Tuition for graduate students and out-of-state undergrads at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is headed up again under a plan the UW System Board of Regents approved Friday.
UW–Madison freshman Max Bobholz started Angels at Bat, a nonprofit that collects and distributes baseball equipment for children in rural Kenya.
Nearly a quarter of UW-Extension faculty left in the 2018 fiscal year, the highest rate among all campuses or divisions within the University of Wisconsin System, according to an annual faculty turnover report presented Friday to the UW Board of Regents.
Noted: Between 2000 and 2013, more than three-quarters of all buildings destroyed by fire in California were in the state’s WUI, and more were destroyed there than in all the WUI areas across the rest of the continental U.S. combined, according to a recent study led by Anu Kramer, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We are not changing our building patterns to become more fire resilient if we just put houses in the exact same places,” said Volker Radeloff, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the lead author of the study.
Noted: Late last week I spoke to two of our state’s most knowledgeable and respected wildlife and natural resources educators – Christine Thomas, dean of the UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources, and Scott Craven, professor emeritus and former head of the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology – about prospects for ruffed grouse research. Both agreed there was a strong need.
A member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents who often voted alone or in the minority on controversial political issues arrived at Thursday’s meeting on the UW-La Crosse campus as the guy everyone wanted to embrace.
The chancellor who hosted the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on his campus this week has been denied a $25,600 performance raise after his reprimand for inviting a porn star to speak to students during free speech week a month ago.
University of Wisconsin System schools made their pitch to the Board of Regents this week at the UW-La Crosse. One topic discussed, focuses on more money in return for increased emphasis on helping students better prepare for successful careers in high demand fields.
Tuition for 2019-20 academic year set to increase $810, $828 in academic year 2020-21.
The Board of Regents approved lucrative raises for 10 of the 13 chancellors during a closed meeting Thursday at UW-La Crosse, saying the chancellors’ salaries must remain competitive to ensure quality leaders stay in their jobs.
The University of Wisconsin System’s governing board behind closed doors denied its longest-serving chancellor a performance raise, an action UW System President Ray Cross already warned of last month following UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow’s decision to invite a porn star to speak on campus.
The Evers standard was particularly notable last Thursday, when the state superintendent of public instruction attended his last meeting as a member of the UW Board of Regents. Gracious and good-humored, Evers acknowledged that he had often disagreed with outgoing Gov. Scott Walker’s appointees to the board and added “there’s nothing wrong with that in a democracy.”
The UW Board of Regents got an update on a plan that would cut some majors at UW-Stevens Point as the school wrestles with an $8-million budget shortfall. UWSP Chancellor Bernie Patterson and Provost Greg Summers met with the Regents’ Education Committee on Thursday in La Crosse.
Don Stanley started teaching a course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about podcasting, blogging and social media in 2008. That’s eons in social media years. It also dates back to a time when brands like Facebook and Twitter were more associated with fun and community than identity theft and fake news.
Members include Jonathan Scharrer, Restorative Justice Project, University of Wisconsin Law School.
A Madison man who slipped into a UW-Madison dormitory last year and groped two female students as they slept in their beds was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison.
Leaders of the newly created Wisconsin Dairy Task Force 2.0 are opening the doors of their next meeting to the public to hear their ideas on improving the state’s dairy industry. Chairman Dr. Mark Stephenson, who is a dairy policy expert with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the group will meet December 13 at UW-Oshkosh at 10:00 a.m.
While at student at UW-Madison, Meyer also was a member of the Association of Women in Agriculture. “In addition to the professional contacts I’ve made through my Association of Women in Agriculture sisters, some of my most treasured friendships have their root in the organization,” she said.
As farmers hustle to finish the harvest, there is no sign of a letup in the long-term slump in commodity prices that are now being fed by trade and tariff tensions. The result is “almost a perfect storm,” says Mark Hagedorn, a UW-Madison Division of Extension dairy/animal science agriculture educator in Eau Claire County.
The session — involving Richard Russell, 74, of Madison, who works as a mock patient to help young doctors learn — is part of a growing effort at UW-Madison and around the state to better prepare health care providers to serve an aging population.
Noted: Article co-written by Anita Mukherjee of the Wisconsin School of Business.
One hundred and fifteen people die each day due to an opioid overdose in the United States. Policymakers have tried many approaches to reduce this mortality rate, and researchers have been studying their effects. This post summarizes recent research on how to reduce opioid abuse and opioid-related mortality. What have we learned so far?
The Friends of UW Health’s Love Lights event on Saturday helped people who have lost loved ones over the past year cope with the difficulties of the holidays.
Eleven patients at UW Hospital have developed Legionnaires’ disease, apparently from the hospital’s hot water system, and four of them remain in the hospital, officials said Friday.
For about an hour, it appeared the Bucks would be acquiring former University of Wisconsin star Sam Dekker in a trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And then, it was reported that the Washington Wizards would be getting Dekker in a three-team trade.
The author, Evan Polman, an assistant professor of marketing at the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, cites a paper he co-wrote about the different ways people make decisions for themselves and for others.
Quoted: Their understanding of who counts, and who ought to count, is tied to an urban and rural divide that encompasses divisions along race, economic class, education, and ideology. In The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness and the Rise of Scott Walker, Katherine Cramer, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, shows how the state’s politics have been shaped by a rural sense of “distributive injustice—a sense that rural folks don’t get their fair share.”
Quoted: Howard Schweber, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Republicans “seem to be under the impression that separation of powers refers to parties rather than branches of government.”
Quoted: In total, nearly 300,000 union members are either drawing benefits from the Cental States fund or are qualified to do so in the future, Gordon Enderle, an actuary at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, said. He added that another 123,000 are qualified for future pensions, but only 62,000 Teamsters are currently contributing to the fund through their employers.
“Everyone who’s in Central States’ Union is affected by it, in my opinion,” Enderle said.
NOTED: Howard Schweber is a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He says Republicans seem to believe that separation of powers refers to parties rather than branches of government.
Noted: Why Hunt? A Guide for Lovers of Nature, Local Food and Outdoor Recreation was published earlier this year by The Aldo Leopold Foundation. Aldo Leopold, the former University of Wisconsin professor, author of Sand County Almanac and considered by many as the founder of the modern conservation movement, was an avid hunter.
