Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin takes benefit of the proper time to take a selfie with the brand new college students. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
First 12 months undergraduate college students make their manner into the Chancellor’s Convocation at Kohl Middle on a ravishing day. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
The Chancellor’s Convocation was a well-liked draw on Tuesday. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
College students clap together with the UW Marching Band. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
Members of the UW Marching Band play in the course of the Chancellor’s Convocation. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
Chancellor Mnookin informed the scholars to be curious after they face new concepts. Picture by: Bryce Richter
They sang “Varsity” and cheered on the UW Marching Band. They discovered about campus traditions — and find out how to get essentially the most out of their College of Wisconsin–Madison expertise.
For hundreds of freshmen and switch college students, New Scholar Convocation on the Kohl Middle Tuesday served as their formal welcome to the Badger Universe and the beginning of their educational careers. (Lessons start Wednesday.)
Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin introduced that the freshman class is predicted to have about 8,500 college students this fall. (Ultimate numbers arrive after an official census on the tenth day of lessons.) One other 1,400 switch college students are new to campus this semester.
“We chosen every of you from an avalanche — perhaps higher, a tsunami! — of greater than 70,000 candidates, which is a brand new report for us,” Mnookin informed the scholars. “You are actually a part of some of the achieved and aggressive lessons in our 176-year historical past.”
Freshman Justin Russell was among the many college students within the viewers. He’s Madison’s 2024-25 Youth Poet Laureate and an elementary training main. He hopes to show center faculty at some point.
“My academics actually modified the trajectory of my life,” mentioned Russell, a First Wave Scholar and a recipient of Bucky’s Pell Pathway. “They helped make me who I’m at present. I wish to make a distinction like that in another person’s life.”
Additionally within the scholar crowd: Angeline Morgado, who represented her residence nation of Chile on the worldwide UNESCO Youth Discussion board. And Jaden Eikermann Gregorchuk, who simply competed within the males’s diving competitors on the Summer season Olympics (and can now be on the UW swimming & diving workforce).
From the stage, audio system supplied a number of useful recommendation to the brand new college students, together with the next:
Provost Charles Lee Isbell Jr. Picture: Althea Dotzour
- Provost Charles Isbell: “Possibly you already know what you’re going to main in, and perhaps you don’t — both one is OK. One of many great issues about UW–Madison is that there are such a lot of alternatives to discover. With greater than 230 majors and certificates to select from, you’ll discover the course of examine that matches your passions and your targets.”
Vice Chancellor for Scholar Affairs Lori Reesor Picture: Althea Dotzour
- Vice Chancellor for Scholar Affairs Lori Reesor: “Once you get to your first lessons this week, introduce your self to the particular person subsequent to you. Be curious. Even if you happen to don’t turn into pals, all of us admire feeling seen, and doesn’t it really feel good when somebody says howdy? Can it really feel awkward? Completely. Embrace the awkward! Get snug with being you.”
Vice Chancellor for Inclusive Excellence LaVar J. Charleston Picture: Althea Dotzour
- Vice Chancellor for Inclusive Excellence LaVar Charleston: “As a proud two-time graduate of this establishment, I can confidently say, step out of your consolation zone. That’s certainly the place magic occurs. That is the suitable place and the suitable time to uncover your strengths, to be taught invaluable classes, and to unleash unbelievable potential you by no means realized that you just had.”
Scholar speaker Amanjot Kaur Picture: Althea Dotzour
- Scholar speaker Amanjot Kaur: “See your fears as alternatives to push your self and to find one thing new. See your issues as catalysts to take motion.”
Chancellor Mnookin informed college students they’ll discover many points and concepts throughout many educational fields — some they’ll agree with and a few they may disagree with strongly.
“And if you encounter new concepts, whether or not they appear ‘proper on’ to you or downright misguided and unsuitable, both manner, I hope you carry curiosity, compassion, and demanding pondering to these encounters,” she mentioned.
As they exited the Kohl Middle, college students obtained a free copy of this 12 months’s Go Huge Learn choice, “Sitting Fairly: The View from My Peculiar Resilient Disabled Physique” by Rebekah Taussig. In addition they obtained a free poster of the big human “W” they made collectively at Camp Randall Stadium on Thursday.
Chancellor Mnookin palms out copies of the 2024 Go Huge Learn e-book “Sitting Fairly.” Picture by: Althea Dotzour
First-year undergraduate college students have been desirous to seize copies of the Go Huge Learn e-book, “Sitting Fairly.” Picture by: Bryce Richter
A sequence of occasions on campus will present possibilities to debate the Go Huge Learn e-book, “Sitting Fairly.” Picture by: Bryce Richter
Simply previous to Convocation, college students loved a free lunch. Afterward — ice cream at Alumni Park!
New Scholar Convocation is a part of Wisconsin Welcome and hosted by Chancellor Mnookin and the Workplace of Scholar Transition and Household Engagement.
New college students cool off with ice cream whereas overlooking Lake Mendota on Alumni Park’s Progress Level. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
New college students join in a wide range of methods – this group met by the Sullivan Residence Corridor, the Scholar Orientation, Advising, and Registration (SOAR), and the College of Engineering welcome at present. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
New college students decide up ice cream and settle in for his or her deal with. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
Studying to reap the benefits of free Babcock Dairy ice cream is a key a part of turning into a Badger. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
Shengdong Yao, Phoebee Yuan, and Yang Li take pleasure in their ice cream. Picture by: Althea Dotzour
