First-year students stand at attention for the singing of the national anthem at the start of the Chancellor’s Convocation on Sept. 2. Photo: Jeff Miller This fall, the University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomed 6,430 newly enrolled …
Month: September 2016
2016 Outstanding Women of Color Awardees Announced, Reception Rescheduled for Spring 2017
The Outstanding Women of Color Selection Committee is pleased to announce the six Outstanding Women of Color for 2016: Fabu Phillis Carter, Poet, Scholar, Teaching Artist, and Outreach Specialist for the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research …
Institutional Statement on Commitment to Diversity
The Faculty Senate Monday night became the first campus shared governance group to endorse a proposed institutional statement on our commitment to diversity. The statement, which has been vetted by the campus’s shared governance units, …
Relations Between Community & Police Symposium
Relations Between Community and Police is a symposium sponsored by the Wisconsin University Union (WUU). As WUU stands for equity in the work place and our work place is a public university, the issue of …
Native Nations Nursing Summit: Careers in Nursing
The Native Nations Nursing Summit: Careers in Nursing conference seminar will be on November 4, 2016, at the Lake of the Torches Resort-Casino, 510 Old Abe Road in Lac du Flambeau, Wis. This one-day program will …
Monks’ art offers a break from hectic campus pace
To broaden cultural awareness on campus, the Wisconsin Union Directorate invited monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery to their annual World Music Festival to share their art. Source: Diversity News
Video: Monks’ art offers a break from hectic campus pace
To broaden cultural awareness on campus, the Wisconsin Union Directorate invited monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery to their annual World Music Festival to share their art.
#UW2DC: Students celebrate grand opening of Smithsonian African-American History Museum
Elder Milele Chikasa Anana addresses a group of UW-Madison students headed to Washington Sept. 22 to visit the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and other landmarks. Follow their trip at #UW2DC.
Video: UW community resources for students
Vice Provost and Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims discuss how national events are affecting students and suggest resources on campus.
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Badgers’ Koenig Joins Dakota Pipeline Protest
Two weeks after he began speaking out against an oil pipeline that could threaten sacred tribal land in North Dakota, college basketball’s most renowned Native American player decided Twitter and Instagram posts were no longer …
ASM offers weekly student voter registration events
Associated Students of Madison held their first voter registration event Monday at Memorial Library to attract student voters. ASM students will set up tables four days a week until Oct. 19., where they will register students …
Just Bust! Every 1st Friday of the Month
Join us for Madison’s longest running all-ages open mic, Just Bust!, every first Friday of the month in the Red Gym On Wisconsin Room (716 Langdon St. 1st Floor) from 9:00pm-11:00pm. There will be community performances, …
A century on, celebrating the first Yiddish-language college course
One century ago, the University of Wisconsin became the first institution of higher education in the Americas — and perhaps the world — to teach Yiddish, the language of the eastern European Jews. Louis Bernard …
Winners announced for Outstanding Women of Color awards
The Outstanding Women of Color Selection Committee is pleased to announce the six Outstanding Women of Color for 2016:
UW-Madison 2016 Outstanding Women of Color Announced
The Outstanding Women of Color Selection Committee is pleased to announce the six Outstanding Women of Color for 2016: Fabu Phillis Carter, Poet, Scholar, Teaching Artist, and Outreach Specialist for the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research …
Fall 2016 Women in STEM Seminar Series at the College of Menominee Nation
The College of Menominee Nation is working in collaboration with Jenny Christus (UW-Oshkosh) and the UW System Women and Science Program on hosting the first annual Women in STEM seminar series at the CMN Green …
New support for graduate students with disabilities
Britt Zeidler, a graduate student at UW–Madison, recently spoke to News 3 about a new effort she started to help address some of the challenges graduate students with disabilities face on campus. She hopes to provide more …
Wunk Sheek to Welcome Native American Students
Welcome back to campus! Wunk Sheek Leadership would like to personally invite you all to our Native student welcome event. We have partnered with Pathways AI to host a Native student welcome event at the Dejope residence hall …