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 …
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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
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. …
Hate: When Ideas are Cloaked in Cutting Words and Deeds
By Patrick J. Sims Deputy Vice Chancellor for Diversity & Inclusion Like most college campuses, UW–Madison is a microcosm of our society. From our late teens to mid-20s, this is the time when we begin …
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe on journalism, free time, and the day she won’t forget
Q & A: NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe on journalism, free time, and the day she won’t forget February 5, 2019 By Veronica Rueckert Ayesha Rascoe reports on the White House for NPR. She’ll be on campus at the …
22nd Annual Evening of Storytelling
Join American Indian Studies for the 22nd Annual Evening of Storytelling on Friday, February 1, 2019, from 7:00pm-9: 30pm. This year’s event will feature Storytellers: Jerry Dearly (Lakota), Patricia Ningewance (Ojibwe), and Brian McInnes (Ojibwe). Please also join …
Join the Men of Color Support and Process Group
Grand Opening Rescheduled to February 27 for UW–Madison’s PEOPLE Program Milwaukee office
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence, known as PEOPLE, is moving staff and opening space at Rufus King Middle School in Milwaukee. The grand opening, which is rescheduled due to weather …
Baltazar De Anda Santana Named New Executive Director of the Latino Academy of Workforce Development
The board of directors for the Vera Court Neighborhood Center has announced the hiring of Baltazar De Anda Santana as the Latino Academy of Workforce Development’s new executive director, who was one of the co-founders …
2019 Ojibwe Winter Games coming to the Shores of Lake Mendota February 1
We’re excited to announce that Wayne Valliere and several students from Lac du Flambeau Public School will be joining us in Madison on Friday, February 1, at 1:00pm to host the 2019 Ojibwe Winter Games @UW-Madison! …
UW-Madison alum Stanford Taylor takes over as state superintendent
Carolyn Stanford Taylor was appointed the new state superintendent of public instruction on Monday after Tony Evers was sworn in as the new governor of Wisconsin. Stanford Taylor, like Evers, is an alum of UW-Madison’s …
Work of UW-Madison’s Hitchcock, Jones featured in ‘Original Warrior’ exhibit at National Veterans Art Museum
The work of UW-Madison’s John Hitchcock and Tom Jones is currently being showcased in the “Original Warrior” exhibit at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. Hitchcock is the School of Education’s associate dean for …
Aaron Perry is changing how his community perceives and experiences health
Aaron Perry and the Rebalanced-Life Wellness Association (RLWA) kicked off their new Community Collaboration Grant: Black Men’s Wellness Sustainable Initiative, a four-year strategy that aims to reduce health disparities that adversely affect black men and boys …
Center for Educational Opportunity celebrates 25 years of championing academic excellence
Students, families, alumni, staff and supporters of the Center for Educational Opportunity (CeO) gathered in the Memorial Union on Friday, Dec. 7, to celebrate the center’s 25th anniversary on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and the accomplishments …
CeO Program Celebrates 25 Years
UW-Madison’s Center for Educational Opportunity (CeO), will celebrate 25 years of supporting low-income, disabled and first-generation college students with a free event at 6 p.m. on Dec. 7 at Memorial Union. Please RSVP by Nov. 29. CeO began in …
New Elders-in-Residence Program will bring Native community leaders to campus for mentoring, support
A new initiative at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will seek to improve the experience of American Indian and Alaskan Native students by hosting Native elders on campus for extended visits and educational exchanges. The inaugural …
UW’S CIVIC ACTION PLAN: THE WISCONSIN IDEA AT WORK
This post is co-authored by Chancellor Blank and Kathy Cramer, Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science and Professor of Political Science. Cramer is the former Faculty Director of the Morgridge Center for Public …