Wisconsin state agencies — including the Universities of Wisconsin — would be barred from doing business with certain government-run companies under a GOP bill circulating in the Capitol.
Firing a chancellor can be executed swiftly. In the case of former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow, it took just eight days from the time the UW System said it learned of his appearance in porn videos to the closed-door meeting when the UW Board of Regents ousted him as chancellor.
Firing a professor is much more laborious. Even so, the UW System is investigating whether to revoke Gow’s tenured faculty status as a communications professor, a position he announced in August he planned to return to next school year.
An overview of diversity, equity and inclusion related disputes after the UW System’s approval of a controversial deal which capped DEI positions for pay raises and building funds.
The Rohr Chabad House at UW-Madison is planning a five-story expansion of their current house on W. Gilman Street to accommodate increased student demand during Jewish holidays.
$900 of over $100,000 budget will be moved to Urban Agricultural Programming after composting policy change.
In her career as a playwright, Anna Deavere Smith has rooted her projects in civil rights issues, according to the Wisconsin Union. Smith is credited with creating a new type of theater where the performance centers around interpretations of journalistic interviews, according to New York University.
Madison police said Thursday morning that they are investigating after several eggs were launched at UW Hillel Foundation, 611 Langdon St., on Tuesday night.
UW leaders offer support to students, condemn antisemitism.
Eggs hurled at the UW Hillel Foundation on Tuesday night are expected to cost thousands of dollars to clean up, staff told the Madison Police Department.
The Chazen Museum boasts a dazzling new exhibition highlighting the history of printmaking as an artform.
Dear Editor: The recent article by Capital Times reporter Kayla Huynh (“UW campus closures leave ‘bitter’ feelings about lost opportunities”) highlights the mess related to higher education in this state.
When you give in to the spectacle, you give her a platform.
Laura Dresser, associate director of the left-leaning COWS economic think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said state policies like Act 10 and Wisconsin’s “right to work” law have played a major role in the decline.
We called Dr. Megan Moreno to talk about this because she teaches medicine at the University of Wisconsin and she’s a co-medical director of a center at the American Academy of Pediatrics dedicated to social media and youth mental health. And she was at the White House yesterday to talk about kids’ online safety and health.
Jonathan Martin, UW-Madison professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and one-half of the Wisconsin State Journal’s Weather Guys column, wasn’t able to provide much hope for merchants dependent on more consistent, more typical winter weather.
