Contrary to what critics say, the University of Wisconsin campuses will not start taking race into account as a result of a new admissions policy the Board of Regents adopted the other day. The campuses started doing that about 35 years ago.
MADISON, Wis. — An 18-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student is in serious condition on Tuesday after being hit by a car in a busy campus crosswalk on Monday night.
Meanwhile, the man who faces charges for allegedly hitting her has faced charges previously in two prior incidents of operating while intoxicated.
Bradley Zika, 31, is being held on charges of OWI causing injury, having an open intoxicant in the car and driving without a valid driver’s license in connection with the incident, WISC-TV reported.
Starting next fall, the UW System will finally use the â??holisticâ? admissions approach that UW-Madison initiated years ago. We could not be more pleased.
Students trying to save a minute on their way to class Monday morning risked their lives by crossing over and crawling under a stopped train that began moving shortly after.
A nationwide rural veterinarian shortage reaches even to largely rural Wisconsinâ??the Dairy State.
There is an increasing demand for large-animal veterinarians that is proving difficult to meet in an increasingly urbanized population, according to a Feb. 6 New York Times article.
A UW-Madison student was struck by a car Monday night in the mid-block crosswalk on the 800 block of Langdon Street, directly outside of Memorial Union, Madison police reported.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents unanimously voted Friday to extend the â??holisticâ? admissions policy already in place at the UW-Madison to other system schools.
Yesterday, Gov. Jim Doyle announced a breakthrough collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsinâ??s WiCell stem-cell bank and the United Kingdomâ??s stem-cell bank. For most present, the press conference was another strong push in the direction of improved stem-cell research.
Crime everywhere! In the dorms, in the streets, in our own backyard! Scared yet? Didnâ??t think so. There is a good reason why â?? weâ??re all living in a bubble. Yet, now might be the time to step outside.
Members of the Bassett Street Neighborhood had their first opportunity Monday night to meet their new community officer, Mark Allen.
Gov. Jim Doyle will propose allocating $1.7 million to increase enrollment at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay when he presents his budget today.
A 19-year-old University of Wisconsin student was struck by a car and dragged for several feet in front of Memorial Union Monday night.
Kevin Barrett has his fair share of critics, but according to last semesterâ??s course evaluations, most of his students were not among them.
Statistics aren’t available, but an official said there are at least 350 student-parents at UW- Madison. Almost all student-parents grapple with the cost of child care. Infant care at a campus center will cost about $10,872 per child this academic year, said April Kigeya, a parent resource specialist at UW- Madison’s Office of Child Care & Family Resources.
Jake Warner lashes out when his classmates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison protest the war. Katie Nelson, a junior at UW-Milwaukee, gets confused by her financial aid. Four years after enrolling at UW-Oshkosh, Todd Johnston still feels lonely; he misses having friends by his side 24 hours a day.
A slew of government benefits, including a new Wisconsin G.I. Bill, is propelling record numbers of veterans into Wisconsin’s colleges and universities. But even with the financial assistance, the transition to college can be difficult, as veterans can attest.
On rare occasions, a high school diploma is not required for admission to one of the highly-coveted freshman slots at UW-Madison.
“We get some inquiries about this, but in light of the enrollment demands here, don’t do this (apply without high school diploma)unless it’s truly an unusual set of circumstances,” Office of Admissions Associate Director Tom Reason told 27 News.
Like many institutions, Duke University boasts of having a high volunteer rate among students. Internal data show that 80 percent of undergraduates take part in some type of service project â?? be it a once-a-month tutoring session or a spring break humanitarian trip.
In a sign that Duke is encouraging students to go beyond sporadic volunteering, the university announced Monday the creation of a program that will provide full funding and administrative support to any undergraduate who wants to spend a summer or a semester taking part in a full-time service project.
A highschoolerâ??s race, income level and the amount of clubs and sports he or she joins will now offficially help decide if the student is admitted any UW System school.
President George W. Bushâ??s Pell Grant aid, announced earlier this month, will provide more opportunities for students to attend the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell touted campus research but discussed the challenge in retaining staff Friday morning at the UW System Board of Regents meeting.
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to allow all state universities to consider non-academic factors â?? including race â?? in their admissions decisions.
Now that the lakes have finally frozen over, longtime Madison residents may gaze (if their eyes don’t tear up too badly) over the bleak landscape of Lake Mendota and reminisce about that fateful February 28 years ago when the Statue of Liberty came to town.
“The current governor shall be king of Wisconsin for life.”
Believe it or not, Gov. Jim Doyle could have used his vast veto powers to sign this sentence into law as part of the state budget.
I made up and punched the sentence into the “Veto-Matic” and voila! — a Wisconsin monarchy. All Doyle would need is a moat and castle in Maple Bluff. But, alas, the Veto-Matic couldn’t find “moat” or “castle” among the 217,000 words in the state’s 2005-2007 spending plan.
You too can play God . . . I mean, governor, at www.vetomatic.com. The Web site is the brainchild of UW-Madison mechanical engineering student Dale Emmons.
The deadline is looming for UW Madison students to sign up for the University’s health insurance.
However, the extra cash may not be worth the extra coverage.
The majority of UW students are not using the University’s Student Health Insurance Plan, called SHIP. In fact, only 15% of Madison students are enrolled.
State Senate Education Committee member Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend)is determined to fight the inclusion of race as a factor as part of freshman admissions policy on UW campuses.
The policy, which has been used at the UW System’s flagship institution, UW-Madison, will now be applied at other UW System campuses as well.
“We could try to do the constitutional amendment route, as they did in the state of Michigan,” Grothman said. “We could try to amend the state budget. Or we could try to hopefully reach consensus on a half way point.”
The University of Wisconsin’s Board of Regents voted unanimously on Friday to adopt a new admissions policy requiring every campus in the state system to consider applicants’ race and ethnicity.
The board approved the policy despite warnings from various critics of affirmative action, including some state legislators, that the 26-campus system’s use of a race-conscious admissions policy may violate Wisconsin laws and is likely to trigger a political backlash.
In urging his fellow regents to support the policy, David G. Walsh, the board’s president, said it was “truly about having a better educational experience for our students.”
At a time when many colleges are distancing themselves from race-conscious admissions plans, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is moving in the other direction, unanimously approving a systemwide policy on Friday that allows institutions to consider race, ethnicity and family income among a range of factors in freshman admissions.
Regents say the â??holisticâ? plan, which calls for each campus to consider a studentâ??s academic achievements before looking to nonacademic factors, will allow colleges to enroll more racially and socioeconomically diverse classes.
A legal battle could be in store for a new admissions policy adopted by the UW System. The Board of Regents voted unanimously on Friday to adopt the new policy, which looks at factors beyond academics, such as race and ethnicity, when determining admissions.
More than one opposing player has identified Alando Tucker’s recognition skills – or vision – as one of his defining strengths. Vision, that is, in the context that the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball player has shown the ability to read the floor. That has allowed Tucker to create some scoring opportunities for his teammates while attacking vulnerable areas in a defense. “He finds seams well in the zone,” Penn State’s Jamelle Cornley observed after Tucker scored 24 points in Wednesday night’s victory over the Nittany Lions. “He’s an exceptional player.”
And person.
(Other Badger athletes are also included in this article.)
A controversial University of Wisconsin System admissions policy that includes the consideration of race was approved by the Board of Regents today on a 16-0 vote, but a legal challenge is likely to follow.
The policy says freshman applicants should be judged according to a long list of criteria including academic records, test scores and leadership qualities, but the item on the list that has riled conservatives is the one that looks at membership in a historically underrepresented racial or ethnic group.
â??If you guys are going to drink alcohol in a fun, responsible manner… I say go for it.â? A recent UW-Madison graduate made this statement to thousands of freshmen last fall at the Class of 2009 welcome rally.
The Board of Regents Education Committee passed the contested UW System freshmen admissions policy Thursday and the full Board will vote on it today.
The UW-Madison Police Department took a 39-year-old man into custody Thursday for the Tuesday night Witte Residence Hall robbery.
Earlier this week, the University of Wisconsin wrapped up the last of three visits from candidates hoping to be the next dean of students. Because the position has such a direct effect on students, UW officials wisely chose to include a forum in which students could meet and evaluate each candidate.
With $24,000 in prize money up for grabs, amateur inventors pitched designs and prototypes to judges Thursday, kicking off the University of Wisconsinâ??s Innovation Days.
Some Wisconsin families could save $400 on college tuition next year if a tax cut proposed by Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle Thursday passes through the state budget.
If the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approves a revised admissions policy today that includes non-academic factors such as race, the board might be in violation of state law, Regent President David Walsh admitted Thursday.
University of Wisconsin police arrested a suspect Thursday in connection to a late-night robbery in Witte Hall earlier this week.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison police said they have made an arrest in connection with an attack and robbery at dorm on Tuesday.
UW-Madison’s Witte Hall has locked doors with special sensors to detect any breaches. It also has elevators and stairwells whose access is supposed to be restricted to key-holders, and surveillance cameras that monitor comings and goings.
In this weather, it’s hard to keep someone waiting outside a locked glass door.
“Common courtesy, just hold the door for them. Let them in,” said Nick Propson, UW dorm resident.
On Tuesday night, a student in the UW’s Witte Hall did just that.
And the person they let in proceeded to attack and rob another student who was in her dorm room.
And that attack has left a lot of students thinking twice before performing a good samaritan act of their own.
Members of a committee of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents have approved expansion of a freshman admissions policy on UW campuses which includes race as a factor.
Admissions decisions factoring in an applicant’s race already take place at the system’s flagship school, UW-Madison. The practice’s critics include State Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend). Grothman criticized the decision by the Regents’ education committee, but also said he might propose a compromise where only applicants of one racial minority would receive special consideration in admissions decisions.
Big ideas can mean big money…And that’s what UW Madison undergrads hope their creative inventions lead to.
Today, those inventions were judged during the 13th Annual Innovation Days Competition at the Engineering School.
Students can win almost $30,000 in prize money.
UW Police warned students in the dorms to keep all their doors locked and make sure to not let people into the dorms that shouldn’t be there.
It came after two female students were attacked in their Witte Hall dorm room by a burglar Tuesday night.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin System leaders said that their plan for an admissions policy that considers applicants’ skin color is legal despite state laws saying that race cannot be an admissions test.
Any guarantee of admission to the University of Wisconsin System is likely to disappear today, when the Board of Regents is to vote on a policy that would require every campus to change the way it reviews applicants.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm residents are being warned not to let strangers into their buildings after a student was attacked earlier this week.
It is said that a black panther is able to hunt and kill animals up to 15 times its weight. Conversely, an animal found on the other side of the globe, the timid badger, does not usually seek to attack, but its great muscular power and tough hide render it a formidable opponent.
Faced with these facts, the UW-Milwaukee Panthers should make veritable colleagues for the UW-Madison Badgers in the future, as UW-Milwaukee grows into Wisconsin�s second major research university. The universities� chancellors and state representatives concur.
Now that all three finalists for the UW-Madison Dean of Students position have visited and conversed with students and administrators, the campus community has the opportunity to submit confidential feedback on the candidates.
University Housing and the UW-Madison Police Department are again asking students to be aware of their personal safety after a robbery was reported late Tuesday night at Witte Residence Hall.
A team of two seniors and one graduate student will represent the University of Wisconsin in Tokyo early next month at a worldwide computer programming competition.
The Madison City Council officially approved funding for the Downtown Safety Initiative Tuesday, and some Madison community members are already speaking in favor of the plan.
Several graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture presented their ââ?¬Å?greenââ?¬Â plans for renovations to UW-Madisonââ?¬â?¢s School of Human Ecology building Wednesday.
Over the next two days, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will decide if they will allow all state universities to consider non-academic factors ââ?¬â? including race ââ?¬â? in their admissions decisions.
Another violent attack struck the University of Wisconsin campus late Tuesday night when two female students were reportedly robbed in Witte Hall by a middle-aged man.
A growing number of students in Wisconsin and the nation are taking AP courses and exams, which can help them earn college credit for class work done in high school.
According to the third annual Advanced Placement Report to the Nation, released this week by the College Board:
� The percentage of U.S. public high school graduates who took an AP Exam in high school increased from 15.9% in 2000 to 24.2% in 2006. In Wisconsin, that percentage grew from 15.2% to 23%.
ââ?¬Â¢ Wisconsin’s passing rate – the percentage of public school graduates who earned a score of 3 or higher on the 5-point scale of at least one AP Exam – was 15.8% in 2006, higher than the national rate of 14.8%.
Two UW-Madison students were robbed in their dorm room Tuesday night by a man who grabbed one of the two women by the throat before fleeing, UW-Madison Police said.
The robbery occurred at Witte Hall about 11:45 p.m., police said. The women were in their room when a man entered, put his hand on the throat of one of the women and left with an undisclosed amount of money.
UW-Police are looking for a man whom they say walked into a dorm room, grabbed a girl by the throat and then demanded money.
It happened just before midnight Tuesday in the “A” tower of Witte hall.
Police are currently looking at surveillance video to see if they can find how the suspect got in the building.
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin-Madison dorm residents are being warned to not let strangers in after police said a man got into Witte Hall and attacked and robbed a female student on Tuesday night.
UW police and housing officials are reviewing security camera video of an emergency door that the attacker might have used to flee to dorm.
UW police said that at about 11:45 p.m. on Tuesday, a white man who is about 40 years old got into Witte Hall, walked into an unlocked dorm room with two women inside, choked one of them, demanded money and then fled with an undisclosed amount. (Video)
Gov. Jim Doyle announced Tuesday he will increase financial aid by $44 million in the state budget next week to support his Wisconsin Covenant program.
