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About

Through five academic programs, in partnership with hundreds of students and community agencies, and based on almost a century of experience, we strive to enhance human well-being and promote human rights and social and economic justice. It’s in our mission.

Land Acknowledgement

The University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, occupy ancestral Ho-Chunk land, a place their nation has called Teejop since time immemorial.

In an 1832 treaty, the Ho-Chunk were forced to cede this territory.

Decades of ethnic cleansing followed when both the federal and state government repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, sought to forcibly remove the Ho-Chunk from Wisconsin.

This history of colonization informs our shared future of collaboration and innovation.

Today, UW-Madison respects the inherent sovereignty of the Ho-Chunk Nation, along with the eleven other First Nations of Wisconsin.