Connecting Campus and Community through Community-based Service, Learning, and Research
The Wisconsin Idea is the driving mission to ensure that the education and research at UW–Madison are used to benefit communities beyond our campus borders. Wisconsin Idea Fellowships (WIF) allow undergraduate students to solve a challenge identified with a local or global community partner with the Wisconsin Idea in mind. Fellowships are awarded to semester-long …
The Morgridge Center for Public Service released its 2017-18 annual report today. The report highlights the Center’s activities over the past year and its efforts to continue to live out its mission of building a thriving democratic society by connecting campus with community through service, community-based learning and research. We are proud of our efforts, …
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 2018-19 Wisconsin Idea Fellowships have been awarded to nine outstanding undergraduate projects at home and across the globe. The projects, which are all rooted in the concept of addressing needs identified by community partners, range in topic from food insecurity, the disparity in education, addressing ecosystem issues and more. A total of 11 UW–Madison …
When Michelle Tong reflects back on volunteering in Madison, she is reminded of one thing – the Bayview Foundation. Located a few blocks away from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Bayview Foundation provides educational opportunities, quality housing, and access to social services and cultural programming for low-income families. In addition, Bayview is home to many …
The Wisconsin Idea Fellowship (WIF) gives UW–Madison students opportunities to engage with and serve Madison communities beyond campus borders. Eva the Engineer: Young Girls at the intersection of Engineering and Sustainability, a current 2017-2018 WIF project, is doing just that by exposing middle school-aged girls to all of the possibilities that lie within the field …
Working in the nonprofit sector was never a place where Mallory Swenson could see herself after college. For Swenson, she wanted to focus on nutritional science and learn more about the scientific research behind public health. However, during her freshman and sophomore year, she found herself taking classes and attending campus-wide events that would result …
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 …
For recent UW–Madison graduate Maria Castillo, finding the intersection between gender inequality and environmental sustainability was the key to helping solve a complicated community problem across the world. During a study abroad with Semester at Sea in 2015, Castillo teamed up with two other students, Nicol Chinchilla and Sasha Drumm, to participate in the Resolution …
Community partnerships are a lot like community gardens. Both require thoughtful care, communication and sustainability. For UW–Madison seniors, Helena Record and Jacquelyn Laitsch, they are one in the same; a combination that also requires cows. Four to be exact. When a Ugandan village found the soil in a local community garden lacked proper nutrients, they …