Following a call from students of color in the fall of 2015, Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate and Chief Diversity Officer Patrick Sims, Dean of Students Lori Berquam and Chancellor Rebecca Blank met to create a space at UW-Madison for black students that will open this spring.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank added her name to a statement released Monday that calls for U.S. officials to uphold and expand the 2012 immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects eligible undocumented youth from deportation.
Student Services Finance Committee amended both of the proposed budgets of the Muslim Student Association and of the Student Leadership Program for the fiscal year of 2018 during Monday night’s weekly meeting.
Having scrapped an earlier plan for a metal leaf due to rising materials costs, committee members representing the Madison Art Commission and the Downtown Coordinating Committee heard presentations from three finalists on Friday. They ultimately chose a proposal by RDG Dahlquist, based in Des Moines.
UW-Madison received a surge in discrimination reports after Donald Trump was elected president, campus officials say, adding the university to a growing list of colleges and communities across the country experiencing a rise in tensions and troubling behavior since Election Day.
Sixteen incidents of bias were reported at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the week after the 2016 presidential election.
As anti-Trump student protests began at American universities last week, members of Climate Action 350, a student group dedicated to climate solutions, were protesting something entirely different.
UW-Madison fifth-year student Donale Richards is one of the few students of color who majors in biological systems engineering. He has made it his goal through his involvement in various groups that focus on the use of natural resources to change this and spark interest in incoming students of color of agricultural majors.
It’s Friday night on State Street, and a college guy is guiding a drunk woman down the sidewalk past a group of other students. “Hey, do you know him?” someone from the group asks, stepping toward the young woman who stumbles and slurs her words.
A city selection committee is recommending a large rectangular steel and stone sculpture be placed on State Street Mall.
The residents of a UW-Madison apartment complex where a young child was diagnosed with lead poisoning earlier this year had complained to housing officials about chipping and peeling paint outside their apartments for a decade before the girl was poisoned, records obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal show.
Noted: Wisconsin School of Business ties for first. MBA grads from these business schools have at least a 250 percent average return, U.S. News data show.
Dr. John Herrington is scheduled to talk to 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.
The panelists, Charlie Sykes, a conservative radio talk show host; Dave Weigel, a reporter for the Washington Post; and Mike Wagner and Kathy Cramer, both professors at the UW LaFollette School of Public Affairs, took questions from the audience during the 90-minute session.
While undocumented students proactively fight to secure university protection from deportation as the president-elect’s inauguration approaches, state legislators are divided on how to move forward.
Student activists protested a lecture called “Dismantling Safe Spaces: Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings” by conservative media personality Ben Shapiro Wednesday evening.
UW System President Ray Cross asked several leaders of UW-Madison’s student government Wednesday to “influence the decision-makers” who will decide the fate of Wisconsin’s public universities in the state’s upcoming biennial budget.
Graffiti that said “All white people are racist” appeared on the base of the Abraham Lincoln statue atop Bascom Hill following the election last week.
Inside a corner office in the Student Activity Center every Sunday night, Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy and Vice Chair Mariam Coker meet to lay out plans of positive change for the campus.
As part of a national day of action, University of Wisconsin students and Madison residents marched to the steps of the State Capitol Tuesday to show solidarity with Standing Rock protestors.
Over the past week, the University of Wisconsin has received 16 bias incident reports.In comparison, there were 66 incidents reported in the entire first half of 2016.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross discussed the future of Wisconsin’s educational system and heard concerns from representatives about diversity and safety during the Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council meeting Wednesday.
Given the divisive and stressful state many find themselves in due to current events, the healing and communal properties of music may make it more important now than ever.
Conservative public speaker Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief for DailyWire.com and host of The Ben Shapiro Show, spoke at the University of Wisconsin to make his case against safe spaces and other recent movements on college campuses he sees as inhibiting free speech Wednesday.
Shouting broke out on both sides during a conservative writer’s presentation at UW-Madison. At one point protesters even gave the middle finger to Ben Shapiro, who fired two of them back.
Conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes told a crowd on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Tuesday it is impossible to talk about President-elect Donald Trump without discussing the “racism and xenophobia” that has been normalized by his campaign, calling them a “cancer” the Republican Party will have to confront.
Upwards of 1 million international students studied in the United States last school year; and more than 13,400 of them were in Wisconsin, an increase of about 6 percent, according to the 2016 Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of assaulting another student was high on drugs, according to a court document.
Four finalists have been selected for the position of UW-Madison Police Department chief of police.
State politicians and community members met Monday to discuss concealed carry on UW System schools’ campuses, with a bill allowing for so-called campus carry potentially looming next year.
In many states across the country, legislation that allows concealed carry, a license which grants an individual the ability to covertly carry a gun on them, has already been passed. The addition of guns on campuses has caused students, staff, faculty and parents to worry, especially after mass school shootings such as Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook.
Local protesters joined two national organizations in a boycott of Wendy’s State Street location for the fast food restaurant’s alleged unwillingness to improve the wages and working conditions of U.S. tomato farmworkers.
Monday night provided a unique opportunity for the Madison community: the chance to hear first-hand accounts of space travel and life in microgravity from one of America’s pioneering astronauts Colonel Eileen Collins.
Plans to install a leaf sculpture on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall have been scrapped. A new public art piece will be chosen to take its place this Friday.
A lot has happened between the Oct. 29 Wisconsin Badgers home football game against Nebraska and the team’s huge win during this past homecoming weekend. As a campus community, we’ve had to contend with the horrifying representation of a noose being brought into Camp Randall, grappled with what many have referred to as a lukewarm response at best by the university, to dealing with the outcome of the presidential election.
Over 60 students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with community members, took to the streets around campus on Friday afternoon to respond to, what organizers called, “blatant support of acts of white supremacy.” The protest was organized by the Black Liberation Action Coalition (BLAC,) a group formed by UW-Madison student organizers and Madison-based community activists, Freedom Inc.
One person reported watching people in a passing car shout a racial slur at a group of high school students.
Demonstrations on campus continued Friday as around 200 students and community members gathered at Library Mall to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Protesters starting at Bascom Hall moved toward the UW-Madison homecoming parade route Friday, halting the parade momentarily and disrupting traffic in the area, university police said.
Following President-elect Donald Trump’s Tuesday victory, a letter has begun circulating online calling on UW-Madison administrators to protect students, staff and their family members “who face imminent deportation” because of their undocumented status.
Some undocumented UW-Madison students say they felt fear and uncertainty after Donald Trump was elected president. But they are not giving up.
Election night in the United States found Kan Wei, a professor at China’s Beijing Normal University, in a living room in Madison, Wisconsin. As he watched election returns alongside other scholars attending an international symposium, his thoughts turned to how a Trump presidency might affect his research on comparative education. “It’s kind of the beginning of the closing of the US door,” he remembers thinking.
Wayne Guthrie, currently senior vice president of staff operations at the Arthritis Foundation in Atlanta, has been named chief human resources officer, leading the Office of Human Resources on the Madison campus.
Student voter turnout for the 2016 presidential elections is up 7 percent campus wide since the 2012 elections, with the overwhelming majority of those votes going to Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Following Donald Trump’s presidential win, nearly 2,500 students and community members stood in solidarity with historically marginalized groups at the steps of the Capitol Thursday night.
Associated Students of Madison Student Wednesday passed legislation Wednesday urging professors to cancel class the day before Thanksgiving to allow students ample travel time home.
Chanting as they moved, thousands of protesters marched Thursday night from Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to State Street and on to the state Capitol.
More than a thousand University of Wisconsin students and Wisconsin residents gathered at the Capitol Thursday evening to protest sexual assault, President-elect Donald Trump’s marginalization of minority communities and neglect of women’s reproductive rights.
Fire up, University of Wisconsin football fans, with a homecoming parade from 5-6:30 p.m. Friday prior to the Badgers’ game vs. Illinois on Saturday.
More than a thousand people gathered at the top of Bascom Hill at UW-Madison in what would be the starting point of a passionate, at times emotional and down right angry protest against President-elect Donald Trump.
Madison now joins a growing list of cities holding post-election demonstrations.
Protests over the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline has been making headlines.
Thousands took to the streets of Madison Thursday night to protest President-elect Donald Trump
Noted: At the LGBT Campus Center at UW-Madison, students were stunned by Tuesday night’s results. Campus leaders tell 27 News the situation is too raw yet to comment, but said they are dealing with numerous students feeling hopeless and confused.
Wisconsin Badgers forward Nigel Hayes has not been shy in expressing his opinions on the current social climate in the U.S., expressing ad nauseum his frustrations with how Black Americans are currently being treated.
Two phrases written in white spray paint were drawn on the sidewalk and wall on East Campus Mall across from the Chazen Art Museum Wednesday.
UW-Madison athletics says every sports fan will be held to new standards and community members say it’s a step in the right direction to improving the campus climate.
When walking to class the morning after Election Day, UW-Madison sophomore Ali Khan said he felt like someone close to him passed away.
Two weeks ago, Camp Randall gained national attention, not just for a Badgers win, but for a racially charged costume worn at the game.
The senior class officers, the Office of the Chancellor and the University Book Store are giving students the opportunity to vote on new commencement robes for the spring 2017 commencement.
