Category: Campus life

The number of college students transferring into or within the University of Wisconsin System in 2010 hit its highest level in a decade, according to a new report.

Madison police discussed new safety measures at this year?s Mifflin Street Block Party and the possibility of future alternative solutions at a city safety committee meeting Thursday.

The student government finance committee voted Thursday to reinstate funding for SAFEcab, a campus transportation service that provides late-night cab rides despite new difficulties in finding management for the service.

The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents deliberated on the challenges of balancing the quality of education and ensuring affordability and broad access to institutions for Wisconsin residents in a meeting Thursday night.

Thursday night the UW-Madison Student Services Finance Committee decided to reinstate the SAFEride Cab service after removing funding from the program two-weeks ago.

After public outcry, a UW-Madison student committee voted Thursday to restore funding for a long-standing campus service that provides free late-night cab rides for students. The Student Services Finance Committee voted March 26 to eliminate the SAFEride cab service, citing cost inefficiencies and declining use.

Many low-income adults have an intense yearning for higher education, but often have never been given a chance in life to obtain it. The purpose of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Odyssey Project, now in its 9th year, is to help people overcome obstacles and achieve those educational dreams.

Students met with Madison officials Wednesday to discuss the city budget and areas where students would like to see greater investment, such as improving safety on campus.

The University of Wisconsin?s Transportation Services is proposing a series of changes that could increase permit costs and reduce services to campus bus services and parking permits in an effort to resolve a $1 million deficit facing the department.

Madison officials and University of Wisconsin students came together Wednesday to give students a venue to voice their opinions of where the city should spend its money.

In celebration of the University of Wisconsin Morgridge Center for Public Service?s 15th anniversary this year, a founder of a nonprofit, sustainable food organization shared his philosophy on local development in a keynote speech on campus last night.

A recent spike of crimes in downtown Madison over the past months continued this past week as police logged a higher number of neighborhood burglaries while students were on break.

Seven University of Wisconsin System campuses pay foreign agencies to help them recruit international students, sometimes spending more than $1,000 per student, according to a State Journal survey of the 13 four-year campuses and the System?s two-year colleges. The practice of paying commissions for each recruited international student is common yet controversial. It?s banned within the U.S. but largely unregulated abroad.

The State Journal found the use of commission-based agents varies widely across the System. Some campuses, such as UW-Madison and UW-Whitewater, don’t use them. It’s far more common for a regional university to use commission-based agents than a university with a well-established foreign presence such as UW-Madison, experts say.

MADISON, Wis. — The Online News Association has awarded a University of Wisconsin-Madison student with a $20,000 scholarship. Emily Eggleston won the money for her plan to combine digital technology, journalism, and geography.

The Online News Association has awarded a University of Wisconsin-Madison student with a $20,000 scholarship.

Listed: UW student Jasmine Mans, University of Wisconsin.

This year?s Mifflin Street Block Party is sounding less and less like a party. City officials say there now will be no food vendors at the party to facilitate policing and lessen the draw after violence and excessive drinking at last year?s event brought calls for an end to the 42-year tradition. Among those not showing up this year will be UW-Madison Police, whose officers assisted in some past years at the annual drinkfest marking the end of the school year for UW-Madison students.

A Marshalltown High School graduate has only been studying journalism for a semester and has already made a splash.

A microchip clinic for dogs and cats was held today at the Humane Society of Portage County in honor of Brittany Zimmermann?s love for animals.

With spring break in full swing, turnout at polling places on the UW-Madison campus area was dismal ? just 1 percent at Gordon Commons, 2 percent at Memorial Library, Student Services and Porchlight, and 3 percent at the Memorial Union, Holt Commons and the Lowell Center by late Tuesday afternoon.

* Plans to open a UW-Madison office in China by mid-June are on track, university officials say. The Shanghai office will be UW-Madison?s first foreign outpost, and officials are planning a conference on innovation to coincide with the opening.

* Institutions honored for service work: Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College and UW-Madison all landed on the President?s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, which recognizes colleges and universities for community service work.

MADISON, Wis. — Four years later, Madison police are still looking for answers in a killing that rocked the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Police are still trying to find Brittany Zimmermann?s killer.

She was a spirited and lively woman who wanted to be a physician. A dean?s list honoree, she was majoring in medical microbiology and immunology at UW-Madison. Engaged to a fellow student, she was looking forward to being married and having children. Her random murder on April 2, 2008, in her campus-area apartment, would add to a growing Madison homicide count, the most Madison police had seen in decades.

Quoted: Eliott Nardi, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and member of the ODPhi chapter there

A UW-Madison student committee is reconsidering the possible elimination of a long-standing campus service that provides late-night cab rides for stranded students.

Thousands of college students enthusiastically gathered on the UW-Madison campus Thursday; not for a concert or festival, but to listen to a 76-year-old grandfather lecture them on the need to maintain a budget.

With less than a week to go before the Wisconsin presidential primary, Texan congressman and Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul made a stop on the University of Wisconsin campus Thursday night, calling for an end to the Afghanistan War as well as an end to the Federal Reserve.

It was a warm reception for the first Republican presidential candidate to visit Madison Thursday.           

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul drew a crowd estimated at more than 2,000 for a town hall meeting Thursday night on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nation?s premier Hispanic youth leadership development and educational organization, is hosting Linda Gomez of Madison, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with 11 other university students from across the United States for its nationally recognized and highly competitive spring Congressional Internship Program.

As UW-Madison students awoke with pounding heads the morning after St. Patrick?s Day, one house fellow began a floor-wide initiative to encourage students to find alternative activities to drinking. Ogg Hall House Fellow Bob Freidel planned educational but fun activities for his house, Rundell House, during the week of March 18 through March 25 that encouraged students to enjoy Madison without consuming alcohol.

UPDATE 10 a.m. Thursday: A spokesman for the Wisconsin Union said reserved seating is not allowed on the Terrace. People can come early but they can?t reserve a whole area or supplant others sitting there. He said Union staff members will be making sure everyone complies.

Students urged UW-Madison student government leaders Wednesday to act against hate crimes at the university, saying campus is not a safe place for racial minority students.

Food vendors will not be permitted during the Mifflin Street Block Party due to numerous safety and organizational issues cited during a city meeting Wednesday.

GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be in Madison Thursday on the UW campus.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.

In 1988, UW-Madison?s Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was accused of sponsoring a slave auction party that included members of the fraternity wearing blackface and Afro wigs. The incident sparked a small, but passionate, student-led protest on ZBT?s property, at which eight students were eventually arrested.

Madison city officials, University of Wisconsin students and Mifflin neighborhood residents considered multiple presentations concerning safety issues for the upcoming block party at a meeting Tuesday night.

If the Mifflin Street Block Party does not work this year, city officials said they will shut it down.