University of Wisconsin Milwaukee - Ivy Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Foreword Ivy covered walls long symbolic of lulls of academic (earning, provided the name in 1942 for the annual Hie Ivy pul mil by Milwaukee Slate Teachers College, later Wisconsin Slate College. Milwaukee, flic merger in 1956 of this college and the Milwaukee extension of the University of Wisconsin brought into being the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. The Ivy salutes UWM on its phenomenal growth and advancement in the academic world in the first decade of its existence. Originally a liberal arts college and a teacher training institute. UWM in ten years has more than doubled its enrollment, tripled its campus acreage, and expanded its academic facilities to include two colleges and eight schools. But expanded facilities alone do not make a university great. Just as ivy gradually spreads its sturdy vines, so has UWM spread its influence to the community, the stale, the nation, and the world. Committed to the traditional functions of a university-teaching, research, and community service UWM is a vital force in the metropolitan Milwaukee area through its excellent adult education programs and its active concern with urban renewal and the problems of the disadvantaged Each year its colleges and schools send forth competent professionals to take tlieir place in the world community Through its Peace Corps training center, one of (lie largest in the nation, its Institute for World Affairs, and its tics with several Latin American countries. UWM has enhanced its international scope. An urban university with its eye on the world. UWM is fast approaching its goal of major university status. The Ivy is proud to commemorate a decade of advancement in this issue.