The University of Wisconsin– Madison’s Odyssey Beyond Bars Program received a $300,000 grant from the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation to teach college courses in Wisconsin prisons.
13. University of Wisconsin- Location: Madison, WI- Students: 30,157- Acceptance rate: 54%- Graduation rate: 88%- Student to faculty ratio: 17:1- Median earnings six years after graduation: $56,200- Employment rate two years after graduation: 95%Established in 1848, Madison’s University of Wisconsin sits on over 900 acres, with plenty of greenery and easy access to amenities. Educational opportunities are plentiful here, and students can choose from more than 120 undergraduate majors within eight schools. Students who attend enjoy a variety of academic programs, scenic campus views, and an active Greek life.
Noted: At University of Wisconsin campuses, interim President Tommy Thompson has said that vaccination against COVID-19 won’t be required, especially not while the medicines are under emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“I think everything seems to be aligning both in terms of the national interest in prison reform and prison education, changing rules about Pell Grants, increased awareness of racial discrimination, and I guess just a widespread understanding that change needs to happen,” said Emily Auerbach, founder and co-director of the Odyssey Project, which houses the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s prison education initiative, Odyssey Beyond Bars.
Students at the University of Wisconsin play pool in their free time.
Ateam of scientists answered a lingering question about the ramifications of reopening UW-Madison last fall, finding little evidence that outbreaks in two dorms fueled further spread of COVID-19 into the community.
The push for housing around UW-Madison continues with a developer now forging a plan to raze a small church, a former Italian deli, two houses and Buckingham’s Bar and Grill for a 10-story building with housing, retail space and parking on the 800 block of Regent Street.
Adeveloper is reshaping a proposal for a $100 million-plus, 10-story project fronting the 300 block of State Street, dropping the building height facing that street, preserving facades of historic buildings, and looking to lower rents for some low- and middle-income tenants.
Ramadan is coinciding with the end of the university academic year. That means many Muslim students are under pressure to perform on exams, presentations and class projects while fasting from any food or drink for more than 15 hours a day.
Their parents and grandparents remember what it was like for them. Telling the Muslim equivalent of “walking 10 miles to school, barefoot in the snow,” the older generations talk about a time when their professors had never heard of Ramadan. If they had, the idea of adjusting exam schedules or making other accommodations for a handful of students practicing an obscure religion was out of the question.
After a senior year challenged by the pandemic, UW-Madison’s Class of 2021 enjoyed a semblance of normalcy Saturday as the university held its first in-person commencement ceremony in a year and a half. Camp Randall Stadium was again the scene of smiling, robe-clad grads taking selfies with friends, jumping around and throwing mortarboards into the air.
To reconstruct this consequential chapter of the 2020-21 school year, the Wisconsin State Journal reviewed more than 3,000 pages of correspondence obtained under the state’s public records law from UW-Madison and the city-county health department.
University of Wisconsin students stage a protest against the war in Vietnam on Oct. 17, 1967. On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy broke the news of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination to a crowd in Indianapolis. Coretta Scott King, center, MLK’s widow walks in the funeral procession with her family in Atlanta, Ga., April 9, 1968.ASSOCIATED PRESS/GETTY IMAGES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
After another year of online learning and uncertainty, graduates in UW-Madison’s Class of 2021 tossed their caps at Camp Randall on Saturday to celebrate the next chapter of their lives.
Even though there were no spectators at Camp Randall, the Class of 2021 was still loud and proud on their graduation day.
Becoming a doctor is a dream come true for Vivian Gama. It is an achievement that didn’t even cross her mind as a little girl. “It’s not very common for people where I’m from to come to the states let alone be able to go to medical school,” Gama said.
Anyone can visit the terrace through the east side doors starting at 9 a.m. Monday and no reservations are required, the terrace announced.
After a year in hiatus, UW-Madison celebrated in-person commencement Saturday.
Keynote speaker, Broadway icon André de Shields tells graduates to ’seize the gift’ of their futures.
Ex-Badger football player Daniel Howell Jr. hasn’t cracked open a textbook in 30 years. On Jan. 25, however, he returned to UW-Madison to tackle his dreams and work towards earning his Bachelor’s degree.
As University of Wisconsin- Madison seniors are set to graduate Saturday, the university announced more than half of its students are graduating without debt for the fifth year in a row. Around 57.2% of students did not take out student loans while in school, UW notes.
The UW Diversity Forum will be held on Nov. 2-3 at Union South as well as online in an anticipated hybrid format.
The call came during Amy Jochsett Perez’s most difficult semester. It was April 2020 and Perez, a junior studying nursing at UW-Madison, was weighing whether to drop out of school. Seeing the stress that nurses were under during the pandemic made her question her career choice.
Summaries of spring semester’s biggest stories.
Since that paper was published, the number of colleges and universities preparing their campuses for climate change has increased. More than 100 institutions have signed on to commitments from the organization Second Nature that encompass climate resilience, for example. That number includes public flagships, community colleges and private institutions, including the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Lamar Community College and American University.
UW–Madison is one of a growing number of universities across the country offering special meal plans for Muslim students during Ramadan. University Housing’s Ramadan Meal Service offers Muslim students a breakfast bag of halal food options for suhoor that is delivered to a nearby dining hall for evening pick-up.
With two separate commencement ceremonies planned for Saturday, graduation festivities at UW-Madison are set to run a bit differently compared to the traditional ceremony at Camp Randall.
Just over 7,600 students will graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Saturday during two graduation ceremonies at Camp Randall, rain or shine, a news release states.
The Black Voice (TBV) originated from one of the few demands out of the striker’s 13 that was actually enacted at UW-Madison.
Usually running in April, this year’s festival will take place May 13-20 and will feature 115 films — from narratives to documentaries, international, independent, animated films, shorts and more. The lineup was announced Friday, and single tickets are now on sale at wifilmfest.org. Viewers can buy tickets for particular works for $10, a series for $50 or an entire festival pass for $140.
Humanities is the second building this month where UW-Madison officials asked employees working there to leave and then ordered repairs to because of safety concerns.
UW-Madison is in the process reimagining Library Mall — the area featuring Hagenah Fountain between the Wisconsin Historical Society and Memorial Library — the last piece of the East Campus Mall project from Regent Street to Lake Mendota. “I would say that the overall goal is to make this another entryway, or front door to the campus … one that is indeed welcoming to all people and helps open the university and its amazing events to everyone,” said Gary Brown, the university’s director of campus planning and landscape architecture.
“Shift” is made up of two 70-foot-long perforated weathered-steel sculptures spanning each side of the Highland Avenue underpass beneath Campus Drive. Lights installed behind them will shine through the perforations to create “a shifting light mural” that will serve “as an interactive gateway between the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, UW Hospital and Clinics and the Regent Neighborhood,” according to a statement issued by the city April 23.
UW-Madison’s Class of 2020 can celebrate their achievements at Camp Randall Stadium this fall after COVID-19 deprived them of a traditional, in-person commencement ceremony.
Downtown advocates are shelving a proposal to turn State Street into a pedestrian mall most weekends this summer. But the push to transform one of the state’s most famed thoroughfares isn’t over.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is inviting 2020 graduates back to the school for a post-coronavirus celebration after their in-person graduation ceremonies were canceled.
Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are inviting 2020 graduates back to campus this fall to celebrate their achievements after COVID-19 restrictions prevented in-person graduation ceremonies.
The university is extending invitations to alumni who graduated in the spring, summer and winter of 2020 back to Madison on for the weekend of Sept. 17.
“The pandemic took from these graduates a special part of their college experience – the opportunity to mark the completion of their degrees at Camp Randall with their fellow Badgers,” says Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
Council proposed advocating for crisis response team, reforming school calendar year to better respect non-Christian holidays.
“In the fall, Heller refused to convene his shared governance committee when students expressed concern over the smart restart,” said former ASM Chair Matthew Mitnick, providing examples that provoked student leaders to issue the vote of no confidence.
According to the director of Marketing and Communication at University Housing, Brendon Dybdahl, the university is working in creative ways to open housing space and make sure every student feels at home.
University Housing and UW Conference Centers partnered in the temporary move as they expect an increase in the number of residents expected next year. According to the university, continued enrollment growth, an increase in the number of students living on campus and the renovation project at Sellery Hall are all factors in the new housing situation.
n this legislation, the Student Council officially committed to promoting self-determination, justice and liberation for Indigenous people at the UW-Madison and across Wisconsin. They further demanded that UW-Madison students should be able to apply to receive financial assistance from the COVID-19 Student Relief Fund as a one-time use of allocable fee reserves and demanded that UW-Madison eliminate a surcharge on students who take over 165 credits.
Associated Students of Madison Chair-elect junior Adrian Lampron and Vice Chair-elect sophomore Lennox Owino look forward to leading the student government’s 28th session beginning in the fall.
The Student Alliance for Reproductive Justice created a petition for University Health Services to rename their Women’s Health Clinic to the Reproductive Health Clinic.
The University of Wisconsin Associated Students of Madison elected Adrian Lampron and Lennox Owino as the next chair and vice chair of the council on Saturday.
Professor’s resignation comes over four years after suicide of doctoral student who worked in his lab.
UW System President Tommy Thompson announced that UW-Madison won the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Postsecondary Sustainability Award on Thursday.
Keynote event will feature comedian, writer, actor Joel Kim Booster.
The UW-Madison chapter of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment teamed up with the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association to host their first annual Denim Day event on Wednesday, April 28.
The University of Wisconsin athletic board on Friday approved one-year contract extensions for six coaches, including Paul Chryst (football) and Greg Gard (men’s basketball).
For the Class of 2021, graduation may have felt like a long time coming, but the COVID-19 pandemic is leaving one last reminder of how little has been normal in their recent college years.
He (Xavier Schultze, 23) was at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in his senior year and had to head home during spring break. It was — like for so many burgeoning adults — devastating. But music gave their house a glimmer of joy. Over morning coffee, Alexandra and Xavier would listen to the Eagles, Aerosmith or Jimi Hendrix. “And he’s like, ‘What is this?’” Alexandra says. Soon, he was being schooled by his parents in the intricacies of how Hendrix and Prince were similar. Why Don McLean wrote “American Pie.” Mother and son found a new thread to bond over.
In one of the first campus events since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, UW-Madison took a step towards creating visible spaces for Black involvement on campus.
A space on the East Campus Mall will soon be home to a plaza honoring the achievements of UW-Madison’s Black fraternities and sororities. The “Divine Nine Garden Plaza” was dedicated Saturday in a ceremony.
Saturday afternoon, student leaders and university officials hosted a dedication ceremony and broke ground on the new Divine Nine Garden Plaza located at East Campus Mall.
Heller will be moving on to work at Johns Hopkins University this summer.
Students oppose Line 3 pipeline crossing Ojibwe lands.
More than 100 students gathered on campus Friday for an Earth Week Climate Strike, pressuring UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Foundation & Alumni Association to divest from fossil fuels.
Ray Taffora, the vice chancellor for legal affairs, is also retiring this summer. A search for his successor began earlier this spring.The university is also looking for its next chief diversity officer. Applications were due earlier this month.
