Category: Campus life

Walker-era changes felt today amid Board of Regents DEI decision, low student government voter turnout.

For nearly 30 years, the UW-Madison student chapter of Habitat for Humanity of Dane County has dedicated the Saturday before the Super Bowl to host their annual community soup fest, the ‘Souper Bowl.’

The Rohr Chabad House at UW-Madison is planning a five-story expansion of their current house on W. Gilman Street to accommodate increased student demand during Jewish holidays.

$900 of over $100,000 budget will be moved to Urban Agricultural Programming after composting policy change.

In her career as a playwright, Anna Deavere Smith has rooted her projects in civil rights issues, according to the Wisconsin Union. Smith is credited with creating a new type of theater where the performance centers around interpretations of journalistic interviews, according to New York University.

University leaders partnered with an executive search firm to host listening sessions and a student feedback form. Finalists are expected to be announced this spring.

Despite being one of the top public research universities in the country, the University of Wisconsin-Madison does not offer paid family and medical leave to all employees. But a growing group of advocates, led by graduate student workers, say it’s time for a policy change on campus.

The proposed Canvas course would serve to sensitize first-year students to sustainability practices on campus and give resources for further involvement.

“I’m not leaving the university, I’m looking forward to transitioning back to where I started my professional journey as a faculty member,” UW SMPH dean says.

Leader in the Movement for Black Lives, Maurice Mitchell, spoke at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday for an event in collaboration with the School for Workers. Mitchell is the National Director of the Working Families Party, a left-wing political party promoting dignity, compassion and justice for all, according to the Working Families Party website.

Complaint alleges UW failed to address harassment of students on basis of Jewish ancestry.

Robert Golden has served as the school’s dean since 2006 and is also the vice chancellor of medical affairs. According to the university, he is one of the longest-serving medical school deans in country.

“It has been an incredible honor and privilege to serve as dean and as the university’s vice chancellor for medical affairs,” said Golden. “As I look forward to the next phase of my professional life, I cherish the experience of working with so many remarkably talented and dedicated individuals within our school and our academic health system on behalf of those we serve.”

Amid the Israel-Hamas war, misinformation has spread rampantly on college campuses. One particular moment on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus created a social media firestorm after a false claim regarding a pro-Palestinian rally reached over 2.8 million views on Twitter.

The ASM Equity and Inclusion Committee (EIC) will work with Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Dean of Students Christina Olstad to update the bias reporting procedures, according to the ASM document.

The letter was sent to Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and various UW-Madison administrators, along with a request to meet for further discussion. More than 175 faculty and staff from 59 different UW-Madison departments, along with 49 graduate students, signed the statement.

Complaint met with criticism over positions on affirmative action.

The University of Wisconsin Associated Students of Madison student council held their first meeting of the semester to vote on two proposed bills, relating to cyber security and student loans Wednesday.

The Teaching Assistants’ Association, which represents graduate workers on campus, is apprehensive about 14% minimum stipend increases for next school year.

Without dining halls and many student-run food organizations, many students have issues meeting their needs over winter break.

This year, UW-Madison reached a record enrollment of 50,662 students, the first time this number has exceeded 50,000. Of the 9,095 new freshmen and transfer students on campus this fall, 51.2% came from out of state, and 7.2% from overseas.

The University of Wisconsin Chabad House is planning to expand its facility to support the growing Jewish community on campus. The property is currently located at 223 W Gilman St. and expansion plans have entered the beginning stages of production.

A security flaw rendered letters of recommendation for University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate program applicants publicly downloadable and accessible, The Daily Cardinal learned.

Prageeshwar Chandran, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was up bright and early to experience the snow.

He’s an international student from India and said he had never experienced a big snowfall before.

“The last time there was a winter storm in Madison, I wasn’t here; I was in Chicago,” Chandran said. “So, I didn’t know what went down here. But this is the first time, and I don’t think it bothered me too much. I think everyone worked tirelessly around the clock.”

As 2023 comes to a close, a new chapter is on the horizon for tribal communities in Wisconsin. “What better way to do so by empowering its next generation of leaders to graduate debt free on their traditional homelands,” said Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians and chairwoman of the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council.

MENA students, MSC staff push for representative staff, dedicated space in MSC.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is partnered up with Purposity to match students up with donors to help meet their basic needs. Purposity, an Atlanta based philanthropic fundraising service founded in 2016, developed a platform for school systems and local non-profits to match community members with donors.

Carla Vigue, Director of Tribal Relations at UW Madison said, “The University of Wisconsin Madison sits on Ho-Chunk ancestral land. The Ho-Chunks were forcibly removed from that land and the university was built there, and this was just one way that we thought we could give back.”

The initiative, dubbed the e Wisconsin Tribal Educational Program, covers the full cost of an undergraduate degree, as well asin-state tuition, housing, meals, books, and other educational expenses. The program will also cover the cost of in-state tuition for professional students pursuing a J.D. (law) or M.D. (medical) degree.

“The creation of this program marks a significant step in the partnership between the American Indian tribes in Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin–Madison,” said Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians and chairwoman of the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council.

A year after launching a unique type of snow shoveling service, some University of Wisconsin-Madison student entrepreneurs are getting some downtime to grow their business, since there’s not much snow to shovel.