Category: Campus life

A 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student is being featured in the September issue of Glamour magazine in an investigation into the rise of homelessness on college campuses.

University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brooke Evans was recently featured in a Glamour article for a less than glamorous reason — she spoke frankly about her six year struggle with homelessness as a student.

Wisconsin Public Radio program to feature “The Life Of UW Chef And Instructor Carson Gulley” during segment on Thursday, Aug. 11.

The annual migration of apartment dwellers in Madison has started, with Madison garbage and recycling crews ready to take away the discards.

UW-Madison has started searches for candidates for two positions, the chief human resources officer for the university, and director of the UW-Madison Arboretum.

Madison Gas & Electric will be performing maintenance work, including pavement replacement, on a gas main on the UW campus.

Parking meters are becoming a thing of the past at UW-Madison.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) is starting a new initiative this fall to help incoming freshmen from one of the whitest states in the union better understand diversity.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is creating a diversity program for its incoming freshmen students after a series of race-related incidents on campus.

Fresh from Iowa, Najeeha Khan came to University of Wisconsin-Madison with a thirst for more diversity.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying out a new diversity program for incoming students. This comes after multiple incidents of racial hate threats plagued the campus last year and fueling social unrest among students.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the campus will test the program on up to 1,000 freshmen to allow students to learn about themselves and others.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is creating a diversity program for its incoming freshmen students after a series of race-related incidents on campus.

University of Wisconsin–Madison doesn’t just stand alone as our state’s only representation among the 120 most Jewish schools in the nation, it’s got the seventh-largest Jewish population on the nationwide public schools list. With an estimated 4,200 Jewish undergraduates, about 13 percent of students are Jews.

The departure of the video gaming scholars Kurt Squire and Constance Steinkuehler from the University of Wisconsin-Madison won’t just result in the university losing two of the leading academics in the field of games and learning.

Stereotypes and generalizations are powerful in that they constrict the poor and oppressed to limited and dismal narratives that people — both black and white — innately accept as universal truths. For Sagashus Levingston, a low-income black mother with six children from Chicago, you can go ahead and keep your stereotype to yourself. There’s no telling her what she can’t do. She’s simply not hearing it.

DeJa Cooper and Kingsley-Reigne Pissang are the embodiment of The Dream for attending college. The two incoming University of Wisconsin-Madison PEOPLE College Scholar freshmen were selected to go to the White House this year for the Beating the Odds Summit.

A new law in Wisconsin aimed at prescription drug and heroin abuse allows pharmacies to provide naloxone, the life-saving antidote, without a prescription. It’s one of many recent laws looking to combat opioid addiction in Wisconsin.

The University of Wisconsin Law School is launching a new program to help exonerate Latinos who have been wrongly convicted.

Noted: Madison, Wis. It has been praised for its employment opportunities and low poverty rate for older adults, a low crime rate, quality health care, intellectual engagement at the University of Wisconsin, an abundance of recreational and fitness activities, and low rates of smoking, falls and diabetes among older people. Housing is considered expensive, however.

Along with increasing costs, many students are facing food insecurity on college campuses across Wisconsin.

Two UW sophomores are fed up the with racial hate and bias incidents at the University of Wisconsin and in the Madison area.

University of Wisconsin students with campus jobs will be limited to working 30 hours or less per week because of federal law changes under the Affordable Care Act.

Construction projects across campus change traffic patterns, limit walking options and create noise pollution, but their purposes tend to be unclear. Tip toeing over gravel construction sites and dodging bulldozers, University of Wisconsin students carry on with their daily schedules, the delays from construction only slightly frustrating.

Sagashus Levingston is a single mom of six but made time to chase her dreams of receiving a PhD. She decided to take her struggles as a single mom and channel them into empowering others in similar situations.

The office responsible for tuition and student fee revenues at UW-Madison has a new leader.

UW-Madison administration selected a new bursar to head the office that collects student tuition and fee revenue, according to a Wednesday release from the university.