America’s Ivy League institutions have faced complaints in recent years over admissions policies and, in response, Forbes recently introduced its list of the “New Ivies”— the 10 public and 10 private universities it says are producing successful and driven graduates.
On the list is the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which also ranks among the top national universities in the state, and across the country.
In the waning weeks of spring semester, some University of Wisconsin-Madison students prepared for final exams and graduation ceremonies. Several dozen others camped on the campus’ Library Mall to push the university to sever ties with funding and programs linked to Israeli institutions and the war in Gaza.
KP.1.1 and KP.2, nicknamed FLiRT (pronounced “flirt”), are considered omicron variants, said University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of population health sciences Ajay Sethi. The “FL” and “RT” in the name refer to the mutations present in the variants that allow them to evade some of the immunity people have built up from past infections or vaccines.
Members of the Legislature’s Joint Audit Committee voted Tuesday on party lines to approve an audit of all diversity, equity and inclusion activities within the state’s executive agencies — a move that runs counter to policies and priorities laid out by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
The jobs and training programs are tied to the construction of Microsoft’s massive data center, the company’s TitletownTech partnership with the Green Bay Packers, the company’s involvement with the University of Wisconsin’s Connected Systems Institute and technical education programs that Microsoft has supported in northeastern Wisconsin and Milwaukee.
A quick glance to the left, and the Jewish students who gathered outside the Hillel Milwaukee building for Shabbat dinner would’ve seen the tents.
After 56 years, Fond du Lac is about to say goodbye to one of its hometown schools.
The Universities of Wisconsin System announced in October that the Fond du Lac campus of UW Oshkosh would close at the end of spring semester because of low enrollment.
Republican lawmakers are ordering a review into initiatives that aim to promote diversity, equity and inclusion within state government.
Legislative Republicans plan to put the use of diversity, equity and inclusion positions within state government and the Universities of Wisconsin under a microscope with a new audit approved Tuesday.
In December he forced Universities of Wisconsin regents to freeze diversity hires, re-label about 40 diversity positions as “student success” positions, drop an affirmative action hiring program at UW-Madison in exchange for funding to cover staff raises and construction projects. Vos said after the deal was complete that he wanted an in-depth review of diversity initiatives across state government.
The review of how state agencies are using DEI was promised by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, after a protracted battle between top GOP legislators and the Universities of Wisconsin over programs to support people of color and other historically disadvantaged groups.
A resolution failed on an 8-8 council vote Tuesday evening. The proposal would have called on UW Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin to allow the encampment on Library Mall to continue even as the university remains unwavering in its stance that the encampment is illegal and unsafe.
The UW-Madison students who set up a pro-Palestine encampment on Library Mall last week issued a list of six demands of university leadership. As of Tuesday, the encampment was still in place and negotiations were ongoing, though Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin has pushed back against some of the students’ demands.
The group presented 12 requests to the school, including to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and enforce the law on encampments.
Roughly 250 faculty and pro-Palestine protesters marched up Bascom Hill to express frustration at University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and campus administration during a UW-Madison Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
The student organizations must cease activities pending an investigation and decision from the Committee on Student Organizations.
MPD identifies 31 suspects, asks those involved to come forward.
The messages, located on an electrical transformer box on North Henry Street, depicted a woman in hijab with the message “Islam is satanic/martyrs burn/in hell.”
The Badgers will play all four conference newcomers just once, as they will travel to Washington and Oregon while hosting Southern Cal and UCLA at the Kohl Center the Big Ten announced Tuesday.
Recently, the Universities of Wisconsin paid the consulting firm Deloitte $2.8 million for “financial assessments” of several UW universities. While news coverage has focused on the financial problems outlined in these reports, the real story is that this project is being used to implement the Wisconsin Republican Party’s higher education priorities. And this is occurring even as the state enjoys a record budget surplus and a new legislative map that will, by definition, result in a more representative state government.
Letter to the editor: It’s possible to want better for innocents in Gaza than Benjamin Netanyahu’s government offers, while supporting the only liberal democracy in the region. We can be pro-Israel and pro-Palestine.
Letter to the editor: I think protests should focus on winning the hearts and minds of what Richard Nixon once called the “silent majority.” I would like to see more teach-ins and democratic spade-work — less chanting.
Letter to the editor: With raising tuition prices and cost of living, will the degree pay off and how many years until it is paid off? Higher tuition means an increase in loans needed for the average college student. This means that it may take longer for the loan to be paid off, and it depends on the average salary paid to fresh college graduates.
And for well over a decade Jo Handelsman, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been championing a state microbe. Among other things, Lactococcus lactis is used to make cheese, a big local industry. Professor Handelsman said the idea to make it a state symbol started off as a joke in a meeting of the bacteriology department.
Colleagues were considering how to educate people about the benefits of microbes, but then they decided “that’s actually a great idea”. The first attempt to pass it, in 2009, failed, but it’s back on the agenda.
