Creating Community – Promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UW–Madison

INSTITUTIONAL STATEMENT ON DIVERSITY

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

Community Spotlights

On Wisconsin Conversations: Alumni Author Ladee Hubbard
At home in New Orleans, Ladee Hubbard MFA’14 was booked. She had a full-time job as an adjunct lecturer in Africana Studies at Tulane University, a growing family, and a super-powerful calling: to write a novel. Sight unseen, …
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Three years in, UW South Madison Partnership shows strong growth
Inside a neighborhood mall on Madison’s South Side, the shuffling beat of “Back to Life” by Soul II Soul reverberates as 21 women stretch, sway and sweat. The free exercise class — called Get Movin’ …
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UW–Madison serial innovator Jack Ma cites collaboration as key to his success
It’s not uncommon for Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma to work late and sleep in his office. The microwave, refrigerator, treadmill, sofa sleeper and sleeping bag in the Lynn H. Matthias Professor and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor …
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