In a deal months in the making, the University of Wisconsin system will “reimagine” its diversity efforts, restructure dozens of staff into positions serving all students and freeze the total number of diversity and administrative positions for the next three years.
In exchange, the universities would receive $800 million to give pay raises for 35,000 employees and move forward on some building projects, including a new engineering building for UW-Madison.
On the table are pay raises for 35,000 employees, a new engineering building for UW-Madison and $32 million recouped back into UW’s budget after lawmakers cut it earlier this year. Also being discussed is millions of dollars for building projects at some other campuses and a change in how the state manages money from the tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota that would bring more money to campuses.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders are said to be nearing a deal with Republican legislative leaders that would reclassify a third of the system’s diversity, equity and inclusion employees and put a yearslong moratorium on hiring more, in return for a new UW-Madison engineering building and moving ahead with employee pay raises already approved in the budget.
Statement comes after $32 million budget cut, employee layoffs.
Wisconsin Assembly Democrats released statements Thursday denouncing Republican efforts to “trade” freezing diversity, equity and inclusion positions for pay raises and building project approvals across the UW System.
Verona Area High School (VAHS) students Maitri Patel and Hannah Mason attended the University of Wisconsin’s “Great Biology Bake-Off” on Friday, Nov. 17, bringing the process of DNA replication to life using cake and cupcakes.
Wednesday night, twelve student representatives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Leaders Igniting Transformation chapter gathered at an Associated Students of Madison Student Council meeting in a decry of the university’s history of responding to on-campus hate & bias incidents that they view as inadequate.
SSFC also adds language to RecWell budget from Trans Umbrella Sanctuary bill passed by ASM.
’Day of the little candles’ event attendance increases from just 10 community members to 250 since 2016, organizer says.
You never truly know what will come out of a kindergartener’s mouth, especially in a lecture hall. On Thursday, a class of kindergarteners was invited to Kenneth Mayer’s introductory American politics class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Police reviewed Madison and UW street camera footage and saw someone they believe to be Ethan W. Hanson, 21, with another man on the roof of the building that houses Starbucks, 661 State St., according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court.
“Farmers would welcome warm and dry (conditions) to get out and have things planted in a timely fashion, but they need moisture in the soil for germination and early growth,” said Chris Kucharik, a plant and agrosystem sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Six potential station corridors were presented to the public in late 2022, and the study team is now finalizing corridor evaluations and identifying potential station sites, Callin said. The corridors are near the Dane County Regional Airport, Oscar Mayer, the Near East Side, First Street, Downtown and the UW-Madison campus.
A group of about 20 men marched from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the state Capitol building in November, carrying flags with swastikas and shouting antisemitic rhetoric. They wore shirts labeled “Blood Tribe,” which is a growing neo-Nazi group that believes in white supremacy, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
It is considering six potential areas: near the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, downtown near Monona Terrace, on First Street and East Washington Avenue, on the near east side to the west of Fair Oaks Avenue, the site of the former Oscar Mayer plant, and lastly, near the Dane County Regional Airport.
Graduate photography students gave gallery-goers a glimpse into their own personal stories in an exhibition titled “Take My Word For It.”
The Republican-controlled Senate Health Committee voted Thursday against recommending a former Democratic Dane County state representative and longtime nursing union leader to the UW Hospital Board after they were questioned about their views on abortion policy.
In the past decade, depression and suicide rates in the United States have been rising strongly, especially for college students, according to University of Wisconsin professor of human ecology and psychiatry Dr. Charles Raison.
For the second consecutive year Penn State ran into a brick wall with a Motion W on it in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA volleyball tournament.
“I think that there are a small group of people out there that just love it,” said Dr. Mark Johnson, a scientist at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s almost like an ‘I dare you to eat it’ kind of thing, like hot peppers.”
“Nearly all protected areas are becoming much more accessible and much more vulnerable,” said Lisa Naughton, a researcher who studies protected areas at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Not just to local subsistence hunting and illicit timber extraction, but to things like artisanal mining and road penetration.”
Although the increase is steepest among high-income couples, it’s happening across the socioeconomic spectrum, Daniel Meyer, a social-work professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies child custody, told me.
He was right. When Doom was launched on 10 December 1993, it became immediately clear that the game was all-consuming – id Software had chosen to make the abbreviated shareware version available via the FTP site of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but that crashed almost immediately, bringing the institution’s network to its knees.
