Category: Campus life

Anne Massey announced Monday that she would resign — after only one semester in office — as dean of the business school at the University of Wisconsin, The Wisconsin State Journal reported.

After over two weeks of pushback from student organizations and shared governance groups, changes will be made to the controversial meal plan that will require new dorm residents to deposit a minimum of $1,400 onto their WisCard for dining, university officials said Friday.

En 1967, Luciano Barraza completó un doctorado en economía agrícola, pero sus obligaciones laborales en México y la falta de dinero le impidieron participar en la ceremonia de graduación, explicó la universidad en un comunicado este lunes. Ahora, 50 años después, Barraza podrá hacerlo, indicó.

Ithaca College, Duke University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the other schools that have courses or touch on the show in other music or history classes.Educators are also targeting high school students. There’s a program coordinated through the show and donors that uses donations to allow 10th- and 11th-graders to see “Hamilton” for free or reduced admission.

Much of the discussion was centered on a new University Housing dining policy which mandates the purchase of a $1,400 meal plan for all students living in university residence halls.

It’s the latest organization on campus to denounce the plan.

Under the plan, nearly two dozen smaller libraries would be eliminated and the collection would be reduced by three quarters in volume,.

A leading advocate for health equity who once served as the state’s health officer has been chosen as the new director of the Population Health Institute at UW-Madison.

UW-Madison officials unveiled a plan Thursday to create six major library “hubs,” while eliminating nearly two dozen smaller libraries and reducing collection space by nearly two-thirds, in what they say is an effort to adapt to changing ways students and faculty members use libraries.

A University of Wisconsin-Madison student organization is working to make sure local youth obtain self-esteem and confidence by collecting black dolls to be given as Christmas presents.

After a heated debate between committee members, the Student Services Finance Committee approved the $33,724 budget for an organization that serves students of indigenous identity.

The most recent freshman class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was the largest in the school’s history. But a record number of underrepresented students decided to go elsewhere.

With reported hate crimes on UW-Madison’s campus increasing from two in 2015 to twenty in 2016, reports of hate and bias on campus have resulted in surprisingly few sanctions.

Brad Schimel attended a UW-Madison College Republicans meeting Tuesday as a guest lecturer.

Legislative Affairs Vice Chair Sydney Scott will take over as chair of the committee after ASM Chair Katrina Morrison served as the tie-breaking vote in the committee election Tuesday night.

Students who were troubled by the number of Associated Students of Madison representatives going on UW Hillel’s privately funded trip to Israel over winter break spoke out at the Student Council meeting Tuesday night.

Co-authored by undergraduate Rena Newman and alumna Brooke Evans, the petition — created last week in collaboration with various student organizers and alumni — expressed concerns and frustration about the discriminatory nature of the dining hall policy for students.

Natasha Veeser, head of communications for the library system, said renovations and an “extensive overhaul” of Memorial Library are necessary to make the facility more open to the community.

According to the 2017 campus climate survey, non-Christian religious students feel less welcome on campus than their Christian peers.

UW-Madison’s Memorial Library will be reconstructed to open up its ground floor to be more welcoming to the public under a newly completed libraries master plan.

A change in policy at UW-Madison dining halls is sparking backlash on campus. Incoming students living in dorms next year will be required to purchase a meal plan.

When the University of Wisconsin class of 2014 jumped around on graduation day, they left campus with memories to last a lifetime.

UW-Madison’s student government has come out against a new plan that requires housing residents to spend at least $1,400 at dining halls in a year, joining other prominent campus groups including the school’s College Democrats and Working Class Student Union.

According to the findings, 12 percent of students said they could not always afford sufficient food and housing while at UW-Madison, which translates to roughly one-in-eight UW-Madison students.

Forty-three U.S. students were awarded the 2018 Marshall Scholarship, the largest class of scholars since 2007, according to the British Embassy. The list includes Phoenix Rice-Johnson, University of Wisconsin— Madison, King’s College London.

Students living in the dorms at UW-Madison will see a new charge in their housing bill next year.

If UW-Madison Libraries sticks to its “master plan,” the school will see a new south campus library and a significant restructuring of Memorial Library within the next 20-25 years.

A new dining policy has sparked backlash on campus, but UW-Madison housing leaders are hoping that providing additional information will help quell students’ concerns.

Scott Straus won the 2018 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, for his 2015 book “Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa.”

With thousands of courses to choose from and a variety of graduation requirements to fulfill, the course selection process can be daunting.Fortunately, UW-Madison has a network of advisors who can make this process easier.

Students in UW-Madison’s dorms will see a new charge on their housing bill next year. The university will require residents to deposit a minimum of $1,400 on their WisCard, to be used exclusively in dining halls.

UW produced around 11 million pounds of trash in 2016, one million more than in 2014.

Project HEAL and Camp Kasem are among several organizations on campus that participated in the movement.