| About Joseph Ohler [01-12-2009: UPDATE COMING SOON] A vivid example of someone making the "American Dream" work for him, Joseph Peter Ohler Jr. overcame a unique set of obstacles to serve in the Student Association at UW-Milwaukee ( http://www.sa.uwm.edu). Unpopular throughout grade school and high school, one would not have expected Ohler to one day live the role of student leader/activist. Through his intensive drive to learn and improve university conditions for students, Ohler has garnered the grassroots support that is an earmark of any honest, fair leader. Besides authoring numerous legislative and executive bylaw amendments that, once passed, will clarify the powers and limits of various SA positions, Ohler has collaborated with United Council (Wisconsin's statewide student government since 1960; http://www.unitedcouncil.net) to help students by providing data about UWM's social climate, writing the legislature and Gov. Doyle to request more funding for the UW System, and testifying to the Joint Finance Committee about why a tuition increase actually hurts real students. Ohler has also created a survey that enables students to give their opinion on proposed changes to credit requirements and applicability within the College of Letters and Sciences. If you currently are a UWM student, then please take the survey, as any undergraduate might switch majors (and subsequently enter or exit the College of Letters and Sciences), and graduate students can still take certain L&S courses for credit (despite being in the UWM Graduate School). You may access the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=803551076122. Another recent survey that Ohler put together to help the students express their opinions to policy makers is the Residential Preferred Parking survey. You may access that survey at http://www.surveymonkey.coms.asp?u=663091319089. |
| Senator Ohler's current Senate projects include balancing constituent funding needs with the overall funding situation on the Senate Finance Committee as well as updating the legislative portions of the SA website: www.sa.uwm.edu |