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We Are All Marquette: Chante Parker breaks barrier as School of Dentistry’s first African American class president

By Saul Lopez, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion The Marquette University School of Dentistry is home to nearly 400 students — Chante Parker now has the unique privilege of serving nearly half of them as the second-year class president. She is the first African American to hold the distinction. An […]

We Are All Marquette: Beyond reporting

In 2016 when Melissa Evans, Comm ’13, was working as a health reporter for the Texas Tribune, she was asked to staff the state legislative session. Evans was eager to hear top leaders respond to a report that had recently come out about poor maternal healthcare in Texas. According to the report, pregnant women and […]

Dr. Marla Delgado-Guerrero featured on list of Wisconsin’s most powerful Latinos

Dr. Marla Delgado-Guerrero, mental health counselor and diversity coordinator in the Counseling Center, has been named one of the most powerful Latinos in the state. Delgado-Guerrero’s work has earned her a spot on the Si Se Puede 2019: Wisconsin’s 34 most powerful Latinos list. The list, created annually since 2015 by nonprofit online news outlet […]

We Are All Marquette: How one student uses fashion to share her Nigerian roots and spread love to all cultures

Student Oluwapelumi Oguntade created “OLUOMO WORLDWIDE,” a fashion brand through which she seeks to spread love to all cultures. A sophomore majoring in economics, Oguntade plans to expand her business using the prize money she received for winning first place in Social Innovation through the Brewed Ideas Challenge last spring. Oguntade is originally from Nigeria […]

We Are All Marquette: Trailblazing by example

Edith Hudson in December 2018 became the university’s new police chief. Hudson has broken several glass ceilings during her 25-year career — as field supervisor in the Milwaukee Police Department’s Tactical Enforcement Unit, as the department’s assistant chief, and now as MUPD chief. Even so, she says she’s never felt like a trailblazer. “I didn’t […]

We Are All Marquette: Empowered lifting 

When Alyssa Duetsch, a senior in the Diederich College of Communication and an intern in the Office of Marketing and Communication, started working on a video project about Marquette’s power lifting team, she had no idea how much the team would impact her nor the larger impact the team is leaving on the university and […]

Marquette Momentum: University adds to employee resource group offerings

Women of Marquette to launch this fall Marquette University this fall is set to launch its seventh employee resource group, its third dedicated to female faculty and staff. ERGs are supported by the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and help advance the Culture of Inclusion goal theme outlined in the university’s strategic plan, Beyond […]

Provost announces cluster hire to add to Race, Ethnic and Indigenous Studies program

The Office of the Provost, in partnership with the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, the Diederich College of Communication, the College of Business Administration, the Opus College of Engineering and the College of Nursing, has announced a cluster hire of additional faculty members to bolster its Race, Ethnic and Indigenous Studies program during the […]

We Are All Marquette: Immersed in Living Learning Communities

Marquette’s dedication to diversity and inclusion is strengthened through Living Learning Communities, or LLCs. LLCs offer students housing options that bring together those with common majors or interests, with the goal of blending in-classroom education with the residence life experience. In Episode 45 of the We Are Marquette podcast, Dr. Corinne Schwarz, visiting assistant professor […]

We Are All Marquette: Inaugural Symposium Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice serves as ‘institutional examen’

By Alan Chavoya, graduate assistant in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion The Committee on Equity and Inclusion on April 12 hosted “Rediscovering the Call of Marquette,” the university’s inaugural Symposium on Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice. Led by Dr. William Welburn, vice president for inclusive excellence, and Jacki Black, associate director of Hispanic […]