Column from Chris Rickert: “With Wisconsin college students the third most likely in the nation to be weighed down by student loan debt, legislative Democrats have been pushing a proposal to let them refinance their loans with the state, while Republicans on Monday responded with a handful of more modest proposals.”
In Sunday’s paper, I read about the UW student section at Saturday’s basketball game twice chanting, “You can’t read,” directing the chant at Maryland player and Wisconsin native Diamond Stone. … Why wasn’t the student section cleared after the first episode? This embarrassment of our flagship university, and of this young man and his family, actually happened twice.
Christian Schneider opinion column: “[I]t isn’t tuition that is driving the recent explosion in student loan issuance. In fact, it is exactly the other way around — the availability of easy money flooding the market in the form of loans has allowed college administrators to hike tuition to soak up this excess cash.”
More University of Wisconsin System students graduate with debt than the national average, and they owe more money that the average U.S. college graduate, according to data to be presented Friday to the UW Tuition-Setting Policy Task Force.
Roichelle “Shelly” Marble has adjusted quite well to her cardinal-and-white University of Wisconsin existence. Marble’s two worlds will collide tonight when the UW women’s basketball team takes on the Hawkeyes at the Kohl Center. While not quite as dramatic as if the game were being played in Iowa City, Marble says it will be a special occasion to play against the school where her late father, Roy, remains a legend.
Pro-life organizations and the legislators behind (the fetal tissue ban) bill and two other bills held a Rally for Life on the Capitol steps, urging lawmakers to pass all three. The groups are particularly focused on encouraging Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, to schedule a vote, because they believe the Assembly has the votes to pass the legislation. But Vos said Tuesday Republican lawmakers are still working to reach a compromise on the proposal, which is an updated version of a 2013 bill that would ban the “sale, transfer or experimentation” of fetal body parts.
University of Wisconsin-Parkside student Britney Woods was invited by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin to attend President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday.
A family medicine physician has been named medical director at University Health Services on the UW-Madison campus.Dr. William Kinsey comes to UHS from the nonprofit Access Community Health Center in Madison, where he was medical site director since 2009.
Republican lawmakers have scratched most big-ticket items off their to-do list, but they’ve still got plenty to do as they work to bolster their campaign positions before the legislative session ends.
He was hired as a police officer with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department in December 1964 and proudly served the university community until January 1994 when he retired as a Police Captain.
Leonard Berkowitz, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016. Dr. Berkowitz served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1955 to 1989.
Noted: Comment from Joe Glass, UW-Madison assistant social work professor who specializes in addiction, and Julia Sherman, coordinator of the UW-based Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project.
Glass pointed to sobriety checkpoints, alcohol ignition locks, license revocation and suspension laws as among the examples. But it’s also quite possible that someone working on a fourth drunken-driving offense has an addiction. “Repeated use in hazardous situations, including drinking and driving, is a characteristic of alcohol use disorder, as defined by the medical community,” Glass said.
Sherman said she’s not aware of evidence that the threat of tougher penalties alone deters drunken driving. Evidence does show that treatment changes alcohol-related behavior, she said, but “just locking people up isn’t treatment.”
The two campuses are among at least 20 other colleges and universities across the country where administrators have banned or restricted the self-balancing scooters, citing the risk of falls and warnings from consumer groups that the batteries that power hoverboards could catch fire.
Krumrie will be the 10th Wisconsin player to be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame and the first defensive player to be honored. Four Wisconsin coaches, including current athletics director Barry Alvarez, have been elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as well.
Gloria Ladson-Billings leads a list of five UW-Madison professors who are ranked in the top 200 nationally for their influence on education policy and practice … Ladson-Billings ranked 5th; Sara Goldrick-Rab 13th; Adam Gamoran tied for 69th; John Witte 138th and Geoffrey Borman tied for the 150 spot.
Schmidt, 40, elected in the spring of 2009 to represent the 11th District on the West Side, is a researcher with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the Space Science Engineering Center at UW-Madison.
The UW-Madison law professor who helped free Steven Avery after a wrongful conviction in the 1980s says “Making a Murderer,” the popular Netflix documentary about his 2007 homicide trial, illustrates problems in the criminal justice system that affect many cases beyond Avery’s. Professor Keith Findley, a co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, said his organization is not currently representing Avery, whose supporters say he was wrongfully convicted in the 2005 death of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach.
The fans’ thinking goes like this: How can UW hope to win national or conference titles when it can’t get athletes admitted to school that its competitors can? And why can’t the athletic department, which ranks in the top 10 nationally in revenue, pony up enough cash to keep high-quality assistant coaches? Which brings us back to that flawed premise. Fans think, or want to think, that college sports are conducted on an even playing field, that all schools are created equal. They’re not. Never have been, never will be.
University of Wisconsin-Madison textile expert Majid Sarmadi, who studied fluorescent pink’s visibility for the bill’s authors, backed up that assertion (that pink is more visible than blaze orange). He told the committee pink stands out more than orange in a fall landscape.
Letter to the editor from professor emeritus.
The department initially refused to identify L.A. resident Eyal Binshtock, as he was never arrested or cited, but provided his name in response to an open records request.
Tessa Conroy and Steven Deller recently completed a study showing that Wisconsin job growth is fueled by newer, smaller businesses. But the report says state policies tend to boost larger, more established businesses.
Two pro-life organizations have launched a television advertising campaign to encourage legislative action on the fetal tissue research ban. However, it was reported Monday that at least two TV stations have refused to air the ads during prime viewing times.
Worship leaders for the Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship wore #BlackLivesMatter T-shirts at the group’s annual “Urbana15” conference in St. Louis last week, where keynote speaker Michelle Higgins called Black Lives Matter a movement doing God’s work.
Video: Ken Mayer, a political science professor at UW-Madison, talks about President Barack Obama’s executive action on gun violence.
James P. Henderson was named Monday as the system’s chief academic officer, overseeing academic programs, diversity planning and faculty and staff development, among other responsibilities, officials said.
Letter to the editor fromBruce Thomadsen, president of the Wisconsin University Union. “Business is a bad model for a university because the goal of business is to make a profit for shareholders. The goal of a university is to educate students and produce research.”
s in most postseason college football games, there was no title at stake when the University of Wisconsin faced Auburn in last year’s Outback Bowl. After the Tigers banged a 45-yard overtime field goal attempt off the uprights, the Badgers still celebrated as if there was.
A book by two UW-Madison instructors on the importance of pop music to U.S. military personnel in Vietnam has been named 2015’s best volume on music by Rolling Stone magazine.
Wisconsin Companion Animal Resources, Education and Social Services, or WisCARES, is a partnership between UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Social Work. For about a year and a half, WisCARES has been operating a clinic that provides basic care to pets and social assistance to their owners.
Professors from across the UW System got to make their final pleas Wednesday on what two new policies concerning faculty layoffs and tenure review might look like.
The Watt brothers from Pewaukee will have bittersweet emotions on Dec. 30 when their Wisconsin Badgers football team plays in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego against Southern California .For Derek, a senior, it will be his final game with the Badgers. For younger brother, TJ, a redshirt sophomore, it will be his first bowl game with hopefully two more still in front of him.
Lee served in an administrative capacity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until her retirement.
Shah immigrated to the United States in 1965 and joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1966, first as a post-doctoral fellow and then as a research scientist. During his time at the UW, he became a leading researcher in the Department of Bacteriology and an internationally recognized figure in the study of nitrogenase, enzymes that allow organisms to fix atmospheric nitrogen. His pioneering work synthesizing the iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMoCo) remains central to research in the field decades after its publication in journals such as Nature, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Biochemistry, and Journal of Biological Chemistry. In 1992, his distinguished career was honored with the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research. He retired from UW in 1998 with emeritus status as a senior scientist.
Sandy worked as a chemist at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
A contentious rewrite of tenure rules for the state’s public university faculty has advanced to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, months after lawmakers stripped tenure protections from state law.
The instigation of a new probe last month means the University of Wisconsin-Madison is under federal investigation for its handling of three sexual violence cases, among the highest for any college campus in the nation.
A task force charged with recommending a UW System policy to replace tenure provisions wiped from state law in Gov. Scott Walker’s latest budget wrapped up their work Wednesday uncertain if they had restored protections to academic freedom.
A developer is proposing a roughly $10 million mixed-use project on Monroe Street near Camp Randall Stadium, continuing a trend of more density on one of the city’s trendy commercial thoroughfares.
UW-Madison officials say the campus has seen an increase in the number of professors entertaining job offers from competing universities.
The UW System Tenure Policy Task Force, the body charged with writing new faculty protections, plans to meet Wednesday afternoon to review draft policies that outline layoff protections for tenured faculty and the review process professors must go through after they have received tenure.
Associate head coach Greg Gard is now Wisconsin’s interim head coach, with a full Big Ten season to prove to athletic diector Barry Alvarez he is a worthy successor.
An international study involving 26 centers around the world has produced a more detailed picture of the genetic factors involved in age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The University of Wisconsin-Madison was one of the 26 centers involved in the study which was just published in the journal Nature Genetics.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation will provide $3.5 million to fill a budget hole and help a hub for energy research keep operating at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Funding for the Wisconsin Energy Institute had been cut in the state budget lawmakers approved this summer. Gov. Scott Walker removed the funding as part of a proposal to cut back state support for the university system and give it more autonomy.
Proposed policies expected to clear a major hurdle Wednesday will pave the way for something that has never been done in the University of Wisconsin System’s 44-year existence. One would allow tenured and tenure-track faculty to be laid off if academic programs are discontinued for “educational considerations,” including financial or strategic planning reasons tied to “long-term student and market demand and societal needs.” The other, if adopted, would strengthen procedures for evaluating faculty performance at least once every five years after they have achieved tenure.
Op-ed from John Behling, vice president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents and chair of its Tenure Policy Task Force.
It’s been a whirlwind for Gard since he was informed by Ryan during the afternoon of Dec. 15 that Ryan would retire, effectively immediately, following a game against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi later that day. To help him through the chaos, Gard has tried to lean on the advice he’s received since he got into the coaching business 25 years ago, as a way to fill a competitive void while also getting to work in athletics and with young people — two of his major areas of interest.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation plans to give $3.5 million to keep the Wisconsin Energy Institute operating for a year. It’s a stopgap move after state lawmakers passed a budget in July that removed $8.1 million in funding over two years for the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative.
Moore will fill the spot that opened when Bo Ryan abruptly retired last week, which moved associate head coach Greg Gard into the role of interim coach.
The bill will bring statutory language back to what it was before it was changed in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015-2017 budget to downgrade the role of faculty, staff and students from “active participants” to advisory.
During an interview with the State Journal on Monday, UW Athletic Director Barry Alvarez addressed the timetable of former basketball coach Bo Ryan’s retirement and also elaborated on what he expects to see from interim coach Greg Gard.
Somewhere down deep, you’re thinking, Wisconsin interim basketball coach Greg Gard has to be feeling some pressure. He’s got 12 weeks and at least 20 games to prove he was more than just a longtime loyal assistant to Bo Ryan. He has to convince athletic director Barry Alvarez that a national coaching search after this season will lead right back to a guy who grew up slopping manure on a hog farm just down the road in the Mayberry-esque town of Cobb.
Former men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan was again named among the candidates for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016 on Monday, the same day his retirement from the University of Wisconsin became official.
A group aiming to help hungry college students is opening a food pantry on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Donations of canned food are being collected in campus offices and dorms to stock the pantry, called the Open Seat.
She worked as a media specialist in Molecular Biology.
The health system, which is associated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was ranked in the bottom quarter of hospitals nationwide for patients who got sick or were injured while in the hospital, according to Medicare data. Of the hospitals ranked by Medicare in Madison, UW fared the worst.
Epic Systems will endow three faculty associate positions within the University of Wisconsin–Madison computer sciences department, the university announced earlier this month. The endowed faculty will teach software development, application design and user experience.
Founded by UW-Madison’s renowned stem cell pioneer James Thomson in 2004, CDI has been inking powerful deals and gradually adding staff as it has set about to become the premier source for stem cells in the world. In a meeting with the Wisconsin State Journal this week, Kazuyoshi Hirao, CDI’s new chairman and CEO, and Chris Parker, executive vice president and chief business officer, said the company, at 525 Science Drive, will stay in Madison and will continue to grow here.
Called the Open Seat, the pantry will serve a population of college students that advocates say often goes unnoticed, struggling to afford basic needs like housing and food while some of their peers pay four-figure monthly rents to live in luxurious apartment buildings.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s remarks in a college admissions case that students of color may not be able to compete at selective universities are “just nonsense,” says UW-Platteville Chancellor Dennis Shields. “Justice Scalia is wholly uninformed about the amount of talent that has flowed through elite universities that included people of color who went on to have distinguished careers,” Shields said Monday.
