The new program, called the Center for Religion and Global Citizenry, will have tough conversations once a week about religion. They’re conversations both students say are needed on campus.
UW Madison’s Oral History Program is gathering stories from those who experienced the Dow demonstrations through recording sessions at Madison Public Library.
Apology comes after Monday’s heated SSFC meeting.
At a lecture Thursday, an English professor sought to bring inspiration to black women scholars in a world with near minuscule black and female representation.
Two finance committee representatives accused each other of bringing personal politics into a decision on funding for the Muslim Student Association this week.
Noted: That meant many schools, including UW-Madison, had to issue separate IDs for students to use only for voting, an expensive and confusing process for students and administrators. To register to vote, students had to bring their new IDs and proof of enrollment. There were more than 13,000 out-of-state students at UW-Madison alone who were eligible to vote but couldn’t do so without going through this byzantine process if they lacked a Wisconsin driver’s license or state ID. (UW-Madison ultimately issued more than 7,300 voter IDs for the 2016 general election.)
The presentation, called “A Turning Point,” is online at 1967.wisc.edu. The Dow protest disrupted the campus for days as those opposed to the war clashed with supporters of the war and Dow. The Dow Chemical protests marked a very difficult time in the state, the nation and on the Madison campus.
Student Council also deliberated on 2019 internal budget proposal
Although they did not get the turnout they expected, the American Red Cross began accepting blood donations for its Homecoming blood drive.
The Muslim Student Association received a 14 percent slash to their budget after more than an hour of heated debate over program eligibility for funding from the student finance committee.
Wisconsin Badgers basketball head coach Greg Gard and his wife, Michelle, issued the challenge and UW-Madison students answered. At the sixth-annual “Swish Upon A Cure,” UW students helped raise the Gard’s donation to $20,349 in the fight against cancer.
A man with a gun was reported near Union South, according to a tweet sent out by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department on Monday at 8:15 p.m.
UW-Madison students joined in some fun and philanthropy at the Kohl Center on Monday
Madison Police tell 27 news a Subway restaurant on University Ave. was robbed at gunpoint around 8:00 pm Monday night, prompting UWPD to issue a campus alert.
UW-Madison police say there is no longer a threat on campus after a man was seen near Union South with a gun.
Wisconsin basketball head coach Greg Gard and his wife, Michelle, issued the challenge and UW-Madison students answered. At the sixth-annual “Swish Upon A Cure,” UW students helped raise the Gard’s donation to $20,349 in the fight against cancer.
A man with a gun reported on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Monday night after a robbery has left the area, according to UW-Madison police.
A proposed 12-story apartment building on the edge of the UW-Madison campus has drawn opposition from the university.
The annual UW-Madison Homecoming parade will bring fun, music and Bucky to Downtown and the campus, but will also bring traffic congestion for a few hours Friday afternoon and evening.
The founder of UW-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Noted: The gun incident, which happened near campus, was addressed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison police Tuesday. UWPD said that it didn’t send an all-campus alert because by the time police confirmed the gun incident was not a hoax, there was no longer an imminent threat.
With wet weather heading our way, UWPD has a plan to make sure football fans stay safe at Saturday’s Badger football game.
University of Wisconsin Police Department says they’ve seen an increase in use of a safety app after recent attempted kidnappings.
Noted: In fact, Hora pointed to the Wisconsin School of Business as an example of a school that has an excellent internship system because of the college’s strong coordination with employers. As the director of career services at the school’s undergraduate program, Jamie Marsh attributed their success to staff as well as size.
With UW-Madison’s Homecoming Week upon us, the Wisconsin Homecoming Committee’s events are once again set to benefit charities and organizations across the country.
A University of Wisconsin student has stepped forward to report an alleged sexual assault at a fraternity house on Langdon Street.
Miron Construction Co. will build UW-Madison’s new Southeast Recreational Facility.
Lee Conway and Alex Becker joined NBC15’s Leigh Mills to talk about their group, Fundamentally Sound.
Known as Egypt’s Jon Stewart, noted satirist Bassem Youssef will come to University of Wisconsin’s Shannon Hall in November as a part of the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
They always say that one is the loneliest number. As state superintendent for Wisconsin’s public schools and one of only two non-Scott Walker appointments on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, I know it all too well. 16-1.
While acknowledging areas for improvement, sororities, fraternities seek to expand capacity for positive change.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say a recent study of voting on college campuses in the 2016 presidential election shows that efforts to help students navigate the new state Voter ID law were successful.
A UW-Madison graduate teaching assistant has been removed from his position after an alleged history of racist and anti-Semitic social media posts.
Unfortunately, the current UW Board of Regents — with the notable exception of state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers — no longer recognizes this essential premise of the University of Wisconsin. They have made clear their abandonment of a commitment to sifting and winnowing, and the Wisconsin Idea that extends from it, by voting to restrict First Amendment rights on UW campuses.
A conservative commentator speaking at UW-Madison on Tuesday advocated for allowing firearms on campuses on the coattails of a new policy that disciplines students for disrupting others’ free expression.
College women cannot rely on the police — no matter how hard-working — to protect them from sexual assault. And their universities should not take away their right to carry guns on campus, conservative commentator Katie Pavlich told a full house Tuesday in a University of Wisconsin-Madison lecture hall.
The University of Wisconsin – Madison has relieved a teaching assistant after a blog post with controversial statements went viral.
The contentious speaker was met with students wielding dildos, shouting ’cocks not glocks.’
If the Associated Students of Madison’s internal budget proposal gets passed in its current form, more student leaders will receive wages and the outreach committee will receive more money than in the past.
According to Memorial Union Communications Director Shauna Breneman, the clogged pipe was caused by visitors flushing baby wipes and menstrual pads down toilets.
Gun-rights advocate and conservative pundit Katie Pavlich visited campus to educate students on the second amendment and gun use for self-defense without any disruption from protesters.
MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators are defending their decision Monday to keep a teaching assistant out of the classroom after racist social media and blog posts surfaced.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators are defending their decision Monday to keep a teaching assistant out of the classroom after racist social media and blog posts surfaced.
DeJope Residence Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus was targeted with anti-native graffiti on Monday, which the City of Madison declared Indigenous Peoples’ Day, according to campus administration.
Columbus Day would be replaced by Indigenous Peoples Day under new legislation.
UW political science professor said the book provides insight into rural motivations for voting for President Donald Trump.
UW officials condemn graffiti, say native heritage revitalization, recognition of tribal sovereignty is priority to university.
Graffiti reading “Columbus Rules 1492” was found on a sacred fire circle at Dejope Residence Hall Monday morning, according to a letter from Vice Provost for Student Life Lori Berquam sent to members of Wunk Sheek, an indigenous student group on campus.
Amid backlash against this year’s Go Big Read book, students, staff and community members packed into Shannon Hall Monday night to hear three Madison experts discuss J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.”
UW-Madison has relieved a graduate student from his teaching duties after a blog post, which claimed he was expelled from Oberlin College for racist messaging and currently belongs to a white supremacist group, went viral. The student, Dylan Bleier, denied the allegations.
When the 1960s are caricatured as a sex-, drugs- and rock-n-roll-fueled free-for-all, the 50th anniversary of the Dow Chemical protests at UW-Madison serve as a reminder that college students are capable of caring about international injustices and believing they can influence what their government does about them.
Something was different Friday when the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents took its latest action to fine-tune free speech policy to the times.
A national group that bankrolls conservative speakers on college campuses is stirring up controversy ahead of the scheduled appearance of commentator Katie Pavlich Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Alumni Park is opening just as the University’s chief alumni officer is getting ready to call it a carreer. Paula Bonner, the president of the Wisconsin Alumni Association, is retiring at the end of the month.
Kathy Cramer, director of the Morgridge Institute for Public Service, is one expert on a panel that will discuss “Elegy,” UW-Madison’s Go Big Read at a keynote event at 7 p.m. Monday at Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall. The event is free and no ticket is required.
The Board of Regents adopted the language on a voice vote during a meeting at UW-Stout in Menomonie.
In the midst of constant rainfall and the threat of thunderstorms, hundreds of UW-Madison alumni, students and community members crowded Library Mall Friday to celebrate the opening of a new park honoring alumni and their achievements.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank said she has no plans to answer the Associated Students of Madison’s call to put a plaque on Bascom’s statue of Abraham Lincoln recognizing the president’s role in the deaths of natives.
After an hour of celebration and exploration of UW-Madison’s Alumni Park, visitors at Friday’s grand opening gathered for the unveiling of the new Bucky Badger statue.
Fifty years ago next week, thousands of students on the UW-Madison campus — and the rest of the country via news photos and film clips — witnessed a protest-turned-riot that put the anti-war spotlight on the city, shattered the trust between the university and many of its students, sent nearly 70 people to the hospital and forever became known as the “Dow riot.”
