Articles by Patricia McKnight

Short documentary about a group of friends in Thailand for Spring Break during the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

While walking across campus her freshman year, Tanasia Shaw said she didn’t see a lot of students who looked like her and saw even fewer black professors on UWM’s campus. It was clear to her that UWM lacks black students and black academic faculty members. After seeking out other black students and guidance at the […]

The season of giving is upon us and when word got out that the Rescue Gang dog shelter was having a holiday open house, dozens of people filed into the shelter with donations. The shelter, which is usually closed to public, opened its doors to invite the public to bring in the holiday season with […]

UWM hosted a nonprofit career fair for organizations hoping to recruit students looking to make a difference.

Student enrollment and birth rates are decreasing, student loans are increasing, and UW-Milwaukee is losing seniors and transfer students. These factors are prompting adjustments of how UWM officials discuss retention efforts and their planning for a successful future. UWM’s chancellor Mark Mone brought in a hand-picked team to brainstorm ideas of how to combat retention […]

As Marlon Anderson prepares to head back to the Madison School District for work, his initial firing should be an example of how the Madison zero-tolerance policy against racial slurs in teaching environments should be considered within the right context. We believe that Anderson should have never been fired for using the ‘N-word’ as a […]

Samin Nosrat, chef, author and creator of Netflix series Salt Fat Acid Heat, originally came to UWM’s campus to talk about her cookbook and show, but the conversation took a turn when she expressed her hardships as a woman of color in a white-male dominated industry.  Nosrat’s career began while studying English at the University of […]

This year on UWM’s campus, I’ve noticed a shift. There’s been an increase in mental health campaigning posters. Which I thought was odd, because for the past three years I’ve seen very few, and those had just been mentioning the Norris Health Center and not much else.  This is my fourth year at UWM, and […]