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A Proud Tradition of Excellence

by Samantha Stetzer | May 4, 2017 | Academic News, Achievements, Events, Featured Post, Student News, Top Stories, Twitter, WSU News

The Winona State University Spring Class of 2017 includes nearly 1,200 stories of success, including 450 students who are the first in their family to obtain a four-year degree. Click below for a sampling of WSU success stories, from students who epitomize what it...

Finding Home: Angela Asare

by Samantha Stetzer | Apr 28, 2017 | Academic News, Commencement, Featured Post, Student News, Twitter

When Angela Asare decided to attend Winona State University, her father had another plane ticket already purchased, ready for her to return home early to Accra, Ghana. Asare describes herself as someone who never strayed too far from her parents, so when she decided...

WSU Hosts Spring 2017 Commencement Ceremonies

by Samantha Stetzer | Apr 27, 2017 | Academic News, Campus News, Events, Top Stories, Twitter

Winona State University will host Spring 2017 Commencement Friday, May 5, in McCown Gymnasium in Memorial Hall on the Winona campus. The first ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. and include the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Education. The second ceremony will...

More Than a Student: Maria Hiyas Quelle

by Samantha Stetzer | Apr 25, 2017 | Academic News, Achievements, Student News, Top Stories, Twitter, WSU News

Maria Hiyas Quelle has always had a passion for helping young students with their education, something she learned from her 12-year-old daughter and working with children as a volunteer and a paraprofessional. Quelle and her husband, Scott, have a 12-year-old...

Duc Nguyen: A Sense of Purpose

by Samantha Stetzer | Apr 14, 2017 | Academic News, Achievements, Student News, Top Stories, Twitter, WSU News

The most important lesson Duc Nguyen learned at Winona State University was about failure—more specifically, how a person can learn and grow from failure. “It took me a bit longer to learn this, but failure is not the end. Failure can only spawn two things—opportunity...

WSU Connects Kids to Education

by Samantha Stetzer | Apr 5, 2017 | Academic News, Top Stories, Twitter, WSU News

What 7-year-old spends their summer thinking about their education? The ones who participate in Winona State University summer camps do. From engineering and medical sciences to basketball and theatre, WSU hosts a variety of summer camps for young students to...

Building The Organizational Leader Brand

by Samantha Stetzer | Mar 28, 2017 | Achievements, Student News, Top Stories

Update: After this story was published, Carson Perry and Chris Hahn presented their personal branding workshop, “Building ME, Inc.,” at the Clute Institute-Conference for International Education in March. The foundation of the workshop is a collaborative...

Winona Prize Winners Announced

by Samantha Stetzer | Mar 24, 2017 | Achievements, Arts & Lectures, Student News, Top Stories, Twitter, WSU News

The Winona State University English Department announces Sajda Omar, Charlie Utzman and Danielle Eberhard as the winners of this year’s Winona Prize. Omar’s story “Ruby” won in the fiction category, with Eberhard earning honorable mention for her story “Rupture.”...

WSU Named Voter Friendly Campus

by Samantha Stetzer | Mar 21, 2017 | Achievements, Student News, Top Stories, Twitter, WSU News

Winona State University has received the designation of 2017-18 Voter-Friendly Campus based on its efforts to engage and educate student voters in fall 2016. WSU is the only campus in the State of Minnesota to receive this designation. Efforts by the campus to...

Supporting School Counselors

by Samantha Stetzer | Mar 20, 2017 | Academic News, Top Stories, Twitter, WSU News

On any given day, Winona State University alumna Whitney Ryan is responsible for the social and academic well-being of 300 high school students. Even though Ryan’s caseload exceeds the 250:1 ratio of students to counselors recommended by the American School Counselor...
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