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Opening Day - Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Schedule of Opening Day events:

Reeve Memorial Union
8 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9 a.m. Faculty & Staff Assembly

This assembly welcomes and celebrates the outstanding faculty and staff that make up the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. University-wide awards including the Endowment for Excellence Professorships, John McN Rosebush Professorship, Distinguished Teaching Awards, Outstanding Service Awards,
Outstanding Performance Awards, and the Barbara G. Sniffen Faculty Governance Service Award are presented. In addition, the Edward Penson Award recipients, faculty and staff who received tenure and/or promotions and all new faculty and staff are acknowledged.

You can watch this year's complete Opening Day assembly and award and recognition ceremony in the video below.

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College Meetings

10:30  a.m. Opening Day College Meetings:

Business: Sage Hall Room1216

Education & Human Services: Nursing/Education 151 (10:45 a.m.)

Letters and Science: Reeve Memorial Union Ballroom

Nursing: Nursing/Education 222

Student Employment Fair

11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Reeve Memorial Union Concourse

Taste of UW Oshkosh
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. On the Mall

Enjoy the sights, sounds and tastes of UW Oshkosh as students, faculty and staff celebrate the beginning of the new academic year.

Chancellor's Walk/Run

2 p.m. Meet at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. 

One, two and three mile walk-run along the Fox River Trail. All University Event.

This event is free.

As of 9.4.11 over 250 people have registered for this event and all tee-shirts have all been claimed.