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Through Union, We Gain Strength
This week marks the beginning of a new academic year together. While much has and will likely change, there’s still so much that hasn’t. We are still part of a campus community with incredible, dedicated students and campus colleagues with an unwavering commitment to the success of University of Wisconsin-Madison students. And we still have a wonderfully supportive family of members, whose kind words and understanding as we navigate uncertainty have meant so much to our team at the Wisconsin Union. No matter where each of us finds...
read moreStudent Committee Celebrates Community with Collaborative Summer Publication
Community has many definitions and is all of its definitions. It can be a geographic region, perhaps the place in which you were raised or the one that you choose for yourself. It can be a group with whom you share ideals. It can be many people sharing a mission or goal. The last is certainly true for the dedicated student leaders of the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Publications Committee, which came together despite the miles between them to create a summer issue dedicated to the study and celebration of “community.” When COVID-19 hit,...
read moreWhile We Were Closed: How the Union Continued Supporting the Campus Community
Though our doors to Memorial Union and Union South were closed to ‘business as usual’ operations in March, the Wisconsin Union team continued to support our community in the midst of these unprecedented times. In keeping with our history, Union South continued to support voting efforts during the pandemic, serving as a polling location for the April and August primaries. On April 7, more than 700 ballots were processed, 441 people voted in-person, and 20 voter IDS were issued by our Wiscard Office team at Union South. On each election...
read moreLeading, Learning, and Growing during a Fall like No Other
What does community look like when we can’t all gather in-person? How can leadership, learning and connectivity happen when our campus community resides across the world rather than on campus? These questions and others about how to support the campus community during the COVID-19 pandemic arose as student leaders of the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) began planning for fall 2020. What does community look like when we can’t all gather in-person? How can leadership, learning and connectivity happen when our campus community resides...
read moreA New Vibe on the Terrace: Our Pop Culture Campaign
You may have noticed a new vibe on the Terrace… one that pops. Our new pop culture-based Terrace messaging campaign highlights the excitement you feel at the Terrace with a new spin focusing on how to stay safe in light of COVID-19 at this space we all know and love. It all started when the Wisconsin Union Marketing team was tasked with coming up with a clever way to announce the Terrace summer reopening while educating our community about our new processes. That’s no small task. Wisconsin Union Marketing Specialist, Isabel Finn, began...
read moreAn At-Home Artistic Terrace Experience
Keep those Terrace summer vibes going at home with our new, free, downloadable Terrace-themed coloring pages! Created by Wisconsin Union artists, we’re releasing these right in time for National Coloring Book Day (Aug. 2)! How about taking your Terrace coloring to the Terrace? Want to learn a bit about our famous Terrace chairs, pictured in the pages? For a Terrace chair history, click here. Click the images to download the coloring pages, and print to enjoy. A Terrace view to remember. Sunsets over Lake Mendota have never looked better. Our...
read moreTerrace Season August Wallpapers
Terrace season is here, and we couldn’t be happier to share it with you! Below, you can find our wallpapers for your desktop and phone featuring a wavy, summery Memorial Union Terrace and UW-Madison-themed design. You might even be able to spot some of our own Wisconsin Union summer apparel in the water alongside Terrace chairs, flamingos, ducks, brats and burgers. Click each image below to download the wallpaper. We hope that you are staying safe while having some much deserved fun this summer, and what better place to spend a warm...
read moreBottling up Sustainability: Water Bottles and the Union
Wisconsin Union members and guests can now purchase a reusable, recyclable aluminum Pathwater water bottle with a student-created design that celebrates everything Union through Grubhub when purchasing Meals To-Go and when ordering food and beverages at the Memorial Union Terrace. These cost-effective, recyclable, made-in-the-USA bottles feature sustainably sourced, reverse osmosis-filtered water. In providing this custom, reusable bottle, we, the Wisconsin Union team, aim to reduce purchases of single-use, plastic bottles. (Will this...
read moreAn Inside Look into the Union’s Summer Apparel Line
The Wisconsin Union summer apparel line features cool retro throwback vibes that’ll have you groovin’ right into a summer frame of mind. We want to give you a behind the scenes look at how our in-house marketing team created this Terrace-themed, summer merch, which inspired the entire Summer 2020 Terrace look. In this story, we share a step-by-step look at how our summer apparel line came to life. Click here to check out the new pieces in our online Terrace store for yourself, including a limited-edition tee, only available while supplies...
read moreHoofers Adapt: What Accessibility Looks Like at the Wisconsin Union
Kathryn Bach and Megan Gray created Hoofers Adapt with one mission in mind: to advocate for access to nature and the outdoors. They lead Hoofers Adapt, a group of passionate advocates for accessibility and inclusion in outdoor pursuits at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW-Madison occupational therapy students Bach and Gray joined Hoofer Ambassadors in hopes of learning about inclusivity in outdoor programming. The Wisconsin Hoofers’ Hoofer Ambassadors is an interest group focused on including people in the outdoors who have been...
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