The bill also prohibits the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and any two- or four-year UW System school from imposing certain sanctions on students who commit an underage violation if they are exempt from a citation
Interviewed: Michelle Curtis of the Office of Student Financial Aid explains that the federal government set up a cap in case things got out of hand with the financial market.
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, No. 8 on this year?s list, university officials and the city have worked to address the drinking problem, including passing an ordinance in 2012 designed to crack down on large house parties and trying to provide more entertainment options for students who aren?t of legal drinking age.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s ranking as the nation?s eighth best party school is being met not with a toast but a sigh by those who work to curb underage drinking.
Time Magazine has named the ?Elemental? blog for Wired Magazine, written by journalism professor Deborah Blum, one of the 25 best of 2013.
The University of Wisconsin-Madisons ranking as the nations eighth best party school is being met not with a toast but a sigh by those who work to curb underage drinking.
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s titan arum ? or ?corpse plant? ? is, at this writing, in full bloom, but the time to see and smell the rare, foul-smelling plant is limited.
The idea of anonymous confessions went viral last semester, with Facebook pages popping up at campuses large and small. The confessions page out of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which went up in late February, says it?s the nation?s largest, with about 500,000 weekly views during the school year.
An underground utility construction project will result in the shutdown of the Langdon Street and North Henry Street intersection Downtown from Monday through next Friday.
Football season starts in just about a month, and if you?re headed to a UW game, you?ll see some pretty big changes at Camp Randall.
The Titan Arum plant began blooming inside UW-Madison?s D.C. Smith Greenhouse around noon on Thursday, August 1 and should reach full bloom sometime Thursday evening.
Camp Randall gets a major makeover ahead of football season. It?s a project that started almost three years ago, and now the crew is in stage three. It?s the final one of the $86 million dollar face-lift.
One of the most successful long-term diversity pipelines to higher education in the nation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s PEOPLE (Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence) continues to increase the number of college-ready students applying to the state?s flagship campus.
Klein is also taking on the UW biking culture, notorious for jamming downtown traffic between class periods with many bikers displaying complete disregard for any rules of the road.?It?s a tough crowd,? says Klein. ?It is amazing just how little folks do know about the rules.?
More than 130,000 people trekked to the United States Botanic Garden last week to see its stinky titan arum “corpse flower” in bloom.
It?s been dubbed ?the corpse flower,? and the Titan Arum plant at the University of Wisconsin is set to bloom this week. The mature flower of the tropical plant is known for the unsavory smell it gives off, a scent akin to rotting meat that?s designed to attract the carrion beetles and flesh flies that typically pollinate it.
F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture is a student garden organization within and funded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students and other volunteers maintain 1.75 acres of vegetables, herbs, and fruit at Eagle Heights Community Gardens as well as host garden and food workshops for the community. F.H. King also has a small vegetable and herb rooftop garden on top of the Pyle Center on campus.
While UW-Madison students are certainly a piece of the target market, Carbine is most excited over the possibility of young professionals, empty-nesters and even families moving downtown.
Construction of a new Catholic student center at UW-Madison, now in the fundraising phase, is his ?most urgent? priority, Morlino said.
Is there anything more American than sharing a bag of oranges with your University of Wisconsin friends and geeking out in your Peanuts-themed dorm room?
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will have a featured presence at the Wisconsin State Fair on August 7.
After the GI Bill passed in 1944, so many WWII veterans flocked to the University of Wisconsin that they had no place to sleep. Each year from 1946 to 1949, more than 10,000 enrolled, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all students.
It?s a story of well-aged philosophy, begun in a UW-Madison library prior to World War II and concluded in the same library last week.
A book overdue by more than 75 years was returned to a UW-Madison campus library last week.
It is a humid 89-degree morning when Jacob Arndt unloads his truck of chisels and other tools onto a table at the University Club, where he begins massaging one of two slabs of Indiana limestone.
Noted: When I first traveled through West Africa, as a student backpacker more than 30 years ago, I was haunted by the beggars disabled by blindness, leprosy and polio. Now I?m on my annual win-a-trip journey with a university student, Erin Luhmann of the University of Wisconsin, and she is encountering a fundamentally improved landscape than the one I saw when I was her age.
Andrew Nehmer may have tried to tell what happened.The phone in the Open Pantry where the 20-year-old student worked was off the hook. Police speculated that he started to make a call but then realized that he couldnt speak.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is naming its new residence hall after conservationist Aldo Leopold.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is naming its new residence hall after conservationist Aldo Leopold.
The University of Wisconsin System?s new flexible degree option for working adults has earned approval from an accrediting agency, clearing the way for the first degree programs to enroll students later this year.
I?m on my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student along with me so we can report on global poverty. The winner, Erin Luhmann of the University of Wisconsin, and I randomly stopped in a village near the Malian town of Mopti to ask about food shortages.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a tuition freeze for all students. Thursday?s vote went beyond a mandate included in the recently signed state budget, which directed the UW to hold the line on tuition only for in-state students, by also applying the freeze to out-of-state and graduate students.
The University of Wisconsin System has approved a tuition freeze for both in and out-of-state undergraduate and graduate students next year.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Tuition will be frozen for all students attending the University of Wisconsin System over the next two years, while fees and room and board costs will go up, under action taken Thursday by the Board of Regents.
Two institutions at the University of Wisconsin System have gotten approval to begin offering working adults the option to finish college degrees under the new Flexible Option program.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents has approved a tuition freeze for all students.
The University of Wisconsin System has proposed an across-the-board tuition freeze for next year, extending the Legislature-mandated freeze on tuition for state undergraduates to include out-of-state and graduate students, as well.
After five years of hosting curious students from across the globe, Martha Querin-Schultz and her husband Steve have decided to end International Day on their farm in the Town of Cottage Grove.
Are you looking for a fast-paced career in wire-tapping, records grabbing and just general creeping?Then look no further than the National Security Agency.
TIMBUKTU, Mali ? IT?S time for my annual win-a-trip journey, in which I take a university student with me on a reporting trip to Africa. So I?m here in Timbuktu, the ancient crossroads of the Sahara, with Erin Luhmann, a journalism student from the University of Wisconsin, navigating roadblocks and jittery soldiers in a city that Islamist militants ruled until early this year.
Attention all NSA recruiters: If you?re planning to pitch your agency at a college career fair anytime soon, be sure to bring your “A” game.
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.
Legislation being proposed at the Capitol seeks to encourage students at UW System campuses to call for help for intoxicated friends, even if they themselves are underage and have also been drinking.
MADISON ? Madison police costs for patrolling the Mifflin Street Block Party took a big drop this year.
Days after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) appointed the student who would sit on the state Board of Regents, the administration announced that it would keep looking.
Most, if not all, of us have been to conferences, workshops and seminars where the topic of ?millennials? (those born between 1983 and 2010) has been addressed at great length, generally by way of a lecture of some sort, with PowerPoint slides citing data indicating that today?s generation of college students is the laziest, least motivated, least socialized and most self-involved generation the Earth has ever seen.
Paul DeLuca Jr., who has served as UW-Madison?s top academic officer for the past four years, said Wednesday he?ll step down and return to the faculty as soon as incoming chancellor Rebecca Blank names his successor.
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 bipartisan freeze will keep tuition rates at the University of Wisconsin-Superior steady for two years. A surplus of nearly $650 million in the University of Wisconsin system has Gov. Walker confident in the higher education system going forward.
Governor Scott Walker was in Green Bay Tuesday to discuss a budget provision that got approval from the committee and is moving on to the full Legislature.
Opponents of a new bill want more time to study the legislation that would require photo ID and repeal a ban on corporate campaign contributions.
