A University of Wisconsin-Madison committee has upheld the recommendation to expel Alec Cook from the university for violating university student conduct policies, according to a release.
A UW-Madison misconduct committee has voted to expel a student who prosecutors allege sexually assaulted or harassed 10 women, officials said Tuesday.
The challenge a professor presented to a group of civil engineering students was one that came from the real world: Come up with a plan to renovate UW-Madison’s Witte Residence Hall that adds amenities for its residents and lets the university keep open a building that houses 15 percent of the campus’ dorm population.
Following a 2015 survey that revealed high rates of sexual assault at UW-Madison—particularly in residence halls and Greek houses—campus groups have been working to build prevention programs aimed at reducing these numbers. This programming aims to reach a significant portion of the campus population, as 90 percent of freshman choose to live in university housing and approximately 13 percent of undergraduates are members of the Greek community.
Requests for no contact orders happen fairly often—about once every two weeks, assistant dean and director of conduct and community standards Tonya Schmidt said. Reasons can be as simple as a roommate relationship gone sour, but they more commonly deal with dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
[S]ome on campus are worried that President Donald Trump’s administration may change standards for college sexual assault cases, making the reporting process more difficult for some survivors.
A UW-Madison disciplinary committee has decided to expel a student accused of sexually assaulting and harassing nearly a dozen women.
Excitement rose Monday as snow fell with the announcement that the annual Battle for Bascom would be taking place. The tradition, now in its sixth year, calls all students that currently or previously lived in the Lakeshore and Southeast neighborhoods to face off in a snowball fight on Bascom Hill.
Noted: The city’s University of Wisconsin campus has more than 1,200 faculty in the biological and physical sciences, plus an uncounted number of academic and university staff who are scientists, according to UW spokeswoman Meredith McGlone. And as of last fall, there were more than 19,000 students, including graduate students, in those sciences out of a total of some 43,000.
Kristen Roman thought she was headed toward a career in broadcast journalism when she studied at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the mid-1980s.
Visitors to an Italian-style restaurant inside the Memorial Union at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may notice a different kind of carry-out container is being used.
After weeks of withholding evidence from University of Wisconsin student Alec Cook’s defense team, his attorneys filed a motion to compel the court to have the prosecution release at least 2,800 pages worth of police reports and other documents, according to court records.
Members of the Associated Students of Madison will soon be paid by the hour in order to adhere to federal minimum wage.
More students may stay on campus this summer due to university attempts to make Summer Term more accessible through scholarships and flexible courses.
As part of ongoing celebrations of International Women’s Day, University of Wisconsin students and members of the Madison community gathered Wednesday to discuss key issues affecting women’s rights, ranging from the patriarchy to President Donald Trump.
Ten professors from a variety of disciplines at UW-Madison have been selected for named professorships from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
A pledge to implement 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030 at UW-Madison could be on the table after The Climate Reality Project recently opened a new branch on campus.
UW’s Band is marching for meals, sharing about the importance of the Meals on Wheels program. Students started off playing crowd favorites at The Gardens Retirement Community, moving on to play at other senior apartments throughout Madison.
In an effort to include more encompassing language in Associated Students of Madison’s constitution, a nondiscrimination amendment was passed in a 3155-369 referendum vote during its annual student elections.
Beginning in May, the Associated Student of Madison will have a new set of faces seated at the table after spring election votes were tallied for representatives and a change in ASM’s constitution Wednesday.
At UW-Madison, the LGBT CC works in junction with University Health Services to provide LGBT-identifying students with increasing support, especially for transgender persons. While services expand, some find help. But others are still waiting.
The event, “Who Needs College?” moderated by Michel Martin, weekend host of “All Things Considered,” brought together a varied group of panelists including University of Wisconsin-Madison students, faculty, alumni, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a lawmaker.
Madison police said officers working traffic control had helped an estimated 700 people march safely to the Capitol. Starting around 11 a.m., they came from two directions: along State Street from Library Mall on the UW-Madison campus and along East Washington Avenue.
Two lucky UW-Madison students will be brewing beer with Wisconsin Brewing Company.
Last year, a website called WalletHub ranked the best and worst cities for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, and Madison ranked 7th out of 100 cities.
The number of reported sexual assaults at the University of Wisconsin-Madison rose by more than 100 in 2016, when 325 sexual assaults were reported. That’s up from 217 reports in 2015.
The late “Funky Drummer” Clyde Stubblefield, along with educator and philanthropist Tashia Morgridge and sociologist Cora Marrett, will be receiving honorary degrees in May from UW-Madison.
Shellenberger, a pro-nuclear environmentalist has co-authored multiple books, including “The Death of Environmentalism,” “Break Through,” and “An Ecomodernist Manifesto.” He has been an advocate for environmental and social justice for more than 25 years.
A letter sent by a large group of black UW-Madison alumni drew a response from the university’s chief diversity officer, who said he hopes to work with the group to improve campus climate for students of color.
Amid elections for Associated Students of Madison representatives, state Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, visited College Republicans at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to discuss hot-button issues and drive home the importance of fighting for conservative values.
While many people put their faith in Jimmy the Groundhog as to how long winter will be, a better natural barometer can be found at the UW-Madison Arboretum.
Amid uncertainty of the level of support Gov. Scott Walker has in the state Legislature for his budget proposal, state Sen. Patrick Testin, R-Stevens Point, supported the tuition cut and increased UW System funding in a speech to UW-Madison’s College Republicans.
In the midst of midterms, college students may be asking “Why college?” National Public Radio’s Michel Martin asked panelists, which included four UW-Madison students, this question, and what purpose they think higher education serves.
War has raged in Syria for nearly six years, taking the lives of over 450,000 people and uprooting millions from their homes. College students are among the refugees trying to find a safe place. After witnessing the war in her home country, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) junior Nour Saeed was inspired to act. A proud dual-citizen originally from Amman, Jordan, she has helped Syrian refugees in higher education by petitioning for UW-Madison to offer ten scholarship opportunities to Syrian students.
Michigan Tech has never won this competition and two-time defending champs University of Wisconsin-Madison is going to try and keep it that way.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student is behind an initiative to allow students, faculty and staff to use food stamps at all campus dining facilities.
Leslie Orrantia is the director of community relations at the University of Wisconsin, a post she’s held since August. She has been on campus for four years, serving since 2012 in the School of Education’s External Relations office and as assistant director for the Wisconsin Collaborative Education Research Network within the School of Education. Prior to her work with UW-Madison, she served as a caseworker in Madison for nearly five years, collaborating with area nonprofits, government institutions, community organizations and local media to best address client needs. It was her work as a caseworker that really taught her the value of listening to others.
The University of Wisconsin Madison held their first event for Women of Color week Monday.A panel discussion called “Immigration, Assimilation and Integration” invited students and community members to think about immigration issues, like President Donald Trump’s travel ban, in a historical context.
The Faculty Senate weighed risk versus “preserving some faculty shared governance” while debating a revised proposal for post-tenure review policy Monday.
When Junko Mori came to Wisconsin in the 1990s, Japan was experiencing an economic boom. To foster business collaboration, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction recruited native Japanese speakers to help elementary and secondary school students learn the language.
UW-Madison students could soon be able to use food stamps to pay for meals on campus.
WAUWATOSA — Since 1930, it has been a way for students to earn their way through college. The Chick Evans Scholarship, through the Western Golf Association has been paying four-year tuition and housing for deserving caddies.
Towards the end of every spring semester, Mifflin Street residents open their doors to hundreds of UW-Madison students and Madison residents for a Saturday of celebration. The residents of one house, though, are planning for their home to serve a different purpose and mirror the inaugural Mifflin Street Block Party.
A controversial pay plan for graduate students who assist faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison will be introduced as planned, despite continuing opposition from the student workers’ labor union.
As a part of his 2015-’17 budget, Gov. Scott Walker edited the language in state statute outlining the responsibilities of the UW System. In essence, the role of students, faculty and staff shifted from that of policy developers to policy advisors, a move that left many in fear over the true weight of their voice.
As students shuffled back and forth between classes in Birge Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus these past few weeks, they looked curiously at what Peter Krsko was up to. Up on a 14-foot-ladder, the Slovakian-born artist was building a plywood sculpture around one of the pillars in the entrance hall. Inspired by the plants he saw in the greenhouses at Birge Hall, Krsko constructed the sculpture of slender pieces of wood to climb 22 feet up the pillar like a vine, exploding outward like a geyser of water.
For UW-Madison junior Nour Saeed, the past three years have been unsettling to say the least. What started as a habit of watching the news turned into anger and confusion as events such as the Syrian Civil War and, most recently, the 2016 presidential election commanded headlines.
UW-Madison instructors debated how they should deliver course content to this generation of college students that have seen the term “trigger warning” splashed on recent headlines.
If it seems like the Memorial Union’s been getting remodeled for years, it has. The first phase of the reconstruction started in the summer of 2012.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University has named its new chief of police.
For almost two years, Associated Students of Madison Shared Governance Director Mara Matovich has been campaigning for tuition transparency. For her, educating students on their misconceptions of tuition is one of the driving goals of this campaign.
In an effort to promote affordable living on campus, Associated Students of Madison unanimously voted to approve changes to University Housing and Dining and Culinary Services at a Wednesday meeting.
A deal is in the works for an Amazon package pickup point outside a southeast campus residence hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison officials confirmed Wednesday.
Starting next fall, UW-Madison could be the first school in the nation to accept food stamps in dining halls, according to a university administrator who called the program a no-brainer.
As children, we are “sold” the pathway of the American dream, but this unrealistic vision does not paint the full picture, according to Walter Bond, executive director of Teach for America-Milwaukee.
An investigation by The Daily Cardinal found that 13 fraternities at UW-Madison—just under half of those on campus—were on probation or suspension in 2016.
Marking the end of Black History Month, the University of Wisconsin community celebrated a dedication and libation ceremony for the Black Cultural Center in the Red Gym.
Members of the University of Wisconsin community received a familiar crime warning email Monday describing an ongoing string of on-campus burglaries involving electronics and credit cards … Those who opened the email, however, may have been surprised that in addition to the usual description and location of the crime and a vague description of any suspects involved in the case, this particular email also included photos of the suspects — two young black men.
University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said he peers out his office window “about every day” to reflect on how much Camp Randall Stadium has developed since he took over as the football program’s coach in 1990.
Building long-lasting connections between University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and the state, the Wisconsin Idea seminar seeks to carry UW-Madison’s legacy forward and inspire research.
