Category: Campus life

MILWAUKEE – Fire department divers found a 20-year-old student from the University of Wisconsin who drowned in a lake in Waushara County.

On Tuesday, the National Security Agency called at the University of Wisconsin on a recruitment drive.

Two representatives of the National Security Agency NSA found themselves the object of surveillance when they conducted a recruiting session at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday, July 2.

Damon Williams, vice provost and chief diversity officer, announced he will leave the university Aug. 2 to take a senior vice president position with the Atlanta-based Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In his new role he will work with close to 5,000 clubs world-wide.

If their teachers ask what they did for summer vacation, several hundred Wisconsin high school students could answer ?opened the door to the University of Wisconsin- Madison.?  The summer between their junior and senior years is a capstone project for the long-term goal of preparing to attend the University of Wisconsin- Madison with the help of the PEOPLE program.

Academic potential, not race, is the key ingredient to getting into La Crosse?s colleges, say local university officials.

  The U.S. Supreme Court?s ruling on Monday in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the case challenging the use of race as a factor in university admission policies, won?t have any direct affect on the University of Wisconsin. But UW officials say they will continue to evaluate how it uses race in admissions decisions to ensure a diverse student body.

MADISON ? Madison police costs for patrolling the Mifflin Street Block Party took a big drop this year.

Vijay Dixit is comforted sitting in a memorial garden created in his daughter?s honor. Shreya was 19 and a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was coming home with a friend who was driving. The driver crashed.

Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the state?s flagship public university is committed to diversity through a ?comprehensive? admissions policy, according to Joanne Berg, UW?s vice provost for enrollment management.

A UW-Madison and community leader who worked closely with LaMarr Billups to further the relationship between the university and Madison will now be the first recipient of an award named in his honor.

Noted: It has grown again as farming incomes increase, and students see opportunities in related businesses. Enrollment in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison had grown 33 percent in the past decade.

The Daily Cardinal reports that the Madison Police Department will increase its patrol numbers during the first five weeks of the school year this fall to curb unruly behavior and address “misconceptions” about college life held by incoming freshmen at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

If you check into a hotel in a college town late at night, chances are the desk clerk will be a student holding down at least one job ? including a regular overnight shift ? and trying to work through college while catnapping between classes.

As tuition rates increase, its becoming more unaffordable for some students to pay for their education.

Noted: ?Right to work? laws are state statutes that govern the extent to which an established union can require employees? membership, payment of union dues or fees as a condition of employment, either before or after hiring. The most recent case of a student right-to-work law is the back-door budget deal struck by Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin and his right-wing cronies that will undermine student activity funding for the United Council of UW Students, the same statewide student association that worked tirelessly to win a tuition freeze for University of Wisconsin students.

Noted: In another kind of contest, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison food science students again has made it to the finals in the annual Institute of Food Technologists? food product development competition.

Anders Holm is currently enjoying the busiest moment of his career. Comedy Central renewed Workaholics for another two seasons, he appeared on The Mindy Project, Modern Family, and along with his co-stars Adam Devine and Blake Anderson appeared in the first episode of the new season of Arrested Development

The first-to-the-eye displays at the front of the Georgetown University bookstore don?t belong to Nike or Adidas or other recognized giants of the global garment trade, but to Alta Gracia, the label of a South Carolina company trying to carve a niche by paying above-average wages at its Dominican Republic factory and building confidence about the working conditions.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Police have arrested a 19-year-old student for allegedly setting fire to a bulletin board in a residence hall.

333 days. That?s how long Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach had been separated from Casey, a Labrador retriever with whom he had forged a bond in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan?s Helmand province, sweeping roads for bombs.

University of Wisconsin-Madison student Michael Draper has been working on a student project to create a five-year plan for the city?s Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department over the past few months.

Jessie Otradovec showed promise in post-high school jobs at Papa John?s and Cost Cutters in Green Bay. But she wanted to play with the universe.

It is a familiar scene in Madison this week. A father and daughter, at a table outside a coffeehouse, talking graduation logistics.

Minnesota and Wisconsin have had a reciprocity agreement in place for years that allows college students in either to pay in-state tuition levels if they attend state colleges in the other state. But the University of Wisconsin-Madison, saying it?s not enrolling enough Wisconsinites, wants out.

A committee of faculty, students and staff is recommending Minnesota students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison pay out-of-state tuition.

Every Wednesday after school in the spring and fall, Sherman Middle School students make the trek on foot to nearby Warner Park ? a diverse, natural playground full of teaching possibilities.

UW-Madison professors have never been unionized, but their underpaid and overworked teaching assistants once were. Along with thousands of other state workers, the TAs lost their collective bargaining rights with the passage of Act 10 two years ago, but they continue to fight for better pay and working conditions through their now decertified union, the Teaching Assistants Association.

Graduate employees held a ?grade-in? rally at the University of Wisconsin-Madison today to draw attention to our vital work and fight our falling wages.

MADISON ? A committee of faculty, students and staff is recommending Minnesota students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison pay out-of-state tuition.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s freshman class includes the smallest percentage of Wisconsin students in at least a decade, according to a new report that recommends the university work harder to attract the state?s best high school students.

A report by a UW Madison committee shows the school enrolled fewer state residents in its freshman class this year than at anytime in the last decade.

It?s hard not to feel a bit sorry for Rebecca Blank, incoming chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

About 61,853 students graduated from high school in Wisconsin in spring 2012. About 8,400 of those students applied to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and 3,515 ended up enrolling. About 2,760 students from outside the state joined them.

The freshman class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes the lowest percentage of Wisconsin students in at least a decade.

It?s hard not to feel a bit sorry for Rebecca Blank, incoming chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Every Wednesday after school in the spring and fall, Sherman Middle School students make the trek on foot to nearby Warner Park ? a diverse, natural playground full of teaching possibilities.

For teens on the journey to adulthood, there may be no more transformative time than their years as a college undergraduate.

The Revelry Music and Arts Festival took place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Saturday and drew a large number of students, despite a rainy start to the day.

University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Julia Sprangers is scheduled to appear on ?Jeopardy!? Monday after she flew to the game show?s home in Los Angeles from Spain, where she is studying abroad for the semester, according to The Wisconsin State Journal.