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Join Our Online Networking Groups

As part of our effort to keep up with all of our amazing alumni, we have ventured into a new part of cyberspace--social and professional networking!

Facebook: If you are a member of the Facebook social networking community, please join the WWU Alumni Association Facebook group. Membership in this group is open to anyone who is interested in The Woods, including alumni, friends, faculty, and staff, and current or prospective students. Photos from alumni and other university events are posted to the group, so you can tag your friends!

You can also become a fan of WWU.

LinkedIn: We have also formed an official group on the LinkedIn professional networking community. Please join the WWU Alumni & Friends Official Group.

You can even follow us on

Special Alumni Benefit: Create Your Online Resume!

Creating a resume with OptimalResume.com could not be easier and is accomplished with step-by-step instructions, intuitive examples, career exploration tools, action words, automatic spell checking, and a myriad of styling options to make each resume the best presentation possible.

The easy yet sophisticated resume builder provides a flexible structure tailored to a wide variety of educational backgrounds, each of which can be changed in any way to fit the individual’s goals and career interests.

This service is available to WWU students and alumni, but you must have the correct code to make use of it.

Contact Michelle Kemp for the code.

Michelle Kemp, Director, Career Services & Student Success
573.592.4313 or 800.995.3159 x 4313 or email Michelle.Kemp@WilliamWoods.edu

The Ivy Tradition

While the actual history of the William Woods University Ivy Chain remains a mystery, tradition states that early senior classes first planted ivy on campus during a special graduation program. Since that time, the planting ceremony has evolved to ivy chain processionals…one in the fall for entering students and one in the spring for graduating seniors.

We extend to our students the challenge of the ivy. Participation in the ivy ceremonies will bond incoming students to the traditions held firm in the hearts of all William Woods University alumni.

As the ivy entwines itself, so their lives are entwined with the lives of those around them.  Every person on the William Woods campus is inextricably linked by the ivy bond which symbolizes the development of friendships, goals and common purposes.

Students are challenged to achieve – to be the best that they can be. Their capacity for academic growth and advancement will be infinitely boundless. During students’ careers, they will have an opportunity to seize hold of their lives, expand their horizons and succeed.

The ties that bind will continue throughout their university days, only to be broken at graduation when the ivy chain is severed. At that time, new alumni embark on the next phase of life as an alumnus and of William Woods University.

Keep in Touch!

William Woods University has more than 10,000 alumni—and we’re proud of their accomplishments! Your accomplishments impress us. Your loyalty inspires us.

As you move through life and make a name for yourself, you’re making a name for William Woods, as well. Viewed as someone who is professional, practical, and prepared to handle life’s challenges, you are putting your William Woods education to work each and every day.

Whether you live around the corner or around the world, keep in touch via correspondence, e-mail, and The Woods web site.

Give us a call! Let us know what you’re doing.

Keep in touch!