Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus met Wednesday to begin discussing the university’s next strategic diversity plan to improve campus climate, which must be drafted by April 1, 2013.
Interim Chancellor David Ward released a statement Wednesday stating the University of Wisconsin-Madison will review its contracts with Palermo’s Pizza following a request by a university committee to cut ties with the pizza company.
Wednesday’s Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Week of Action forum facilitated a discussion between students and campus leaders on academic issues such as advising and Educational Innovation.
The Associated Students of Madison University Affairs Committee held a meeting Wednesday to discuss campus safety and a new campaign focused on improving to cell phone reception on campus.
The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives and First Wave dedicated their eighth-annual “Passing the Mic” showcase to the late First Wave performer John “Vietnam” Nguyen, who drowned in Lake Mendota in August.
The Badger Herald will discontinue printing Friday issues of its newspaper beginning this week.
University officials have begun work on a new diversity plan they hope to finish by the end of the Spring 2013 semester.
As renting season nears for students on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the Associated Students of Madison and the university’s Campus Area Housing program are collaborating to host the 2012 Student Housing Fair Monday from 3 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. in Union South’s Varsity Hall.
Over the next week the Associated Students of Madison student government will host four public forums to solicit student input on campus issues.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Political Science Professor Scott Straus created and coordinated a workshop in October to help agencies within the U.S. government better understand the causes of genocide and ways to suppress it.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents discussed Thursday the national and state higher education climate in relation to economic development—a topic that Board of Regents President Brent Smith said will be brought up in many upcoming board meetings.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department conducted a second night of its “Be Bright” bike light campaign Thursday.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved 2013-’14 funding for the campus group Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics Thursday after making significant adjustments to its budget proposal.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council approved Wednesday the creation of a new grassroots committee to involve students in campus sustainability efforts.
The search-and-screen committee for the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison held its fourth forum Wednesday to discuss which qualities campus members would like to see in the university’s next leader.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison labor licensing committee plans to send a letter to Chancellor David Ward early next week urging him to give Palermo’s Pizza, a sponsor of UW-Madison athletics, a 30-day ultimatum to meet the requests of the company’s striking workers, which include union recognition and priority rehiring.
The Faculty Senate voted Monday to postpone a decision on the controversial Human Resources redesign plan, citing concerns of insufficient details and a lack of communication.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Joe Diedrich changed his conservative political views to embrace the independent, Libertarian party in his later high school years, when he said he realized the Bush administration’s continued shipment of U.S. soldiers and supplies to fuel warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan “didn’t make any sense.”
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School will launch a new Veterans Law Center Thursday to provide legal assistance to veterans in the Madison area.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry professor has developed a simple bacterial test that could be used to save infants’ lives in developing countries, after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation granted him $100,000 for the project, according to a UW-Madison news release.
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