Profile for Maren Walz
Specialty area(s)
Strategic management of the university-wide integrated marketing and communications program, including planning, creative development, implementation and assessment of marketing and communications efforts.
Brief biography
2015 Academic Staff Excellence Award recipient
Campus service: Academic Staff Council, Joint Planning and Budget, Strategic Planning steering committee, Inclusive Excellence strategic planning committee, Information Security committee
Community service: Church council president (previously vice president), parent school volunteer, webmaster for numerous non-profits
Hobbies and pastimes: learning new crafts, arts and musical instruments (current interests are polymer clay and ukulele), reading (current focus on slavery and the African-American experience), played and coached rugby for 11 years following high school
Education
Purdue University 2021
Master of Science in Strategic Communication; Strategic Communication Leadership Concentration
University of Wisconsin-Parkside 2003
BA: Education, Psychology, Sociology; Activities: Women's Rugby
Luther College 1995-1998
Field of study: Special Education; Activities: Women's Rugby, Choir
Minnetonka Public Schools 1994
I am proud to be the product of a public education.
Professional history
Web Coordinator: UW-La Crosse
Technical Writer: GEA Farm Technologies, Research and Development, (Galesville, WI)
Instructional Designer/Web Communications Editor: Ashley Furniture Industries, Retail Learning Services, (Arcadia, WI)
Market Research Coordinator: Teenage Research Unlimited, Qualitative Research (Northbrook, IL)
Research and publishing
Presented "All the nuggets IRL" at HighEdWeb 2017, Hartford
Presented "How I get my geek on in a cost cutting atmosphere" at HighEdWeb 2015, Milwaukee