After a semester where the number of hate and bias incidents reported to the Bias Response Team more than tripled, UW-Madison is beginning to improve and develop tactics to respond to such occurrences by connecting with other colleges throughout the Midwest.
Traditionally, members of the Madison community recognize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day through service. This year, several UW-Madison organizations created an event focused on bringing everyone, especially the campus community, together.
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new federal relations director, Michael Lenn, is a Wisconsin native, but he’s no stranger to Washington.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s inaugural Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration brought a couple hundred community members and students together at Union South Monday despite the icy weather.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students want more space to work out at a gym with natural light that is easy to navigate, said junior Emily Ott.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison audiology students is spending the week on an important medical mission in Guatemala. During their mission, “Hearing the Call,” they’re screening and treating people who otherwise wouldn’t get such care — restoring their hearing and restoring their lives.
The Office of Quality Improvement at UW-Madison has named Darin Harris as interim director, choosing the long time consultant to the office to take over after Maury Cotter retired.
One area lawmaker will reintroduce a piece of legislation in the 2017-18 session that would expand the current concealed carry law to University of Wisconsin System owned buildings.
Who would you call if you had a wood-related question? The Forest Products Laboratory, of course. But, did you even know of its existence?
The UW-Madison Police Department announced on Wednesday the passing of police horse Vegas.
On her third day as the newly inducted police chief of the UW-Madison Police Department, Kristen Roman spent part of her afternoon inducting three new officers to the police force.
UW-Madison Police Department’s police horse, Vegas, died Tuesday after more than one year of suffering from Degenerative Suspensory Ligament Disease.
A long-serving campus police horse was euthanized Tuesday after suffering from a painful disease, officials said. The University of Wisconsin-Madison police said Vegas, who served with the department’s mounted patrol for 12 years, was suffering from suspensory ligament disease, an incurable ailment that affects the horse’s ability to use his hind legs, causing a lot of pain.
Vegas, a police horse at the UW-Madison Police Department since 2005, was euthanized Tuesday at the university’s School of Veterinary Medicine after his diseased hind legs couldn’t go any further.
As Chief Kristen Roman swore in three new police officers, it was symbolic of a new beginning for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department. The three officers join the department the same week Chief Roman assumed the leadership role.
Services for a UW-Madison freshman nursing student who died in a plane crash along with her father in December will be held on Sunday, with a scholarship established in her name at the nursing school.
Madison Police Department responded to an act of aggravated battery Friday that occurred at the intersection of University Avenue and Hawthorne Court near the UW-Madison campus.
Arguing that courses and programs on UW campuses have a liberal bias, some Republican lawmakers in the state assembly have said that creating “ideological diversity” will be one of their priorities this session. A higher education reporters tells us about the call for different viewpoints on campus, and debates over academic freedom.
Educational watchdogs are warning that newly emboldened Republican leaderships at the state level are ramping up pressure on universities to curb programs they claim “advance the politically correct agenda of liberal administrators and staff”.
Senior standouts both on and off the court for the Wisconsin men’s basketball program, Nigel Hayes and Bronson Koenig were each announced this week as candidates for the 2017 Senior CLASS Award, which recognizes notable achievements in community, classroom, character and competition.
Noted: We reach the end of the musical month on Jan. 29 with the third Schubertiade performance, presented by Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes of the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. These recreations of the evenings that the composer and his friends enjoyed are built around a theme in the composer’s life and music. This year’s motif is “Circle of Friends,” and soprano Emily Birsan will be featured along with other stellar soloists. Yours truly made it to this event last year, and the memories remain fresh nearly a year later. The event starts at 3 p.m. in Mills Hall. .
The Columbus Dispatch reported a service is scheduled Sunday at a church in Delaware, Ohio, to celebrate the lives of 50-year-old Brian Casey and 19-year-old University of Wisconsin nursing student Megan Casey.
Advocates for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse are calling on state Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, to retract his condemnation of a University of Wisconsin-Madison program that challenges men to reevaluate ideas of masculine identity.
Noted: The Urban League and the King Coalition and the UW will collaborate on Youth Service Day on Monday that will happen on the UW campus at the Institutes for Discovery.
The Badger Caring Closet, which will open in the Lutheran Campus Ministry in spring, will provide a space for low-income UW-Madison students to get free clothes, hygiene products and school supplies.
Conservative critics of higher education in Wisconsin have opened a new chapter of their long-running complaints about institutions such as UW-Madison, scrutinizing specific university courses and even a class reading they consider biased or inappropriate.
A joint celebration of life service has been set for a father and daughter who were close in life and together in death.Brian Sean Casey, 50, and Megan Elizabeth Casey, 19, were among the six people aboard when their plane crashed into Lake Erie on Dec. 29.
MADISON, Wis. — At least three times in the past six months, state legislators have threatened to cut the budget of the University of Wisconsin at Madison for teaching about homosexuality, gender and race. As a faculty member who focuses on how public organizations are managed, I hear a great deal about the dangers of political correctness in higher education. Several of Wisconsin’s elected officials have joined the growing chorus of demands for better protections for free speech on campus, even as they fail to recognize how their own politicized approach to managing campuses poses a much more fundamental risk to free speech.
If all goes according to the plans of the UW-Madison Division of Recreational Sports, the facility at 715 W. Dayton St. will be closed for good late in the summer of 2017 and torn down in the fall. Two years later a new SERF with nearly four times as much fitness space as the current one will open to students, at an estimated cost of $93 million.
Elizabeth Galoff, 19, has suffered with depression and anxiety since she was in elementary school.
MADISON — A UW-Madison program that explores masculinity amounts to a declaration of war on men and the university should be punished in upcoming budget deliberations, a Republican legislator said Wednesday.
Republican legislators in Wisconsin last month threatened to cut funds from the University of Wisconsin at Madison for offering a course on race relations called The Problem of Whiteness. University officials have defended the course and denied allegations that the course denigrates white people.
Megan was a freshman studying nursing at UW and also a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. Family members say she and her dad were loving, caring, remarkable individuals.Although her sorority sisters are all still away on winter break, the president of the UW chapter Jillian Parks describes Megan in a statement as a vibrant and ambitious young woman who aspired to be a neonatal nurse one day.
Two aboard the plane that went missing outside of Cleveland last week attended a Columbus-area high school. On Tuesday, the school’s principal said both were outstanding and involved students.
The leader of the Wisconsin State Assembly is temporarily pumping the brakes on a proposal that would allow people to carry guns on on college campuses in the state.
The excitement and trepidation was very real as Badger fans young, and old gathered to watch the Cotton Bowl game at Union South in Madison, Monday.
McKinney, a senior studying English and creative writing, is one of the university’s most honored students. He is a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship, won the Truman Scholarship in the spring and, last month, won the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, given to less than 40 students in the nation.
There’s nothing unusual about a planned UW-Madison class, “The Problem with Whiteness,” that so offended Republican lawmakers that they want the class cancelled, said the editor of a national higher education news website.
Megan Casey, 19, was traveling home on a private, two-engine plane following a Cleveland Cavaliers basketball game, according to a UW-Madison news release. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for the plane, which is suspected to have crashed shortly after takeoff.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman is among six people feared dead after a private plane crashed into Lake Erie near Cleveland on Dec. 29.
A UW-Madison student is missing and feared dead after a private plane carrying six people crashed into Lake Erie near Cleveland on Thursday, university spokesman John Lucas said in a statement Monday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman and her father were among six people aboard a plane that disappeared over Lake Erie as the group was returning from a Cleveland Cavaliers game, the school said Monday as search crews continue to hunt for the aircraft.
Two University of Wisconsin-Madison police officers who entered a classroom to make an arrest in April acted within their authority, according to the conclusion of an administrative review of the arrest. The review also offered recommended changes for the department
A University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman is one of the six people missing after a private plane crashed in Lake Erie near Cleveland last week, according to a release from UW.
Two UW-Madison police officers who went into a classroom in April to initiate the arrest of an alleged graffiti vandal were within their rights to do so, according to an administrative review of the case.
The financial health of Wisconsin’s farms and agricultural business and emerging issues and opportunities are topics for the upcoming Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum on Thursday, Jan. 19 on the UW-Madison campus. The event is sponsored by UW-Madison, UW-Extension, Wisconsin Farmers Union and Wisconsin Farm Bureau and features both academic and business leaders.
Former UWPD chief Susan Riseling ordered the review after the April 14th arrest of Denzel McDonald. McDonald was arrested on 11 criminal counts of graffiti and one count of disorderly conduct for threatening a bystander.
The two officers who entered a university classroom in April to question a suspect acted within their authority, University of Wisconsin-Madison police said Thursday.
There was no stopping Freedom native Andrew Philibeck and his Wisconsin Badgers teammates on their road to the “Team Ninja Warrior: College Madness” championship.
The Republican lawmaker who introduced a bill last year to allow concealed carry permit holders to bring guns inside university buildings says he will reintroduce the proposal in the Legislature’s upcoming session because he believes students are still at risk when they can’t bring weapons with them to campus.
Hanns Kuttner loves “It’s a Small World stories, and last September he shared one with Madison philanthropist Jerry Frautschi.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students plan to carry sex toys around campus next semester to protest a bill that would allow concealed weapons in university classrooms.
For the past four years, Pat Smet has been a Bucky Badger for the University of Wisconsin. This year he is one of the eight Wisconsin students on the Bucky Badger mascot troop.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is offering a course next semester called “The Problem of Whiteness,” and it’s not sitting well with a Republican legislator.
A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison students is planning to carry sex toys on campus to protest a bill that may come before the state Legislature next year.
Saturday evening, the Student Coalition for Progress started a petition asking UW administration to demote UW’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter to a hate group and require all students involved to attend intensive diversity training.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which tracks campus speech policies at colleges and universities across the country and criticizes efforts to limit First Amendment rights, said the statements this week from state Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, and Sen. Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, threaten academic freedom.
WISN 12 News’ Kent Wainscott spoke to state Rep. David Murphy, who originally wanted to cut funding because of the “The Problem of Whiteness” class but is now changing his mind.
Turning up the heat on the long-smoldering relationship between state lawmakers and the University of Wisconsin System, leading Republicans are threatening to pull any hope of more state funding unless a new course at UW-Madison called “The Problem of Whiteness” is canceled.
Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that a University of Wisconsin-Madison class titled “The Problem is Whiteness” is “goofy” and “unusual,” but he stopped short of saying offering it should put UW’s funding in jeopardy.
