This week, the final three candidates for the UW-Madison chancellor role are meeting with the campus community to share their visions and top priorities if selected to lead the university.
Rashid Bashir came to the U.S. from Pakistan when he was 15 with his older, teenage brother.
“My parents sent us here for higher education with just really money for one year and a return ticket,” he said.
hould the next UW-Madison chancellor be an internal or external hire?
That’s a question that’s seemingly been a topic of discussion in every UW-Madison chancellor search dating back to at least the 1970s.
A 1987 Wisconsin State Journal article about the selection of UW-Madison chancellor Donna Shalala quotes an unnamed UW Board of Regents member who questioned why fewer Wisconsin-grown candidates were being chosen.
In 1987, during the search for a successor to then-UW-Madison chancellor Irving Shain, a disgruntled member of the UW Board of Regents — which picks the chancellor — publicly complained about the applicant pool.
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson spoke to the University of Wisconsin community Monday night in an event hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom and the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.
Last spring, there was a confirmed case of measles in a UW-Madison student. UHS was able to successfully respond and continues to regularly monitor for the virus.
“Because vaccination rates aren’t the same as they were before, we’re starting to see the emergence of measles. We’re not excluded from that. The likelihood of having a measles case in our community is foreseeable,” Baggot said of the UW-Madison community.
Wisconsin men’s basketball legend Frank Kaminsky was announced as the keynote speaker for Winter 2026 Commencement, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Monday.
Kaminsky led the Badgers to Final Fours in 2014 and 2015 during his time with the Badgers. Wisconsin also won the Big Ten Tournament in 2015.
Badgers basketball legend Frank “The Tank” Kaminsky is returning to the Kohl Center.
Kaminsky is the UW-Madison’s Winter 2026 Commencement keynote speaker, the university announced Monday. He will address students at the ceremony on Dec. 13.
UW-Madison students graduating in December will get a sendoff from a Badger basketball legend.
Frank Kaminsky, who led the Badgers to back-to-back Final Fours in 2014 and 2015, will deliver the keynote address at Winter 2026 Commencement on Dec. 13, the university announced.
UW-Madison students graduating in December will get a sendoff from a Badger basketball legend.
Frank Kaminsky, who led the Badgers to back-to-back Final Fours in 2014 and 2015, will deliver the keynote address at Winter 2026 Commencement on Dec. 13, the university announced.
Former Wisconsin men’s basketball star Frank Kaminsky will return to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Dec. 13 as the keynote speaker for Winter 2026 Commencement.
Kaminsky led the Badgers to the NCAA Final Four in 2014 and the national championship game in 2015. That season, he earned the Naismith, Associated Press, Oscar Robertson and John R. Wooden national player of the year honors.
