In an effort to bolster and reinforce the University of Wisconsin System�s dedication to the liberal arts, the collection of campuses entered a partnership with the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Quoted: Ian Powell, University of Wisconsin physician and addictionologist at Meriter Hospital.
A group of 45 students protested outside University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley�s office Wednesday afternoon and demanded an end to sweatshop labor in the production of UW apparel and merchandise.
Steve Van Ess, who has helped connect thousands of UW-Madison students with their financial aid checks for 30 years, is retiring by Sept. 1. Van Ess, 55, has led the office of student financial services for the past decade.
The University of Wisconsin steps up efforts to make the morning after pill available to students before leaving for spring break, but at least one politician wants it to stop immediately.
A UW-Madison student was accused of trying to steal an exam from the computer of a physics professor. Justin D. Peltzer, 22, was charged with burglary Monday after he allegedly was caught by professor Lynn Knutson on Dec. 17 trying to retrieve the exam from Knutson’s computer in his Sterling Hall office.
A Republican legislator says he is “outraged” that the University of Wisconsin student health service provides prescription birth control, especially the so-called morning-after pill.
State Rep. Dan LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, said he is drafting a bill to stop all UW student health services from either advertising or providing students with the morning-after pill.
The Teaching Assistants Association will again reject the state’s contract offer for 2003-05. An overwhelming majority of TAA members told their bargaining committee Tuesday night the contract was insufficient and the bargaining procedure with the state is broken.
Putting not only a human, but a female, face on the life of soldiers in Iraq was the focus of a talk given by UW-Madison senior Laura Naylor Tuesday evening about “A Woman’s Perspective” as a soldier.
Everyone can remember a particular teacher from his or her educational history that simply wasn�t cut for the job.
The Teaching Assistants� Association decided to decline last week�s 2003-05 contract offer from the Office of State Employment Relations in a general meeting Tuesday night.
University of Wisconsin senior and U.S. National Guard Sgt. Laura Naylor spoke to students Thursday about her experiences as a young female soldier serving in the war in Iraq.
A University of Wisconsin freshman was arrested Monday for allegedly dealing drugs out of his Ogg Hall room.
Dozens of student protesters congregated at Gordon Commons Tuesday night, demonstrating against the allegedly discriminatory actions of Ed�s Express supervisor Dan Jonas March 1.
University of Wisconsin students could be restricted from obtaining prescription birth control, and in particular emergency contraception, if proposed legislation banning the University Health Services distribution is approved by the state Legislature.
Arwen Sheridan felt terrible. She had a sore throat, swollen glands and a fever that came and went for weeks.
“Even brushing my hair hurt,” she said.
Brant Kochsiek is putting the final fixings on his Spring Break plans.
“It’s a beautiful place! I don’t know… we got um… we’re staying at a huge hotel.” (Text and video.)
Gov. Jim Doyle signed off on an agreement between the University of Wisconsin System and a Mexican college that allows them to exchange students and faculty and possibly conduct joint research projects.
Two UW-Madison newspapers have been publishing ads encouraging students to have emergency contraception on hand during spring break, prompting criticism from abortion opponents.
A University of Wisconsin student was arrested Monday for allegedly running a drug operation out of his dorm room.
University of Wisconsin wide receiver/quarterback Marcus Randle El was charged Monday with disorderly conduct in connection with an incident at Ogg Hall last week.
A rainbow of Easter eggs cool in a corner of the Muscle Biology Lab on Friday on the UW-Madison campus.
Poultry science students including Melissa Leonard, and Michelle Behl, volunteered to color 2,000 hard-boiled eggs for the annual Governor’s Easter Egg Hunt to be held Saturday.
Police say a 19-year-old UW-Madison student was dealing drugs from his room at Ogg Hall, 716 W. Dayton St.
Promoting academic freedom in the classroom is a responsibility for both the presiding professor and the participating students. If the professor stifles students’ speech to spout an agenda, then students’ academic freedoms are at risk. The same holds true for students-if one student’s discourse threatens the speech of other students or the professor, then the classroom environment is harmed.
UW-Madison Director of University Housing Paul Evans contended the alleged March 1 harrassment of several students at Ed’s Express was not racially motivated, contrary to what protestors claim.
After allegedly breaking into Sterling Hall to steal final exam questions for his friend, UW-Madison senior Justin Peltzer received formal charges of burglary Monday, and could face up to $25,000 in fines or 12 years in prison if convicted.
The principles of appropriate classroom behavior and intellectual diversity recently collided in Professor Scott Straus’ Politics of Human Rights seminar, resulting in an angry and frustrated class, a student alleging professor incompetence and the student being forced to meet with an assistant dean of students.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin students have signed up to join the MadisonCorps, a tutorial program unveiled in the capital city last July, to close the academic achievement gap between students of color and white students.
A recent survey of more than 600 University of Wisconsin faculty members reveals 90 percent of the participating faculty members agreed or strongly agreed they are satisfied with the electronic grade-submission technology utilized by the UW campus.
University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly talked about the 2004-05 UW System Accountability Report, a grade sheet for the current performance of state-funded post-secondary schools at the UW System Board of Regents meeting. While regents were able to claim success in 12 of the 20 goals previously outlined for the system, some questioned the state of diversity.
Twenty-two-year-old University of Wisconsin student Justin Peltzer was released on signature bond at a hearing Monday morning after allegedly entering the Sterling Hall office of a physics professor with the intent to steal a final exam last December.
As colleges expand entrepreneurship education, more are giving hands-on schooling in the rarefied world of start-up finance.
UW football player Marcus Randle El was formally charged today with one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct for a skirmish with his girlfriend in a dorm room last week.
Randle El, 18, was arguing with the young woman in his room at Ogg Hall when he allegedly pushed her down, causing her to suffer some minor scrapes to her arms, the complaint says.
Wisconsin’s problem with dangerous and underage drinking has been making news.
The majority of UW students enter the Madison campus at age 18, having graduated from their parents’ houses around the same time as high school, ready to tackle life without the training wheels of a mother and father.
Adidas has been at the center of the campaign against apparel produced in sweatshops. With the arrest of 54 demonstrators, Bascom Hall was the battleground for students and the administration. The campaign reached its climax and sweatshops became a buzzword on college campuses.
With an eager audience of students and adults in attendance Friday, the UW-Madison Law School hosted a conversation regarding the role of constitutions in democracy.
UW junior Brittany Lindemann rushed out of her class, hoping to beat UW campus police to her car parked near by.
She quickly realized that would not be the case as she spied the dreaded paper on her windshield flapping in the breeze. For many drivers on UW campus, the limited parking remains an irritating problem.
UW-Madison’s cultural sensitivity was brought into question Friday night when a group of students staged a sit-in at Ed’s Express over an alleged instance of racial harassment by an employee that occurred at the restaurant on March 1.
Six University of Wisconsin student organizations are holding a five-day demonstration at Ed�s Express in Gordon Commons to oppose what they are calling prejudice attitudes of an Ed�s manager who allegedly harassed two black UW students.
The University of Wisconsin marching band will have a different view of the field at the start of the 2005 football season when the group will be relocated to the Camp Randall Stadium stands.
This fall, about 2.5 million freshmen will enter colleges and universities nationwide, most of them with plenty of cash in their pockets.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents passed a new contract with adidas and discussed issues with Gov. Jim Doyle�s executive budget proposal in a meeting Friday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s health services division has been publishing newspaper ads encouraging students to have emergency contraception – the so-called morning-after pill – on hand during spring break, a move that is rankling abortion critics in the state.
MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison has been publishing newspaper ads encouraging students to have emergency contraception on hand during spring break, prompting criticism from abortion opponents.
This fall, when a freshman at Drexel University’s School of Education wonders what courses he should take or what to do over the weekend, he won’t have to thumb through orientation brochures or hunt down a sympathetic upperclassman. Instead, he can simply reach for the iPod strapped to his side, put on his earphones, and listen to information provided by the university as he walks to class.
In the small roped-off area designated for smokers outside of Maloney’s bar, students from the University of California at Los Angeles are packed like cattle in a holding pen.
PRINCETON, N.J. – For Michael Sandberg, it started a few years ago with nickel-and-dime games among friends. But last fall, he says, it became the source of a six-figure income and an alternative to law school.
Lily Cao took the old SAT in January and scored 1520 out of 1600, a worthy complement to her nearly 4.0 grade-point average at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.
She will take the new SAT tomorrow. She expects to tank.
After being drilled in a test-prep class, Sheryl Nagy wasn’t fazed by the new essay section of the revamped SAT exam. She just wasn’t sure the test ââ?¬â? 45 minutes longer this year and nearly 4 hours in all ââ?¬â? would ever end.
Kids also cite trouble focusing. About 330,000 college-bound high school students got their first taste Saturday of the new SAT Reasoning Test, and some already have advice for their peers: Get ready for both a marathon and a sprint.
On Saturday morning, 330,000 American teenagers began their march into meritocratic adult life by taking the SAT. The test was new and improved, the first significant changes to the SAT in a decade. Analogies disappeared. A new writing section debuted. And math got a little harder.
For the second time this week, a University of Wisconsin football player has had a run-in with the law.
First the Internet turned colleges upside down, extending classrooms and changing the way people learned. Next came Napster and other file-sharing tools, then Web logs. Now blogs are morphing into the next big thing on campus: wikis.
An assault charge stemming from a fight at a State Stree bar has cost Brandon Tobias his spot on the University of Wisconsin Football team.
In addition, Marcu Randle El’s suspension was modified by an appeals committee.
Students protesting tuition increases ended a three-day hunger strike with a rally at the Capitol Rotunda Thursday morning.
The La Crosse Common Council on Thursday unanimously accepted a report and recommendations designed to deal with binge drinking in the city.
Illegal immigrants graduating from a Wisconsin high school could get in-state tuition under a provision in Gov. Jim Doyle�s budget proposal.
University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents met Thursday to discuss several major issues involving the UW System, including the continuing controversy over tuition and financial-aid policy.
The gap between UW-Madison’s tuition and the tuition of its Big Ten peers has widened in the past two years, according to the UW System Board of Regents.
UW-Madison presently ranks eighth out of nine peer institutions when comparing resident undergraduate tuition a
