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As we continue to celebrate the university's 150th anniversary, the Distance Learning Center is looking back on our division's history and reconnecting with alumni from the past few decades. Click on the photos below to read their stories. 

First winners of Distance Education Alumni Board Scholarship selected

This spring, the Alumni Board introduced a new scholarship that will award two $300 scholarships each year to distance education students. The scholarship is funded by UW-Platteville Alumni Association memberships.

"As the board is made up of distance education alums, it was important for us to give back to the program that allowed us to succeed," said Jill Bisco, Alumni Board President.  

The first recipients of the award were Jayson Johnson (OCL) and Doug Nofsinger (BSAD). To read more about the scholarship, click here. 

Jayson Johnson enrolled in the OCL program in the spring of 2014. He is a Professional Project Manager at John Deere in Moline, Iowa. For his capstone project, he worked at Gigi’s Down Syndrome Achievement Center, helping to find ways to effectively plan and implement change. Read more about Jayson here. 

Introducing the spring 2016 STEM scholars cohort 

This spring, six distance education students became the first cohort of the DLC's STEM Scholars Master's Program. The students received scholarship funding through a grant received from the National Science Foundation, as well as additional mentoring and professional development support through UW-Platteville. Read more...

Find out more: meet the cohort, read how the program got its start, and learn about the NSF grant.

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