MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Gov. Jim Doyle named a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student on Tuesday as the first nontraditional student member of the UW System Board of Regents.
….The governor said Thomas Shields of Oshkosh would be the first to join the board under a law he signed in December requiring a student over age 24 to represent the views of nontraditional students on the board.
The other new members are Jeffrey Bartell, a Madison lawyer who served as a Wisconsin assistant attorney general and the state securities commissioner; Brent Smith, a La Crosse lawyer who is president of the Wisconsin Technical College System board; and Mary Quinnette Cuene, an instructor at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay.