Months After Controversy, UWM Still Lacks Official Transgender Locker Room Policy

As of today, while the University Recreation Locker Room policy draft is still being discussed, there is no policy for transgender students for the locker rooms at UW-Milwaukee’s Klotsche Center. Despite the ongoing debate over this draft, transgender students are able to use the locker rooms of their choice, but they first have to speak […]

Cream City Foundation Awards Ten UWM Students Scholarships

Jeb Ebben, a 34-year-old graduate student of UW-Milwauke, is one of many people working to help the LGBTQ+ community.  He is currently in the graduate Social Work program on the Mental and Behavioral Health track. Ebben said he is passionate about working with LGBTQ+ youth.  He said there is a lot of struggles in the […]

Art Is Beneficial, Not Just Beautiful, Says Solnit

Artist and activist David Solnit told UW-Milwaukee students that they can make a difference in the world through art as part of Artist Now!, the Peck School of the Arts’ lecture series.  Solnit is co-founder of Art Revolution, which promotes art for happiness, health and education.  Christina Luick reports.

UWM Official Warns Students Not to Sell Homework on Facebook

The pressures of finals this December earned some students a warning from the UW-Milwaukee dean of students when a group Facebook page for the freshman class suddenly became an impromptu forum for selling homework – especially math homework. The warning highlights how students are increasingly turning to social media to adapt to college life, and […]

Students Complain about “Artificially Intelligent” College Math Program

Since the beginning of this school year, freshmen have been complaining about the “artificially intelligent” college math program ALEKS, which, for the first year, is now used in most math classes at UW-Milwaukee. Earlier this fall, many students bombarded the UW-Milwaukee Class of 2018 Facebook page with statements that were along the lines of “I […]