On the same day Gov. Tony Evers gave the board overseeing Wisconsin’s public universities something it had long wished for — the power to increase in-state undergraduate tuition — the UW Board of Regents decided not to use it.
he group who will find the next University of Wisconsin System president is much larger and more diverse than the previous search committee that led a failed search last year, in part, because of the committee’s make-up.
The Sunset Lounge & Outdoor Restaurant is the Memorial Union’s first full-service restaurant.
Changes to the budget made by Republicans include an increase to school spending that’s less than 10% of what Evers requested, a reduction in borrowing for road and infrastructure projects and an end to the University of Wisconsin System’s eight-year-old tuition freeze.
Dr. Patricia Téllez-Girón—a UW Health doctor and associate professor of family medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health—takes care of patients at the Wingra Family Medical Center. In her free time, Dr. Téllez-Girón serves as co-chair of the Latino Health Council, helping her community get vaccinated against COVID-19.
“We started hearing a lot in the media about ’oh the minority populations, they are not going to want it. There is gonna be a lot of hesitancy,’” UW Health Primary Care Provider Dr. Patricia Téllez-Girón said. “Particularly here in Dane County we started thinking, huh, I don’t think that is going to be the case with our population.”
Dane County has the strongest COVID-19 vaccination rate in Wisconsin for the Latinx community, and a UW Health physician has had a big hand in that effort.
Barry Alvarez was due for payouts through the start of 2022 as part of an agreement tied to his job as University of Wisconsin athletic director.He’s still going to cash in despite his retirement from the position at the end of June.
For Schmidt, it was the service opportunities that interested her. Throughout her experience, Schmidt would volunteer for the American Diabetes Association’s Wisconsin’s office for eight years and after her graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ADA offered her a full time position as their donations manager.
