Connecting Campus and Community through Community-based Service, Learning, and Research
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 …
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 …
Ten faculty and instructors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been named “Morgridge Fellows” in a new professional development program of the Morgridge Center for Public Service. The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship, defined as: teaching, research, and scholarly activities …
In 2008, the Morgridge Center for Public Service launched Badger Volunteers to foster civic engagement among students through volunteer work. Ten years later, past and current student and staff celebrate and share what makes this organization so special. “We’re so excited to look back on the last 10 years to see the great impact Badger Volunteers …
UW–Madison will be hosting its annual Fall Public Service Fair on Sept. 17 from 3 to 6 p.m. in Varsity Hall at Union South. Students from across campus are encouraged to attend and learn how to connect to community organizations. The Public Service Fair helps students explore and find volunteer opportunities, internships and jobs, with …
School is starting back in just over a month, and the vacant seats at the UW dining halls will soon be filled with new students eating dinner with their roommates, parents and new friends. They’ll talk about their new class schedules over sandwiches, pizza, and sushi and then make sure to grab ice cream on …
The Morgridge Center for Public Service is thrilled to announce a pilot program that will be launching in the fall to give faculty members and instructors an opportunity to further their own community-engaged research and teaching while supporting the public mission of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Faculty members, instructors, and staff can apply to be …
Joining a collection of nonprofits and community volunteers making change in the community, C.A.M.P. Bayview received one of the United Way of Dane County 2018 Community Volunteer Awards. Award recipients, of which there are four groups and seven individuals, receive $1,000 to support the volunteer service they do in the community. “Winning the award means …
The past three years of volunteering with Badger Volunteers (BV) has had a huge impact on my college experience and how I view my role not only on campus, but also in the Madison community at large. As a first-generation college student from a small rural area, starting my college journey at Madison was very …