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to make their case to the Student Services Finance Committee for general student services funding, the group used outdated information and lacked several necessary documents in their presentation Monday.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.
A campus faculty and staff group is circling a petition alleging that two faculty assistants were not hired as retaliation against their involvement in last years’ faculty assistant campaign for equal pay.
While a majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel welcome, safe and able to thrive on campus, worrisome disparities exist among students of color, and those with non-conforming gender identities or disabilities, according to results of a campus climate survey released Wednesday.
Students of color and those who are transgender or gender nonconforming are less likely than their peers to say they feel welcome and respected at UW-Madison, according to a survey campus officials released Wednesday.
Only half of students of color at University of Wisconsin-Madison report that they usually feel like they belong on campus, according to a results of a first-ever climate survey released Wednesday.
This is the first survey the institution has put forth that allowed undergraduate, graduate, professional and non-degree-seeking students to respond.
Most students on the UW-Madison campus feel welcome, but underrepresented students report less positive views of campus climate, according to a report released by the University Wednesday.
Twenty-three percent of University of Wisconsin’s students of color often feel “excluded,” compared to only nine percent of white students, according to the Campus Climate Survey report released today.
While majority students feel welcome on campus, many students of marginalized identities feel less safe.
The UW System’s announcement that it plans to merge each of Wisconsin’s two-year colleges with a nearby four-year university to combat declining enrollment was met with skepticism from many student leaders across the state.
UW-Madison released results from its first-ever campus climate survey, and data showed school officials what they had “long known anecdotally” — underrepresented students have a significantly less positive perception of the university’s environment.
Bail was set for a Monona man accused of kidnapping two women on the UW-Madison campus.
Minority students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel less welcome on campus than their white peers, according to results from the university’s first campus climate survey.
While a majority of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison feel welcome, safe and able to thrive on campus, worrisome disparities exist among students of color, and those with non-conforming gender identities or disabilities, according to results of a campus climate survey released Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Minority, disabled and gay students say they’re having a tougher time surviving on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus than most students, according to a survey the university released Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin conducted its first-ever study of campus climate in fall 2016, and plans to release the results Wednesday.
Nov. 9th meeting will discuss ways to help students vote despite current, ’confusing’ voter ID laws
UW-Madison’s retention and recruitment of staff is returning to normal after the university faced budget cuts and tenure policy changes in the previous two years, according to a 2016-17 faculty recruitment efforts document.
If you’re tired of waiting for packages, don’t worry — an Amazon pickup point now open in Sellery Residence Hall plans to eliminate the wait for Prime customers.
Jacob Eugster was in 9th grade when he asked his parents if they could turn their family’s farm into a haunted house for Halloween. Now it’s one of the scariest and most elaborate Halloween attractions around.
The Center for Religion and Global Citizenry comes after the Luber Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions closed last year due to lack of funding, Wisconsin Public Radio reported .
Even on an overcast fall afternoon, the nearly 300,000 tiles that make up the mosaic on the new Catholic student center at UW-Madison were shimmering as freshman Casey Gilinson walked by.
A prominent economist — seen by many as the frontrunner to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve — spoke on UW-Madison’s campus Thursday, drawing a small protest organized by an outside group that opposes the speaker’s ideology.
In a little-noticed offshoot of the debate about free speech on campus, Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin and Minnesota have called for letting students opt out of required fees that go to clubs and causes with which they disagree.
Computer experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say illegal downloading has gone down over the years.
Students concerned that their feedback will not be considered.
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin published an article Oct. 26 examining a swift rise in sexual assaults reported to UW System authorities. Now we are asking for your help.
University of Wisconsin-Madison is suspending the planned revamp of its master’s of business administration program after a backlash over an imminent cutback.
The University of Wisconsin announced Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz Wednesday as the 2017 winter commencement speakers in a YouTube video Wednesday.
If you’re enrolled in one of the 16 classes that are part of a new pilot program, you’re in luck — your textbooks may be significantly cheaper than in previous semesters.
A pair of screenwriters who met at UW-Madison and have worked together throughout their Hollywood careers will speak at the school’s winter commencement ceremony.
What started as a once-a-week effort to bring leftover food from Gordon Avenue Market to Madison community members has grown into a larger effort to supply food to not only the community, but also UW-Madison students who need it.
A veteran crime scene investigator with the Madison Police Department is paying his experience forward in a very creative way.
The speakers for this year’s UW-Madison winter commencement ceremony spin wild tales for a living, but the story of how the two met starts with meeting on UW’s campus.
UW-Madison has announced their 2017 winter commencement speakers with a fairy tale twist.
MADISON (WKOW) — Inside a tucked away room at UW-Madison police headquarters, a team swiftly responded to questions from parents on Wednesday night.
