A bill that would renegotiate the Wisconsin-Minnesota tuition reciprocity agreement and allow University of Wisconsin System schools to retain more tuition dollars amid financial strain is again moving through the state legislature.
The University of Wisconsin System has hired a new chief diversity officer amid a Republican push to dismantle diversity programming on campuses and under threat of budget cuts.
According to Public History Project Director Kacie Lucchini Butcher, an initial center staff meeting was held on May 24 to discuss months of listening sessions across campus.
UW-Madison students may see small differences in service, but because the campus already gets high levels of service the impacts will be limited, officials said.
Dr. Dixon Kaufman says the center is one of six in the U.S. and the only one in the Midwest that actively does heart, kidney, liver, lung and pancreas transplants for adults and kids.
Children in need of heart transplants will now be able to receive them in Madison. UW Health’s Transplant Center just launched a new pediatric heart transplant program at American Family Children’s Hospital.
UW Hospital added metal detectors at its ER in August. UnityPoint Health-Meriter, Madison’s Veterans Hospital and Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin haven’t installed metal detectors at any locations and said they rely on other security measures.
New conference commissioner Tony Petitti announced the league’s new schedule system and unveiled home and away opponents for the 2024 and 2025 seasons on a Big Ten Network broadcast Thursday afternoon. The new model nixes the division setup the conference has had since 2011, and the top two teams from the new 16-team league will face off for the Big Ten title game at the conclusion of the regular season. The changes were brought about after last summer’s announcement that UCLA and Southern Cal would be joining the Big Ten starting next season.
Advice for taking the road less traveled.
My hope is that I can be an advocate for all Indigenous college students to receive the support they need to thrive in college and beyond.
-Gresham D. Collom is a research affiliate at University of Wisconsin at Madison, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an incoming assistant professor of higher education administration at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
I hope our Legislature revisits correcting this putting education where it belongs: ahead of sports.
The original pause to student loan payments originated from the early days of the pandemic, according to University of Wisconsin Madison professor Nick Hillman.
Mauk, a former Standards and Practices executive at Fox, says she spoke with Mary Huelsbeck, the archivist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (where Mauk completed her doctoral program) out of a desire to “prove that this is not the first time someone had spoken out and used their platform as a late-night television talk show host to do good political activation.” (Mauk’s husband, producer Hayden Mauk, used to work with Jimmy Kimmel.)
Author Hanna Halperin says her latest book, “I Could Live Here Forever,” set in Madison, “is a little bit of a love letter” to the city.
Halperin, who earned her Master’s in Fine Arts degree from UW-Madison, said she wrote the book during the pandemic.
