Connecting Campus and Community through Community-based Service, Learning, and Research
On Tuesday, Dec. 12, the Morgridge Center for Public Service’s Badger Volunteers (BV) program will celebrate the efforts of all its UW–Madison student volunteers who gave their time, energy, and support to the program. The celebration will take place at the School of Education from 4:45 p.m.-6:30 p.m. “The impact of the work we get …
On Tuesday, Dec. 5, students and community members will come together in the fight against sickle cell disease with a new leader at the front. Sickle Cell Blood Drives have existed in Madison for over five years, but the effort was recently reignited when the Wisconsin Black Student Union (WBSU) committed to being the campus …
The Morgridge Center for Public Service Student Interns and Professional Staff share warm reflections on what the center means to them.
This coming weekend, our neighbors at Alumni Park and the Wisconsin Alumni Association are hosting a celebration for alumni and students who have chosen a path of service. As one of the five pillars of the Wisconsin Idea, service and alumni that have contributed greatly to it are celebrated each and every day in the …
Every university resides in a community. Whether a small town or large city, universities are surrounded by homes, businesses, schools, community centers, entertainment venues — people’s lives. Collaborating with citizens in these spaces to help improve them has historically been one of the primary purposes of higher education in the United States, and yet is …
As one of the longest and richest traditions surrounding the University of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Idea, conveys a general principle: that education should influence the lives of people beyond classroom and campus boundaries. The Wisconsin Idea Fellowship (WIF) allows undergraduate students to do just that. Wisconsin Idea Fellowships are grant funding opportunities awarded annually through …
The Morgridge Center for Public Service hired three new professional staff this fall and within one month each of them have already began making an impact. As students returned to campus for another academic year, the Morgridge Center welcomed new staff members Amy Wilson, Reuben Sanon and Xai Xiong. Each one of these individuals received …
Whether a student knows just the type of volunteer opportunity they are interested in or they have no idea where to start, the Morgridge Center for Public Service student peer advisors are here to help. Our peer advisors Anisa Yudawanti and Sneha Patri meet one on one with students to help them discover how to …
UW–Madison’s Katherine Cramer received the Giovanni Sartori award for best book published in 2016 about or using qualitative research. The award is from the Qualitative and Multi Methods Research section of the American Political Science Association. Cramer wrote “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker” in 2016. The publication examines rural resentment …
A high school student in Dane County who passes Algebra 1 by the 10th grade is more likely to receive their high school diploma on time than a student who fails. Passing Algebra 1 has also been identified as a significant predictor for future academic success and is the focal point of the Achievement Connections …