Student Points of Pride

• UW Oshkosh has had the most successful Model United Nations Program in the nation for two decades. 
• Since 2000, the College of Nursing graduate students’ pass rate on the American Nurses Credentialing Center–Family Nurse Practitioner Exam has been 99.9 percent.
• Senior business majors and MBA students at UW Oshkosh taking the Educational Testing Service business knowledge assessment test ranked in the top 5 percent nationwide.   
• UW Oshkosh is nationally rated as a top 10 school with high pass rates for first-time CPA exam takers.
• The Advance-Titan has won the top national award for student newspapers five times.
• Since 1990, 189 UW Oshkosh graduates have gone on to be awarded the Herb Kohl Teacher Fellowship of the Year Award.
• College of Letters and Science graduates are coveted by the best graduate programs in the nation.
• Over the past four years, 47 undergraduate students have received summer or year-long grants to support collaborative research projects with faculty. In April 2006, the University’s annual undergraduate research journal, Oshkosh Scholar, made its debut.
• UW Oshkosh has won 40 national championships, including 25 NCAA Division III competitions.

Campus Points of Pride

• UW Oshkosh has won more Regents’ Teaching Excellence Awards than any other UW institution. Five individual faculty members and three departments have received this award.
• With 2,073 graduates, the 2007-2008 class was the single largest graduating class in the history of UW Oshkosh.
• UW Oshkosh became the nation’s first Fair Trade University in 2008. The University also was one of the first to analyze its carbon footprint.
• UW Oshkosh sponsors one of the world’s largest annual Earth Charter community summits, which promotes ecological integrity, social and economic justice, and democracy, nonviolence and peace.
• UW Oshkosh is recognized as a national model for developing and highlighting exemplary liberal education programs.

• UW Oshkosh is a founding member of NEW ERA and NEW North, organizations committed to uniting the region for a more vibrant economy and quality of life.

• UW Oshkosh was one of 25 institutions nation-wide named a founding member of the Higher Education Steering Committee of the American Council on Renewable Energy. It was one of three Wisconsin organizations honored in 2006 for voluntary efforts to improve air quality in the state.
• The total UW Oshkosh economic contribution to the state is more than $500 million. The campus is responsible for directly and indirectly creating more than 9,000 jobs, generating more than $37.5 million in tax revenue and giving more than $4 million in time and money to local charities.
• UW Oshkosh received the 2003 EPA Leadership Award -- the 11th University in the United States to receive the EPA's highest leadership award.
  

Alumni of Pride

• Carla Altepeter (MBA ’98) is president and CEO of CitizensFirst Credit Union.
• Kristopher Brown’s (BA, radio-TV-film ’88) first feature film Drillbit Taylor, starring Owen Wilson and Leslie Mann, opened in mid-March.
• Craig Culver (BS, biology ’73) is chairman and chief executive officer of Culver Franchising Systems Inc.
• Danae Davis (BS, political science ’77) is executive director of PEARLS for Teen Girls Inc., a Milwaukee-based program committed to maximizing girls’ self-development. She serves on the UW System Board of Regents. 
• Robert Fale (BSN ’79) is president and CEO of Agnesian Healthcare.
• James (BS, political science ’69) and Janine (BS, English ’70) Geenen have spent nearly 30 years working to improve the lives of the poor in Third World countries, most recently in Paraguay where Jim serves as Peace Corps director and Janine teaches English. 
• Stephanie Hagstrom-Gaymon (BS, biology ’91) earned her doctorate and is a researcher at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Ophthalmology.
• Norbert Hill (BS, sociology ’69, MSE ’71) is vice president of the College of Menominee Nation’s Green Bay campus.
• Robert Keller (BS, economics ’69) is chairman and chief executive officer of J. J. Keller and Associates Inc., Neenah.
• Gerald Kons (BA, mathematics ’61) is a retired American Airlines pilot. He operates and flies for “American Dream Flite,” a service that provides round-trip airfare and a vacation at Walt Disney World with medical service pro bono for children with serious illnesses.
• Patrick Roetzer (BS, psychology ’70) is a consultant in restorative dentistry at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in Martinez, Calif. As a dentist and inventor, he holds seven patents for products and materials used in restorative dentistry.
• Donald Smiley (BS, radio-TV-film ’84) is CEO of Summerfest and Milwaukee World Festival Inc.
• Todd Teske (BBA, accounting ’87) is executive vice president and chief operating officer at Briggs & Stratton Corporation in Milwaukee.
• Jim VandeHei (BS, journalism, political science ’94) is co-founder and executive editor of The Politico in Washington, D.C.  
• Stephen Vander Ark (MS, industrial psychology ’93) recruits astronauts for NASA.
• Phil Whitebloom (BBA, marketing ’80) is vice president of sales for government and corporate accounts at Sony Electronics Inc. 
• Peter Wick (BBA, accounting ’05) is one of only 10 nationwide to receive the Elijah Watt Sells Award from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The award honors the highest cumulative scores on the four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination, which is taken by 40,000 people.