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Deadline for students to request course modality accommodations due to COVID-19 is Oct. 30
Last week Provost Ah Yun provided a spring 2021 academic calendar update via Marquette Today. You can also now view the spring 2021 academic schedule of courses via CheckMarq or the Class Search website. Students who need special consideration related to course modality due to their own COVID 19 health risks should email the Office…
New Economic Planning website serves as information hub for academic, operational planning
To provide ongoing updates and transparent information about Marquette’s academic and operational planning to address the significant financial challenges the university faces, a new Economic Planning website has been developed to serve as an information hub for the campus community. The site, which is available on campus and via VPN at marquette.edu/economic-planning, features news and…
Policy Review Committee shares four UPP updates
Marquette University provides University Policies and Procedures for the Marquette community as a written record of approved and current academic, operational, financial, and business policies and procedures. The Policy Review Committee is responsible for guiding good practices in university policy governance and to ensure collaboration and consistency in university policy development — the committee does…
New online mental health tool now available for students; sign up for SilverCloud today
The Counseling Center has partnered with SilverCloud to offer virtual mental health resources to the Marquette community. Through this new partnership, the tool is available for free to all Marquette students. SilverCloud is an online platform offering self-guided programs for anxiety, depression, stress and resilience. Based on cognitive behavioral therapy principles, the self-guided program is…
Marquette Forum to sponsor MKE Film Festival’s Oct. 23 screening of ‘Growing Up Milwaukee: Our Milwaukee, Our Stories’
The Marquette Forum will sponsor the Milwaukee Film Festival’s screening of “Growing Up Milwaukee: Our Milwaukee, Our Stories.” The screening will take place on Friday, Oct. 23, at 5:30 p.m. Viewers can watch via Milwaukee Film’s YouTube channel. RSVP via Facebook. About the film Tyshun Wardlaw’s feature documentary debut follows three young Black people growing…
University mourns the loss of honorary degree recipient Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, OSF
The Marquette community mourns the loss of Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, OSF, a Honduran Franciscan nun who received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Marquette in May 2009. Sister Maria Rosa Leggol raised and educated more than 40,000 Honduran orphans over fifty years. As an orphan herself, she entered the religious life at…
Fun with fluid dynamics
Mechanical engineering professor’s video lessons enliven the virtual learning landscape.
Non-partisan student ‘walking buddies’ available for early voting beginning Oct. 20
In-person absentee voting (early voting) begins on Tuesday, Oct. 20. Marquette’s Center for Community Service and Marquette Votes has “Walking buddies” available to escort groups of eligible student voters from campus to the Frank P. Zeidler Municipal Building (841 N Broadway). Walking buddies will be non-partisan students. They will escort groups of five or fewer…
Request absentee ballots by Oct. 20 to ensure on-time delivery
Voting absentee can take up to two weeks to process, this includes processing your request, the time it takes your ballot to arrive and the time it takes your ballot to travel to your election clerk. To ensure your vote is counted, the U.S. Postal Service recommends all absentee voting requests be completed by Tuesday,…
From the provost: Tenure Buyout Policy for full-time tenured faculty
The following message was sent to all faculty on Thursday, Oct. 15. Dear faculty, I am writing to you today with important news about Marquette’s Tenure Buyout Policy. Please read this information carefully. The deadline for qualifying faculty to apply for a tenure buyout is 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 16. The Tenure Buyout Policy…