ARepublican-controlled legislative committee on Tuesday approved 6% pay raises over the next two years for most state employees, but withheld any increase for Universities of Wisconsin staff unless the UW system eliminates its diversity, equity and inclusion positions.
President Jay Rothman has ordered chancellors to cease in-person instruction at UW-Milwaukee at Washington County, located in West Bend, and UW Oshkosh at Fond du Lac. UW-Platteville’s Richland Center campus will also officially close after receiving a similar directive as the other two schools last year.
In Madison, AVID/TOPS is a partnership between the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and Boys and Girls Clubs of Dane County (BGCDC). It began in 2007. It functions as an elective class students have every day.
A new evaluation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative found that the program is working.
Gary Lupyan, a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, says that words can organize the way we think about the world and shape the way we perceive it. In a recent experiment, he and his colleagues measured how hard it was for English speakers to assign circles colored in diverse ways to a random category (such as “A” or “B”) if the colors were easy to name (for instance, “red” or “blue”) or hard to name (“slightly neutral lavender” or “light dusty rose”). All the colors, regardless of how nameable they were in English, were equally easy to discriminate visually from one another. Even so, Lupyan and his colleagues found strong differences in participants’ ability to learn which circles went into the different categories based on how easily nameable the colors were.
The study, which is government-funded, aims to determine if a combination of targeted brain stimulation and meditation practices will decrease the number of suicides.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who co-chairs the Legislature’s employment relations committee, has promised to block pay raises for UW employees until the school system cuts its so-called DEI spending by $32 million.
Rothman told reporters during a conference call that he has decided to shutter UW-Milwaukee’s Washington County campus and UW-Oshkosh’s Fond du Lac campus. He said that in-person instruction at the two schools will end by June 2024. Enrollment at both schools as well as three other two-year campus has ticked upward this fall, but it’s not enough to offset more than a decade of decreasing enrollment.
Enrollment at Fond du Lac and Washington County campuses this year was expected to be 243 students and 276 students, respectively.
The University of Wisconsin-Platteville’s Richland campus is being closed, Universities of Wisconsin president Jay Rothman announced Tuesday.
Half of state workers, about 34,000 people, will not be getting pay raises included in the state budget, as a Republican-controlled committee on Tuesday approved a 6 percent raise over two years for all but those who work for the University of Wisconsin System.
In an ongoing battle between Republican legislative leaders and the state’s public university system, GOP lawmakers on Tuesday approved a two-year pay increase for state workers but left out the 41,000 people who work for the University of Wisconsin System.
The University of Wisconsin system is shutting down in-person instruction at two campuses and closing one campus at the end of the school year, officials announced Tuesday.
Two more University of Wisconsin system campuses will end in-person instruction by the end of this school year, potentially spelling the end of existence for UW-Milwaukee at Washington County and UW-Oshkosh Fond du Lac.
UW-Platteville Richland is closing, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, UW-Milwaukee at Washington County and UW-Oshkosh, Fond du Lac campus will be stopping in-person instruction by June 2024.
The UW-Platteville Richland campus will close next year, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced Tuesday amid continued financial pressures.
When cuts started coming at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland, its sister campus in Baraboo absorbed some of the impact. But Tuesday’s announcement from Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman has some on and around the campus concerned about whether they could be next.Rothman announced Tuesday that the UW-Platteville Richland campus will close next year amid continued financial pressures.
The decisions to shut down Richland and spur the other changes announced Tuesday are not meant to save money, Rothman said. Instead, he attributed them to the students. He pointed to students wanting to go straight to four-year schools, where enrollment has been rising, rather than the two-year schools. He added that online instruction has also been climbing.
So when “Jump Around” plays on your TV screen, it’s probably on a little bit of a delay. That’s how it happened last Saturday when the Fox Sports crew recorded 49 seconds of content while it was away at a break and put it to air 5 seconds later.
Omar Zaidan is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His parents are from Gaza and the West Bank.
“It is very stressful, just seeing my entire family react,” said Zaidan. “All of them were very stressed, and wanted to reach out to their families back home.”
Sex Out Loud granted $5,000 budget increase.
Month of October filled with community building activities, events.
State employees have been waiting to see these pay increases approved since July when they were first authorized in the governor’s budget. Public sector employees have been holding out the past three months for the approval of the Joint Committee on Employment Relations (JCOER), a committee Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) co-chairs.
Brandon Thompson, the 26-year-old charged with attacking and sexually assaulting a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last month, has pleaded not guilty to all of his charges.
During his arraignment, Brandon Thompson had a not guilty plea entered on his behalf by the Dane Co. court to first-degree sexual assault, first degree reckless injury, and strangulation and suffocation. Thompson, who is being held on a $1,000,000 bond, is due to return to court on December 1 for a status conference hearing.
The drama built ahead of a fourth-and-1 play in the final four minutes of a one-score game, and the director narrated along as a critical moment emerged on the Camp Randall Stadium turf.
Written by Allison M. Prasch, associate professor of rhetoric, politics and culture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kathy Cramer, a political science professor, quoted.
Eric Grodsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor whose research has included publications on chronic absenteeism before the pandemic, suggested in an interview that focusing on those underlying causes is the best way to help students academically, as well. That’s because whatever is causing them to miss school can harm their ability to learn even if they’re present, he said.
Twin Texas cities Midland and Odessa led the list of 20 smaller cities Dallas-area apartment software firm RealPage analyzed, posting rent growth of 13.8% last month from a year ago for new apartment leases. The oil drilling cities rival the double-digit rent growth Florida cities were showing in 2021 and into last year. Madison, Wisconsin, home to the University of Wisconsin’s main campus, followed Midland/Odessa with an 8.8% gain.
