A conservative radio talk show host and a moderate Republican state senator on Thursday both bashed a move to quash an investigative journalism center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Republicans? bid to cut the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism off from the state?s flagship university made me sad ? and not because the award-winning center puts out a quality product at a time when traditional news organizations face increasing difficulties.
Contrary to recent developments within the Big Ten Conference, there are no plans at the University of Wisconsin to add any sports.
A last-minute budget amendment would prevent the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from operating out of an office on the UW-Madison campus. That would have implications far beyond just the center and the university?s journalism school, says Greg Downey, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Chester Barton ?Bart? Martin, Jr., 80, of Middleton, Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, passed away on May 26, 2013.
Students enrolling next fall in the University of Wisconsin?s new flexible degree programs for working adults will pay $2,250 for a three-month ?all you can learn? block of time, allowing motivated students to zip through multiple courses much faster than allowed in the traditional semester-based model.
The Joint Finance Committee?s measure booting the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from Vilas Hall, the beating heart of UW-Madison?s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has turned into the little surprise story that could today, but it?s still unclear to what extent the loss of the nonprofit news group?s office on the campus would have on the plucky operation.
The legislature?s Joint Finance Committee voted early this morning to prohibit the UW from housing WCIJ, and to bar any UW employee from doing work related to the organization. WCIJ is a nonprofit investigative news organization that?s funded through grants and private donations.
The Legislature?s petty attempt to evict the Center for Investigative Journalism from the UW-Madison campus has quickly backfired.
Legislation that would bar University of Wisconsin professors from working with a nonprofit journalism center and kick the center off the Madison campus is a “direct assault” on academic freedom, the UW journalism school?s director says.
Checks totaling more than $1 million have been sent to 74 area nonprofits and to 17 project managers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times.
There are, however, accelerator programs that are trying to change that. One program that I?m intimately familiar with, given my ties to UW-Madison, is called gener8tor and it is launching its third class of startup companies. The program is based in Madison, Wisconsin and is drawing companies from Austin, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, and the Twin cities.
Chancellors in the University of Wisconsin System are publicly jumping into the fray of the state budget debate, encouraging their campus stakeholders to lobby legislators to roll back a proposed freeze on tax dollars and delays in new flexibilities promised in the last state budget.
The state of Wisconsin has dropped a lawsuit against Adidas that caused a big stain on the company?s reputation.
Governor Scott Walker was in Green Bay Tuesday to discuss a budget provision that got approval from the committee and is moving on to the full Legislature.
Opponents of a new bill want more time to study the legislation that would require photo ID and repeal a ban on corporate campaign contributions.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Extension agronomist Dan Undersander says this is the biggest case of winterkill that he has seen in more than 20 years.
July 1, 2013 will be a momentous day in higher education. It will be the first day since 1981 that E. Gordon Gee will not be a university president.
“The human visual system is primed for pattern detection, which is a key component of this game,” Heather Kikorian, an assistant professor of human development and family development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told ABC News. With Candy Crush, that pattern- solving strategy is core and becomes more and more challenging as the game goes on.
The chairman of the Department of Economics at UW-Madison has been selected as the next dean of the College of Letters and Science, the largest academic unit on campus.
I have been following the case of the lawsuit and investigation against pioneering spinal surgeon Dr. Thomas Zdeblick of UW-Madison for the past year. It boggles my mind why anyone would pursue this.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has requested that the state Legislature grant it an exemption to Wisconsin?s long-standing open records law. The proposed legislation, if passed, would directly limit public access to university records and sources of information and diminish independent scrutiny at a time of increasing privatization and corporate influence over the state?s flagship university.
Madison — The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism would have to leave the UW-Madison campus, under a Republican motion before the Legislature?s budget committe.
This Sunday, the girl who wore shin guards to her first theater audition swaps her cleats and uniform for gold heels and a vintage gown on the Radio City red carpet.
In 2004, Willie Ney brought a team of high school students from Madison, Wisconsin, to the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival in Los Angeles. Ney, who was working in an outreach capacity for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was enthralled by the creativity, talent, and passion that he witnessed, calling it a “transformative experience.” But he was also struck by the realization that he was the only university-level representative in attendance. “There was no integration of higher education with these students, who were brilliant writers and thinkers,” he said. “There are thousands of poets out there, but universities are not recruiting them. They?re recruiting athletes.”
MILWAUKEE – A couple years ago, families with deaf children had to pay thousands of dollars, out of pocket, for a device that would allow their child to hear. The I-Team pressed the issue until 2009 when lawmakers finally required insurance companies to help pay for cochlear implants.
The University of Wisconsin System will also have its tuition frozen by state lawmakers after a controversy erupted over the university?s year-end balance. The proposal to freeze tuition was a bipartisan effort, and Governor Scott Walker recommended paring back his initial proposal to increase funding for the state?s universities. The governor?s administration secretary, in a letter to the legislature?s Joint Finance Committee, said the university system was “more interested in protecting its bank account than in ensuring a quality higher education.”
If you check into a hotel in a college town late at night, chances are the desk clerk will be a student holding down at least one job ? including a regular overnight shift ? and trying to work through college while catnapping between classes.
A sweeping plan to grant UW-Madison more flexibility in how it classifies, recruits, pays and evaluates its 20,000 employees has run into a legislative roadblock just a month before its planned July rollout, leaving administrators and union chiefs with the same question ? now what? ? but different reactions.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison study suggests there is no skills gap keeping Wisconsin employers from filling their positions.
Another Wisconsin study has emerged that concludes the state does not face a substantial skills gap.
MADISON, WI (WSAU) Do you know about the ?skills gap? that politicians keep warning us about?
Even if you?re not living your best life you can make it look like you are on Facebook, and just glimpsing this idealized version of yourself can provide a rush of self-esteem, a new study shows.
When you think of things to do to improve your self-esteem or self-image, you probably don?t think about heading to Facebook. It might actually be the last place you think of, given that a percentage of people leave Facebook because of the negativity on the social network.
Chester Barton “Bart” Martin, Jr., 80, of Middleton, Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, passed away on May 26, 2013.
Forget a cup of coffee or power nap – the fastest way to boost your mood is to look at Facebook.
Gordon Gee issued a new set of apologies over the weekend.
Student dormitories and unions on University of Wisconsin campuses produce much-needed revenue for the universities. Dorms, in particular, provide room and board at direct reasonable cost for students, parents and scholarship providers.
Yeah, this could be considered beating a dead horse, but it?s an offseason weekend. Indulge us.
Quoted: “She is wonderful. She has such a green thumb,” said Mo Fayyaz, a University of Wisconsin botanist and director of the school?s greenhouse.
A new ad campaign encouraging smokers to speak with their doctors about quitting hit the airwaves, as part of an initiative from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Wisconsin.
Stephen “Steve” Lowell Rader, 47, Madison, Wis., passed away Friday (5-24-13) after a bicycle accident in Madison.
Certain linguistic manners can be used to help identify deception in business, experimental research has concluded. The use of complex and long-winded language and even swearing, could point to dishonesty by the person across the negotiating table.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have carried out an experiment in which human stem cells were used to help rats engineered to model amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known Lou Gehrig?s disease.
Why is it that the only thing state Republicans and Democrats can agree on is a bad idea?
Like most of her work, cartoonist Lynda Barrys class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is unorthodox. “No artistic talent required,” the course description states. The course is described as a “writing and picture-making class with focus on the basic physical structure of the brain.”
A professor emeritus with the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been selected as the National Dairy Shrine?s 2013 Guest of Honor. Dr. Robert Cropp will be recognized during a special banquet this fall for his monitoring of dairy supplies and reporting dairy marketing facts to the industry.
Noted: Brian Kelly, acting secretary of the Business, Transportation & Housing Agency, said in a prepared statement that experts from the State Smart Transportation Initiative, a group housed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will “take a fresh look at Caltrans operations and help improve performance, communications and management.”
Quoted: “We don?t know what effects the widespread use of this vaccine might have on influenza virus evolution,” said Thomas Friedrich, a flu researcher at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. “It might be difficult for viruses to mutate to avoid detection by this particular antibody, but if they did, they would render the vaccine useless.”
Quoted: “I think there are people who will say this is 100% horrible. I think there are some who will say it?s a great thing ? it?s an opportunity for U.S. agriculture to get U.S. products into the hands of Chinese consumers,” said Jeff Sindelar, an associate professor who researches the global meat industry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And then I think there is a larger segment of people right now who aren?t really sure.”
Noted: ?Right to work? laws are state statutes that govern the extent to which an established union can require employees? membership, payment of union dues or fees as a condition of employment, either before or after hiring. The most recent case of a student right-to-work law is the back-door budget deal struck by Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin and his right-wing cronies that will undermine student activity funding for the United Council of UW Students, the same statewide student association that worked tirelessly to win a tuition freeze for University of Wisconsin students.
Quoted: ?Your mother or father doesn?t come up and tuck you in at night and read you equations,? said Geoffrey Borman, a professor at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin. ?But parents do read kids bedtime stories, and kids do engage in discussions around literacy, and kids are exposed to literacy in all walks of life outside of school.?
They arrived on a warm spring Friday afternoon symbolically dressed for a funeral. Black hats. Cleats. Stirrups. Undershirts. The gesture, while futile in the big picture, represented a declaration of mourning. For history. And for themselves.
I spent Memorial Day weekend with Team Rubicon, the great veterans disaster relief organization. We fought the battle of SW 7th Street in Moore, Oklahoma.
Is it to naive to think that we as human beings can change the world and make it a better place to live? Have we as modern people lost hope and given up faith in the ability to change?
Experts say it?s a banner spring for dandelions because of last year?s drought. Dr. Doug Soldat, with the University of Wisconsin Department of Soil Science, said last summer?s dry weather means grass is thinner, leaving more room for weeds.
Noted: In another kind of contest, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison food science students again has made it to the finals in the annual Institute of Food Technologists? food product development competition.
Noted: “If they?re down by 50%, that sounds like we?re gaining on them, but because of the high incidence with carrying Lyme disease, like I said, you still have to keep your guard up,” said University of Wisconsin Insect Expert Phil Pellitteri.
Jared Berggren decided to leave his native Minnesota to play basketball for Wisconsin before there was any chance for him to get recruited by the Gophers under Tubby Smith.
It?s not easy being the Dalai Lama. Not only are you handpicked for the job at age 2, with no real choice to become a firefighter, artist or cowboy, but you spend much of the rest of your life ? at least, this reincarnation ? answering the unanswerable.
