Category: Campus life

Classic events like Fill the Hill, singing of ’Varsity’ will all take place virtually due to pandemic.

Poll workers will be stationed at : East Campus Mall, Memorial Union and Union South. If weather does not permit, Madison residents and students will still be able to vote inside the Memorial Union. The tents will operate from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day until Oct. 30, when in-person absentee voting ends on campus. Absentee in-person voting concludes on Nov. 1 for the state of Wisconsin at large.

The vibe at Wisconsin’s largest university in this battleground state just 20 days out from the Nov. 3 election bore little resemblance to the campus atmosphere in the lead-up to the 2018 election when organizers passed out puppies, arranged celebrity visits, installed a bouncy house on Library Mall and wore costumes drawing attention to voter registration tables.

The week will offer students and alumni many online alternatives to traditional Homecoming in-person events, such as an online fifth quarter before Friday’s football game against Illinois instead of the usual Homecoming parade.

With the help of the construction firm where he interned over the summer, Baraka said he was able to meet and surpass his goal of raising $10,000 for the Kyangwali refugee camp.

The Executive Director of the Wisconsin Alumni Association said they were committed to connecting people online for Homecoming Week.

According to newly released data, UW-Madison set records in its graduation and retention rates across a variety of categories last year, and increased the amount of degrees it conferred.

Programs guided in partnership with business, industry, Tribal government, higher education.

UW BIPOC Coalition criticizes UW’s ’legacy of race and land appropriation,’ tweet by UW official calling ancestral Ho-Chunk land a ’gift’ to university.

Committee heard from Mecha on identity-inclusive programming.

“We want to draw attention to the fact that Chancellor Blank did not come to this meeting tonight,” Stangler said. “Part of the reason why we were brought on this as a special order was to finally have an audience with Chancellor Blank, but after verifying her schedule with Chair Mitnick on the 10th of this month … she pulled out.”

Efforts including the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center, the Posse Program, the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and the First Wave Spoken Word and Hip Hop Arts Learning Community benefited from the $2 million remodeling initiative.

The University of Wisconsin- Madison announced the completed renovation at the Red Gym Wednesday, saying it has improved student programming spaces and offices for diversity initiatives.

’If UW Administrators can’t meet this moment they should resign immediately,’ campus alder says.

A new student activist organization, born out of a summer of protest in Madison, has brought new life to calls for racial justice and inclusion on the UW-Madison campus.

Wisconsin Department of Health, Center for Disease Control say traveling during COVID-19 is risky, cite waiting lines, shared surfaces as ways of spreading virus.

’We have experienced several pushbacks and avoidance of not only our demands but our existence,’ BIPOC student says.

When it comes to $3.3 billion endowment, where is that money, what can we do with it?

Events to commemorate homecoming 2020 include a digital flamingo “Fill the Hill,” a Scavenger hunt with Chancellor Rebecca Blank, a Fifth Quarter performance and the first football game of the 2020 season against the University of Illinois.

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, Black Badgers have fought within the walls of this university to have their voice heard through various protests and social media trends.

Protesters stopped at UWPD’s headquarters, ended at UW Chancellor’s personal residence.

Advocates for international students, such as UW-Madison, have said the rule would create unnecessary burdens for international students, and makes the U.S. a less welcoming destination.

Some 150 University of Wisconsin-Madison students gathered Friday afternoon to march from Camp Randall to the UW Police Department headquarters and the Chancellor’s mansion to demand racial justice and a police-free campus.

The Wisconsin Union Directorate Arts Committee, in partnership with the Black Men Coalition of Dane County and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County, projected George Floyd’s last words on the wall of Memorial Union Thursday night as a tribute to bring attention to injustices faced by the Black community.

As they plan to decrease the $15 million deficit, Janairo said the Union does not plan to ask for extra student fees to help pay. “It hasn’t even come into our mind to ask for an increase in fees.”

Chancellor Rebecca Blank emphasized her confidence in the university and its future, despite university-wide issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a virtual speech to the Wisconsin Alumni Association on Tuesday.

George Floyd’s final words will be projected on the wall of UW-Madison’s Memorial Union Thursday night, according to a post on Facebook. The presentation will be Thursday at 7 p.m.

The display’s debut will include brief remarks by Natalia Lugovskaya, the WUD Art Committee director, and Johnson.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery spoke with students in the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Wednesday about the challenges of reporting on racial justice and the ethics of objectivity.

Blank said economic losses from COVID-19 pandemic have put UW in ’the worst situation that anyone has seen.’

Joel Baraka, 23, is a civil-engineering student and a King-Morgridge Scholar at UW- Madison.As a young child, he fled the Democratic Republic of Congo with his family in 1997 and settled in the Hoima region of a Ugandan refugee settlement.

’If fee refunds were to occur, it might not be possible to immediately restore services for students for future semesters,’ University spokesperson says.

While the fall semester started under unusual circumstances, UW welcomed its second largest freshman class of 7,306, including a record number of applicants up 4.6 percent from last year.

“I personally know what it is like to be a high-achieving student of color in a predominantly white institution that is competitive,” Guzmán said. “All the students of color who are here are remarkable, high-achieving, smart kids. I have the experience, skills, passion and desire to do what I can to ensure that students of color are having the best possible Wisconsin experience.”

UW made the announcement in a video. Lavelle played for the UW Women’s soccer team as a midfielder and graduated in 2017.

Blank said that the demand involving the removal of the Abraham Lincoln statue from Bascom Hill was a “nonstarter,” and she does not think UWPD should be defunded.

Dr. Celine Gounder joined the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s Distinguished Lecture Series virtual event Tuesday night to speak about the vital intersection of health and social justice.

Due to the economic hardships of COVID-19, UW-Madison announced full and partial layoffs in its Division of Continuing Studies, affecting 35 people, or around 18% of its staff.