The University of Wisconsin system board is receiving proposals this week designed to avoid the long-standing practice in higher education of “passing the harasser,” in which employees known to harass others are encouraged to take jobs at other institutions.
The University of Wisconsin System will require the documentation of sexual harassment allegations and investigations in personnel files as soon as January 2019, according to a policy draft that will be presented to the UW Board of Regents later this week.
University of Wisconsin System officials are preparing to present a draft policy on employee sexual misconduct to the regents. The Board of Regents in June mandated employee personnel files include documentation of sexual misconduct allegations or investigations.
State lawmakers are clashing in the wake of the new University of Wisconsin System budget proposal, disagreeing over the fundamental role of the university system.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Lucidity Institute in Hawaii have figured out a more consistent way to create a lucid dreaming state, and it involves the use of drugs normally used to treat Alzheimers.
In an effort to avoid another instance of sexual misconduct, schools within the UW System could soon have stricter rules about what goes in to an employee’s personnel files.
University of Wisconsin System officials are preparing to present a draft policy on employee sexual misconduct to regents.
Talia Trackim loves Thursdays. It’s the day when the Syracuse University dining hall she frequents serves chicken tenders with macaroni and cheese.
MADISON, Wis. – A portion of Lakeshore Path has been shut down on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus following a record-breaking rainfall in western Dane County.
University of Wisconsin officials are attempting to gather more information regarding the alleged actions of wide receivers Quintez Cephus and Danny Davis.
Eau Claire County’s UW-Extension says the purchase may help Wisconsin milk producers, who have been struggling with low prices and recent tariffs from export markets like Mexico and China, get back on their feet.
Also last month, chancellors from UW-Madison and five other UW campuses asked the insurance board to reconsider the exemption, saying in a letter that the lack of coverage “jeopardizes our ability to attract top academic and research talent and puts us at a serious disadvantage retaining our LGBTQ employees.”
Lawyers for UW-Madison wide receiver Quintez Cephus wrote in court filings Tuesday they believe prosecutors have evidence showing two women who said Cephus sexually assaulted them in April were not impaired by alcohol as the women have told police.
In the next few years, some of the most prominent University of Wisconsin sports facilities could be getting face-lifts, with a wide spectrum of reasons.
In recent days, we learned that UW-Madison scientists in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, along with their colleagues at the University of California, Davis and Mars Inc., discovered indigenous varieties of corn capable of cooperating with bacteria to fix up to 80% of the nitrogen that the crop needs.
Quoted: “I think it’s a symptom of the legislative process becoming less participatory,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Elections Research Center. “We see more examples … of bills being sprung very quickly without members knowing they’re coming, without the public knowing, and hearings being announced very quickly without lots of notice.”
Noted: With a surplus of milk available and more competition on the global market, Wisconsin farmers no longer have the option to sell more milk in order to compensate for low prices. That’s part of the reason farmers are starting to look for other ways to protect their business, said Brian Gould, professor of agribusiness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
