From the Office of Government & Community Relations
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WashU Students Return to Campus |
We are excited to have our students - new and returning - back on campus for the 2024-2025 academic year!
As part of our preparation for the new school year, the Office of Government
and Community Relations (OGCR) will once again be completing its annual Move in Mailing for students living off campus. An interdisciplinary effort, OGCR works with
Res Life and the City of University City to create multi-page packets that
inform students of their responsibilities as residents of off-campus
communities. Traditionally, physical packets are mailed to student residents of neighborhoods near the Danforth Campus in University City, and include reminders about neighborhood expectations, proper disposal of trash, and personal safety while living and traveling off campus. Similar information is provided to students residing along Delmar and Forsyth Boulevards, and in the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood. This information is reinforced throughout the year in our communications to all students residing off campus, beginning with the first student newsletter in September.
In addition to the Move-in Mailing, we have university staff monitoring high traffic neighborhoods for trash issues, contacting property owners when items are improperly left outside buildings, and coordinating supplemental trash removal from university properties throughout the move in period.
Click here to view the 2024-2025 Move-in Mailing Packets.
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This spring saw the graduation of the first class of the WashU Pledge, the bold scholarship initiative for Pell-eligible students from Missouri and southern Illinois set into motion by Chancellor Andrew D. Martin at his 2019 inauguration. Here’s a story on that first cohort, along with a Q&A between Chancellor Martin and Julia Blanchard (left), AB ’24, a member of the graduating class.
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Neighbors Day at the Bears Football Game |
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‘In St. Louis, For St. Louis’ Newsletter |
Aimed at local community collaborators, civic leaders, and interested community members, the WashU "In St. Louis, For St. Louis” newsletter will share resources and events, highlight collaborations, facilitate dialogue, and celebrate the positive momentum in our region. Please subscribe to our newsletter here. We look forward to connecting with you!
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STARS College Network expands |
The STARS College Network, which helps students from small towns and rural communities succeed in college, is doubling its membership to 32 universities. WashU, a founding STARS member, is recruiting and enrolling more rural students since it joined the network.
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Building trust and community |
One of WashU’s fundamental missions is to help students develop into the global leaders of tomorrow, by cultivating habits of lifelong learning and critical and ethical thinking. Here, six faculty members and administrators share their approaches and work on helping students — and the entire community — better connect and grant each other grace, especially in fraught times.
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Reconciling with our past |
The WashU & Slavery Project is uncovering hard truths about how Washington University’s past intersects with slavery and racial injustice.
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From the Archive is a new series examining WashU's past. This month, we're taking a look at "The Secret History of WashU", a Student Life production. Host Jeremy Slaten tells the stories of the buildings that once defined the Danforth campus. In the first episode, Slaten uses alumni interviews and archival footage to explore Prince Hall, which served as a dormitory and a one-time home of the Olin Business School.
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| Come See a Show at the Edison!
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Purchase tickets online or order by phone at 314-935-6543. Please check the theatre’s site for updated COVID-19 protocols and policies.
Edison Theatre→
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Thursdays | 5 PM
Missouri History Museum, Lee Auditorium and MacDermott Grand Hall
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| Thursday Nights at the Museum |
Thursday Nights at the Museum is a weekly series presented by WashU where the museum exhibits are open late and you can enjoy pop-up activities, a cash bar, food, and more!
Click here to view the schedule of events.
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Friday, September 20 | 12 PM
Kemper Art Museum
Free
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Take a break in your day to hear Washington University faculty and students from the Department of Music, Arts & Sciences, in intimate chamber music and acoustic solo performances surrounded by art.
Curated by Vince Varvel, guitar, this program will feature works inspired by Grace Hartigan’s New York Rhapsody (1960) whose painting technique drew on the free-flowing and improvisatory musical form of rhapsody. Varvel will present ambient, improvised pieces for processed electric guitar influenced by the shapes, movements, and colors in Hartigan's work.
Arrive early or stay after to grab lunch at the Museum’s Coffee Bar. Enjoy ice cream sandwiches from Sugarwitch, savory deli sandwiches from Parker’s Table, and pastries from Colleen’s.
These 45-minute concerts are free and open to the public.
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Sunday, September 22 | 1 PM
Greg Freeman Park
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| Bring your walking shoes and join us for a day of free music on the streets and porches of Skinker DeBaliviere, St. Louis!
Bands will be performing on 25+ neighborhood front porches followed by a mainstage concert in the early evening at Greg Freeman Park (aka Four Corners). Food and drink will be available for purchase throughout the day.
Click here to see photos from past performances.
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When it's the outside that counts |
Alumna Katie Ireland shapes the ways everyday products are manufactured, packaged and brought to a store near you.
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| WashU Neighborhood C.A.R.E. welcomes new liaison |
WashU Neighborhood C.A.R.E. liaisons are part-time staff supporting undergraduate students living in the neighborhoods around campus, in addition to their full-time roles within the university.
We are excited to welcome Atia Thurman to our team as the undergraduate student liaison in Parkview Gardens! She has spent more than 20 years honing her skills as a change agent, addressing the question of how we influence the direction and scope of change to yield more equitable systems. In her full-time role, Atia serves as a Lecturer in the Brown School's Office of Field Education.
If you are a neighbor and have further questions, please contact Redell Hendricks in the Office of Government and Community Relations at 314-935-5297.
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Construction to extend sanitary and storm utilities from Olin Library east and west to McMillan Hall, and north and south to Louderman Hall will continue into the fall semester. Excavation for the north south phase of the project will continue through August, with utility boring beginning Winter 2024. To accommodate equipment delivery, Throop drive will transition to single lane access with few exceptions. Pedestrian access to campus will be routed around the construction site. Access to the Greenway Pedestrian Bridge will not be impacted.
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University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy Quad
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| Catch up on important news and events that we have shared with the communities neighboring the Danforth Campus.
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1 Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
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