U.W. Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson says the restructuring of the Stevens Point, Wausau, and Marshfield campuses has been going well; and that a ‘just released’ economic impact report highlights the university’s economic benefit to Central Wisconsin.
The company’s student-centered advising software, called Navigate Student Success Collaborative, is part of the System-wide priorities for the educational pipeline of Wisconsin. “360 Advising” is one priority that seeks to increase student capacity and retention, as well as decrease graduation time and opportunity gaps.
Republican lawmakers on Tuesday accused Democratic Gov. Tony Evers of giving undocumented students more favorable treatment than military veterans in his proposed state budget. But as Republicans waged a campaign against the spending plan, Democrats argued the GOP opposition was based on a flawed comparison.
The federal case announced this week charging parents with buying their kids admission to top universities is shining a light on the admissions process. Every year, U.S. colleges and universities are tasked with sorting through a mountain of applications. Some of the most selective schools, like Harvard, can get upwards of 40,000. So how do officials know if the information in all of that paperwork is truthful?
An associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison is speaking out after Secretary of Education Betsy Devos says the department is looking into a recent college bribery scandal that violated federal education rules.
Associated Students of Madison passed one round of voting on a bylaw change that would create a new position to coordinate on-campus efforts encouraging students to vote.
After a 2018 survey demonstrated alcohol amplifies racial tensions for students of color, Associated Students of Madison’s Student Council met with the study’s authors to learn more about their findings Wednesday night.
As Wisconsin experiences a shortage in mental health services, the number of suicides has spiked, influencing advocates and leaders to raise their voices together in hopes of reducing the rate and improving access to care.
A mix of surveillance video from Witte Hall and body camera footage from UW-Madison Police show the tense moments between officers and a student who they say was drunk.
MADISON, Wis. – Among other positive changes from the election of a new governor in Wisconsin is the return of respect for state employees and their contributions to the quality of life that state government supports for all citizens.
Noted: This restoration was backed in part by the University of Wisconsin, where Keene taught until her death at 52. It’s a fitting tribute to a filmmaker gone far too soon.
Noted: As Robert Sanders, an anaesthetist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, puts it: “We’ve apparently ablated this period of time from that person’s experience.” (During the operation, the patient may also be given painkillers to ease their recovery when they wake up from surgery.)
More than a dozen former Badger football players worked out in front of scouts from all 32 NFL teams at Wisconsin Pro Day.
Before you can see the Badgers’ volleyball team bump, set and spike their way to victory, you have to make it through the front doors, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks those need a little work.
The senior last weekend became the sixth University of Wisconsin women’s hockey player to reach 200 points for her career. She’s one of an elite hat trick of players to score at least 20 goals in each of her four seasons with the Badgers.
If you attend any major on-campus event, you have likely seen a member of the university communications team taking photographs. What you may not have noticed was their center of focus was probably on the students of color attending the event.
Don’t let scandal surrounding college admissions distract from financial privilege inherent in college admissions process.
Noted: But, says climate scientist Jonathan Martin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “There isn’t a direct link between the slowly changing climate and this event.”
He joined the faculty of UW-Madison Department of Mathematics, where he became professor Emeritus in 2016. In addition to his significant research contributions in mathematical logic and recursion theory, and his graduate and undergraduate teaching, Terry served for a couple decades as associate dean for the Physical Sciences in the UW-Madison Graduate School.
Pauline is a People scholar with the UW-Madison People Program.
