mtvU’s RateMyProfessors.com, the largest online destination for college professor ratings, released its toplists.ratemyprofessors.com ranking this week, the nation’s top professors and universities, based entirely on students’ input.
To help create a safer campus at UW Madison, the university Taekwondo club held a women’s self defense seminar.
The UW-Madison Police Department held its “Coffee with a Cop” event Wednesday morning where police officers handed out free coffee to students at East Campus Mall.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved the eligibility of Atheists, Humanists and Agnostics club Thursday evening.
As the City of Madison increases easier access to voting, the University of Wisconsin has followed suit by offering voter ID printers at polling stations around campus — even on Election Day.
Bill Elvey, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management, is becoming senior vice president at Children’s Health System in Texas.
When Princeton Review released their annual rankings of American colleges and universities, one ranking stuck out to me, and probably you too: the University of Wisconsin-Madison found itself in the number one slot for top party schools in the nation. Suddenly I heard Lil Yachty reverberating inside my head: “We did it, we did it, we did it.”
Some students at UW-Madison got free coffee to start their day while meeting with the school’s police department.
Anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a University of Wisconsin-Madison dormitory over the weekend, a campus spokeswoman said.
At a few minutes past 2 on Tuesday afternoon, 16 members of the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team came to a stop at a crosswalk at North Park Street before making their way to the other side.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is reporting a 10% increase in enrollment and $4 million boost in new revenue for its recently completed summer term, and it is planning to continue ramping up the number of courses next summer to help students stay on track for graduation and bring in more money for the university.
UW-Madison has identified those believed to be responsible for drawing swastikas on three residence hall whiteboards over the weekend.
Less than a week into the new school year, UW-Madison officials are dealing with an incident of intolerance on campus after swastikas were found on three dorm room doors in Sellery Hall.
The University of Wisconsin men’s hockey team’s annual “Skate with the Badgers” event is set for Oct. 22 at the Kohl Center from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students voting on campus who lack proper identification will be able to remedy the problem at their polling place this fall.
Summer school enrollment at UW-Madison rose 10 percent this year, led by a 40 percent increase in enrollment in online courses, Chancellor Rebecca Blank said Tuesday.
Summer school, the bane of high school kids everywhere, is one hot ticket at UW-Madison.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials hope providing workshop training for incoming students will help to improve racial climate on campus.
Officials say the individuals are students from another college who were visiting UW-Madison and picked the doors at random.
With the rollout of UW-Madison’s new cultural competency program, Our Wisconsin, and other inclusion initiatives developing throughout the UW System, some state Republicans are lamenting the overemphasis of political correctness.
Three roads will be closed on the UW-Madison campus beginning Wednesday, Sept. 14.
This week, stories about people trying their best to turn themselves into something else—like a badger. Or a professional comedian, in a language they didn’t grow up speaking.
Noted: A group of East educators recently attended a reading institute titled “Literacy by the Lakes,” coordinated by the Literacy Education faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison formally congratulated Chris Nguyen, a fourth-year biomedical engineering major, Monday morning at Engineering Hall for winning the grand prize in General Electric’s “Unimpossible Missions: The University Edition” competition.The challenge asked participants to debunk common idioms such as “A snowball’s chance in hell,” or, for Nguyen, “You can’t unring a bell.” Noise cancellation technology and research on sound waves were used to help Nguyen support his theory.
Some 30 people gathered at the base of Bascom Hill to share experiences of life as members of the LGBTQ+ community and commemorate the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre in June.
After a long summer of avoiding Learn@UW, students at the University of Wisconsin may be surprised to find a new system accessible through their dashboard called Canvas.
Students would probably offer a multitude of answers if asked to name the best college in America. But U.S. News & World Report has delivered the same verdict for a string of Septembers. Princeton, the magazine just declared, is the top national university for the sixth straight year, Williams College the top liberal arts college for the 14th consecutive year, and the University of California at Berkeley the top public university for the 19th year in a row.
As more students attend college, they incur student loan debt that is often unmanageable and unaffordable — something the state’s new Student Loan Debt Specialist Cheryl Weiss is trying to change.
On Thursday, Wisconsin Operation Lifesaver will be providing presentations to people in Madison and on UW-Madison campus.
When United Council for University of Wisconsin students was defunded in early spring, a group of students decided they were not going to sit around and leave their peers without a voice.
As part of its ongoing effort to create a more “inclusive” campus in the wake of what some saw as a rash of racist incidents last school year, UW-Madison has announced plans to open a “black cultural center.”
If your friend has had a few too many beers, you can take away his glass, or suggest going to get some food to distract him from drinking more.
The School of Human Ecology held the opening reception for the Ruth Davis Design Gallery’s featured exhibit, “Stitching History from the Holocaust,” a travelling display from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee in Nancy Nicholas Hall Sunday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police released information Thursday about a sexual assault that allegedly occurred at a fraternity house on Langdon Street last weekend, but the incident has not yet been reported to the Madison Police Department, according to an MPD spokesman.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was warm and funny, but principled and passionate, too, in a 90-minute informal talk Thursday with an audience made up largely of law students and members of the local legal community at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
Through group discussions, one-on-one conversations and even a card game, UW-Madison officials hope a new program they will roll out next week for 1,000 newly arrived students will be a step toward improving the racial climate at their university.
Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court has been both a blessing and a curse and reaching decisions is harder than she ever expected, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday during a visit to UW-Madison.
You could say his face is just as famous as Bucky’s… UW Marching Band Director Mike Leckrone says the band is rearing to go for this season at Camp Randall.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called her job a “blessing and a curse” while speaking to a packed theater on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus Thursday.
UW-Madison Police are alerting the public about a sexual assault this past Saturday.
A sexual assault was reported at an unnamed University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity house last weekend, police said.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a crowd Thursday that the nation should do more to make sure people have adequate legal representation.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court has been both a blessing and a curse and reaching decisions is harder than she ever expected, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday during a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says UW System schools don’t invite enough conservative speakers to give talks on campus, but UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout contend they seek presenters with expertise, not political affiliation.
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made the nation’s highest court seem much more human during her remarks Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Many Americans have been noticing that local police and sheriff’s departments have become more and more militarized over the past decade. More and more, students are worried that this is starting to occur in police departments on college campuses, too. The UW Blackout Movement will host an event Wednesday night on East Campus Mall in hopes of starting a conversation with students and to encourage the UW-Madison police and police nationwide to be more transparent about the military-style equipment they have access to.
Highlights from the first day of school at UW-Madison on Sep 6, 2016 in Madison, WI.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council passed legislation Wednesday urging the UW-Madison Police Department to be transparent about the equipment it owns and intends to own.
SexWIse Workshop kicked off its opening event at Sellery Hall Wednesday night.
Many Americans have been noticing that local police and sheriff’s departments have become more and more militarized over the past decade. More and more, students are worried that this is starting to occur in police departments on college campuses, too. The UW Blackout Movement will host an event tonight on East Campus Mall in hopes of starting a conversation with students and to encourage the UW-Madison police and police nationwide to be more transparent about the military-style equipment they have access to.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank is poised to begin a committee this fall that will share information with and seek insight from various leaders in the community regarding diversity and inclusion.
University Health Services has hired three new mental health professionals prepared to support underrepresented student groups, including one specifically for students of color, who began their positions Tuesday.
The UW-Madison Police Department bid farewell to their chief of 25 years, Sue Riseling, at the end of this past spring semester.
With more than 30 years of experience with UWPD under his belt, interim University of Wisconsin Police Chief Brian Bridges knows the value of community engagement.
Derek Kindle, who was appointed to lead University of Wisconsin’s financial aid department this summer, said he’s devoted to helping students — but needs support from legislators.
There are many barriers that keep college students away from the polls. They include registration and voting requirements that vary from state to state, difficulty with obtaining the proper ID or proving residency, lack of familiarity with local issues and local candidates and uncertainty about how or where to vote — at home or at school.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, officials have put together a diversity presentation as a pilot program this year for 1,000 freshmen — whom some colleges refer to with the gender-neutral term first-year students. That program, expected to cost $150,000 to $200,000, follows incidents on campus last year. In one, a racist note was slipped under a black student’s door, prompting Patrick Sims, the university’s vice provost for diversity and climate, to post an emotional video on YouTube titled “Enough Is Enough.”
A U.S. Supreme Court justice is visiting Madison on Thursday to give a lecture and have lunch with law students.
The University of Wisconsin and UW System are implementing initiatives to improve campus’ racial climates, but some experts harbor concerns.
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