Sixteen months after closing to comply with COVID-19 related public health restrictions and experiencing a related drop in business, the University Club’s board has voted to dissolve the club as an incorporated 501(c)(7) social organization and move to fully integrate the club into the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The board also has approved a proposal from the Wisconsin Union to assume management of dining, meeting, and event services in the facility with plans to reopen in fall 2021. Details of the Union plans to operate the club will be announced later this summer.
Lindsey Stoddard Cameron, president of the University Club Board, says the entire board is delighted that the club, founded in 1907, will remain part of the UW–Madison campus community. “We have worked diligently with university partners to explore best options for continuing traditions of the club,” Stoddard Cameron says. “We’re thrilled that the Wisconsin Union has stepped forward to operate the club and are enormously grateful that UW–Madison has continued the advanced planning study launched in March 2020, which will provide an excellent foundation for long-term plans.”
