Category: Campus life

On Thursday morning, the Catholic student center at UW-Madison did not feel like a place about to be demolished.

The Catholic student center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison holds its final Mass on Sunday before its demolition.

A record number of Chinese students are flocking to the U.S. For higher education and the University of Wisconsin is a popular destination. It may be dead on campus right now, but things will certainly pick up at the start of the new semester as UW educates one of its largest number of Chinese in the 2015-2016 students ever.

Appleton’s Michael Donovan isn’t your typical 22-year-old. Donovan, an Appleton West High School graduate and University of Wisconsin-Madison student, earned top honors from Officer Candidates School in Quantico, Va., this summer at the training command base.

A group aiming to help hungry college students is opening a food pantry on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Donations of canned food are being collected in campus offices and dorms to stock the pantry, called the Open Seat.

Called the Open Seat, the pantry will serve a population of college students that advocates say often goes unnoticed, struggling to afford basic needs like housing and food while some of their peers pay four-figure monthly rents to live in luxurious apartment buildings.

A black UW-Madison student newspaper, that ended decades ago, is making a comeback, at a time when race relations on campuses across the country are sparking demonstrations.

(Video) Includes video and interview with members of UW-Madison’s grounds crew.

Q&a with Sir Williams, UW Law School’s director of admissions, who came to Madison to attend UW-Madison Law School, it was his first time living away from his mother’s home on Chicago’s South Side.

Langdon Street on the UW-Madison campus will reopen on Friday and stay open all winter, but will close once again in spring for more construction.

Despite administration’s assurances, university’s removal of out-of-state enrollment cap, rising nonresident tuition and Wis. high school achievement gap could add to recruitment challenges for minorities.

The president of the University of Wisconsin’s Muslim Student Association applauded the part President Barack Obama’s terrorism speech making clear ISIS did not speak for Islamic faith followers.

“President Obama is telling people to not give into the fear,” said Hani Rustom. “That is when he said ‘that’s exactly what ISIS wants.’ I think he hit it right on the head, because ISIS wants that fear so that people have that anti-Muslim sentiment. That if we, as an American community unite against that sort of thing, I think it will go a long way.”

The Mead Witter Foundation is giving $25 million to University of Wisconsin-Madison to support the building of a music performance venue, writes the Wisconsin State Journal. The donation will allow construction to begin next fall of a 680-seat concert hall, the larger of two performance spaces at the planned Hamel Music Center.

“Just Bust!” is billed as the longest-running open mic in Madison. It is a monthly event hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives.

Noted: It used to be that stellar academics, a nice campus and perhaps an array of extracurricular activities were all a university needed to attract students. Now you might have to add a good social media presence to the list. If that’s the case, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is in good shape. The state’s flagship university has one of the best college Twitter accounts according to HubSpot, a marketing software platform. Wisconsin ranked No. 4 on the list.

There’s endless data and statistics that tell the story of what it’s like to be an African-American student at a predominantly white college. Those numbers across the nation paint a dismal picture.