A tradition of staff, student, veteran, and alumni pilgrimages to Assisi, Italy, strengthen Viterbo University's connections to St. Francis and St. Clare.

In 2020, Viterbo University leaders were looking for a way to honor the university’s founders, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. The members of the planning committee determined a place of beauty and contemplation on campus would be the most appropriate.

Amanda Meyer didn’t have to look very far for her first job after graduating from Viterbo University in 2008. In fact, it turned out her place of employment, Viterbo's recreation department, was located literally just out the window from where she lived as a first-year student. Meyer recently was named the university's director of recreation.

The Agnes W.H. Tan Science Symposium debuts March 24–25, with a focus on drinking water and a Thursday night kickoff lecture by environmental activist Erin Brockovich. On Friday, the symposium, titled “What’s in Our Drinking Water?,” will run from 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

The beginning of the year marked the 80th anniversary of the first classes conducted in Murphy Center, the jewel of Viterbo University’s campus. This summer, the building will be lavished with the kind of attention befitting an 80th birthday, getting improvements inside and out and top to bottom.

Just as investors have portfolios, universities have portfolios of their own made up of academic programs. So when Viterbo adds new academic programs, it’s like making new investments designed to keep the university’s portfolio healthy and ensure the institution can keep going strong.

Viterbo University has joined forces with many community partners over the years. The partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater La Crosse has paid especially good dividends, with new joint ventures holding promise for great return on investment for the university, the club, and the community.

​​​​​​​Two Boys and Girls Club of Greater La Crosse members were recognized for achievement in the face of adversity by the club and Viterbo University, an institutional partner, with full-tuition scholarships to attend Viterbo through the institution's Pathway to a Bachelor's Degree program.

Coming to campus for fall semester has always meant at least some amount of change for Viterbo University students—new teachers, campus improvement projects, different courses, and, always, a new crop of freshmen. This fall, though, will feature unprecedented levels of change because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new Viterbo Alumni Virtual Book Club's first session will feature a discussion—led by Professor Apryl Denny—of Julie Otsuka's "When the Emperor Was Divine," two days after the Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership presents a webinar with the author.