The UW Board of Regents fired former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow a second time, ending a drawn-out faculty disciplinary process focused on his controversial pornographic videos.
Former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow was fired Friday from his tenured teaching position in a unanimous Board of Regents vote.
The University of Wisconsin (UW) system has instituted two new admissions programs meant to make this process easier and encourage more Wisconsin students to attend their institutions: The Wisconsin Guarantee and Direct Admit Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to fire a communications professor who was seeking to retain tenure after his dismissal as chancellor of one of the system’s campuses for making pornographic films.
UW-Madison released fall enrollment numbers this week, based on a student census conducted on the tenth day of classes.
The percentage of underrepresented students of color enrolled in the first-year class decreased from 18% last year to 14.3% this fall. These figures include students who identify as Black, Hispanic, South Asian, Native American or other underrepresented races and ethnicities. The percentages don’t include demographics of international students.
Admissions rates also dropped. Roughly 42% of underrepresented students of color who applied were accepted by the university this fall, compared to nearly 80% in 2023, when looking at first-year students.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin called the declines “disappointing.”
College students can play a pivotal role in a swing state like Wisconsin, where elections are often won by razor-thin margins.
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This year’s freshman class has a lower percentage of Black, Indigenous, and Latino students compared to last year.
‘If you go out and try to find the truth and tell the story it’s always there for you,’ Maraniss says.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos promoted contraceptive access and highlighted Republican Party goals in Wisconsin during a College Republicans of University of Wisconsin-Madison event.
“Bulbs are going to need a 12- to 16-week chilling period. When you put them in the ground that temperature should go down slowly, so they have the first 3 to 5 weeks developing their roots at 45 to 50 degrees, and then the next 3 weeks at 38 to 42 degrees,” said Lisa Johnson, horticulture educator for University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension.
Red light therapy applies specific wavelengths of light (usually around 630 nanometers) onto your skin. This wavelength can penetrate 2 to 3 millimeters below the skin, and cause positive reactions in the cells just under your skin, says Dr. Apple Bodemer, a board-certified dermatologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
“It’s really pushing back against this idea that you need to constantly be buying things to have a happy and fulfilling life,” Megan Doherty Bea, assistant professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shared with CNN.
Logan Janssen, 19, is a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying political science and economics. As a Wisconsin delegate for the Democratic National Convention, Janssen had pledged his support for Biden as a candidate. But he said it was a “hard sell” to some of his peers.
“You know, a very old guy who’s a little out of touch from what a lot of students are feeling on the ground,” Janssen said. “I think having that change in energy with Vice President Harris. … I can see on campus, certainly, that there’s been a lot more engagement with Democrat Party politics.”
