CALL TO ACTION: WHILE ADMINISTRATION FACES PRESSURES TO IMPROVE CAMPUS CLIMATE, STUDENTS WORK TO CREATE CHANGE WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES
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 …
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 …
Program empowers communities to overpower diabetes
February 18, 2019 By Katie Gerhards Professor Eva Vivian, in the School of Pharmacy’s Pharmacy Practice Division, and fourth-year PharmD student Beatriz Jimenez Cadilla at a training for Peers Empowering Peers coaches at Cavalry Baptist Church in …
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 …
UW Women at 150: Computer scientist Thelma Estrin
By Sam Million-Weaver One of the first people to apply computers in medicine was a University of Wisconsin computer engineering alumna who was born nearly a century ago in 1924. Thelma Estrin was an early pioneer …
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 …
Student-driven oral history project marks 50th anniversary of Black Student Strike on campus
By Doug Erickson An oral history published online today by the University of Wisconsin–Madison recounts the Black Student Strike of February 1969 through the memories of more than two dozen people who organized, participated in or witnessed it. …
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 …