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Apply for emergency grant aid by May 15

Emergency grant aid through the Bo and Candy Ellis Student Success Fund aims to help in emergency situations that may affect a student’s ability to continue their academic progress. The goal is to provide students with emergency grant aid to reimburse emergency expenses and help continue their academic journey at Marquette.  Applications for emergency grant […]

Marquette expands support for Urban Scholars program, aligns with DEI infrastructure

Starting today, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, under the leadership of Dr. Chris Navia, vice president for inclusive excellence, will manage Marquette’s growing Urban Scholars program. With the move comes an increase in staff support for students, as well.  “This change elevates the importance of the Urban Scholars program at Marquette by aligning […]

National Day of Action teach-in and discussion, May 3

The campus community is invited to a National Day of Action teach-in and discussion in Raynor Memorial Libraries 245 on Wednesday, May 3, at 10 a.m. No registration is required to attend.  This day of action is in response to U.S. legislation in schools that seeks to censor histories of oppression, as well as regulate […]

Registration for summer ‘Making Marquette Inclusive’ discussion series now open

Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, the Making Marquette Inclusive (MMI) discussion series provides faculty and staff with the opportunity to examine issues of diversity, equity and inclusion as they relate to our day-to-day work on campus and to reinforce the value of working across differences.  Several cohorts are available for the […]

Attend Lavender Graduation May 4 

The campus community is invited to attend Lavender Graduation on Thursday, May 4, at 3:30 p.m. in AMU 163.  Every year Lavender Graduation celebrates LGBTQ graduates and acknowledges the unique challenges of persistence at college as a queer student.   All campus community, friends and family are invited to join and observe the ceremony. Contact […]

We Are All Marquette: Meet Blake O’Neal Turner, Marquette’s 2022-23 Mitchem Fellow

By Michael Vazquez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion Blake O’Neal Turner, Marquette’s 2022-23 Mitchem Fellow, is working to disrupt the racial inequities that are prevalent in the field of mathematics. When she first got into graduate school she was focused on culturally responsive teaching and cultural sustaining pedagogy. One day, […]

A letter from Dr. Chris Navia on the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture

Dear Campus Community,  When we reached out to this year’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture speaker, Dr. Yohuru Williams from the University of St. Thomas, one of the things that most excited him was that we hoped his presentation would be the start of an ongoing campus conversation rather than a one-off event.  I […]