Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Marquette University History. Milwaukee’s first Catholic bishop, the Most Rev. Martin J. Henni, had a dream in the mid–1850s of creating an academy of learning. Embarking on a trip overseas to find an investor, Bishop Henni met Belgian businessman Guillaume Joseph DeBuey, who promised $16,000, which was just enough to keep his dream alive for the next eight years. At that time, he was able to purchase a parcel of land on a hilltop that today stands at North 10th and West State Streets. Nearly three decades would pass before the doors of Marquette College, a small liberal arts school for men named after Father Jacques Marquette, opened on Aug. 28, 1881. Bishop Henni died just two days later. For admissions and information, visit www.marquette.edu/about/history.

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Anyone interested in earning a bachelor’s, masters or doctoral degree on a campus in a beautiful neighborhood should consider the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. At UW–Milwaukee, the community is an integral part of many of the school’s 152 different academic degree programs. Research and hands–on learning are intertwined. It should come as no surprise, then, that an inordinate number of the state’s teachers, nurses, healthcare professionals, architects, engineers, artists, social workers and business leaders come from Wisconsin’s second–largest university.  [Top]

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Athletics. The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Panthers compete at the NCAA Division I level. Men’s sports include baseball, basketball, cross–country, soccer, swimming/diving and track and field. As for the women, their sports encompass basketball, cross country soccer, swimming/diving, tennis, track and field and volleyball. For more information, visit http://uwmpanthers.cstv.com.  [Top]