For the first time, UW-Madison’s Hispanic students will be able to get a degree in the study of their collective history and culture.
UW-Madison presented its 17th annual Moonshine Show Friday in celebration of Black History Month. Performances included spoken word and dances that explored the identity of being a drag queen and Black culture through the decades.
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Rachelle Eilers, a senior adviser for UW-Madison's Chicana/o and Latina/o studies program, speaks during a weekly community gathering with students. The program will debut its Chicana/o and Latina/o studies bachelor's degree next fall, joining African, Afro-American and Scandinavian studies as heritage- and culture-based degrees.
Students line up for food during a weekly Chicana/o and Latina/o studies community gathering in Ingraham Hall at UW-Madison.
Dominique Gooden, right, a UW-Madison sophomore, talks with presenters Seng Thao, left, and Emmeline Prattke, both with Success Works, during a Chicana/o and Latina/o studies gathering. The weekly lunches include speakers who talk about opportunities for students or faculty research.
UW-Madison students Camille Martinez Ibarra, left, and Melissa Elvira get lunch during a weekly Chicana/o and Latina/o studies community gathering.
Fave 5: Reporter Kimberly Wethal shares her favorite stories of 2022
In the weeks before I joined the Wisconsin State Journal in September, I was told this: Remember that a higher education institution is like their own city. It has its own character and struggles, defined by the students who learn there and the faculty who teach them.
I have seen this over and over again, and it was particularly clear when I visited UW-Platteville at Richland a week after the University of Wisconsin System ordered degree-fulfilling classes to cease because of low enrollment. During my visit, I found many of the devastated students to be emotionally invested in their campus community — and committed to saving it.
After budget cuts and consolidations, the campus' enrollment is down 90% from 2014, and UW-Platteville was ordered to shutter the campus.
With record enrollment contributing to the housing crunch, UW-Madison lured students out of dorms by offering incentives to live elsewhere.
Management companies are seeing some of their housing in prime areas sell out three to four weeks faster than previous years.
A new Early Learning Center that opened in 2021 at MATC's Truax campus doubled capacity, and a facility at the Goodman South campus could be next.
UW-Madison doctorate student Kirstan Gimse found the courage to go back to school a decade ago from a chemistry professor she would wait on.
After budget cuts and consolidations, the campus' enrollment is down 90% from 2014, and UW-Platteville was ordered to shutter the campus.
With record enrollment contributing to the housing crunch, UW-Madison lured students out of dorms by offering incentives to live elsewhere.
Management companies are seeing some of their housing in prime areas sell out three to four weeks faster than previous years.
A new Early Learning Center that opened in 2021 at MATC's Truax campus doubled capacity, and a facility at the Goodman South campus could be next.
UW-Madison doctorate student Kirstan Gimse found the courage to go back to school a decade ago from a chemistry professor she would wait on.
