News & Announcements
HASA student group to host campus Hmong New Year celebration
Come and join HASA and celebrate together the festivities of Hmong culture and history as the new year arrives.
Transgender Day of Remembrance honors lives lost
Transgender Day of Remembrance is observed annually on Nov. 20. It is a day to mourn, honor, and remember the transgender people who were murdered because of their gender identity or expression.
Staff survey shows employee satisfaction, with opportunities for improvement
Seventy-seven percent of University of Wisconsin–Madison staff feel “very often” or “extremely often” welcomed in their workplace, according to a staff climate survey.
Photos: Students braid corn in Oneida tradition
Students were taught how to braid corn in the traditional Oneida way during an event presented by Wunk Sheek, a UW–Madison Native American student organization, and held at the Indigenous Student Center on Nov. 14. …
‘Getting our students to graduation is showing that love’: Marla Delgado-Guerrero takes reins of UW Posse program
Dr. Marla Delgado-Guerrero describes herself as a product of mentorship, and with her new role as the head of the UW-Madison Posse program, she aims to allow more students to have access to the support that she did.
LaVar Charleston: Welcome to the 2022 Diversity Forum
UW–Madison Chief Diversity Officer Dr. LaVar J. Charleston welcomes attendees to the hybrid 2022 Diversity Forum on Nov. 14 & 15.
Navigating College without a Map: First-Generation Students’ Hurdles to Success
Being a first-generation student is an identity that can have many interpretations. The formal definition of a first-generation college student is a student whose parents did not complete a four-year college degree. According to 2020 …
Anjalé Welton named Rupple-Bascom Professor
Welton focuses much of her work on how educational leaders talk about and address race and racism in their school communities. She is also committed to providing professional development for educational leaders on issues of race and equity.
Award-winning NPR ‘Throughline’ podcasters to be featured at Diversity Forum
Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, co-hosts and producers of NPR’s Peabody Award-winning podcast “Throughline,” will serve as UW–Madison’s fall Journalists in Residence Nov. 14-16.
Photos: Ho-Chunk structure on campus promotes awareness of Indigenous land history
About two dozen campus volunteers assisted Bill Quackenbush, tribal historic preservation officer for the Ho-Chunk Nation, in constructing a Ho-Chunk housing structure Thursday on the North Lawn of Dejope Residence Hall on the University of …
An Evening with Lyla June: The Power of Indigenous Knowledge in an Age of Neocolonialism
Join the Wisconsin Union Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series committee alongside Lyla June, an internationally recognized poet, human ecologist, musician and community organizer.
Inspired by Ho-Chunk heritage, UW art professor Tom Jones uses artistry to focus on Indigenous imagery and identity
Tom Jones ’88, a UW professor and artist, moved around a lot as a child. He started out in North Carolina where his father, a photographer and painter, worked as a regional manager for Kodak. …
Photos: Author Clint Smith talks with students, faculty during Go Big Read visit
Clint Smith gave a book talk on Nov. 1 at Shannon Hall in Memorial Union that included a question and answer with Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin.
Waisman Center funds six internal grants to expand DEI efforts in research and clinical services
Waisman offered grants up to $20,000 to be used over two years with the purpose of, “advancing research that is accessible to, informed by, and representative of diverse individuals within the field of IDD in a way that fosters equity and inclusion.”
Q&A with Percival Matthews: ‘Diversity is one of our greatest strengths’
Matthews is focusing the bulk of his energy on leading the School of Education’s Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion — and making sure faculty, staff, and students have the resources and tools they need to participate in OEDI’s important work.
All welcome at Ho-Chunk ciiporoke dwelling on north lawn of Dejope Residence Hall Nov. 3
A Ho-Chunk dwelling, the ciiporoke has been a place of home, family, community, teaching, learning and ceremony for Ho-Chunk people at Teejop since beyond memory.
Community invited to Veterans Day recognition breakfast on Nov. 11 at Memorial Union
The Wisconsin Union team, in partnership with University Veteran Services at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, invite UW–Madison students, staff and faculty and the public to celebrate United States veterans and service members at a Veterans …
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UW’s Raul Leon featured on podcast about new ‘Becoming a Diversity Leader’ book
Dr. Raul Leon was featured on the “Student Affairs NOW” podcast as part of a panel discussion exploring the role of diversity leaders on college and university campuses.