Letter to the editor: What Speaker Vos is actually threatening to do is gain acceptance of one view (conservatism) by dismantling and eliminating an alternative view. This tactic seems dangerously close to tactics employed by dictators. But apparently Vos is comfortable with this.
Plans for a new University of Wisconsin football indoor practice facility are evolving, with a notable change shown in the newest set of ideas.
Every year the American Association of University Professors awards the Alexander Meiklejohn Award for Academic Freedom to an American college, university administrator, trustee or a board of trustees as a group, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to academic freedom.
The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents will vote again on a Republican-brokered deal it rejected Saturday that would unlock pay raises for employees and fund UW-Madison’s new engineering building in exchange for slimming its DEI positions.
The UW Board of Regents will meet again on Wednesday to reconsider a deal brokered between Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman and legislative Republicans to secure pay raises for UW system employees and funding for UW-Madison’s long-awaited engineering building in exchange for restructuring system diversity efforts.
“The metallic traces are interesting, but I’ll caution that this was only a single event,” said Chris Vagasky, a lightning researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the new work. To see if all ghosts are iron-fueled spooks, he added, “it would be nice to see the results from multiple ghosts.”
Universities of Wisconsin regents have decided to vote again on a deal with Republican lawmakers that calls for reducing diversity positions in exchange for funding to cover employee raises and campus construction projects, including a new engineering building at UW-Madison.
Universities of Wisconsin regents have decided to vote again on a deal with Republican lawmakers that calls for reducing diversity positions in exchange for funding to cover employee raises and campus construction projects, including a new engineering building at UW-Madison.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents previously rejected the proposal Saturday in a 9-8 vote.
Students speak of “paralyzing” feelings of loss, university support and finding strength in solidarity after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack.
Growing student, faculty criticism says the proposed deal exchanged diversity, equity and inclusion programming without foreknowledge from the students it would affect.
The adoption of the deal in the rescheduled meeting comes at the recommendation of Regent President Amy Blumenfeld Bogost, Regent Ashok Rai, Regent Kyle Weatherly and UW President Jay Rothman. Bogost voted against the deal Saturday, while Rai and Weatherly voted for the deal.
Under the deal, the school system would freeze the number of DEI positions at its schools through 2026. Additionally, a third of those positions would be realigned “to areas with a primary focus on academic and student success.”
“I think the frustration that many of us are feeling has only been magnified,” professor at UW Green Bay, Jon Shelton, said.
The board has a meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening. An agenda lists a “recommendation to approve” terms related to a state funding proposal. Republicans have withheld $32 million of funding from UW because of opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Monday the deal was his final offer and would prefer if the UW System moves forward with the deal despite Democrat opposition.
Wisconsin’s top Republican lawmakers said Monday that they are done negotiating with the Universities of Wisconsin over a deal that would have given the university system’s employees a pay raise and paid for the construction of a new engineering building in exchange for reductions in staff positions focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team will start its Thursday matchup with Jacksonville State one hour earlier.
Another battle over diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses has reached a fever pitch. After a long standoff with Wisconsin’s Republican-led state legislature, the University of Wisconsin agreed on Friday to freeze all new hires related to diversity, equity and inclusion in exchange for $800 million for pay raises and a new engineering building on the UW Madison campus.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Monday that Republicans “are not changing one thing” in the compromise plan the Universities of Wisconsin Regents rejected Saturday to roll back diversity efforts in exchange for staff raises and a new engineering building and other infrastructure improvements.
In an unexpected move Saturday, the board overseeing state public universities narrowly rejected a deal University of Wisconsin System leaders brokered with the state’s top Republican over campus diversity efforts.
I set long deadlines, knowing that I was working on what disability scholars have called “crip time.” (Term used by UW–Madison scholar Ellen Samuels.)
Dr. Julie Stamm, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who was not involved in the summit, says it’s exciting to see a lineup of experts coming together to discuss not just CTE but other conditions related to traumatic brain injury.
“For a retailer, they’re primarily a tool to incentivize people to make a purchase,” said Laura Hensen, executive director of the Kohl’s Center for Retailing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
If the incident in question causes you continued distress and negatively impacts your life, that’s where the f-word — forgiveness — may have a role to play, said psychologist Robert Enright, a pioneer in the field of forgiveness science and professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
And installing technologies to capture greenhouse gasses on fossil fuel power plants would further raise prices for a sector already struggling to compete with renewables, as Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies the public policy of technology change, told The Hill.
Jessica Calarco, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, calls the way our society relies on families to independently support social reproduction a “D.I.Y. society.”
In a narrow vote on Saturday, the University of Wisconsin (UW) System Board of Regents chose to reject $800 million of additional funding in exchange for keeping and expanding their diversity offices.
Granato, 59, is a member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and most recently coached at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin. He also coached Team USA at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Letter to the editor: In the Dec. 2 State Journal article “Rothman: Liberal arts safe,” Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman walks back parts of an email he had sent to chancellors that suggested “shifting away from liberal arts programs.”
Universities of Wisconsin regents narrowly rejected a deal Saturday reached with Republicans that would have given employees a pay raise and paid for construction of a new engineering building in exchange for reductions in staff positions focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
A narrowly divided UW Board of Regents on Saturday rejected an agreement between Universities of Wisconsin system President Jay Rothman and legislative Republican leaders authorizing UW system funding and pay raises in exchange for changes to universities’ diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
She worked at the UW vet school for over ten years working with various animals in critical care and surgery, which was her passion.
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team will make its fourth national semifinal appearance in the last five seasons and sixth overall in a matchup of teams who have won the last three national championships.
The Board of Regents rejected a deal Saturday that would have unlocked pay raises for employees, funded UW-Madison’s new engineering building and allowed the Universities of Wisconsin to recoup the $32 million cut from its budget earlier this year.
Letter to the editor: Here is a little reminder to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, who is holding Universities of Wisconsin employees hostage.
Without private donations, the Universities of Wisconsin’s Wisconsin Tuition Promise program could be in jeopardy for future cohorts of low- to median-income students who might otherwise struggle to afford a college education.
Regents share perspectives, emphasize importance of DEI at UW schools.
The Badgers defeated the Ducks in a pulsating affair on Saturday night at the UW Field House.
The regents voted 9-8 against the deal, which would have unlocked $32 million for the system’s workforce development plan, paid for projects including a proposed engineering building at UW-Madison, and green-lit raises for UW employees.
The Board voted 8 to 9 with several members stating the deal would limit resources for students of color. “I can not and will not vote to set the system back,” stated Regent Joan Prince.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents rejected a resolution to restructure DEI positions in exchange for funding for UW System employee pay raises and building projects in a 9-8 vote.
The regents voted 9-8 against the deal, which comes after Republican lawmakers had previously threatened to completely cut diversity programs.
The 59-year-old played for the badgers in the 1980′s, and coached the Badgers from 2016 to 2023. He lead Wisconsin to a Big Ten Championship in 2021.
Former University of Wisconsin men’s hockey coach and player Tony Granato said he has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and will begin treatment this week.
For the second consecutive year Penn State ran into a brick wall with a Motion W on it in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA volleyball tournament.
Six potential station corridors were presented to the public in late 2022, and the study team is now finalizing corridor evaluations and identifying potential station sites, Callin said. The corridors are near the Dane County Regional Airport, Oscar Mayer, the Near East Side, First Street, Downtown and the UW-Madison campus.
A group of about 20 men marched from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the state Capitol building in November, carrying flags with swastikas and shouting antisemitic rhetoric. They wore shirts labeled “Blood Tribe,” which is a growing neo-Nazi group that believes in white supremacy, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
He was right. When Doom was launched on 10 December 1993, it became immediately clear that the game was all-consuming – id Software had chosen to make the abbreviated shareware version available via the FTP site of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but that crashed almost immediately, bringing the institution’s network to its knees.
The Republican-controlled Senate Health Committee voted Thursday against recommending a former Democratic Dane County state representative and longtime nursing union leader to the UW Hospital Board after they were questioned about their views on abortion policy.
“I think that there are a small group of people out there that just love it,” said Dr. Mark Johnson, a scientist at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin. “It’s almost like an ‘I dare you to eat it’ kind of thing, like hot peppers.”
It is considering six potential areas: near the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, downtown near Monona Terrace, on First Street and East Washington Avenue, on the near east side to the west of Fair Oaks Avenue, the site of the former Oscar Mayer plant, and lastly, near the Dane County Regional Airport.
“Nearly all protected areas are becoming much more accessible and much more vulnerable,” said Lisa Naughton, a researcher who studies protected areas at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Not just to local subsistence hunting and illicit timber extraction, but to things like artisanal mining and road penetration.”
Police reviewed Madison and UW street camera footage and saw someone they believe to be Ethan W. Hanson, 21, with another man on the roof of the building that houses Starbucks, 661 State St., according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court.
Although the increase is steepest among high-income couples, it’s happening across the socioeconomic spectrum, Daniel Meyer, a social-work professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies child custody, told me.
On the table are pay raises for 35,000 employees, a new engineering building for UW-Madison and $32 million recouped back into UW’s budget after lawmakers cut it earlier this year. Also being discussed is millions of dollars for building projects at some other campuses and a change in how the state manages money from the tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota that would bring more money to campuses.
Universities of Wisconsin leaders are said to be nearing a deal with Republican legislative leaders that would reclassify a third of the system’s diversity, equity and inclusion employees and put a yearslong moratorium on hiring more, in return for a new UW-Madison engineering building and moving ahead with employee pay raises already approved in the budget.
In the past decade, depression and suicide rates in the United States have been rising strongly, especially for college students, according to University of Wisconsin professor of human ecology and psychiatry Dr. Charles Raison.
Wednesday night, twelve student representatives from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Leaders Igniting Transformation chapter gathered at an Associated Students of Madison Student Council meeting in a decry of the university’s history of responding to on-campus hate & bias incidents that they view as inadequate.
SSFC also adds language to RecWell budget from Trans Umbrella Sanctuary bill passed by ASM.
