Launched this fall, Bucky’s Pell Pathway meets the full financial need for in-state students who qualify for Pell grants, helping them graduate debt-free. Pell federal dollars are limited to undergraduates with exceptional financial need but often don’t cover the full cost of school, causing many recipients to take out extra loans.
Raising Wisconsin’s minimum wage to $15 an hour would bring raises to one in seven workers and reduce racial and gender pay gaps, according to a new report from COWS, a University of Wisconsin-Madison think tank.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Chancellor Michael Alexander is trying to alleviate concerns among UWGB staff after Republican lawmakers in Madison excluded the University of Wisconsin System employees from a two-year pay raise.
Starting next year, there will be no more classes at UW Milwaukee-Washington County and UW Oshkosh-Fond du Lac. The news comes amid the layoffs of 20 percent of employees at UW Oshkosh’s main campus and Republicans in the state house blocking pay raises across all UW campuses. A reporter explains.
Jon Shelton, a political science professor at UW-Green Bay, says he always knew it would be a possibility that UW employees across the state would feel the side effects of the tension between the legislature and the Universities of Wisconsin.
Photos by Tatiyana in partnership with the Gamma Epsilon Chapter of the Alpa Phi Alpha Fraternity.
The University of Wisconsin recently announced the launch of the First-Generation Badgers program to help support first-generation students. According to a Sept. 27 news release from UW, the First-Generation Badgers program will bring together existing programs at UW, faculty and students to provide a more cohesive group to enhance these students’ experiences.
UW researchers in collaboration with WISELI look to renew faculty workshop focusing on diversity
In an email statement to The Badger Herald, Office of Student Financial Aid communications manager Karla Weber Wandel said the delay is only for the 2024-25 year and that the FAFSA will resume to an Oct. 1 release date in future years. “FAFSA is getting a makeover, and it’s with the hopes of making it even easier for students and families to submit that application,” Weber Wandel said. “It’s only this year we’re expecting it to be delayed until December.” she said.
The tax credit provides the biggest benefit to families “who can afford to spend a lot on child care,” says Tim Smeeding, an economist and emeritus professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin. The proposal doesn’t help people for whom the cost of child care is out of reach, he added.
“This is a very pressing issue for many people in Wisconsin,” said Laura Dresser of the Center for Wisconsin Strategy, which has published “Can’t Survive on $7.25,” a report that explores the impact and issues of low wages for Wisconsinites.
“We know that there are fewer people working very close to the bottom of the wage floor – that $7.25 per hour minimum wage – today than there were even three years ago,” Dresser added, “but there are still some in the state who do and others who don’t make much more than that.”
Indigenous art professors from UW explore realities of life, natural world in Washington D.C. exhibit.
Before he was vying for Speaker of the House (thus far unsuccessfully), Ohio congressman Jim Jordan was one of the most decorated wrestlers in University of Wisconsin history.
The program will officially launch in fall 2024, with select courses being piloted among current students.
Ever since the Neanderthal genome was first sequenced 13 years ago, there have been questions about the mixture of modern human and Neanderthal genes, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who was not involved in the study.
“Graham first visited Israel in 1960. And it’s a really big deal,” said Daniel Hummel, a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Not only did Graham preach in Israel, but he met with then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: “He really makes a point to articulate a Christian Zionist view that the nation of Israel is a fulfillment of God’s plans for the Jewish people and that it has a great future ahead of it,” explained Hummel.
As a wrestler at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was a three-time All-American and a two-time NCAA Champion in the 134-pound weight class. One of his championship victories came over Oklahoma State’s John Smith, who went on to become a two-time Olympic champion.
