While many Wisconsin state employees received pay increases from the state government Tuesday, employees within the Universities of Wisconsin were left out. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos claims he will continue to withhold pay increases from these employees until the UW-System gets rid of all programming related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Professor Yoshiko Herrera, a political scientist and recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, will teach the three-credit course, Political Science 344, next semester.
Letter to the editor: Tom Still’s column last Sunday, “Remove barriers to UW projects,” neatly summarized the baffling behavior of the Legislature toward UW-Madison and UW-La Crosse.
The bill, authored by Rep. Nik Rettinger, R-Mukwonago, and Sen. Eric Wimburger, R-Green Bay, comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that public and private universities could not use race as an admissions criterion. Republicans in the state Legislature have hinted they would eliminate race requirements within state statutes following the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Wisconsin on Monday was named one of 31 regional tech hubs by the Biden administration, a designation involving Madison companies such as Exact Sciences and Accuray that allows the state to compete for $40 million to $70 million to grow its biohealth industry.
Created by then-UW-Madison students Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (known collectively as The Zucker Brothers), the Kentucky Fried Theater performed the silliest and smartest comedy in town, and ending up being the runway for the trio that would go on to create 1980’s “Airplane!” and 1988’s “The Naked Gun.”
David Zucker, whose daughter is a senior at UW-Madison, revisited the locale on a recent visit to Madison.
“(The tech hub status) will help ensure that we continue to push forward innovation, economic growth and transformative advancements in healthcare,” said UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin in a statement.
Graduate students begin programs because we want to learn. We have a passion for a subject area and we want to contribute to a solution. I am constantly in awe of my friends and lab mates, the dedication and creativity they pour into their degrees. But we are more than just students.
Kurt Zimmerman, Senior Director of Biohealth Industry Partnerships at UW-Madison, said submitting their proposal took more than 18 months. Still, the hub is already focusing on how this potential funding will help Wisconsin to stand out as an emerging leader in the field.
With the city’s approval, there could be an option for some low-income students at UW-Madison to find a room at a discount.
In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack that reignited the Israel-Hamas war, campus groups at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have continually organized to show their support for those affected.
In a lab near UW Hospital, Megan Jandy grows stem cells from people with Down syndrome — 10 batches of cells, most in three-dimensional clusters, each batch featuring one group with the extra chromosome that causes the disorder and one group without it.
She was born an ordinary little girl in Mississippi, to the Gambrell family, and she became an extraordinary scholar and researcher at the University of Wisconsin, focusing on the application of effective instructional practices. Sara was a tireless advocate for evidence-based teaching methods and her legacy in this area continues to grow.
The move to mobile tickets has changed the tradition of how fans have helped others who arrived without tickets and were hoping to buy them at the door. Some fans with extra general admission entries in previous seasons left them on the window or door ledges for others to use.
Long before he became a household name, Jim Jordan, the divisive Republican representative from Ohio who failed in his third bid to be named House speaker Friday, spent four years as a successful student-athlete at UW-Madison.
In March of 1983, he was called back to Madison and the University of Wisconsin, which was building a new School of Veterinary Medicine, as the Director of Pharmacy. Don was there for 25 years until he retired.
While some of the cart’s patrons, many of them UW-Madison students, pass the time by scrolling on their phones, others are scrutinizing the cart’s robust menu of spring rolls and smoothies.
“There was a general feeling nationally that incarceration needed to be about punishment and deterrence, and that was going to be ultimately the key to reducing incarcerated populations in the country,” said Peter Moreno, director of UW-Madison’s Odyssey Beyond Bars and the Prison Education Initiative. “In the past 20, 30 years, people were coming to prison and many, many of them were returning to prison after they had left because they weren’t prepared for success when they got out.”
It’s not hard to find situations in which forgiveness might make the world better. For Robert Enright, a professor of educational psychology at UW-Madison and pioneer of the scientific study of forgiveness, the first step starts at home. Only by forgiving those close to us who have harmed us can we become strong enough to think about forgiving more distant enemies, Enright said.
In Madison, 322 corporations and other major employers attended a three-day “career fair” in September to compete for upcoming graduates of the College of Engineering. More than 235 of those mostly large employers have operations in Wisconsin. Why were they there? To find and recruit talented workers from today’s limited engineering pool. A new building would accommodate about 1,000 additional graduates per year.
Pro-Palestinian students at the University of Wisconsin rallied, chanting, “Glory to our martyrs.” At a pro-Palestine event at the University of North Carolina, WRAL News reports “an Israeli professor was pushed down the stairs.”
“So one option is to essentially just shut down the power line, because if there is no voltage and no current on the line, there is no chance of this release of energy happening and then there is no chance of an ignition,” explains Line Roald, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose work includes modeling the risk of wildfire ignition and power outages in the electric grid.
Looking beyond published records to private discourses provides a fuller portrait of the U.S. at midcentury and the resentments that linger. Handwringing about the low trust in journalism that social media and online comments make visible today is justified as long as we acknowledge it has deep roots, ones that will not disappear when Trump rallies stop.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)Kathryn J. McGarr is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University and is the author of City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Angela Maloney, former president and now the co-op’s move in officer, shared why the co-op’s structure is so successful. “We essentially act as their own landlord, so you’re paying the money back to yourself.” she said. “As a community, we decide what we spend our money on, which makes it affordable for people because we’re not making profit.”
UW-Oshkosh laid off 140 staff, 76 more chose to take voluntary retirement, and others on contract found that the university would not renew their employment agreements. In total, the losses account for over 20 percent of UW-Oshkosh’s workforce.
Events throughout October raise awareness of dating norms, campus survivor services.
Registered Student Organizations can utilize General Student Services Fund to pay for programming, operational costs.
The ASM Sustainability chair and co-coordinators represented UW-Madison at the UW System Sustainability Annual Meeting Oct. 12 and 13.
The Somali Student Association, a new Registered Student Organization partnered with the Multicultural Student Center, was recently formed to create a space for Somali students to have a community and educate others about their culture, according to SOSA President Mohammud Ibrahim.
The festival is headquartered out of the Discovery Building on the University of Wisconsin campus and is a collaborative partnership with campus researchers and other community organizations.
UW–Milwaukee at Washington County enrollment fell by 55% in past five years according to spokesperson.
7 additional tour guides hired to double number of tours given, educate campus on Indigenous history, Ho-Chunk Nation.
Non-graduating students at two University of Wisconsin System two-year campuses will transfer or shift to virtual learning after UW-Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and UW-Milwaukee at Washington County end in-person learning in June 2024.
The 17th annual Passing the Mic Intergenerational Hip Hop Festival will be taking place this weekend with the Day One Showcase tonight from 7-9 p.m. at MYArts on E. Mifflin St. and the Day Two Showcase on Saturday, Oct. 21, 7-9:30 p.m. at the Union Playcircle Theatre in UW-Madison’s Memorial Union.
Photo caption: Yvonne Drebert and Zach Melnick had been filming about the invasive quagga mussel in Lake Huron, which is “bordered by the province of Ontario and the state of Michigan,” according to the University of Wisconsin. (Inspired Planet Productions/FOX Weather)
A new cow pen created by a UW-Madison researcher includes a feed bunk, salt blocks and and beds of straw on which the animals can lounge between milkings. Only the pen isn’t on a plot of prime Dane County farmland or nestled in the rolling hills of Green County.
Instead the pen is part of a new game on an app designed to help dairy farmers better understand and learn more about how to interact safely with their cows.
Letter to the editor: The same university that opens its mouth to speak on countless social issues and found it necessary to remove a “racist” rock suddenly finds itself unable to comment on students supporting terrorists who murder children.
Ever since the Neanderthal genome was first sequenced 13 years ago, there have been questions about the mixture of modern human and Neanderthal genes, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who was not involved in the study.
As a wrestler at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was a three-time All-American and a two-time NCAA Champion in the 134-pound weight class. One of his championship victories came over Oklahoma State’s John Smith, who went on to become a two-time Olympic champion.
“Graham first visited Israel in 1960. And it’s a really big deal,” said Daniel Hummel, a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Not only did Graham preach in Israel, but he met with then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: “He really makes a point to articulate a Christian Zionist view that the nation of Israel is a fulfillment of God’s plans for the Jewish people and that it has a great future ahead of it,” explained Hummel.
Raising Wisconsin’s minimum wage to $15 an hour would bring raises to one in seven workers and reduce racial and gender pay gaps, according to a new report from COWS, a University of Wisconsin-Madison think tank.
Launched this fall, Bucky’s Pell Pathway meets the full financial need for in-state students who qualify for Pell grants, helping them graduate debt-free. Pell federal dollars are limited to undergraduates with exceptional financial need but often don’t cover the full cost of school, causing many recipients to take out extra loans.
Jon Shelton, a political science professor at UW-Green Bay, says he always knew it would be a possibility that UW employees across the state would feel the side effects of the tension between the legislature and the Universities of Wisconsin.
Photos by Tatiyana in partnership with the Gamma Epsilon Chapter of the Alpa Phi Alpha Fraternity.
The University of Wisconsin recently announced the launch of the First-Generation Badgers program to help support first-generation students. According to a Sept. 27 news release from UW, the First-Generation Badgers program will bring together existing programs at UW, faculty and students to provide a more cohesive group to enhance these students’ experiences.
UW researchers in collaboration with WISELI look to renew faculty workshop focusing on diversity
Indigenous art professors from UW explore realities of life, natural world in Washington D.C. exhibit.
In an email statement to The Badger Herald, Office of Student Financial Aid communications manager Karla Weber Wandel said the delay is only for the 2024-25 year and that the FAFSA will resume to an Oct. 1 release date in future years. “FAFSA is getting a makeover, and it’s with the hopes of making it even easier for students and families to submit that application,” Weber Wandel said. “It’s only this year we’re expecting it to be delayed until December.” she said.
The program will officially launch in fall 2024, with select courses being piloted among current students.
Eric Grodsky, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor whose research has included publications on chronic absenteeism before the pandemic, suggested in an interview that focusing on those underlying causes is the best way to help students academically, as well. That’s because whatever is causing them to miss school can harm their ability to learn even if they’re present, he said.
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who co-chairs the Legislature’s employment relations committee, has promised to block pay raises for UW employees until the school system cuts its so-called DEI spending by $32 million.
Rothman told reporters during a conference call that he has decided to shutter UW-Milwaukee’s Washington County campus and UW-Oshkosh’s Fond du Lac campus. He said that in-person instruction at the two schools will end by June 2024. Enrollment at both schools as well as three other two-year campus has ticked upward this fall, but it’s not enough to offset more than a decade of decreasing enrollment.
Enrollment at Fond du Lac and Washington County campuses this year was expected to be 243 students and 276 students, respectively.
The drama built ahead of a fourth-and-1 play in the final four minutes of a one-score game, and the director narrated along as a critical moment emerged on the Camp Randall Stadium turf.
So when “Jump Around” plays on your TV screen, it’s probably on a little bit of a delay. That’s how it happened last Saturday when the Fox Sports crew recorded 49 seconds of content while it was away at a break and put it to air 5 seconds later.
ARepublican-controlled legislative committee on Tuesday approved 6% pay raises over the next two years for most state employees, but withheld any increase for Universities of Wisconsin staff unless the UW system eliminates its diversity, equity and inclusion positions.
President Jay Rothman has ordered chancellors to cease in-person instruction at UW-Milwaukee at Washington County, located in West Bend, and UW Oshkosh at Fond du Lac. UW-Platteville’s Richland Center campus will also officially close after receiving a similar directive as the other two schools last year.
UW-Platteville Richland is closing, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, UW-Milwaukee at Washington County and UW-Oshkosh, Fond du Lac campus will be stopping in-person instruction by June 2024.
The UW-Platteville Richland campus will close next year, Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman announced Tuesday amid continued financial pressures.
When cuts started coming at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland, its sister campus in Baraboo absorbed some of the impact. But Tuesday’s announcement from Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman has some on and around the campus concerned about whether they could be next.Rothman announced Tuesday that the UW-Platteville Richland campus will close next year amid continued financial pressures.
