University of Wisconsin System. As of fall 2024, student enrollment had risen to 11,188, making the school the fastest growing university in Wisconsin.
Since its founding, the school has had an environmental sustainability emphasis; it was nicknamed "Eco U" in 1971 by Newsweek. It offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degree programs, as well as a doctoral program, First Nations Ed.D. The university had regional campuses in Marinette, Manitowoc, and Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The university's mascot is the phoenix.
== History ==
By 1958, the University of Wisconsin–Extension's Green Bay center had grown to 500 students, the second-largest of UW–Extension's eight freshman-sophomore centers. It grew to become the largest by 1965. Demand soon grew for a full-fledged four-year campus serving northeastern Wisconsin. In 1963, the Coordinating Committee for Higher Education unanimously recommended building a new university in the Fox Valley. Governor Warren Knowles, who was somewhat cool to the idea, proposed that …
