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The University of Wisconsin-Parkside has been selected as one of 16 colleges and universities nationwide to participate in From Campus to Career, a national initiative supported by the Lumina Foundation designed to scale career-connected high-impact practices (HIPs) and strengthen workforce outcomes for students. Through the initiative, UW-Parkside will receive $100,000 over two years, along with technical assistance and cohort-based support from […]

The best way to learn how to change lives is to start doing it now. For a future speech-language pathologist, there’s a monumental difference between reading about textbook “intervention strategies” and actually helping a child master reading and math.  At Purdy Elementary in Fort Atkinson, college students like Lillian Groblewski are earning real-world experience long […]

University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh nursing students are staying a step ahead as they learn the latest technology that allows seamless communication between doctors, nurses and staff. Epic, a Wisconsin-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) company, is well known by patients and healthcare providers. Its newest program offering, Lyceum, gives medical and nursing students a quality introduction to […]

Instructor Natalia Roberts cheers for her students like a coach on the sidelines. In her classroom, encouragement sounds a lot like game-day advice:  Be brave. It’s not about perfection. With progress comes proficiency. Would a coach let you play if you hadn’t practiced?  Roberts’ encouragement hasn’t fallen on deaf ears. Her students in the Russian Studies Certificate program have taken […]

Five years ago, a handful of courses at UW-La Crosse tried something different. Instead of focusing learning within the walls of a classroom, instructors built assignments around real questions from real organizations in the community.  Today, that experiment — under the umbrella of UWL’s Community Engaged Learning Program — has become a defining characteristics of the academic experience at UWL.  For the 2025–26 academic year, 41 courses have already received the Community Engaged Learning (CEL) designation. Sixteen of […]

A student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is pursuing a lifelong dream and leaving an impact on an internationally recognized event. Each year, thousands of participants from around the country gather in Stevens Point to participate in the World’s Largest Trivia Contest, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s student-run radio station 90FM. Frank […]

Hayden Halstead, a first year University of Wisconsin-River Falls management major from New Richmond, had a great start on a college degree and a career before he even graduated from high school. Halstead already had work experience as a manager at McDonald’s, where he started working at age 14, and he started earning college credit as a junior by taking chemistry classes […]

For seven weeks each spring semester, the Sage Hall Finance Trading Room becomes a hands-on classroom. Twice a week, UW-Oshkosh accounting students prepare free tax returns through the federal Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, serving community members while applying what they have learned in real time.  Kazeem Akinyele, an associate professor of accounting at […]

Marco Cortes-Lema, an accounting major at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, wants to see his fellow students succeed. A leader of several student organizations on campus and a former resident assistant, he strives to build community on campus and lift others up in their academics and their daily lives.  As a first-generation college student, Cortes-Lema appreciates how the university sets […]

For UW-La Crosse senior Megan Coughlin, a moment of courage during a networking event turned into a life-changing career opportunity.   Set to graduate in May, Coughlin says the College of Business Administration (CBA) played a major role in helping her build the confidence to connect with professionals and pursue opportunities beyond campus.  “The CBA has always emphasized how beneficial conversations and […]