We're welcoming you guys to Western. I'm sorry you couldn't make it but we're
happy to give you guys a virtual tour and an in-depth look into Western's campus.
Fun fact, this used to be the entire campus when we started here in 1899. Everything was in this building.
In Sherman Hall, we have quite a few different offices. One of those
offices includes our Admissions office which is where you start your journey
here at Western. Right in front of us we do have the Registrar's Office.
The Registrar's Office maintains all your academic records and transcripts in the building.
All the way at the far end of the hallway, we have our Financial Aid
Office and our Scholarship Office. Over 70% of our students actually receive
financial aid from Western and we have a ton of scholarship opportunities
available to all of our students. If you go to Western's web site,
you can check those out as well.
This is Garwood Hall.
Garwood Hall is home to all of our Art classes.
So painting, sculpture, metallics, anything like that will be in Garwood Hall.
Alright, this is our University Art Gallery.
We have a ton of pieces that happen in here all the time. We have a lot of professors,
students and professionals that come in and present their pieces in our Art Gallery.
The coolest thing about our Art Gallery is it is completely free to all of
our students on campus. All you do is show your ID at the door and then you get
in totally free see all these wonderful pieces presented by our University.
This is Tillman Hall.
this is home to all of our Earth Sciences on campus. So, Geology, Geography, Meteorology.
A lot of our nursing students take classes in here as well
This building also has a crime lab that's used by multiple majors across campus.
Seal Hall used to be a residence hall back in the day. Now, it's
home to our University Housing and Dining Services Administration offices.
If you ever need to get your campus ID, a new one or you need to replace your
current one, you can go into this office and replace that campus ID at the front desk.
Over here we have Sallee Hall. If you notice this building doesn't have any windows.
That is so that we can keep in light and sound because this is where
our building with our majors of Sports Broadcasting, Broadcasting and Journalism.
If you go in, this is a really cool building you'll see all of our alumni
who have graduated and work at Fox, CNN and all the different news stations around town.
We also have our own radio station on campus. You can tune into 88.3
The Dog that is our WIU station.
Welcome to the MCC or our Multicultural Center.
There are a lot of different things that happen in this
building but i want to highlight the different centers that are in here.
We have our Women's Center dedicated to women's education and women's studies,
we have the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center that's dedicated to the African
American or black experience, we have Casa Latina that's dedicated to the Latinx
experience and then on our second floor we have our LGBTQA Resource Center.
If you're a member of that community, or you're an ally, you can join that Center
but you do not have to be a specific race, ethnicity or gender to join the
Centers. I can be a man and I can join the Women's Center. There are plenty of
men who are involved with Women's Center. It's all about cultural outreach and
cultural appreciation. Highly, highly, highly recommend the MCC. I come all the
time. In the day, it's usually pretty quiet but at night there's always
some type of event.
Hope you guys enjoyed the MCC! Another building I'm going to point
out right down the street is Mowbray Hall. Mowbray Hall is home to our Office
of Public Safety, otherwise our Western Illinois University Police Department.
If you ever need to talk to an officer that's where you're gonna head. If you
plan to bring a car on campus as a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior
you'll also have to visit our Parking Administration Services office.
Over there, you can purchase a parking pass. Everything you have on campus does have
to be registered, including bicycles and motorcycles.
Welcome to our University Union! We have a lot going on here.
We have our Office of Student Activities, as well as, a bunch of board
rooms that all those student organizations meet in, we also have a lot
of faculty that meet in here every week. There's a lot happening in here so let's take a look!
On this floor right here, is located the Office of Student Activities.
We have over 250 different organizations and clubs on
campus that you can get involved in. We have everything from sports clubs, we
have a Pokémon GO Club, everything you can imagine. So make sure when you come
to campus you get involved.
This is a Rocky statue. We have 65 of
these in Macomb. It's kind of one of the top ten things to do at Western, to try
and find all 65 of them. This is actually, the only one that you can
actually decorate. So sometimes you're a Resident Assistant
or if you're in fraternity and sorority life, you can come out here and decorate
Rocky with whatever.
Okay, so now let's talk about Hanson Field. This is our football field.
We have 17 different Division 1 sports on campus. We are D1 in
football, as well. We actually just had a player that played in the Super Bowl
last semester so that was pretty cool.
This is Colonel Ray "Rock" Hanson.
The dogs are named after him but he also gave us our name, the Leathernecks.
The Leathernecks is a military term but since he was a Marine he petitioned for
us to be the Leathernecks instead of the Fighting Teachers. So we have a statue
dedicated to him right here.
We offer a wide variety of things here at the Campus Recreation Center.
A few of my favorites are the personal fitness
classes that we offer as a part of your student fees. We have a wide
variety, like I said, so that can include a 6 a.m. yoga class or 6 p.m. HIIT course.
It's really awesome. Right over here, we have our free weight section.
Right over here on the left, we also have an additional fitness studio.
Upstairs, we have a full-size swimming pool and a hot tub available for use at different hours in the Rec.
Make sure you check those online. We also have a cardio bridge that
runs across the center and a running track that goes all around the building
that you can use. Mile markers are marked upstairs with a sign posted
and the direction of the track for the day. We have everything from racquetball
courts and ping pong tables upstairs as well for you to use. All the equipment
that you want at the Rec can be rented out downstairs in the office. You just
need your student ID and you can grab a basketball, badminton court, whatever you
need. If you look on the right side, we have a full size volleyball court,
basketball court and we have badminton courts. Through the double doors we also
have two extra basketball courts if these are busy.
Another awesome aspect of our Campus Recreation Center is that
this is where all of our Sport Clubs and intramural sports teams our housed out of.
So if you're interested in joining one of
those teams you can always stop in here.
Welcome to Western Hall!
Western Hall is where you basically start and end your time here at Western Illinois.
You'll start with the new student commencement and end with graduation.
Western Hall is also home to our basketball and volleyball games.
We have a full-size stadium inside and if you're ever looking to go to a game
that's where you're gonna head. Games are completely free with your student ID.
Behind me is Brophy Hall! Brophy Hall is home to our Kinesiology majors and
Exercise Science majors. All along University Drive, we have all of our
athletic fields as well to include our baseball stadium and our training fields.
In Brophy, you'll find a full-size swimming pool and another full-size
court that our athletic department uses to practice.
Let's talk about Thompson Hall! This is my home away from home.
17 floors on each side, it's separated by a boy's wing and a girl's wing, but
anyone can live in Thompson. You don't have to be a freshman, upperclassmen.
You can live in Thompson.
We've got different Living-Learning Communities here, as well.
If you're a transfer student, you can live on the transfer floor.
If you're an Honors student, you can live on the Honors floor.
Women in science, we have plenty.
This building right here behind me this Waggoner Hall.
Waggoner Hall is home to our Life Sciences, so Biology, Botany,
Zoology, Psychology, all of those -ology classes are in Waggoner Hall. We have our
two biggest lecture halls on campus located in Waggoner Hall. They are in our
basement. Our first and second floors are reserved primarily for classrooms and
offices for all of our professors. Our third floor is reserved for all
of our lab areas. So if you have a biology lab, you're going to be up on the
third floor of Waggoner Hall. Speaking of biology and botany, this wonderful
greenhouse right over here next to Waggoner Hall, that is maintained by our
Botany program. It's wonderful to go in there right in the spring when
everything is blooming and in the winter when everything is nice and warm.
This building behind me right now, this is Currens Hall. This is
home to our Physical Sciences. So that includes Physics and Chemistry.
In the basement, we have our Nursing advising office. In addition to our
Nursing advising office, we have our nursing clinical labs where they have the
simulation dummies. So that's pretty awesome to see our Nursing students work
on the mannequins before they work on people so they get that hands-on
experience without harming anyone which is really awesome. We have a couple of
Physics classes in here.
We have our lab areas on the second and third floors of Currens Hall.
This is Morgan Hall! This has a lot of different majors in here. Clinical Science,
Foreign Language, Math, History, all the liberal arts and sciences and majority
of the general education classes are in Morgan Hall. One of the cool things about
Morgan Hall is they also have a computer lab and they have a Presidential library/museum
that's open on Tuesdays and Thursdays so come check it out!
Welcome to Stipes Hall! Stipes Hall is home to our Business
Administration, Accounting and Finance and one of our biggest programs Law
Enforcement and Justice Administration. Stipes Hall has a few things that really
help out students. We have Dividends Cafe. Dividends Cafe is our on-campus
coffee shop where you can stop in between class to get food, snacks, coffee
whatever you need. It's a quick 10 minute trip and you're on your way to class.
We also have our UTech Center. Our UTech Center is our University Technology
that can help you when you're having computer issues on campus whether it be
with Wi-Fi or your computers just broken. They also do fix ups for them so if you
ever have a problem come visit UTech in Stipes.
Horrabin Hall is home to our
Military Science department, our Social Work program and our Pre-Elementary,
Early Education majors. We have a preschool inside Horrabin Hall that
Macomb Community families use just to drop off their kids which gives our
Pre-Elementary education majors hands-on experience with kids. They also have a
playground for recess time. We have our Military Science department so if you're
interested in doing ROTC while here at Western, definitely come visit that office.
We also have a Study Abroad office so when you're interested or if
you're interested in studying abroad whether it be for two weeks, a month or
even a semester to a year, come visit the Study Abroad Office and see what options
they have and what countries they have that you can go to to study abroad.
Before we begin, look at the amazing view that we have in the Library.
Over 700 plants in this library.
Six floors, each floor gets quieter as you go up. I like being on the
first and second floor a lot. I like to talk a lot but if you're someone who
needs extreme quiet when studying, the sixth floors gonna be your place. We also
have our reference desk over there so you can do all types of things.
You get information, checkout books but we also have our reserve desk. Like Delilah said, the
reserve desk is a great resource that we have on campus.
Connected to the library in the
little tiny annex, is the Honors College. Both Liz and I are part of the Honors
College. We both love it and enjoy it. All you need is a 3.4 GPA to join the Honors
College and there's tons of different scholarships and amenities that you can get.
Welcome to Knoblauch Hall! Knoblauch Hall holds so many different majors and minors.
You have everything from Construction Management, to Dietetics, to Hospitality Management.
We have Engineering courses that go on. You name it and it's probably here.
There are a lot of lab spaces inside.
We are currently at Beu Health Center! Beu Health Center is just like any other health clinic, but here on campus.
We have lab services, X-Ray, a pharmacy, we also have four doctors and three nurse practitioners on staff.
So you'll be well taken care of here at Beu Health Center.
Alright, so we are currently in Memorial Hall! A few academic areas that
we have here is Speech Pathology and Audiology and our Communication
department. Our Speech Pathology and Audiology department houses a
hearing clinic up on the second floor of Memorial Hall. The hearing clinic is
completely free to any student on campus. The only thing that you would ever have
to pay for here is getting a hearing aid. So if you're struggling in class
you think your hearing might be the problem, you can always get your hearing checked out
on the second floor in our Speech Pathology and Audiology lab.
On the third floor, we have our Communication department which, as a Communication
major, I'm up there quite a bit. I have all my Communication classes up there, I have
my academic adviser up on the third floor, as well. So if you're interested in
Communication, you'll probably have a couple classes up on the third floor.
This is our University Counseling Center and there's a lot of stuff going on in here so
I'm gonna tell you about a few of my favorites. So, one of my favorite things
about our University Counseling Center is that it does group and individual
counseling. It's one hundred percent free and one hundred percent confidential to all of
our students here on campus.
In Memorial Hall, we also have our Student
Development and Success Center which houses multiple offices. We have our
Student Rights and Responsibilities office which handles students conduct cases.
We also have our Disability Resource Center.
WIU recognizes all disabilities, invisible and visible. So whether you
need test-taking accommodations, help getting to class or you need someone to take notes,
Whatever it is, visit the DRC and they'll be able to help you with that.
We also have our Health Education office. They do sexual wellness programs,
nutrition programs and a whole bunch of other things. Whether you need help
learning exercises for your specific body type or you want to learn to meal
prep and eat healthier, visit the Health Education office and they'll be able to
help you. We also have our Student Development Office. If you plan on
taking leave whether it be for military or family emergency, contact the Student
Development Office so they can help you make sure you stay on track and don't
fall behind when you're leaving the University.
A lot of students ask, "I
know I want to be in college but I don't know exactly what major". That's what
University Advising is for. They will help you find a
major and also put you in a couple of classes to see what you may or may not
like. They will help you through every step of the way.
Next, we have Browne Hall.
It's home to the School of Music and Department of Theatre and Dance, offering
degrees in Acting and Design and the only Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical
Theatre at an Illinois State institution. Inside his Hainline Theatre, where four
of our main stage theatre productions are held each year.
Our College of Fine Arts and Communications recital hall is used throughout the year by music
ensembles and first senior music students recitals. This space holds about
500 audience members and was previously a gymnasium.
This is Corbin-Olson Halls.
Corbin-Olson is an upperclassman residence hall. Founded by best friends, Corbin-Olson
has a dining Center, 24-hour computer lab and a convenience store.
Every floor has a laundry Center and a resident assistant to help you with
whatever you need.
If you're not planning to bring your car around campus, you don't
have to worry. We have our GoWest bus system. Our GoWest bus system runs not
only through campus, but also around town. Whether you need to go to Walmart or
the Amtrak, the bus will get you there. This building right over here is Simpkins Hall.
Simpkins hall is our second oldest building on campus. Our first is Sherman.
In Simpkins Hall, we have our English and Theatre majors
and we have some Film Studies classes.
This is Lincoln, Washington and Grote Halls.
In Lincoln-Washington we have our first year students and we also have a convenience
store on the first floor of Lincoln-Washington Halls. We have our upper class
students housed in Grote Hall. In Grote Hall we have single rooms and suite-style rooms.
Right outside Corbin-Olson, we have Lake Ruth. It has been part of WIU's
Macomb campus since 1908 and students often use it to study by the
lake while feeding fish on a nice sunny day.
The Alumni House is home to our Alumni Program staff.
The Alumni Program produces numerous events and activities
for all of WIU's 130,000 plus alumni every year.
Right next to the Alumni house, we have the Wright Residence.
Otherwise known as our Veterans Resource Center.
A one-stop resource for Veterans, Guard members, Reservists, Active Military
members, and current military members, or dependents of veterans.
The Union offers a wide variety of places to eat. Whether you choose Burger King,
Chick-fil-A or Einstein Bros Bagels. We also have a convenience store if you
just want to grab a snack and a drink. All locations take your meal card,
Rocky Dollars, credit or cash. So make sure you stop by.
Oh! Hey guys!
So, over here, we have the WIU Bookstore! Obviously, we have books
in the bookstore but we also have WIU swag or any type of apparel.
They're always having different sales so please feel free to come in and check out what
we're having.
Alright guys! Welcome to the University Union!
We do have a hotel up on the second floor of our University Union.
It has about 27 rooms and two additional Suites, so I highly recommend checking it out.
They're really nice and it's a really nice place to stay on campus if your
family's coming. It's really convenient because it is in the center of campus.
Thank you for joining us on our virtual tour! If you have any questions
you can always contact Undergraduate Admissions office at 309-298-3157
or you can email us at admissions@wiu.edu.
We hope to see you here! Thanks for coming