What it's for
Answering “when did that start,” “what did this used to be,” and “is that story true” about the university — for a reporter, a thesis, a reunion committee, or the administration itself. The 1893 manual-training charter and its revisions live here and are still cited in policy work.
Adding to it
A retiring department's files, an alum's box of 1970s student-newspaper clippings, a former dean's correspondence — the archivist appraises what has lasting value, and a short deed of gift transfers it. Digital records are accepted too.
In and around Porter Falls
University Communications sits in Millwright Hall and handles the parts of Porter that outlast any one semester. The founding manual-training mission from 1893 is still the reference point for most of what this office says publicly.
The practical details
Location: Within Special Collections, Halvorsen Library Level 4. Holds: Governance records, publications, photographs, building plans, oral histories, student organisation files. Donations: Alumni and retirees' Porter-related papers are actively sought. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is University Communications (Millwright Hall, Room 210). Call (715) 555–0250 or email news@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.