The University of Wisconsin-Madison is well positioned to work with African-American students on campus climate and other race-related concerns, chancellor Rebecca Blank said Monday. “We do have students who experience real isolation on this campus. The question is what we can do to reduce those experiences,” Blank told members of the University Committee, the executive committee of the Faculty Senate.
Chris Walker, a professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walker, says in Marley songs like “No Woman, No Cry,” “Three Little Birds,” and “One Love,” a message of “love and redemption and equal rights and justice comes through that caused the world to be so in love with the music, those basic human ideas.” In “FACING Home: Love & Redemption,” to be staged Thursday through Saturday in Lathrop Hall on the UW-Madison campus, Walker and choreographer Kevin Ormsby put those stated values “in dialogue” with Jamaica’s rampant homophobia.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison would have been better off if graduate students had been included in the process of developing a new pay scheme for their work as assistants, says Graduate School Dean William Karpus.
Op-ed from Jeffrey Russell, vice provost for lifelong learning and dean of Continuing Studies at UW-Madison.
Noted: Includes comment from Sara McKinnon, a UW-Madison communication arts professor and an expert on refugee and asylum law. She said governors don’t have veto power in whether refugees come here but they can deny state money and resources to the volunteer agencies that provide job, health care and other assistance to refugees, “which could make the resettlement of refugees in these states much more challenging,” she said.
With concussions cut in half among high school football players in Wisconsin this year, a new study from UW-Madison is recommending athletic trainers be on the sidelines at games and practices, to better manage injuries.
The campus sent 2,276 Badgers abroad in the 2013-14 school year, the 10th-highest total of any American college or university, according to the Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. The number of students abroad was up 5 percent over the previous school year, UW officials said Monday.
The average college debt for students graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison rose 3.8 percent last year to $28,768, while debt for some graduate and professional school students rose more sharply, according to a new report.
For the second consecutive season, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team unfurled an NCAA Final Four banner prior to its opener.Unfortunately, the similarities between last season and this season ended once the banner took its place in the Kohl Center rafters.
After years in the private sector (CUNA, Full Compass, Great Lakes Higher Education) he joined his beloved UW-Madison as a contract administrator in RSP, and spent the last seven years as the Astronomy Department Administrator.
Q&A with John Young, UW-Madison meteorology professor for 49 years and former chair of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department.
Former coach Gary Andersen fled Madison after only two seasons, causing some UW fans to scan the national scores every Sunday morning and revel in his latest loss at Oregon State. Fans have had their share of fun, too, because Andersen has seven losses in nine games with the Beavers. But there is no reason for UW fans to act like jilted lovers. Instead of laughing derisively as Andersen’s losses pile up, they should be thanking him profusely for realizing what has become apparent in the 11 months since he left: His hiring at UW was a colossal mistake.
Why, in a time when Americans are becoming health and serving size conscious, is the UW Food Science Department eliminating the healthier portion size from its dairy store menu?
A developer is proposing to demolish the hulking creme and brown brick structure at 126 Langdon St. — once a private student residence hall — and replace it with a market-rate student housing tower of roughly the same height and size.
The “Black Out” march that amassed up to 600 UW-Madison students and their allies to protest marginalization of college students of color is just the beginning, rally organizer Kenneth Cole said Friday. Cole said he has worked with Young, Gifted and Black — a grassroots community group — to form a new organization, the Black Leadership Action Coalition, that will plan and carry out actions on the UW-Madison campus.
The rise of social media has put college athletes face-to-face with both fans and detractors while also forcing those players to be cognizant of what a simple sentence or two could do to the reputation of themselves or the school they attend.
Morris, who played football at Alabama in the early 1990s, has worked in the UW Athletic Department since 2010, when he joined the department’s business office. He became director of financial operations in 2014.
University of Wisconsin running back Corey Clement suffered a cut on his hand following an incident at his off-campus residence early Sunday morning, according to a university release.
The Daily Cardinal plans to cut production of its print edition to two days per week, leaving UW-Madison without a daily student newspaper only a few years after the campus had two of them.
The Daily Cardinal at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will print Mondays and Thursdays next semester. Editor-in-chief Jim Dayton says the 123-year-old paper will shift its focus to web and mobile products.
Report on panel discussion at the UW-Madison on Wednesday evening featuring representatives of global, national and local startup incubator and accelerator programs.
Hundreds of people, mostly UW-Madison students, gathered in front of Bascom Hall Thursday night surrounding the statue of Abraham Lincoln in solidarity with their peers at the University of Missouri. After listening to speeches, they marched to Library Mall chanting what has become a common refrain at rallies locally and around the country: “Black lives matter!” and “No justice, no peace!” The group reconvened for more speeches before marching up State Street to the Capitol Square.
Politicians spoke longer making statements that registered “false” or “pants on fire” on the Politifact truth-o-meter than did politicians saying something that registered as “true,” research conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found.
After the emergence on social media of a photo of a blackface Halloween costume that was tied to the school, University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer declared that “incidents of hate or bias are not welcome” on the Menomonie campus.
He worked for over 30 years at UW-Madison Residence Halls.
It’s one thing for a collegiate men’s basketball program to finish fourth or better in its conference for 14 consecutive seasons. It’s an entirely different matter when it happens at a school that has little basketball tradition and plays in a conference that is as deep and strong as any in the nation. Only in that context can we fully appreciate what Bo Ryan has done since he was named coach at the University of Wisconsin in 2001.
CDI was founded by UW-Madison stem cell pioneer James Thomson in 2004. In addition to Madison operations, at 525 Science Drive, CDI has a branch in Novato, California, where it is a partner in a stem cell bank. The company had annual revenue of $16.7 million in 2014.
“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place,” written by Craig Werner (who teaches literature, music and culture in the Department of Afro-American Studies) and Doug Bradley (retired academic staff member and distinguished lecturer), suggests that popular protest songs included in depictions of the war — like Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” — weren’t the only music on the mixtapes service members played to lift their spirits in the face of isolation from loved ones and physical danger.
UW-Madison plans to spend $3 million this year on raises for its best professors, with money going to reward top faculty members and counter job offers from competing universities, officials announced Tuesday.
Noted: UW-Madison economics and public affairs professor Andrew Reschovsky said there have been a number of state efficiency commissions in the past but that because the state has long been dealing with tight budgets, government bureaucrats have already long been lowering costs.
Last spring, 465 students took the AP computer science exam in Wisconsin. Only four of those test takers were African-American. According to a report by Education Week which looked at College Board data from each state, the numbers around the country show that the vast majority of those who take the AP computer science exam are white and male.
UW-Madison officials have decided not to hire any of the candidates a search committee recommended to lead the campus’ Office of Student Financial Aid, and will instead restart the search next year … UW-Madison will launch the second search for a financial aid director next spring. Also: Major League Baseball commissioner and Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig will hold the latest in a series of talks about the game’s hist
The presence of Epic Systems, Verona’s health IT giant, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are standout assets to the Madison entrepreneurial community, panelists said.
Assembly Republicans quashed an effort by Democrats on Tuesday to pull a student loan refinancing proposal from committee and take it up on the floor.
For years, UW Athletics and UW-Madison have had a strong private-public partnership that has brought people together in support of Badgers on and off the playing field. But now the UW Athletic Department’s private business mentality has gone corporate, pandering to the billionaire Koch brothers and their divisive tactics. Our Walker-controlled Board of Regents is in full support.
The introduction of proposed changes to post-tenure performance review policy came just after the UW-Madison Faculty Senate endorsed new tenure rules to be sent to the Board of Regents for approval.
In an expansive story on SI.com by Brian Hamilton, the junior forward reveals his new hobby, which helped justify the purchase of a Men’s Wearhouse suit over the summer.
Local startup accelerator gener8tor has a powerful new partner for its program fueling businesses launched by Wisconsin college students. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation announced Monday it has signed on as a sponsor for the initiative. Also noted: Nationally syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page will be the keynote speaker at the UW-Madison Diversity Forum this week.
Letter to the editor: For 22 semesters I have been parking in the Lake Street parking ramp, and walking to whatever building my class happened to be held in. Only this semester, I have to walk past the homeless as they sleep on the sidewalks and alley ways near the university. I do not consider this an improvement for them over the City-County Building steps.
The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, off to the best start in program history, ascended to No. 1 in this week’s USCHO.com rankings.
In a major turnabout, Exact Sciences Corp. is withdrawing from the massive Judge Doyle Square project south of Capitol Square and now intends to expand at the University Research Park on the West Side, company officials announced Monday.
UW-Madison professors took a formal stand Monday against Republican-backed state legislation that would allow concealed carry permit holders to bring guns into university buildings and ban research on aborted fetal tissue.
Faculty representatives at UW-Madison approved a new campus policy on Monday laying out a narrow set of circumstances under which tenured professors may be fired.
UW-Madison police on Monday publicly joined a growing number of law enforcement agencies nationwide that use body cameras to provide a clearer record of their daily interactions with those they serve, for good or bad.
Ruth was employed in Career Placement at UW
“Freakfest X” — the 10th anniversary installment of the latest incarnation of Madison’s Halloween celebration — had the enhancer of falling on the holiday for the first time since 2009, when nearly 40,000 people attended.
UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling said she hopes a proposal to revoke a ban on guns in campus buildings doesn’t even get to the point where she would have to testify against it at a hearing.
Stories of death and illness – losses of fathers to heart disease and aunts to colon cancer – punctuated an event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday evening, as experts spoke about their personal experiences with racial inequality in the American health care system.
Metro Transit buses will be detouring in Downtown Madison and on the UW-Madison campus this weekend, because of the annual Freakfest Halloween street festival on State Street.
Allowing concealed firearms on campus would make the University of Wisconsin-Madison less safe, declares a resolution faculty members will be asked to endorse Monday.
UW System President Ray Cross’ about-face on a campus-specific tenure policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison makes the Board of Regents look bad, abets faculty seeking extreme provisions and potentially delays adoption of a policy, threatening faculty recruitment, said Chancellor Rebecca Blank. Cross also undermined her ability to broker agreement on tenure issues among UW-Madison faculty, Blank said in an Oct. 22 email to Regent John Behling.
Wisconsin college graduates in 2014 carried an average $28,810 in debt, compared to $16,560 a decade earlier, said the nonprofit organization’s newly released 10th annual report on student debt. The average increase in debt at graduation among states was 56 percent, more than double the rate of inflation (25%) over the 10-year period.
The UW System’s offerings do not well serve “non-traditional” college students — 25 and older, part-time and not living on or near campus — that make up the majority, prompting some of them to turn to more expensive and less credible for-profit schools, Extension administrators argued in a filing with the UW System Board of Regents.
The Assembly began a floor session Tuesday by honoring the band’s director, Mike Leckrone. A couple dozen band members dressed in red sweaters marched into the chamber and began pumping out “On, Wisconsin.”
Shelby joined as a faculty member at UW School of Nursing in the fall of 1967, where she taught nursing and retired from the UW in March 1998 as an assistant clinical professor.
Jennie worked for the AV Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mildred was the wife of Irving Shain, former UW–Madison chancellor from 1977-87. She was a gracious host to thousands of visitors to the Olin House, the official residence of the Chancellor. She enjoyed the interaction with both faculty and students – and cheered loudly at many Badgers sporting events.
A pastor, community activist and UW-Madison’s director of community relations announced Tuesday that he is running for Dane County judge, to replace Circuit Judge Amy Smith, who announced Monday that she is retiring.
UW-Madison health officials are holding a series of talks on campus about the results of a recent survey that showed more than one in four responding undergraduate women at the university have been sexually assaulted.
Season preview. The Badgers open with an exhibition game Nov. 8 against Minnesota State-Mankato and open the regular season against Louisiana Tech on Nov. 14.
