A University of Wisconsin-Madison student is behind an initiative to allow students, faculty and staff to use food stamps at all campus dining facilities.
Leslie Orrantia is the director of community relations at the University of Wisconsin, a post she’s held since August. She has been on campus for four years, serving since 2012 in the School of Education’s External Relations office and as assistant director for the Wisconsin Collaborative Education Research Network within the School of Education. Prior to her work with UW-Madison, she served as a caseworker in Madison for nearly five years, collaborating with area nonprofits, government institutions, community organizations and local media to best address client needs. It was her work as a caseworker that really taught her the value of listening to others.
The University of Wisconsin Madison held their first event for Women of Color week Monday.A panel discussion called “Immigration, Assimilation and Integration” invited students and community members to think about immigration issues, like President Donald Trump’s travel ban, in a historical context.
The Faculty Senate weighed risk versus “preserving some faculty shared governance” while debating a revised proposal for post-tenure review policy Monday.
When Junko Mori came to Wisconsin in the 1990s, Japan was experiencing an economic boom. To foster business collaboration, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction recruited native Japanese speakers to help elementary and secondary school students learn the language.
UW-Madison students could soon be able to use food stamps to pay for meals on campus.
WAUWATOSA — Since 1930, it has been a way for students to earn their way through college. The Chick Evans Scholarship, through the Western Golf Association has been paying four-year tuition and housing for deserving caddies.
Towards the end of every spring semester, Mifflin Street residents open their doors to hundreds of UW-Madison students and Madison residents for a Saturday of celebration. The residents of one house, though, are planning for their home to serve a different purpose and mirror the inaugural Mifflin Street Block Party.
A controversial pay plan for graduate students who assist faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison will be introduced as planned, despite continuing opposition from the student workers’ labor union.
As a part of his 2015-’17 budget, Gov. Scott Walker edited the language in state statute outlining the responsibilities of the UW System. In essence, the role of students, faculty and staff shifted from that of policy developers to policy advisors, a move that left many in fear over the true weight of their voice.
As students shuffled back and forth between classes in Birge Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus these past few weeks, they looked curiously at what Peter Krsko was up to. Up on a 14-foot-ladder, the Slovakian-born artist was building a plywood sculpture around one of the pillars in the entrance hall. Inspired by the plants he saw in the greenhouses at Birge Hall, Krsko constructed the sculpture of slender pieces of wood to climb 22 feet up the pillar like a vine, exploding outward like a geyser of water.
For UW-Madison junior Nour Saeed, the past three years have been unsettling to say the least. What started as a habit of watching the news turned into anger and confusion as events such as the Syrian Civil War and, most recently, the 2016 presidential election commanded headlines.
UW-Madison instructors debated how they should deliver course content to this generation of college students that have seen the term “trigger warning” splashed on recent headlines.
If it seems like the Memorial Union’s been getting remodeled for years, it has. The first phase of the reconstruction started in the summer of 2012.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University has named its new chief of police.
For almost two years, Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Director Mara Matovich has been campaigning for tuition transparency. For her, educating students on their misconceptions of tuition is one of the driving goals of this campaign.
In an effort to promote affordable living on campus, Associated Students of Madison unanimously voted to approve changes to University Housing and Dining and Culinary Services at a Wednesday meeting.
A deal is in the works for an Amazon package pickup point outside a southeast campus residence hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials confirmed Wednesday.
Starting next fall, UW-Madison could be the first school in the nation to accept food stamps in dining halls, according to a university administrator who called the program a no-brainer.
As children, we are “sold” the pathway of the American dream, but this unrealistic vision does not paint the full picture, according to Walter Bond, executive director of Teach for America-Milwaukee.
An investigation by The Daily Cardinal found that 13 fraternities at UW-Madison—just under half of those on campus—were on probation or suspension in 2016.
Marking the end of Black History Month, the University of Wisconsin community celebrated a dedication and libation ceremony for the Black Cultural Center in the Red Gym.
Members of the University of Wisconsin community received a familiar crime warning email Monday describing an ongoing string of on-campus burglaries involving electronics and credit cards … Those who opened the email, however, may have been surprised that in addition to the usual description and location of the crime and a vague description of any suspects involved in the case, this particular email also included photos of the suspects — two young black men.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said he peers out his office window “about every day” to reflect on how much Camp Randall Stadium has developed since he took over as the football program’s coach in 1990.
Building long-lasting connections between University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and the state, the Wisconsin Idea seminar seeks to carry UW-Madison’s legacy forward and inspire research.
The Chazen Museum of Art will be losing one of its most important pieces this summer, with the retirement of director Russell Panczenko.
Laura Linde has taken the Wisconsin Idea south of the border, and the children in a small village in Nicaragua couldn’t be happier.
Roughly three weeks after UW-Madison student Daniel Dropik took a leave of absence from the university, the American Freedom Party, a white nationalist group, has continued to actively recruit in Madison.
Following pushback from students, faculty and alumni last semester about the Red Gym as an Amazon pickup point location, UW-Madison students will likely be picking up their packages from Sellery Residence Hall.
The Chazen Museum of Art will lose someone who’s been a fixture for 33 years with the retirement of Director Russell Panczenko, who is leaving June 30, according to a UW-Madison news release.
With 87 UW-Madison graduates currently volunteering worldwide, UW-Madison ranks first among large schools on the Peace Corps 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list.
The Wisconsin Idea is a concept most students hear about during their time at the University of Wisconsin. But many students rarely hear about other students who fully embrace the idea.
Nearly two years after students demanded greater diversity and inclusion at UW-Madison, the Black Cultural Center was dedicated to “voices from the future,” as Hazel Symonette said, in a ceremony Tuesday.
Brandon Shields had to consider a cost most students don’t have to think about when deciding to attend the University of Wisconsin for his Master of Business Administration — the price of childcare.
UW-Madison police are seeking help in locating two people believed to be involved in a burglaries from administrative and academic buildings.
A series of burglaries that have occurred over the last two weeks on campus are being investigated by UW-Madison Police Department, according to a crime warning.
Changing Health, Attitudes, Actions to Recreate Girls at UW-Madison is a chapter of a national organization that coaches members to be confident and lead healthy lifestyles through weekly meetings and group support.
The fans of Martha Glowacki’s cabinet of curiosities titled “My Arcadia” — part of the permanent collection at the Chazen Museum of Art since 2000 — are in for a treat: The Chazen is devoting an entire gallery to the local artist’s work this spring.
A range of UW-Madison student organizations—from the Campus Women’s Center and Women’s Studies Club to Black Woman Heal and Muslim Student Association—exchanged ideas Thursday for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April, in the spirit of the month’s theme: “Engaging New Voices.”
By gathering more than 100 UW-Madison women together, a new student organization is striving to make fitness a fun component that fits into female students’ lives.
Lynn Rosenthal used to leave the White House gates every day thinking it was her last and that she would be fired. Little did she know that her work would spur the national campaign “It’s on Us.”
For years, in the driveway outside of Zak Showalter’s house in Germantown, Wis., the Badger guard played basketball with a clear disadvantage. When the family game of pickup broke out, it was always 2-on-1. Zak played alone while his younger brother, Jake, played alongside their dad, Steve.
A line of 70 to 80 students stretches out near the F.H. King Farm every summer in Madison, Wis., when a University of Wisconsin at Madison student organization gives away its produce.
As University of Wisconsin students call on administrators to expand their diversity efforts, a UW System task force gathered Thursday to hear from a speaker on the importance of investing in diversity programs.
The Global Connections Committee hosted UW political science professors to discuss government corruption amid growing public distrust of public officials.
The UW-Madison School of Business is getting closer to naming a new dean.
Faculty of color at UW-Madison—a demographic that has increased 5 percent in the last 10 years—who got promoted or recently hired were honored Thursday during an annual reception in which top university administrators discussed diversity on campus.
What started last year as a feminine product collection drive is now one of UW-Madison’s newest student organizations: Accessible Reproductive Healthcare Initiative.
A New York Times award-winning reporter, a UW-Madison graduate and a UW-Madison professor rethought the connection between mass incarceration and race on a panel Tuesday.
For New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor, conversations around mass incarceration in the United States rarely make it past the incarcerated.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying to better teach students how to become entrepreneurs. It comes at a time when the state fares poorly in national rankings for its lack of business startups.
University of Wisconsin Dean of Students Lori Berquam outlined plans to expand the Our Wisconsin diversity training program to include all incoming students attending Student Orientation, Advising and Registration in a telephone conference Monday.
Stubblefield died Saturday at the age of 73 from kidney disease. Before his death, he had been selected by the UW–Madison Committee on Honorary Degrees and Chancellor Rebecca Blank to receive an honorary degree May 12 at the Kohl Center prior to spring commencement.
Madison’s Plan Commission granted permission for the Madison Mallards baseball team to rebuild the Duck Blind section of the city-owned Warner Park stadium at its Monday meeting, as well as approving a demolition permit for UW-Madison’s Southeast Recreational Facility.
Paula Bonner likes to dust off an old quote from former UW-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala when she talks about the power and influence of alumni at colleges and universities.
“We will be organizing, demonstrating and meeting with different groups to figure out how to come together as a collective to pressure the administration,” said Tyriek Mack, a representative of the Associated Students of Madison student council.
Nearly all new UW-Madison students will be encouraged to participate in a diversity training program next year after about 1,000 students participated in the program this past fall.
After over four decades of service at UW-Madison, President of the Wisconsin Alumni Association Paula Bonner announced Monday she will retire effective Oct. 31.
A 22-year-old University of Wisconsin student is facing charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, after police say he ran through the state Capitol rotunda earlier this month while completely naked.
A former UW-Madison student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women pleaded not guilty.
