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UW-Madison formally inducts Jennifer Mnookin as 30th chancellor

The Capital Times

The university’s tenet of education extending beyond the classroom has propelled her as chancellor, she told the audience. In December 2020, she donated a kidney to her father, who was diagnosed with late-stage kidney disease. A synthetic solution created at UW-Madison, which increased preservation times for organs outside of the body, allowed her kidney to safely travel on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to her dad in Boston.

UW-Madison among 16 universities participating in new Small Town and Rural Students Network program for students

Daily Cardinal

“Who influences students to go to college or not to go to college?” Jennifer Blazek, the Director of the Emerging Leaders Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, asked. In the coming months, the work she’ll be doing with the new Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) Network will seek to answer and address that question.

Wisconsin college students turned out in big numbers on campuses for the Supreme Court race

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The line to vote last Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire stretched on and on … and on some more.

The corner of a lunch room designated as the campus polling place for sleepy spring elections simply wasn’t enough in this year’s state Supreme Court race. UW-Eau Claire students cast ballots at a level close to last November and even higher than in the 2020 election, big races where the city clerk’s office relies on a university ballroom to meet voter demand.

Hilldale movie theater reopens for Wisconsin Film Festival

Wisconsin State Journal

Other showings of the 160 films scheduled for this year’s fest, which runs through April 20, will be on the UW-Madison campus. Venues are Shannon Hall in Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.; the Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave.; UW Cinematheque, 821 University Ave.; and The Marquee, on the second floor of Union South, 1308 Dayton St. UW-Madison students can receive a free ticket to any film with available seating by using their Wiscard at a box office location or at the door.

A spring tradition: UW Memorial Union Terrace to open on Wednesday

Madison365

The Wisconsin Union team, which manages the Terrace as well as the nearby building Memorial Union and some other campus entertainment, learning and dining destinations, will return more than 2,000 chairs and 400 tables to the Memorial Union Terrace over the next couple of days to get ready for the grand opening on Wednesday, April 12.

ASM Sustainability Committee plans Earth Day March

Badger Herald

The events are all part of a campaign called March 24th to Earth Day. The weekly events take place outside on East Campus Mall bringing together student and non-student organizations, along with the greater Madison community. The events also have free food, music, art and more, according to ASM Sustainability Committee Campaign Coordinator Winston Thompson.

As the UW System Raises Tuition for the First Time in a Decade–Some Students Worry They Won’t Be Able to Afford It

Up North News

The UW System Board of Regents voted last week to raise tuition prices by an average of 4.9% (or $404) across all 13 universities and 26 campuses in Wisconsin. Room and board rates will increase too, by an average of 3.5%, resulting in an overall 4.2% (or $706) increase for all in-state students.

GOP-led hearing questions whether liberal bias on UW System campuses hurts quality of education

Wisconsin Public Radio

Republican state lawmakers questioning whether a lack of political diversity on college campuses is hurting education discussed possible fixes — like considering political affiliation when hiring professors — during a legislative hearing Thursday. The meeting follows a University of Wisconsin System student free speech survey that found a majority of conservative respondents reported self-censoring views in class.

Core Spaces proposing two more student housing developments

The Capital Times

Oliv Madison was Core’s most recent project downtown and was approved by the Plan Commission in November 2021. Oliv was the first project in Madison to have affordable housing for students and included land-use agreements with the city of Madison and the University of Wisconsin to ensure continued affordability for the student population.

UW-Madison students line up to take advantage of early voting

NBC-15

Hundreds of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison lined up Friday to cast their ballots early for the spring election. Student organization ‘Badger Vote’ said that turnout has been higher than usual this year and national  organization ‘Campus Vote Project’ released its list of voter-friendly campuses and UW-Madison earned its badge.

UW campuses will raise residential tuition for first time in 10 years

Wisconsin Public Radio

In-state undergraduate students in the University of Wisconsin System will see the first tuition hike since Republican state lawmakers instituted a tuition freeze a decade ago.

The UW System Board of Regents on Thursday approved the tuition hike with 16 members voting in favor and one voting against. Regents Héctor Colón and Jennifer Staton were not present. The average increase of 5 percent comes as a GOP bill aims to limit the board’s tuition setting authority once again.