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September 30, 2026

Higher Education/System

Wisconsin’s 2026 State of Education highlights funding needs, election impacts

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The Daily Cardinal

School can often be seen like a Shakespeare play. A comedy of errors, world defining events and the quest to discover your true identity all confined inside the walls of classrooms and lunchtime. It’s fitting then, that during Wisconsin’s annual State of Education address, among the many performances put on by students, high school seniors Lilly Goodwin and Charlie Holtman performed Shakespeare’s “12th Night,” a comedy of mistaken identities and love.

Crime and safety

Local sexual violence resource center responds to reports of assault on UW-Madison campus

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NBC 15

Two separate reports of alleged drugging and sexual assault are sparking concerns at UW-Madison.

The university said they received both reports Sunday.

Several on-campus resources are working to prevent similar incidents from happening, but there are also crisis resources available for survivors.

Dana Pellebon, executive director of RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center in Madison, said the responsibility to prevent sexual violence isn’t just on survivors, but the entire community.

UW-Madison students report being drugged, sexually assaulted at frat houses

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison students on Sunday, Sept. 27, reported they were drugged and sexually assaulted at off-campus fraternity houses.

The reports come less than a week after two UW-Madison students were arrested on allegations of hazing at an off-campus fraternity and amid a reopened investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house in October 2024.

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Fearing AI, young workers retrain for hands-on jobs

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The Washington Post

ChatGPT hit the internet in November 2022 during Keon Davis’ junior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He used it and grew overreliant, but it also worried him. Davis, who was studying marketing, soon watched it automate tasks he handled in a summer internship, like crafting outreach emails and doing consumer research.

Seeing how easily he might be replaced was one reason he changed direction a few months before graduating in May 2024. Instead of pursuing marketing jobs, he signed up for Teach for America. He’s in his third year in front of a third grade classroom at a charter school in New York City.