The privately funded program, known as the Wisconsin Tribal Educational Promise, covers the full cost of attendance for in-state students who are enrolled members of one of the 11 federally recognized tribes in Wisconsin.
The University of Wisconsin marching band already was in game mode despite more than 10 hours remaining before kickoff of the Badgers’ football game against No. 1 Oregon.
A question sometimes is raised in the conservation community to help guide decisions: What would Aldo do?
The reference is to Aldo Leopold, former University of Wisconsin professor, pioneer in the field of wildlife management and author of “A Sand County Almanac,” the widely acclaimed collection of essays and inspiration for a “land ethic.”
In the place of racial, ethnic, and gender labels, some schools are embracing experiences or identities such as “low-income,” “first-generation,” and “veteran”—or simply scrapping controversial wording. After the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Creando Comunidad: Community Engaged Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Fellows program faced a complaint from the Equal Protection Project in January, it became just “Creando Comunidad.” Rather than explicitly gathering BIPOC students, applicants instead now must show “demonstrated interest or experience in promoting equity, inclusion, and social justice for communities of color.”
New Marquette University President Kimo Ah Yun’s honeymoon easing into the job was cut short Monday when faculty narrowly declared a lack of confidence in the administration.
Jen Jones remembers the meeting well, down to which chair she sat in.
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay administrators huddled together in a meeting room about a decade ago, studying enrollment and financial reports. A new chancellor, Gary Miller, had just started and took a different tact from his predecessor.
When Kelly Meyerhofer started covering Wisconsin’s public universities in 2018, she told herself she’d cover the topic for one year, two tops, before switching to something more exciting.
Now in her seventh year, Meyerhofer continues to be fascinated by the Wisconsin higher education beat.
Unions representing Universities of Wisconsin faculty and graduate workers are lobbying to meet directly with chancellors to discuss workplace conditions, saying the government councils representing them are no longer effective.
Leaders of Wisconsin’s higher education systems were cautious Tuesday in predicting what could come from President-elect Donald Trump’s call to close the U.S. Department of Education. Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman said he spent time in Washington, D.C., last week where he asked Wisconsin’s delegation about this issue.
“I think the general consensus that I was hearing … was that, is it likely that the Department of Education, as it currently exists, is voted out of existence? Not highly likely, in their mind,” Rothman told a crowd in Madison.
“Shoofly pie is a classic Pennsylvania Dutch pastry,” said Mark Louden, a professor of Germanic linguistics and director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It’s an “apt symbol of traditional Pennsylvania Dutch culture as it incorporates elements from Old World Europe but is a fundamentally New World phenomenon.”
UW Health Med Flight and some Milwaukee County fire departments are giving critically injured patients whole blood, not just blood products or saline solution, in the field to try to save lives.
“If you are protected and layered appropriately, you should be safe even in the temperatures that we’re expecting,” said Patrick Shahan, an assistant professor with the Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and an acute care surgeon. “You just have to be mindful of being too cold.”
The director of planning and design for UW Health, Mike McKay, said the center was built with patients in mind.
An on-field interaction between a UW-Madison Police officer and a Nebraska football assistant coach after Saturday’s game was a “misunderstanding” that ended in an apology, a police spokesperson said.
Barry C. Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained to us in a Nov. 25 email, “Trump has not won an outright majority of the popular vote; that would require surpassing the 50% threshold. He has won a large plurality, which means that he attracted more votes than each of his opponents, but he is just short of a true majority.”
While students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Abrahams and his friends Jerry and David Zucker and Dick Chudnow started the comedy group Kentucky Fried Theater, which combined video satires of TV commercials and a stage show.
Bry left the Marshfield Clinic in 1992 and, after a brief stint as a farm hand in Illinois, he began a faculty position at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He treated patients and taught medical students until his 80th birthday. In his later practice, he focused on irritable bowel syndrome and other chronic functional disorders. Patients who had suffered debilitating symptoms for years remain grateful for the healing he gave them.
To be considered frozen over, lakes Wingra and Monona must have at least half ice cover. Mendota, the largest of Madison’s lakes, is subject to another rule developed by limnologists Edward Birge and Chancey Juday in the early 1900s because of its odd shape: The lake is considered frozen when you can’t row a boat between Picnic Point on UW-Madison’s northeast side to Maple Bluff.
