the word out about what a great school UW is! If you would like to know what group is on campus at any given time, visit http://outreach.uwyo.edu/conferences. If you're looking for something special to do this summer, pick up a copy of our community enrichment programs catalog. We have more trips and one-day programs than ever before! Travel back in time and experience a Day At The Ranch with Prairie Rides or explore the geological secrets of the Laramie Basin. We've got the help available for your department whether you need a little or a lot of assistance in coordinating an upcoming conference. We offer varying levels of service, starting with basic campus bookings to full coordination services including budget assistance, marketing, pre-registration, and evaluation summaries. If you would like some assistance, or need some further information, call Barbara Barnes at 766-5634. She is now in charge of Events Planning and will transfer your call to me or another coordinator as appropriate. Have a great semester. Sheila Atwood, Division Head 766-5641 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. |
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Conference Calendar of Events
Survivor's Journal Workshops
Preparing You & Your Family for Making Tough Decisions. Procrastination is the worst decision you can make, not only can it affect your life, but the lives of your family. Have you prepared your loved ones for your death or long-term incapacitation from a serious illness or injury?
When a family member dies or becomes seriously ill, injured or disabled is a stressful and difficult period for any family. It is also a time when extremely important decisions must be made and often the information required is known only by the deceased, seriously ill or injured person. The Outreach School, Office of Conferences & Institutes wants to help you by providing an opportunity to learn how to prepare your family for your death or disability. This special seminar teaches you how to create a Survivors Journal, a portfolio of information and instructions you prepare in advance to help your loved ones make essential decisions. The seminar, presented by Denice Wheeler, offers an unique perspective on the inevitable questions and legal challenges surviving family members face. Denice, a nationally-recognized speaker, shares her expertise on a broad spectrum of personal improvement topics. Attendees learn how to direct surviving family members to crucial legal documents and important family, financial, property and other personal records. Sample legal documents to help create your own health care directives, durable powers of attorney (finances and health care), living will and last will & testament are included in a workbook, in addition to 65 individual fill-in-the-blank forms covering emergency & medical data, real & personal property inventories, estate planning & investment tracking worksheets, temporary & long-term care authorization, funeral planning worksheets and family history data sheets. You will also complete 42 questions to assess the current readiness of your family, and discusses six scenarios to determine your wishes regarding being sustained on life support. If you are interested in attending a future seminar in your area, please contact Wil Radosevich 6-5637 or email wilrados@uwyo.edu. Or visit the Survivor's Journal web-site at tos1.uwyo.edu/conferences/survivorjournal American Indian Boy Scout AssociationThe University of Wyoming campus will host the 45th American Indian Boy Scouting/Girl Scouting Seminar July 6-10. The seminar hosts will be the Northern Arapaho and the Eastern Shoshone, who are fully prepared to share the history of their cultures with participants.
Hail Caesar
The Wyoming Council for the Humanities is proud to announce its third Summer Institute, to be held in Laramie June 23 - 28, 2002. The institute has been designed to provide intellectual and professional enrichment to teachers and campus & community members. The 2002 institute will provide a firm basis for anyone interested in learning about the history, literature, and art of the classical world.Over the course of a week, a team of distinguished scholars will lead participants in an exploration of the world of Rome in the era of Augustus. Through lectures, seminars, & discussions, participants will examine the distinctive culture of Rome as reflected in its poetry, history, art, and politics. For more info about this program, please contact Barbara Barnes at 6-5634. Featured Conferences
10th Annual Folk School in the Mountains June 3 - 8
Paul Taylor and Deana Wood open a world of wonder for returning and new participants. The exploration of Aboriginal culture and first people North American culture through Western eyes is the theme of the week, Matilda and the Dream Time. Matilda represents western communities and peoples and the Dream Time reflects all that is held important by Aboriginal culture. Through the artistic process, Paul leads folk school participants in the creation of a community experience as a parallel examination of Aboriginal culture. Participants examine how they touch the landscape and relate their experience in the beautiful Snowy Mountain Range to how the Aboriginal culture connects the land with art and life. Ideally, participants will leave with an enhanced appreciation of all cultures and of how the activities of painting, singing, dancing, and storytelling help create culture and community. Specific workshops include Aboriginal didjeridoo (this is generally a trunk of a eucalyptus tree eaten out by termites and played with buzzing lips), rock art, community mural, Peruvian pan-pipes, and creative dance. For more information contact Keith Guille at 6-2938 or visit ed.uwyo.edu/Departments/depalt/Mnt_Folk_School/index.htm Water Law: A Case Study on the Green River June 20 - 23 and June 28 - 29 Two weekends in June talking about water on The Green River. A course open to the general public, and also available for UW and continuing education credit. The first weekend will be held in Pinedale, with the following weekend being conducted in Rock Springs. Presentations will cover classic water cases on the Green; water law under other conditions elsewhere in Wyoming; instream flow; groundwater; highlights of current interstate issues; response to change in policy, administrative and the legal implications; current challenges facing irrigation districts; drawing of boundary lines; and hydrology and riparian habitat. Several panel and roundtable discussions will be held as well. For more information on this event, please contact Wil Radosevich at 6-5635. National EYE (Episcopal Youth Event) July 23 - 29 We will have 1400 Episcopal Youth on campus this summer beginning July 23. Some of these students are international and represent many ethnic groups. They have the opportunity to come to EYE every three years. You might see them in the Wyoming Union, or in their general sessions in the A&S Auditorium, maybe in their prayer labyrinth in the Education Gym and/or their final events in the arena on July 26-28. Every afternoon they will split up and have "hot topics" breakouts around campus to discuss the hottest and most interesting things going on in our world today. The organizers are very creative in their entertainment for the students too. They will have a "dive-in" movie at the Half Acre pool and an outdoor movie on Fraternity Mall. They will create a carnival in the tailgate park of the athletic area and the students will get to enjoy the Art Museum during the carnival. The directors of EYE are anxious to be good guests and have been gracious clients as this huge event has unfolded. We hope you will welcome them to our campus and community. They are all excited to be in Laramie at 7,200 feet and enjoying our western culture. If you would like more information, please call Barbara Barnes at 6-5634. Community Enrichment Programs
Our focus this summer is on what you've said to us - offer classes at convenient times! We're offering fitness classes as early as 5:00 am and still have noon classes; we have several weekend adventure trips; numerous day trips including a geology excursion though the Laramie Basin and two fun-filled trips with Prairie Rides; golf after work; stock investing in the evening and an afternoon ranching experience. Summers in Laramie are great - and much too short - so get out there, try something different and enjoy the beautiful weather while having a little fun! Our catalogs have been distributed on campus, through direct mail and around the community. If you would like a catalog & have not received one, please call our office at 766-6802, and we'll be happy to send you a copy. Take a few minutes to browse through our catalog or visit our web site at
http://outreach.uwyo.edu/enrichment.
We are open 7:30 am - 4:30 pm Mon. - Fri. and accept walk-ins, phone calls, and faxes.In The Spotlight: On-line Programs
Have we got a deal for you! Learn a new computer program without the hassle of tracking down someone who is teaching it, leaving your office to attend a workshop or leaving your family at night to attend a class FOR HALF PRICE!!. Element K allows you to learn software without leaving your desk if you have access to the Internet.
A simulation of the actual software application is provided so you don't need to have the software installed to begin learning how to use it. This program can be used with any Windows-based operating system. Self-tutorials include skills assessment with pretests and post-tests. All lessons are fully interactive. For $100 you will obtain a password allowing you to gain access to an unlimited number of programs until October 2002. Software titles include, but are not limited to: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Word for Windows, Access , FrontPage, WordPerfect, Excel, Dreamweaver, Netscape, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Freehand, InDesign, Flash, and Quicken Deluxe. We are also offering numerous on-line certificate programs that can enhance your job skills or help you retrain for a new job. Certificate options include: Travel Agent • Web Master • Admin. Medical Specialist • Medical-Transcription • Graphic Design • Technical Writing. In the area of career and personal enhancement we have courses that include: A-to-Z Grant-writing o Business Management • Acct. Fundamentals • Front Page • Genealogy Basics • Intro to QuickBooks • Assisting Aging Parents. For Health Care Professionals, we are offering several courses that may be submitted for UW Continuing Education Credit. Prices range from $10 to $29 and include: • Introduction to Gerontology • Mental Health and Aging • Sleep and Aging • Elder Abuse • The Older Woman o Pain Assessment and Management in Adults • Complementary and Alternative Medicine. If you are looking for test prep courses, we offer GRE, GMAT, SAT and LSAT courses. For more information on any of the above programs, or to register call 6-6802. E-College For Noncredit Availability
By now, many of you are familiar with the e-college format for on-line credit classes. The Outreach School now has the same format available for noncredit courses. This platform is ideal for certificate programs. This past fall, we ran two initial programs - the Western Integrated Resource Education, a Cooperative Extension program, and a nursing program. This opportunity gives you professional support in an easy-to-use format. If you would like to explore this new opportunity, contact Wil Radosevich at 6-5637.
Summer Music Camp Swings Into UW in June
The 59th Annual Summer Music Camp will be held June 9-15 on campus at the Fine Arts center. The UW camp is one of the best and most unique musical experiences in the Rocky Mountain region, and since its inception in 1943, the camp has brought professional musical instruction and fun to thousands of 13-20 year-olds from across the United States. The camp is open to students who have completed 7th grade through post-high school and focuses on singers, string players, wind and percussion players, pianists, and guitarists. For further information or an application brochure contact Misty at 6-2124 or visit the website at tos1.uwyo.edu/conferences/summer
The Honors House: The Place To Be This Summer
We have a full house for the summer at The Honors House. Groups include Wyoming Girls State, The Wyoming Department of Health, Music Camp, National EYE, Wyoming Council for the Humanities, American Indian Scouting Association, Project Learning Tree, CASE, National Geography Camp, Seed and Soil, and a private family reunion.
Plan ahead now for next summer. This is a great facility offering 13 double bedrooms on the second floor, a kitchen, dining room, and living room on the first floor, and a computer lab, rec room and washers & dryers in the basement. Bedrooms are wired for internet access, and cable TV is available both on the main and basement levels. Call Sheila at 766-5641 or visit our web site at tos1.uwyo.edu/conferences/honorshouse UW Special Programs Adventure Trips
Steamboat, Colorado
- Sample the cultural variety of this mountain community. Let your spirit soar with a ride on a hot air balloon. Get up close and personal in the world of dog sledding as taught by an Iditarod musher, walk on the wild side while enjoying the wildlife viewing high atop the Rocky Mountains, relax at the spa for the afternoon, go back in time with a dinner at the Restaurant in the Woods and throughout the week enjoy the theatre, galleries and historians that are unique to this area. Seven thousand feet up in the Colorado Rockies, nestled quietly below one of the largest ski mountains in North America, sits Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This small community has a 100-year heritage that serves as a constant reminder that the old west is alive and well. The charm, the friendliness and the small town hospitality of this place are still intact. To trace Steamboat's roots, we will have to hoof it back 130 years ago when French fur trappers stumbled upon the now famous therapeutic hot springs. 130 years later, not much has changed. Phantom Canyon Preserve "It was a mountain valley of the narrowest kind- almost a chasm; and the scenery very wild and beautiful. Towering mountains rose about; their sides sometimes dark with forests of pine and sometimes with lofty precipices, washed by the river" is the way John Charles Fremont described the Phantom Canyon Preserve when he crossed through in 1843. The Nature Conservancy manages the Phantom Canyon Preserve for its natural and biological values. The goal of the Nature Conservancy is to continue the restoration and management of the unique ecosystem of the Preserve in the Laramie Foothills. Phantom Canyon is a refuge for an impressive diversity of wildlife. An array of perennial wildflowers, often with hovering butterflies, covers the preserve from rim to river in the spring and summer. Join us for one of the following outings. This is your opportunity to see the preserve as there is no public access and a special shuttle is required for entrance. What's Blooming at Phantom Enjoy the spectacular variety of native wildflowers at the peak of bloom. Experienced naturalists will lead you on the discovery. Bring sack lunch, water and, if possible a field guide. Space is limited Saturday 9:00 am -3:30 pm June 15 Stargazing at Phantom Come stargaze at Phantom Canyon. Enjoy a late-afternoon stroll with naturalists down into the canyon and then relax on the cabin porch as the sun sinks below the rim. Our guest speaker will provide an introductory slide show before we peek through his telescopes and fall asleep stargazing from the visitor center deck. Bring a picnic dinner and breakfast, sleeping pad, and sleeping bag. Hot beverages will be provided in the morning. Space is limited. Transportation is provided. Saturday-Sunday 2:00 pm -11:00 am August 10 - 11 River Exploring at Phantom Learn about the recovery & ecology of aquatic and riparian systems as a scientist/naturalist guides you into the upper reaches of Phantom Canyon, exploring the North Fork of the Cache la Poudre River. Be prepared to wade in and out of the river multiple times as you hike upstream. Space is limited. Saturday 9:00 am - 4:30 pm August 24 |
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