April 13, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Town-Gown Relationships in Stevens Point: Building a Better Community Together Portage County Public Library 1001 Main Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USA, Stevens Point, WI How can higher education and local institutions cooperate in building a better Stevens Point? Community members are invited to a panel presented by the UWSP Center for the Small City. "Town-Gown Relationships in Stevens Point: Building a Better Community Together" will feature UW-Stevens Point Chancellor Thomas Gibson, community development leaders, government officials, and members of...
April 25, 2023 @ 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm Resisting Censorship: The Rise of Banned Books and the Importance of Protecting the Freedom to Read and Learn Portage County Public Library 1001 Main Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USA, Stevens Point, WI Recent policies and legislation across the United States have made the reading and teaching of banned books more difficult for classrooms and libraries. In 2021, the American Library Association reported 729 attempts to censor library resources, targeting 1,597 books, the highest number of attempted book bans in more than 20 years. This poses a number...
August 22, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Event Series Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Summit Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Summit UWSP Noel Fine Arts Center 1800 Portage Street UWSP COFAC, Stevens Point, WI, United States The National SEED Project is a peer-led professional development program that creates conversational communities to drive personal, organizational, and societal change toward greater equity and diversity. Through personal reflection and testimony, listening to others’ voices, and learning experientially and collectively, SEED equips us to connect our lives to one another and to society at large...
August 23, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Event Series Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Summit Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Summit UWSP Noel Fine Arts Center 1800 Portage Street UWSP COFAC, Stevens Point, WI, United States The National SEED Project is a peer-led professional development program that creates conversational communities to drive personal, organizational, and societal change toward greater equity and diversity. Through personal reflection and testimony, listening to others’ voices, and learning experientially and collectively, SEED equips us to connect our lives to one another and to society at large...
August 24, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Event Series Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Summit Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Summit UWSP Noel Fine Arts Center 1800 Portage Street UWSP COFAC, Stevens Point, WI, United States The National SEED Project is a peer-led professional development program that creates conversational communities to drive personal, organizational, and societal change toward greater equity and diversity. Through personal reflection and testimony, listening to others’ voices, and learning experientially and collectively, SEED equips us to connect our lives to one another and to society at large...
October 7, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm World Languages Fair Laird Room in Dreyfus University Center 1015 Reserve St, Stevens Point, WI It's time to celebrate world cultures in the UWSP World Languages Fair. Join us for crafts, conversation practice, and dances from around the world. You can try dances including: Salsa and Merengue, French Line Dancing and German Teddy Bear Dancing. Stop in to practice your conversation skills in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish...
February 21 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Black History Event: Alvin Hall – Driving the Green Book Laird Room in Dreyfus University Center 1015 Reserve St, Stevens Point, WI Join UW-Stevens Point for a special Black History Month event featuring Alvin Hall, author and podcast host of Driving the Green Book. The event is being held in person and virtually. Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. In the summer... Free
Featured Featured April 6 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Collection Crawl UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States The Olson Museum of Natural History at UW-Stevens Point invites you to explore all 9 teaching and research collections in this year’s Collection Crawl. A day of hands-on learning and inspiration about the natural world for everyone! This year's crawl will feature the Entomology Collection. Visit our natural science collections across three UW-Stevens Point buildings,... Free
Featured Featured April 8 @ 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Partial Solar Eclipse The public is invited to experience the next partial solar eclipse viewing on campus! Join members of the Department of Physics and Astronomy for the viewing through portable telescopes with solar filters, at the UWSP Colman Field, adjacent to Maria Drive. (Limited number of free eclipse sunglasses available.) The duration is roughly two and a... Free
Featured Featured April 9 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Sustainable and Resilient Communities Leaders Panel DUC Theater 1015 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI, United States Join the discussion as we gather elected officials to weigh the challenges and opportunities ahead in planning for climate resilience, natural resource management, and energy policy. The Sustainable and Resilient Communities series will culminate with a panel of local mayors and administrators to consider the opportunities and challenges in implementing sustainability and resilience policies locally... Free
April 10 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Case in Point 2024 Dreyfus University Center - Alumni Room 1015 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, United States Be there as four teams battle in the inaugural Case in Point Business Solutions Competition! The Sentry School of Business and Economics at UW-Stevens Point has found a client with a pressing business challenge. Four teams and their coaches have met with the client and now, after doing extensive research, will present their solutions for...
April 18 Poem in Your Pocket Day Celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 18th by selecting a poem, carrying it with you, and sharing it with a friend, family member, colleague, or stranger. This year, we're thrilled to announce that we received a WiLS Ideas to Action grant to expand our Poem in Your Pocket Day programming beyond our walls to the Central Wisconsin region. Join...