UW-Madison is ranked No. 425. This number makes me proud because in comparison to a school such as Washington University in St. Louis (No. 1), which enrolls a higher percentage of the elite (27.1 percent) than any other school, UW represents a broad experiment in which a liberal arts education acts as an engine of social mobility.
Recent accounts of free-speech issues both on the UW-Madison campus and elsewhere throughout the country move me to write to express some perplexity over these incidents. Why, I ask myself for the umpteenth time, is protesting imitatively and predictably on such a scale regarded as a particularly effective expedient? Why not adopt a different strategy?
A homeless man suspected of causing the death of UW-Madison student Beau Solomon in Rome last year has been released from prison and there are no other suspects, but Rome and Italian police are keeping the death investigation open, a Rome police official said.
State Rep. Chris Taylor said she would modify it to take out ’punitive punishment’ against students.
Column: Kim Krautkramer is now a third-year medical student at UW-Madison, pursuing a dual doctorate (M.D.-Ph.D.) in the medical scientist training program.
Bob was also a well respected clinical instructor for many years at the UW School of Pharmacy, working with many students and faculty members.
A major diversity goal for UW-Madison officials is “enhancing the campus climate for inclusion.” However, for some students, including outgoing Associated Students of Madison Chair Carmen Goséy, the administration is failing to uphold this ideal.
There will be new faces at the table for the next Student Council meeting after the group elected new sustainability, grant allocation and SAC governing board chairs Thursday night.
When she first moved from Monona to Madison’s East Side, 14-year-old Avenna Pickett felt like she didn’t know anybody — until another girl told her about Performing Ourselves.Avenna joined the dance group, which is taught by students from the UW-Madison Dance Department and meets weekly at East Madison Community Center and elsewhere.
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said he can’t remember another time a candidate returned donations so quickly after a campaign, either.
On Wednesday, a series of events marked the grand opening celebration of the UW-Madison Black Cultural Center at the Red Gym in Madison.
A firm that manages student housing on two University of Wisconsin campuses has settled a lawsuit with three subcontractors who said they were never paid for work done on one of the dorms.
Gardeners are already digging in the dirt, and UW-Madison’s Family Gardening Day is designed to help new gardeners get started and energize longtime gardeners. Also, there will be gardening swag.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is celebrating a milestone with one of its new programs.
After much anticipation for protests during a speech by controversial libertarian political scientist Charles Murray Wednesday, the only disturbance came from a brief fire alarm.
Carmen Goséy warns minority parents not to send children to UW.
Center for Study of Liberal Democracy hosted Murray in attempt to reaffirm First Amendment principles.
Sen. Leah Vukmir and Rep. Adam Jarchow began circulating the bill for co-sponsors Wednesday. The measure also would prohibit administrators in both systems from expressing themselves on public controversies and require schools to let speakers onto campus even if they can’t guarantee their safety. Organizing protests to dissuade speakers from visiting would be prohibited.
The project was among the projects to recently win funding from UW2020, an initiative backed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to provide resources for innovative academic research.According to Jeremy Morris, the communications professor who launched PodcastRE, the project is saving cultural artifacts that are at risk of being lost. Unlike film reels or canvas paintings, podcasts are not vulnerable to decay, fire, humidity or mold. The threat they face is simply getting deleted from a server.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team will play an extra game in the 2017-18 season, and that’ll provide the earliest start to a campaign in program history.
Computer scientists and dairy experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the UW Extension are collaborating to create a suite of computer programs that can help with dairy farming — a “virtual brain” that uses artificial intelligence to help farmers with day-to-day decision-making.
There were police officers, private security guards and plenty of discussion about the potential for disruptions at a lecture Wednesday night by the controversial political scientist Charles Murray.
Many legal tools are already available to campus administrators and local authorities that allow them to deal with those who disrupt speakers at campus events.
David spent his last years enjoying his work at Der Rathskeller in the UW Memorial Union.
The Republican sponsor of a proposed bill that would require University of Wisconsin campuses to create a system to punish students who disrupt the free expression of others says he expects Democratic support.
UW-Madison will open a center for black students as the spring semester winds down Wednesday, in what one researcher called a positive step toward the university better supporting African-Americans on campus.
The Badgers will take on San Diego on the campus of USC in the first round, with the winner facing either Denver or the fourth-seeded Trojans.
Letter to the editor: Even when they are well-intentioned, attempts by legislators to micro-manage University of Wisconsin affairs are often heavy handed or misdirected.But the bill from Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, to ensure free speech on campus seems appropriate and essentially constructive.
They are advancing speech-code legislation that Larry Dupuis, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Wisconsin chapter, correctly refers to as “unnecessarily draconian.” If Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his compatriots get their way, the Board of Regents would be mandated to adopt policies requiring UW campuses to remain neutral on public controversies — like, one supposes, the debate over how best to protect Wisconsin dairy farmers in international trade disputes. This has the potential to impinge on academic freedom, public discourse and the ability of lobbyists for the university system to advocate for maintenance of the Wisconsin Idea, adequate funding of campuses, tuition issues and more.
The New York Times bestseller—written by J.D. Vance—details the author’s upbringing and struggle with class and social problems in the Rust Belt of Ohio, as well as in Appalachian town in Kentucky.
Grueling competition requires teams to solve series of complex problems in just five hours.
UW leads in areas of improvement, but ‘absolutely’ still has work to do.
Few of these warnings of sexual assault resulted in police investigations, and even fewer—one out of the 24 total—resulted in an arrest. That arrest ended in deferred prosecution.
Student obituaries from the 2016-’17 academic year.
Group has started fights at rallies around U.S.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police officers were out and about Tuesday with a new effort to enforce pedestrian safety laws.
Both UW-Madison and Edgewood College have joined Madison College as partners in the Madison School District program to get high school students thinking about college and career possibilities earlier and more strategically.
Numbers from the university’s most recent Data Digest clocked women faculty at just 750 in 2015, compared to 1,455 men. This may not sound too promising given the national conversation around gender equality, but 20 years ago, the gap looked more like a four-times difference. Progress has been made. But it’s still no secret that women looking to rise through the academic ranks face a steeper climb, particularly women of color.
One of the Republican lawmakers behind a bill that would require Wisconsin’s state universities to suspend or expel student hecklers who disrupt speeches acknowledged Monday that it may be unconstitutional.
For students at Wisconsin’s flagship university, a college education now comes with a side of local hydroponic butter lettuce.
UW-Madison and Edgewood College officials announced their participation Monday, joining Madison Area Technical College as anchor partners in the program, which is aimed at helping high school students explore college and career options sooner and in a more deliberate way. Students in the initiative will supplement their learning through themed curriculum developed for the chosen pathway, along with projects and other activities mixed with their regular coursework.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team’s Fill the Bowl game at the Kohl Center on Jan. 14 was announced as a sellout hours before faceoff.
Two UW-Madison organizations will host one of the nation’s most controversial political scientists for an off-campus lecture this week, and demonstrators are gearing up to confront him.
The home sellout streak for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team extended to 56 regular-season games at the Kohl Center this season.
Column: I never personally knew a genius until I came to know Hazel “Hodhari” Symonette at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after I arrived here as a new graduate student, a long, long way from home.
UW-Madison Law School professor Frank Tuerkheimer, a former U.S. attorney, said requiring prosecutors to consult with victims throughout the criminal trial process would be a big departure from current practice. “Whoever drafted this was kind of careful not to transfer power from prosecutors to victims, but simply create a rather continuous right of input,” Tuerkheimer said. “I think it would be somewhat onerous for the prosecutor.”
With a K-12 school aid increase on solid ground, a University of Wisconsin tuition cut in serious jeopardy and a solution to road funding still elusive, the Legislature’s budget-writing committee will come together Monday to begin voting on the two-year spending plan.
Students are invited to gather at the UW-Madison Library Mall at 11 a.m. and also make their way to the Capitol.
Alice Goffman’s ethnographic research is making waves again.
Even with its tradition of research excellence, UW-Madison is caught in a perfect storm of challenges to its prominence.
The ground was muddy on Mifflin Street even before the rain clouds came in.
Former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball players were well represented at the Crazylegs Classic, at the finish line and on the race course.
A new UW-Madison study found women are twice as likely to have depression, and the gap in mental health between genders begins at age 12. UW professor Janet Hyde said a gender gap in mental health has been known in the scientific community for decades but had not been confirmed on a scale as large as this study.
Jim Leonhard will earn $600,000 in his first year as the University of Wisconsin’s defensive coordinator, $375,000 more than he made as the Badgers’ secondary coach in 2016.
First Amendment watchdogs say a Republican bill that would require University of Wisconsin System officials to punish students and employees who interrupt speeches could help address what they see as growing hostility to opposing ideas among some on college campuses.
A UW-Madison scientist’s chance opportunity to study a curious colony of rats in Mexico nearly three decades ago has resulted in an animal model for a newly discovered human disease related to multiple sclerosis.
Mike Leckrone could fill a book with compelling stories and experiences he shared with Elroy Hirsch.
The bill would also require universities to stay neutral on public policy controversies. The intent of that provision is to bar universities from forcing faculty or students to take a particular viewpoint, an aide to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said.
University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators swiftly dismissed a call from the Associated Students of Madison student council to divest from corporations involved in private prisons, fossil fuels, border walls or arms manufacture.
After the startling results of a 2015 survey on the incidence of sexual assault on college campuses across the country, most participating institutions have increased spending to combat it, a new report by the Association of American Universities found.
