“What History Tells” plans to recreate the experience of sitting in the iconic Mosse’s classroom, according to UW-Madison News. Participants will listen to recordings of his lectures from 1969 and 1982 on European cultural history, and read works by Mosse and others.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Council met with UW-Madison administration during its meeting Wednesday to examine results of the recently published campus climate survey.
Dean of Students Lori Berquam and University Health Services Executive Director Sarah Van Orman informed the council of the survey’s key results and gave recommendations for using those findings to address sexual assault and sexual misconduct on campus.
The survey, conducted by the Association of American Universities last spring, aimed to assess the prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses nationwide, as well as ask for students’ perceptions of campus climate and knowledge of campus resources for these issues.
College boxing, decades removed from the days when fedora-clad fans filled smoky arenas to watch the sport, is making a comeback.
The conversation about college campus safety is happening at universities across the state, including Oshkosh.It follows a recent national survey, that showed about one in four female college students have been sexually assaulted.
A UW-Madison student faces a felony false imprisonment charge, and misdemeanor charges in connection with a sexual encounter with another student Sept. 13.
18-year old Charles Wolf was released on a signature bond after a Monday appearance in Dane County court.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department received a report of a sexual assault at a fraternity house off campus Saturday.
Officials said the sexual assault reportedly happened early Saturday morning, and bystanders intervened to stop the situation.
The sexual assault was reported to a Campus Security Authority, and not to law enforcement, which means there is no active criminal investigation, police said.
More than one in four female undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who participated in a national survey said they had been sexually assaulted since entering college, often by a friend or acquaintance.
UW-Madison police are looking to help victims of sexual assault feel more comfortable about coming forward to report it. It’s part of a campaign called “Tell Us,” and for the second year, police are using various forms of media to let the campus community know they’re here to help.
A video on YouTube shows members of the UW-Madison police force. They are all saying things like “Tell us” and “We are here to help. The video is meant for victims of sexual assault.
A survey of thousands of UW-Madison students found more than 25 percent of undergraduate women at the university say they have experienced some form of sexual assault, a slightly higher rate than female college students nationwide reported.
More than 1 in 4 female undergraduates at UW-Madison said they have been sexually assaulted while enrolled at the university, but most of them decided not to report those assaults to officials, according to survey results released Monday by campus officials.
A quarter of undergraduate women surveyed at more than two dozen universities say they experienced unwanted sexual contact sometime during college, according to a report released Monday.
Nearly one-quarter of female undergraduate students who responded to a survey created by the Association of American Universities said they have experienced a sexual assault of some kind since enrolling in college. While the survey includes a broader definition of sexual assault than some researchers on the topic advocate using, it also breaks down types of sexual assault and found that 11 percent of female students reported that the sexual assault involved penetration.
Nearly 28 percent of female undergraduates responding to a campus survey at University of Wisconsin-Madison say they’ve been sexually assaulted.
More than one in every four undergraduate women (27.6 percent) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report being a victim of sexual assault, according to a new survey released Monday morning by the Association of American Universities (AAU). That’s a higher rate than the 23.1 percent of female undergraduates who reported being victims in the survey conducted by 27 universities nationwide.
The data comes from a questionnaire that was sent by email to UW students in April and May. Roughly 22 percent of the undergraduate population answered the questions in the survey. It also found that of those students who were sexually assaulted, only 26.1 percent reported the incident to authorities.
An 18-year-old was arrested Friday in connection with a sexual assault on campus last weekend. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department said Charles W. Wolf was taken into custody on suspicion of fourth-degree sexual assault and false imprisonment. Police said a woman reported she was sexually assaulted during the early morning hours Saturday at a UW-Madison residence hall. Police said the woman and the attacker were acquaintances.
Crews were investigating a report of smoke in a campus building Saturday, an official said. Dane County dispatch said Madison firefighters responded to a report of smoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Sciences building at 1210 W. Dayton St. at 11:42 a.m.
Division fire chief Ron Schwenn told News 3 there was a fire in the ventilation duct two floors below ground. He said the fire was in an air-handling unit for a computer system; the motor caught fire.
About a block away from Camp Randall on a Badger game day, Schwenn admits, is a particularly bad place for a fire to start.
The “Companion” app lets you select a contact from your phone, choose your destination and your friend can watch in real time to make sure you get home. NOTED: UW police warn students shouldn’t rely on technology alone. “These are all really good things. They are smart safety tools but we need to make sure people are also being aware of their personal safety and not just using this as a security blanket,” UW Police Department spokesman Marc Lovicott said.
Progressive folk hero Elizabeth Warren will campaign in Madison with Russ Feingold later this month, promoting college affordability measures.
Feingold is scheduled to campaign at UW-Madison this week with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has introduced a proposal several times that would allow student loan borrowers to refinance their loans at significantly lower interest rates.
A 7-Eleven convenience store is being proposed at State and Lake streets, across the street from a Walgreen’s and State Street Mall. The store would not sell gas but instead cater to foot traffic that is largely students and others associated with UW-Madison.
UWPD spokesman Marc Lovicott said the campaign, launched in August, is intended to move the focus of anti-sex assault messages from women’s behavior to men’s. A past campaign, for example, urged women to report assaults, he said.
In 1896, the head of the College of Agriculture was (and remains) an important person on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Two separate sexual assaults were reported last weekend on the University of Wisconsin campus.
UW police said both assaults were in residence halls during the early morning hours of Sept. 12 and were reported to police on Sunday and Monday.
Police said that in both cases, the people involved knew one another.
Work or play, it’s great to be a Badger. A number of recent rankings — both silly and serious — have placed the University of Wisconsin-Madison among the world’s best universities.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced a $22 million gift to elevate undergraduate engineering programs at the campus.
Tenure is a touchy subject right now within the University of Wisconsin System, given the new limitations placed on the concept this summer by the state’s conservative-dominated Legislature. So a survey that arrived in faculty members’ inboxes earlier this week, asking for their opinions on tenure, drew immediate interest and participation. Sure, the survey asked some provocative questions, such as how much of a pay raise faculty members would need to give up tenure in exchange for multiyear contracts. But the survey had the imprimatur of a prestigious research institution, the University of Chicago, and a well-known political scientist was running the project. Plus, some faculty members welcomed the opportunity to vent about the ongoing challenges to tenure.
UW-Madison and the City of Madison will join more than 20 other city-university partnerships as beneficiaries of a $1 million grant to launch a program coordinating efforts of research and funding between academic institutions and their communities.
The White House announced the MetroLab Network, funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in a statement Monday along with other “Smart Cities” initiatives.
University of Wisconsin faculty are raising concerns about a survey they received Tuesday that many said posed leading questions about changes to tenure and did not make clear it was funded by a conservative think tank.
Some professors in the University of Wisconsin System are expressing concern over a survey they received via email about faculty tenure this week.
Noted: Ballering says an offer to sell the property came up somewhat suddenly, adding that he is not sure if there will be an effort made to buy space on the UW-Madison campus for a new Steep & Brew location. Their Steep & Brew cafe on Odana Road will remain open and multiple locations across the UW campus will still carry Steep & Brew products.
Madison officials are prepared to consider condemning a handful of Downtown properties in an effort to get more park space in the booming UW-Madison campus area.
This is the lowest ranking UW-Madison has had in 10 years. The university was ranked No. 1 in 2008.
The recipe is often credited to Carson Gulley, the celebrated chef of the university’s residence halls from 1927 to 1954 and Madison’s first celebrity chef. Most recently it was offered as a dessert at the Memorial Union’s Lakefront on Langdon, and has also been available through the university’s catering and through UW-Extension events.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Jones wore a GoPro video camera while playing with the University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni band – she played in the actual band many years ago – before Saturday’s game against Miami of Ohio at Camp Randall.
In a climate where fake IDs are readily available to college students, all that stands between underage students and the bars on a busy Friday night are the bouncers.
Grant Hattenhauer, a bouncer at Chaser’s, turns away between 50 and 60 fake IDs every night.
[Neil Heinen op-ed] The UW Madison’s Big Read program is meant to be a shared experience on campus of reading a selected book together. This year, five thousand students who attended Chancellor Becky Blank’s Convocation prior to the start of classes each received a copy of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. It’s the seventh year of the common book program.
While thousands of people filled Camp Randall for kickoff Saturday morning, police dog Odin and his handler Sgt. Brent Plisch’s work began hours earlier, running security sweeps on the venue to ensure spectators’ safety.
Odin, a Czech-born German Shepherd trained in obedience, human trafficking and explosive detection, has been with UW-Madison Police Department since 2010. He is part of the three-dog K9 Unit that performs approximately 175 deployments every year on campus, from securing venues before events and responding to bomb threats to performing dignitary protection for high-profile guests such as the president and Dalai Lama.
The University of Wisconsin has fallen from No. 2 to No.8 in the most recent party school ranking from Playboy Magazine.
State Journal editorial looks back at the hubbub over the last major renovation to the beloved Memorial Union Terrace.
UW-Madison police issued 25 citations and ejected 55 people from Saturday’s football game between the Badgers and the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks, according to a report released Saturday night.
Katharyn May, the longest-serving dean on the UW-Madison campus, announced Friday that she will leave the position late next year after 15 years of service. May, dean of the School of Nursing, said she will remain with the school as a member of the faculty.
Police say 40-year-old Steven J. Johanowicz of Madison was arrested on a tentative charge of Invasion or Privacy.
They say his arrest is part of an ongoing investigation that’s being conducted by the Madison Police Department and UW-Madison Police Department.
UW Police shot a man with a stun gun, after some bizarre behavior in the campus area.
Officials say it all started around 2:20 p.m. Thursday, when Madison Police was called about a man throwing punches near State Street and North Park Street. The man allegedly tried to hit the person twice who was calling 911. Both Madison, and UW Police sent officers to the area.
Madison police said 40-year-old Steven J. Johanowicz was arrested Thursday morning on a tentative charge of invasion of privacy.
The arrest is part of an ongoing investigation between the Madison and UW-Madison police departments, according to a news release.
A man who reportedly attacked two people on the University of Wisconsin campus Thursday was arrested after being hit with a Taser for not cooperating with police, according to a release. Police responded to the Education Sciences Building at 1025 W. Johnson St. around 2:45 p.m. for a report of a battery, according to the release.
A 47-year-old man with a history of mental illness was arrested on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Thursday after attacking two people, stopping traffic and banging on vehicles, according to campus police.
Steven J. Johanowicz, 40, of Madison, was arrested Thursday morning on a tentative invasion of privacy charge, according to police spokesman Joel DeSpain. Johanowicz is a UW-Madison employee, listed as a staff member at the Chazen Museum of Art.
UW police used a Taser Thursday on a 47-year-old man who they say has a long history of violence and aggression, especially towards law enforcement, and may have been having a mental health crisis.
I moved to Madison in the fall of 2001. I was an 18-year-old freshman who was excited to go to class, ready to make new friends and worried about fitting in with Madison’s alcohol-heavy culture. I adapted to the alcohol culture really fast.
Audio interview: In today’s Wisconsin Life, we’ll hear about a couple who started a second career after losing their jobs…they got into the ice cream business. And we’ll learn about the programs offered at UW-Madison for adult learners looking to continue their education.
Noted: At Associated Students of Madison’s first meeting, University of Wisconsin Police Department’s Sue Riseling laid the department’s evolving strategies for longtime campus safety issues including alcohol overconsumption, same-sex sexual assault prevention and body cameras.
Noted: The GWS Department will be reflecting on its 40-year history and contemplating its future at a campus-wide conference Oct. 23 and 24, when students will be able to hear lectures and join discussions with prominent educators in the field.
UW-Madison Police Department Chief Susan Riesling addressed issues of campus sexual assault at the semester’s first Associated Students of Madison Student Council meeting Wednesday.
Riesling reiterated the prevalence of assault both on campus and nationwide, noting UW-Madison had 164 sexual assaults reported to campus police last year. She pointed out this number is higher than most universities, but speculated it could be a result of the university’s concerted effort to encourage reporting.
UW-Madison Police are investigating “dozens” of reports from faculty members saying they’ve seen fraudulent charges come in on their debit or credit cards.
UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott said it’s believed all of the victims used their cards at the businesses in a building at 333 E. Campus Mall.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is investigating multiple reports of credit card fraud over the last two days. UWPD has taken numerous calls regarding credit card fraud from UW employees, officials said. All of the reports happened in the area of 333 East Campus Mall, according to a release.
UW-Madison police said on Wednesday the cases are occurring near 333 East Campus Mall, which is on the west side of the Lucky Apartments building and houses several stores and restaurants on the ground floor.
Two universities in Wisconsin are among the best colleges in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Surrounded by water, University of Wisconsin students swim, kayak, canoe and sail as part of their culture.
The added recreation, however, can sometimes come with added dangers.
UW-Madison is one of approximately 1,700 public and private U.S. colleges and universities where low-income undergraduate and graduate students borrow money from their schools through the Federal Perkins Loan.
However, this option may soon expire. Without congressional approval to reauthorize the Federal Perkins Loan, the program will end September 30 of this year.
UW-Madison Director of the Office of Student Financial Aid Susan Fischer said she is not sure exactly why the loan is facing cancellation, but said she believes the funds could be funneled toward the national debt.
Carly Eichhorst, director of student financial services at Augsburg College in Minnesota, and Kirk Yats, director of scholarships and financial aid at Central Michigan University, are the two finalists, the university said on Tuesday. Each candidate will talk about current issues and priorities in financial aid in their public presentations, Yats on Tuesday, Sept. 15, and Eichhorst on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 2:30 p.m. in the Gordon Dining and Event Center on campus.
