Spring in October. That’s what David Stevens, curator of the UW Arboretum’s Longenecker Horticultural Gardens, is calling the unusual fall blooming of local lilacs that’s drawing crowds to see and smell the typically spring-blooming flowers.
UW considering constructing new residence halls to solve housing shortage issues.
‘The students deserve to know where the money that is being donated in their name is going. They deserve to know where it’s coming from,’ SJP member says.
$90,000 budgeted for UW schools for the fall cycle of the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship, Civil Dialogue grant program.
UW Hillel board member Ari Rosenblatt shares holiday traditions, reflects on impacts of Oct. 7.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine member Vignesh Ramachandran denied responsibility for three non-academic misconduct charges related to the spring encampment.
The People’s Farm and University Housing encouraged volunteer participation, gave insight into food production during Eagle Heights open farm tour.
Black student enrollment at the state’s flagship university has never surpassed 3 percent of the student body, according to data from the Universities of Wisconsin. In 2023, 1,327 students out of 50,335 identified as Black, about 2.6 percent.
This year, the percentage of underrepresented students of color in the freshman class dropped by 3.7 percentage points from last year to 14.3 percent, according to UW-Madison data.
Besides selling the expected cheese and ice cream, the Babcock Dairy store at UW-Madison is also a sandwich shop.
UW continues to strengthen commitment to faculty diversity with 22nd annual reception.
Community members learn the art, history behind making paper.
UW aims to boost civic engagement through live music, voter registrations.
After recommendations from a working group on Registered Student Organization code of conduct, the University of Wisconsin-Madison required student organizations to have an advisor listed and outlined consequences for organizations that do not participate.
“Out of the whole 300 applicants, we took about 20 total,” said Tim, a person on a hiring committee for a sought-after position at UW-Madison whom the Cardinal is identifying by a pseudonym due to privacy concerns.
Shylee Ravid and Lexi Gold are freshman at UW-Madison and have multiple friends that are currently studying abroad in Israel. Ravid said that she texted her friends to check in, after learning of the missile attack Tuesday morning.
There’s a wonderful new book by a scholar at the University of Wisconsin [at Madison], Xueli Wang, called Delivering Promise, and she says, “We need to be students first and educators first.”
Two graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are facing campus disciplinary hearings linked to an op-ed they authored in support of the student pro-Palestine encampment movement this spring. At least five other open hearings will take place over the next month.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison named a new executive director for the Office of Student Financial Aid Monday. UW-Madison Office of Student Financial AidPhil Asbury will begin the role on December 1.
Ryan Podolak, Associate Director of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards, is alleging that Vignesh Ramachandran is in violation of 17.09(11) False Statement/Refusal to Comply With Reasonable Request, 17.09(14) Violation of Ch. UWS 18 and 18.07(04) Picnicking and Camping, per the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (UWS) Administrative Code, Chapter 17 and 18.
Scalpers and scammers stand to make huge profits on facebook marketplace, GroupMe, Snapchat, Student Seats.
Some campus organizers at schools like Arizona State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are leading community campaigns for legal defense to support students and community members facing legal action. These efforts have persisted throughout the summer with groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “packing the court” for their peers’ hearings, raising money for bail funds, and leading public pressure movements to get charges dropped.
The Wisconsin Black Student Union hosted a candlelight vigil on Friday to commemorate Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, who was executed in Missouri on Tuesday.
UW Madison students, faculty, staff and alumni worked together at Makeathon 2024 to build Toddler Mobility Trainers on Friday. Volunteers, no matter their experience with engineering and shop, could help in different areas of building a small, customized wheelchair for young children with disabilities.
Showcase continues to connect new students with campus sustainability resources.
‘I’m tired and drained of the collective mourning, the constant disappointment and blatant racism,’ WBSU Outreach Director says.
UW-Madison’s overall ranking dropped slightly from 35th in 2024 but still stayed 10 places higher than its 49th-place ranking in 2019. Its ranking among public universities fell one spot from 12th last year.
The University of Wisconsin (UW) system has instituted two new admissions programs meant to make this process easier and encourage more Wisconsin students to attend their institutions: The Wisconsin Guarantee and Direct Admit Wisconsin.
College students can play a pivotal role in a swing state like Wisconsin, where elections are often won by razor-thin margins.
Voting rules can be confusing to navigate — and even more so for college students, most of whom live at a new address each school year. Here’s a guide on what to know, where to register and how to vote:
This year’s freshman class has a lower percentage of Black, Indigenous, and Latino students compared to last year.
‘If you go out and try to find the truth and tell the story it’s always there for you,’ Maraniss says.
At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Thomas Pile, chairman of the campus chapter of the College Republicans, said he is encouraged by how open-minded his classmates with different political attitudes have been in discussing the candidates’ positions.
After UW-Madison cleared Mecha de Teejop of responsibility for an antisemitic chalking event surfaced last May, records show the former student organization faced an investigation they called “hostile” and likened to “McCarthyism.”
While the programs are free to attend through a webinar, UW said registration is required for each session. All programs will be recorded and available for later viewing.
A 65,933 students applied to be part of this year’s freshman class, a 3.8% increase from last year. Freshman enrollment is up 6.9% from last year, with total enrollment setting a new UW-Madison record at 52,126 students.
The governor and UW-Madison’s student governance organization have backed a call from a campus labor organization for regular, voluntary meetings with administrators over workplace concerns.
Palestine Legal, a civil rights and advocacy group, argued that university disciplinary proceedings against pro-Palestine activists violate First Amendment rights and called on the university to drop two cases they called “discriminatory.”
The number of underrepresented students of color in the University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman class dropped from 18% to 14.3% this year following the U.S. Supreme Court’s race-conscious affirmative action ban last June.
SJP UW leaders voiced frustration regarding divestment negotiations, disciplinary hearings.
Students motivated to bring unique personal identity, background to study abroad experience.
This year’s freshman class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — the first since the U.S. Supreme Court banned race-based admission — has fewer Black and Hispanic students.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s incoming freshman class saw a decline in the percentage of students of color, diminishing the university’s recent progress in diversifying its student body, according to data released Monday.
The percentage of Black, Latino and Indigenous students in UW-Madison’s Class of 2028 has dropped, despite a record number of applications, following last year’s Supreme Court ruling that barred consideration of race in college applications.
Gov. Tony Evers spoke with UW-Madison students and responded to a new neutral-viewpoint policy for leadership across all Universities of Wisconsin schools after the spring 2024 campus protests.
In a talk sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the CNN politics anchor and UW-Madison alum reflected on politics reporting and his journey to congressional reporting.
The Committee on Student Organizations heard arguments from a school investigator and Students for Justice in Palestine Friday on possible policy violations during the May pro-Palestine encampment.
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The campaign said it would dial in its focus on young voters with an office next to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and an organizer dedicated to college voters at UW-Madison and Madison Area Technical College.
Another long-standing component of the festival set to make its return is the “Discovery Expo,” presented by the Morgridge Institute for Research.
ASM also tabled a proposal that would make segregated fee spending and requests publicly available in a spreadsheet on the ASM website for next meeting after confusion on which committee or ASM member would update the spreadsheet.
Written by Kelsey Brannan, Director of Student Radio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, General Manager, WSUM Madison Student Radio.
Milwaukee’s Marquette University ranked highest on WSJ’s top 500 overall list among Wisconsin colleges, while the University of Wisconsin-Madison finished highest among the state’s public universities.
The first two weeks of the fall semester looked nothing like the last two weeks of the spring semester at Wisconsin’s largest universities.
The tents have not returned. The news cameras have largely vanished. The police no longer seem perpetually parked near the pro-Palestinian encampments that were fixtures of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Milwaukee campuses in May.
Seven friends were gathered around a table inside a private room at a Madison restaurant on a summer night. They may well have been seated on wooden benches in a locker room, drenched in sweat.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine protested student disciplinary investigations and criticized updates to university protest policy outside Gordon dining hall on Sept. 11.
‘I thought that the eligibility criteria was unfair and discriminatory,’ UW student, plaintiff says.
There is buzz around celebrities endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump this election cycle. University of Wisconsin- Madison students say it’s exciting to see their favorite celebrities speak about the candidates. “I feel like Beyonce’s a big one, like that’s my queen right there,” UW Madison Junior Natalia Baker said.
Preliminary enrollment figures released Monday show eight colleges in the Universities of Wisconsin system have more students this year than last fall.
A new Universities of Wisconsin policy requires statements in the name of UW institutions to avoid expressing a point of view on political or social controversies.
However, the ranking doesn’t tell the whole story: despite Madison’s relatively affordability compared to other U.S. cities, home prices and rents have skyrocketed in Madison in recent years and surpassed the area’s median income. University of Wisconsin-Madison students also face some of the highest off-campus rent prices in the Big Ten Conference.
Wisconsin’s largest university earned the No. 6 spot on the Wall Street Journal’s list of the “Best Party Schools in the U.S.” for 2025.
