After University of Wisconsin officials announced plans for spending part of a $648 million surplus on Friday, the governor and state Republicans fired back by instead calling for a tuition freeze for students and condemning the system?s ?incompetence.?
A young crowd outfitted with posters, placards and a zeal for reaching out to state legislators crowded into the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday and wouldn?t budge for hours.A fresh crop of political protesters? On the contrary, it was more than 100 of the best and brightest researchers from University of Wisconsin System campuses who, along with their faculty advisers, took part in the 10th annual ?Posters in the Rotunda? event.
A young crowd outfitted with posters, placards and a zeal for reaching out to state legislators crowded into the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday and wouldn?t budge for hours.
The University of Wisconsin Systems president says he wants to reduce tuition increases over the next two years.
Workaholics co-creator and star Anders Holm is set to deliver the 2013 commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university he graduated from in 2003. (The Comedy Central star is also married to Emma Nesper Holm, a fellow alum.)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s commencement is going to get weird.
The Student Labor Action Coalition hosted a protest and sit-in at Bascom Hall Thursday to demand Chancellor David Ward cut ties with Palermo?s Pizza Company, citing allegations of labor violations.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will begin its annual All Campus Party Saturday, an end of the school year event hosted by Wisconsin Alumni Student Board and the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
The Joint Finance Committee held its final officially scheduled hearing sessions on Gov. Scott Walker?s biennial budget in Baldwin Thursday.
One week ago, the Madison Police Department announced a crackdown on partying the last weekend before finals.
If Congress does not act, interest rates on a certain type of federal student loan may double, affecting more than 80,000 Wisconsin college students. But some doubt the impact on the overall economy.
Police blame a modern game of tag called “Humans Versus Zombies” for wasting public safety resources this week after two reports of gun calls tied to the competition.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students communicated and reminisced with Badgers around the world in the university?s second annual #UWRightNow campaign Wednesday.
While students and faculty made their way around University of Wisconsin?s campus Wednesday afternoon, a conference room of 20 people hovered around laptops on the second floor of the UW Bookstore.
A college-aged Madison resident was physically assaulted while walking on the 400 block of West Gilman Street shortly after Midnight April 16.
A prominent University of Wisconsin faculty member testified at a Senate committee on college affordability Tuesday and said states need to increase funding for higher education and called for a reduction in loans.
This year?s University of Wisconsin graduates will hear from UW alumnus and comedian Anders Holm, who is set to speak at this spring?s commencement ceremonies.
The University of Wisconsin will host the 2013 Biennial Neon and Light Exhibition on Friday and Saturday where artists from across the nation take part in the event.
Two Wisconsin state legislators visited with the Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee Monday to discuss ongoing collaboration between student and state government leaders.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students who were at the Boston Marathon Monday are confirmed safe after two powerful explosions near the finish line left over 100 injured and three people dead, according to local authorities.
In light of recent uncertainty surrounding the event, city officials emphasized the Mifflin Street Block Party is not ?cancelled,? as was delineated in a letter from police officials to residents, but will be treated similarly to last year?s block party.
The University of Wisconsin?s partnership with Kazakhstan to establish a humanities and social science program in the country has drawn criticism the project contradicts the core values of the ?Wisconsin Idea? by partnering with a country ruled by a dictatorial regime.
The father of UW-Madison student Henry Mackaman tells 27 News he questions a Madison hospital?s decision to release his son days before Mackaman died from meningitis.
Henry Mackaman, the UW-Madison student who died last week after contracting bacterial meningitis, could be awarded a posthumous degree, university officials said Monday.Mackaman had enough credits to graduate this spring with an economics major but planned to return next school year to complete a double-major in English
University of Wisconsin police have just a few days before the annual Football Spring Game, and two weeks before thousands of runners converge on Madison for the 5K Crazylegs, to look at plans and security to prevent or respond to an incident like the Boston Marathon explosions.
UW-Madison admitted 51 percent of freshman applicants for fall 2013, down 3.55 percentage points: College applicant pools are growing larger, and colleges are becoming more selective, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison
This week the Associated Students of Madison will host a series of events for Diversity Week to promote awareness and discussion of diversity on campus.
While certain students reacted with vigilantism and anger to the news Friday that Madison Police Department canceled Mifflin Street block party, many responded with confusion over what it actually means and how it will change this year?s block party experience.
Last Thursday, the Madison Police Department began a public information campaign that was doomed from the start. The campaign began with a letter to Mifflin Street residents, which, in its first paragraph, stated in bold letters, ?There will be no Mifflin Street Block Party on or around Saturday, May 4th in 2013.? The letter cited ?widespread public safety issues? as the reason for this crackdown.
The University of Wisconsin and the City of Madison are slated to begin construction on a redevelopment of the 700 and 800 block of State Street and Library Mall at the end of 2013.
Revelry Festival organizers and student government leaders began to show their alarm last weekend after Madison officials announced last week there would be no Mifflin Street Block Party for the second consecutive year,
Business student organizations across campus gathered Sunday to pick up litter in their community.
Renewed health concerns on college campuses this week. That?s after a 21-year-old UW-Madison student died from bacterial meningitis.
Every time a college student?s life is cut short by bacterial meningitis, Gail Bailey flashes back to 2002, when her 20-year-old son at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thought he had the flu and died 16 hours later.
A film co-directed and edited by a Kenosha native was selected for the prestigious Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison.
While classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can be rigorous with long hours of study, a group of UW students spent much of this semester eating hamburgers.
The city of Madison is calling off the annual spring event known as the Mifflin Street Block Party, citing safety issues.
The Madison Police Department said at a neighborhood meeting Thursday it will implement new no-tolerance law enforcement policies for the Mifflin Street Block Party in its effort to regulate the block party.
University of Wisconsin-Madison senior Henry Mackaman died Thursday as a result of meningococcal disease, according to Dean of Students Lori Berquam.
In an effort to end the Mifflin Street Block Party for the foreseeable future, the city of Madison will no longer permit or sanction this year?s event on May 4, police told residents at a neighborhood meeting Wednesday.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student has died after contracting a devastating and rare strain of bacterial meningitis. 21-year-old Henry Mackaman was a Senior Economics and English double-major at UW.
A UW-Madison student from St. Paul, Minn., has died after contracting bacterial meningitis, according to a UW-Madison statement Thursday.
Adult film star James Deen will be the keynote speaker of the Sexual Health Fest at UW-Madison on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Sterling Hall.”Deen is coming to campus to discuss the role of pornography in modern sex education,” according to a news release from Sex Out Loud, a student organization whose services include sexual health counseling and advising and sex education.
A 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student and up-and-coming musician from the Twin Cities has died of bacterial meningitis, a rare infection that studies show college students are at a moderately increased risk to contract.
A St. Paul native and talented guitarist attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison died in Madison of bacterial meningitis, a university spokesman said.
A University of Wisconsin student hospitalized with meningococcal disease has died, according to multiple sources.
President Barack Obama officially released his version of the federal budget Wednesday, which included various proposals aimed at keeping higher education affordable across the country, drawing mixed responses from Wisconsin politicians.
Laura Dunn was working for Teach For America in New Orleans when she received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education. She immediately skipped to the last page, and what she read left her devastated.
While a report released Wednesday by the University of Wisconsin System documents reported sexual assault cases in 2012, Dean of Students Lori Berquam said the data portrays only a fraction of the issue.
A group of about 20 University of Wisconsin students traveled to the Wisconsin Dells Wednesday to advocate for increased funding for state higher education and the implementation of a tuition cap in front of the state?s budget committee.
Two representatives announced proposed legislation to extend some rights of American citizens to undocumented individuals, a measure that could have significant implications for students looking to attend college.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison spokesman had no updates Thursday morning on the condition of a student hospitalized with meningococcal disease.The university cited the student?s medical privacy rights by not releasing additional details, UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said Thursday.
UW-Madison has confirmed that a student has been hospitalized with meningococcal disease. Additional details are not immediately available out of respect for the medical privacy of the student and the students family.
The thunderstorms and rain showers that University of Wisconsin students trudged through Tuesday, amid the expected weather for the rest of the week, set a fitting background for Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness Week that will start next week.
The U.S. Under Secretary of Education will visit campus Tuesday for a discussion on higher education in Wisconsin.
The Student Regent Campaign, a student-led initiative within this year?s Associated Students of Madison Legislative Affairs Committee, could be signed into state law this legislative session.
The Madison Police Department detailed their plans to discourage the Mifflin Street Block Party and their investigation into a series of vandalism cases at a Bassett Street Neighborhood meeting Monday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously confirmed Rebecca Blank as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday, according to a university press release.
The University of Wisconsin System regents focused on alternative learning methods in their meeting Friday, hearing an update on the flexible option degree program and online courses.
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and across the nation students will engage in events to spread awareness and discuss the prevention of sexual assault.
