This year, the share of Wisconsin residents enrolled as freshmen at UW-Madison declined to its lowest level in at least 25 years. UW-System President Ray Cross helps us make sense of the data. We also look at the system’s drop in statewide faculty and discuss its “All In Wisconsin” effort.
Noted: If Wisconsin were to legalize cannabis for medical uses, there would be a net $1.1 billion positive effect, bringing in additional fees and health benefits while potentially reducing opioid overdoses, addiction and traffic fatalities over five years, according to a cost-benefit analysis by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. If the state were to decriminalize cannabis, it would save an additional $30 million in decreased criminal justice costs.
Noted: Quite a few Wisconsin farmers, including Ferguson, are taking note of changing climate conditions — the same conditions that University of Wisconsin scientists are documenting and studying.
I was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969 when black students launched protests about a list of problems when it came to being African American and a UW student. The strike they called grew quickly to involve thousands of students and days of marches and rallies. The National Guard and police officers from around the state were called in.
The university demoted English professor Christine Roth in 2017 following an internal investigation prompted by a whistleblower complaint alleging a long pattern of plagiarism extending beyond her early career.
Homecoming. Oct. 10, 1998. Night game at Camp Randall stadium.
A Drew Brees-led Purdue team is driving toward the end zone when the quarter ends and the teams switch direction.
Sonny Perdue is scheduled to speak at a town hall session at the World Dairy Expo at the Alliant Energy Center on Tuesday morning. He plans to spend the rest of the day touring a Verona elementary school, a Fitchburg apple orchard, UW-Madison and a USDA cereal crops research lab in Madison.
Despite current programs, many students still feel financial burden paying for college.
Nearly 5,000 NetIDs stolen in 2018.
Committee did not include clips of minorities in video.
“We regret omitting those images and we recognized that, by doing so, we unintentionally caused hurt to members of our campus community. We are sorry that our video failed to show the full breadth of the university experience and made members of our community feel excluded,” the committee said.
Report also found an increase in liquor law violations, a decrease in drug violations.
He has undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chase Devens and David Smith are two University of Wisconsin seniors who befriended one another while studying abroad in Paris this past spring. Devens is a young filmmaker, and Smith is an aspiring electronic music artist.
For only the second time in the last five years, the University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team has appeared in the preseason national top 20.
Numerous universities around America have taken the step to sell alcohol at on-campus athletic events, and it appears as if soon, the University of Wisconsin will be doing the same.
UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez said he wouldn’t schedule any California teams after that state’s governor signed a new law Monday that will allow student athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness.
MADISON (CBS 58) – Some of Wisconsin’s top college athletics officials expressed concern following the signing of a California law that will allow college athletes in that state to be compensated.
University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez says he wouldn’t schedule the Badgers to play against teams from California after a controversial law was signed into effect.
University of Wisconsin Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez told Milwaukee’s 620 WTMJ today that UW would no longer schedule teams from California if that becomes the case.
Decrease in impact may be due to conservative estimates, decline in football attendance.
ynda Barry is the most democratic artist I’ve ever met, so I feel sure she’d bristle at being elevated to the status of genius. But now she’s stuck with the title. Last Wednesday, Barry became one of 25 winners of the MacArthur Fellows Program, worth $625,000 and popularly known as the “genius grant.” According to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Barry’s award is for “Inspiring creative engagement through original graphic works and a teaching practice centered on the role of image making in communication.”
Interview with Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics.
UW-Madison professor Christine Whelan explains how clothing rental companies are changing the way some people live.
