UW-Madison chancellor finalist Ann Cudd is troubled by the statistics that show a large swath of the public believe leading research universities are headed in the wrong direction. “Top research universities need to both ensure and better communicate that most of their students actually graduate on time and their return on investment is, financially and socially, very highly beneficial,” she said.
An investigation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers found when using video chat platforms, your microphone is still on when you’re muted.
A new study from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health found that over 60% of teens have a healthy relationship with technology. Researchers looked at almost 4,000 parent-teen pairs, observing digital media use and family dynamics.
High-stress work environment linked to negative mental, physical health outcomes, research aims to inform policy change.
Gov. Tony Evers appointed three new members to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents on Wednesday, replacing two former members of the board leadership who were appointed by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker and were in charge of the system’s failed search for a new president in 2020.
Dana Wachs, Jennifer Staton and Angela Adams will replace Michael Grebe, Andrew Petersen and Corey Saffold, whose terms ended on Sunday.
The new appointees are expected to fill the vacancies on May 1, 2022, when the three former regents’ terms expire. The announcement was made by Gov. Evers Wednesday.
Gov. Tony Evers appointed Dana Wachs, Jennifer Staton and Angela Adams to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents in place of the former appointees, whose terms ended Sunday.
Gov. Tony Evers has appointed three new members to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, bringing his number of picks to 11, compared to former Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s five.
Evers’ appointments include Eau Claire lawyer and former Democratic state Rep. Dana Wachs, UW-Parkside student Jennifer Staton and Angela Adams, the chief communications and diversity officer of Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago. Both Wachs and Adams have been appointed to seven-year terms for seats previously held by Regents appointed by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker, while Staton replaces a different Evers-appointed student on the board for a two-year term.
Jennifer Mnookin, dean of the UCLA School of Law, says the Wisconsin Idea can serve as a national and global model for public universities. One of five finalists for University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor, Mnookin said the university’s tenet of education extending beyond the classroom has even benefitted her own family.
The suicides of five NCAA student-athletes over the past two months have roiled the world of college sports and illuminated the growing mental health crisis among young adults in the U.S. today. Among those who died was Katie Meyer, 22, a star goalkeeper on Stanford’s soccer team who was just a few months away from graduation, Sarah Shulze, 21, a top runner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Lauren Bernett, 20, a celebrated softball player for James Madison University
Ann Cudd, a provost, senior vice-chancellor and professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, took to the stage Wednesday evening.
Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday at Memorial Union’s Great Hall to celebrate the 2022 graduates of the UW Odyssey Project. The program, founded in 2003, empowers low-income adults and their families to start earning college degrees.
The fundraiser started with a communal gathering, where residents sold an assortment of baked goods, pins, stickers and T-shirts to support those affected by the anticipated displacement. Current officers, residents and other speakers then described their experiences in the co-op, as well as their frustrations with UW-Madison’s promising words, but unfulfilled actions.
UW recognizes Ramadan as a religious observance and worked accordingly to support Muslim students and staff throughout the month, UW Interim Director of Media Relations Kelly Tyrrell said. To support Muslim students, Tyrell said UW has prayer spaces on campus and a Ramadan boxed meal service through UW Housing and Dining and posted a newsletter on creating inclusive workspaces well wishes on Instagram.
Cudd cites CRT, other free speech limitations as antithetical to UW’s mission, emphasizes research initiatives.
After working as a visiting professor for the past semester, Morgan Jerald will permanently join the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychology in fall of 2022, bringing her research on intersectionality and stereotypes with her.
By starting this project, UW joined a national network of about 175 other writing project sites — all of which are housed at universities, according to GMWP co-directors Bryn Orum and Mark Dziedzic.
Quoted: Jenny Higgins, a professor and director of the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says it’s more difficult to get an abortion in Wisconsin than it is in many other states.
“We have gone from a supportive state to a hostile state in a relatively short period of time,” she said.
It’s a gray and rainy Tuesday morning, and Dr. Michelle Buelow is with her patient Johnny at the Parkway Clinic of the Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers.
Despite the weather, Johnny, whom Buelow has been taking care of since 2018, is all smiles.
It’s just one of the reasons Buelow, a family medicine physician at the clinic, loves her work.
She was recently awarded the Max Fox Preceptor Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for her work. The award is given to a preceptor “whose effective service as a mentor and teacher has guided UW medical students,” according to a news release from the university.
The transfer agreement will facilitate transfers into a UW-Madison School of Nursing program called BSN@Home. Started in 1996, the program aims to address the shortage of bachelor-degree nurses in Wisconsin by providing a flexible part-time, online option for working nurses looking to expand opportunities in health care, officials said.
“It is conspiracist thinking,” Kenneth Mayer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Politifact.”They are interpreting data that confirms their pre-existing conclusions. It’s a zombie claim; no matter how many times you kill it, it keeps coming back.”
And not much beyond mass culling can be done to slow the spread once it starts. Adel Talaat, a professor of microbiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says we should improve disease surveillance and farm biosecurity to help prevent new outbreaks and slow the spread, but a vaccine that could reliably reduce transmission would go a long way.
Quoted: “This is a hugely important issue,” UW-Madison law professor David Schwartz said. “I would expect a preemptive lawsuit seeking a declaration clarifying the ban is still valid and enforceable. I think it will be a big mess.”
Three colleges that The Chronicle spoke with are in varying stages of adding technology to their prison-ed programs. The University of Central Florida ended its partnership last year with a controversial prison communications provider owned by Aventiv Technologies and plans to incorporate synchronous Zoom classes to reach more students. Washington University in St. Louis is about to pilot a learning-management system, or LMS, that two formerly incarcerated students helped develop. Another, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is tapping an existing open-source LMS that mimics Canvas, though its partner, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, intends to enter into contract with the ed-tech vendor Blackboard.
