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.
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UW System honors two from UW–Madison with DEI achievement awards
The prestigious UW System awards recognized UW–Madison faculty members Carolina Sarmiento and Finn Enke for their longstanding service and commitment to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging on campus.
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.
Diversity Forum 2022
Watch recordings and access resources from the 2022 UW–Madison Diversity Forum — The Power of Remembering: Reclaiming Our Legacies to Imagine New Futures.
Public History Project Exhibit
The Public History Project exhibition, “Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance,” is free and open to the public at the Chazen Museum of Art now through Dec. 23.
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.
Art + Academe special performance to bring leading Black education scholars to campus for Diversity Forum
Three leading scholars of Black education will present “Art + Academe” on the UW–Madison campus as a special performance at the close of the 2022 Diversity Forum on Nov. 15.
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.
Celebrating our First-Generation Badgers
Tuesday, Nov. 8, is national First-Generation College Student Day, when we salute all of the Badgers who are the first in their families to attend college.
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 …
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.
Partisan divide contributed to false sense of racial equality in pandemic deaths
What may have appeared to be equality was not an improvement for Black people, but an increasingly worse pandemic for white people.
Renowned actor, UW alum André De Shields visits campus, meets with School of Education faculty and students
Tony Award-winning actor and UW–Madison alumnus André De Shields paid a visit to his alma mater on his “day off” last Monday, to see the new exhibit that honors him at Alumni Park. De Shields, …
Event will reckon with university’s history of eugenics
The University Committee on Disability Access and Inclusion will host a free event on Nov. 3 with Kacie Lucchini Butcher, director of the Public History Project, to reckon with UW–Madison’s history of eugenics.
UW sophomore wins inaugural Leinenkugel Diversity in Brewing Award
Babayosimi (Simi) Fadiran, a microbiology major in his second year, is the 2022 recipient of the award, which supports students from underrepresented groups pursuing studies in brewing or fermentation sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.