Social entrepreneur, changemaker, and former NAACP president Benjamin Jealous will keynote UW–Madison’s 2023 MLK Symposium on Monday, January 23, at the Memorial Union. Jealous has dedicated his life to bringing people together, building diverse coalitions …
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Campus Climate Survey social media toolkit
Use this social media toolkit to help raise awareness of what the survey is and why it’s important.
DIP RAFFLE WINNER- CARRIE GOLDEN
Congratulations to Carrie Golden! Carrie submitted an initiative on the behalf of the ITA Program called the Information Technology Academy Madison. The Information Technology Academy Madison mission is to prepare underserved students of color and …
DIP Raffle Winner- Lisa Chambers
Congratulations to Lisa Chambers! Lisa submitted an initiative on the behalf of the Morgridge Center for Public Service called the Morgridge Center for Public Service Climate Survey. The Morgridge Center for Public Service connects campus …
DIP Updates
We are excited to announce new updates on DIP! The Current Year Reporting and the “Served Population” structure and reporting has been updated. In addition, updates were made to search and discover in order to …
DIP Raffle Giveaway Winner-Heather Shimon
Congratulations to Heather Shimon the winner of this week’s DIP Raffle! Heather submitted an initiative called the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour on behalf of the University of Wisconsin-Libraries. The tour allows participants to visit …
UW-Madison Dance Revolutionary Mary Hinkson
Before she was a world-leading dancer, Mary Hinkson ’46, MS’47 learned to thrive in a segregated Madison. “There are times when I believe ‘Bunny’ was born to dance,” said Cordelia Chew Hinkson of her daughter …
Everett Mitchell: It’s up to us to support the ‘diamonds in the rough’
It took mentors, counselors, friends and family who believed in him and a supportive environment at UW–Madison to enable the Hon. Rev. Everett D. Mitchell (JD ’10) to unlock his potential and become the community leader he is today.
Danez Smith: ‘White people can learn from it, but that’s not who I’m writing for’
The youngest winner of the Forward prize and author of viral sensation ‘dear white America’, Smith is back with a deeply personal collection, Homie.
DIP RAFFLE WINNER- ERICA NEAL
Congratulations to our new DIP raffle winner Erica Neal! Erica is a member of the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement (DDEEA) that supports the mission of the University of Wisconsin–Madison as it works …
DIP RAFFLE WINNER- WENDI STEINBERG
Congratulations to our raffle winner Wendi Steinberg! Wendi is a member of the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement (DDEEA) that supports the mission of the University of Wisconsin–Madison as it works to create …
Former Badger student-athlete returns to Madison
Alvarez names Jackson to Wisconsin senior staff MADISON, Wis. — Michael Jackson, whose 15 years of experience in sales, marketing and business development includes the past three years as chief marketing and development officer at Northwestern …
Electa Quinney: Wisconsin’s first public school teacher
Wisconsin’s first public schoolteacher was Electa Quinney, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans. Quinney had come to Wisconsin in the massive Indian removal from New York in 1827. She wanted to teach the …
Campus mourns Teju Olaniyan, renowned scholar of the African Diaspora
Tejumola (Teju) Olaniyan, Louise Durham Mead Professor of English & Wole Soyinka Professor of the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died suddenly at his home in Madison on Saturday, Nov. 30. He was 60. …
Opera singer’s concert will honor father, raise money for scholarships
Prenicia Clifton’s father loved telling people about his daughter’s accomplishments as an opera singer. He attended every performance he could, always sitting in the front row. When cancer brought him to the end of his …
Ada Deer awarded inaugural 4W UNESCO Chair Prize on Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace
Last year, history was made with the election of the first Native American women to Congress. Decades before, Ada Deer was busy paving the way for others to succeed. In 1957, she became the first …
Alex Gee: ‘This place changed my life because of who it helped my mom become’
The Rev. Alex Gee, Ph.D., and his family together hold 13 degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It’s a legacy spanning three generations that began when his mother, Verline Gee, brought her young children to Madison to pursue a new life and new opportunities in the early 1970s.
Corporate Ladder Climber
When the clock hits midnight next December 31 and 2020 begins, Justin Cruz ’96 will start his third decade in a position of authority at American Family Insurance, marking one of the most impressive ascents …
Dakotah/Hidatsa elder, storyteller, and traditionalist to be Elder-In-Residence
The University of Wisconsin–Madison will welcome nationally renowned Dakotah/Hidatsa elder, storyteller, and traditionalist Mary Louise Defender Wilson to campus the week of November 18-22. The Elder-in-Residence program welcomes tribal leaders to campus to provide education …
Q&A: UW prof Duane Lee Holland, Jr. locks into a new space for hip hop
Duane Lee Holland, Jr. is thrilled to be the first hip-hop faculty member at the first university in the United States to grant degrees in dance. “It goes along with the legacy of why the …