The Board of Regents for the University of Wisconsin System is looking for a new student representative to replace an outgoing student.The Board of Regents establishes policies and rules for governing the UW System. The board also deals with budget issues and admission standards.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked third on the Peace Corps? annual list of top volunteer-producing, large U.S. universities for the second consecutive year.UW-Madison has 103 graduates currently working overseas in 47 countries around the globe, according to a university press release. University of Washington and the University of Florida top the list this year, each sending 107 volunteers to serve abroad.
Among large universities ? those with more than 15,000 students ? the University trails the University of Washington, Seattle; the University of Florida; and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which all have more than 100 volunteers serving.
Despite recent setbacks for downtown safety, a local alder told a student government committee that the city is continuing to attempt high standards of safety in the campus area.
Out-of-state admissions and the developing proposal for a College for the Arts that would merge together departments from different colleges within the university were highlighted at a meeting of the Faculty Senate Monday night.
A new study released by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity CCAP reveals 48% of recent college graduates are working in jobs that dont require a college diploma. While 38% of people surveyed are working in jobs that dont require a high school diploma.
University of Wisconsin-Madison?s annual Innovation Days will bring together 21 UW-Madison students to show off their creativity and inventions in a competition for the chance to win more than $28,000 in prizes.
Claims concerning increases in norovirus cases among University of Wisconsin students appear to be inconclusive, despite what recent reports suggest.
Here?s your chance to influence what an entire university community reads and discusses.The selection committee for University of Wisconsin-Madison?s common-reading program is seeking a book for the 2013-?14 academic year that fits the theme of global connections. Fiction titles are strongly encouraged.
The University of Wisconsin is searching nationwide for a new Director of Recreational Sports to promote healthy lifestyles for students at UW.
Experts see a slight increase in norovirus cases among University of Wisconsin-Madison students. Norovirus can make people sick all year round, but the peak is late fall into winter months like February and March.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will enter the RecycleMania competition against 300 other colleges and universities Feb. 3 to increase recycling and decrease the amount of trash on campuses across the country.
The Student Services Finance Committee heard budget proposals Thursday from the Child Care Tuition Assistance Program and the Student Activity Center Governing Board.The SAC, which is home to the student radio station, student government and numerous student organizations, presented a budget of $389,520, which is a $58,534.56 increase from last year.
Community members voiced their concerns and support at a neighborhood meeting Wednesday as yet another high-rise apartment building looks to make its way into downtown Madison.
The African American Student Academic Services (AASAS) is an essential campus agency that provides support services to African and African American undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Karla Foster is the coordinator for AASAS, which is housed under the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) in the College of Letters and Sciences.
A University of Wisconsin Cool Science Image Contest seeks to uncover unique photographs of science research to display.
Students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin are gearing up for the biannual career and internship fair next week.
A city decision could mean students will have the opportunity to attend an alternative festival to the Mifflin Street Block Party May 4, leaders from the Wisconsin Union Directorate and the Associated Students of Madison said Tuesday.
A student-led group will soon officially propose a university-sponsored end-of-the year event on May 4, the same day as the 2013 Mifflin Street Block Party.The event, which has been in its beginning stages since late November, would be a music and arts festival held near Randall Avenue in the Union South area, according to Associated Students of Madison Vice Chair Maria Giannopoulos.
From cramming the night before a big test to creating month-long study plans, students utilize different study tactics to succeed in classes. But a new research study released Jan. 10 found some of students? favorite study tactics are not beneficial, and may even hinder their learning.University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Educational Psychology Mitchell Nathan helped conduct the study, which compiled existing research on study methods into one large research project to find which methods benefit students the most and which have a negative impact.
In an effort to weigh possible reforms to the University of Wisconsin?s ethnic studies requirement, the Associated Students of Madison Diversity Committee announced plans for a roundtable event on campus.
The University of Wisconsin student government, in cooperation with a System group, reviewed a biennial budget campaign to lobby for tuition protection to be included the state?s new funding cycle.
Last year was a rough year for students at public universities, as state legislatures throughout the country continued to cut funding to their universities. Nationwide, states underwent one of the largest divestments in higher education in American history, slashing funding by 7.6 percent. And in 2011, for the second consecutive year, state and local funding to public universities reached a quarter-century low despite the fact that enrollment and the cost of educating students reached near-record highs.
The Student Services Finance Committee approved budgets for the Associated Students of Madison Student Judiciary and WSUM Monday
An upcoming roundtable dinner will give students and staff an opportunity to provide feedback on the mandatory ethnic studies requirement as part of a student government campaign to reform the current structure.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a similar admissions strategy to the University?s. John Lucas, a university spokesman, said officials use a comprehensive review in which academic preparation is the most important factor.
Milwaukee mutual fund manager and former University of Wisconsin basketball Hall of Famer Albert Nicholas announced Thursday he is establishing a $50 million scholarship fund for high school basketball players to attend UW System schools.
Sher Minn Chong will graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this Spring with no student debt and a clear post-graduation plan. But unlike many students, Chong, a government scholar from Malaysia, signed on to this plan before she even arrived in Madison.
Sitting in her four-hour lab in late November, University of Wisconsin senior Madeline Krasno suddenly felt achy, shifted between being freezing and boiling hot, then told her teaching assistant she felt like she had been hit by a bus and burst into tears.
In line with a series of new gun control laws introduced on the national scale and a number of mass shootings leaving the country on edge, the University of Wisconsin will bring on two new staff members specifically to aid in threat assessment efforts on campus, but the threat assessment team remains understaffed.
The Dane County Circuit Court ruled Jan. 15 to allow former adidas workers to join the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s contract lawsuit against the company, allowing the workers to directly participate in the litigation.
The University of Wisconsin football team suddenly finds itself with a surplus of quarterbacks.
When Badger Coaches turned its bus terminal at the corner of West Washington Avenue and South Bedford Street into apartments and retail space in 2009, Madison?s bus passengers were dealt a blow.
A fourth person is charged in an attack on Wisconsin star running back Montee Ball last summer.
An arrest warrant was issued for a fourth person who police believe was involved in the attack on Montee Ball.
If you were to think of Madison, Wisconsin, “fashion capital” is probably not what would come to mind. The Badgers, liberal politicals and partying college students are most likely what you may ponder, not to mention our charmingly odd accents and love for cheese. In these cold, long Wisconsin winter months, add some thoughts of long underwear, slushy sidewalks, dry skin and piles of (often homemade) blankets to the mix. It?s a wonder that the glamorous people of the world haven?t flocked to this Midwestern city yet. New York City?s got nothing on us and our cheeseheads.
DELAVAN ? They warmed up with a third consecutive appearance in the Tournament of Roses parade and performed at halftime of the University of Wisconsin?s Rose Bowl game loss to Stanford.
A fourth person was charged Wednesday in the August attack on University of Wisconsin running back Montee Ball.
I was disappointed to read that female students at two University of Wisconsin campuses are exploring the “Sugar Daddy” lifestyle in record numbers. Sugar daddies are older men that “Take care” of younger women financially in exchange for sex or companionship. The co-eds then use the cash to pay for tuition or college expenses.
In one courtroom Monday afternoon, a Dane County judge sent a former UW-Madison doctoral candidate to prison for three years for possessing child pornography, because a recent state law said she had to.
On Monday, a former UW-Madison doctoral student will be the first in Dane County to go to prison under a new wrinkle in a state law that bans the possession of child pornography.
When Tiffany Jones, a UW PEOPLE Program scholar, entered UW-Madison aftergraduating from Madison Memorial High School, she had thoughts of pursuing a careerin writing or fashion design. But after the Wisconsin Experience which academicallychallenged her as well as exposed her to the broader world community, she turned hersights to science and medicine with purpose and resolve.
College students across the country may be starting their spring semester on the couch.Only it won?t be for unwinding or easy living, but because of the flu.
Noted: ?We?re sort of working under the assumption ? at least, on our campus ? that we?re going to see cases similar to what we saw three years ago,? said Craig M. Roberts, an epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison health services. During the swine flu pandemic, 15 to 20 percent of clinic visits at Wisconsin were for flu-like illness. The usual threshold for outbreak is just 2 to 3 percent of total visits.
So here?s the deal: Coupon users are a huge market. Heavy coupon users ? whether they?re frugal adults or poor students ? number an estimated 24 million Americans. So what if you had a mobile app, priced at $5, where these folks could scan coupons, organize them in a file and match them to the week?s grocery list?
Roger L. Perkins directs the Veterans Support Center at the University of Utah. He?s had bedrooms that are bigger than his campus office, whose paper-thin walls make it easy for a sobbing student to be overheard next door.
A man with ties to Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison has been identified as the fourth suspect in the attack of UW-Madison football player Montee Ball last Aug. 1.
Notre Dame?s high-profile re-emergence among college football?s elite has focused new attention on the university?s long-standing claims that it does things “the right way” — that football players are treated like anyone else on campus, with no special favors.
If Wisconsin students and parents are looking for one of the best values in the country in higher education, stay at home.
MINNEAPOLIS ? The University of Minnesota is currently the cheapest school in the Big Ten for nonresident tuition, but possibly not for much longer.
There will be no alcohol on Wisconsin?s Rose Bowl-bound equipment truck this year.
Sarah Wiskow admits she?s spoiled. In her third year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 2010 Port Washington High School graduate will make her third trip to Pasadena, Calif., next week to see the Badgers play in the Rose Bowl on New Year?s Day.
About 100 Stanford and Wisconsin fans met at Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles in Van Nuys to package food for Los Angeles-area needy.
As you pull on your jersey or take a sip from your favorite UW mug in preparation for the 2013 Rose Bowl, remember every Bucky Badger and Motion W has a grand purpose: real need-based financial aid for UW-Madison students.
Many UW-Madison students got a pass on final exams Thursday, accompanied by the chance to revive a traditional battle on Bascom Hill as a winter storm blanketed the campus with snow perfect for packing and pelting opponents. Exams and other normal campus operations were expected to resume Friday. Between 500 and 600 students turned out for the snowball fight between the Lakeshore dorms and the Southeast dorms, according to UW Police, who said the Lakeshore residents won the battle.
MADISON, Wis. -Two of the three men accused of attacking Wisconsin running back Montee Ball were accepted into the first-offenders program during plea and sentencing hearings Wednesday. Twenty-one-year-old Wendell J. Venerable and 22-year-old Robert A. Wilks were each facing a single count of battery. The felony charge carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison and a $10,000 fine.
MADISON (WKOW) — Two of the three men charged in the attack on Badger running back Montee Ball are scheduled for plea and sentencing hearings Wednesday.
Two of the three men accused of attacking Wisconsin running back Montee Ball are scheduled for plea and sentencing hearings.
The first big snowstorm of the season is ready to hit Madison, but that won?t stop local colleges from conducting final exams this week. “UW-Madison is open for business and finals are expected to be held as scheduled,” the UW said in a news release Tuesday. A caveat was added, however. “Any changes to campus operations will be announced on TV, radio, via social media and the university home page,” the release said.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave was so intent on getting back on the field as quickly as possible for the University of Wisconsin football team, he sacrificed a good part of his wardrobe toward the effort. One of the hardest things for Stave after suffering a broken left collarbone against Michigan State on Oct. 27 was keeping his left arm motionless for the first few weeks, to help the bone heal.
