Connecting Campus and Community through Community-based Service, Learning, and Research
On a warm August afternoon this summer, a group a nervously excited young writers took to a small stage at one of Wisconsin’s largest arts festival. Never mind that most of them had never performed their own work before, or that most had never been published just three months earlier. Some read fantastic tales of …
Local news station WISC-TV Channel 3 produced an editorial Oct. 22 lauding the Badger Volunteers program as “the Wisconsin Idea in action.” Editorial Director Neil Heinen delivered the 90-second editorial saying “There are a lot of contributions to our world for which the University of Wisconsin–Madison is responsible for that tend to get lost in the political …
Afterschool Expeditions, a program in which elementary and middle school students engage in structured, hands-on science activities at the Discovery Building, has become an integral part of the outreach programming produced by WARF and the Morgridge Institute for Research in partnership with Science Alliance and numerous UW–Madison groups. Now, with the help of the Morgridge Center …
Morgridge Center for Public Service Director and political science professor Kathy Cramer will deliver the inaugural talk of the new Crossroads of Ideas speaker series on Oct. 6. This public lecture series, held at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of most months at the Discovery Building, addresses challenging and engaging social science topics such as politics, …
Before they even left for their study abroad program in Ecuador last spring, UW–Madison students Brenna O’Halloran and Lauren Feierstein had already decided they wanted to stay for the summer as well. In a pre-study abroad meeting, Catherine Woodward, a faculty associate in the Nelson Institute as well as president of the Ceiba Foundation for …
Each year, tribal teens on the Bad River (Ojibwe) Reservation in northern Wisconsin learn digital storytelling skills from UW–Madison faculty and students. “Tribal Youth Media” is designed as a knowledge transfer by which UW–Madison students learn about Native American environmental health issues from Bad River elders and culture-keepers and, in turn, share technology skills with Bad …
Fall 2015 will see more UW–Madison students making a difference in their community through volunteering than ever before. Over 780 students registered for Badger Volunteers, UW–Madison’s largest student volunteer program, for the fall 2015 semester. This is the program’s largest-ever cohort. These volunteers will serve in teams of fellow students at the same community partner site …
Evan Heiderscheit had a busy summer. The UW–Madison junior was immersed in studying for the rigorous medical school admissions exams on top of holding down a job. But he also found the time to join not just one Badger Volunteer team, but an unprecedented four teams. “They just all really interested me, and I felt …
An ambitious education initiative in Madison is about to start its second year and will need the help of UW–Madison students in order for the program to reach its goal. Year after year, Algebra 1 proves to be one of the most difficult classes for area high school students. And passing algebra is the single …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has never shied away from being an international leader in community-university partnerships. A new landmark report on community-university research partnerships from the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) features a critical analysis of practices in the United States from two University of Wisconsin–Madison authors. Morgridge Center for Public Service …