The Student Services Finance Committee met Thursday to vote on the Associated Students of Madison’s internal budget for fiscal year 2019, which included salary cuts to vice chairs of various committees.
A University of Toronto professor spoke on Thursday about “the problem” in society, or the idea that there’s no shortage of suffering and oppression in the world.
A speaker who many on the left have derided as “transphobic” came to UW-Madison Thursday for a talk on “political indoctrination” on college campuses.
Reported bias-related incidents at UW-Madison increased this spring from the same period in 2016, with incidents involving race or ethnicity making up 36 percent of the reports.
The LGBT Campus Center is the only university-based center with a position dedicated to servicing queer students of color with its Crossroads program which was created in 2011, according to the center’s interim Assistant Dean and Director, Katherine Charek Briggs.With a permanent staff of four the center is small, but mighty in its work, impact and reach.
Noted: What are your plans after UW-Manitowoc? I plan to take advantage of the Badger Promise and attend UW-Madison, where I will pursue a bachelor’s in business marketing as well as a minor in communications; and hopefully, later on, enroll in an MBA program after I achieve my undergraduate goals.
Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison filed nearly 7 of every 10 incident reports last spring saying they were targeted by discriminatory language or actions, the university reported Thursday.
UW-Madison students submitted more reports to the university alleging discrimination this spring than they did over the same five-month period of 2016, campus officials said Thursday.
Over the past 100 seasons at Camp Randall Stadium, few people have had as much of a lasting impact on the game day atmosphere as UW marching band director Mike Leckrone. After 49 years at the university, he has helped create traditions and familiar sights and sounds for Badgers fans attending a home football game.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received reports of more than 70 incidents where someone felt attacked because of their race, religion or gender last spring, according to a report released Thursday.
After adding a “T” in the late 1990s, UW-Madison’s LGBT Campus Center plans to evolve again with a fresh name — Gender and Sexuality Spectrum Center.
UW-Madison students will share personal stories of resilience through a new social media campaign that the university’s Division of Student Life will roll out next week.
UW has highest number of university Peace Corps. volunteers in nation.
The university ranks No. 1 among public institutions in the numbers of students going abroad for semester-long study, and ranks No. 14 among all universities and colleges for studying in foreign lands, according to the Open Doors Report, released on Monday as part of International Education Week.
UW-Madison students like to study abroad, a recent report shows.
Action by federal officials halts UW-Madison plans to offer students first-time, demonstration rides in a driver-less vehicle.
Action by federal officials halts UW-Madison plans to offer students first-time, demonstration rides in a driver-less vehicle.
ESPN College GameDay, the popular pregame television show, returns to Madison on Saturday for a battle between nationally-ranked Big Ten foes Wisconsin and Michigan.
Committee approves Campus Women’s Center, SFFC budget for fiscal year 2019.
he Associated Students of Madison’s internal budget made its appearance at the Student Services Finance Committee meeting Monday night, where members raised questions about the costs for student pay and leadership training — two potential points of contention as the committee will vote on the budget later this week.
The reports came in at an alarming pace. A student at a middle school near Milwaukee drew a stick figure with a swastika on its face. The image held a gun pointed at another stick figure, which had the name of the student’s Jewish teacher on it.
Ahead of Veterans Day, the UW Madison Alumni Association is celebrating alumni and students who have served in the military by telling them just how much they’re appreciated.
The Wisconsin Union hosted a ceremony to unveil a historic plaque on Friday morning.The plaque shows that the Memorial Union is listed on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places.
University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty members have adopted a resolution encouraging campus administrators to implement a plan to become carbon neutral by 2050 or sooner.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf discussed the possibility with members of Associated Students of Madison on Nov. 7.
On Veterans Day, the Wisconsin Union along with the classes of 1963 and 1967 will unveil a new way to expand and update the memorial with an interactive, digital kiosk that will allow visitors to search through the stories of more than 900 veterans from UW-Madison who died in war.
As a student at UW-Madison who relies on public transportation to get around, I applaud Madison’s bold, forward-thinking proposal to spend $2 million on evaluating a bus rapid transit system (BRT).
It’s a disgrace that intercity passengers must wait for their transportation on a congested Downtown street corner next to the UW’s Memorial Library.
UW-Madison faculty members adopted a measure last week calling for campus administrators to take action on climate change and limit the university’s carbon emissions.
The Audre Lorde Housing Co-op — a tall, pale green house on North Frances Street — stands like a lonely relic of its former self, now home to only one person rather than the 15 members that it holds when at full capacity.
Deggans, an NPR TV critic and the author of the book “Race Baiter,” spoke to University of Wisconsin-Madison students on Thursday evening about the ways that that TV and media represents race, for better or for worse.
A letter sent to Chancellor Rebecca Blank this week alleged that former student government leader Carmen Goséy was the target of intense harassment following her remarks during a tumultuous argument about divesting from Israel.
Wednesday night, Youssef spoke to an audience of nearly 1,000 people at Shannon Hall at the University of Wisconsin as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.
In a recent letter sent to Blank, however, Palestine Legal staff attorney Rahul Saksena detailed alleged “discrimination” and “harassment” that Goséy faced along with current ASM chair Katrina Morrison, and the organization Students for Justice in Palestine after the divestment debate.
Think back to a time you felt wronged by someone. Does the memory still cause you pain? A professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison is teaching classes in the practice of forgiveness to students at the UW School of Education.
Latino students at UW-Madison feel as if they are not fully part of campus life, a graduate student told the school’s chief diversity officer Tuesday at the school’s annual diversity forum.
Improving the climate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for underrepresented and disadvantaged students is going to rely on efforts in departments, classrooms and social circles around campus, officials told a luncheon gathering Tuesday at the school’s 2017 Diversity Forum.
Herman Goldstein, a professor emeritus at the UW-Madison Law School whose theories on effective policing in free societies have been applied by police agencies around the world, was named Tuesday as the winner of the prestigious 2018 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.
Lori Berquam spoke about recent attempted abduction at College Library.
Fat-talk, social comparisons in college exacerbate insecurities — magnitude of eating disorders remains unseen.
Continuing a trend found on other college campuses, a poster reading “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” was found taped to a lamp post on Bascom Hill earlier this week.
The 2017 University of Wisconsin–Madison Diversity Forum, “Together: Building Cultural Capacity,” will take place Tuesday–Wednesday, Nov. 7–8, at Union South on the UW campus.
“We think the world of Tamara Grigsby and we think she is a great role model as we want all of our social work students to be thinking about making social change in the world,” says Stephanie Robert, director and professor at the UW School of Social Work.
After a Student Judiciary ruling granted the Multicultural Student Coalition an opportunity to make their case to the Student Services Finance Committee for general student services funding, the group used outdated information and lacked several necessary documents in their presentation Monday.
Amid a battle over free speech on the UW-Madison campus, the university’s campus-wide climate survey revealed that politically conservative students were more likely than liberal students to feel safe on campus
The specter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus as a liberal stronghold where students who hold conservative political views are intimidated from expressing them is not supported by a first of its kind survey of students released last week.
he results of surveys released by two major universities this week show signs that several groups of students there are not satisfied with the campus climate.
Tenure, salary, other factors considered to cause surge remain in question.
Across the country, hate crimes often go unreported. The Daily Cardinal wants to change that, and that’s why we’re partnering with ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project to track these stories.
For some UW-Madison students, last week’s campus-wide climate survey results were no surprise.
A forum this month put on by the new policy center at UW-Madison named for former Gov. Tommy Thompson will feature speakers from across the political spectrum.
Wisconsin State Patrol and the Department of Natural Resources are learning on how to fly a drone.
Speaking at a dinner of Fulbright Pakistan Seminar in the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, Consul General Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, urged Pakistani students to work hard in pursuing their studies here and take their expertise back home.
A ton of students lined up to get free donuts from Google on Thursday outside the Engineering Building on the UW Campus.
It’s been called a crisis on campus, a major uptick in the need for mental health services at universities.
The kick-off event of a new publicly funded policy center at the University of Wisconsin has a bipartisan mix of speakers, including Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman and Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin just began offering free tuition for first-gen transfer students, while Duke last year created one of the most generous, comprehensive programs of all.
Professor Howard Schweber said there are three main flaws with policy.
Elizabeth Pulvermacher usually walks home with friends after dark.
A line snaked around Engineering Mall in Thursday’s rainy weather as students and community members waited hours in the cold for the chance to receive a free Google Home Mini.
