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 …
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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 …
Mercile Lee, guiding force behind prominent UW–Madison scholarships, dies at 87
By Doug Erickson Mercile Lee, the architect and founding director of two of UW–Madison’s most respected and successful scholarship initiatives, the Chancellor’s and Powers-Knapp scholarship programs, died Oct. 25 in Madison. She was 87. The cause was …
UW Women at 150: Looking for — and finding — Lorraine Hansberry
While many people know “A Raisin in the Sun,” having seen the play or movie, far fewer know much about its author, Lorraine Hansberry. Although Hansberry spent less than two years as a student at …
At Wisconsin Leadership Summit, people of color led the discussion on Wisconsin’s disparities
Lisa Speckhard Pasque | The Capital Times Oct 22, 2018 BARABOO – Since 2015, Madison365 has annually published lists of impressive leaders around the state, with a “Black Power” list for African-American professionals and “Si …
MECHA Presents: Reel Resistance Film Screenings & Discussion
This week MECHA, would like to invites the campus to a 3-day event called “Reel Resistance” where we will focus on a wide variety of documentary films, which focus primarily on the effects of neoliberalism and …
Leadership Summit coming Oct. 18-19 to Ho-Chunk Convention Center
Madison365 and The Ho-Chunk Nation invite you to join Wisconsin’s most influential leaders of color in business, government, education and the nonprofit sector for two days of discussion, networking, professional development and planning for the …
SPECIAL INVITATION: UW-Madison Faculty & Staff Homecoming Breakfast
Don’t miss the Oct. 11 Wisconsin Science Festival: Essential Topics Series For Campus Inventors, Entrepreneurs & Innovators
FIRST PERSON: Alnisa Allgood
When Alnisa Allgood moved to Madison in 1991, she didn’t have much of a plan. She had studied chemical engineering at Penn State University on an Air Force ROTC scholarship, expecting to serve. But then …
Friday night lock-in: Red Gym After Hours
Two new cultural center startup spaces to open this fall
By Doug Erickson Michelle Navarro, left, Riley Tsang, center, and Alondra Avitia are among the UW–Madison students whose hard work and passion have led to the creation of two new cultural center startup spaces at the …
TV series highlights alumna’s struggle for equity in the classroom
For a self-described shy person, Jessica Stovall is making some big waves these days. The 34-year old “Badger fanatic” graduate of the UW–Madison School of Education and Chancellor’s Scholarship program has spent the last 11 …
Indigenous Public Health Forum slated for Aug. 29-30 in St. Paul, Minnesota
Q&A: UW grad Miona Short sees poetry in the stars, possibilities in a startup
If you didn’t know that Miona Grae Short was an astronomer, her Facebook profile photo — a selfie with celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson — might clue you in. And in May, Short became the first black …