The University of Wisconsin System will still launch its Wisconsin Tuition Promise this fall, using $13.8 million it has on hand to fund the program for low-income students.
A symposium on diversity, equity and inclusion programming hosted by the Medical College of Wisconsin and featuring speakers including U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has been moved off campus due to “disruptive conditions,” campus officials said Tuesday.
Friday’s ceremony will award all doctoral, MFA and medical professional student’s degrees at 5:30 p.m. at the Kohl Center. Saturday’s ceremony will include all undergraduate degrees, law and master’s degree students at Camp Randall, beginning at noon. Nearly 8,000 students have decided they plan to participate in one of these commencement ceremonies.
These changes would cut back on delays and roadblocks that drive up prices, said Kurt Paulsen, professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Housing dies a death of a thousand cuts because every change, every delay, just adds costs,” Paulsen said.
Unfortunately, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, decided last week to declare war on these programs. Vos’s timing could not have been worse, and his thinking could not have been more wrongheaded.
University of Wisconsin athletic department officials were reminded recently of the importance of educating student-athletes on the risks of violating NCAA rules by gambling on sports.
Investigations are ongoing at Iowa and Iowa State. More than two dozen athletes across five sports at Iowa are being investigated and more than a dozen across three sports at Iowa State.
Guest column by Anthony Hernandez, a teaching faculty in educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the Scholar Strategy Network.
