A new study by the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health has found that the level of regret reported by transgender individuals following gender-affirming surgery is less than 1%, which is significantly lower than the regret associated with having children, getting a tattoo, or undergoing plastic surgery.
UW-Parkside is gutting its current college structure and will put all programs under a single college as it contends with continued enrollment declines and budget shortfalls.
If implemented, the policy change being proposed could impact 30% of the UW system’s offerings, as a third-party audit by Deloitte from late last year found that about 200 of nearly 650 programs analyzed are in the low-enrollment category. UW system spokesperson Mark Pitsch said the percentage of low-enrollment programs is closer to 10%, based on UW system’s calculation that differs from Deloitte’s.
More than 10,000 Wisconsin high school seniors accepted fall 2025 admission to a Universities of Wisconsin campus via the state’s new Direct Admit program, system administrators revealed to the UW Board of Regents.That’s about 43% of the Wisconsin high school seniors who got one of the automatic admissions letters the system sent out last summer.
At the University of Wisconsin, a stretch of August has long been known as “Hippie Christmas” because so many students deposit their unwanted belongings on front lawns.
Kraus-Anderson announced Monday it completed the $2.3 million remodel of the University Book Store, located at 711 State Street. The renovation also included the university’s marketing and communications department offices.
It can take up to two-and-a-half hours to drive from Berlin in Green Lake County to the nearest pediatric hospital. That’s according to Evan VandenLangenberg, chief of Berlin Emergency Medical Services. His community is one of the initial participants of Orion Initiative training, a new program offered by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health that aims to expand advanced medical training to rural communities.
An op-ed by Joshua Braver, an assistant professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies civil-military relations.
“There’s this shifting mentality that the state is the owner of these institutions — it’s not the students, it’s not the alumni,” said Isabel McMullen, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies public university boards.
