After strong opposition from both the administration and student body, University of Wisconsin student Daniel Dropik will not be pursuing to start a chapter of the American Freedom Party on campus.
A student who attempted to form a Madison chapter of the American Freedom Party in January has abandoned his plans to bring the “alt-right” organization to campus, according to the Associated Press.
A UW-Madison student trying to form a pro-white group has abandoned his efforts after intense backlash from other students and university officials.
For now, people from seven countries can still come to the U.S. But before a judge put the ban on hold last week, President Trump’s executive order left many travelers in limbo. One student who was on a UW-Madison school trip at the time was nearly impacted as she wondered if she would ever get back.”It’s just a terrible form of discrimination,” Lily Khadempour said.
After the removal of tenure protection, the Board of Regents began to remove stipulations from UW System policies that weakened the program for faculty. After a change made by Regents to the UW-System policy, an original draft was returned as it was determined that it did not meet new standards. The senate must approve a revised proposal to be approved by the Board in April or UW-Madison will be forced to adopt a policy provided by the Regents.
An open forum held at UW-Madison’s Discovery Center aimed to explore issues of Islamophobia in the community and worldwide.
UW-Madison’s Middle East Studies Program and Center for Humanities held the panel to shed light on this national issue. The event was named “Fighting Islamophobia”, which the six panelists said is a growing fear affecting how Muslim’s are perceived.
A new plan unveiled last week would give one free year of tuition at U-W Madison to some of the first students in their families to seek college degrees.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin student trying to form a pro-white group has abandoned his efforts after intense backlash from other students and university officials.
Wisconsin’s players are set to debut new warm-up tops when the Badgers host Indiana at noon Sunday.These aren’t ordinary T-shirts.With senior Nigel Hayes as the catalyst, the players will be wearing shirts with the names of 28 prominent individuals in black history.
UW-Madison students can reduce the environmental footprint of buildings on campus with the help of $50,000 of funding from the Office of Sustainability’s Green Fund.
A group of UW-Madison law students demonstrated on Bascom Hill Friday afternoon, in support of their fellow students affected by the new federal travel ban.
One hundred sixty-eight years ago, the inaugural group of Badgers sat down for the first classes at UW-Madison. Now, every Feb. 5, current Badgers celebrate the university’s founding.
The University of Wisconsin System has put up a new website to help students deal with problems involving sexual harassment and violence on campus.
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While all relationships are different, fostering healthy communication is an important step to creating a healthy one, according University Health Services mental health experts at a student discussion Thursday.
With growing concerns about campus safety, and news last week that a student convicted of torching black churches was trying to start a white nationalist group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the UW System is reviewing a practice of not asking prospective students if they have a criminal history.
Following the shared governance changes in 2015, UW-Madison had to rethink its structure of communication between campus groups. According to Jack O’Meara of PROFS, the lobbying arm of the Faculty Senate, UW-Madison still has shared governance but movement among some state political leaders has weakened this structure.
The League of Women Voters has joined the voices opposing the use of criminal background checks as part of the admissions process at University of Wisconsin campuses.
In front of current and former colleagues, former Madison Police Department Capt. Kristen Roman was sworn in as chief for the UW-Madison Police Department on Wednesday.
Chief Kristen Roman joined the campus police department early January. She had been with the Madison Police Department for 26 years.
The UW-Madison Police Department officially welcomed Kristen Roman as chief on Wednesday in a swearing-in ceremony at Union South.
UW-Madison said that there are 115 people on campus affected by the ban. That is up from the 88 people, 72 of whom are students, the campus identified on Monday as being from the seven mostly Muslim countries covered under Trump’s executive order.
Ten days after the Women’s March on Madison drew 100,000 people to State Street, UW-Madison students and members of the community once again picked up their signs Tuesday and protested what some see as a byproduct of the rise of President Donald Trump.
On the same night roughly 200 students protested white supremacy following the university’s response to a possible ‘alt-right’ group on campus, Chancellor Rebecca Blank spoke at an open panel, addressing student concerns regarding felony records and free speech.
A coalition of UW-Madison campus and community organizations is preparing for a protest Tuesday over Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s proposal to rethink policies barring criminal background checks from the student admissions process.
University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s appearance at a Tuesday shared governance meeting was met with protests against white supremacy as she answered questions regarding the recent rise of an “alt-right” movement on campus.
In a mass demonstration entitled “Take Back our Campus: Resist White Supremacy,” around 70 protesters gathered Tuesday to march from Library Mall to Bascom Hall to voice their list of demands. Before ending their march, the group made its way to the Student Activity Center to speak to UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank, who was attending a shared governance meeting.
Laura Minero learned multiplication from the back of a Ritz cracker box when she was in first grade. “My mom wrote the times tables out by hand, 1 through 9, so I could learn them,” Minero said. With just a sixth-grade education, Minero’s mother was motivated to not just teach her daughter math, but also bring her along as she illegally entered the United States from Mexico to rejoin her husband. Two decades later, Minero is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an outspoken advocate for immigration reform and among more than 750,000 young people nationally given temporary relief from deportation through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Students at UW-Madison are standing up to university leaders, demanding action after another student tried to start a white nationalist group on campus.
A spokesperson for Attorney General Brad Schimel says their office is still reviewing President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and has not made any decision on whether Wisconsin will join a lawsuit to challenge it brought by other states.
Dozens of protesters marched on UW-Madison’s campus Tuesday night from Library Mall up Bascom Hill to spread a message of equality and safety on campus. They say Chancellor Blank did not do enough to condemn Daniel Dropik and his attempts to start an “alt-right” group.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is increasing the number of students, faculty and staff it says are affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban covering seven mostly Muslim countries.
Several hundred people gathered Tuesday night to protest the rise of white nationalism on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The University of Wisconsin System is telling about 130 of its students not to leave the country as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring people from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States.
Some 88 faculty, staff and students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are affected by President Donald Trump’s executive order barring entry to the United States by nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, university officials said Monday as they called for reconsideration of the policy.
A Madison man is among those affected by President Trump’s executive order banning refugees and immigrants from seven countries, which was signed on Friday.
Noted: Part of that process involves reaching out to UW-Madison’s education department, but Hargrove-Krieghoff says there are not enough students going into the profession in the state, so the district also has to look outside Wisconsin. Recruiters even look to other countries to find bilingual teachers for the district’s dual language immersion programs.
President Donald Trump’s immigration travel ban on refugees and visa-holders from majority-Muslim countries is having a big impact on the UW-Madison campus.
UW-Madison’s new Career Exploration Center for students officially opened Monday afternoon.
The Child Care Tuition Assistance Program aims to support student-parents in their pursuit of high-quality childcare while fulfilling the university’s mission of education and research.
White Privilege 101 offered a group of UW-Madison students a lesson Monday on how to use the privilege they may have from their various identities in an open discussion setting.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank called on the Trump administration to reconsider the new order that stops individuals from certain countries from returning to the U.S. in a statement released Monday.
With her 26 years of community outreach experience in tow, new University of Wisconsin Police Department Chief Kristen Roman is confident she can build up police-community relationships.
Looking to take Wisconsin businesses worldwide, University of Wisconsin E-Business Consortium has been working toward increasing the state’s entrepreneurship resources and bringing credibility to the university.
University of Wisconsin student-parents voiced their support for segregated fees to fund child care, allowing people to attend class while knowing their kids are receiving care at a Student Services Finance Committee meeting Monday.
University of Wisconsin officials announced Monday there are 88 faculty, students and staff impacted by President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison joined other universities across the country in asking President Trump to reconsider his temporary entry visa ban involving seven predominantly Muslim countries, and advised students from those countries not to leave the U.S. for any reason at this time.
If you subscribe to the butterfly effect—the idea that a tiny change in one part of the world can have massive side effects elsewhere—then you know that a President Donald Trump in 1949 (as opposed to President Truman) and an executive order banning immigration from Syria, could have meant that one of the most successful companies of all time, Apple, might never have existed at all.
University of Wisconsin System campuses are scurrying to figure out the implications of President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States over the next 90 days.
Student leaders at UW-Madison slam Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s consideration of criminal background checks in the university application process, as Blank responds to the campus presence of a student with federal, felony convictions for setting fire to African-American churches.
Student’s with the Student Action Labor Coalition at UW-Madison were out in full force Saturday afternoon, rallying for the rights of working students.
This fall, former Associated Students of Madison representative Zach Provato brought a proposal to the members of Student Services Finance Committee to add a $15,000 line item to the 2017-’18 segregated fees budget and create a Student Legal Services.
Shirts emblazoned with the phrase “All white people are racist” raised questions last semester. This is what Eneale Pickett wanted with his clothing line, and he is starting conversations again with a new line of apparel.
Aiming to solidify Associated Students of Madison’s commitment to inclusivity, Student Council unanimously approved the language of an amendment Thursday to counter the possibility of discrimination in their own body.
When Jambul Akkaziev relinquished his role as a teaching assistant to become a faculty assistant at UW-Madison, with the new title came a 15 percent reduction to his pay.
A UW-Madison student who stirred up outrage on campus Tuesday by distributing flyers denouncing “anti-white racism” committed two racially motivated crimes.
Nearly a decade ago, Kaleem Caire, former president and CEO at the Urban League of Greater Madison, introduced a proposal for a publicly funded all-male school for boys of color in the city of Madison.
In a moment of unity on the University of Wisconsin campus, student organizations from both the liberal and conservative camps have stepped up to denounce the “alt-right” movement.
The UW Madison student who is trying to start a pro-white group on campus is sharing his side of the story.
