When high school classes start for Wesley McGough, Corbin Haar, and at least a dozen other area students, they’ll have something they acquired over the summer that few if any of their classmates got: college credit.

Higher education effectiveness consultant Frank A. Casagrande has gifted the future of his company, Casagrande Consulting, to Viterbo University. The in-kind donation is valued at $1 million.

Students in one of Viterbo University’s core curriculum classes for undergraduates taught by Cameron Kiersch are on an ambitious mission this year: demonstrate to the institution’s leadership the need for a long-term climate action plan.

Tickets are going fast for a free concert by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16 in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Main Theatre.

The public is invited to attend the “How Do Concussions Affect the Brain? Challenges and Opportunities with Traumatic Brain Injuries” Agnes W.H. Tan Science Symposium in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center from 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15. In-person and virtual options are available.

In 2011, Sue Graf's church was looking for someone to prepare a meal to feed 15 people seeking refuge at La Crosse’s Winter Warming Center. Raising her hand for that set her on a path toward founding and running a nonprofit organization in 2021, What I Need Now (WINN), a mobile mission to serve unsheltered people in the region.

Started in 2007, the Viterbo Teaching the Holocaust Workshop has grown to a two-day event and features leading Holocaust education expert Stephen Feinberg and other presenters.

Tara Allert '16, '18, '21 is putting her three Viterbo degrees to good use, helping middle and high school students manage mental health issues through an innovative partnership and training the university's next wave of counselors as an adjunct professor.

Knowing the success Matt Curtis ’08 has had with an innovative music business he started and considering an ambitious new project he is launching called the Cappella Performing Arts Center, you might think he’d earned an MBA from Viterbo instead of music degrees in music performance and music education.

As chief executive officer of the La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce, Neal Zygarlicke ’11, ’12 has launched a campaign to attract young professionals to the La Crosse community and keep new graduating college students from moving away.