Category: Community

UniverCity Year seeks new local government partners

The 2022-2025 Request for Partnerships prioritizes community projects that aim to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Changing climate prompts Wisconsin communities to seek solutions

Several Wisconsin communities partnering with UniverCity Year are seeking expertise on projects related to climate change.

UniverCity Year sparks longterm changes in Green County

Submitted by Abigail Becker | Brodhead Free Press | March 30, 2022

As UW’s UniverCity Year partnership with Waunakee sunsets, projects abound

Waunakee Tribune | Roberta Baumann | March 26, 2022

UniverCity Year sparks long-term changes in Green County

Fresh perspectives from UW-Madison students working with Green County’s City of Brodhead through UniverCity Year helped create change in the community.

Columbia County working with UW program to help with local goals

Portage Daily Register | Jonathan Richie | March 10, 2022

Nelson Institute and Marathon County partner on UCY project assessing riparian and wetland resources

Wetlands and riparian land, or the area between land and a river, are essential resources that provide flood protection, erosion control, and a variety of other benefits.

Waunakee prioritizes diversity, mental health in UniverCity partnership

UW-Madison journalism students created campaigns for the Village of Waunakee with the goal of valuing diversity and normalizing mental health.

UW-Madison’s ‘UniverCity Alliance’ to partner with six Wisconsin communities in 2022

The Daily Cardinal | Noah Maze | February 23, 2022

UniverCity Year program to partner with six communities in 2022

UniverCity is working with the City of Stoughton, Outagamie, Columbia and Polk counties; Town of Germantown and a unique collaboration that includes the City of Sun Prairie, towns of Deerfield and Cottage Grove and the Friends of Koshkonong Creek.