The City of Portage worked with UniverCity Alliance as part of a partnership with Columbia County from 2021-24.
Columbia County
UniverCity Year builds partnerships, ‘mutual trust’ across Wisconsin
UniverCity Year has partnered with 29 local governments and communities across Wisconsin. Its most recent cohort welcomed nine communities – a record for the program.
Engineering master’s student finds connections in UniverCity Alliance experiences
Moubarak Jeje said he realized the “power of local voices” through his UniverCity Alliance experiences.
UW–Madison student shares workforce recommendations with Portage City Council
Through Columbia County’s partnership with UniverCity year, UW–Madison student Alan Tipple researched strategies to recruit and retain new workers whose primary language is not English.
Graduate students share Rio EMS research during UW-Madison’s ‘Day at the Capitol’
UW-Madison Master of Public Health students partnered with Columbia County’s village of Rio through UniverCity Year.
Rio partnership ‘reignited passion for public health’
As a result of the UniverCity Year partnership, the village of Rio in Columbia County is working with the local high school to implement new EMS outreach programs.
Columbia County working with UW program to help with local goals
Portage Daily Register | Jonathan Richie | March 10, 2022
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.