Dozens of students and community members gathered at the Board of Regents meeting Friday morning to declare their demands to make the University of Wisconsin System better for students of color.
Participants in the event wore all black and held signs to represent the discrimination they experience in classrooms and through university policies.
B-cycle stations around Madison will begin operating according to a winter scheduled on Monday. That means the majority of the city’s 39 bicycle sharing stations will be closed for the season.
Starting Monday, the following (university-area) stations will remain open: Lake St. and University Ave.; UW Union South; UW Natatorium.
All other B-cycle stations will be closed.
A meeting between UW System officials and students concerned about diversity and inclusion was canceled Friday, after disagreement over whether or not that meeting should be public.
Friday, The Board of Regents passed a resolution that states the university should not shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome. In a statement, the regents said that, while the university greatly values mutual respect, it cannot be used as a justification for closing off a discussion of ideas, however offensive or disagreeable.
University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross is slated to meet with about students who are demanding more measures to recognize diversity on campus.
About 20 students waited for Cross to finish a Board of Regents meeting on the UW-Madison campus Friday. The students held signs that read “Our president is black, so there’s no reason to talk about race, right?” and “Black and brown lives matter.” As the meeting wound down they silently stood up from their front row seats.
A meeting between University of Wisconsin leaders and a student group demanding more efforts to recognize diversity on campus has fallen through.
UW System President Ray Cross and regents President Regina Millner were slated to meet with about 20 students after a regents meeting Friday morning to discuss demands for a diversity task force, more mental health professionals of color on campus and mandatory racial awareness training.
Wisconsin Badgers redshirt sophomore Riley Dearring announces on his Twitter account Sunday night that he’s decided to leave the UW program.
Dearring, a 6-5, 181 pound forward form Minnetonka, Minnesota, played in three of the Badgers’ 11 games this season averaging 0.7 points per game and 0.7 rebounds per game.
The Big Ten’s best linebacker has been named one of the nation’s best, as well.
Wisconsin OLB Joe Schobert earned a place on the Walter Camp All-America second team on Thursday, the latest honor for the Badgers’ senior pass rusher. The honor comes on the heels of Schobert being named Butkus-Fitzgerald Big Ten Linebacker of the Year and a first-team All-Big Ten selection.
A UW-Madison graduate has received a big honor for helping discover a drug that’s saved tens of millions of lives worldwide.
William Campbell received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a Nobel Day ceremony on Thursday in Stockholm, Sweden.
UW Athletics has issued a statement saying UW Marching Band freshmen aren’t the only ones not going to the Holiday Bowl later this month.
Questions were raised over funding for the university’s trip to the Holiday Bowl after the band announced Wednesday it would not be able to take freshmen and most band staff members along, citing UW Athletics funding restrictions.
In a statement to 27 News on Thursday, UW Athletics says the number of campus staff normally traveling to bowl games will also be adjusted.
(Video) Includes video and interview with members of UW-Madison’s grounds crew.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved a resolution affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The regents’ education committee voted unanimously to adopt the resolution Thursday afternoon during a meeting on the UW-Madison campus. Approval would send the resolution on to the full board of regents for consideration on Friday.
Featuring Patti Lux-Weber: The college admissions cycle is a long process with a lot of moving parts. In the midst of all of the upcoming deadlines, parents and students may overlook some of the ways that college will affect the family dynamic. Discussing expectations beforehand can help students choose the best school for them and help families feel more confident about the transition to campus. College admissions experts encourage parents to consider the following questions as they set expectations before their teen applies to or chooses a school.
Since the creation of University of Wisconsin Native American Center for Health Professions, there has been a 250 percent increase in Native student applicants to UW’s medical school.
Created in 2012, Native American Center for Health Professions was designed to improve the health and wellness of Native people, Melissa Metoxen, community and academic support coordinator at the Native American Center for Health Professions, said.
The issue of food and housing insecurity on community college campuses across the country is now at the forefront of many discussions thanks in part to a report published by the Wisconsin HOPE Lab on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison band will be left behind when members make the trip to San Diego in a few weeks for the Holiday Bowl.
All freshmen in the band won’t be going on the bowl trip for the first time because of budgetary concerns.
WISC-TV (http://bit.ly/1jPjdSy ) reports band director Mike Leckrone says he was told by the university that he could send about 200 members on the trip – so about 85 students and a handful of staff won’t be going.
(Video) Thursday morning on Wake Up Wisconsin we discuss those ingredient options and show how to incorporate them into two cookie recipes with Julie Andrews. Andrews is the Program Coordinator and Top Chef for the Learning Kitchen at UW Health at The American Center.
A University of Wisconsin System regents committee is set to consider a resolution affirming the system’s commitment to free speech.
The regents’ education committee is expected to vote on the resolution Thursday afternoon during a meeting on the UW-Madison campus. Approval would send the resolution on to the full board of regents for consideration on Friday.
The resolution comes after UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank wrote a blog post last month saying that no one is entitled to express their beliefs in ways that diminish or devalue others. Blank wrote the post in the wake of protests at the University of Missouri over racial issues.
Noted: Artists from the group “Dane Arts Mural Arts” worked with students from the Student Achievement through Individualized Learning (SAIL) program at Madison West High School on the painting. Their artwork is currently on display at the UW-Madison Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic[.]
Two projects at UW-Madison are going forward after approval Wednesday by a state panel.
The state building commission approved the renovation of the Babcock Hall dairy plant so it can house the Center for Dairy Research.
The building commission also okayed money for an addition to the UW-Madison police department on Monroe Street.
(Video) Every year a group of seniors at the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism spend an entire semester putting together a 64-page magazine. The new issue of Curb Magazine is available now. This year, the magazine highlights perspectives on Wisconsin traditions. (Featuring Stacy Forster, associate faculty associate in the SJMC.)
In a matter of weeks the University of Wisconsin football team will head to San Diego for the Holiday Bowl, but part of the UW Band won’t be along for the trip for the first time in Badger bowl game history.
Band Director Mike Leckrone announced Tuesday that all freshmen in the band will not be going on the trip because of budget issues. He was told by university officials he could only send about 200 members on the trip, so about 85 students and a handful of staff have been cut from the trip.
Despite administration’s assurances, university’s removal of out-of-state enrollment cap, rising nonresident tuition and Wis. high school achievement gap could add to recruitment challenges for minorities.
Noted: The Dane County Sheriff’s Office, and police officers from Fitchburg, the City of Madison, Maple Bluff, Middleton, Monona, Oregon, Town of Madison, Waunakee, and the University of Wisconsin, participated in the event.
Join the Journal Sentinel’s David D. Haynes and Jonathan Martin, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a live Journal Sentinel program on Wednesday.
“Straight Talk on Climate Change” will begin at noon at JS Online. We’re taking your questions now on Twitter: #MJSclimate
This exclusive show follows a Haynes column last week.
Like Josh Gasser, his former Wisconsin teammate, Zak Showalter brings one valuable piece of equipment to every practice and every game.
A mouth guard.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Rebecca Blank was recently in Washington, D.C., and stopped by the offices of Inside Higher Ed to discuss the challenges of the past year.
She talked about the impact of state disinvestment in higher education, the new tenure policy that’s being developed for UW System campuses, a temporary lifting of the cap on enrollment of out-of-state students, and the racial protests that have swept many campuses, including UW-Madison.
Here’s a link to the 25-minute podcast of the chancellor’s interview with the national higher education publication.
The American Academy of Pediatrics latest youth tackling recommendations, which a University of Wisconsin physician [Gregory Landry] helped author, in part says a zero tolerance culture of illegal hits must be adopted. And while they would like to see no tackling, at the very least they want an expansion of no-contact leagues and to delay the age kids can tackle.
(Video) Quoted: Amy Wendt, professor of electrical and computer engineering; co-director, Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute.
Quoted: Dr. Julie Walker with small animal emergency and critical care at the UW Veterinary Clinic said emergency case load has increased by 40 percent in the past few years, making a solid blood supply even more important. She said the clinic is performing as many as 15 transfusions in a typical week.
“The blood donor program is something that only the people who have had a pet involved in receiving or maybe donating blood are currently aware of,” Walker said.
Noted: Discussing the growth of specialized master’s programs as alternatives to an MBA, the article says, “[O]nce you get down into the lower half of the top 50 B-schools, you’ll find a program for just about any career direction, from biotechnology management at the U.C. Irvine Merage School, to global real estate at the Wisconsin School of Business[.]”
Noted: The Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) also reappointed Trustee Terry D. Warfield, PwC Professor in Accounting and chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Warfield’s new term will end on December 31, 2018.
Alex Erickson’s growth as a wide receiver at Wisconsin has been remarkable. . . Imagine what Erickson might be able to accomplish if he had one more season of eligibility.
Well, UW officials are contemplating that possibility.
Citing what it sees as systematic abandonment of the state’s largest city, faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday called for an immediate change to the way state funding is divided among Wisconsin’s two research universities.
If UWM’s per-student funding from the UW System were increased to just half the level that UW-Madison receives, it would yield an additional $23.6 million and eliminate UWM’s structural budget deficit, according to the UWM chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
While UW-Madison receives more than $12,400 per student, UWM receives less than $5,200 per student — 40% of UW-Madison’s per-student allocation.
A new University of Wisconsin System report says nearly 75 percent of graduates during the last fiscal year left school in debt.
The report, prepared for regent review at their meeting Friday, found 74 percent of UW System in-state graduates in 2014-15 had an average debt of $30,650.
(Video) Karin Swanson talks to a group of Wisconsin scientists heading to Antarctica to study weather. Quoted: Matthew Lazzara, principal investigator of the Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Program, and Lee Welhouse, instrument technician.
University of Wisconsin Police Department and University Health Services collaborated to reach out to the Madison campus and community about how to handle tragedy when it strikes.
Though the San Bernardino, California, mass shooting did not prompt UWPD’s and UHS’ message, it discussed how to act in times of violence and how to prevent such acts from occurring.
The timing was interesting, UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott said, and though the tragedy was extremely unfortunate, it created a captive audience for the message.
The national nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust released a report Wednesday naming UW-Madison as a national leader in improving graduation rates for underrepresented and overall students.
In the report titled “Rising Tide: Do College Grad Rate Gains Benefit All Students?” the organization detailed the change in six-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time students at four-year public institutions across the past 10 years, according to a UW-Madison release.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors voted 32-2 in favor of a resolution for UW-Madison to modify their student ID cards to have a two year expiration date to comply with voter ID criteria.
Currently, students at UW-Madison cannot use their Wiscards for voting purposes. While in-state students can use their government issued driver’s licenses, out-of-state students do not have a readily available ID to take to the polls, as out-of-state driver’s licenses and other IDs are not valid voter IDs in the state of Wisconsin.
Senator Tammy Baldwin spent an hour with the University of Wisconsin System Sexual Assault and Violence Task Force on the campus of the UW-Madison Friday.
The group discussed ongoing efforts both the university and Congress are making to combat sexual assault on college campuses.
The Wisconsin football team will make its first appearance in the Holiday Bowl after accepting an invitation Sunday afternoon to face USC on Dec. 30 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.
The Badgers, whose streak of 14 consecutive bowl trips is the best in the Big Ten, went 9-3 in the regular season, including a 6-2 mark that was good for third in the Big Ten West Division. USC is in a bowl for the fourth-straight year and making its 51st bowl appearance overall. The Trojans are 8-5 after falling to Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship Game yesterday.
Quoted: “I think clearly the administration had to regain control of the narrative,” said John Hall, the UW-Madison’s Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair in U.S. Military History.
Hall said Obama’s record on international affairs is drawing a lot of criticism from Republicans as the 2016 presidential election approaches.
“There are a lot of people ready to jump upon any opportunity to critique the administration’s foreign policy credentials and its conduct on ISIS,” Hall said.
The Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Badgerland Council is looking to help hundreds of young ladies find their calling with a hands-on expo called “ACTIVATE”.
Experts from science, technology and engineering programs at UW-Madison set up stations at the Monona Terrace in Madison to show girls the importance of stem programs.
Two Madison hospitals will be lit up this holiday season in memory of thousands of loved ones in our area.
St. Mary’s Hospital and UW Hospital both held their annual love light ceremonies Sunday evening. It’s a way for the community to remember those who have passed away or who are serving in the military this holiday season. At UW Hospital, the Love Lights donation goes to grants to support patient and family programs and services.
You can learn proper CPR techniques on your lunch break today. The Madison Fire Department is teaching “Sidewalk CPR” on UW’s campus.
“Sidewalk CPR” is today from 11 to 2 at Gordon Commons on the downtown Madison UW campus.
The University of Wisconsin System Sexual Assault and Violence Task Force met with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D- Wisconsin) Friday afternoon.
The conversation focused on how congress can help universities deal with on campus sex assaults. A recent survey of women at UW-Madison found one in four reported experiencing a sexual assault. Friday’s meeting centered around ways to tackle the problem.
Noted: On the University of Wisconsin campus, the Hoofer’s Club held its annual snowboard and ski re-sale. Organizer Mitchell Beres said fewer people have stopped by to buy with no snow on the ground.
“It’s definitely a little difficult to have that mentality and that preemptive mindset,” he said.
Last year, the sale raised more than $400,000. Beres estimated the organization would bring in around $350,000 this year.
(Video) Students across the country are upset with a bill that would change the way sexual assaults are reported on campus. Velena Jones reports.
Noted: Second year student Evan Cretney, with the University of Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine, always knew he wanted to work in a rural area. It wasn’t until he worked as an EMT in his home town of McFarland that he made it his mission to create a special bond with patients.
“I just loved caring for patients, showing up at their house in the middle of the night when they needed me was a really rewarding experience and something I knew I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” Cretney said.
It’s why he decided to apply for the W.A.R.M. program that trains medical students to become doctors in rural areas.
A sign has been sitting at the corner of Lake and University Streets in downtown Madison for years, announcing the site of a new UW-Madison School of Music building.
Now, a large gift from the Wisconsin Rapids-based Mead Witter Foundation will allow the sign to finally come down next fall and construction to begin on a new building that will house both music classrooms and a large concert hall.
“This was proposed before the 2008 financial crisis and we had some wonderful, generous donors, but the fundraising effort stalled out for some time,” Director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison Johannes Wallmann said. “Even the most optimistic among us thought it might be decades away.”
The president of the University of Wisconsin’s Muslim Student Association applauded the part President Barack Obama’s terrorism speech making clear ISIS did not speak for Islamic faith followers.
“President Obama is telling people to not give into the fear,” said Hani Rustom. “That is when he said ‘that’s exactly what ISIS wants.’ I think he hit it right on the head, because ISIS wants that fear so that people have that anti-Muslim sentiment. That if we, as an American community unite against that sort of thing, I think it will go a long way.”
The foundation of two families that have a long history with the University of Wisconsin has donated $25 million to the UW-Madison School of Music, according to a release.
The 64-year-old Mead Witter Foundation’s gift will provide major funding for the school of music’s new performance building, which is slated to be built at the corner of University Avenue and Lake Street, officials said.
Column from Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine M. Broton, Wisconsin HOPE Lab: Three months after starting college, Brooke Evans found herself without a place to live. She was 19. She slept in libraries, bathrooms and her car. She sold plasma and skipped meals. It was hard to focus or participate in class, and when her grades fell, her financial aid did, too. Eventually, she left college and began sleeping on the street, in debt, without a degree.
Just-released surveillance video shows Badger football player Corey Clement decking a man with a punch, and then being swarmed by the man and others in retaliation. Madison Police officials relied on the video to reject Clement’s claim he was the initial target of aggression in the incident Nov. 8 at The Hub apartments.
“His assertion that he was defending himself was not represented in the video,” detective Joel Peterson says.
Noted: What a presidential candidate says on the road must square with voters back home, but some saw inconsistencies in Walker’s narrative and his political persona. While the news media in Wisconsin covered budget reductions stemming from the new state budget — including $250 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin System — network and cable television showed Walker telling people in other states what he would do for them if he were elected president. His stump speeches on how his policies have made life better for residents in his home state seemed unfamiliar to those having to deal with diminished state funding under Walker’s leadership.
Noted: Dr. Richard Ralston, professor emeritus in African and Caribbean History in the Department of Afro-American Studies and Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles when Kwanzaa’s origins developed in southern California. Ralston heard about the celebration after the Watts rebellion and understood that something wonderful and positive had come out of the destructive event.
No. 5: When Bo Ryan reneged on a retirement announcement that seemed to put a time stamp of one more year as head coach of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, he might as well have shaken Madison out of a bad dream where there was no Bo in Badgers basketball.
No. 2: There was a time not so very long ago when every serious discussion of the economic future of this state included the unassailable assertion of the University of Wisconsin–Madison as one of the most, if not the most, important economic engines in the state. Two thousand fifteen, however, was the year that notion became assailable. And Governor Scott Walker assailed away.
Quoted: “For those that acquire HIV, there is every reason to come in early to be on treatment to not have this disease have any important part of your life,” said Dr. Bennett Vogelman [Senior Associate Chair for Education for the Department of Medicine]. He’s one of the founding fathers of the UW Health HIV/AIDS Comprehensive Care Program. “It would be like treating high blood pressure or diabetes. We can control this and that’s a big change.”
A grant will fund collaborative research between Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction and the University of Wisconsin-Madison [WCER] to narrow gaps in student opportunity and achievement levels, according to a release.
The $5.2 million U.S. Department of Education grant will fund research on data from all state public schools over the next four years, officials said. The goal of the research is to identify proven techniques that teachers can use to narrow gaps in student opportunity and achievement levels across all racial and ethnic backgrounds and family incomes.
(Video) On World AIDS Day, Dr. Ryan Westergaard talks about what UW is doing in the battle against HIV.
