Student of the University of Wisconsin Madison and the UW System, as a whole, have been ignited by the achievements of universities like The University of Missouri in creating a new era for diversity on campus. Since its inception the UW System has struggled to create safe, educational spaces for students of color and other marginalized students. Just this year on Halloween, as is typical throughout the UW System, students from UW-Stout dressed up in blackface, with no regard to the painful and degrading historical roots it has.

Supported by United Council, a statewide coalition of UW Students has formed, per their state-sanctioned right to organize and better the student experience as they see fit, to change the UW System for the better for students of color and, therein, all students. This coalition collected a list of demands from students and student organizations from 15 out of the 26 UW colleges and universities on policies and practices that need to be changed in order to make the 26 historically white colleges and universities truly multicultural.