Preliminary enrollment figures released Monday show eight colleges in the Universities of Wisconsin system have more students this year than last fall.
Universities of Wisconsin enrollment up overall
Wisconsin Public Radio
September 17, 2024
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Universities of Wisconsin projects higher enrollment, led by UW-Madison
Wisconsin State Journal
Universities of Wisconsin systemwide enrollment is projected to increase by just more than 1,000 this fall overall, an encouraging sign as enrollment has increased for a second year in a row after a decade of declines.
Research
Survey: Demand for child care outpaces providers’ capacity
Wisconsin Public Radio
Hilary Shager, author of the report and associate director of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty, said not having enough staff was a primary reason for not expanding capacity, mostly among group providers. She said providers pointed to low compensation as one of their top issues.
Bugging the bugs: UW-Madison entomologist invents ‘insect eavesdropper’ to spy on pests
Wisconsin Public Radio
About two years ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison entomologist Emily Bick went down a research rabbit hole.
Doctors Are Experiencing Burnout Like Never Before. Is AI the Cure?
Newsweek
It is no coincidence that Epic, one of the largest EHR vendors, was named after literary “epics,” heroic poems defined by their extreme length. A study from the University of Wisconsin found that one in five patients has an EHR the size of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, more than 206,000 words. “[Generative AI] is an opportunity to add a layer of simplicity on top of the Moby Dick-sized amount of information in a patient’s chart,” Adams said.
Higher Education/System
UW System sets ‘viewpoint neutrality’ standard on official statements
Wisconsin Examiner
A new Universities of Wisconsin policy requires statements in the name of UW institutions to avoid expressing a point of view on political or social controversies.
UW System no longer readily providing branch campus enrollment data
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin System is no longer reporting enrollment by campus, making it more difficult for the public to know where their local branch campus stands financially.
UW-Madison again ranks as one of the top ‘party schools’ in the United States for 2025
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin’s largest university earned the No. 6 spot on the Wall Street Journal’s list of the “Best Party Schools in the U.S.” for 2025.
Academic Plagiarism Complaint Against the Author of ‘White Fragility’ Dismissed
The New York Times
Similar complaints have been filed against diversity officers at Harvard, Columbia, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, Los Angeles, Bailey noted.
Universities of Wisconsin sees highest overall enrollment since 2020
WISC — CBS Channel 3
Enrollment at the Universities of Wisconsin grew by over 1,000 students overall this fall , UWs President Jay Rothman announced Monday, with UW-Madison seeing record enrollment.
Campus life
These two Wisconsin cities are among the 100 best in the U.S., study finds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
However, the ranking doesn’t tell the whole story: despite Madison’s relatively affordability compared to other U.S. cities, home prices and rents have skyrocketed in Madison in recent years and surpassed the area’s median income. University of Wisconsin-Madison students also face some of the highest off-campus rent prices in the Big Ten Conference.
UW Ad Hoc report highlights path forward for Black student support
Badger Herald
“We’re focused on a comprehensive call to action to create policies that really provoke a cognizant campus environment,” Byars-Winston said in an interview.
UW alumni donate $75 million to fund construction of a new engineering building
Badger Herald
Marvin and Jeffrey Levy honor late brother Phillip with contribution.
Campus organizations help UW-Madison students with mental health crisis
Daily Cardinal
Two UW-Madison student organizations hope to help students facing mental health issues through peer-to-peer support.
State news
Voter frustration fueled by lack of policy details on issues like health care, climate
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The town hall meeting featured a panel discussion with two faculty members from the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison who focus on climate change and health care policy, Morgan Edwards and Yang Wang, and Laura Olson, chief business development officer at Eneration, a subsidiary of Gundersen Health System that helps health care companies reduce their energy costs.
Health
Dead butt syndrome, and fueling intimacy in long-term relationships
Wisconsin Public Radio
Gluteal amnesia, or dead butt syndrome, can result from spending long hours sitting and being inactive. We talk about the symptoms – tight hip flexors and lower back pain – with the physical therapy sisters, Lori Thein Brody and UW-Madison Professor Jill Thein-Nissenbaum, .
Athletics
Wisconsin women’s hockey thought of highly in national, WCHA pictures in 2024-25
Wisconsin State Journal
The No. 2 ranking by USCHO.com voters gave the Badgers the same spot in which they finished last season after losing to the Buckeyes in the NCAA championship game. Wisconsin was No. 1 to start last season and held that spot into November, when Ohio State swept a two-game series against Wisconsin in Columbus.
Concourse traffic at Camp Randall ’embarrassing’ as fans vent during long waits
Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin added more sales locations when it added alcohol to the menu on the main concourse this season, but at peak traffic times the merging of fans looking to get through and those waiting in lines made things slow to a crawl on the west side of the stadium.
Opinion
UW-Madison’s $75 million gift shows good of giving. Why not donate for affordable housing?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Letter to the editor: As is common, the wealthy donors will have an important new building on campus named after a family member. There are winners in all this. But I urge families with significant resources to consider a different giving opportunity: affordable housing developments.
UW Experts in the News
There will be no “climate haven”
Tone Madison
Richard Keller, a UW-Madison history professor and expert on the health impacts of climate change, says he’s been “joking with relatives in Texas as far back as 2003 that as their [climate change] problem was going to be getting worse, ours was going to be getting better.”
Trump, Harris drop big ad money in Madison media market
The Capital Times
According to UW-Madison political science professor Kathy Cramer, political ads aim to achieve two primary goals.
“One is activate people who are already leaning towards them or their party — and ads can definitely help kind of remind people both that an election is coming up and reconnect them with their party and the leading candidate. But the other thing that they do is persuade people on the margins,” Cramer told the Cap Times.
Instagram Unveils Sweeping Changes for Users Under Age 18
The New York Times
Dr. Megan Moreno, a pediatrics professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine who studies adolescents and problematic social media use, said Instagram’s new youth default settings were “significant.”
UW-Madison Related
Three questions for Suzanne Dove and Patrice Torcivia Prusko
Inside Higher Ed
As far as formal leadership development programs, I am an alumna of the Big 10 Academic Alliance’s Academic Leadership Program, to which I was nominated while assistant dean at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It was a wonderful way to gain an understanding of top issues and the incredibly challenging trade-offs facing campus leaders.