The University of Wisconsin–Whitewater at Rock County is a branch campus of the

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located in

Janesville, Wisconsin Janesville is a city in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. It is the county seat and largest city in the county. It is a principal municipality of the Janesville, Wisconsin, Metropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Madison–Jane ...

. Known informally as "U Rock," and home to the College of Integrated Studies, the campus enrolls approximately 1,000 students pursuing an Associate of Arts and Sciences. Rock County campus students are welcome to live in residence halls on the Whitewater campus, and a free shuttle runs between the two campuses.

History

Newspaper articles, dating back from 1963, mention proposals of a new university in the Rock County area. The proposal to build the campus was dated in 1965, with the estimated cost at $1,050,000. The Groundbreaking Ceremony took place on October 6, 1965 The campus opened in 1966 and was called "The University of Wisconsin-Rock County Center. The intent of the college was to provide affordable college education to all types of students (traditional and non-traditional) and to prepare them to transfer to a four year university. During the fall 2018 semester, URock changed its name and began operating under a new campus name, the "University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at Rock County."

Academics

Enrollment was 1220 in fall, 2013, and the student/teacher ratio was 18:1. Currently, enrollment is at 897 students with 79 academic staff. The school offers a general education associate degree. After beginning studies at UW–Rock County, students transfer to other UW System institutions as well as to colleges and universities throughout the country to complete their

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s. The campus hosts the Rock County Engineering Program, a partnership with UW–Platteville offering a Bachelor of Science degree in

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. The program was established to support the industrial base of Rock County. The school's athletic teams, known as the Rattlers, participate in three sports: co-ed

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, men's and women's

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, and

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. UW-Whitewater at Rock County has an art department that offers classes in drawing, oil painting, and design, a theater area that produces plays and musicals, and a music department that offers classes in music theory, aural skills, and ensemble offerings including two separate choirs, a chamber orchestra, a jazz band, and a concert band.

References

University of Whitewater Fact Book"UW-Whitewater Fact Book." UW-Whitewater Fast Facts. Last modified , 2018. https://www.uww.edu/irp/fast-facts.

External links

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at Rock County website
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