The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked pretty far down the list — 116th of 179 — on the New York Times College Access index, which seeks to measure economic diversity at top U.S. colleges. But don’t look for a university press release on this college ranking, said Noel Radomski, director of UW-Madison’s WISCAPE, a think tank on educational policy.
More than 1 in 4 female undergraduates at UW-Madison said they have been sexually assaulted while enrolled at the university, but most of them decided not to report those assaults to officials, according to survey results released Monday by campus officials.
Fact checking statement by state Rep. Dale Kooyenga: He’s right when you consider employment within Wisconsin, which is the most obvious way to make such a comparison. By other measurements, such as annual revenue, there are many Wisconsin-based companies that are larger than UW. But that creates more of an apples-and-oranges comparison.
Following World War II and his recuperation he attended Michigan State and was awarded his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in horticulture. He was then hired by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to build their floriculture program, where he simultaneously obtained his Ph.D. in Horticulture.
Claudia was an Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Madison and taught nearly 50 years.
In his column last Sunday, Rep. Joe Sanfelippo, R-New Berlin, proposed replacing the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board with a partisan model based on the Federal Elections Commission … Whether the state’s campaign finance laws or election rules ought to be changed is separate from the structure of the GAB, but they have unfortunately been conflated. Now that the busy budget season is complete, the Legislature has an opportunity to consider some helpful reforms to state election laws.
A University of Wisconsin System policy on tenure has to include a policy for post-tenure review of faculty if it is going to satisfy concerns about accountability of the university, Regent John Behling said Thursday.
Progressive folk hero Elizabeth Warren will campaign in Madison with Russ Feingold later this month, promoting college affordability measures.
No charges were filed against Jim Villa, the UW System’s vice president of university relations. But sworn statements released this week show investigators sought a search warrant for Villa’s home and office. At the time, he was president of the Commercial Association of Realtors Wisconsin, and he was previously Walker’s chief of staff.
Marjorie was an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UW School of Nursing.
JoAnne … worked for the UW Personnel office until her retirement in 1998.
Feingold is scheduled to campaign at UW-Madison this week with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has introduced a proposal several times that would allow student loan borrowers to refinance their loans at significantly lower interest rates.
A few months after making the largest individual donation in the history of UW-Madison, what’s next for benefactors John and Tashia Morgridge? “Raising funds from others,” Tashia Morgridge says with a laugh.
A 7-Eleven convenience store is being proposed at State and Lake streets, across the street from a Walgreen’s and State Street Mall. The store would not sell gas but instead cater to foot traffic that is largely students and others associated with UW-Madison.
Q&A with Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, UW Arts Institute’s Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence for the fall. He’ll be very busy in Madison, putting on performances (including an Afro-Cuban All Stars performance at Overture Hall on Oct. 2), teaching two classes, and putting on free public lectures on Cuban music and culture.
UW-Madison faculty members’ suspicions about a sociologist’s survey of their opinions on tenure doesn’t square with the ideal of academic freedom, says the president of the conservative think tank that funded the research.
Opinion column on faculty tenure issue.
It’s tempting to look at the success of UW-Madison and the Madison area and conclude that Milwaukee has somehow missed the R&D boat that carries metropolitan regions to warmer economic ports. That’s only true if the region fails to work together in the years ahead.
UWPD spokesman Marc Lovicott said the campaign, launched in August, is intended to move the focus of anti-sex assault messages from women’s behavior to men’s. A past campaign, for example, urged women to report assaults, he said.
Perhaps its stem cell advances are one reason Reuters News Service lists the UW System among the top 10 in its first Top 100 ranking of the most innovative universities in the world. UW came in at No. 8. Stanford University was No. 1.
Before she was the internationally known art-pop singer Zola Jesus, Nika Roza Danilova was a UW-Madison student with an avant-garde radio show and eclectic taste in music. Now Danilova, 26, is making that music in spectacular fashion and will be back on campus with a three-member backing band for a free show Thursday at Shannon Hall at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
Nearly 3,000 people deeply affected by the brutal rape of a UW-Madison graduate student on the Capital City Trail participated in a “Take Back the Bike Path” march Thursday night, getting caught in a heavy downpour.
A $22 million donation to the UW-Madison College of Engineering will be aimed at helping undergraduate students by supporting a tutoring center and giving them more opportunities for hands-on learning, officials said Thursday.
University of Wisconsin faculty are raising concerns about a survey they received Tuesday that many said posed leading questions about changes to tenure and did not make clear it was funded by a conservative think tank.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that despite that opposition, his goal remains to pass a fetal tissue ban bill this year. “I don’t know what form it will take,” Fitzgerald said. “The tricky thing is probably the research piece.”
Madison officials are prepared to consider condemning a handful of Downtown properties in an effort to get more park space in the booming UW-Madison campus area.
Faculty at UW-Madison holds the authority to make academic program changes on campus of the kind that can trigger layoffs or termination of tenured faculty under newly revised law, a draft policy proposal asserts.
UW-Madison’s secretary of the faculty says a newly drafted policy detailing when tenured professors can be fired puts the university in line with its peer institutions.
Nearly 700 people enrolled in the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s flex option program in the past year.
This is the lowest ranking UW-Madison has had in 10 years. The university was ranked No. 1 in 2008.
The recipe is often credited to Carson Gulley, the celebrated chef of the university’s residence halls from 1927 to 1954 and Madison’s first celebrity chef. Most recently it was offered as a dessert at the Memorial Union’s Lakefront on Langdon, and has also been available through the university’s catering and through UW-Extension events.
Campuses across the University of Wisconsin System are slashing hundreds of jobs as they cope with a $250 million state budget cut, according to an organization that studies higher education. The Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education is tracking how the UW System’s colleges and universities have cut costs in response to the reduction in state funding.
At $51,000 a year, UW-Madison alums 10 years into their careers typically earn more than the median salary of their peers nationwide who make $34,343. That figure falls in the middle of the pack among Big Ten schools.
A UW-Madison faculty committee on Monday unanimously approved new standards for laying off tenured professors, a few months after legislators drew national attention by weakening them in the state budget.
He was a past salesman for Moorman MFG Co. Capital City Roofing (owned by his father), and the Horticulture Dept. of UW-Madison.
Business-focused Q&A with the chancellor of UW Colleges and UW-Extension.
Noted: Comments from UW–Madison education experts.
Three Southeastern Conference teams fell out of the AP Top 25 and Auburn dropped 12 spots Sunday after the league that set a record for most teams in the college football rankings last week had a rough weekend.
State Journal editorial looks back at the hubbub over the last major renovation to the beloved Memorial Union Terrace.
UW-Madison police issued 25 citations and ejected 55 people from Saturday’s football game between the Badgers and the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks, according to a report released Saturday night.
Opinion column: The University of Wisconsin System’s new online “accountability dashboard” includes useful information about enrollment, costs, graduation rates and where students come from. It can tell you whether professors are paid competitively and how the System contributes to economic development — both common talking point in the System’s quest for more state money. But among its many data sets — designed to show students, parents, lawmakers and the public what they’re getting for their billions in tax and tuition dollars — there’s nothing to indicate whether UW graduates get well-paying jobs in their fields.
The University of Wisconsin System’s administrative office eliminated 36 positions in a cost-cutting measure a spokesman said will help it cope with state budget cuts.
Katharyn May, the longest-serving dean on the UW-Madison campus, announced Friday that she will leave the position late next year after 15 years of service. May, dean of the School of Nursing, said she will remain with the school as a member of the faculty.
Steven J. Johanowicz, 40, of Madison, was arrested Thursday morning on a tentative invasion of privacy charge, according to police spokesman Joel DeSpain. Johanowicz is a UW-Madison employee, listed as a staff member at the Chazen Museum of Art.
UW police used a Taser Thursday on a 47-year-old man who they say has a long history of violence and aggression, especially towards law enforcement, and may have been having a mental health crisis.
The University of Wisconsin Extension is seeking approval to broaden the goals laid out in its mission statement and start offering new degree programs in the fields of business and management.
UW-Madison police said on Wednesday the cases are occurring near 333 East Campus Mall, which is on the west side of the Lucky Apartments building and houses several stores and restaurants on the ground floor.
Column from Russ Feingold, former U.S. senator who is running to regain the seat he lost in the 2010 election to now U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials wasted no time in responding to legislation advanced by a state Assembly committee Wednesday making it a felony to receive or use fetal tissue acquired from an abortion that took place after Jan. 1, saying it “sends a chilling message to our scientists, to the biotechnology industry, and to our fellow citizens.”
Jesse Stommel, a UW-Madison scholar of digital teaching and learning, is leaving the University of Wisconsin-Madison behind, he wrote on his blog Wednesday, saying “We are in George Orwell territory in the state of Wisconsin.”
What the scientists found was a species of human ancestor that had never been identified before: Homo naledi, an upright-walking hominid believed to be like a cousin on our family tree.
Groundbreaking will take place Thursday at the site of UW Health’s Union Corners Clinic, at 2402 Winnebago St.
The Board of Regents’ education committee will hear proposed revisions to UW-Extension’s mission statement on Thursday that would allow it to grant business certificates, associate degrees and bachelor’s degrees through the UW System’s Flex Option program, which allows adult students to earn credits by demonstrating real-life experience.
Six All-Americans from the past 20 years — Lizzy Fitzgerald, volleyball; Mike Gentile, men’s soccer; Devin Harris, men’s basketball; Jim Leonhard, football; Brian Rafalski, men’s hockey; and Kerry Weiland, women’s hockey — will be honored along with administrator Paula Bonner, who helped steer women’s athletics through their growth years.It’s hard to find fault with any name on that list. … (but) How in the world is Jeff Sauer not in the UW Athletic Hall of Fame?
The University of Wisconsin football team dropped out of the Associated Press top-25 poll after its 35-17 loss to Alabama.
Carly Eichhorst, director of student financial services at Augsburg College in Minnesota, and Kirk Yats, director of scholarships and financial aid at Central Michigan University, are the two finalists, the university said on Tuesday. Each candidate will talk about current issues and priorities in financial aid in their public presentations, Yats on Tuesday, Sept. 15, and Eichhorst on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 2:30 p.m. in the Gordon Dining and Event Center on campus.
The federal government must do more to help students with the cost of college, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Russ Feingold told UW-Madison students Friday.
Francis Halzen, the lead researcher at IceCube Neutrino Observatory, was announced as a winner of the $770,000 Balzan Prize for astroparticle physics on Monday in Milan, Italy.
Someone looking to find out what percentage of UW graduates stay in the state, or how many degrees are granted in health-related fields, or the graduation rates at different UW campuses will be able to find those answers on the new site, System spokesman Alex Hummel said. Also: Ned Kalin, chair of the UW Psychiatry Department, has won an international prize for his work in uncovering signs of anxiety and depression in the brain, the university announced Friday.
Sun Prairie High School sophomore Harish Prabaharan proudly lined up three small plastic replicas of the Taj Mahal — each one aimed to achieve the perfect representation of the famous mausoleum — that he made through a printable programming course. The course was designed by Krishnan Suresh, a mechanical engineering professor at UW-Madison, as a fun and tangible way to teach visual thinking, creative problem solving, programming and 3-D printing to students. The objective is to model real-world objects like airplanes, architectural models, teddy bears, Lego parts and musical instruments. Ultimately, students can print their models using a 3-D printer.
