ALICE Training Opportunity
In light of the national tragedy unfolding in Florida, we want to remind the campus community that there will be Response Training to an Active Shooter in Minne 103 this weekend. ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) Training provides preparation and a...
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Envisioning a Community
As we embark on a new year here at Winona State, I find myself thinking about community. This past fall, we made a decision to withdraw our request to locate our baseball field at East Lake Park, and this decision was made with the community in mind. I feel strongly...
Community Projects
As spring semester unfolds, we look forward to a number of exciting changes to our physical spaces. Next month, WSU will become the site of the largest university climbing facility in the Midwest, with a new 5,200-square-foot modular climbing wall being erected in...
Not Your Grandparents’ Collegiate Experience
To educate and mentor students effectively, we need to understand the realities of their lives. Cyber-bullying issues that arose last semester underscore that today’s student experience is not the same as it was in our college days, or even five years ago. Much of our...
Warriors Connect Tour
We’ve all heard the phrase “connecting the dots,” and that is precisely the goal of the new Warriors Connect Tour. By bringing together WSU alumni and alumnae in metro areas across the country, we will reinvigorate our connection with them and their connections to...
Preparing for Legislative Visits
I am proud of how active our campus community members are at the legislature. Last year we convened representatives from campus groups to discuss their top goals prior to lobby visits during the bonding session. This enabled us not only to gain appreciation for the...
2015 New Year’s Poem
Listen to President Olson's 2015 Poem "Greetings, Friends!" Greetings, Friends! (With apologies to Roger Angell and Ian Frazier) Greetings, Friends, along the Mississippi; In country or city; square or hippy; You want to know what beauty is, sir? Pull Up a plan for a...
Working Together is Always the Answer
After extensive consultation and discussion throughout the community, Winona State University has withdrawn its request to the City of Winona to make improvements to Bambenek Field 2. In approaching this decision, we wanted the consultation process to be broad and...
KQAL Playlist “Sustainable Futures”
President Scott Olson returned once again to serve as guest DJ for the Winona State University campus radio station KQAL this fall. Olson joins the team at KQAL each semester to host his official program, "Working on a Dream." The theme for fall semester is...
Community Initiatives
Our communities in Rochester and Winona are fertile environments for education. We are stronger because we intertwine place and learning. Education Village. Now that we have received the first funding installment from the State of Minnesota, we have selected the firm...
Preventing Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence on college campuses has been in the national spotlight in recent months. Student safety has always been a high priority at WSU, and we have already initiated an integrated approach to prevention and intervention. WSU received a three-year,...
