Category: Campus life

CALS administrators say course will be easier for students. Agriculture groups and students say changes will hurt future students.

’This project seeks to uplift the Native voices that have often been overlooked,’ UW professor says.

Citing an Anti-Defamation League report about a general rise in anti-Semitism that has spread to campuses, the statement detailed the three incidents and said that such actions “will not be tolerated at UW-Madison.”

The films will screen at several venues on campus, including the Union South Marquee Theatre and Shannon Hall, as well as AMC Madison 6 at Hilldale Shopping Center.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Teacher Pledge program has been extended into the 2025-26 academic school year to address the educator shortage in Wisconsin.

Upon receiving the news that University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank was to be the next president of Northwestern University, students at the school wanted to learn more about her. In response, a series of articles in North by Northwestern, a student publication, were published throughout January, February and March that provided the campus with a picture of Blank’s past that has dismayed many.

The election for Senior Class Office officially begins Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There are seven candidates, nearly all registered as pairs, running this election season, with the voting window closing Thursday, March 10.

“Antisemitism is wrong and it will not be tolerated at UW–Madison,” Reesor and Charleston said. “We are committed to creating a campus where everyone feels valued and knows they belong.”

For the first time in two years, fans of UW-Madison’s Varsity Band will be able to catch the band’s spring concert in person at the Kohl Center.

After a two-year hiatus, the University of Wisconsin- Madison varsity band is bringing back its spring concert.

The annual UW System’s Research in the Rotunda will return to the Capitol for its 18th year on Wednesday. Students and faculty are especially eager to share their work after the event was canceled last year due to COVID-19.

While the cooperative is located in a university-owned building, which the cooperative has leased at the corner of Park and West Johnson streets for the past 67 years, Zoe Bayliss operates independently from UW-Madison. Elected student board members manage Zoe Bayliss’ finances and determine rent prices for the year. They also hire a chef to cook lunch and dinner on weekdays, a perk included in the rent.

The new five-story, 26,000 square-foot building — called Levy Hall — will be “one of the most heavily used academic buildings on campus,” said Eric Wilcots, dean of the College of Letters & Science, in October. Levy Hall will also support UW-Madison’s largest academic program, Dybdahl said, “providing 1,800 seats in state-of-the-art classrooms.”

UW Madison’s Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia hosted a panel Wednesday night on the Russian-Ukraine conflict to help members of the community better understand the conflict and it’s impact beyond the two countries’ borders. The public forum was the second event on the subject–the first meant to reach students–hosted by the group since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last week.

Students have lived in the Zoe Bayliss Cooperative building on UW-Madison’s campus since 1955, but a new construction project is threatening the building and co-op’s future. “They’re displacing us,” co-op president Angela Maloney said. “We didn’t ask to be displaced. We like the building that we’re in.”

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will begin construction on the “Divine Nine” plaza this spring. The plaza will be located in the garden space across from the Walgreens on East Campus Mall, and it will be unveiled as a tribute to the Divine Nine in early May.

The Black Voice marked its 50th anniversary Tuesday night at Union South where the organization presented a documentary celebrating the history of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s only Black newspaper. The Black Voice was initially founded in 1971 and operated until 1973 before it was re-established on campus in 2015 by student Jordan Gaines.

The chancellor was very respectful and responsive to ASM’s advocacy, offering a compromise to every request, Bailey said. “We were really happy to get this meeting, and I think the fact that the chancellor was willing to sit down and meet with us face-to-face signaled how she was willing to listen and hear our advocacy,” he said.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Affairs Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Advancement teams surpassed their fundraising goal for a project that will honor all nine of the National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations on campus.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a top diplomat on the world stage, will be the keynote speaker for spring commencement for the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Saturday, May 14 at Camp Randall Stadium.

SSFC representatives express need for more discussion on UHS violence prevention programs.

‘The station as a whole, as a concept, wouldn’t really exist without him and this physical space wouldn’t exist without him,’ Black’s mentee says.

Residents of last co-op on UW campus urge students to sign petition to save building or receive adequate replacement.

“What does Black Girl Magic mean to you? ”To conclude Black History Month, University of Wisconsin-Madison’s mental health services hosted a discussion panel, “Beyond Black Girl Magic: Normalizing and Centering Black Women’s Mental Health,” covering topics ranging from the mental health of Black women, to defining oneself and embracing imperfection.

As groups push for better integration of accommodations in classrooms, students spearhead creation of organizations, new Disabled Students Cultural Center to improve campus conditions.

Demonstrations unfolded at schools including Columbia, Stanford and Northeastern universities, as well as the University of Wisconsin-Madison. More than 300 people gathered Thursday in the atrium of the building that houses Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service for a town hall and panel discussion about the invasion. And a student group at Ohio State University advertised a Friday afternoon bake sale to support humanitarian and defense efforts in Ukraine.

After miles spent walking its wooded trails every day, Doug Moe continues to dig deeper into the history of the 1,260-acre urban wonder.

In attendance were Democrat candidates Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, current State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski, Alex Lasry, Steven Olikara, Peter Peckarsky, Tom Nelson and Jeff Rumbaugh.

United States Ambassador to the United Nations and University of Wisconsin alumna Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be the keynote speaker for the UW spring commencement.

Organizations present on previous year’s budget, request funding changes.

Advancing diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been a major priority for L&S Dean Eric Wilcotts since taking the post back in 2020 — so much so that Wilcots viewed establishing a permanent role to support inclusion initiatives as a top administrative priority after becoming dean.

Russian and Ukrainian students and teachers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison held a small, mostly silent protest on campus to show solidarity with Ukraine and call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt his invasion of the former Soviet republic.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and an alum of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will return to campus May 14 as keynote speaker for spring commencement.

In a quiet and peaceful demonstration, UW-Madison students made their message for “no war” loud and clear.

A group of approximately 12 protestors gathered at the top of Bascom Hill on Thursday to protest the Russian military’s invasion of eastern Ukraine which began earlier this week. Demonstrators carried signs and chanted slogans denouncing the actions of president Vladamir Putin and the Russian military.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will deliver the keynote address at the UW-Madison commencement ceremony on May 14.

’By doing this in the middle of the semester they have taken the choice away from those of us working on campus who might have chosen to opt out otherwise,’ one participant says

UW’s six-year graduation rate, based on freshmen who entered the university in 2015, is the highest its ever been at 89.2%, UW spokesperson Meredith McGlone said in an email statement.

’We are working for a world where PAVE is not needed, not where we are looking for answers to these problems,’ PAVE chair says.

There are currently approximately 150 student families who receive assistance from the Office of Child Care and Family Resources.

Today, students who interact on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and in University Housing are free to engage and live with each other as they please. But, for students attending the university in its first century of operation, discipline and regulations on campus regarding housing and sexuality looked very different.

“We are immensely honored to be hosting Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield and grateful that she has agreed to share her wisdom and experiences with our graduates,” outgoing Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in the release. “Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield is one of the most distinguished and highly regarded diplomats in the world. I am very proud that she is also a Badger.”