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The Guiding Light
Marquette helped Nathan and Beth Colson find each other — and a supportive personal and professional foundation. By Ann Christenson, CJPA ’91 Nathan Colson remembers it vividly. Though he wasn’t on Marquette’s accounting track his freshman year, he decided to take an accounting class taught by professor Cindy Gruber (now Melis), and he had just…
Marquette’s Indigeneity Lab part of self-guided Indigenous Milwaukee tours
Self-guided Indigenous Milwaukee Walk & Bike Tours, a collaboration between Historic Milwaukee, Inc. and Marquette University’s Indigeneity Lab, are now available for download via the free Historic Milwaukee Inc. app. The tours are an extension of a project led by Dr. Bryan Rindfleisch, associate professor of history in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences,…
Give Marquette Day is Feb. 27; give in advance on National Marquette Day
Give Marquette Day 2020 is Thursday, Feb. 27. This year, the university is offering a special giving opportunity on National Marquette Day in which donations can be made the the Bridge to the Future Scholarship Fund. Bridge to the Future was established to provide financial aid assistance to students whose changing economic circumstances, such as…
9 things you didn’t know about Marquette University
As Marquette University’s men’s basketball team competes in its 51st postseason appearance in program history (which puts them in the top 10 among all Division I programs), here are 9 things you didn’t know about the home of the ninth-seeded Golden Eagles: 1. We’re ranked 6th in the country for job placement. Marquette was ranked…
Colleagues honored at Staff Excellence Awards
Four Marquette staff members were honored with Excellence in University Service awards, and one staff member received the Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award at the 2022 Staff Excellence Awards on Monday, June 6, in the AMU Monaghan Ballrooms.
‘Black Marquette’ book sales to benefit Ralph H. Metcalfe, Sr. Scholarship Fund
The book “Black Marquette — In Their Own Words: Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Success,” a collection of essays written by Black alumni of Marquette University, is being sold to benefit the Black Alumni Association Ralph H. Metcalfe, Sr. Scholarship Fund through May 14. Book orders can be placed through the Office of University Advancement. The…
Marquette University celebrates Black scholars
By Anna Wallace, communication intern in the Office of Marketing and Communication at Marquette University Marquette University is proud to have more diverse faculty members than ever before. From 2016 to 2020, the percentage of faculty of color at Marquette grew from 13.4% to 16.9%, part of an initiative to increase representation and enhance the…
Alumna gives $2 million to bolster Marquette’s distinctive Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington, D.C.
Jackie Lewis, a 1960 Marquette University Klingler College of Arts and Sciences alumna, has committed to a gift of $2 million to build on her longstanding support for the university’s distinctive Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington, D.C. More than three decades ago, Lewis and her late husband, Robert, gave Marquette the six-unit, three-story…
Marquette University earns “Emerging HSI” status with 15.4% of student body now Hispanic/Latinx
Marquette University took a significant step forward in its commitment to becoming a federally designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by achieving “Emerging HSI” status, a designation for institutions with Hispanic or Latinx students making up between 15% and 24.9% of their undergraduate student body. With a historic first-year class this fall made up of 18% Hispanic/Latinx…
Alumni couple gives $1 million to launch effort to renovate and build addition for new home for College of Nursing
Marquette University has received a $1 million gift from an alumni couple, Micky and Jennifer Minhas, that will launch an effort to renovate and build an addition for the new home for the College of Nursing in the heart of campus. As previously announced, to accommodate an ambitious growth plan, the College of Nursing will…