Thousands of students are flooding the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday for the first day of the fall semester, marking the beginning of a new academic year. University officials say they are welcoming 10,000 new and transfer students this year, continuing a trend of growing enrollment.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and other speakers spoke to the importance of taking on new challenges and making new connections Tuesday.
Wages for the lowest-paid workers in Wisconsin have risen faster than pay for higher earners in recent years, but workers still face challenges.
That’s according to the new “State of Working Wisconsin” report from the High Road Strategy Center, an economic think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The report is released annually around Labor Day to provide insights into how workers are doing in the economy.
A Dane County judge recently dismissed a public records lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its fundraising arm on a technicality, leaving unanswered a broader question about whether public university foundations are subject to Wisconsin’s public records law.
The Fall semester at Northland College in Ashland is underway after the small college faced closure last spring.
In March administrators announced the spring semester would be its last unless they could raise $12 million in a matter of weeks. Though the college didn’t get the amount hoped for, it did see a successful fundraising campaign, enough to keep the doors open at the school that has gained a national reputation for its environmental education programs.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating 2 incidents of vandalism on campus.
The most recent incident happened around 3am on Wednesday, September 4. UWPD found several parts of Library Mall, including the Hagenah Fountain, vandalized with paint. Facilities crews were able to clean up the graffiti.
UW-Madison Police say they are investigating after pro-Palestinian graffiti was found on several parts of Library Mall Wednesday morning, including the fountain.
Several parts of Library Mall, including the Hagenah Fountain, were vandalized with paint. Crews from Facilities Planning & Management worked quickly to remove the graffiti.
Police said the incident occurred at around 3 a.m. Hagenah Fountain and other parts of Library Mall were graffitied. Facilities Planning and Management crews removed the paint.
UW-Madison Police Department Executive Director of Communications Marc Lovicott told WMTV the vandalism was “pro-Palestine in nature.” Lovicott said there were statements in the vandalism like “divest now”, “we will not rest”, and “free Palestine.” He also said there were a few vulgar words.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating pro-Palestine paint left on Library Mall around 3 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a UWPD statement.
UW-Madison police said Wednesday that they are investigating a report of a person being groped by five or six people during Friday night’s Badgers football game at Camp Randall Stadium.
Madison’s two major art museums — the Chazen Museum of Art on the UW-Madison campus and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art on State Street — have joined forces with 14 other institutions statewide in hopes you’ll hit the road this fall and visit their galleries along the way.
Laura Olson was the biggest Badgers fan in her college friend group, bringing them to football games, wrestling meets, volleyball matches and more to cheer on University of Wisconsin-Madison student athletes.
University of Wisconsin fans who thought the personalized bricks they bought over the last three decades were going to be part of a permanent display have criticized the athletic department for going a different direction.
The Hall of Fame Brick Walk is being removed to make way for the $285 million practice field project. People paid hundreds of dollars for what they thought would be a permanent little piece of space on campus. The news of the change has some brick owner surprised and frustrated.
Brad Wendlandt is a Wisconsin alumni who lost his daughter, Candice, after she graduated from UW.Candice was in Wisconsin’s band for five years and went on to be a teacher in the Madison Metropolitan School District. Her bandmates purchased a brick in honor of her life.
Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) named a new chief financial officer, Milwaukee Board of School Directors President Marva Herndon announced Tuesday.
Aycha Sawa assumed the CFO role on Tuesday. She’s a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business.
The building’s homage to Flemish Renaissance Revival architecture − City Hall’s design − resonated with board member Sissel Schroeder.
“I think that’s what made this stand out compared to other Postmodern buildings in Milwaukee,” said Schroeder, a University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor who voted to support 100 East’s nomination.
Jake Vander Zanden directs UW-Madison Center for Limnology — the study of lakes. He says both zebra and quagga mussels feed on phytoplankton, the base of the aquatic food chain.
“In effect, what they do is they will undermine the basis of the food web, and that can have impacts on fisheries,” Vander Zanden said. He added that the mussels create good conditions for algae growth, which gets smelly when washing up on beaches.
Whether information on elections and current events comes from a dedicated civics course or another type of social studies class, University of Wisconsin-Madison education researcher Jeremy Stoddard said covering those topics is vital to creating informed, engaged citizens. It can also reduce political polarization.
“Schools might be the only place where they actually get exposed to different views on key issues of the day,” Stoddard told “Wisconsin Today.” “Otherwise, people get their news filtered in through one way … If they’re not doing it in schools, that’s a real problem.”
The area’s labor “shed,” or the areas in which the workforce now lives, “is getting bigger and bigger … and spilling into neighboring communities,” said Steven Deller, distinguished professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s department of agricultural and applied economics.
