Stay tuned for info on RISE 2025

Ready to Inspire Success and Excellence (RISE) is a multicultural pre-orientation that typically occurs three days prior to move-in. RISE continues throughtout the academic year to provide students with a mentor and programming to succeed and feel a sense of belonging at Marquette University.

RISE offers students:

• A first opportunity establish connections and networks with other incoming students, faculty, and staff.
• Sessions to ask questions and learn more about how to survive and thrive during your first-year.
• An atmosphere that promotes positive attitudes and stimulates a vibrant learning environment.
• Supportive relationships and constructive feedback to help students make well-informed decisions.
• Opportunities to continue developing your personal and professional self at Marquette throughout your first-year and beyond.

RISE is hosted by the Office of Inclusion and Belonging with tremendous support from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and the Division of Belonging and Student Affairs.

If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Piñón, in the Office of Inclusion and Belonging.

Awards and Honors

In 2020, RISE received the President’s Difference Makers Award. The Difference Makers recognition is awarded to faculty, staff and students who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to positively impact an individual, group or community organization.

In 2019, RISE received the JASPA Outstanding Commitment to Diversity and Social Justice Award which is given to annually to a program or initiative that is aimed at or an individual or a group of persons who demonstrates a strong commitment to issues of diversity and social justice in Jesuit higher education. RISE was recognized for this award for doing the “magis” (“the more”) with the understanding that it is our institution’s duty to help RISE students succeed. They are an example of our profound commitment to quality education and to forming young minds for the greater good. We acknowledge that we RISE together when we take this small step in impacting a much larger community for years to come.