In response to a now-deleted video of a racist rant posted by an alleged UW-Madison student, the university condemned the “deeply harmful” content but said it can’t discipline students or employees for legally protected speech on their social media accounts.
Interview with Adam D’Angelo, a Ph.D student at UW-Madison, and Scott Craven, emeritus UW-Extension Wildlife Ecologist.
Technological changes and attacks on media have eroded public trust in journalism and the news media. Sue Robinson, a UW-Madison journalism professor, joins us to share her new book on how journalists can better engage their communities and build trust with their audiences.
Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday tapped two new members to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents — a former Kenosha County executive and a UW-Green Bay student.
Joining the board will be former Kenosha County Executive and former state Rep. Jim Kreuser, who will fill former Regent Scott Beightol’s seat; UW-Green Bay mathematics and First Nations student Evan Brenkus, who will get a two-year, traditional student seat; and Joan Prince, a former honorary U.N. ambassador and UW-Milwaukee vice chancellor of global inclusion and engagement, who was appointed to fulfill former Regent Tracey Klein’s term.
Jim Kreuser and Evan Brenkus are set to fill two vacancies that were created by outgoing regents on Monday. Joan Prince was reappointed after taking over for Tracey Klein in February.
The state’s top Republican wants to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion offices at public universities and hinted at potential budget cuts if the University of Wisconsin System fails to make a good-faith effort on his request.
James Kreuser and Evan Brenkus will fill in seats formerly held by Regents Scott Beightol and Brianna Tucker while Regent Joan Prince was reappointed.
Black student leaders at UW-Madison are speaking out after a video began circulating online this week depicting a white student using racist slurs. The video has also gotten the attention of university leaders, who have called the post “deeply harmful and offensive.”
Freshman Maya Dettwiler has taken to on her Instagram account to talk about the harm this language has caused on campus and in the surrounding area. “I was pretty disgusted by some of the things that were said,” Dettwiler expressed.
Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are facing backlash and pressure from student organizations after the university appeared to take no action toward a white student who posted a racist video to social media.
“I wish that the university would do more to protect students like myself and other trans students,” Simmons-Uvin said.
Written by Allie Boldt, Legal Research Director for the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Back in 2015, Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker thought to burnish his culture warrior cred in advance of a bid for the presidency by taking arms against the University of Wisconsin. Walker cut the state university’s budget. His hand-picked board of regents gutted tenure protections for its faculty.
A former Wisconsin football player will be sentenced Wednesday after being convicted in a double homicide earlier this year.
Madison Police Department Captain Michael Hanson held press conference on Monday to address concerns about the annual Mifflin Street Block Party and shared plans to potentially eliminate the event.
Noted: Directed and developed by Rachel Chavkin, the musical “Hadestown” has two important Wisconsin connections. University of Wisconsin alum André De Shields won a Tony for originating the show-stopping role of Hermes on Broadway. And in Mitchell’s 2010 concept album version of “Hadestown,” Orpheus was sung by Justin Vernon, aka Mr. Bon Iver.
Quoted: “I feel like we hear about new places that have PFAS every day,” said Christy Remucal, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of engineering who studies the chemicals and did not participate in the study.
J.J. Watt and Kealia Watt are getting further into the soccer business, and they’re not the first Wisconsin-connected athletes to take that particular jump.
The $40,000 bonus that would have been paid to former Badgers football coach Paul Chryst for a seven-win season was listed as vacated in the table listing the amounts.
Achange to the University of Wisconsin athletic department’s discipline policy for athletes last June added an eighth reason for an automatic suspension and inquiry.
The crowd sheltered by a tent overlooking a UW-Madison construction site included some of computing’s more familiar names.
Yet, not unlike Ron DeSantis and Disney, a cluster of outspoken Republican legislators continue to use the UW System — UW-Madison in particular — as a whipping boy. They are led by state Sen. Steve Nass of Whitewater, who uses his post as chair or the Senate’s Education Committee as a bully pulpit to keep threats of funding cuts and faculty and student discipline hanging ominously in the air.
We talk about why First Republic Bank was seized by regulators, whether we’re in the middle of a larger banking crisis, and what individuals should know going forward. Interview with J. Michael Collins, associate professor of public affairs and consumer science at UW-Madison, where he directs the Center for Financial Security.
Michael Childers from the Department of Labor Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison joins Live at Four to discuss the writers’ strike that could impact your favorite shows.
He taught Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison for over 40 years and founded their Computer Aided Engineering Center (CAE). His teaching and research specialties were geometric modeling and computer-aided design; including the kinematics, dynamics, and simulation of articulated rigid-body mechanical systems.
