UW-Madison administrators said Monday the possibility of offering courses during winter break, which could happen as soon as next January, would give students more flexibility in their college educations.
Since 2009, the number of sexual assaults reported by UW-Madison students nearly tripled. According to Assistant Dean of Students Tonya Schmidt, that increase is a good thing.
University of Wisconsin System schools saw the highest number of transfer students in a decade last year, a trend that appears to be continuing into this year, a recent report found.
Union South celebrated its first birthday Monday by unveiling a new project intended to encapsulate the timelessness of the building.
Student neighborhoods that have witnessed increased burglaries and other criminal activity could be the focus of a city program in the works to foster crime prevention among engaged citizens.
Student leaders asked members of the Board of Regents Friday to consider increasing avenues for communication with students system-wide.
UW-Madison?s Center on Journalism Ethics concluded its fourth annual conference by awarding the first ever Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics Friday.
UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward said the university is making progress toward beginning mediation with adidas, UW?s main licensing partner, to resolve the ongoing dispute over whether the company owes unemployed workers severance pay.
UW-Madison students could have the opportunity to take in-person and online courses during winter break, according to an e-mail sent to the student body asking them for feedback on the idea.
In narrowing down the search for the next second-in-command for the University of Wisconsin System, four finalists have been chosen to vie for the Vice President position.
Four UW-Madison faculty members have been ranked among the country?s top 300 teachers by The Princeton Review and RateMyProfessors.com.
Progress continued Thursday for construction plans to the west end of the Memorial Union terrace, as the Memorial Union Design Committee discussed the finalized budget for the project that members said should be easily met.
Madison police discussed new safety measures at this year?s Mifflin Street Block Party and the possibility of future alternative solutions at a city safety committee meeting Thursday.
The student government finance committee voted Thursday to reinstate funding for SAFEcab, a campus transportation service that provides late-night cab rides despite new difficulties in finding management for the service.
With a gubernatorial recall election still two months away, the campaign for Gov. Scott Walker released two attack advertisements Thursday focusing on the job records of Democratic gubernatorial candidates Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents deliberated on the challenges of balancing the quality of education and ensuring affordability and broad access to institutions for Wisconsin residents in a meeting Thursday night.
Thursday night the UW-Madison Student Services Finance Committee decided to reinstate the SAFEride Cab service after removing funding from the program two-weeks ago.
Following a recent hiatus of further discussion, a committee of scientists that advises the federal government decided to allow researchers to publish two controversial scientific papers that explain how to modify the H5N1 virus, known as the avian flu, to be transmissible through the air.
Students met with Madison officials Wednesday to discuss the city budget and areas where students would like to see greater investment, such as improving safety on campus.
The University of Wisconsin?s Transportation Services is proposing a series of changes that could increase permit costs and reduce services to campus bus services and parking permits in an effort to resolve a $1 million deficit facing the department.
Madison officials and University of Wisconsin students came together Wednesday to give students a venue to voice their opinions of where the city should spend its money.
Plans for expanding the Mifflin neighborhood from a strictly student-residential area to one including commercial office buildings sparked controversy among the Plan Commission at a Wednesday night meeting.
In celebration of the University of Wisconsin Morgridge Center for Public Service?s 15th anniversary this year, a founder of a nonprofit, sustainable food organization shared his philosophy on local development in a keynote speech on campus last night.
In a living room discussion held Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius heard stories from women who have benefited from the reforms brought about by the Affordable Care Act that currently faces a federal Supreme Court challenge.
Following presentations on recommendations for increased flexibilities from University of Wisconsin System officials, members of the Special Task Force on UW Restructuring and Operational Flexibilities sparred over the creation of institutional governing boards to oversee UW institutions.
UW-Madison junior Jasmine Mans was recently named one of Glamour Magazine?s Top Ten College Women of 2012 for her spoken word and poetry.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig visited UW-Madison Tuesday, where he discussed media?s role in today?s sports and some of the major public relations challenges he has faced as commissioner.
Drawing on his experiences as Major League Baseball commissioner, a University of Wisconsin alumnus came to campus yesterday to address the connection between baseball and today?s changing media.
Gaining legitimacy on an international level, three University of Wisconsin institutions received accreditation status in the area of animal research programs following controversial ratings at a check-in last year.
Animal research programs at UW-Madison will be fully accredited for the next three years after two site visits from the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care, according to a university news release Tuesday.
UW-Madison Athletic Director Barry Alvarez apologized in a letter last week for comments that a Dane County Board Supervisor said were ?mocking and belittling? to a sexual assault victim.
City planning officials approved further construction to Camp Randall Stadium and remodeling of the neighboring McClain Center student athletic facility Monday.
A recent spike of crimes in downtown Madison over the past months continued this past week as police logged a higher number of neighborhood burglaries while students were on break.
University of Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez apologized for comments he made about allegations surrounding former Associate Athletic Director John Chadima after a Dane County official called on him to retract his statements.
University of Wisconsin faculty representatives presented multiple annual reports on campus diversity and undergraduate admissions for consideration to Faculty Senate members Monday following challenges to university budgets and independence.
UW-Madison officials have requested permission from the city of Madison to demolish two university-owned buildings on West Johnson Street to expand a parking lot on Clymer Place.
Doctors disciplined by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health faced fines and suspension from leadership positions for writing sick notes to protestors in last February?s collective bargaining demonstrations, according to records obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal last Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin reached and surpassed $1 billion in research expenditures in a fiscal year, according to a study from the National Science Foundation.
The Online News Association has awarded a University of Wisconsin-Madison student with a $20,000 scholarship.
Records released Thursday by UW-Madison officials show several UW doctors were docked pay and had duties suspended as punishment for writing sick notes for State Capitol protesters last year without documenting conditions in patient medical records.
Newly released records show the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s medical school disciplined 20 doctors for writing sick notes for protesters during last years? labor demonstrations at the state Capitol.
Efforts to restore and clean up the state Capitol after last years demonstrations cost about $200,000, far less than a state officials controversial estimation of $7.5 million.
It was four years ago on April 2 when UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her downtown Madison apartment.
e University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to honor two Spanish literary masterpieces and a critic who wrote key reviews of the texts at a symposium later this month.
Four years later, Madison police are still looking for answers in a killing that rocked the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A Madison artist who creates complex and vividly colored paper sculptures has been selected to represent Dane County in a European event that attracts a global audience.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have decided to open all meetings of the Human Resources Design Project after an organization that advocates for the rights of faculty and academic staff mailed a complaint last week to J.B. Van Hollen, Wisconsin?s attorney general.
UW-Madison officials have decided to open human resources meetings to the public after a group of faculty and staff complained that new work rules for the university?s 17,000 employees were being discussed in private.
A UW-Madison student committee is reconsidering the possible elimination of a long-standing campus service that provides late-night cab rides for stranded students.
Thousands of college students enthusiastically gathered on the UW-Madison campus Thursday; not for a concert or festival, but to listen to a 76-year-old grandfather lecture them on the need to maintain a budget.
With less than a week to go before the Wisconsin presidential primary, Texan congressman and Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul made a stop on the University of Wisconsin campus Thursday night, calling for an end to the Afghanistan War as well as an end to the Federal Reserve.
It was a warm reception for the first Republican presidential candidate to visit Madison Thursday.
A surprise off the court for Badgers basketball player Rob Wilson.
There is a nationwide debate over strains of the deadly bird flu that were man-made by researchers here in Madison.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul drew a crowd estimated at more than 2,000 for a town hall meeting Thursday night on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.
Students urged UW-Madison student government leaders Wednesday to act against hate crimes at the university, saying campus is not a safe place for racial minority students.
Food vendors will not be permitted during the Mifflin Street Block Party due to numerous safety and organizational issues cited during a city meeting Wednesday.
GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be in Madison Thursday on the UW campus.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.
In 1988, UW-Madison?s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was accused of sponsoring a slave auction party that included members of the fraternity wearing blackface and Afro wigs. The incident sparked a small, but passionate, student-led protest on ZBT?s property, at which eight students were eventually arrested.
