Univercity Alliance

UniverCity Alliance (UCA) is the front door for local governments to partner with University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, staff, and students. Our hallmark program, UniverCity Year (UCY), connects UW-Madison courses with community-identified issues that need to be addressed. We also help build connections across the UW-Madison campus for those faculty and staff interested in working with local governments of all sizes, from urban to rural. UCA is a program of COWS, a national think-and-do tank that promotes high road solutions to challenges experienced in localities. These treat shared growth and opportunity, environmental sustainability, and resilient democratic institutions as necessary and achievable complements in human development. Based at the UW-Madison, COWS is nonpartisan but values-based. We seek a world of equal opportunity and security for all. UniverCity Alliance is a member of the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N), a national network of more than 30 educational institutions partnering with cities throughout the United States and world.