Years before upcoming “Bachelorette” and former “Bachelor” contestant Jenn Tran was looking for love on TV, there was something else she was trying to find:
A college with “a lot of school spirit.” She’d find it — in Wisconsin.
Campus administration received anonymous feedback criticizing speakers for anti-Black sentiments after an April internal antisemitism training.
The Wisconsin Union team is putting special colors of terrace chairs on display that aren’t usually seen at the terrace, including purple and blue. New this year, pink, brown and white have been added to the collection.
UW-Madison student veterans could receive new services and acknowledgements at Camp Randall under a UW System Board of Regents proposal amid construction near Camp Randall Memorial Park.
The meeting would have held a first reading for a faculty-written resolution condemning police action taken against pro-Palestinian protesters by the University of Wisconsin May 1, according to previous reporting from The Badger Herald.
It’s at least the fourth proposal for 126 Langdon St. since 2008. The most recent attempt to redevelop the site, Core Spaces’ seven-story Hub II, failed to secure city approval in 2020 and again in 2021 after residents objected to the building’s height and its luxury amenities, which included a rooftop swimming pool and hot tub.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department issued citations to 19 people Thursday related to the pro-Palestinian encampment on Library Mall at the end of the spring semester.
Madison police continue to seek a suspect in a weekend shooting at an unauthorized rooftop apartment party in the city’s downtown that left 12 people hurt.
The shooting took place at a rooftop party with more than 25 people attending at the high-rise Lux Apartment building near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and came as two other weekend shootings occurred in the city. At a Monday press conference, Madison officials said they’re still determining a motive and have yet to arrest anyone.
“The feedback that I’ve heard, and obviously I’m sure there are people on all ends of the spectrum, but the feedback that we’ve received has been almost exclusively positive,” Dargan said.
Marcelle Haddix, who has held numerous leadership positions in her 16 years at Syracuse University and currently serves as associate provost for strategic initiatives, has been chosen as the next dean of UW–Madison’a School of Education. Haddix will begin on Aug. 11.
Marcelle Haddix, who has held various leadership positions at Syracuse University, will take the helm of one of the nations highest-ranked education schools.
Incoming Dean Haddix plans to incorporate more interdisciplinary education.
Dr. Marcelle Haddix was announced as the school’s new dean on Thursday. Haddix is currently the associate provost for strategic initiatives at Syracuse University and was previously chair of the Reading and Language Arts department at Syracuse’s School of Education.
The Daily Cardinal spent over 1,000 combined hours at the UW-Madison pro-Palestine encampment. Here are our takeaways.
University Health Services partners with student organizations to support student survivors beyond Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
The NCAA and its Power Five conferences recently agreed to an antitrust settlement that would allow colleges to pay student athletes directly. But it’s still unclear how schools in those conferences, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will implement the new framework.
In April, the Peace Corps announced that UW-Madison was its No. 1 volunteer-producing university for 2023. Since President John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps in 1961, more than 2,700 volunteers have come from UW-Madison.
Three of those volunteers joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” from across the world to talk about their experiences and lessons from the organization.
Elsdon is a Presbyterian minister and executive director of Pres House, a campus ministry and student housing community at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a co-founder of RootedGood, a nonprofit organization that helps churches think creatively about how to use their spaces.
Low trust in campus administration remains in the month following the police raid on the UW-Madison pro-Palestine encampment.
On University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus, first-year graduate students Marian Azeem-Angel and Rusal Ferus were sitting at the Memorial Union terrace when they saw the news of the guilty verdicts.
“My friends from out of state just texted me, saying, ‘It finally happened,’” said Ferus, who grew up in Georgia and followed news about the Trump campaign’s election conspiracy charges there. “Thank god something came out of that and it wasn’t just a whole lot of deliberation for nothing.”
University of Wisconsin officials announced in February that the width of the ice rink at the Kohl Center would be reduced to 85 feet from 97 in time for the 2024-2025 season.
What wasn’t known at the time was whether that reduction would eventually affect seating for men’s basketball. It will.
In fact, there is data showing a lack of overt bias. A study of the University of North Carolina system, for example, found that direct discussion of politics comes up in only 8 percent of classes. In the University of Wisconsin system, “students reported substantially more frequent encouragement than discouragement of exploring a variety of viewpoints.”
The initiative, known as the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise Program, is launching for undergraduate, medical degree, law degree, and currently enrolled Native American students.
Each Thursday and Saturday beginning this week, the group will offer guided one- to two-hour walks focused on the Greenbush, Maple Bluff, Mansion Hill East, Westmorland and Vilas neighborhoods, as well as the UW-Madison agricultural campus, Orton Park and King Street areas.
Here are five major Madison-area road projects to be on the lookout for this season.
How this protest fits into recent history, what to carry moving forward, and what to leave behind.
UW–Madison is home to a two-year training program, known as the Master Meat Crafter Program, that offers members of the meat industry new skills and knowledge to take their careers to the next level. Created in 2010 by Jeff Sindelar, Ph.D., a professor and extension meat specialist in Animal & Dairy Sciences, it is a one-of-a-kind program that brings people from across the country and abroad to Madison to earn the “Master Meat Crafter” distinction upon graduation.
Student demonstrators at UW-Madison took down their tents on Library Mall nearly two weeks ago, after organizers reached an agreement with university administration
Archaeologists with the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday they have identified up to nine more dugout canoes on the lake’s bottom near Shorewood Hills.
YDSA is suspended pending an investigation for allegedly violating campus policy and state law during the encampment, a suspension letter from Dean of students, Christina Olstad said. SJP is under a similar CSO investigation.
Wisconsin’s capital city consistently ranks highly, whether it’s among the country’s happiest cities or its physically fittest. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was even recently included on Forbes’ list of new public “Ivy League” schools.
Muslim and Middle Eastern North African (MENA) students at UW-Madison believe more cultural identity centers can help the safety and community of marginalized students on campus.
A few weeks ago, on a University of Wisconsin-Madison campus sidewalk, a message in chalk read “DIVEST from Militarism.” It was final exams week, students and older adults alike lounged, studied and conversed alongside tents pitched illegally in protest, while a dainty melody on solo clarinet could be heard playing.
Crews will work over the next few days to put in a new pier near UW-Madison’s Memorial Union.
Aiden Assad, a college sophomore at UW-Madison, also received the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. scholarship award through its Madison Alumni Chapter.
“What I have learned is that they offer connections, networking, lifelong relationships, and things you can capitalize off of in the long run,” said Assad. “it’s a beautiful brotherhood.”
The leaders of the encampment protest that occurred at Library Mall earlier this month called on the UW-Madison Police Department on Tuesday to return items that they said were confiscated when law enforcement cleared the encampment on May 1.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student adaptation of the play “Boy Gets Girl” by Rebecca Gilman cuts deep into dating experiences and expectations of women in a three-day run in Vilas Hall room 4010.
Saturday, May 18, the University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra will present its 26th annual spring concert, ‘The Snowstorm’. The concert will feature several soloists as they perform Slavic-inspired orchestral pieces.
Construction season is in full swing on UW-Madison’s campus, as some of their summer projects are already underway.
Based on UW’s data on where bachelor’s degree recipients across the 13 campuses live, 87% of in-state students lived in Wisconsin five years after graduation.
We rate this claim True.
As many high school seniors prep for their first year of college, a new Wisconsin law will give the state’s highest-performing high schoolers a guaranteed spot at any of the Universities of Wisconsin campuses.
The University of Wisconsin Faculty Senate is scheduled to hold a special meeting May 20 to read through a resolution condemning university administration’s decision to use police force against protesters on Library Mall May 1.
The Associated Students of Madison (ASM) approved over $5,500 in grant allocations to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for the 2024-25 academic year — the eighth-highest allocation of all 119 student organizations that received grant funding at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Friday evening, University of Wisconsin students and Madison community members stood on Library Mall as a group of organizers took tents down one by one. As each tent was taken down, the name of a Palestinian university destroyed in the ongoing war in Gaza was read aloud.
Pro-Palestinian protesters will meet Tuesday with a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation leader and will urge him to “disclose” any investments tied to Israel.
On Friday, nearly two weeks after UW-Madison students pitched their tents on Library Mall, they reached an agreement with the university’s administration.
This afternoon, Dahlia Saba, a media liaison with Students for Justice in Palestine, told our News Producer Faye Parks that – while the agreement does signal a small step forward – it doesn’t address their primary demands.
A small group of protesters were back out on Library Mall Sunday, just days after the encampment was torn down after lasting nearly two weeks.
For 7,868 newly minted UW-Madison graduates, Saturday’s commencement ceremony was a last hoorah, a time to take in the view from the peak of their academic careers thus far.
The spring 2024 commencement ceremony marks just over four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down many activities across the nation, including high school graduations. For many bachelor’s degree graduates, this commencement offered resolution.
A handful of students quietly protested the war in Gaza at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s commencement Saturday, but the annual graduation ceremony inside Camp Randall Stadium otherwise proceeded without disruption.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison received diplomas Saturday. For many of these graduates, the ceremony was a first.
“In high school, we didn’t really have a graduation because of COVID,” said Park Falls native Noah Peterson. “So it kind of feels like that whole area is kind of missing.”
As protesters dismantled their tent encampment at UW-Madison after reaching an accord with university administration, journalism professor Douglas McCleod discussed the impact of campus protests.
At UW’s commencement ceremony on Saturday, a group of students silently protested by standing up and turning their back during Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s speech. They then walked out of the ceremony while holding a Palestine flag.
Meghan Duggan took the call earlier this year and couldn’t believe her ears. The University of Wisconsin was inviting the former Badgers hockey star back to campus to deliver the keynote address at the spring graduation.
“I thought to myself, ‘Really? Me?’” she said.
There’s nothing like the threat of a disrupted commencement ceremony to get a deal done.
With tens of thousands of visitors descending on Madison for graduation weekend and protester numbers uncertain for the summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the campus’ Students for Justice in Palestine chapter cut a dealFriday.
Meghan Duggan is the Commencement Speaker for Wisconsin’s 2024 Graduation Ceremony, an opportunity the Gold Medalist couldn’t have fathomed when she graduated from UW-Madison in 2011.
After over a week of protests, the encampment on Library Mall is set to come down after UW-Madison leaders and students reached an agreement Friday.
The tents are coming down at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The university said Friday afternoon it had reached an agreement with pro-Palestinian protesters who first pitched tents April 29. The compromise came hours before commencement weekend began, and the potential for a disrupted ceremony loomed large.
Graduates sing “Sweet Caroline” during commencement Saturday, May 11, 2024 at Camp Randall Stadium at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. The song is a popular tradition at Wisconsin football games. The school also held a commencement ceremony at the Kohl Center Friday. In total, the university anticipates that nearly 8,600 students will be earning degrees — 6,236 bachelor’s degrees, 1,394 master’s degrees and 968 PhDs.
