Blugold Commitment in Action

The Blugold Commitment is a partnership of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends working to preserve and enhance the distinctive, high-quality UW-Eau Claire experience. In 2010 the Student Senate and the UW System Board of Regents supported increasing the amount of differential tuition UW-Eau Claire students pay, with the new dollars funding projects that enhance student learning. These projects range from faculty-mentored research, to visiting speakers who bring a global perspective to campus, to student immersion experiences around the world.

Student nurses provide health screenings to area immigrant farm workers

UW-Eau Claire's innovative Health Care for Immigrant and Local Farmers Clinical Immersion program sends nursing students to farms to provide health screenings, and health and safety information. > Full story

Blugold Commitment brings art students and schoolchildren together for project

The River Bend Art Project is an artistic collaboration designed to create a sculptural installation along the Chippewa River which reflects on loss and rebirth in flood zones. > Full story.

Collaborative research team conducts IFRS interviews in Europe

The team, led by University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire accounting faculty member Dr. Bill Miller, traveled to the United Kingdom. > Full story.

Grand Canyon immersion trip focus of newspaper article written by senior

Rob Hanson, a UW-Eau Claire senior and reporter for the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, took part in and wrote about the science and cultural immersion trip. > Full story.

Graduating senior selected for prestigious Japan-America exchange program

Christopher M. Brown is the first UW-Eau Claire student to earn a spot in the group of JASC delegates. Africa. > Full story.

New York City immersion helps students better understand immigration history

A spring immersion project in New York City gave UW-Eau Claire students a chance to better understand the history of immigration in the United States. > Full story.

Local attorney to discuss U.S. immigration system April 17

Vicki Seltun will present "Why Our Current Immigration System Is Broken: Immigration Basics, Issues and Myths" at 2 p.m. April 17 in Room 301 of Hibbard Humanities Hall. > Full story.

UW-Eau Claire students to present at national research conference

Twenty-nine students and two faculty members will attend the National Conference on Undergraduate Research March 29-31 at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. > Full story.

Social work majors volunteer and observe Guatemalan culture during immersion trip

Students spent three weeks in Guatemala in January volunteering, observing and learning about life in the remote areas of the Central American country. > Full story

Award-winning fiction writer Lorrie Moore to read at UW-Eau Claire March 7

Moore will read from her recent work, and books will be available for purchase. The reading is free and open to the public. > Full story