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September 28, 2023

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Over 300 colleges agree to be more transparent about financial aid process

Wisconsin Public Radio

359 institutions, including UW-Madison, UW-Madison, UW-Green Bay and UW-River Falls, have agreed to standardize financial aid offers to undergraduates, a step towards transparency in a process that is often opaque and confusing for students. Karla Weber, communications manager for the Office of Student Financial Aid at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains.

Minnesota university administrator to lead UW-Parkside as chancellor

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

An administrator from a Minnesota university will take charge of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, officials announced Tuesday.

Lynn Akey has served as vice president for student success, analytics and integrated planning at Minnesota State University, Mankato since 2019. The UW Board of Regents unanimously approved her hire in a closed-door meeting Tuesday.

Campus life

Wisconsin to get even cheesier this weekend

Wisconsin State Journal

The festival will include 25 cheese companies in the state and involvement from local chefs, authors, brewers, distillers, sommeliers and chocolate makers. One event teaches how to create a cheese board, another focuses on cooking while others offer up instruction on how to pair cheese with wine, chocolate, beer or bourbon. One event is a mini course in cheese science at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison and includes a luncheon with certified Master Cheesemakers.

State news

Wisconsin may get fairer state legislative maps. But the congressional districts will likely remain GOP-friendly.

The Badger Project

“Democrats don’t have much to gain within the state by redrawing the congressional districts,” Barry Burden, a political science professor at UW-Madison and director of the school’s Elections Research Center, wrote in an email. “Doing that would, at most, tilt one or two more of the eight districts in the Democratic direction.”

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Athletics

Wisconsin’s football coaching change busts athletics’ 2022-23 budget

Wisconsin State Journal

Wisconsin spent more than $167 million in 2022-23, according to unaudited figures presented Wednesday at an Athletic Board committee meeting.

That’s 13% over the $148 million that was budgeted, and senior associate athletic director Adam Barnes attributed most of it to the move from Paul Chryst to Luke Fickell in football.

Opinion

Guest column: The horrific mundanity of sexual violence

Daily Cardinal

When the forefront response to a student being beaten into a coma is to state that her situation is some sort of anomaly to campus living, it becomes crucial for us as students to look back and understand these statistics of abuse to be a result of Madison-specific institutional enabling.

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Obituaries

Richard Davis obituary

The Guardian

In 1977, however, a call came that transformed the second half of Davis’s life. The University of Wisconsin in Madison wanted a bass teacher, and he took the post, not just because the examples of his childhood tutor Walter Dyett, and of Martin Luther King Jr, had inspired a love of teaching in him, but because he was ready to ease the pressures of being a freelance musician.

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