Category: Campus life

University of Wisconsin officials met with the Associated Students of Madison to discuss the upcoming Black Cultural Center, which will open in the Red Gym in February.

UW-Madison administrators detailed plans Wednesday for the Black Cultural Center, and how to best provide space for historically marginalized groups on campus to student leaders who critiqued only housing these groups in the Red Gym.

It is true that an “Islam Appreciation Week” was held at the University of Wisconsin, but no students were forced to wear hijabs.

Christmas came early for a group of six roommates and it came courtesy of Ellen DeGeneres.

UW Asian American students gathered to explore how to come together as a community by openly sharing stories finding their own identities and recognizing challenges within the community in an educational workshop Tuesday night.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate is calling for the support of undocumented students on campus. During their monthly meeting Monday, about 140 faculty members passed a resolution that calls for the federal government to continue and strengthen Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an immigration policy that protects certain undocumented students who came to the United States as children from deportation.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Senate is calling for the support of undocumented students on campus. During their monthly meeting Monday, about 140 faculty members passed a resolution that calls for the federal government to continue and strengthen Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an immigration policy that protects certain undocumented students who came to the United States as children from deportation.

The Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison is hosting a panel discussion Thursday night on journalism ethics and the 2016 election. Molly Ball, a political correspondent at the Atlantic, is one of the panelists. She joins Katy Culver, the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics, on Live at Four to preview the event.

The first floor of UW-Madison’s Memorial Union is back open for business.

The Faculty Senate passed a resolution in support of undocumented students Monday amid fears that the incoming Trump administration could eliminate federal protections.

While in an Uber driving across Madison, Ashish Shenoy, a graduate student at UW-Madison from Bangalore, was surprised when his driver asked if he’d heard of Diwali night, an event Shenoy organizes.

It stops short of advocating that UW-Madison declare itself a sanctuary campus for undocumented students in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president, but a resolution up for a vote by faculty Monday calls for the continuation of President Obama’s policies that allows some undocumented students to legally attend college.

The Associated Students of Madison Student Council passed legislation Wednesday to protect undocumented students in the wake of the recent presidential election.

Badgerloop focuses on designing and building a transportation pod than can travel at high speeds in a tube in order to compete in SpaceX’s Hyperloop competitions, which launched in 2015.

The massive bell tower that has served as the symbolic voice of UW-Madison has been silent since August.

Two years ago, UW-Milwaukee doctoral student and lecturer Stephanie Baran attended a conference where she spoke about the effects racism, sexism and classism have on capitalist practices.

After nearly three hours of debates and budget hearings, the University of Wisconsin Student Services Finance Committee voted to impeach Rep. Tyriek Mack Thursday.

More than 3,000 University of Wisconsin employees will not receive proposed raises or overtime eligibility after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Barack Obama’s federal regulations governing overtime pay.

Training the next generation of developers to build more affordable housing is a great way help ease the crisis of homelessness, according a University of Wisconsin-Madison real estate expert.

Thousands of UW-Madison employees will not get planned raises or become eligible for overtime pay after a federal judge blocked an Obama administration action to change rules affecting salaried workers, campus officials announced Thursday.

More than 3,000 UW-Madison employees will not receive proposed salary increases or switch to hourly positions following a federal judge’s recent block of President Barack Obama’s overtime pay rule.

UW-Madison students, faculty and staff met in a town hall meeting to discuss the future of the Latinx community on campus following the presidential election.

When the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a five-year contract in August to allow online retail giant Amazon to put a package pickup point on the UW–Madison campus, among the deciding factors were convenience and the minimum of $100,000 per year in commissions the deal would bring to the university. Under the plan, packages with campus ZIP codes would be dropped off at a single pickup site, which is expected to open by spring 2017.

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials say Chancellor Rebecca Blank doesn’t have the authority to declare the school a sanctuary for students who entered the country illegally as minors.

The Associated Students of Madison stood in solidarity with sexual assault survivors and undocumented students at the University of Wisconsin Wednesday.

The Elections Research Center at UW-Madison will host a day-long symposium next Friday, Dec. 9, on the historic upset that made Donald Trump the president-elect.

Four students met with UW-Madison Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf Wednesday to request the school offer free feminine hygiene products in Bascom Hall restrooms.

For many Muslims on campus, wearing a hijab comes with a number of daily challenges. On Wednesday, 45 non-Muslim participants wore hijabs to try and get a sense of the Hijabi experience.

UW-Madison’s student-run tutoring service, Greater University Tutoring Service, had its budget for the 2018 fiscal year approved at $141,514.08 by the Student Service Finance Committee Monday.

The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery announced UW-Madison alumna Jo Handelsman as its new director Tuesday.

Muslim students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are inviting students to understand Islam as a part of Islam appreciation week.

No one knows the exact date, but it happened during the first three months of 1917. Physics department assistant professor Earle Terry and his wife, Sadie, invited a group of faculty, deans, and friends to their home to hear the “first broadcast” of the University of Wisconsin radio station.

Muslim students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are inviting students to understand Islam as a part of Islam appreciation week.

With the election of Donald Trump and recent controversial racially charged incidents occurring on campus, students of color have expressed feeling unsafe at the University of Wisconsin.

Much of the renovated first floor at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union will reopen next week.

Another part of the Memorial Union renovation at UW-Madison will be completed in one week.

The Muslim Student Association aims to educate UW-Madison about Islamic culture during Islam Appreciation Week over the next several days.

A rainy summer and the impending winter have forced officials to push back the opening date of Alumni Park, the planned new lakeside green space between Memorial Union and the Red Gym on the UW-Madison campus.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank has signed a statement calling on the federal government to protect undocumented students on campuses across the country.

Dr. John Herrington talked with UW-Madison students Thursday night. He was born into the Chickasaw Nation and is credited with being the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space.