Sandy (Contreras) Burns remembered feeling over the moon excited when Viterbo launched its first official women’s basketball team and she was going to be a member. “I was in seventh heaven,” she said.

The third annual Community Interpreting Certificate Symposium and Graduation Celebration will be held from 9–11 a.m. Sunday, May 5 in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center FSPA Lobby.

Starring as Billy Flynn in a national tour of the musical, "Chicago," 2017 Viterbo music theatre graduate Connor Sullivan gives a lot of credit to his Viterbo education for preparing him for success in the world of musical theatre.

When Scott Mihalovic was approached with the offer to be the first William Medland Chair of Educational Leadership, university officials didn’t know just how deep of an honor it would be to him.

Mihalovic has been at Viterbo for 10 years, overseeing the university’s educational leadership graduate and certificate programs. His connection with Viterbo, however, goes back much longer.

The 16 graduates of the Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership Development (CNLD) program will discuss their capstone projects at a celebration in their honor from 5:30–7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in the Viterbo University D.B. and Marge Reinhart Center Skogen Family Welcome Center.

Four hundred forty-eight students, 305 undergraduate, 107 master’s degree, and 36 doctorate degree students, will be candidates for graduation at Viterbo University’s Spring Commencement Ceremony at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 11 at the La Crosse Center.

 

Activities such as having dinner with Holocaust survivors, speaking with community leaders, event promotion, and website editing work aren’t things the typical Viterbo student gets to experience. Senior nursing major Abbey Fedie has had these and other opportunities, thanks to three years as a D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership Student Fellow.

Jill Miller was a big fan of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership lecture series years before coming to work at Viterbo University almost five years ago as the Ethics Institute's program coordinator.

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.