The Legislature’s budget-writing committee on Thursday rejected Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition at University of Wisconsin schools, opting instead to extend a tuition freeze for the next two years.
An unauthorized person gained access to information about 2,036 UW Hospital patients in March, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
A UW-Madison research center named after Wisconsin’s longest-serving governor will be well worth its $3 million price tag if it improves the university’s frayed relationship with the Legislature.
The comments come as Walker’s budget clashes with his GOP legislative colleagues are heating up. Another point of contention for the state’s next two-year budget is whether to cut tuition at UW System schools, as Walker proposes.
Rep. Katrina Shankland, D-Stevens Point, said she and other Democrats will be advocating for some $500 million in additional investment and two years of free college education when the Joint Finance Committee takes up funding for the University of Wisconsin Thursday.
Pat Richter laughed off the revelation that struck him in the course of helping to select a list of people influential in building the tradition of Camp Randall Stadium over its first 100 years.
Noted: Fewer people, especially fewer children, are living in poverty in Wisconsin than ever before. In fact, we’ve seen a “significant reduction” in poverty across our state the past several years. That’s the data presented in a new report from UW-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty.
A new public policy center at University of Wisconsin-Madison named for former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is a great idea, said Donald Moynihan, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs on campus.
Quoted: “It is the main source for pulling so many things together,” Jim Hurley, director of the UW-Madison Sea Grant Institute, said of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which accounts for most of Trump’s cuts. “Boy, it would be tough to lose that momentum right now.”
The cuts include a program that provides colleges and universities with funding to support or establish campus-based child care for student parents whose earnings are low enough to qualify them for federal Pell Grants.
Republicans who control the Legislature’s powerful finance committee are now saying they expect to vote on the University of Wisconsin System budget later this week.
A new leadership center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus is being named after former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson.
A unique water aerobics class at the American Center at UW Health is breaking down barriers for deaf people.
The state’s Joint Finance Committee decided Tuesday to postpone a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget for the UW System, with Republicans in a disagreement over tuition rates.
Republicans who control the Legislature’s powerful finance committee are now saying they expect to vote on the University of Wisconsin System budget later this week.
The annual Wisconsin Poverty Measure study from the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison showed a jobs increase of 70,000 between January 2014 and November 2015 led to a “modest but statistically significant reduction in poverty.”
A new leadership center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be named for Republican former Gov. Tommy Thompson, the longest serving governor in the state of Wisconsin.
Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday announced the formation of a new public policy center at the state’s flagship university, which liberals said would be nothing more than a taxpayer-funded conservative think tank.
A proposed new research center at UW-Madison named for former Gov. Tommy Thompson would connect academic experts with lawmakers to improve public policy and inspire the next generation of political leaders, according to Republican and university leaders who announced the initiative Tuesday.
Assembly and Senate Republicans are clashing over whether to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition in the next biennial budget, though they said Tuesday there won’t be a tuition increase.
The Republican-led Joint Finance Committee will delay a scheduled vote on the University of Wisconsin System’s budget amid a disagreement over Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut tuition by 5 percent.
Democrats on the Wisconsin Legislature’s budget committee on Tuesday reintroduced an oft-rejected proposal that would allow student loans to be refinanced at lower interest rates. It was met with resistance once again by the committee’s Republican majority.
Gov. Scott Walker, in another sign of escalating tension with fellow Republicans who control the Legislature, vowed Monday to take the unprecedented step of vetoing the entire $76 billion state budget if it raises property taxes on homeowners.
University of Wisconsin System students would save hundreds of dollars on tuition and campuses would have to compete for additional state dollars under provisions in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget up for votes Tuesday in the Legislature’s powerful finance committee.
Madison Area Technical College will welcome hundreds of low-income students this fall in the inaugural class of a scholarship program that aims to give them the skills and money they need to succeed in higher education.
Leslie Orrantia is the director of community relations at the University of Wisconsin, a post she’s held since August 2016.
Quoted: “The biggest challenge is reducing phosphorus input, and so far there has been no reduction in phosphorus input to Lake Mendota,” says Stephen Carpenter, director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Limnology, adding that improving Mendota, the top of the Yahara chain, is the key to improving all of the lakes.
Halverson is an assistant professor in the UW-Madison School of Education, director of education for Theatre LILA and — as the kids like to call her — mayor of Whoopensocker City.
He remained in McFarland until 1995 as Elementary School Principal and taught graduate courses for several of the University of Wisconsin campuses. He also worked on many projects for the National Science Foundation and the Research and Development Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In UW-Madison’s rural health care immersion program, disaster and crisis response is a key piece of the curriculum. But instead of discussing hypotheticals, the program’s nursing students gained hands-on experience last week as they aided in northwestern Wisconsin’s tornado relief effort.
UW joins other Big Ten teams hoping to make splash against SEC, PAC-12.
Millions of taxpayer dollars could be used to finance the debts of the UW-Oshkosh foundation, a private nonprofit, if state officials and the foundation’s creditors reach a settlement.
It’s been interesting to follow the discussion from our legislators (mostly Republicans) related to the issue of free speech on university campuses. I applaud their support of the right of people to express their opinions, no matter how offensive, without the threat of being silenced.
The Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee ditched Gov. Scott Walker’s proposals to cut a century-old labor review commission and freeze technical college tuition.
State officials are considering a settlement with the creditors of the troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation, in what one lawmaker described as a “bailout” that could use millions of taxpayer dollars to cover the private nonprofit’s debts.
UW-Madison students considering a career in retail will soon have access to a 38-year veteran of the retail and apparel industry. The Kohl’s Center for Retailing has announced that Lorna Nagler will serve as the Alumni Executive in Residence for the fall semester.
The committee will be headed by a Department of Transportation official and include representatives from the Department of Transportation, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the state insurance commission, the Wisconsin State Patrol, the UW-Madison, the Wisconsin Technology Council, the governor’s office, local law enforcement, a motorcycle advocacy organization, the trucking industry and three or more members from the “automated and connected vehicle technology sector,” as well as six appointees chosen by legislative leadership from both parties, according to the executive order.
UW-Madison accounts on other social networking sites did not appear to be affected, nor were the many other UW-affiliated accounts on Twitter, according to spokesman John Lucas.
In 2006, dozens of colorful cows took over Dane County, appearing on street corners and at popular destinations. Now it’s Bucky’s turn.
Go to any major Madison event and Bucky Badger is likely to be there. Starting next spring, the image of University of Wisconsin’s mascot will be almost impossible to miss around town.
A larger-than-expected Big Ten Conference bowl payout should help the University of Wisconsin athletic department’s financial bottom line for this school year.
Not every medical product is as simple as a flu shot, said Justin Sydnor, who studies health insurance at UW-Madison, but “in general, it is possible for hospitals and clinics to generate itemized bills of their services, and generally the bills they send to the insurance company are broken down into pretty fine categories.”
You’ll see a lot more of Bucky Badger in Dane County next year.
Monumental moments that riveted Madison in 1967.
Norm Olson, founder of the CDR, credits the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board and the University of Wisconsin-Madison for helping the program take off.
An ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds is working to incorporate mindfulness techniques into everyday activities for elementary students.
The Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association has appointed a new face to the position of chief alumni officer and executive director of the foundation’s branch organization, the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
Catalina Toma is an assistant professor in communication arts at UW and studies online dating. She said the two biggest predictors of online dating users are being single and being an internet user.
The main Twitter account for UW-Madison was hacked Wednesday morning and university authorities are working with Twitter to resolve the issue, UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith McGlone said.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Twitter account has been hacked, UW police reported Wednesday morning.
Dr. Michael Thom of UW Health resigned and surrendered his license in February, amid an allegation of sexual misconduct with a patient, in a manner that allowed the case to remain secret.
The University of Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association on Tuesday announced the appointment of a Sarah Schutt as chief alumni officer and executive director of the alumni association.
The two grants are part of nearly $1.5 million that is being awarded for 82 community projects and causes and another 30 programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sydney McCourt is a sophomore at UW Madison. As the semester comes to an end, she’s spending more and more time in front of a screen.
Our UW System considers undocumented students “international students” for tuition purposes; that is, they must pay three times what resident students pay, without the ability to access any federal or state financial aid.
A man who “piggybacked” off students to get into a University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall last month is a suspect in a sexual assault case, police said.
Letter to the editor by Tishler, a UW-Madison emeritus professor of landscape architecture
The $1.5 million research station is being paid for through a public-private partnership that includes $750,000 in private funds and $650,000 from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. The property will include 30 acres of production cranberry beds to generate revenue to help support research, along with another five acres of beds for further research studies by faculty at UW-Madison and the USDA.
They play Missouri in the opening round at 8 p.m. Friday in a double-elimination regional that also includes No. 3 overall seed and host Oregon as well as Illinois-Chicago.
