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Program starting in fall 2023 will help underserved students obtain a degree tuition-free University of Wisconsin System President Jay Rothman today announced the creation of the Wisconsin Tuition Promise, a new initiative starting in fall 2023 to ensure underserved Wisconsin students can attend any UW System university without paying tuition or fees. The goal of […]

Since 1894, UW-Stevens Point has been at the forefront of preparing future teachers. Today, there are growing enrollment numbers in both the School of Education undergraduate and master’s in education programs, and a 96 percent rate of immediate employment and job advancement among graduates. But teachers know it’s not about numbers—it’s about the students. That’s […]

A talented cast of young people from central Wisconsin will tell the tale of a group of newspaper sellers in New York at the turn of the 20th century in a musical production Aug. 18-20. “Newsies Jr.” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 18-19, and at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, […]

A commitment to serving students and her community has been a driving force for Laurie Petri during her 20 years as a librarian at the UWSP at Marshfield campus. From serving as adviser of several student organizations and on numerous university committees to creating educational exhibits in the library and presenting lectures to students in […]

From murder mysteries and lively musicals to dramatic stories and original dance, the 2022-23 Department of Theatre and Dance season will take audiences on a journey at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. “This season has the theme, ‘What Lies Beneath,’ as it is specially crafted to take the audience on a journey through timeless stories, […]

Assistant Professor of English Erica Ringelspaugh is described often as an extremely supportive, dedicated educator. Teaching is second nature to her, having eavesdropped on the conversations between her parents. Her mother, Betty, taught family and consumer economics and her father, John, taught auto mechanics and drafting. While her parents were finishing work in the Tomah […]

First year DPT students Crisma Benny and Eric Bromeisl work with a patient (or client) under the supervision of Dennis Kaster PT at Advanced Physical Therapy Associates. Personal experiences often propel people to certain career paths. That is true for several students in the inaugural doctor of physical therapy program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens […]

Communication between Ukrainian refugees, their host families and agencies in European countries such as the Netherlands was helped by an unlikely source – the Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Two graduate students in speech-language pathology and a professor helped create a “Refugee Dictionary.” It is a compilation of 124 […]

Incoming UW-Stevens Point student Connor Schaefer (above) says he fell in love with the game of golf as a way to pass time during the COVID-19 pandemic, as golf courses were among the few places open. The Hortonville native began playing for his high school team, serving as captain his senior year when the team […]

Sheila Bannister-Gross has spent more than 37 years with the Continuing Education (CE) program at UW-Stevens Point, helping people “grow and go,” she said. “I’ve been involved in every aspect of that process,” she said. “That is what Continuing Education is about. Continually educating, continually growing, continually building relationships. That has always been a value […]

The Central Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra Program (CWYSOP) has a new music director/Symphony Orchestra conductor, Stephan Wucherer. Wucherer joined the Central Wisconsin Youth Symphony Program as the director of the Philharmonia the summer prior to its first season in fall of 2014. He is currently part of the orchestra staff for the Howard-Suamico School District. […]

As an undergraduate student, Rebecca Franzen realized the importance of building relationships between people and between people and the environment. She carried this belief in creating community through the rest of her education and into her classrooms today as an Associate Professor within the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Management discipline within the College of […]