The Teaching Press is a community-serving, student-powered printing house and publisher at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. For our undergraduates, we offer career preparation through transferable skills in writing, budgeting, editing, marketing, project management, workflow, and graphic design. For our authors, we welcome storytellers from all fields and origins, and we provide a showcase for stories from the Northeast Wisconsin region. For our communities, we connect publishing technologies with educators, K-12 students, nonprofits, and businesses. 

Origins: In 2016, Professor Rebecca Meacham received a Provost’s One-Time Retention grant to purchase machinery and support development of this student-run publishing house, which is dedicated to author-centered, community-serving, collaborative book and print projects. Our first book launched in April 2019. 

Today: The Teaching Press is a hybrid publisher with three imprints: for our Hard-Penned Press clients, we provide editorial and printing services; and with our Mimi & Rupert authors, we acquire and develop books that interlace art and words. We collaborate with campus partners via our Teaching Press imprint. The Press is staffed by undergraduates from all three UWGB locations, and across the U.S., via internships and through a hybrid course, ENGLISH 424: Book Editing Practicum.  

In 2025, The Teaching Press was recognized by UW-Green Bay with a Founders Award in Community Outreach.