CALS students have many opportunities to build their community and networks, such as through student organizations, peer advising and mentoring, and residential learning communities. Students also engage with faculty mentors, often for exploration of majors and career paths.
Student organizations provide a vehicle for students to gain leadership experience, develop professional skills, build on personal interests and find community. CALS sponsors more than 30 organizations that help students meet their professional and personal interests. There are also over 900 UW-recognized student organizations available to CALS students.
These Learning Communities are residential spaces that bring together faculty, staff and students around a specific focus and build community through seminars and events to help make a large university feel smaller and more intimate. CALS sponsors 3 Residential Learning Communities: WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), GreenHouse, and BioHouse. CALS students have the opportunity to live in these living, learning communities in addition to others offered across campus. There are also affinity communities intended to bring together students with shared backgrounds or interests/affinities without the academic elements of learning communities.
Did you know?
> 30
Number of CALS affiliated student organizations
3
Residential Learning Communities supported by CALS
Office of Academic Affairs
116 Agricultural Hall
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Office Hours: 7:45am – 4:30pm
For current & prospective student general inquiries:
Phone: 608.262.3003
Email: academicaffairs@cals.wisc.edu