UW Communications: Last year, after a video of a student making racist comments surfaced online, Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin tasked a campus ad hoc group with studying the Black experience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and recommending steps the campus community could take to positively influence that experience. The Ad Hoc Study Group on the Black Community Experience on the UW–Madison Campus, co-chaired by IDS Chair Dr. Angela Byars-Winston and the Reverend Dr. Alex Gee, has now completed its work.
The group’s wide-ranging recommendations, contained in its final report, include enhanced recruiting and retention strategies, the formation of advisory councils, more outreach to Black alumni, and increased support for the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History. Read full post