by Guest Blogger | Dec 8, 2016 | Improving Our World
I want to share a few quick facts with you: 51% of America’s public school students are ranked at or below poverty level. 50% of high-income students will receive a college degree. 10% of low-income students will receive a college degree. Poverty is ranked as one of...
by Guest Blogger | Dec 7, 2016 | Improving Our World
Over the course of the Fall 2016 semester, me and four other film studies students at WSU collaborated and curated films that best represent our university theme, “Our Digital Humanity.” We all worked together to organize a student film festival in order to present...
by Guest Blogger | Dec 2, 2016 | Improving Our World
This year, I had the opportunity to be a member of a group of Winona State students tasked with creating a film series based off of the University’s theme for the year, “Our Digital Humanity.” With this series, we hoped as a group that we could underscore the...
by Guest Blogger | Dec 1, 2016 | Improving Our World
Advocacy can be tricky; sometimes we just have to dive in, take chances and learn from our mistakes. Diving in, I decided to target a population that is very near and dear to my heart: student parents at WSU. The Student Parent Program offers pregnant and parenting...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 30, 2016 | Improving Our World
To whomever may be reading this, I challenge you to take a moment and imagine yourself without a home, bed, job, family, healthcare, place to shower or groceries in a nice, cold refrigerator. This might be hard for you to wrap your head around, but hundreds of...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 29, 2016 | Improving Our World
I was lucky enough to be one of the film studies students who curated Our Digital Humanity: The Film Series, a series that supports Winona State University’s theme, “Our Digital Humanity.” The event was spread out into five days that included five feature films and a...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 17, 2016 | Improving Our World
I currently work at the Mayo Clinic in the cancer unit. Every year, Mayo does a clinic-wide giving campaign with the United Way, and I helped collect contributions and sort them out into piles that would then be distributed to families in need. We spent two long...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 15, 2016 | Improving Our World
There is a lot of mystery that surrounds mental illness. A group of four graduate students set out to tackle the stigma of mental illness in Winona County. While looking at resources available, we came across the National Alliance of Mental Health (NAMI) and Winona...
by Guest Blogger | Nov 8, 2016 | Improving Our World
As the end of the semester approaches and we feel the stress of finals, students in WSU’s campus organization SOAR took time out of their busy schedules to serve a community in need. On November 2, SOAR made a trip over to Rochester to spend their evening volunteering...
by Guest Blogger | Sep 22, 2016 | Campus Life Blog
Look around; the things we take for granted everyday started with a simple idea. These ideas often arrive in the form of discontent. People have used their mind to improve our setting since the beginning of mankind. Nothing has been done perfectly yet, even though...
