Connecting Campus and Community through Community-based Service, Learning, and Research
This year, the Morgridge Center for Public Service is forming new partnerships with 14 of those RSOs in a new initiative to better support and connect with student organizations involved in community-engaged work.
Eleven faculty and instructors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been named “Morgridge Fellows” in a professional development program of the Morgridge Center for Public Service.
The Badger Volunteers Media Committee released a special edition yearbook to commemorate the program's history. The publication features Badger Volunteers through the years, program alumni, community partners and more.
This year, we celebrated our fifth annual Be the Change Bash in Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons. Our thanks goes out to all who joined in celebrating the incredible work that has been done throughout the year.
“The biggest thing is that you're nobody’s savior,” Baldridge says. “It was really getting them to burn their superhero capes and recognize that those desires are rooted in whiteness and white supremacy.”
These 12 students and faculty are proof that that the Wisconsin Idea is a living, serving idea. This year’s Wisconsin Without Borders awards honor these students and faculty for their community-engaged work at home and across the world.
During a meeting, students will sit down with Peer Advisors Jaya Monte or Danielle Wendricks who will take them through a list of current community engagement opportunities.
Looking for an on-campus, paid internship starting next fall? The Morgridge Center for Public Service is hiring undergraduate student interns for the 2019-20 academic year.
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 …
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 …