Mnookin has tasked Vice Chancellor for Inclusive Excellence LaVar Charleston with reviewing and implementing the report’s recommendations, according to a press release from UW-Madison.
According to ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, a national, nonpartisan get-out-the-vote effort, UW-Madison’s voter turnout in the fall 2022 midterm elections was 55.8%. That’s nearly double the national average of 30.6% for college students as calculated by Tufts University.
University of Wisconsin, Madison: Updated its policy on “expressive activity” August 28. “Expressive activity,” defined as activities protected by the First Amendment including “speech, lawful assembly, protesting, distributing literature and chalking,” is now prohibited within 25 feet of university buildings.
‘The moment they heard my Latino name they decided to cuff me,’ student says.
The $75 million gift places the college halfway to its goal of $175 million. An additional $197 million in funding for the building will come from the state of Wisconsin, totaling $347 million.
It beat all of the other Big Ten schools that year for the highest voting rate.
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni donors are giving $75 million for construction of a long-awaited new engineering building.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison unveiled a $75 million gift Wednesday for a new engineering building that just last year seemed doomed to be delayed.
The Levy surname will grace a second UW-Madison building, as prolific Madison-area philanthropists Marv and Jeff Levy have pledged $75 million in support of the College of Engineering’s new building.
Memorial acts as unifying event, emphasizes importance of students remembering 9/11.
Each year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison features one book through the Go Big Read program. This year’s book explores the politics of growing up in a disabled body through essays by Rebekah Taussig in her memoir “Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.”
For years, Lily’s Classic has been held on a frozen solid Lake Mendota. Now, the lake can barely freeze over. Will the yearly tradition be lost to climate change?
At a filled to capacity watch party at Union South, University of Wisconsin-Madison students watched the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
For University of Wisconsin computer science major Tanvi Wadhawan, envisioning a future where artificial intelligence is not only present but omnipresent has been a no-brainer. Growing up in the Silicon Valley area, Wadhawan has long understood the potential of AI, so much so that it caused her to switch career paths.
“It’s [AI] why I switched gears from straight software engineering to security… it 100% has made me rethink my entire career,” Wadhawan said. “If ChatGPT or cloud AI can do my homework, it can do my job.”
A lot has been on University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin’s plate since the spring.
Between a 12-day pro-Palestine encampment and juggling the university budget process, she’s had to carefully tread an upcoming election with a student body that has divided perspectives. Mnookin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor sat down with campus media Tuesday to discuss free speech efforts, the affordable housing shortage and protest culture.
This year, Wisconsin Athletics started selling alcohol at Camp Randall Stadium to the general public for the first time.
Murv Seymour talks with Corey Pompey at the Hamel Music Center about leading the University of Wisconsin Marching Band and crafting its musical direction in practice and on the field for Badgers fans.
For 50 years ending in 2019, Mike Leckrone directed the UW Marching Band. In his new memoir, co-authored by Doug Moe, Leckrone recalls the creation of the Fifth Quarter celebration that now follows every home football game, and where he got his penchant for sequins and spectacle.
During the 2022-23 school year, more than 2,500 UW-Madison students participated in a study abroad program, according to the university’s International Academic Programs annual report for that year.
“We really see it as an opportunity for growth,” said Dan Gold of UW-Madison’s study abroad office. “When you look at it conceptually, basically it’s just: What can you do that’s not on campus that will help your academic goals?”
“Tension would probably be an understatement,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Reuben Berkowitz of Milwaukee.
Berkowitz said his family, who raised him to understand the shared importance of Israeli and Palestinian safety, have supported him as he explored his relationship with Zionism, and chose to participate last spring in UW-Madison’s encampment. His father, Joel, is the director of UW-Milwaukee’s Jewish Studies program.
Public service organization holding voter registration events Sep. 9 through 13.
Latine Heritage Month at the University of Wisconsin will run from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 and offers a moment to reflect on and celebrate the cultural contributions of Latinx communities, according to the UW Student Affairs website.
Turf expert Doug Soldat is back with his annual fall lawn tutorial. We talk with him about the latest in lawn care research.
In the last half hour Native Plant Garden Curator at the UW-Madison Arboretum, Susan Carpenter is back. She’ll have updates on classes and tours, and what’s happening in the fall native gardens.
Long lines inside an already busy Union South were a major factor in the decision to move locations, Transportation Services marketing specialist Lauren Hawley said in an email to The Daily Cardinal. “Transportation Services decided to relocate the student bus pass pickup location to Ogg Hall, a larger location to help facilitate pickup in a more efficient manner,” Hawley said.
The banner will be attached to a plane that will circle campus and then fly over Camp Randall Stadium. The banner will read “Jump around! Beat Trump + Project 2025.”
Officials at the University Wisconsin-Madison say commemorative bricks will continue to be displayed near Camp Randall stadium.
Facing backlash from Badgers fans, the UW Athletics Department announced a new plan to reinstall personalized memorial bricks near Camp Randall Stadium.
After years of being crammed in an outdated UW-Madison School of Veterinary Science building, staff, students and their patients finally have a bit of breathing room.
Office of Student Assistance and Support to offer food access, housing, financial support.
Kirk engages with students on DEI policy, affirmative action, war in Gaza.
“We are stronger when we create space to listen to each other across all kinds of differences,” Mnookin said.
The conservative media personality spotlighted right-wing talking points about abortion, gay marriage and affirmative action at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating 2 incidents of vandalism on campus.
The most recent incident happened around 3am on Wednesday, September 4. UWPD found several parts of Library Mall, including the Hagenah Fountain, vandalized with paint. Facilities crews were able to clean up the graffiti.
Thousands of students are flooding the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Wednesday for the first day of the fall semester, marking the beginning of a new academic year. University officials say they are welcoming 10,000 new and transfer students this year, continuing a trend of growing enrollment.
Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and other speakers spoke to the importance of taking on new challenges and making new connections Tuesday.
For years, national surveys of students and families have shown the cost to attend college heavily influences where high school students choose to enroll. Educators in Wisconsin have taken that seriously.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison launched Bucky’s Tuition Promise in 2018. The program covers a student’s tuition for four years if the family has a household income of $65,000 or less.
Mark Charter was live on campus during Wake Up Wisconsin learning more about the upcoming opportunities for students.
“The plurality that makes UW-Madison special includes you. Emphatically,” Mnookin told the gathered students. “You create the tapestry that makes us who we are.”
Before freshmen hit the classrooms, the university educated students on the land they will be walking on for the next four years. Students watched a video highlighting areas of significance during the 2024 Student Convocation on Tuesday afternoon.
Paul Soltwedel and Shawn Theesfeld remember well the beginning of the University of Wisconsin’s “Jump Around” tradition.
Both were members of Wisconsin Marching Band when the tradition began during the Badgers’ 1998 football game against Purdue.
UW will also continue to hold Badger Dialogues, an educational series of discussions that gives students of different backgrounds the opportunity to connect, according to UW News. Further, UW has created a Free Expression Canvas Module — required for incoming freshmen and transfer students — that provides materials to help students further understand their First Amendment rights, according to UW News.
Fans eager to see how Year 2 of the Luke Fickell era begins Friday night won’t need to shell out much money to make it happen.
A flood of seats for the University of Wisconsin football season opener at Camp Randall Stadium against Western Michigan are available for $2 to $6 on Vivid Seats and StubHub at points all over the stadium, as of late Thursday morning.
The Sunburst Sparkler caffeinated, sparkling water beverage will be available in four flavors at all Wisconsin Union dining locations.
The drinks have been deemed Sunburst Sparklers. They are caffeinated, sparkling waters that come in a variety of flavors.
We will be using seven separate venues this year, though most of our big national speakers will appear as usual in Shannon Hall, the largest theater space in the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Do you have any advice for students shopping for a personal loan?
“Be realistic. Make sure you understand the terms of the loan and have calculated your expected loan payment,” says James M. Johannes, a professor emeritus at the Wisconsin School of Business. “Recognize that these scheduled debt payments will in almost all cases severely and adversely impact your ability to borrow to fund a car, house, etc. after you graduate until the loan is repaid. Be patient! Recognize that life is a journey, and you might have to live frugally until the loans are repaid.”
A new study commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the City of Madison found that UW-Madison students face some of the highest off-campus rent prices in the Big Ten Conference.
Revisions to the protest policy include restrictions on “expressive activity” within 25 feet of university facility entrances, size limitations for signs in buildings, specific sound amplification restrictions and restrictions on protest activity during select times on campus areas typically used for photos like the Abraham Lincoln statue at the top of Bascom Hill.
As Madison sweltered under an excessive heat warning Tuesday, thousands of UW-Madison students arrived at campus residence halls for fall semester move-in.
It became clear early on to UW-Cinematheque program director Jim Healy that one summer wouldn’t be enough time to honor David Bordwell.
“We moved some of our check-in locations indoors, so that our staff and people waiting in line are not having to be out in the heat for today, because we know it’s pretty extreme,” said Brendon Dybdahl, UW-Madison Housing Marketing & Communications Director.
The study confirmed what is largely already known through reams of anecdotal evidence: Nearly 70% of rentals are too expensive, costing individual students $1,000 or more in rent each month per student, often hundreds of dollars above what the students consider affordable; the cheapest apartments are often furthest from campus and more run down; and UW-Madison is one of the most expensive off-campus housing markets in the Big 10 conference.
Madison Alder Juliana Bennett came up with the idea for the study, and UW-Madison leaders said they will use the findings to inform future policy decisions.
How many of the UW bus 80s are being replaced by bendy buses?
Upon full roll-out, most buses running on UW campus will be our all-electric vehicles. But, our standard 40-foot buses will also be utilized on this route as needed.
Tuition and student fees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the system’s flagship campus, now total $11,606 a year for in-state undergraduates. The total cost to attend the university for a year is about $30,000 when factoring in room and board, educational supplies and other costs.
“For the faculty, this is a big day, these are our newest students that we’re welcoming, and we’re so excited to see them,” said Associate Dean in the School of Medicine and Public Health, Christine Seibert, “It’s honestly renewed our faith in the medical profession, we see this young idealistic excited group of people who want to join us in what is sometimes very hard work.”
The 17 students and faculty formerly under OSCCS investigation accused the university of recommending harsher probations and initiating investigations with limited evidence on Palestinian students and those associated with UW-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine. Students plan to request hearings to challenge these preliminary decisions.
University of Wisconsin-Madison student Reem Itani, 20, who was involved in the uninstructed movement in the April Democratic presidential primary, told Wisconsin Watch she felt “very unsafe” living under a Trump presidency, pointing to his administration’s 2017 travel ban from seven predominantly Muslim countries, which Trump called a “Muslim ban.”
Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Craig Thompson is leaving his position next month for a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, marking the end of nearly five years as the head of the agency.
North Lake Street on the UW-Madison campus will be restricted to one-way traffic going south beginning Monday so that a contractor can continue work replacing a sanitary sewer, the city’s Engineering Division said Friday.
