Connecting Campus and Community through Community-based Service, Learning, and Research
Masha Vodyanyk’s Wisconsin Idea Fellowship titled, “Providing an Accessible Art Education for Children” focused on working with kids in the fourth to sixth grade to help refine their art and motor skills at the Eagle Heights Community.
On Jan. 25 at 7 a.m., registration opens for this semester of Badger Volunteers, the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s largest student-led volunteer program.
Start off the new year with UW–Madison’s Spring Public Service Fair and explore short- and long-term volunteer opportunities, internships and jobs. On Jan. 30 from 3 to 6 p.m. in Varsity Hall at Union South, students are encouraged to attend and learn how to connect to community organizations. Students will have the opportunity to meet …
Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes will be the keynote speaker at UW–Madison’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Jan. 21, in the Great Hall of Memorial Union. Barnes is Wisconsin’s first African-American lieutenant governor and the second African-American elected to statewide office in Wisconsin.
Chancellor Blank’s “Blank Slate” This post is co-authored by Chancellor Blank and Kathy Cramer, Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science and Professor of Political Science. Cramer is the former Faculty Director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service who stewarded the creation of the Civic Action Plan. Guided by the Wisconsin Idea, the …
UW–Madison students turned out in force for the midterm elections Tuesday, culminating a year-long voter-turnout competition with other Big Ten schools. The winners of the Big Ten Voting Challenge won’t be known until August 2019, but it generated a lot of excitement and civic involvement. “It has been truly motivating to see the enthusiasm of students …
It’s easy to make a difference through an award that’s named after the Wisconsin Idea, and Jacob Olson is doing just that. The biochemistry and environmental studies major traveled to Rwanda this past summer through a Morgridge Center for Public Service Wisconsin Idea Fellowship that helped him combine his education with public service and community engagement. The …
Almost 2,000 people voted in-person absentee at UW–Madison campus voting locations last week, Oct. 22-26. But don’t worry if you’re not one of them: Early voting continues this week through Friday, Nov. 2. Madison residents can early vote at the Student Activity Center from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Union South from noon-6 p.m., and …
Badger Volunteers is a semester-long program that pairs teams of students with community organizations to volunteer 1–4 hours each week at the same organization. The program was designed to foster meaningful and consistent connections between community partners and students over the course of a semester. Since 2008, Badger Volunteers have provided 222,293 hours of service …
In an initiative to educate students and encourage early voting, UW–Madison is holding VoteFest, a weeklong series of events to engage students with resources about voting. VoteFest aims to empower students to become more civically educated with the hope that they will carry that habit with them after they graduate. In addition, a major goal …