Category: Campus life

Bill would allow each UW System school their own free speech policy.

’The Nick’ to open late 2020 due to weather, construction obstacles.

Current building doesn’t have enough space, resources for patients, students, experts said.

University of Wisconsin alumni and freelance journalist Jacob Kushner discussed how to craft pitches and build a network Tuesday night during a career development session for students.

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Gloria Ladson-Billings discussed the Wisconsin idea and the inequitable education of students in Wisconsin Tuesday evening.

The annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Forum, this year titled “Building Bridges to a Better Future: Opportunities Through Access and Exposure,” will feature keynote speaker John Quiñones, host of the hidden-camera television series “What Would You Do?” and veteran ABC News correspondent.

The University of Wisconsin Press office moved locations to a new physical and administrative home in July, increasing accessibility to campus resources.

The newly-formed student group is calling for action with five core demands: improving support systems, ensuring permanent and increased funding for institutions and student organizations that primarily service and include predominantly marginalized groups.

About 200 people participated in the protest and, per request, wore all black. Protesters stood along Bascom Hill from noon to 1:30 p.m., cutting off the path from passersby and holding various signs that portrayed their frustrations with UW. They chanted phrases such as “we are SIC of UW,” and “we expect, we demand.”

University of Wisconsin students protested on Bascom Friday to support the Student Inclusion Coalition of UW’s five demands for treatment of marginalized students on campus.

Several higher-education-based groups hosted the event, including The Public Representation Organization of the Faculty Senate, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education and the Academic Staff Professionals Representation Organization.

The Student Services Finance Committee approved the budget for the Muslim Students Association and heard a budget hearing from Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment.

When Laura Downer and Morgan Grunow ran for positions leading the 26th session of Associated Students of Madison, becoming another all-female leadership team — the first since the 23rd session — wasn’t at the forefront of their minds.

A video made by a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students has thousands of views as the students behind it push for more inclusion on campus for people of color.

Students said greater diversity education organized by the university is necessary so that members of minority groups are not expected to be the educators. Students suggested that another general education requirement could be implemented in addition to Ethnic Studies.

The Transfer Transition Program, part of the Center for the First-Year Experience, seeks to emphasize the role that transfer students play in making the Wisconsin Idea happen on campus by acknowledging the “wealth of experience, skills and knowledge [transfer students bring] when [they] transfer.”

The video features students of color holding messages aimed at garnering a better understanding of their contributions and experiences on campus while demanding substantive change from the university.

WUD Society and Politics Committee and University of Wisconsin students discussed controversies revolving around the 2019 homecoming video which failed to include diverse representation of minority groups on campus, Wednesday night.

“See you next #uwspring, friends.”

It appears to be a take on the UW-Madison Homecoming Committee’s original video, which was deleted after backlash for not including students of color in the final product.

The video depicts people holding signs stating some of the ways UW is not inclusive and has voiceover from multiple people explaining the signs.

According to statement, signs posted last Thursday were meant to critique UW, not spread hate.

Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, presented on the mass incarceration problem in the U.S. and how prosecutors could be key in criminal justice reform as a part of the WUD Distinguished Lecture Series, Tuesday Night.

The league — the oldest and only grassroots bicycle advocacy organization — gave UW-Stevens Point a bronze rating, UW-Milwaukee a gold rating and UW-Madison a platinum rating, all awarded for having varying levels of a bikeable campus and bicycle programming.

Since mid-September, the pair has met at 7 a.m. Tuesday mornings at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to survey buildings for birds that are dead or injured after window collisions.

The new University of Wisconsin-Madison accelerated Master of Science in Design + Innovation combines expertise from five schools and colleges with team-based interaction, and offers students a breadth of highly desired skills.

Political, racial and gender tensions between students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have erupted over freedom of speech and drawn deep battle lines.

The Bicycle Friendly University program includes 208 colleges and universities and is part of the league’s Bicycle Friendly America program. The program also awards communities and businesses.

UW says the signs “appear to be part of a protest calling attention to experiences of underrepresented students.”

The University of Wisconsin–Madison was one of eight institutions named as a platinum-level Bicycle Friendly University by the League of American Bicyclists.

A sign that read “UW 4 Whites Only” was placed on the building sign for Science Hall.

UW now says via Twitter that a series of posters were placed around campus and that they were do not appear to have been placed by racist white students, but rather as part of a protest by students of color.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank said in the release Bird Bear’s leadership experience and knowledge of indigenous issues made him the perfect match for the role.

Member said group may not choose what is best for student body.

In response, UW tweeted that they aware of the incident and are investigating the situation. They also added that the posters appear to be “part of a protest calling attention to experiences of underrepresented students.”

Gender and Women’s Studies professor Katherine Phelps gathered Wednesday with the National Organization for Women’s UW-Madison chapter to cultivate an open discussion on body consciousness and self-love.

UW-Madison students must take a variety of general education classes, including those in communications, quantitative reasoning, ethnic studies and “breadth.” Breadth requirements are 13-15 credits of coursework intended to provide students with experience in a variety of intellectual fields — natural science, social science, humanities and literature.

Over a quarter of undergrad women on the UW-Madison campus experienced sexual assault during their time at school. That’s according to a survey released this spring, as part of a 33 college study by the Association of American Universities.

Though SIC is proud of the achievements they’ve made, particularly “We are UW,” they expressed some reservations about UW’s use of the video as promotional material.

Jo Handelsman, researcher and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery said soil is depleting at an unsustainable rate. She said the most pressing issue now is reaching out to the public in order to spark progressive change.

Four years after a sexual assault climate survey was created by the Association of American Universities (AAU), a new report shows while students have more awareness of sexual assaults on UW-Madison’s campus, one in four female undergraduate students reported they were sexually assaulted.

You don’t need a DNA test to know that UW Madison professor Dr. Sami Schalk is 100% that … chick… that twerked with Lizzo.