Each summer, UW-Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) teams up with Urban Word NYC to offer educators and community leaders a weeklong program to learn the best practices in hip hop and spoken word …
News & Announcements
Call for Nominations: 2013 Outstanding Women of Color
NOMINATIONS DUE DATE – Monday, April 15, 2013. The UW-Madison Awards acknowledge and honor women of color among UW- Madison faculty, staff, students (undergraduate or post-baccalaureate) and the Greater Madison community, who have made outstanding contributions …
Damon Williams Joins INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine Editorial Board
Damon A. Williams, Ph.D., associate vice chancellor, vice provost, and chief diversity officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has joined the Editorial Board of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, effective immediately.
Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Announces 2013 UW-Madison Inductees
The UW-Madison Chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society will host its Annual Conference and Induction Ceremony on Friday, March 1, from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Varsity Hall I at …
Looking to the future: 2013 Diversity Planning and ongoing work
Following an energetic launch into the 2013 diversity planning process, we have arrived at the next step. In November, the University Committee charged the CDCC with appointing a shared governance ad hoc committee to undertake …
PEOPLE Alumna debuts first fictional novel
Alexandria Harris, a 2012 PEOPLE Scholar who majored in Journalism, is releasing her first fictional novel under her pen name A.L. Harris. The Golden Ashfruit is a young adult fantasy novel based on Norse mythology. The …
PEOPLE Alumni: Doctoral Student Receives GSA Award
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), an organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging, has awarded doctoral student Maichou Lor, MS’12, RN, the Task Force on Minority Issues in Gerontology …
UPDATE: Campus Feedback on Diversity Planning Process
I am pleased to share with you two important summaries of key themes and recommendations that will help to guide our campus diversity planning efforts institutionally. These documents were developed through two separate, but related, processes:
First Wave Presents New Works
The 6th cohort of the First Wave Hip Hop Theatre Ensemble will perform this Friday, November 30 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall at 3:30 pm. First Wave’s newest group of artist-scholars present …
Update: Our Campus-wide Diversity Plan Process
Now is an historic time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as we embark on the process of selecting a new Chancellor and begin the campus-wide process for a new institutional diversity plan. The university has …
Fetzers & Jupiter reward academic achievement
Among the treasured rituals of autumn is the UW-Madison Posse Program’s Fall Awards ceremony. In a notable delay of gratification, each year Posse supports Beverly and Wade Fetzer, along with Posse supporter Lona Jupiter, …
Next Steps Toward our UW-Madison Diversity Plan
Opening arguments in the Fisher v. UT-Austin Supreme Court case were made on October 10. This case could determine whether public colleges and universities can consider race as one of many factors when making admission decisions. …
Provosts Diversity Statement
Dear Members of the Campus Community: We live in a diverse society that is increasingly interconnected with the political, cultural and economic interests of people in other parts of the world. Educating graduates who are …
Provost’s Diversity Statement
Dear Members of the Campus Community: We live in a diverse society that is increasingly interconnected with the political, cultural and economic interests of people in other parts of the world. Educating graduates who are …
Welcome from Damon A. Williams
Dear Members of the UW–Madison Community, I am delighted to announce the launch of the new Creating Community website. We have been working on this project for some time, with wonderful assistance from University Communications, …