As UW administration works on improving campus climate from above, students leaders and activists set an example to create change from the ground up. by TOLU IGUN · Feb 26, 2019 /The Badger Herald In the …
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Next Fulbright Application Information Session is on March 7
UW-MADISON NAMED BEST VALUE COLLEGE
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been named a best value college by Princeton Review. The school is one of 200 included in the 2019 edition of “The Best Value Colleges: 200 Schools with Exceptional ROI for …
PEOPLE Program Opens New Milwaukee Office on Feb. 27
Please join the UW–Madison PEOPLE Program for the grand opening of our new Milwaukee Office! A tailgate atmosphere with food, music and a visit from Bucky Badger! Where: PEOPLE Milwaukee office, 121 E. Hadley St., …
Latinx Cultural Center & APIDA Student Center Opening is Feb. 25
Campus Climate Progress Report – Spring 2019
UW-Madison is committed to creating a welcoming environment that enables all students, faculty and staff to thrive. We continue to work toward this goal. Individuals and groups from across campus have embraced this challenge and …
Wisconsin Black Student Union marches in honor of Black Student Strike anniversary
Fifty years after black UW-Madison students demanded several changes to campus during a strike, the Wisconsin Black Student Union recreated the movement. In 1969, BSU President Rashid(sic) Wahid Rashad led the strike aimed at calling …
Wednesday Webinar Celebrates United Nation’s International Mother Language Day
In celebration of United Nation’s International Mother Language Day, the Administration for Native Americans’ Native Language Community Coordination (NLCC) Training and Technical Assistance Center is presenting a webinar on language immersion. Please register and join …
‘It’s our responsibility’: UW-Madison students demand change to mental health services
UW-Madison’s racial reckoning: In 1969, black students had 13 demands. What happened next?
2019 James C. Wright Scholarship applications due April 12
2019 James C. Wright Scholarship Application Rev. James C. Wright was a native of Camden, South Carolina where he graduated from Mather Academy. His teachers at Mather were role models who “dared to make a …
Today: Libby Tronnes discusses the Role of the Rock River Ho-Chunk in the Blackhawk War
ASM DISCUSSES CAMPAIGN FOR INCREASED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Equity and Inclusion committee also started discussing implementing more blue buttons across campus by ANNA WALTERS · Feb 13, 2019 ShareTweet Photos by JAMES STREBE/The Badger Herald University of Wisconsin’s Associated Students of Madison Student Council met Wednesday to …
Native American environmental ethnographer Elizabeth Hoover to keynote symposium
Elizabeth Hoover of the From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds: Indigenizing the Local Food Movement will be the keynote speaker at the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) Graduate Symposium on Saturday, Feb. 16 …
Proactive Review to Strenghthen Fraternity and Sorority Life
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will work with students, alumni, campus and community stakeholders and nationally recognized experts in an external review of fraternity and sorority life. The review aims to strengthen these student organizations, which have been …
HMONG STUDENTS CONSISTENTLY FEEL EXCLUDED, UNWELCOME ON CAMPUS, NEW RESEARCH FINDS
All 27 participants reported experiences of bias in Madison by PARKER SCHORR The Badger Herald A student-led research project aimed at uncovering the experiences of Hmong students at the University of Wisconsin found all of its participants …
2019-2020 McNair Scholars Applications are Due February 15
We are pleased to announce the UW-Madison Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program (now part of the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement) recruitment for new applicants for the 2019-2020 academic year! Our program …
Hate: When Ideas are Cloaked in Cutting Words and Deeds
By Patrick J. Sims Deputy Vice Chancellor for Diversity & Inclusion Like most college campuses, UW–Madison is a microcosm of our society. From our late teens to mid-20s, this is the time when we begin …
Students question why a WiscAlert wasn’t sent out for stranger assault on Langdon Street
RECRUITING FACULTY TO ADDRESS NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH DISPARITIES
New interdisciplinary team to focus on Native health, environment and community needs. By Jennifer Garrett Photograph by Alex André The University of Wisconsin—Madison School of Nursing, School of Human Ecology, and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies are assembling an interdisciplinary …