I would say the struggles of being a first generation student is not knowing what to do when it comes to applying for colleges, FAFSA, and scholarships. I was lucky enough to have two older sisters that...
First generation college students may have similar struggles, but each experience is unique. Here at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, first-gen makes up about one third of the student population.
Guillermo...
Total state financial aid to college and university students in Wisconsin has lagged or declined in the last decade, leaving students to shoulder more of the cost of education – and undermining a tool...
Spring brings the enjoyable activity of watching campus tours fly around the university grounds. You can easily spot flocks of would-be Warhawks gathered in front of buildings and checking out lecture...
Kali Anditon, Assistant Business and Technology Editor
• March 7, 2021
Whitewater’s College of Business and Economics (CoBE) takes yet another step to achieve its goal of being the best business school in southern Wisconsin. UW-W’s Accounting Department helps advance...
There tends to be a typical path for many individuals after college: a job, marriage, house, babies. But it is not for everyone. Sitting down on Feb. 9 with UW-Whitewater graduate Monica Cull, two years...
I always knew I was going to go to college one day, but now that that day is finally here, it feels a little surreal. Moving away to college always seemed like a destination on the horizon until it was...
I was sitting in the emergency room Wednesday night, my head in my hands from the pain of the most intense migraine I’d ever experienced.
Nurses and doctors were swirling around trying to get me hooked...
All throughout high school, the thought of college was not something that really crossed my mind.
My parents encouraged my sisters and I to pursue higher education because they never attended college,...
Studying abroad is an opportunity that not all students choose to take advantage of while in college.
Less than five percent of all UW-Whitewater students -- about 400 people -- take advantage of...
We’ve all been there. You’re staring at the tap along the bar, wondering what in the world you’re looking at. Your choice of beer matters because you are a college student, and getting a beer normally...
