Strategic Priorities

Since 2015, Viterbo University has been awarded over $14.8 million in grants from federal entities, private foundations, and corporate partners to support priorities aligned with the institution's mission and Strategic Plan 2027 - RISE. Through initiatives for educational access, student success, public health, servant leadership, and social justice, Viterbo is enacting its vision of a Catholic, Franciscan university boldly transforming students and our communities through service, collaboration, and leadership.
 

Institutional Impact

Viterbo's investment in students and our communities includes the following awards to support student success, retention and graduation, campus violence prevention, mental health services, mission integration, and servant leadership.

Lilly Endowment

• Focus: Thriving Congregations Initiative

• Title: PATHWAYS - Creating Thriving Congregations

• Goal: Establish the university’s Parish Renewal through Communal Wisdom to Enhance Leadership, Strengthen Ministry, and Serve the Common Good (PATHWAYS) program to increase congregational learning, planning, leadership, training, and development.

• Scope: $1.2 million

• Period: 2024-2029

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

• Focus: Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant

• Title: V-Hawk Strong: Removing stigma, embracing help, building resilience

• Goal: Identify and support students who are at risk for suicide and suicide attempts, increase protective factors that promote mental health, reduce risk factors for suicide, and reduce suicide attempts and deaths.

• Scope: $300,000

• Period: 2024-2027

Health Resources & Services Administration

• Focus: Integrated Substance Use Disorder Training

• Title: Recovery Education through Synergistic Partnerships to address OUD for Primary CliNical ProviDers (RESPOND)

• Goal: Expand the number of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and counselors trained to provide mental health and substance use disorder clinical services in underserved community-based settings.

• Scope: $1.4 million

• Period: 2023-2028

U.S. Department of Justice - Office on Violence Against Women

• Focus: Campus Prevention of Domestic and Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking

• Title: Viterbo Acts Against Sexual and Dating Violence Project

• Goal: Create a collaborative response program between local law enforcement, victim service providers, and Viterbo's student affairs, health services, residence life, athletics, and campus safety departments.

• Scope: $300,000

• Period: 2022-2026

Health Resources & Services Administration

• Focus: Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training

• Title: Integrated Systems Training in Evidence-based Practices (InSTEP)

• Goal: Increase the number of mental health professionals in integrated health settings in rural southwest Wisconsin.

• Scope: $1.3 million

• Period: 2021-2025

U.S. Department of Education - Student Support Services (TRIO)

• Focus: Educational Access and Student Success

• Title: Student Support Services Project

• Goal: Provide academic, personal, career, and social services to facilitate retaining and graduating students who are first generation, low income, or have diagnosed disabilities.

• Scope: $1.4 million

• Period: 2020-2025

U.S. Department of Education - Strengthening Institutions (Title III)

• Focus: Improving Student Success

• Title: Pathways to Student Success:  An integrated, technology-enhanced approach to improving student retention and graduation rates

• Goal: Expand services, systems, and technology to improve student retention and success.

• Scope: $2 million

• Period: 2015-2021

For more information about institutional grants, contact:

Timothy Schorr, DMA
Assistant Vice President, Institutional Effectiveness
tbschorr@viterbo.edu
608-796-3774
Murphy Center 223