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Faculty, staff
buoy College
There is something about
springtime that makes
us want to get our hands
dirty and our houses
STAND
clean. Madison College’s
version of spring cleaning
is analyzing every system
for ultimate efficiency and
letting in every fresh idea
UP
for cost-savings. We are Bettsey Barhorst,
Madison College
also growing and finding President
cost-effective measures to
get our students everything they need to suc-
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faculty, support staff and administrators s Madison College prepares for its second 100 years of
who have made personal sacrifices to help worker training, students, alumni and friends are asking
Madison College. These actions by our their neighbors to “stand up” for student needs in new and
colleagues ensure that service levels for important ways! “Wisconsin can’t
our students will be maintained throughout Jake Weigandt, Student Senate president, said students need
the district.
be open for
to see that their community stands up for working people.
Our full-time faculty union and our support
“Many of us who’ve had life-changing training at the College business if we
are showing our support for students. We’re the ones who will
workers’ union opened their contracts and
lead the Madison area into an exciting future of green jobs,
aren’t open to
agreed to pay part of their retirement costs,
which amounts to about a 6 percent pay
health careers, public safety roles, revolutionary manufacturing train people for
innovations and high tech business growth,” Weigandt said.
cut. They also accepted much smaller pay their jobs.”
Student success is the vision that drove the new building plan
increases than those previously bargained.
approved by voters in November. Now we must keep the vision — President Bettsey Barhorst
Administrators will also pay part of their
strong and that means asking our alumni and friends to stand up
retirement costs and know raises in the near
for Madison College.
future will be slim or nonexistent. Some of
Weigandt announced the College started a “Stand Up”
our veteran part-time faculty also agreed to
campaign to ask our community to become informed, to get
pay the retirement cost.
engaged and to stay involved by sharing emails of fellow alumni
I am very proud that we are clearly united at with the Foundation, making gifts to honor programs or favorite
Madison College in a commitment to student teachers — and even just attending College events.
success. These recent agreements show that “Wisconsin can’t be open for business if we aren’t open to train
people for jobs,” said President Bettsey Barhorst, referring to Gov.
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Scott Walker’s goal to create 250,000 new jobs in the next four years.
“Our new facilities will spur job creation in unprecedented ways.
We are energized and focused on our next 100 years,” said Barhorst.
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will give up personal benefits to make
“We are so grateful to our district for the stamp on the new facilities with many
sure that our worker training and college
chance to help secure family-supporting options for naming rights, by honoring
transfer programs continue with the same
jobs in this challenging time.” those who have helped them, by becoming
rigor and student-centric instruction the
Buoyed by the landslide support for involved in College activities or even by
College has offered for almost 100 years.
the College’s building plans in the 2010 offering planned gifts for the future of
We are reaching out to you to underscore referendum, Barhorst led teams of faculty, the College. “By the hundreds” is open
that the unions and administrators have students and staff in thoughtful plans for to interpretation: 100 involved alumni,
taken measures that are not sustainable cutting edge facilities at the nine sites that $100 gifts, 100 scholarships…we invite
for an institution that runs a lean serve about 40,000 students each year. you to share your ideas with us…by the
operation even in the best of economic (See story about the new Health Education hundreds!
times. The proposed state budget, as building on page 3.) So, help us count you in! Stand up for
yet unapproved at press time, sets the While the campuses busily prepare working people. Stand up for the workers
College’s budget amounts to 1980s blueprints and get needed building in our future community. Stand up by the
spending levels at the very time that permits, the College is focusing on the hundreds with a gift of time or money.
enrollments at the College have surged work of the Madison College Foundation If you are willing to “Stand Up”
22 percent during the previous five years. to build an ever stronger community of for Madison College, simply join the
supporters. Alumni and Friends’ Facebook page at
Against this back drop of commitment “The need for scholarships for students facebook.com/madisoncollegefriends.
from our colleagues, the College will move who are taking full course loads has
forward with our Smart Future Building exploded,” said Robert Dinndorf, executive
plan and we anticipate we will have director of the Foundation. “At the same
shovels in the ground by late summer. time, we need the support of alumni and
I am so grateful for your support of this friends to ensure our new facilities will
Plan, through last fall’s referendum. be well-equipped.”
I want to assure you that we will make the Dinndorf encourages donors to
improvements and upgrades necessary celebrate the Centennial theme in
to train students for 21st century jobs. a program designed to count our
For now we are focusing all of our efforts alumni and friends “by the hundreds.”
on maintaining instructional access and College supporters can put their
service levels across the entire district.
We are sharpening our efforts to increase
student retention and completion of
certificates and degrees. We know this is Scholarships fuel
economic recovery
the fastest way to jobs for our students
and the best way we can support our
local economy.
By Tricia Weisheipl, Madison College Foundation
Please review the Madison College
website at madisoncollege.org to see
how we will build for our future while
E conomists look to small business
owners to jump start the economic
recovery, but without a Madison College
Maria but it is not
enough. This semester
the College has nearly
undergoing these significant budget cuts.
Foundation scholarship, Maria Kovach 300 students who are
Look for the hard hat icon on our website
would not have been able to help. on a waiting list for a
to view our progress!
Kovach, 44, who is a part-time interior scholarship.
I assure you that student success will design student at the College, a veteran Please consider
remain at the core of every measure we of the United States Air Force and Air making an investment
take and we will live up to our mission of National Guard and a mother of four, in our community’s
providing accessible, high quality learning received a Lussier Family scholarship Kovach future by donating to
experiences that serve the community. when she returned to college to pursue her the Madison College
Happy spring! dream of becoming an interior designer. Foundation’s Forward Fund that provides
After her first year in the program, Kovach scholarships to new and continuing
started her own business, Belsö Design, students.
which specializes in remodeling and Visit us online at madisoncollegealumni.
Bettsey L. Barhorst, Ph. D. revitalizing existing spaces. Her clients org/donations, call 608.246.6441 or mail
President describe her as professional, creative and your gift to the Madison College Founda-
enthusiastic. Kovach graduates in May, tion, 3550 Anderson St., Madison, WI 53704.
2011, and is looking forward to running To apply for a Foundation scholarship,
her local business full time. visit us online at madisoncollege.org/
Each year the Foundation awards scholarships. The deadline for the Fall 2011
hundreds of scholarships to students like Continuing Student Scholarship is May 31.
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By Madison College Foundation Staff
high-quality learning experiences for all in dents who are in need of job training and/
our community. Scholarships expand ac- or who seek additional undergraduate edu-
cess to learning. Endowed scholarships do cation. Because nearly all of the College’s
so permanently. graduates live and work in Wisconsin, it
In May 2010, National Guardian Life adds great value to the workforce.
Insurance Company commemorated its Donors can contact the Foundation office
Centennial with a generous gift of $100,000 at 608.246.6441 or email FoundationAlumni Mark L. Solverud and John Larson of
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