Area colleges strive to hire more minorities to reflect changing communities

greenbaypressgazette.com
By Patti Zarling • pzarling@greenbaypressgazette.com • July 3, 2010

DE PERE — When Tynisha Meidl, who grew up in urban areas on the East Coast, began looking for a college teaching job, she didn't expect to be hired in Northeastern Wisconsin.
Now she's finishing her first year teaching education at St. Norbert College, and said she loves the school and the small-town feel of the area.
"There's lots to do here, and everything is not very expensive, as juxtaposed to a big city," she said. "I love the fact I live 15 miles from work and can get here in exactly 15 minutes, not an hour and a half."
Meidl is the kind of employee local colleges and universities seek to hire: a qualified minority. Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, St. Norbert College and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in recent years have made it a priority to include underrepresented minorities when conducting employee searches.

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Racist fliers distributed at UW-Oshkosh, St. Norbert College

By Associated Press
Posted: March 3, 2010 (30) Comments
Two Wisconsin colleges are trying to determine who distributed racist fliers on their campuses.
"White pride" fliers turned up at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Monday and last Thursday at St. Norbert College in De Pere.
St. Norbert says as many as 150 fliers were distributed on vehicles in two parking lots. The college captured video of the incident. The video and fliers were turned over to police. Jim Skorczewski, director of campus safety, said the culprit is not believed to be a student or school employee.

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