The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, outlines Evers’ allegations that Republican members of the Legislature are holding hostage the pre-approved raises for 35,000 University of Wisconsin System employees and misusing the legislative veto process to block executive actions outside the bounds of normal budgetary operations.
“I think it’s something that we should push for, in my opinion,” Badgers forward Mathieu De St. Phalle said Tuesday. “But at the same time, it just depends on what college sports decides to do with it, the NCAA and Big Ten. We’ll leave it up to them.”
Legislative committees controlled by Republicans are violating the state Constitution by blocking pay raises for around 35,000 Universities of Wisconsin employees and stalling conservation projects, Gov. Tony Evers argues in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The university referenced allegations swirling on social media in a statement Tuesday. Radio and TV Host Dana Loesch reported claims in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, of someone having to be escorted into Hillel because supporters of Hamas were rallying outside the building, screaming threats and cutting an Israeli flag with scissors.
UW achieved platinum Bicycle Friendly University certification in 2019, continues work to expand bike infrastructure.
Administration credits increased enrollment, investment in students services to graduate rate increase.
The governor accused Republicans of an intrusion into executive powers and violating the Wisconsin Constitution.
The claim, amplified by conservative commentators like Dana Loesch, went viral on Twitter. UW-Madison and UWPD said the events described within were exaggerated.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team is climbing the rankings after one of the best October records in program history.
UW-Madison announced the selection Monday nearly a month and a half ahead of commencement, which is set to take place Sunday, Dec. 17. Each semester, the senior class leadership picks the commencement speaker in consultation with university administration.
Dan Raisbeck arrived several hours before the University of Wisconsin volleyball team’s Oct. 13 home match against Rutgers and placed his things in front of UW Field House’s Gate B entrance. He doesn’t want you to know exactly when he got there, though. That’s confidential.
“There’s a lot we still don’t know about consumer uses of these,” says Michael Collins, an expert in consumer and personal finance at the University of Wisconsin.
With support from the agriculture industry, UW-River Falls agreed the program was a good fit for the university, given its strong ag programs. Faculty in the university’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) designed a program and worked to recruit students. They sought funding, some of which could come through a proposed bill currently before the state Legislature.
Finley played for Wisconsin from 1991 to 1995 and helped the Badgers make the NCAA Tournament in 1994 — their first time making the tournament since 1947.
“My experience at UW helped shape me,” Finley said about being selected. “It prepared me for a life as a productive human being trying to make a positive impact on the world.”
“175 S’more Years” beat three other flavors in a poll put out to the community earlier this month. The chocolate ice cream includes graham cracker crunch, marshmallow swirl and chocolate chunks as mix-ins.
UW-Madison is bringing back a basketball legend for winter commencement.
The winner: 175 S’more Years.
Michael Finley, the assistant general manager for the Dallas Mavericks, will be the winter commencement speaker at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the university announced on Monday. A basketball legend at UW, Finley is a two-time NBA All-Star who left UW as the all-time leading scorer in Wisconsin men’s basketball history.
Bill to end scholarship displacement could benefit students with financial need, but unrealistic without sufficient funding for the Universities of Wisconsin.
Finley, second all-time leading scorer for UW men’s basketball, will address graduates at Kohl Center Dec. 17.
Finley, a UW-Madison alum, will address graduates at the Dec. 17 winter commencement.
The Oct. 25 events had professors, lecturers and students showcase their thoughts and projects on the state of sustainability at UW-Madison and across the planet.
UW-Madison will officially be celebrating its 175th anniversary by hoping for that many “s’more” years with its new Babcock Dairy ice cream flavor.
The changing of the leaves means colder weather is here, and with that comes the end of terrace season at the Memorial Union.
The 2,000 bright orange, yellow and green chairs and 400 tables will begin their journey to storage starting at 8:00 a.m. Monday. While the outdoor seating will be leaving, indoor seating and events will stay for the winter.
The AASO’s president Jehona Zeneli said her goal for the organization is to create an inclusive community dedicated to exploring and preserving Albanian culture.
Demolition of two halls will make space for new humanities building.
Committed to social justice, she participated in political and social activism throughout her life, as well as continued to welcome many more international friends, both as a volunteer ESL tutor and in her work as building manager at the La Follette School of Public Affairs of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Another $1 million NSF grant went to a next-generation agriculture consortium led by WiSys, which manages patenting and licensing for discoveries at University of Wisconsin campuses outside Madison and Milwaukee while operating “Venture Labs” in a handful of locations. WiSys hopes to win a Type 2 award to solve problems, from farm to table that could improve agriculture from business and environmental perspectives.
A $20 million donation from Ted and Mary Kellner has helped the University of Wisconsin athletic department kick off fundraising for a new football indoor practice facility.
And while Vavrus started off a Boilermaker, earning his undergraduate degree in meteorology at Purdue, he’s been a Badger for decades — for so long, in fact, that as the newest state climatologist, Vavrus is now referencing his own graduate work from the 1990s as he investigates how Wisconsin’s climate has changed.
Of the 60 people ejected, 28 were UW students, and 20 of the 24 who were arrested were UW students, police said in a statement detailing the numbers.
The legislation was passed at the Associated Students of Madison’s Oct. 25 meeting.
Alatout spoke about injustice in Israel and his personal experiences as a Palestinian.
The number of graduating students and conferred degrees narrowly beat previous years to set new all-time highs.
Wisconsin’s public universities and colleges could be liable for up to $100,000 in damages and institutions could be cut off from state grants under a Republican-authored bill seeking to add civil penalties for violating a person’s right to free speech.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver Chimere Dike can understand why something he holds so closely to his heart could have a different interpretation for others. Something like a keychain.
Labracke has been part of the project as a graduate student studying water resources management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute. The project, led by UniverCity Year, is aimed at creating a watershed plan to improve the impaired waterway and reduce the creek’s flooding.
Wisconsin Athletics on Friday launched a $75 million fundraising push for a new indoor practice facility for the Badgers football team, the largest capital project in program history.
The proposed legislation, Assembly Bill 86, would put an end to scholarship displacement in Wisconsin for students who receive scholarships of $5,000 or less from external sources. Currently, any college or university in the state can decrease a student’s financial aid when they receive funding from outside scholarships even if the student still has a balance for tuition.
“The idea is to kind of focus more on a colorblind society, and that’s a long time coming. I think there was maybe a reason in the past to do it the way it was done,” said Republican Senator Eric Wimberger, co-author of the bill. “If you keep it at the idea of simply being a disadvantaged status, then if there’s a systemic issue going on, then there’s gonna be a disproportionate number of people benefiting, who happened to be kind of having that negative effect.”
“UW-Madison educates the state’s future workforce and drives its economy forward,” said UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin. “I have been clear that funding cuts, the lack of approval for a widely supported Engineering building and a hold on much needed pay increases for our employees, defy both reason and longstanding legislative tradition.”
The Student Advisory Board was established to facilitate communication between the student body and Mental Health Services, allowing them to address the mental health needs of students on campus, University Health Services Outreach Assistant Director Danyelle Okesanjo said.
The U.S. Department of Education explained the new measures in a meeting with members of the press on Monday.
Middle East experts Ghaith al-Omari and David Makovsky discussed policy options and perception of the conflict during an Oct. 24 talk at UW Hillel.
Committee rejects proposals over misspending, lack of core programming.
Project hopes to better local economies, environment using national grant funding.
UW-Madison has become increasingly more selective with the student body they admit. The university’s acceptance rate has fallen from 67% to 49% in the past decade. This number takes an even steeper drop when you take into account the out-of-state acceptance rate falling to roughly 18%.
The third year of the festival brought filmmakers and poets together to showcase artwork.
Maya-Camille Broussard, a James Beard Award finalist last year, shared her story and her definition of success at a speaking engagement on Tuesday.
If there’s one thing Madison can thank COVID-19 for, it’s canceling Freakfest.
Shafiq, and many others, were not comfortable sharing their full names until the university would guarantee the protection of protestors.
Dozens of employees at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville will be laid off and more positions will go unfilled as the university continues to deal with financial pressures, according to an email sent to campus employees Wednesday.
Evetovich explained that the 111 cuts make up just over 12% of the school’s workforce. More than a third of the positions cut were academic staff members. There were 31 positions open that have been permanently cut.
In a letter to employees, Chancellor Tammy Evetovich said the school is eliminating 111 positions, which is about 12% of the university’s workforce.
After 90 years of carols and wassail, the Tudor Holiday Dinners at the Memorial Union have flamed their final figgy pudding.
UW-Platteville plans to lay off 60 employees this week and will lose dozens of others to retirements, vacancies and administrative restructuring, as it seeks to fully close its $9.7 million budget shortfall by the end of the 2024 fiscal year.
The University of Wisconsin’s debut in the hosting spotlight in the first year of NBC’s Saturday night coverage is against No. 3 Ohio State. Camp Randall has been a regular site for night games since its first in 1986; this week’s game is the 11th there after dark in the last 10 seasons.
More than two decades after student protests over inhumane working conditions in factories prompted UW-Madison administration to reconsider how its apparel is made, it’s become more selective with who gets to reprint Bucky Badger or the Motion “W.”
