Coercive control and financial abuse are often tied together. The vast majority of domestic-abuse cases also involve economic abuse, and finances are one of the main reasons a person stays with or returns to an abusive partner, as noted in a research brief by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security. The fact that your friend’s husband pushed her to give up her job is a bad sign.
“Many politicians, law enforcement personnel and ordinary citizens are nonetheless incensed because this person should not have been in the country and thus capable of committing a crime,” said Michael Light, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who has published several studies showing undocumented immigrants are not more crime-prone than native-born Americans. “This view that the person’s undocumented status is an aggravating factor is also likely a reason why these crimes generate such strong responses.”
UW-Oshkosh Provost Edwin Martini released new restructuring plans to reduce the number of colleges in lieu of $18 million budget deficits.
A history lesson may soon be attached to one of the tallest buildings in Madison.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving forward with the installation of a plaque in Van Hise Hall that would explain the legacy of the building’s namesake, Charles Van Hise, and his promotion of eugenics.
Students are struggling to access nutritional, affordable food as demand increases for more resources.
To mark more than a century in business, the Book Store is offering its biggest sale in history.
The State Building Commission signed off on plans to build a new football practice facility on the site of the Camp Randall Sports Center and McClain Center, and that project also includes money for the Kohl Center rink project that was estimated to cost about $2.5 million.
’If we don’t get trained now, Wisconsin will be left with generations of doctors who do not know how to provide adequate abortion care,’ UW medical student says.
UW-Madison spokesperson John Lucas told 27 News, Reategui had worked with teams in the past. “Once UW Athletics learned of the allegation, it suspended its relationship with him,” Lucas wrote. “UW Athletics has no information to suggest the allegation relates in any way to our student-athletes.”
How do students afford housing as new luxury apartment complexes are being built around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus?
Michael Childers, a business and labor education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the news may be bigger than the agreement the United Auto Workers reached with major U.S. auto manufacturers late last year, ending a nearly two-month strike that had shut down multiple plants.
“Historically, the service sector has struggled in a huge way to successfully organize and bargain contracts,” Childers said. “This is really exciting news for … workers wanting a voice at work.”
Estella Leopold graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1948, received her master’s at the University of California Berkeley and earned a doctorate in botany from Yale University in 1955.
UW PhD graduate, now assistant professor at UIC, studies factors in language education in U.S. schools.
