College students facing life-threatening illnesses would no longer have to worry about remaining full-time students in order to keep their health insurance, if Gov. Jim Doyle signs a recently passed bill into law.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents discussed the future of postsecondary education in Wisconsin during a meeting Friday.
The Associated Students of Madisonâ??s Student Judiciary issued a ruling Friday in response to the Roman Catholic Foundation of the University of Wisconsinâ??s appeal in hopes of receiving student segregated fees.
JANESVILLE, Wis. â?? A 58-year-old Whitewater man has been charged with stalking the 20-year-old East Troy woman who represents the stateâ??s county fairs.
Joseph G. Schraeder reportedly asked Sheri Nelson to be his â??first ladyâ? in June at the Walworth County Diary Breakfast and told her was planning their wedding for a year later, according to a criminal complaint.
Nelson is a former Walworth County Fairest of the Fair and the 2007 Wisconsin Fairest of the Fair. The University of Wisconsin-Madison student helps promote Wisconsinâ??s county fairs.
A fire early Saturday morning has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to a Madison apartment building, which was home to a number of UW students.
Witnesses reported flames shooting from the building in the 500 block of North Carroll Street around five o’clock Saturday morning. No one was injured, but about 30 people have been displaced.
A fire captain on the scene says most, if not all, of the residents go to the U-W.
The UW System Board of Regents discussed the emerging College Portrait initiative Thursday, highlighting a feature that would measure how much students learn between their freshman and senior years in college.
UW-Madison ranked second in a list of top national research universities for the 2006 fiscal year, improving from third in 2005, according to statistics released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents heard a presentation Thursday about how information from each campus will be collected and compiled with the intention of improving accountability.
Thousands of parents will have a chance to participate in the University of Wisconsin experience this weekend, as a part of the Wisconsin Alumni Associationâ??s First Year Parentsâ?? Weekend 2007.
Earlier this year, ESPNâ??s Scott Van Pelt called Madison the â??greatest college sports town in America.â?
For the first time in memory, no University of Wisconsin students, staff or faculty showed up at a trust funds investment forum conducted yearly by a Board of Regents committee.
The committee seeks comment on socially responsible issues such as protecting the environment or opposing discrimination, to help guide investment decisions.
“Two years ago, the room was full,” Tom Reinders, portfolio analyst for the investment funds, said at the unattended event Thursday.
It never fails.
Whenever a team has an opportunity to thank its fans, everyone from the head coach to the last scrub off the bench crows about how their supporters are the greatest in the world.
Such superlatives have been bestowed upon the sea of red that frequents Camp Randall Stadium on fall football Saturdays, especially after the Badgers started regularly giving their faithful something to cheer about again in the early 1990s.
But how do you measure the caliber of a crowd?
It’s about knowing how to take care of yourself to avoid ever having to tell a story like this…
“I tried to leave but he was so much stronger than I was,” says Abby, a rape survivor. “He was much bigger than I was. I tried going out the fire escape because it was on the 3rd floor and I tried to leave the bedroom door. I just couldn’t get out.”
Abby says she was raped during the Mifflin Street block party last year. The path she took to find herself in danger is one that sometimes can be avoided if you know how to guard your safety.
UW-Madisonâ??s Wisconsin Singers, a song and dance ensemble, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this weekend with campus performances.
From a swanky tapas bar to a gloriously carnivorous Brazilian grill, the recent additions to the roster of Madisonâ??s downtown restaurants are very exciting for many University of Wisconsin students. However, one restaurant opening that will surely have the greatest impact on these individuals is last Sundayâ??s grand opening of Rhetaâ??s at Chadbourne Residential Collegeâ??s newly redesigned dining hall.
A search-and-screen committee named three finalists for the University of Wisconsinâ??s Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will convene Thursday and Friday, and among their discussion topics is a new accountability report.
So, what did you learn in college?
OK, now prove it.
Parents, legislators, employers and students themselves are turning up the heat these days and calling on universities to do just that: substantively prove they ‘re actually providing the proper and promised returns on their investments.
Madison: As the Director of Admisssions, Rob Seltzer spends a lot of time staring at his computer, trying to decide if the resume on his screen is good enough for the University of Wisconsin.
“His test scores are somewhat lower than our freshman class average, which would be a little bit of concern to me,” says Seltzer, looking at one prospective student’s applications.
Seltzer says while the admissions process isn’t an exact science, it’s also not a mystery. They’ve gone as far as producing a fact sheet. “We do a lot of myth busting.”
MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin Board of Regents committee is discussing changing policies for spending student segregated fees, but some students said they are concerned the changes might take away their power to decide where the money goes.
Two major points of contention for students are whether money can be spent paying non-university staff working with organizations and if it can go toward rent for organization space off campus, WISC-TV reported.
Union directors and UW police said Tuesday they would collaborate with students to streamline union event policies, in response to complaints police unfairly cancelled several social fraternity events this semester.
UW Police are investigating a suspended UW-Madison student who wrote potentially threatening e-mails to UW-Madison English department faculty last week and issued a poster Monday to alert faculty in Helen C. White Hall.
The University of Wisconsin Alliance for Programming Equality and UW Police Department reached an agreement Tuesday to open communication about safety in planning Union events.
Under threat of a lawsuit from its adjacent neighbor, the UW Hillel Foundation is moving forward with plans to triple the size of its student center at 611 Langdon St.
The Jewish student organization, which traces its Madison roots to the 1920s and is the second oldest operating Hillel in the world, wants to demolish its existing 12,000 square-foot building and replace it with a four-story, 40,000 square-foot facility.
Those plans have run into opposition, however, from the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based owners of the seven-story Campus Inn hotel next door at 601 Landgon St.
For a student at the University of Ghana in Legon, a palm-graced suburb of Accra, a dinner might involve fufu â?? mashed casava and plantains in a soup of peanut butter and tomatoes â?? from a local â??chop bar.â? Electricity is not a given. Nor is running water. Students might have to fetch buckets of water to flush the toilet and wash clothes. Forget sleeping in. They rise at 5 a.m., when the chaos and din begin: loud music and evangelical preaching, through megaphones. The â??Challenges of Living in Ghanaâ? handout from the University of California advises bringing earplugs.
The country, and its flagship university, have become a newly popular destination for studying abroad: about 300 American students, representing dozens of campuses, take classes at Legon.
Baltimore, Md. – Unless you’ve been living in a television-free cave the past 10 years or so, you’ve heard of Under Armour, the sports apparel company that markets its high-performance gear through its often-raw â??Protect this house!â? commercials. What you don’t know about Under Armour is that it was launched by a guy who was then a student athlete at the University of Maryland in College Park.
The story of how former Terrapin football player Kevin Plank built Under Armour from an idea in 1995 to a company that will exceed $500 million in net revenue this year is instructive to young entrepreneurs everywhere.
It’s also a real-life example as the UW-Madison begins to work more with student entrepreneurs on its own campus, as well as other communities across Wisconsin, with the help of a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
When students and parents curse higher college costs, rising tuition usually gets the blame.
But in the UW System, student fees that pay for everything from student unions to sex education are growing faster than tuition in recent years.
At UW-Madison, students will pay $854 in fees this year, up from $726 last year. That ‘s an increase of about 18 percent.
While many popular college guides focus on things like SAT scores of incoming freshmen, or a college’s party-school reputation, NSSE (pronounced “nessie”) seeks to gauge the quality of an undergraduate education by looking at how actively involved students are with their studies, professors and the campus community. Decades of research shows that the more engaged students are, the more likely they are to learn.
A UW-Madison researcher questioned a modification to the Wisconsin Covenant program.
The program promises eighth graders university or technical school admission, if they get good grades, take the right curriculum and stay out of trouble up until college.
Governor Doyle vetoed budget language which prioritized certain financial assistance for low-income, Covenant participants, or “scholars.”
Jeopardy! producers and UW-Madison officials announced Thursday that UW-Madison will host the 2008 Jeopardy! College Championship April 11 and 12.
Students from across the nation will gather on the University of Wisconsin campus this weekend to discuss strategies for combating national and world hunger and homelessness.
This Big Ten university will be home of the Jeopardy College Championship 2008.
What is University of Wisconsin?
The Governor’s Wisconsin Covenant initiative is getting a financial boost.
A $40 million endowment from the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation will help establish a new foundation, aimed at providing financial aid for students who sign the Wisconsin Covenant. The money will help provide financial assistance to students who sign the Covenant and meet the educational goals it requires.
Carla Vigue, a spokesperson in the Governor’s office, says the endowment will hopefully be the first of many. She says the board established to oversee the fund will be working to get additional private money added to it.
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities said that behavior is changing at Madison’s annual Halloween party on State Street and that property damage and arrests are at the lowest point in years.
This year, WISC-TV was given a firsthand, behind-the-scenes look from the police transport area, which is set up outside State Street during Freakfest, to the arrest processing center where over-rowdy revelers are cited and released or sent to detox or sometimes to jail.
Police said that behavior at the Halloween party is changing year-to-year but they said if partiers cause trouble, they will be arrested.
The Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group, a UW-Madison student organization, launched the Residence Hall Energy Competition Thursday, to challenge UW-Madison housing residents to conserve energy as part of WISPIRGâ??s Big Red Go Green campaign.
A team of University of Wisconsin mechanical engineering students received funding to develop a zero-emission electric snowmobile, the group announced Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin announced Wednesday an alumnus will be giving a series of lectures on campus and in the Madison area during November, marking the debut of a new program by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.
After missing a meeting with a University of Wisconsin student group Tuesday, the UW Police Department said they had intended to attend the meeting but were unable due to a prior commitment.
When political science professor Jon Pevehouse told his students he was leaving the University of Wisconsin last spring, one student said his departure was a â??huge lossâ? to the school.
Drinkers in Madison have a new best friend in Bender Defenders, a service that will drive you home in your own car when you have had too much to drink.
Bender Defenders, modeled after a similar business in London, hit the streets on folding motor scooters on Sept. 8. Rather than taking a cab home and retrieving their car in the morning, customers call Bender Defenders, and a driver arrives wearing a tuxedo T-shirt and riding a folding motorbike. The driver then collapses the scooter and puts it into the customer’s trunk or back seat before driving them home.
Once the customer is home, the driver will get back on his motorbike and ride to the next destination.
House Republican Tom Petri of Fond du Lac, long an advocate of reforming a federal student-loan program, introduced a bill Wednesday that he says would cut costs to taxpayers and let students reap the benefits.
At issue is whats called the Federal Family Education Loan Program. It lets private lenders make student loans at interest rates determined by a formula set by the government. In the end, the return to lenders is generous while the government guarantees almost all loans, relieving lenders of most risk, Petri said.
Former Madison Mayor and UW-Madison alumnus Paul Soglin addressed UW-Madison students about turning passions into careers Tuesday at an event hosted by the Career Development Association.
Dear Editor: I am a native of Madison and have been intimately involved with Halloween the last few years as executive director of Downtown Madison Inc. I am proud to say that the changes that have taken place with Halloween on State Street really worked to turn the event around.
INDIANAPOLIS — Nearly every main demographic group of top college athletes exceeds the graduation rate for its student-body counterparts.
According to federal graduation rates released Tuesday by the NCAA, 63 percent of Division I scholarship athletes who started college as freshmen in 2000 graduated in six years. That beats the graduation rate for all students at Division I schools by 1 percent and equaled last year’s percentage.
At the University of Wisconsin, scholarship athletes (76 percent) graduated at essentially the same rate as the student body (78 percent) in that six-year period.
A bill restricting cell phone use in locker rooms will move to the state Senate after unanimously passing the Assembly one week ago.
The Madison chapter of Teach for America said they have set an ambitious, but not unreachable goal for the University of Wisconsin this fall.
With University of Wisconsin students deciding on their classes for the spring semester in the upcoming weeks, Stephen Friedman hopes each of them checks one of his sites before making their selections.
University of Wisconsin police failed to attend a meeting Tuesday to discuss future planning of Union events, after a September incident sparked a local fraternity to accuse the department of racial profiling.
The fatal fire at a North Carolina beach house Sunday appears to fit a tragic pattern that has claimed the lives of college students across the nation.
In a study published last year, USA TODAY identified a pattern of risk that leaves college students vulnerable to the dangers of fire.
Halloween isn’t what it used to be on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin.
Last Sunday, the main gathering point for the university town’s annual Halloween bash saw a throng of heavily boozed cross-dressers, walking food products and pop-culture oddities slowly crawling about at almost 1:30 Sunday morning, closing time here.
But Molly Kelley, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pointed at the large unpopulated gaps of littered concrete from a balcony overlooking the seven block stretch. “Two years ago this place was packed like sardines,” she says. “You couldn’t move. Either you got run over by [police] horses or climbed on light poles.”
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is backing off a controversial plan to increase diversity and financial aid by raising all students’ tuition, the school’s chancellor said Tuesday.
Chancellor Joe Gow said he would still seek a tuition increase but will use the money to improve quality rather than add diversity to the overwhelmingly white and increasingly well-off student body.
The university will use the increase to add at least 500 students and dozens of professors to reduce class sizes, which are the highest in the UW System, Gow said.
Ticket revenue generated from Freakfest 2007 climbed from last year and police costs remained steady. City officials hope in the coming years a greater interest will not translate into a higher city cost.
An agreement was signed Monday between UW-Madison and the College of the Menominee Nation that will make full student transfers possible between the two schools, the first formal arrangement with a tribal school in the state.
The University of Wisconsin signed a transfer agreement with the College of Menominee Nation at a ceremony Monday.
As the dust begins to settle over Madisonâ??s Halloween celebrations, the city continues to tally arrests from the weekendâ??s parties.
Freakfest became Ticketfest and Arrestfest for fewer partiers this year than the past two years, according to statistics released today by the Madison Police Department.
Friday and Saturday arrest and citation numbers show 181 people were arrested on a variety of charges, including three felonies and nine criminal misdemeanors. Police also handed out tickets for a total of 247 municipal ordinance violations. Some revelers were arrested for multiple violations.
Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain on Monday released a final accounting of arrests and detox trips during the city ‘s annual Halloween bash on State Street last weekend.
The final tally for both was slightly higher than earlier reports but remained far lower than in previous years.
MADISON, Wis. — The public cost of Freakfest is the focus of a new debate after a relatively calm weekend on State Street in downtown Madison.
Once a black eye in the community, the city’s annual Halloween celebration has transformed into a ticket-requiring event called Freakfest. City officials said that Freakfest is quickly becoming something Madison can be proud of.
MADISON, Wis. — Some of the students attending Freakfest on Saturday night were actually doing homework.
The Journalism 335 or Intermediate Reporting class on the UW campus deployed crews to cover all aspects of the party, reported WISC-TV.
Students took down the sights and sounds of the street and then returned to their labs in the early morning hours to write and post their stories.
It’s all experience students said was invaluable.
You call that Halloween? You call that neutered, watered-down, city-sponsored, band-infested, well-policed, benign event Halloween? Celebrants from years ago would barely recognize what the city has wrought upon a fabled student tradition â?? the unbridled carnage and tomfoolery of Halloween on State Street.
