The first time Brooke Evans saw the word “homelessness” related to higher education was when she was filling out the FAFSA (or Free Application for Federal Student Aid) in 2010, where it wasn’t well-explained and implied that she was not homeless, even though that was not the case.
In recent months, diversity advocates expressed concerns about the UW System’s approaches in improving the experiences of minority students and Wisconsin’s educational disparity between white and black students.
It’s something most students are aware of through a few lines on a syllabus or a brief mention in lecture, but for scores of other students, the McBurney Center is a lifeline to ensure academic success on the UW-Madison campus. In accordance with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, the McBurney Center works to determine whether students meet the legal standards for possessing a disability. The center arranges for a vast array of accommodations, including supplying sign language interpreters, braille and note-takers, providing closed captioning of media used in classes and making arrangements for test taking. Additionally, the center will collaborate with University Housing and other departments to arrange accommodations for students, such as modifying dorm rooms. “We’re working with the student to figure out what they need to have reasonable accommodations and equal access in the classroom,” said McBurney Center Director Cathy Trueba.
The transition from high school to college can bombard a student with many sudden changes, but while most students are shocked by the size of the lecture hall, Kenneth Cole was shocked by the lack of people of color in it.
When Jacqueline DeWalt was a UW-Madison graduate student in 2000, she enrolled her son in the PEOPLE (Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) Program, created in 1999.
Roughly a year after Gov. Scott Walker proposed nearly $300 million in cuts to the UW System, along with significant changes to the way public higher education functions, UW-Madison associate professor David Vanness said he notices things on campus do not shine as brightly as they used to.
UW-Madison international student Xiaofei Xu struggled to integrate with the local community on campus—until he studied abroad in Paris with roughly 30 other students during the fall semester of his junior year. Xu grew up in a city near Hong Kong and decided to attend UW-Madison in 2013, without ever visiting the campus. Both the school’s history and journalism programs were ideal for him, Xu said. There are more than 4,000 international students from roughly 130 countries currently enrolled at UW-Madison, though most are from China. According to Xu, academic programs for international students at UW-Madison are geared toward students in science or engineering majors, which covers most of the students. But Xu, however, studies in the humanities, saying he hopes to graduate with a double major in history and journalism, while also learning French.
On the UW-Madison campus, tip-based service jobs play a pivotal role in student income; and, given the rising cost of college education, income proves to be essential in making the opportunity of higher education accessible to all.
Students at large research universities often feel distanced from their professors, and vice versa. But a new program introduced at UW-Madison aspires to change the structure of teaching and learning on big campuses.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, was found dead Saturday while on vacation at a Texas ranch, according to a statement by Chief Justice John Roberts. According to a government official, Scalia told friends he was feeling ill before bed Friday night and did not get up for breakfast Saturday morning. Scalia was appointed in 1986 by Ronald Reagan, and his 29 years of service made him the longest-tenured member of the Supreme Court. He was known for his conservative leanings and originalist interpretation of the Constitution. Though Barack Obama has power to appoint Scalia's replacement pending Senate approval, there may be political pressure to wait until the next president takes office before the vacancy is filled.
A recent study from UW-Madison has proven that converting farmland to areas for grassland biofuel crops could be beneficial for landowners and Wisconsin birds.
The historically Black Greek Letter Organizations at UW-Madison seek to initiate change on campus through activism and volunteering efforts.
After months of campaigning, two votes and the quiet elimination of Martin O’Malley, the Democratic primary has finally boiled down to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ idealism against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s moderated liberalism. They collided at UW-Milwaukee Thursday in the sixth Democratic debate.
UW-Madison researchers published a journal Feb. 11 detailing how they genetically reprogrammed the most common type of cells in mammalian connective tissue into master heart cells.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee voted 5-4 with one abstention Thursday to approve the addition of the referendum question, “Do you support the use of ASM resources to grow certain grassroots statewide student movements approved by UW-Madison students?” to the ASM 2016 spring election ballot.
Local agencies announced Thursday they are reintroducing the Capital Area OWI Task Force annual program to reduce impaired driving.
It was a heavyweight fight that would make Don King giddy. The mainstream favorite, Hillary Clinton, leading nationally, took on upstart challenger Vermont Sen/ Bernie Sanders, who beat Clinton single-handedly in the New Hampshire primary two days ago.
Nancy G. Prince, 53, assaulted two women inside a laundromat Tuesday night, according to a Madison Police Department incident report. The two women were assaulted 50 minutes apart at 1817 S. Park St. around 8 p.m.
The Associated Students of Madison Coordinating Council met Wednesday to discuss the group’s upcoming plans for the semester.
A Republican effort to ban legislators from concurrently holding office as county executive is moving quickly through the state Legislature, as both houses held a public hearing on the bill Wednesday. The legislation is a response to Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris running for the seat of state Sen.
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