Category: Campus life

UW-Madison has participated in the survey on sexual assault and misconduct, conducted by the American Association of Universities, since 2015.

A UW-Madison assistant professor has made headlines this week for sharing a special moment on stage with rising star Lizzo.

Ninety-nine of 1,050 apartments will open to non-freshman undergraduates.

Sykes currently hosts The Weekly Standard podcast and contributes to MSNBC.

One hour before last Saturday’s homecoming game, UW-Madison released a new homecoming video highlighting the diversity of students on campus.

“I wish students knew we’re still here, we’re still alive and we’re still practicing our culture,” Wunk Sheek organizer Giselle Monette said in a “mini powwow” held in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

In the spring semester of Hayley Pendergast’s fourth year as a UW-Madison student in interior architecture, she founded an organization built to expose more people of color to the design industry at an earlier age, as an opportunity to help diversify the field.

In the spring semester of Hayley Pendergast’s fourth year as a UW-Madison student in interior architecture, she founded an organization built to expose more people of color to the design industry at an earlier age, as an opportunity to help diversify the field.

Students of color are standing together in solidarity at Camp Randall, just days after the UW-Madison came under fire for what many called a non-inclusive homecoming video.

“It goes along with the legacy of why the dance department was created here,” said Holland, who joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison this semester as an assistant professor of dance. “This is the language and the culture that are of the people, whether people want to acknowledge it or not.”

“At UW-Madison, we learn lessons inside and outside of the classroom,” the recording stated. “We learned a lesson about what happens when some community members are forgotten.”

Along with the video, UW-Madison posted, “At UW, we learn lessons best when we learn them together. This Homecoming, we’re partnering with the Student Inclusion Coalition to ensure everyone is seen, heard and valued in our community.”

Ahead of the University of Wisconsin-Madison homecoming game Saturday afternoon, the university released a video on social media highlighting the student body’s diversity.

New video acknowledges mistake made in omitting students from underrepresented populations.

Event is the school’s largest single day of giving.

Jasmine Kiah said it was act of freedom of speech while College Republicans said it was violation of university policy.

Dogs on Call, a local organization that brings therapy dogs to destinations across the state, visits the campus often, usually around midterms and finals season, when students’ stress and anxiety levels are at their peak.

Excluding the institutions with scores that are over three years old — which STARS considers to be expired — UW-Madison shifts to fifth out of seven.

UW-Madison is once again suspending a fraternity that’s found itself in trouble with the university multiple times in recent years.

UW-Madison says its Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards is reviewing complaints of a student covering the windows of the College Republicans student office with signs calling President Donald Trump a sexist and racist.

The UW-Madison community is celebrating Homecoming this week. It’s the first for the new Badger Band director.

UW-Madison has suspended Sigma Chi, the third time the fraternity has been suspended in four years.

“We survey our students every year about their dining experience on campus,” said Peter Testory, Director of University Housing Dining & Culinary Services, in the release.

The university says Sigma Chi was prohibited from serving alcohol at events, but that the frat did it anyway, violating the Student Organization Code of Conduct.

Ahead of the 2020 census, UW Madison and the City of Madison are working together to make sure all college students get counted.

Compared to years before, 2019 is likely to see most events, involvement.

“The cool thing about [UW Homecoming Week] is that there are a lot of events that make you have spirit throughout the week, not just the weekends,” UW Homecoming Committee member Colleen Muraca said.

SSFC also approved GSSF eligibility for Wisconsin Association of Black Men.

UW had score of 51.72, compared to University of Illinois with score of 72.89.

Andrea Dutton, new to University of Wisconsin-Madison this semester, studies climate change and caught the eye of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It awarded her one of 26 “genius” grants in 2019.

“It’s definitely true. There’s not a lot of diversity here. So in a way that does kind of reflect the school, [whether] that’s good or bad,” Zeid tells NBC15 News.

The alumni association will implement diversity, equity and inclusion training for staff and members of WAA-sponsored student organizations.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday several actions it is taking in response to blowback they have been receiving from releasing a video with a theme titled “Home is Where WI are” that, according to the university, “did not properly represent Black students and other students of color as essential members of our campus community.”

The fires began the morning of July 19, when a transformer — a component that helps distribute electricity from place to place — burst into flames at the Madison Gas and Electric Blount Street substation in Madison. It sparked a second fire at a connected substation near University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Ogg Hall, causing evacuations.