To begin to address cases like Levandoski’s, UW administration announced in February that it would set the campus minimum wage to $9 an hour for its more than 14,000 campus workers, starting Sept. 1, 2016.
Who needs dating apps when you’ve got Snapchat? This past weekend, the addictive social media platform helped two college students find love each other in one epic Snap story. Here’s how it went down:
The Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Monday voted no confidence in Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, and in the system’s Board of Regents. The vote follows the board’s rejections of proposals made by faculty groups that they said would protect academic freedom in new system policies on tenure and the elimination of faculty jobs.
E-cigarettes will no longer be allowed in University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings or near entrances as part of a new school policy that says e-cigarettes haven’t been studied enough to determine if there are potential health risks.
After a string of anti-Semitic and racist incidents on campus, UW-Madison faculty from the four ethnic and indigenous studies departments sent Chancellor Rebecca Blank a proposal with their ideas on how to improve the campus climate for students of color.
Nearly 16 years after UW-Madison came under fire for photoshopping a black student on the 2001-’02 Undergraduate Application’s cover photo that created a facade of diversity, #TheRealUW movement has once again crashed the illusion of a diverse and inclusive campus for all.
Forty-three citations were issued during the Mifflin Street Block Party by 8 p.m. Saturday, Madison police said. Of the 43 citations, one person went to jail. Seven other people were sent to the Dane County Detoxification Center.
Student activists pushing to improve the experiences of minorities at UW-Madison say the wind is at their backs.
Under dull gray skies, thousands of revelers celebrated spring and the coming end of the school year Saturday in a mix of beer, rain and mud with no major incidents at the annual Mifflin Street Block Party.
The string of hate and bias incidents that we’ve been responding to reflects a lack of understanding on our campus, but also a set of broader issues facing all of us in a nation that is becoming increasingly diverse.
Romantic comedy writers may need to revise the classic boy-meets-girl structure after a University of Wisconsin, Madison student confessed her love for a stranger wearing a Vikings jersey over Snapchat.
About a dozen University of Wisconsin Madison alumni returned to their alma mater Friday to urge the university to stop investing in fossil fuels.
University of Wisconsin Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Patrick Sims and student leader Kenneth Cole discuss recent incidents of racism on the UW campus, as well as potential solutions.
(Video) The Mifflin Street Block Party is known for chaotic house parties, binge drinking and drawing large crowds of college students ready to celebrate the end of the school year. Madison police are preparing for the weekend event and offered safety reminders to revelers. Eden Checkol reports.
BELOIT, Wis. — Three sophomore students at Beloit Memorial High School will receive full-tuition scholarships to the UW Madison Business School upon graduation as part of the Business Emerging Leaders Program.
I hope all the protesters of the handling of the Denzel McDonald situation take the time to read the April 22 State Journal editorial, “Cop camera brings clarity to controversy.”
When, as they have in recent years, 15,000 or more people show up Downtown for the annual Crazylegs Classic, they stand (then move forward en masse) as representatives of the unofficial start of the running season in the Madison area.
Since a violent 2011 block party on Mifflin Street spurred Madison officials to crack down on the unsanctioned event, police costs have declined.
Expect traffic snarls throughout Downtown Saturday morning, as thousands of people first converge on Capitol Square for the start of the event, then wind their way west to the Camp Randall Stadium finish line.
As part of the UW-Madison’s campus wide Day of Service, the first ever UW student food pantry, Open Seat, collected donations in exchange for herb and vegetable plants.
If students donated a non-perishable food item or a hygiene product to the pantry, they were given a basil or lettuce plant to take home and grow.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and other top UW-Madison administrators will take part in cultural competency training this summer, a university spokesman said, after a semester in which student activists have criticized their response to racist incidents on campus.
The UW-Madison Police Department is looking for two men who damaged property inside the Memorial Union early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
The discussion over race relations and cultural competency continues on UW-Madison campus. Earlier this week the Associated Students of Madison sent a letter to UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank, urging her and other administrators to undergo cultural competency training along with the students they serve.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s executives will get cultural training following a semester marked by students’ calls for a more inclusive college experience for minorities.
Catching the last plane from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just hours before a massive earthquake struck in 2010, left Gergens Polynice with a mixture of gratitude and helplessness.
The discussion over race relations and cultural competency continues on UW-Madison campus. Earlier this week the Associated Students of Madison sent a letter to UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank, urging her and other administrators to undergo cultural competency training along with the students they serve.
When graduate students of color at the University of Wisconsin-Madison met with Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Tuesday to talk about the racial climate on campus, one of their requests was for the university to invest in legal counsel for students.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s executives will get cultural training following a semester marked by students’ calls for a more inclusive college experience for minorities.
Late Monday night at approximately 10:38 p.m., three men vandalized two parking signs at a sorority house on Langdon Street with anti-Semitic symbols, according to an email sent to members of the UW-Madison chapter Kappa Alpha Theta.
This instance comes only a few days after two other cases of anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on university buildings, including the west-end wall of the University Bookstore and Engineering Mall.
Wollersheim Winery will be releasing a new wine Wednesday in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison fermentation sciences program, according to a release.
Noted: Soon after that, with support from fellow students and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Polynice created an initiative that still is helping families become self-sufficient in Haiti more than six years later.
UW-Madison marching band director Mike Leckrone said he’s often compared to a coach. It’s a parallel he agrees with.
The UW-Madison campus is divided over a proposed ’no-confidence’ vote led by university professors. The resolution was written to speak out against UW System President Ray Cross and the UW Board of Regents.
Firefighters respond to a garbage truck fire on Lake Street Monday morning.
Since 1969, students have taken to the streets for the biggest block party of the year. This year, police have a plan to keep everyone safe this year on Mifflin Street.
Madison’s police chief says he wants the annual Mifflin Street Block Party to be a thing of the past.
UW-Madison’s student affairs professionals will have extended hours between April 25 and April 28.
UW-Madison leaders met with community members Monday night at the Urban League of Greater Madison on Park Street. The goal of this community Q&A session was to address recent hate and bias incidents at UW-Madison and to also come up with ways to improve the racial climate on campus.
Firefighters put out a large trash fire after a garbage truck driver dumped trash that had caught fire in the back of his truck in a parking lot in downtown Madison Monday, according to a release.
University of Wisconsin-Madison campus leaders responded to community concerns at a forum Monday night following incidents of racial discrimination culminating in campus protests over the past few months.
It seems to be happening more and more lately: we put an issue on our editorial agenda for the year and the issue takes an unexpected turn before the year is half over.
UW-Madison students, alumni and campus community members are sharing their stories of discrimination and bias with the hashtag #TheRealUW, illuminating how for some students, feeling safe, accepted and respected on this campus is not a given.
Wollersheim Winery will be releasing a new wine Wednesday in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison fermentation sciences program, according to a release.
UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace should reopen in May, officials say, but it’s still unclear whether the major reconstruction project that has kept it closed for months will be finished in time for the university’s graduation weekend in less than three weeks.
After a push from Associate Students of Madison leaders to increase administration cultural competency, Chancellor Rebecca Blank agreed to begin administration training which will address unconscious biases.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank, UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling and others faced tough questions and listened to recommendations about improving the campus’ climate at a community meeting at the Urban League of Greater Madison on the South Side.
The driver of a garbage truck stopped at the 7-11 on State Street Monday when a bystander told him smoke was rising from the truck’s cargo area, the Madison Fire Department said.The driver dumped the burning load onto a nearby UW-Madison parking lot in the 400 block of North Lake Street, where firefighters responded about 11:45 a.m.
Hyperloop is the name of a potential transport system, with the idea of shooting people in pods through a tube at speeds of over 700 mph. Does this sound like a pipe dream straight out of science fiction? Not for Elon Musk. You know him – he’s the owner and innovator of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. But for Hyperloop, he invited over 100 teams from around the world to a competition to present their ideas on how to make Hyperloop work. Well, a team from UW-Madison made the cut.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is worried that this year’s Mifflin Street block party may be a bad one.
An investigation into a reported sexual assault near the Madison’s Memorial Union doesn’t support the victim’s claim, police said.
UW leaders have initiated a community conversation on the recent stories of racial climate challenges on campus. We take this as a serious effort by the UW to learn and understand and commit to demonstrable change. It’s an open invitation to the community to discuss campus climate Monday from 6 to 8 at the Urban League. We look forward to the dialogue.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank is inviting members of the community to talk with her Monday about needed changes to the climate for minority students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Blank, along with UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling, chief diversity officer Patrick Sims and director of community relations Everett Mitchell, will host a discussion from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the Urban League of Greater Madison, 2222 S. Park St.
University of Wisconsin students, staff and faculty are holding a walkout protest Thursday in reaction to recent hate crimes on campus and the controversial arrest of a student.
A first of its kind multi-media presentation inspired by #TheRealUW will take place Friday at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art. The show was organized by a group of students who wanted to use their art to capture the racial climate and rights movement that has sprung up on the UW-Madison campus and social media.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students, joined by a handful of faculty members, occupied a campus library Thursday to disrupt its studious atmosphere in protest of a graffiti-related arrest.
Kaleem Caire wrote an open letter with his wife, Lisa Peyton-Caire, both of whom are alumni of UW-Madison; Caire is the former head of the Urban League of Greater Madison. They said they’ve watched with growing concern the response of campus leaders to racially charged incidents and believe the incidents should be handled much differently.
Social media roundup from #TheRealUW protest.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students marched through campus Thursday, chanting “education, not incarceration,” to protest the arrest of a student for his alleged role in spraypainting graffiti art around campus.
As a black student, going to a university that cherishes diversity and strives for a more integrated community is extremely important to me.
But this is not why I am a student at University of Wisconsin.
Deshawn McKinney has been selected as one of the 54 students nationwide to receive the Truman Scholarship, which includes $30,000 toward graduate school and the opportunity to participate in professional development programming to help prepare him for a career in public service leadership.
