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![Five Lawrence students walk beneath the Lawrence Arch.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-09/Students.jpg?h=4656bb00&itok=nVR4m1zx)
Two major developments launched this summer will bolster Lawrence University's academic programming and enhance career discernment for students. Excitement for 315 E. College Avenue and Fox Commons can be felt on and off campus.
![Lawrence’s beautiful campus](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2021-08/Main-Hall-Aerial.jpg?h=b5aa661d&itok=602XBzyY)
Lawrence University continues to be ranked as the No. 1 liberal arts college in Wisconsin in the latest edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Colleges rankings.
![President Laurie A. Carter speaks at a podium on the stage of Memorial Chapel as Provost Peter Blitstein, at a second podium, looks on.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-09/Convocation092023.jpg?h=4320e95e&itok=gSZuCQqo)
Lawrence University will continue to embrace its mission as a liberal arts institution while evolving its academic programming and student experiences to meet the needs of today’s students.
![Members of the Class of 2027 hold their green class banner as they walk beneath the Lawrence Arch on their way to the President's Welcome.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-09/WelcomeWeek1.jpg?h=4656bb00&itok=qRXmzvK-)
Lawrence University has been recognized as one of the country’s most outstanding colleges by The Wall Street Journal, College Pulse, and Statista. America’s Best Colleges 2024 includes Lawrence among the 400 top colleges nationwide.
![First-year students smile for the camera as they prepare to walk to the President's Welcome.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-09/WelcomeWeek3.jpg?h=c606cef8&itok=KTJEQ5PP)
Lawrence University’s newest students arrived on campus Tuesday, greeted enthusiastically on a move-in day highlighted by a President’s Welcome in Memorial Chapel.
![The southeastern portion of the 300 block of E. College Avenue, adjacent to Brokaw Hall, will be home to the new building. (Photo by Juan Marin)](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-08/315ECollegeProject%20resized.jpg?h=8ad5a422&itok=Jq_M-Xhq)
Lawrence University and Trout Museum of Art will partner to build a new four-story mixed-use building in the 300 block of E. College Avenue, providing a vibrant new home for the museum, new academic spaces for Lawrence, and market-rate housing.
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Lawrence University was given an A+ in Forbes’ recently released 2023 report on financial grades for private colleges. Lawrence was the only Wisconsin college and one of 111 nationally to earn an A+.
![Graduates walk through the Lawrence Arch at the close of Commencement.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-06/Commencement_Arch2.jpg?h=456eb14b&itok=4VrYT0lE)
Cheers from family, friends, and the Lawrence community greeted 310 graduates as they walked across the Commencement stage, marking the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.
![Will Piper holds flowers at an event.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-06/PiperWilliam.jpg?h=f51d0b35&itok=GEQVR9x6)
Will Piper, a social studies teacher at University School of Milwaukee in River Hills, is being honored by Lawrence University with the 2023 Award for Outstanding Teaching in Wisconsin.
![Memorial Chapel as the day approaches sunset.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2022-03/blvckhrnhp%20%282%29.jpg?h=34bbd072&itok=ssF2Z28v)
Three tenured faculty with deep roots in the Conservatory of Music are scheduled to retire from Lawrence University at the close of the academic year—Dane Richeson, Gene Biringer, and David Bell.
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Lawrence University will introduce new living-learning communities while offering upper-level students off-campus housing options as part of Fox Commons, a new development in downtown Appleton.
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Lawrence University is mourning the death of Herbert Karl Tjossem, a retired English professor who spent 37 years on the Lawrence faculty. He died May 27 at the age of 100.
![Terra Winston-Sage '00 poses for a portrait on campus.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-06/Terra.jpg?h=0e7d6390&itok=nTGp-WTu)
The Rev. Terra Winston-Sage ’00 has been appointed Lawrence University’s next Julie Esch Hurvis Dean of Spiritual and Religious Life and university chaplain. She has been an associate dean since 2018.
![Tee Karki '23 sits on the lawn on campus.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium_16_9/public/2023-05/KarkiTeeCommencement%20pic.jpeg?h=55fa5a32&itok=Z_nyysHP)
Lawrence University’s 2023 Commencement is set for 10 a.m. June 11 on Main Hall Green. Here are 23 things to know as you prepare for Lawrence’s biggest weekend of the academic calendar.