Bascom Hall, one of UW-Madison’s earliest buildings, sits on land the Ho-Chunk Nation called “Teejop.” Once home to more than 900 effigy mounds made generations ago, the Ho-Chunk Nation considered dejope to be sacred immemorial. When Bascom Hall was built in 1859, UW-Madison destroyed the effigy mound where it currently sits.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison kicked efforts to persuade the Legislature to come up with nearly $200 million for a new engineering building into higher gear Monday.
Earlier this summer, the Healthy School Meals for All coalition and UW-Madison Professor Jennifer Gaddis released the first statewide survey of the Wisconsin school nutrition workforce.
That report found that of the approximately 5,089 K-12 school nutrition workers across the state, 94% were women, and 88% were white.
It also found that four out of five school food workers who were not managers worked part-time, and that a quarter of schools across the state offered poverty-level starting wages for school nutrition workers.
WISCONSIN NEWS Wisconsin Assembly to pass Republican bill banning race, diversity factors in financial aid for UWNOVEMBER 7, 2023 / 3:29 PM CST / APThe Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly was scheduled to pass a bill Tuesday that would ban Universities of Wisconsin officials from considering race and diversity when awarding state-funded financial aid.
A spokesperson from the University of Wisconsin at Madison told The Badger Herald, a campus newspaper, that “we have asked our registrar’s office to carefully review the academic calendar in all future years to identify potential religious conflicts well in advance so that we can make changes when appropriate.”
People looking to become special education teachers in Milwaukee have a new paid opportunity to do so.
UW-Madison is partnering with Milwaukee Public Schools on a Special Education Teacher Residency program.
Assembly lawmakers on Tuesday approved a wide range of proposals that would affect higher education in the state, including an automatic-admission policy for the flagship campus at the Universities of Wisconsin and standardized rules around free speech on state campuses, which Republicans argued would expand intellectual diversity and Democrats warned would have a chilling effect.
The UW–Madison Special Education Teacher Residency Program comes with a commitment: three years working in MPS after finishing the master’s. Those teachers continue receiving mentorship and guidance for at least the first two years of teaching after finishing the degree.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill Tuesday that would ban Universities of Wisconsin officials from considering race and diversity when awarding state-funded financial aid.
Assembly Republicans have voted to bar University of Wisconsin system officials from considering race when deciding how to distribute publicly funded financial aid to students, setting up a likely veto by Gov. Tony Evers.
The bill, which passed 62-35 along party lines Tuesday, seeks to eliminate race-based criteria for college scholarships, grants and loan programs.
The Assembly passed a Republican bill Tuesday to guarantee admission to Universities of Wisconsin schools for the top 10% of Wisconsin high school graduates and guarantee UW-Madison admission for the top 5% of high school graduates.
Public universities and colleges in Wisconsin could be liable for up to $100,000 in damages if they have been found by a judge to have violated a person’s right to free speech under legislation the Republican-led Assembly passed Tuesday.
Class is in session, but the student commons at UW-Oshkosh at Fond du Lac is barren and deathly quiet. The library’s lights, set on timers, have turned themselves off as only one person studies at a table along the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Joshua Manders is a Jewish student studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Manders said since the Israel-Hamas war started on Oct. 7, his life has become very stressful.
“It definitely has been tough, that first week where, the first few days, especially when the war first broke out, it is a lot of emotions to go through,” said Manders.
Manders has direct connections to the war. That’s not unlike many other Jewish students on the UW-Madison campus.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin came to connect with University of Wisconsin-Madison student leaders on Friday as a part of Democrats’ weekend of “One Year to Win” events, a get-out-the-vote effort in the lead-up to the November 2024 elections.
The expansion of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine is almost complete, and to mark the occasion, a new piece of public art celebrating a veterinary medical student’s journey has been installed between the school’s current and new buildings.
“What you see here behind you is more than just a mural, more than just banners,” Ho-Chunk Nation President Jon Greendeer said at the ceremony. “It speaks volumes to our history, our clan system, our culture.”
The three-panel banners titled “Seed by Seed” incorporate the effect of thousands of beads, showcasing symbols and traditional colors of the Ho-Chunk Nation. The work aims to honor those whose ancestral land UW-Madison is now on.
Advocate, author, and running enthusiast Alison Mariella Désir will share her insight at a free Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) Committee-hosted event on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Great Hall, the Wisconsin Union announced on Tuesday.
“The title of this piece, ‘Seed by Seed,’ reminds us of the work we are doing to acknowledge the ancestral homelands of the Ho-Chunk people, who were forcibly removed from this place,” Mnookin said. “It reminds us of our ongoing responsibility to move our campus community from ignorance to awareness. And that can’t be confined to a day, a month or even a year. It’s the work of a lifetime. But seed by seed, I am proud of the seeds we are planting, together.”
A recent report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows Wisconsin households are shrinking at a rate slightly faster than the national average over the last five decades. We talk about some of the factors behind that trend with Kurt Paulsen, a UW-Madison professor of urban planning.
Timothy Van Deelen is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. He said the breeding season increases the likelihood of human-deer interactions for three or four weeks each fall.
“The male deer is almost a different animal during the breeding season, behaviorally,” Van Deelen said. “Bucks will dramatically extend their home range, and mature bucks are moving through their big home range trying to find does who are receptive to being bred.”
Employee Kenneth Sabbar said he feels the political infighting will drive people not only out of Madison but Wisconsin as a whole, contributing to a “brain drain” of educated workers leaving the state.
Wisconsin Assembly lawmakers unanimously voted Tuesday to approve Republican-led legislation to guarantee certain rights and protections for K-12 and higher education student journalists.
Students in a software security class took part in an exercise run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In this scenario, they were dealing with how to respond to ransomware, which came through phishing emails.
Upon graduation, Ihim attended the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. She “loved being a Badger,” from football games to Friday fish frys at the former Madhatter.
The first semester of Mick Byrne’s freshman year at Providence College was a struggle. When he went home for Christmas — to Dublin, Ireland — he didn’t want to return to the United States.
Everyone was shocked in December 2012 when Bret Bielema, the University of Wisconsin football coach, announced he was leaving for Arkansas, even athletic director Barry Alvarez. The Badgers were on the cusp of playing in a third straight Rose Bowl when the news came down, and Bielema went 68-24 during his seven seasons with the Badgers.
That’s not a debatable point. That’s a fact, as Wisconsin business leaders are explaining in a new campaign that expresses deep disappointment with the decision of the Republican-controlled legislative Joint Finance Committee to refuse to fund the state’s portion of the $347 million College of Engineering expansion project as part of the 2023-25 capital budget.
Amid budget battles over faculty pay raises, UW should also champion fair pay for student employees.
”Ransomware is rampant and increasing,” UW Madison Computer Science Professor Barton Miller said. “In the real world it’s not a question of if you’re going to be attacked or not. You will.”
