Millions of Americans who hold federal student loan debt are facing uncertainty after President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week in an effort to dismantle the Department of Education, which currently manages $1.6 trillion in student loans.
Louise Robbins, a retired professor of library studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the money might be the only source of funding for some tribal libraries.
“It’s very heavily used by people of all ages, income levels, needs, abilities, and [the order] would really severely damage services and have a huge impact, a multiplying impact, because people often use the funding from ILMS to match other funding,” Robbins said.
March 30 honors physicians who care for the health and wellness of their patients. UW Health is looking to celebrate their 1,800 physicians with notes of gratitude.
Showings will be at the UW Cinematheque, Music Hall, Chazen Museum of Art, The Marquee, Barrymore Theater, Bartell Theater and Flix Brewhouse.
UW-Madison continues to make adjustments to its financial plans with ongoing uncertainty about federal funding cuts, stop work orders and inflationary impacts from tariffs.
Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said while there are potential conflicts of interest with the volume of money in court races, funding that is less traceable presents a different challenge.
Long before John Tonje’s baseline jumper fell short against BYU, his final shot as a collegian, University of Wisconsin coach Greg Gard was taking questions on the future.
College basketball’s future.
He graduated from UW-L in 1969 with a degree in art education. In 1973, he completed his Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture at UW-Madison through the Ford Foundation Fellowship.
After a brief time at Emporia State University in Kansas, Lowe returned to teach at UW-Madison in 1974. He became a full professor of sculpture in 1989 and served as chairman of the art department from 1992 to 1995.
UW-Eau Claire Chancellor Jim Schmidt, one of the Universities of Wisconsin’s longest-tenured leaders, will leave the university this summer to take a new role as the president of James Madison University in Virginia.
UW-Madison leaders are limiting the freedom vice chancellors and other officials have over their budgets following the discovery of thousands in “questionable” expenses by the former chief of the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
UW Hospital spent $20.1 million, or 0.8% or revenue, on charity care — free or discounted care — in 2023, while St. Mary’s, spent $2.1 million, or 0.5%. Meriter spent $4 million, or 0.7%, and Stoughton Hospital spent $200,000 last year, or 0.4% both years. The state average was 0.7%.
The State Building Commission has deadlocked on recommendations for new capital spending in the upcoming budget Tuesday, ceding its authority once again to the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee.
Mark Johnson has been musing about golf, fly fishing and, eventually, hockey the past few days while sitting behind a microphone at the Frozen Four, and one of the constant themes was life lessons.
Wise people, the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey coach said on the eve of his 12th appearance in an NCAA championship game, learn from the experiences that life throws their way. Wiser people, he continued, take knowledge from the journeys of others.
But Wisconsin’s agricultural exporters may have a harder time selling their products to foreign markets in the face of retaliatory tariffs, said Jeff Hadachek, assistant professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“At a very basic level, it means there will be a glut of food and food products that can no longer leave or leave the country at a higher cost than they previously did,” he said. “That means lower prices at the farm gate and lower prices for the food processors as well.”
Wisconsin in particular also is seeing fewer leave, according to Ananth Seshadri, director of the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Between 2012 and 2016, Wisconsin lost about 8,000 taxpayers a year to other states, according to data from the Internal Revenue Service. But, between 2017 and 2020, that number neutralized to about 0 — meaning about the same number of taxpayers moved in as moved out. Seshadri said falling tax rates could be one reason why.
“We still tax our residents more than most of our neighboring states, but the tax structure in Wisconsin is a little more friendly,” he said.
The “soft-on-crime” moniker is absurd, said Howard Schweber, professor emeritus of political science and legal studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Anyone who has been a prosecutor, defense attorney or judge in enough criminal cases knows it’s easy to find cases in which the outcome looks bad to members of the public, who have none of the context needed to understand why it turned out as it did, he said.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield will speak at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison April 1 where she’ll share insights from her experience in foreign policy and how it applies to modeling respect and compromise in policy making. The event is free and open to the public.
Jim Snider, like a lot of people around the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, anticipated the Badgers to begin their NCAA Tournament journey Friday night in Milwaukee.
But Wisconsin’s strength and conditioning coach has learned a lot from the past, searching for greater efficiencies in his program at the start of every campaign.
No one has more national women’s hockey coach of the year awards than Mark Johnson, but the University of Wisconsin coach’s most recent recognition was 14 years ago.
That drought ended Thursday when Johnson was named the Division I Women’s Coach of the Year for the fifth time. No one else has won it more than three times.
Letter to the editor: As President Donald Trump tries to cut diversity, equity and inclusion programs, the UW-Madison DEI efforts serve up the perfect target for DEI critics.
By the time Friday’s semifinal is decided and one team has a spot in the championship game against either Ohio State or Cornell, a frequent occurrence will be reality again. Wisconsin or Minnesota has ended the other’s season 12 times in the last 24 seasons.
Wisconsin’s private colleges are shifting course and cutting staff as they cater to in-demand industries in an effort to survive the same financial headwinds plaguing public universities.
UW Health describes the AI technology as “an ambient listening tool that can record, transcribe and analyze the discussion a health care provider and patient have during an appointment.” The health system says the AI creates a draft note that the provider reviews and uses as part of the documentation of the patient’s visit.
Voter turnout at the University of Wisconsin has hit a record high following the first day of early voting Tuesday, March 18. On the ballot are important decisions such as the Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates, candidates for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State of Wisconsin referendum question on Voter IDs.
UW Health plans to expand its use of artificial intelligence to improve patient visits.
Starting this year, UW Health will quadruple the number of providers using an ambient listening tool designed to record, transcribe and summarize patient-provider conversations.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin teamed up with canines and volunteers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison March 18 for the fourth annual “Pet Out The Vote” event to mobilize student voters ahead of the April 1 state Supreme Court election.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin this week defended demoting a leader of diversity and inclusion efforts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It’s not something I did, or would do, lightly. … It was my decision, and I own the responsibility for the decision,” Mnookin told a group of faculty leaders Monday in response to questions over the move. The chancellor said her leadership team also unanimously supported demoting LaVar Charleston, who served as UW-Madison’s vice chancellor for inclusive excellence.
Men4Choice, an organization focused on mobilizing men to support reproductive freedoms, hosted a panel with the College Democrats of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday on the state of abortion rights in Wisconsin ahead of the April 1 state Supreme Court election, highlighting how men should also be involved in abortion advocacy.
Days before his flight to Argentina, a UW-Madison researcher lost a Fulbright award from a federal funding freeze.Under President Trump’s administration, the U.S. State Department froze funds in February for international education programs. That includes the Fulbright Program, which allows scholars to conduct research overseas.
For one UW-Madison researcher, the freeze put more than a year’s worth of planning down the drain. “There’s a lot of anxiety in the scientific world now,” said UW-Madison professor emeritus, Richard Lindroth.
Public and private K-12 schools would have to organize all athletic teams, including in club sports such as kickball, by male or female sexes and prohibit transgender girls from participating in female sports, under one of the bills, Assembly Bill 100. Another, AB102, would make the same requirements of public university and technical college sports and athletic teams.
As much greatness as Mark Johnson has produced during his three-plus decades at the University of Wisconsin — as an athlete, coach and just a human being in general — it was interesting to hear him reveal this week that this run got off to a rocky start.
Hillary Jones Henry was banking on the American government keeping its promise.
A native of Kenya, Jones Henry was accepted into the federally funded Fulbright Foreign Student program for the 2024-25 academic year, teaching Swahili at UW-Madison in exchange for a monthly stipend of $1,320 to help cover costs, like rent. But on Feb. 22, his scheduled payment didn’t arrive. He tried to donate blood and plasma as a quick way to make money but was denied due to the prevalence of malaria in Africa.
“Now we often have stalemate and finger pointing and hostility between the branches,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “They just don’t work well together, and so a lot of their disputes have ended up in lawsuits around education policies or election issues or abortion or (gubernatorial) powers. … So it’s made the court a more important venue.”
The Universities of Wisconsin System requested a variety of projects when the State Building Commission was considering allocation of its funds, according to the official State Building Commission’s agenda and requests statement. These included new electrical systems, demolition and replacement of old or outdated buildings along with fixing and adding parking lots around campus, according to the agenda and requests statement.
Executive Director of University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin Jake Baggott says UHS is aware this is a worrisome development, especially with spring break travels soon approaching, and is something they are paying close attention to.
Letter to the editor by Prof. Matthew Hora, Departments of Educational Policy Studies (School of Education) and Liberal Arts & Applied Studies (Division of Continuing Studies).
The Associate Students of Madison — the student governing body at the University of Wisconsin — passed a piece of legislation titled “Keep Our Speech Free” during Wednesday evening’s ASM student council meeting, according to a statement from ASM Chair Dominic Zappia.
UW Health is adjusting its policy on wearing masks in its facilities. Mask-wearing in low-risk clinics is now considered optional. It had been strongly recommended.
For University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore Audrey Catlin, dance is where she feels most connected to her Irish culture. Catlin comes from an Irish family and grew up going to Milwaukee Irish Fest, where she first experienced traditional Irish dance.
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin secured the most earmarks before passage of the CR. She was poised to bring more than $192 million back to the state for projects including the construction of National Guard readiness centers in Wausau, Black River Falls and Wisconsin Rapids, as well as millions toward research efforts at University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison held its annual shark tank-style Arts Business Competition on March 12 at Grainger Hall.
Ahead of last November’s election, the University of Wisconsin-Madison College Democrats and College Republicans campaigned on abortion rights and public safety, respectively. Now, with the April 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court election weeks away, both organizations told The Daily Cardinal their campaigning tactics have largely stayed the same.
Prospective graduate students accepted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been receiving emails changing the terms of their offers amid uncertainty over federal funding for higher education.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee names four finalists for to become the next chancellor.
UW Health’s Dr. Jeff Pothof joined News 3 Now Live at Four Tuesday to answer if beef tallow is actually good for you.
The University Committee met Monday with the Dean of the Graduate School Bill Karpus, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and other University of Wisconsin leaders to discuss graduate admissions and federal funding cuts.
Women at the University of Wisconsin conduct groundbreaking research every day to advance their fields of study and contribute to a better understanding of the world.
UW ranks sixth in the nation for research universities among private and public universities, according to the National Science Foundation’s annual ranking. Women in research, specifically in STEM areas, are still underrepresented in research funding, according to a study by JAMA.
The University of Wisconsin was one of 60 schools that the U.S. Department of Education warned last Monday about a potential loss of federal funding if they fail to protect Jewish students.
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate judge Susan Crawford visited the University of Wisconsin campus to host a rally in Grainger Hall on March 18.
UW-Madison Professor Sterling Johnson leads one of the world’s largest and longest-running studies of people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. His team aims to diagnose the disease years before people develop symptoms and then identify ways to slow its progression.
“A key problem we are trying to solve is how we can diagnose the disease earlier, before people even develop symptoms,” Johnson said during a campus news conference. “Early diagnosis allows time for individuals and their families to take control of their situation, maintain good quality of life, take steps to protect brain health and learn about treatments.”
Graduate guard John Tonje was named a second-team All-American by the Associated Press on Tuesday. It’s the first AP All-American selection for a Badgers’ player since Johnny Davis was named a consensus All-American in 2021-22.
A study by UW-Madison sociology professor Michael Light and two others of crimes committed between 2012 and 2018 found U.S.-born citizens were more than two times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes than immigrants, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and more than four times more likely to be arrested for property crimes.
The 62-mile Yahara River is fed by a 536-square-mile watershed that covers about a quarter of Dane County. It includes a mix of urban and agricultural land and is populated by more than 370,000 people, according to the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison.
After nearly 20 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brent Plisch officially became the new leader of campus police Sunday.
Plisch temporarily led the department after Kristen Roman resigned last year amid an investigation into her conduct as chief. Plisch then competed against a handful of outside candidates to fill the permanent position.
“This order is fairly vague and attempts to touch on multiple areas that an administration could potentially oppose,” said Taylor Odle, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies federal education policy.
UW-Madison is among 60 universities nationwide that received letters this week from President Donald Trump’s Department of Education warning of unspecified “potential enforcement action” if the administration determines they are not sufficiently combatting antisemitism on their campuses.
Treating college athletes as employees would put athletic departments in impractical situations, University of Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh told members of Congress on Tuesday.
“I’m trying to envision our HR department posting 800 positions, posting a position for a wide receiver on our football team,” he said.
After a brief stint working for the State of Kentucky in Frankfurt, he returned to Madison, Wis. and worked the rest of his career as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Agricultural Economics. He worked for the UW extension outreach service primarily advising state and local governments on legal aspects of natural resource management issues such as the conservation of wetlands, shorelines, and farmland.
Most of the lights were off at LaBahn Arena. The stickers on the boards, affixed earlier in the week, labeled the game that never happened.
University of Wisconsin men’s basketball graduate guard John Tonje is officially one of the best players in the Big Ten.
