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The History, Present, and Future of Wellness in Portage County
2-16-2001

See Ranking of Healthy Life Expectancy of United States by WHO

Why are we only ranked # 24?

The evolution of educational process and opportunity.
Wellness at UWSP exists within the educational context

Stevens Point Normal opened its doors in 1894 to 300 students.

Yak-In-A-Box
Educator in the front, you take notes from what they say and from what they write on the blackboard.
Order and sequence of the presentation is educator determined.
You had to be close enough to see the blackboard.
Class is time and space fixed.
Mostly absorption learning.

UWSP now serves ~8000 students as a major undergraduate university with a clearly stated wellness mission

Outlines & PowerPoint
Educator in the front, you take notes from what they say and from their handouts, overheads, and slides.
Order and sequence of the presentation is educator determined.
The room could be bigger, based on the image magnification of the projectors.
Class is time and space fixed.
Mostly absorption learning.

More students could be reached statewide after the university joined the Wisconsin Overlay Network for Distance Education Resources (WONDER), an audio/video system joining five state universities and four technical colleges.

Dr. Thomas George became UWSP's 12th chancellor in the fall of 1996, adopting "Leading Edge Teaching and Learning" as a guide for UWSP in the future.

WEB BASED "Hyper-text & Hyper-linked" Multimedia
Educator may be in a different continent.
You may return to any content at will, save it to disk, link to original sources, videos, assessments, chat with world wide participants.
You select the order and sequence of the learning.
Class is asynchronous, you determine time for participation.
Learning can be more active. You feel more in control.

IS THIS THE FUTURE?

Wellness Evolution at UWSP

BOB BOWEN'S VIEW OF THE PAST

BILL HETTLER'S VERSION OF THE HISTORY OF WELLNESS

BOB MOSIER'S VIEW OF THE PRESENT

THE ALBERTSON GIFT
Student Development
"The Real Father of Wellness at UWSP"

THE DREYFUS GIFT
Powerful Spokesperson Pulled Off
The Largest "Land" Deal In the History of Stevens Point, "We Give Up Sand, They Give Us a Lake"

THE MARSHALL GIFT
Advancement of Technology, Support of Academic Wellness Program, & HEC Building Addition For UWSP

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RESOURCES

UWSP MISSION

Essential Services

Linking Lessons To Life

Healthy American Course

Web Based Resources

Risk Reduction Guidelines

One Brilliant Woman

The Meaning
of Life

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Most of us grew up in a real landscape. As Richard Keeling has said, "The students of today are growing up in a Datascape." Gates wrote the book "Business at the Speed of Thought." Just in time education could be here soon.

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