The Marquette Journal

As Colleen McInerny, a freshman in the College of Health Sciences, comes out of her Abbostsford and walks to class, she receives a text. It is her dad. “Hey! I see you. Have a great day!” he says.
Colleen smiles, sends a quick text back and – after a brief moment between a loving daughter and [...]

“The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” — James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States.
The difference between a leader and a follower is within the spirit. Good leadership inspires people to unabashedly step forward and impact the world. Good leadership [...]

Campus bleeds blue and gold. There is no escaping who we are.
We have our staples: Johnston, Gesu, Cudahy, the Union and now Zilber Hall. Each building is a brand in itself. The Centennial Celebration banners show another brand, one that commemorates the women who have come before the thousands currently walking around on campus. Brands [...]

Philosophy is in no way the most popular major on campus, and the standard philosophy major saw no students choose it from 2004-2006. However, philosophy is on the rise, and the students that commit to it have one thing in common: passion.

It’s a well-known fact that numbers mean everything in the world of sports, and some numbers carry more significance than others — one of which is the number nine.
It doesn’t just represent the nine-game winning streak with which the Marquette women’s soccer team opened the 2007 campaign. And sorry, but it doesn’t just stand for [...]

Every day we walk past the signs and receive the emails and the updates about guest speakers and events. We feel the hype and direct effects of the Centennial Celebration of Women here at Marquette. The university specifically makes decisions and changes in order to help us better recognize women in everything we do on [...]

In 1983, psychologist Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory broke the barriers of modern thinking and practice in education. While many people today form the common misconception that only those people who flourish in mathematics and sciences are intelligent, Gardner’s theory argued otherwise. His seven categories proved that there is more than one type of intelligence [...]

Although it may seem like the majority of Marquette students come from the Midwest, the student body is more diverse than some may think. From Ghana to Kuwait, Burma to India, students from all over the globe attend school in Milwaukee.
According to Ellen Blauw, associate director of International Students and Scholars Services at Marquette, about [...]

If success in business is about making a lot from a little, Carol Schneider is a shining example. Schneider said she started her own company 38 years ago out of her neighbor’s bedroom, complete with bed, barking dog and $500. Today, Schneider is CEO of her company SEEK; a $40 million staffing and career services [...]

In 1909, the Rev. James McCabe tested the unthinkable. Despite the reasoning of his fellow Jesuits and his predecessors’ popular belief, McCabe combined the elements of men and women to create a new formula for Catholic co-education. Although his decision left him in the dark and without many supporters, McCabe produced a Marquette legacy that [...]