Category: Campus life

University of Wisconsin political science professor Katherine Cramer gave a talk on community-driven listening and democracy as a part of the Wisconsin Idea lecture series, Tuesday night.

“[Character is] not what we do when everyone’s watching — that’s easy,” he said. “It’s what we do even when no one is watching. It’s all about — as Spike Lee would say — doing the right thing.”

“Hate crimes in this country are up by 20% over the last two years,” he said. “Politicians keep talking about building higher and higher walls around this country, when in my humble opinion, we should be building stronger and stronger bridges between the beautiful mosaic of people in this country.”

The university is the fourth, and largest, college campus to introduce the robots.

New numbers released Monday from the university’s Office of Academic Planning and Institutional Research shows the average time to receive a bachelor’s degree was 3.96 calendar years. It set a record on measuring student success at UW-Madison.

It was a summer-long tribute to the beloved UW mascot, and right now, a special documentary looks at what it took to pull off Bucky on Parade. NBC15s Leigh Mills was live at union south, where that doc is premiering at the Marquee Cinema. She discusses the documentary with Sara Schauf, whose late husband was involved in founding Bucky on Parade.

Starting Monday, students and staff at The University of Wisconsin-Madison are getting a taste of the future.

The University Housing Dining & Culinary Services at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is launching a new delivery service with robots that can autonomously deliver food.

Yi said there were no proposed increases or decreases to their budget requests for supplies, printing, advertising, computer software and hardware, equipment rental, postage and total programming.

Students simply download the app, place their order as they would from any other app, pay the $1.99 delivery fee and drop a pin for their pick up location.

Over the summer, the university partnered with Starship Technologies, gaining access to a fleet of 30 robots that will deliver food directly to students, faculty and staff.

The conversation comes after an October Board of Regents announcement that there would be a vote on proposed punishments for students found to be disrupting free speech of peers or invited speakers.

People celebrated Mexican traditions at the sixth annual Day of the Dead Fiesta at the Nancy Nicholas Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Human Ecology on Friday.

The Associated Students of Madison created a new position Wednesday to increase the organization’s engagement with various groups on campus. The additional position — titled “diverse engagement coordinator” — will help connect ASM with the Multicultural Student Center, the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center and the McBurney Disability Resource Center.

University of Wisconsin professor Akbar Sayeed is expected to return in January 2020 after a two-year unpaid leave due to “abusive” lab conditions, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

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.